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| MrBond:
Just got my marquee art (and control panel art) in the mail from mameroom.com, sandwiched it in between two plexi sheets, and put a light behind it. WOW! It's finally starting to look like my dream machine! The control panel is taking shape as well. Plexi is cut to fit/all holes are drilled/routed. All holes are drilled in the wood, 2 joysticks, 1 4-way/q-bert joystick (will be an e-stick) spinner, trackball, 6 butttons per player, 1/2 start, 1/2 coin, and 2 mouse buttons on the side. Gotta love it. For my cab I traded a gutted Frogger (with monitor) for a 4-player WWF Wrestlefest, sans monitor (originally Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.) My uncle is in the arcade business and he made the trade with me. It came with the glass, 2 perfect coin mechs, bezel, marquee retainers, and the whole control panel with 3 ultimates, 1 super, 12 multicolored microswitch buttons, complete with Cherry switches, and he through in an Arkanoid spinner to boot! The new cab is much better for Maming! Bigger, better, and I don't have to kill a perfectly good classic cab. Plus the Frogger actually was converted to Time Piolet '84, and had no Frogger PCB. Original cost was like $75 a long time ago, but my dad actually bought it...I found 6 quarters in the WWF, so I made $1.50 getting my cab. Also got an order from Ultimarc recently. Ipac4 (for future endevers, I may build a 4P CP), Optipac, and t-stik. However, I actually ordered an e-stik, so Andy's shipping out one for me! What a great guy! He is the best in the business, for qualitiy and kindness. Still looking into cheapest place to buy light-blue T-molding. Also, anyone willing to part with a trigger joystick? Oh, just a note, about x-gaming buttons. Anyone making a control panel with x-gaming buttons, you can use 3/4" wood with plexi, just flip the nut around. I will be using my Cherry switches on the x-gaming buttons, as I prefer the feel/click sound (I know, kind of lame, but when you actually compare them side by side, Cherry switches sound better!) Hum, guess that's about it for now. Wish I had a digital camera and a webpage. Oh well. ~Mrbond |
| Dak-ak:
sounds awesome... im converting a previously bastardized TMNT cab... cool stuff... (i found $6.65 in mine!) |
| kspiff:
I found $0.02 wedged in places coins shouldn't go in my Pac-Land.. damn kids >:( |
| paigeoliver:
--- Quote from: MrBond on April 16, 2003, 11:38:29 pm ---Plus the Frogger actually was converted to Time Piolet '84, and had no Frogger PCB. --- End quote --- Time Pilot '84 totally rocks out. I played that thing every day for 6 weeks in my Time Pilot cabinet (while I was waiting for a Time Pilot boardset to show up on RGVAC with the right price). a Frogger boardset should still plug right back into that cabinet, but you would have to change the joystick back to a 4-way. |
| anthony691:
Well, if we are going to brag about how much change we found in our cabs... when I got my Run and Gun 2 it came straight out of being in a hotel, the guy lost his coinbox; so he picked what he could off of the bottom. I got just over 10$ |
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