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1980's Atari Pole Position PC mod
BASS!:
Should just be closed and maybe apologies should be given. As far as maiming goes, if you bought something that you want to change, then go right ahead. I have changed classic cabs to pcs and I have no problem with it. I am not keeping anyone from restoring them, and I am also not just burning them. I think of them as mass produced furnature, they are well built and last a long time. They also exude character that is very hard to replicate. They are just natural to want to modify and add your own twist to make them your own.
Even if it ended looking like total crap, who cares? He has to live with it, and by finishing it he will learn how to do better. Too bad it had to be a pretty rare machine for starters though.
TOK:
He didn't threaten the guy, he made a classless comment.
This is a forum for people that build and restore arcade cabinets. Its expected that you appreciate them if you're eve here. If you make something nasty and can't handle the feedback, you shouldn't be putting it out there for public comment. Obviously its his to do what he wants with. Nobody questions that.
If he ruins it and doesn't post pictures, nobody knows. He did though, and got exactly the feedback he should have.
:dunno
Gatsu:
Like a lot of you guys on here...I didn't care for what he did to the artwork. But how people responded was immature and just flat - out hateful. I didn't think that's what this forum was about.
Like I said before.....posting your disagreements about it....then being total ---uvulas--- are 2 completely different things. Saying "hey I think you're screwing up a perfectly good cabinet" is one thing. Saying "I hope you get hit by a bus you ---smurfing--- moron for shitting on this cabinet" is just retarded and wrong.
People are gonna screw up cabinets. Not every cabinet or project posted in this forum is 100% win. Some are just flat out ugly. But none of you guys get nasty then. You may say you don't like it....but you say it tactfully. Here you just dropped your pants and shat on the guy.
TOK:
I try to never comment on someones workmanship. Everyone starts somewhere and like many others, my first control panel was a hideous contact paper abomination. Even then, what I understood was not to take something original and ruin it.
This is generally a very well behaved forum, and what happened here doesn't occur often... The last time I remember it was the guy that wanted to take a working Smash TV cab and paint it pink with clouds and Zelda stickers. The Star Wars getting parted out is brewing, but since it isn't a Project Announcement yet it doesn't count.
Namco:
--- Quote from: TOK on April 27, 2009, 12:22:03 pm ---I try to never comment on someones workmanship. Everyone starts somewhere and like many others, my first control panel was a hideous contact paper abomination. Even then, what I understood was not to take something original and ruin it.
This is generally a very well behaved forum, and what happened here doesn't occur often... The last time I remember it was the guy that wanted to take a working Smash TV cab and paint it pink with clouds and Zelda stickers. The Star Wars getting parted out is brewing, but since it isn't a Project Announcement yet it doesn't count.
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The difference here is that TOK's hideous contact paper laden control panel was a set of arcade controls that he built with his own two hands on an website known as "Build Your Own Arcade Controls" that is entirely themed around the idea of building and restoring arcade machines/parts. This polepos project was the opposite, he was removing arcade parts completely, destroying original artwork without the purpose or intention of restoring it, and cutting holes in the cabinet.
In my opinion the project does not belong here since it does not involve A) building arcade controls, B) restoring an arcade machine, or C) building an arcade cabinet. Now if this website had a lumber salvage section or a "repurpose an old arcade cabinet for another use", then it would be relevant. Also since the majority of members here abhor the destruction of classic salvagable arcade machines, he got the expected response. One good turn deserves another. He posts images chronicling the destruction of a Pole Position sit-down soliciting opinions, and we gave our honest opinions.
Sure one of the comments was in bad taste and it was dealt with appropriately, but that should not diminish the rest of the posters' opinions on the project which where an accurate and honest representation of this communities opinion on the whole.