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| garnerb350:
Man, ole man...I am tired guys...I am still recooperating from yesterday... Here's the story: A guy on craigslist was giving away 4 arcade cabs for free...and i did a spur of a moment to rush and see and maybe get the cabs...Ive been itching to do another project (this will be my second) and I lost out on a chance to get a DK cab ( Severdhed got one why cant I ? :hissy:) The guy lived 2 hours away. Got to the guy's house and he had 2 Universal cabs ( Lady Bug, Mr.Do) and two generic Namco cabs... They had the monitors and coin doors, but the owner was unsure if they had everything else...he never turned them on and you could tell they were missing other parts... On a scale from 1-10...i'd say 3-6, with the Ladybug cab condition being 6... The attachments are the photos i took ( crappy cell phone) of the Universal cabs when i got home with them...I took the Namcos and they are sitting in an old tobacco barn my family owns. My main goal was to strip the cabs and use the parts....but that lady bug body looks like it can be salvaged and converted... Well the cabs had locks (with no keys) so i took a drill and got them loose...The Ladybug was empty...The Mr.Do however had EVERYTHING...I plugged it in and it works...but I think there is some issue with the monitor...its like the screen wants to pucker toward the bottom .... Right now I am trying to decide what to do before i dive into the abyss...should i mame it?...should i convert it to another game of my liking?... or strip it bare and use the parts on another stratch build... I am so tired from hauling those cabs... ( sorry if i sound like I'm rambling, I am excited over this, plus having lack of sleep,and no mountain dew to keep me company) >:D |
| Dr Zero:
First off congrats! :cheers: Fix up Mr. Do then sell it to pay for another project. You have other cabs you can put boards in that is not an issue no need to mame a working game. I am of the notion that if the games plays and is not some off the wall hack job then why mame it there is someone who might like it. What are in the namco cabs? Oh and congrats again! :cheers: |
| garnerb350:
--- Quote from: Dr Zero on September 16, 2009, 09:49:33 am ---What are in the namco cabs? --- End quote --- Not for sure...it was late in the day when i got home...and i was going off the notion from what the giver was saying ( he said that he thought they were empty)....Now on the monitors they had severe burn in....one monitor was either a Pac-man or Ms.Pacman...I could see the names of the ghosts...plus one had a werid looking marquee ( looked bootleg) of the pacman maze with ghosts being chased by a Popeye the sailor head...(serouisly) when i get home from work later today, I am going to stop by the barn and do a more indept look into those namco cabs... I'm thinking that its going to be hard to find Mr.Do parts...With my lack of internet at home and everything...I'm going to take it real slow and I know that the cabs will need a repainting... It just sucks because I have no guidance or company on what to do really(all alone in NC) ...except for this forum family... |
| surface tension:
Wow, 4 free cabs. Well worth the 2 hour trip by the look of it. I'd certainly try to get the Mr. Do and Ladybug up together. I played on these two a lot on the coleco when I was a boy. I wish the UK Craigslist has stuff like this. A crappy old shell over here would cost silly money. |
| RayB:
Wow, I was just saying a couple weeks ago about how we rarely ever see Lady Bug cabs and here you get one AND a rare Mr Do! I would definitely keep Mr Do. It's dedicated, complete(?) and has that neat color wheel thingy in the back. (Is the bezel missing?) As for the popeye game, that's a Pac Man bootleg. The game has the head of popeye eating dots, and the power pills are spinach cans, etc. What do you mean when you say 'Namco' cabs? Do you mean the classic MIDWAY ? |
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