Arcade Collecting > Restorations & repair
Dragon's Lair Restoration
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Lew, I haven't had that issue with my Daphne. I use 99.7 and have never had it run slow. I'm typically using it on 1ghz and greater computers with a video and sound card. Geez, you'd think your superior math skills would come in handy for something like this. ;)
The paint was mostly dry on the upper bracket so I dry-fitted to see how it looks. It's very shiny compared to the lower bracket (with fingerprints). I decided to repaint the lower bracket and upper bracket with the same paint that I painted the cabinet with last night. I figured that would make them look more similar. I also used a brush and kind of stippled the paint on to give the upper bracket some more dimension so it wasn't so smooth and shiny. We'll see how the paint dries. This paint dries much faster than the spray paint so I should have a good idea tonight.
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Edited because my quote fu exploded.
What I had meant to add to the above post was that if you think this cab was rough, you should see my Donkey Kong restore. http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=65185.0
Actually, Lew, you have seen it. I would much rather repair a crappy cabinet than figure out what's wrong with a monitor and boards and power supply and fuses and wiring and such and such. That's why I like MAME so much, easy to get up and running and drop into a shell. I know that smacks of destroying classics, but I figure that these are much closer to classics than they were before I got them. Future generations can restore them the rest of the way. Yeah, future generations with their flying cars and portable record players. In my day we used MAME and we liked it! I have 3 classic cabs running MAME (Hyper Sports, DK, Dragon's Lair) and 6 classic cabs that are original (Punch-Out!, Xevious, Tron, Popeye, DK Jr, and World Series: The Season). No one cares when they come to my house to play games.
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I finally got around to putting the sideart on. I put the first side on using the windex method and it went on great but I don't feel like it's permanently adhered. I did the second side the old fashioned way and it was way easier and feels like it's on tightly. I have 2 more sets (4 sides) of these graphics which I will open up for sale now that I know that mine look fine. I had these made at a graphics vendor we use for Gatorade graphics so they look great. The only issue I see with them is that the very edges are white since they are white inside (under the printing). I may go over them with a Sharpie. They look great to me but they are not NOS. $60 per set shipped (2 sides). I figure the people reading this thread are interested in DL so I'd open it up to you first.
Lecithin:
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Looking good. I love to read your restorations because you're so specific and provide so much information and pictures along the way. Thanks for the resource!
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Thanks, Lecithin. Well, I'm pretty much done. I finished installing the computer and wiring all of the switches over the weekend. I had to wire a main switch and then a switch to boot the computer since there wasn't an option in the bios to boot after power failure. This is the first computer I've run into that didn't have that option. I also drilled holes for the control panel. I hate that this cabinet is set up to have the control panel actually bolted into place rather than latched with hinges. Dumb and a pain to install and remove. It's been a blast to play DL on a real cabinet again and it's going to look great once I get it into the lineup of games.
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