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jtslade:
So here is what I want to do.

Create a Vertical Only cocktail multicab, non-destructive that will play the classic vertical games....
I already have a Horizontal Mame cab in a Neo Geo MVS cab that will be set to play all the Horizontal stuff.

I have a authentic Ms. Pacman cocktail cab. I won't have the room to create my arcade room for a while so I want to have a collection of 60-100 4-way arcade games (Pacman/ DonkeyKong/ Etc) that will work in a flip screen cocktail mode and use two buttons or less.

I am on an extreme budget and want to achieve it for as little cash as possible while still providing authentic arcade goodness!

I'm open to Windows XP 32bit  or Linux as I have experience with both.

I have:

1 Ms. Pacman arcade cocktail unit
Freshly capped (needs new flyback 19" G07 on my to do list)

Set of full cocktail control panel's metal for a Super Pacman cocktail (this had a button on left 4-way leaf joystick on the right / two sides)

One Oem HP P4 desktop (small) GX system

Asus Socket 754 Mobo and CPU and DDR2 (2GB) ram / PCIE slot

another no name P4 with power supply desktop PC

VGA breakout cable from Ultimarc (just have one lying around)

ATI HD2600 PCI express (that has been tested to work with Groovy mame and CRT emu drivers)

Collection of several AGP cards Nvidia and ATI

Great Weller Soldering Iron and skills to match..

I want to protect the monitor from the 31khz signal at PC boot (this will damage the monitor over time right?)
A front end that is very easy for someone to sit down and start using without me having to explain everything or take months to configure.

I will drill the Super PacMan control panels so that the 4-Way stick is on the left and two buttons fit on the right. Everything else will be non-destructive so that the cab can be restored back to a original.

What would you do?


 

jtslade:
Any ideas, am I missing something?

rpgposer:
It's your cab and your business, and I am by no means a hard core preservationist, but I would leave a working Ms. Pacman cocktail as is.

jtslade:
Maybe I didn't stress enough that this will be 100% non-destructive to the extreme. I am a hardcore preservationist and cant cope with classic arcade conversions of any kind. All cables, PCB's and every square centimeter of this cab will remain original. I have some Super PacMan control panel parts that came out of a cockpit cab that I rescued from a guy who let them sit in his garage for 25 years and be destroyed by termites. 

Pics of the Super Pacman parts I saved from the termites and trash. This cab fell apart in my hands just touching it.




These are the Super Pacman controls that I salvaged. My original controls will be placed in storage (NON-Destructive)





Btw, the parts I rescued were put into restoring a Galaga upright (G07 chassis), the tube went into fixing a classic arcade. The PCB and harness and every other piece went into fixing classic arcade games. These were parts that I paid money to save. I wish I could of saved more.

I am a hardcore purist.

But I won't have the space to have 20-40+ arcade cabs for many years so I need to get some vertical arcade CRT authentic classic gameplay and I don't have a ton of money to do it with. I have some of the parts from the Super Pacman and an Asteroids Deluxe that was also saved that sold will provide some funds.

I'm not destroying a classic cocktail cab. If the majority disagrees then I'll request this topic be deleted.

JtSlade.

rpgposer:
IDK - tough call, and it's your call.  I wasn't getting on your back, btw.  I modified my generic angle cabinet which had Midway's Strike Force in it in a similar manner.  Swap a jamma harness and the original can be played.
If had a real Strike Force cabinet, that would be a different story.  Probably would have sold it to someone who loves the game to fund a generic cab.

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