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Restore, Mame, or Jamma?
« on: December 30, 2009, 07:42:17 am »
Ok I have been lucky enough to get 4 cabs for delivery charge only. So my question is which would you restore, which would you MAMEify and which would you make a jamma cab of?

The cabs are:
Super off Road.
Pharaohs Gold
Frenzy Express
Vapor Trx.

I've got an idea on which to do just looking for your thoughts.



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Re: Restore, Mame, or Jamma?
« Reply #1 on: December 30, 2009, 10:09:06 am »
Kinda hard to do to much with those other than restore them.
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Re: Restore, Mame, or Jamma?
« Reply #2 on: December 30, 2009, 11:00:52 am »
If the offroad includes all its guts, I would definitely restore that one.  If it's missing everything, your only choice is to MAME it since it's not a JAMMA cab.  I had a gutted Championship Sprint that I MAME'd and it turned out nice.  I was very careful about what I did to install everything so it could be converted back easily, but I doubt that will ever happen.

Vapor Trx definitely looks cool, but I don't know anything about it or the others.  Like Ginsu said, I don't know what you would do with them other than restore them.
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Re: Restore, Mame, or Jamma?
« Reply #3 on: December 30, 2009, 11:39:54 am »
OK here's what I currently have planned:

Super Off Road, restore
Pharaohs Gold, remove the gun panel and covert to Mame.
Frenzy Express, not sure its a nice big cab and seller claims it only needs a new PSU so may keep as is.
Vapor TRX, for this I just had a flash of insperation if I remove the sit on bike thing it looks ripe for a Star Wars upright cab  ;D (whats the minimum spec pc for this?)

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Re: Restore, Mame, or Jamma?
« Reply #4 on: December 30, 2009, 12:14:16 pm »
Vapor TRX is awesome.  It's even better if you can link a couple of them together.

Where I used to work we had one in the shop already, and the boss pulled one off location that had been in a gameroom just off a swimming pool.  All the metal parts were of course rusted.  So they were all pulled, stripped and repainted - but not stock!  They were painted one of the other racer colors, so one was red and the other was blue.  Side by side it was really sweet.
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Re: Restore, Mame, or Jamma?
« Reply #5 on: December 31, 2009, 02:44:43 pm »
I've never heard of Pharoah or frenzy express. Post photos
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Re: Restore, Mame, or Jamma?
« Reply #6 on: December 31, 2009, 02:51:40 pm »
Pharaohs Gold is a SWP(Skill with prizes)


Frenzy Express is a scooter riding game comes with a full size scooter (not shown)

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Re: Restore, Mame, or Jamma?
« Reply #7 on: December 31, 2009, 06:06:27 pm »
Pharoah's Gold deserves to be MAME'd for having "SPAMmy" words plastered all over it. Keep the theme of it, but cover up those cheesy "win cash!" stickers.
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Re: Restore, Mame, or Jamma?
« Reply #8 on: January 01, 2010, 04:04:58 am »
I'd never heard of Frenzy Express until recently. Friend of mine (who owns some games and has a bunch on route) has one. It kinda reminds me of Crazy Taxi, only on a scooter ;D
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Re: Restore, Mame, or Jamma?
« Reply #9 on: January 01, 2010, 12:06:38 pm »
Ok I think I'll change the Pharaohs gold into a neogeo cab. Using a modded xbox for the games.

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