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TopJimmyCooks:
Option 1 - Reversibly MAME a locally available working PP1.  Controls and monitor/gameplay are good, no work needed.  Budget would be $800 or so.  $350~ to buy the cab, mucho labor to strip off the PP2 sideart vinyl slapped on the sides, some minor wood repair and repainting, fabricate replacement for the busted bezel/trim for shift lever, fabricate replacement for faded, sagging cardboard monitor surround, t-mold, locks, arcadeVGA board, UHID or similar, and a beater PC.  To play the 12 or so 360 degree games via Mala FE.  I would probably try to sell it after 6 months or so.  I would leave the PCB's in it, so don't burn my house down, OK?



Option 2 - Budget $400 to build an Evo style slim upright with auto rotating lcd, using my existing monitor, pc, and CP:

Donkbaca:
Option 2.  Why go through the trouble with the PP1?  If you are going to Mame something, do it to a cheap/broken machine.  Why spend 350 for a cab you are just going to mame?

yotsuya:
I'm with Donk. You did a great job on the CP- I'd love to see what you could do with for a whole machine.

TopJimmyCooks:
Yeah, by the time i got done typing, I was pretty much set on proceeding with the scratch build.  I do want to do an original arcade cab with stealth multigame capability, but everything that has been available lately has been either too nice to mame or basket cases.  Plus I never realized how few 360 degree wheel games were out there.

Heard in the background:  sketchup, sketchup, creditcard, creditcard . . .

 . . . Project announcement soon.   >:D

RayB:
Mehhh. Thread title misleading!

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