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Should I MAME a Tempest Cab?
Magnet_Eye:
--- Quote from: Brad Lee on March 12, 2003, 10:50:23 pm ---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
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Yeah i know, the space is limited. I would remove the original CP and build one out of wood I think...and make it a bit wider to accomodate my layout. For a monitor, i thought about a 19" wells gardner VGA type to hook directly to pc. It would just mount right in the cab since it already has a 19" monitor in there.
Really i need a bigger cab. I want a 25" monitor and I have 2 joys, spinner, and trackball.
PS- put up your info about your cab! i wanna see it! :-\
Nailz:
Please do not Mame this cab, it sounds as though you want something bigger anyways. Find someone who wants to restore it, or maybe even make it a project of your own. Tempest is a classic, and if it could be brought back, that's what should be done.
Xphile:
i've heard talk in the newsgroups of people actually removeing paint to get to the original sideart...any ideas how this is done or what products they would have used?
(yeah, my next step is actually asking one of them, but since I was here, and the topic came up..:-)
(btw, double dragon...isn't that a little newer than bronze age? and tempest was silver age? you could prolley burn the DD cab, and folks wouldn't flip out like they will when they see a tempest gets maimed.)
anthony691:
Yeah, it is no crime to destroy a DD cab. The real crime is, I got a busted up, but still working standup racer called badlands. It was a conversion of DD; the crime is that a piece was apparntly smashed when it was in a bar and part of the cabinet was replaced with Star Wars Wood! The inside of the cabinet has the Star Wars paint on it. How sad is that? Oh, and please don't destroy the tempest cab
Dav:
MAME it. There's no shortage of tempest cabs. The last auction I went to had 3 of them. The problem with tempests is the monitor, not the cab. Besides you can mame it without damaging the cab. I'd try to make it look like a tempest though, I'd put a spinner in it and just have spinner games only. You could likely do that cheaper than buying a vector monitor and tempest boardset, and you can be sure it will last longer.
Some of the weaker strippers will take off paint w/o damaging the side art. I don't recommend this for safety reasons but I use gasoline. Of course you have to leave it outside for 6 months to get the smell out of it. :'(
Dave