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What's the percentage of people who start and never finish an arcade cab?
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Teknique:
took me 4 years of on and off putzing to get it to 90% completed and playable by strangers.  I built mine with another byoacer who has since dissassembled it.  His was about 80% completed.

So its 50/50 here after 4 years.

Tek
Donkey_Kong:
I'm going on 2 years and counting on my first and only cab. It's sitting with no monitor and a few other items to be finished. My son and I were planning on installing the monitor today.
Dexter:
The only cabs I've ever 'finished' have been ones I built/renovated for mates. My own cabs have never truly been finished, there always seems to be something to do next.
tikbalang:
this should be a poll.
Paul Olson:

--- Quote from: pcolson on October 24, 2008, 03:11:21 am ---I just never seem to have time to work on it while school is going. I'm hoping to finally finish my driving panels over winter break. I will probably never finish because I keep changing things. I had 2 360 wheels working great for offroad and super sprint, so of course I had to tear it all up to accommodate a 3rd wheel. It will be fun when I finally get it done though.  :) I do have a lot of it done and I can play most of the games in MAME, but I always get stuck on the few that I can't.

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OK, after posting this, I thought about it some more. I am going to call mine a completed project since it is fully functional. The modular CP is complete, so I am going to consider new panels to be optional accessories. The cab has been just sitting for a month because I had partial panels there from the last time I worked on it. Today, I put on the 8-way panels and played Altered Beast all the way through for the first time. And yes, it took me quite a few credits  :dunno.
It may be semantics, but I feel better now that I have completed a project. I think I planned for everything on the wiring, so it should stay working no matter what I decide to add to it. Now I can add panels at my leisure which will make it nicer. I will take the time to sandblast my gas pedals and make them nice. It is going to be too cold in the garage pretty soon to play my dedicated games, so the MAME cab should get a lot of play.
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