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SithMaster:
Im checking ebay for city connection.

edit- only found nes carts.  i guess i should gut the complete/working one in my garage and sell the parts to people who can actually use them.


--- Quote from: ChadTower on February 05, 2008, 04:27:38 pm ---
--- Quote from: paigeoliver on April 11, 2003, 08:12:08 am ---Actually. Besides generic JAMMA cabinets (most of which were actually once classics themselves). the BEST cabinets to MAME are vector games. Asteroids, Star Wars, and even TEMPEST!

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I'm going to print this out and send it to paige's probation officer.  This has to be a probation violation.

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whats wrong with putting mame in a star wars cab?  (as long as it only plays star wars and looks as original as possible)

Xiaou2:

  Most Cabs are just boxes.   They can be duplicated without much trouble.  Art is even
duplicated.   The real hard parts to duplicate are the controls and the PCBs...  and soon, 
arcade CRT monitors.


 I say, if you want to PRESERVE history,  then start to DOCUMENT the exact dimensions
of the cabs in greatest detail.   Same for the controls.   Each part dissected and measured.

 If anything, duplication will get easier and easier to accomplish..  with few exceptions.

 BUT, if there is no Knowledge,  then the is No way to duplicate anything.


 So, put up or shut up... and go thru and measure every nook and cranny of you cab...
and start a database of them.

Mauzy:
What about cabs that there are literally tens of thousands of like Ms Pac? Especially if the original side art is gone (not "needs a bunch of touch up paint" gone but "sanded with three coats of primer and 4 of black paint" gone) and its got a serial of 12XXX?



No reason. Just wondering...


BTW: I didn't sand it, the guy before me did...

paigeoliver:
I am not really sure that it matters all that much anymore, few classic vids will be around in another 20 years, and there won't be alot of interest in actually playing the ones that are around. I imagine they will still be popular movie props though.

Ripping up classic vids is still stupid, but in the longer scheme of things there aren't going to be a whole lot of working ones around in the 2020s anyway. Most black and white games have already died in the circuitry department, and I imagine the color ones aren't far behind.

Also, in case you haven't noticed production of new arcade games has all but stopped.

SirPeale:
You're right, Paige.  We should just halt trying to preserve them altogether.

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