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Title: ever have this happen to you??
Post by: delta88 on March 21, 2002, 07:56:30 am

:'( so I sold a fully working game to this kid.....it had a 25" monitor/no burn i, controls for 2 with 5 buttons per player...the control panal slid out waste level...working coin door....it was painted flat black cause it was a conversion..plus it had a jamma harness..the marquee lit up and all.......I got an update on the game.....it had working pcb in it to...i was told that he gutted it to make it a mame cab..hold on...what!!!!!..oh yeah he tossed the monitor,pcbs, jamma harness...
yeah yeah ..thats how you build an arcade cab..
most of us would love a jamma cab with a coin door and a 25" like new monitor..but some..well i guees are CLUELESS!!!!!!! ???

Title: Re: ever have this happen to you??
Post by: RobP on March 21, 2002, 09:09:50 am

I would have done the same thing.

Title: Re: ever have this happen to you??
Post by: delta88 on March 21, 2002, 09:24:37 am

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I would have done the same thing.

same thing?????what do you mean ...take a cab that is 95% setup for mame and tear it apart...oh ok ..just checking........

Title: Re: ever have this happen to you??
Post by: Dave_K. on March 21, 2002, 09:42:25 am

Ok, whats worse, Mame-afying a nice jamma rig, or classic Joust or Defender Cab?  Now you are starting to sound like me!  ;D

-Dave

Title: Re: ever have this happen to you??
Post by: RobP on March 21, 2002, 10:33:45 am

ack =\ i didnt read the whole thing, i see why you're irked now, heh.

Title: Re: ever have this happen to you??
Post by: AlmtyBob on March 21, 2002, 10:34:08 am

That should be a crime when it would have been easier to leave everything but the PCB inside and do a harmless pc<->jamma conversion.

Title: Re: ever have this happen to you??
Post by: Lilwolf on March 21, 2002, 11:19:41 am

I ended up doing that... but I have all the parts (and can still play captain america on the floor).

that was before jpac (or I would have done things very differently)

and before I found out there are ways to get a jpac to work with windows (since thats required for my frontend).

Title: Re: ever have this happen to you??
Post by: Lilwolf on March 21, 2002, 11:20:37 am

btw, if I could do it again, I would have built my own.

Mainly because of shipping, but it ended up costing me 400 bucks for a old wooden box

Title: Re: ever have this happen to you??
Post by: Billabong on March 21, 2002, 07:28:31 pm

The word "DOH!" comes to mind... :)

Later,
Billabong

Title: Re: ever have this happen to you??
Post by: Frobozz on March 22, 2002, 11:31:02 pm

Bah, would have tossed the monitor and put in something hi-res first of all.  Original monitors require DOS.  DOS is ancient and evil.  I vowed I shall never run DOS again when I first started up Windows 95 on partition 1 and Linux on partition 2 many moons ago.

Then perhaps a J-Pac for the controls existing, and an I-Pac for some additional buttons.  

But that's just me.