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| Jdurg:
Yeah, I live in a part of the country where it's a good 2.5 to 3 hour drive to an actual "major" city. (NYC or Boston). In my area, nobody has arcade cabs that they are willing to part with. What many people here have said they've gotten for $100, people around here are looking for $800 or $1000 for it. I'm just not paying that amount of money. In addition, I needed to learn how to do some woodworking so I started out small by building my CP. The measurements and design of my CP mean that I can not just plop it onto an already built cab and have it look good. If you start with the cab, then make the CP the conversion is a good way to go. If, like me, you do the opposite then you almost have to scratch build. Even though I'm building my MAME cab, I definitely want to find an original MK cab or a SF2 cab that I could spend some time restoring to brand new condition. Craigslist has come up empty, and any purchase outside of a driving distance will have shipping costs nearly 8 times higher than the price of the cab. |
| CheffoJeffo:
--- Quote from: Zobeid on April 18, 2008, 09:46:13 am ---But more to the point. . . Scratch-building cabinets is one of the major activities here on BYOAC, and it sounds like you are dumping on it and the people who do it. It almost sounds like we're all a bunch of dummies who built our own cabinets because we didn't know any better. --- End quote --- I'll tell you what ... when you've been here as long (or built as many cabs) as Paige ... THEN you can get all bent-out-of-shape with some degree of credibility. I happen to agree with Paige -- it is WAY easier to convert an existing cab for use with MAME than to build one from scratch. Doesn't make it the best choice for everybody, but it IS easier. And, the results can be better than those achieved by people who build their own. Paige suggested an alternative, easier, route, then people chime in and say "but the OP is building a bartop" (even though the OP has expressed frustration and even a desire for an alternative). I see bartops at auction all the time ... one of them is currently running Rygar in my basement. People say how there are no cabs available and then slam the folks who say that there are more cabs out there than you think. I can remember when certain people on this board would say "there aren't any affordable cabs where I am" (say, in ButtFart, ID) and are now flush and turning cabs down for lack of space. Hell, I used to say the same thing and have to turn away available cabs almost weekly. The catch is that there isn't a "Cabinet Depot" down by the WalMart and you have to do some work (other than browsing ePay and CL) in order to tap in. :cheers: |
| Jdurg:
Heh. Believe me, I'm hoping to have that happen to me. Where I am situated, however, the populace isn't really of the age that would have arcade games in their own homes. Hell, growing up we had but one or two arcades within driving distance, and this was during the heyday of arcades. The sad thing is that the people around here are not willing to part with their cabinets, or any technology that they bought, unless they get at least 75% return on their investment. So if they paid $1500 for their cab when it was new, they expect to get at least $1000 for it. I've actually talked with a few people who had for sale ads in local newspapers and offered them $200 for a cab that was somewhat beatup but was working. They just looked stunned when I made the offer and when I said "hey, you're cab is 15 years old. You're not going to get what you're asking for it. So take it or leave it." |
| CheffoJeffo:
I'm not saying that it will be true everywhere, but it is true more often than people realize and requires patience, time and effort. I've been enjoying Life After Death III - Warehouse Raid and appreciate the importance of time, patience and effort more than ever before. EDIT: I see that jdurg is in Uncasville -- I see cabs coming up in Norwalk, Bridgeport and New Haven fairly regularly ... often enough that I have asked my parents (who live in Stamford) about possibly picking some up for me. |
| Jdurg:
--- Quote from: CheffoJeffo on April 18, 2008, 11:00:55 am ---EDIT: I see that jdurg is in Uncasville -- I see cabs coming up in Norwalk, Bridgeport and New Haven fairly regularly ... often enough that I have asked my parents (who live in Stamford) about possibly picking some up for me. --- End quote --- Yup, that's me. ;D I don't own a truck/van, however, so I would either have to rent one or borrow my father's and he probably wouldn't be willing to drive much further than New Haven, so it limits me to the eastern half of the state. The only thing I can hope for is that Foxwoods decides to ditch their 'arcade' and dumps the cabs off for almost nothing. |
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