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Control panel without altering the original cabinet
paigeoliver:
Ok, so there wasn't much anything Moon Patrolly left to it. I feel a bit better about the new panel now.
SirPeale:
--- Quote from: paigeoliver on May 07, 2003, 08:04:24 am ---Ok, so there wasn't much anything Moon Patrolly left to it. I feel a bit/3 better about the new panel now.
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Even if it had been mostly intact, what's not to feel good about? I've set aside the original CP, and would have taken the bezel and marquee off and stored them away if they were included. The side art can easily be replaced, if desired. It's not as if I hacked off the front, where the control panel does, like so many others.
KevSteele:
I think it's a great idea, as long as you can fit the controls you want on your new control panel.
Personally, I don't think there was that much distinctive about the Moon Patrol cabinet that losing it to a MAME cab would have been that much of a loss. Still, I do think it's great that you are making the effort not to damage anything.
I did "chop" off part of the front of my Roadblasters cab to fit a SlikStik, so I'm guilty of MAME-ifying a cab. Of course, it was a stripped cab, with no sideart, boards, CP, bezel, or marquee. Basically a big wood box.
Do I sound like I'm rationalizing? ::)
Kevin
SirPeale:
--- Quote from: kevsteele on May 07, 2003, 08:41:21 am ---Do I sound like I'm rationalizing? ::)
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Ah, go back to AGM, ya bum.
;D
paigeoliver:
--- Quote from: Peale on May 07, 2003, 08:28:43 am ---
Even if it had been mostly intact, what's not to feel good about?
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Imagine your favorite car in the world. Now imagine that someone chopped off the front foot of it and built a new front out of wood. A new front that is a foot wider on either side and obviously doesn't match up with the rest of the car.
That is how I feel about classic cabinets with oversized control panels.