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I have a DEFENDER Cabinet to Work On !!

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Vicious Burger:


--- Quote from: spystyle on December 30, 2009, 11:16:02 am ---It's cool Jeffo - I like hearing an intelligent counter viewpoint, it's thought provoking.
And I'm sure the OP likes to see what a wide array of choices he has.
He'll probably paint it yellow and convert it to a dedicated Pac-man just to spite us :)



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LOL !!

Masterful Gaze:

I don't think there's any correct answer here. We all have our personal tastes and as long as the person that owns it is happy with it then I think it's all good. I was never all that great playing defender but it's still one of my favorites and if I had a defender cab to work with I would have to go full restoration with it regardless of the costs. That's just me though.

From my experience it costs about the same to setup a new Mame computer in a cabinet as it does to pick up the original pcb. Most of the rest of the parts you would have to buy anyway. I love MAME but at least for me there are a few games that just must be played in a dedicated machine with original hardware.

saurian333:

If I had pretty much any original cab to work on, I would restore it.  But that's just because I haven't tried it yet.  :)  When I decide it's time for a MAME upright, I'll build my own.  That will probably be shortly after my cocktail is done.  ;)

But that's me personally.  I assume some people would prefer to start with at least a base, like a gutted cab that needs a few pieces, to build their MAME machine with.  I don't have a problem with that, unless it's something really rare, or something I have a personal attachment to.  In that case, it's still just the cab itself I like seeing restored.  Great example is that Gauntlet cab spystyle posted (sweet cab, by the way).  I love Guantlet, and if I'd been in that position, I'd have done the same thing.  There's no way I'd want to see that as anything other than a Gauntlet cab.  The insides, however, don't matter to me as much.  Although I do like to see original PCBs for completeness' sake in a restoration, a dedicated cab really isn't practical for many people, and I completely empathize with that.

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