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Should I MAME a Tempest Cab?
Magnet_Eye:
Hi all. I have had this damn cabinet for several years. It is a Tempest cab that was converted to a Shadow Dancer. The side art was painted over with gray paint...some of which has flaked/chipped off and you can see the tempest sideart underneath. The original control panel, monitor glass, etc is all there.
I don't know what to do! I thought about ripping out the Shadow Dancer stuff and MAME it. ???
The monitor in it is a 19" that isnt working. I will probably trash that, then sell the pcb/jamma harness stuff.
Please give some input. If I had the resources I would try to restore it to tempest...even if it meant using MAME and an Oscar spinner instead of actual parts.
Thoughts?
Brad Lee:
Here are pics of this very conversion
http://www.sixsixsix.com (if it's pictures of my damn cat, come back inna few minutes, I gotta change it back)
One of the drawbacks is that with no cutting of the cabinet side, the control panel can be somewhat restricting- the width from inside edge to inside edge is 23-3/4", and if you keep it to where the monitor glass would go, it can only be about 7" deep
I've got 2 sticks, 4 buttons on the left side, 2 on the right, coin/start buttons on each side, and a spinner in the middle, which all fit comfortably.
For a monitor Ive got a 15" pc monitor currently but I'm looking at 24-25" tv's which is about the widest the cab will allow
Plenty of room in the marquee area for a light and speakers
1UP:
No for godsakes! Find someone who does arcade restorations, and see if they'll trade it for a generic empty jamma cab, then MAME that!
Tempest is one of my faves, and if I was anywhere near you and had the room to store it until I had the parts to restore it, I'd buy it!
SirPoonga:
--- Quote from: 1UP on March 12, 2003, 10:51:27 pm ---No for godsakes! Find someone who does arcade restorations, and see if they'll trade it for a generic empty jamma cab, then MAME that!
Tempest is one of my faves, and if I was anywhere near you and had the room to store it until I had the parts to restore it, I'd buy it!
--- End quote ---
I'd restor the graphics and such and mame it. I plan on maming my double dragon.
As long as you don;t destroy the CP also:)
Brad Lee:
I've found repro'd side artwork for about 100bucks, but I would still need all the original parts in order to restore it- CP, glass, marquee, all the retainer tracks, etc not to mention the monitor, frame, chassis, boards, none of which were included
I'd love to eventually build a mame cab from scratch and restore this one but that's a little ways off.. fr that reason Ive made sure not to stray too much from the original design