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Title: Restore, Mame, or Jamma?
Post by: ienjoy 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.

Title: Re: Restore, Mame, or Jamma?
Post by: Ginsu Victim on December 30, 2009, 10:09:06 am

Kinda hard to do to much with those other than restore them.

Title: Re: Restore, Mame, or Jamma?
Post by: bkenobi 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.

Title: Re: Restore, Mame, or Jamma?
Post by: ienjoy 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?)

Title: Re: Restore, Mame, or Jamma?
Post by: SirPeale 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.

Title: Re: Restore, Mame, or Jamma?
Post by: RayB on December 31, 2009, 02:44:43 pm

I've never heard of Pharoah or frenzy express. Post photos

Title: Re: Restore, Mame, or Jamma?
Post by: ienjoy on December 31, 2009, 02:51:40 pm

Pharaohs Gold is a SWP(Skill with prizes)
(http://i47.tinypic.com/11keh6a.jpg)

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

(http://i50.tinypic.com/1fb85.jpg)

Title: Re: Restore, Mame, or Jamma?
Post by: RayB 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.

Title: Re: Restore, Mame, or Jamma?
Post by: CrazyKongFan 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

Title: Re: Restore, Mame, or Jamma?
Post by: ienjoy 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.