Build Your Own Arcade Controls Forum
Main => Main Forum => Topic started by: jimmah on March 08, 2006, 06:13:48 pm
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Ok first off I work for local cable/internet/phone company so I'm always all over the place. While doing a phone install at a house I ran across a couple of old PCs in the basement nothing great but sure enough the guy gave them to me.
(http://img33.paintedover.com/uploads/thumbs/33/pc.jpg) (http://paintedover.com/uploads/show.php?loc=33&f=pc.jpg)
So now today I'm driving down the road and what do I spy? A cabinet with a orange trash sticker on it. I stop and check it out and it looked in alright condition. I knock on the door and the guy is like sure you can have it. It doesn't work though. So I load it up in my van and work around it all day and finally get home. I put it into my landlords garage and plug it in. The things pops on and everything 100% works. The CP is kinda junkage, but other then that it in great condition for FREE!
(http://img33.paintedover.com/uploads/thumbs/33/side2.jpg) (http://paintedover.com/uploads/show.php?loc=33&f=side2.jpg)
(http://img33.paintedover.com/uploads/thumbs/33/side1.jpg) (http://paintedover.com/uploads/show.php?loc=33&f=side1.jpg)
(http://img33.paintedover.com/uploads/thumbs/33/monitor.jpg) (http://paintedover.com/uploads/show.php?loc=33&f=monitor.jpg)
(http://img33.paintedover.com/uploads/thumbs/33/inside.jpg) (http://paintedover.com/uploads/show.php?loc=33&f=inside.jpg)
(http://img33.paintedover.com/uploads/thumbs/33/front.jpg) (http://paintedover.com/uploads/show.php?loc=33&f=front.jpg)
(http://img33.paintedover.com/uploads/thumbs/33/cp.jpg) (http://paintedover.com/uploads/show.php?loc=33&f=cp.jpg)
(http://img33.paintedover.com/uploads/thumbs/33/back.jpg) (http://paintedover.com/uploads/show.php?loc=33&f=back.jpg)
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Schweeeet! :-) Free is good!!!
Hope you turn it into something beautiful!
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That is a sign that the M A M E G O D S have summoned you. Signs don't get any clearer than that!
Don
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Just got off the phone with the wife and supposedly her co-worker's friend has a couple cabs I can have for free also from his father that died. Sounds kinda like the antique car that sat in the barn covered for 50 yrs with 3 miles on it but I'll give them a look see.
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That U.S. Classic board that is in your cabinet is a game that still has emulation problems in MAME...
http://www.mameworld.net/maws/romset/usclssic
If I were you, I'd make a post on the mame.net forum offering it up for loan or donation to one of the MAME devs to see if having the board in hand might help with emulation. I don't know if anyone will take you up on it but it can't hurt.
I would also take good pictures of your marquee and control panel and submit them to KLOV. While they're not that great, I think they're better than the ones currently there.
This will make the mame gods happy. They will smile on you and bless you with more cabinets.