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MaximRecoil:

--- Quote from: TelcoLou on February 05, 2008, 10:27:28 am ---Hmm. I'm confused. This site's acronym (and a quick check on the wiki) suggests to me, that it's about "Building you own" stuff, not "Restoring Beat-up cabinets back to their original luster"  :dizzy:

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Pardon me for pointing out the obvious here, but the classic arcade machines have already been built, by someone else, many years ago.

If you are going to take the initialism of this site to heart, then if you want a cabinet, you should be Building Your Own.
yalborap:

--- Quote from: csa3d on February 05, 2008, 08:12:00 am ---
--- Quote from: Fozzy The Bear on February 05, 2008, 07:22:44 am ---
--- Quote from: yalborap on February 04, 2008, 11:21:02 pm ---You know what matters to me? The internals and artwork. And if you can strip the artwork off and gut the parts, you know what you're left with? A worthless, damn, plywood box.
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You know what.... You're absolutely right! It's a worthless damned plywood box.

But it's only a worthless damned plywood box because it's had all of that stripped out of it. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.

Lets take a faberge egg remove the jewels, remove the gold hardware, sand the translucent enamel off the surface and give it a nice coat of white paint to freshen it up. What have you got now... A nice bright white paste egg, completely worthless and unrestorable but still nice and bright.

Best Regards,
Julian (Fozzy The Bear) 

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Well, then put the jewels back on it, a bit of touch up, and it no longer smells like a rotten egg.
-csa

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THAT is what I'm saying.

Did he mess up the side art? Did he destroy the control panel art in the process of drilling new holes? Did he snap the marquee over his knee and chuck it out the window? Did he stab a soldering iron through the PCB?

Because if he didn't...Well, I have a hard time getting annoyed. I'm not part of any restoration community, but we should be preserving THAT stuff. The boards, the monitorrs, the artwork, the stuff that makes a game unique.(If we're talking about a game that adds unique hardware, include that in the list as well.) Not the cheap plywood box that stuff rode in on.

To use your egg example, what's valuable on that? The jewels, the gold hardware, the translucent enamel. Not the egg that stuff rode in on.

Now, should we try and preserve it all together when we can? Sure we should! But we're going to have to gut cabs to make cabs work again anyways, so let's worry about THAT, not some cheap plywood, eh? I mean, am I wrong here?
TelcoLou:

--- Quote from: MaximRecoil on February 05, 2008, 10:37:34 am ---
--- Quote from: TelcoLou on February 05, 2008, 10:27:28 am ---Hmm. I'm confused. This site's acronym (and a quick check on the wiki) suggests to me, that it's about "Building you own" stuff, not "Restoring Beat-up cabinets back to their original luster"  :dizzy:

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Pardon me for pointing out the obvious here, but the classic arcade machines have already been built, by someone else, many years ago.

If you are going to take the initialism of this site to heart, then if you want a cabinet, you should be Building Your Own.

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Understood  ;D It just pains me a bit, being so new to this "scene", to see angry posts arguing about morality and all ... (games ... they're just games)
RetroACTIVE:

--- Quote from: TelcoLou on February 05, 2008, 10:47:50 am ---Understood  ;D It just pains me a bit, being so new to this "scene", to see angry posts arguing about morality and all ... (games ... they're just games)

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Yes they are just games but for many is akin to antique collectibles... unlike furniture and stuff, antique electronics are a bit more challenging for many to deal with... people can be impatient / apprehensive with maintaining these things... so unfortunately an easier path is to slap a pc in it and call it done.
MadGamer:

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Understood  ;D It just pains me a bit, being so new to this "scene", to see angry posts arguing about morality and all ... (games ... they're just games)
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"..just a motorcycle, Mr. C??...and I supposed your mother, was just another mother??.." ...
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Sorry couldn't pass it up, just trying to keep it light
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