The Summer of Chuff - Chufftober 2014 - PBJ'S Moldy Meat

[yotsuya]

Sup, bros?

I just finished a project for my sister using WellFedGames' awesome Mr + Mrs Pac artwork (more on that later). I just picked up a very rough (but free) Nintendo cabinet that I'm going to restore and make into a Vs Unisystem cabinet. Also, that 4 player cab I picked up for my nephew is no longer going to be his, since he's getting divorced by my niece (I blame PBJ), and since I don't care for 4 way cabs with control panels as wide as the cab is tall, I'm planning a refresher for it. So begins the Summer of Chuff. What's on your guys' summer agendas? 

[Malenko]

gonna try to convince you to flat pack that nintendo cab and send it to me.

Other than that I have an MK1 to restore, replacing the sticks on my MK2 and MK3,  an MK4 to either sell or MAME , oh and Im getting married in October (unless she does what Kaneda's fiancee` did)

[yotsuya]

gonna try to convince you to flat pack that nintendo cab and send it to me.

Other than that I have an MK1 to restore, replacing the sticks on my MK2 and MK3,  an MK4 to either sell or MAME , oh and Im getting married in October (unless she does what Kaneda's fiancee` did)

No dice on the Nintendo cab! I've been wanting one for a long time. This one is going to need some work, like that Galaga/Ms Pac cab. Depending on how the repair goes, it might become a DK or Popeye, but more than likely it'll become a VS Unisystem. I played those games more as a youth than I did DK or Popeye. Plus, I get to make custom art.

And I hope with all my heart Bonnie don't Kaneda you.

[Slippyblade]

My summer is gonna rock.  My oldest just moved out and I am in the process of converting his bedroom into my new Barcade!  The possibilities are limited only by my budget (which mean pretty limited) and I'm already having a ton of fun tearing out the crappy built in shelves that were in there.

My plan for the room includes a dedicated electronics workbench in one corner.  A wall mounted TV with 4-player pedestal centered on one wall flanked by a pair of dedicated cabaret sized machines (one for vert shooters, one with spinner and trigger stick)  Gonna install a rocker/recliner with lighting in a corner with a small end table as a reading nook and intend to fit a mini-fridge in somewhere as well.

I'm so stoked.

[yotsuya]

My summer is gonna rock.  My oldest just moved out and I am in the process of converting his bedroom into my new Barcade!  The possibilities are limited only by my budget (which mean pretty limited) and I'm already having a ton of fun tearing out the crappy built in shelves that were in there.

My plan for the room includes a dedicated electronics workbench in one corner.  A wall mounted TV with 4-player pedestal centered on one wall flanked by a pair of dedicated cabaret sized machines (one for vert shooters, one with spinner and trigger stick)  Gonna install a rocker/recliner with lighting in a corner with a small end table as a reading nook and intend to fit a mini-fridge in somewhere as well.

I'm so stoked.

Sweet! Lemme know when the grand opening is! 

[pbj]

(I blame PBJ)

Go on.


My plan is to stay above ground if possible.  About all I can manage these days.

 

[Vigo]

Good to see some major chuffage going on!   

I am moving to a new house at the end of the month. Lots of room to grill, and hopefully no more freaky neighbors. I haven't told the wife, but there should be a good room in the basement to expand my collection as well.

Moving will be the first new year's resolution I ever successfully completed.

[leapinlew]

I built a bartop for my sister, otherwise for me it's a summer of swimming, grilling and playing arcade games!

[wp34]

My summer is gonna rock.  My oldest just moved out and I am in the process of converting his bedroom into my new Barcade!  T

Nice.  My oldest just finished his first year at college and that was a running joke in our family all year.

My summer plans -
- Finish my Tron project
- Learn to paint so that I can...
- Finish my Q*Bert restore
- I have a beat-to-hell Nintendo cabinet that is going to become a Fix-it-Felix for my daughter
- I have an even beater-to-hell Midway cabinet that is going to become a 4-player cabinet for my son

[Well Fed Games]

I just finished a project for my sister using WellFedGames' awesome Mr + Mrs Pac artwork (more on that later).

 

For me, the same thing that's been in the queue for a while: finish my Raiden.  I am making progress though! With any luck I will finish my cocktail, too.... which will only leave me with 4-ish unfinished projects.

[Nephasth]

What's on your guys' summer agendas?

She gets here tomorrow!

[kahlid74]

I've got a second little munchkin on the way July 11th so that will be a handful.  I've got two arcade machines I'm supposed to build (One for a friend of my wife and one for a church) but I still goodness graciously want to finish the Battletech VR pod but ALL of that takes a back seat to starting a brewery with my best friend.  We've been talking about it for 10 years and I've now pretty much built an electric brewing system that can make 20 gallon batches.  So we're going to start brewing with all our old recipes and if it gets going well start to sell in 6-8 months.

[Vigo]

I've got a second little munchkin on the way July 11th so that will be a handful.  I've got two arcade machines I'm supposed to build (One for a friend of my wife and one for a church) but I still goodness graciously want to finish the Battletech VR pod but ALL of that takes a back seat to starting a brewery with my best friend.  We've been talking about it for 10 years and I've now pretty much built an electric brewing system that can make 20 gallon batches.  So we're going to start brewing with all our old recipes and if it gets going well start to sell in 6-8 months.

You sound nothing like a guy from Milwaukee.     Congrats on kid #2, and I hope he doesn't take TOO far of a back seat to the Brewery. 

[yotsuya]

I am moving to a new house at the end of the month. Lots of room to grill, and hopefully no more freaky neighbors. I haven't told the wife, but there should be a good room in the basement to expand my collection as well.

You know what would make this summer quite chuffy? If you started cutting wood on the Urkelcade!

[yotsuya]

I built a bartop for my sister, otherwise for me it's a summer of swimming, grilling and playing arcade games!

What theme did you use on your sister's machine?

[yotsuya]

My summer is gonna rock.  My oldest just moved out and I am in the process of converting his bedroom into my new Barcade!  T

Nice.  My oldest just finished his first year at college and that was a running joke in our family all year.

My summer plans -
- Finish my Tron project
- Learn to paint so that I can...
- Finish my Q*Bert restore
- I have a beat-to-hell Nintendo cabinet that is going to become a Fix-it-Felix for my daughter
- I have an even beater-to-hell Midway cabinet that is going to become a 4-player cabinet for my son

There must be something going around with beat-to-hell Nintendo cabinets. The one I got was painted orange like a DKJr, but they must have used exterior house paint and a $1 roller from Wal-Mart to put it on. There are gouges and stuff, but no major wood damage, so that's a plus. I sanded down the back panel last night as a test and all seemed to go well. I applied wood filler and will sand that down this afternoon as a test.

It had an Excitebike marquee, no bezel, a hand-typed Vs. Baseball sheet stapled inside, and no other identifying marks, so I'm not sure what it started life as.

[Vigo]

I am moving to a new house at the end of the month. Lots of room to grill, and hopefully no more freaky neighbors. I haven't told the wife, but there should be a good room in the basement to expand my collection as well.

You know what would make this summer quite chuffy? If you started cutting wood on the Urkelcade!

I can't say when, but Urkelcade will happen.

[yotsuya]

Here's a link to the cabinet that started off The Summer of Chuff: Mr + Mrs Pac-Man, V2. Shoutout to WellFedGames for his concept!

[eds1275]

I hope to finish up the 2 I have on the go (nameless cocktail I plan to sell, and a mini for my niece) as well as a stand up racer siilar to the gran trak one.

[Malenko]

picked up the MK1 I was talking about, so its on like Konkey Dong.

[rpgposer]

Gonna learn how to use my router this summer.  The spiffy wico rotary sticks I got from kuddlekat and Heavy Barrel pcb are waiting patiently in their boxes for a new CP.

[yotsuya]

This past week I picked up a cheap Mac Mini, 2006 edition. I wanted one for my iTunes and basic stuff (I'm still a PC guy at heart). It was in good shape, but pretty much stock. It has a 1.6Ghz Core Duo processor, 1 GB ram, but only a 60 GB HD. We have a few a work, but my experience opening one a few years ago wasn't so good. However, I found a great site and decided to press on with a full on upgrade - 2 GB RAM, 500 GB HD, and replacement of the processor up to a 2.33Ghz Core 2 Duo, so I could go up to Lion. After watching the videos a few times, I popped that sucker open, swapped parts (tons of dust bunnies inside, btw - gave it a good cleaning), put it back together, and rebooted. No issues! I even flashed the firmware to 2,1 afterwards so it will now accept 4 GB RAM instead of the max 2 GB that the 1,1 takes (that'll come in handy when I do put on Lion).

So almost 3 weeks into the Summer of Chuff, what all have you started/completed, my brothers?

[pbj]

So almost 3 weeks into the Summer of Chuff, what all have you started/completed, my brothers?

My latest project has been legitimately acquiring PS4 stuff as cheaply as possible.  Free's even better. 

I'm currently in $173 and have complete console, two extra controllers, 3 games purchased new, and a year of PS Plus.   

Stretch goal is one free game per week.

When the pile gets obscene enough to share how I did it...  I will.  The process is not enviable.

 

[yotsuya]

Nice! Share already - eBay? Craigslist? Black market?

Feel free to post your moonshine updates here as well. 

[pbj]

Nah, this is all legitimate and through well known vendors.  A friend of mine that's in on the details says I need to make a 10 minute documentary about it.   

[Vigo]

Let me guess, you start by bartering your hooch to hobos and gypsies for food stamps, then you take those food stamps and buy pallets of elbow macaroni for the box tops. Then you found your own online college in order to redeem those box tops to get new computer for your school's computer lab. Once you have the computer, you pawn it for $50 cash and buy 10 cases of swisher sweets from the gas station. You stick them in rubbermaid totes with damp socks so it qualifies as humidor and you can legally relabel and them as "Jim's fine Q-ban cigars". You then market your cigars as $100 cigars on a website in Chad, where tobacco sales are unregulated. Since nobody would buy them, you donate the cigars to a charity thrift store as a $10,000 tax write-off that will cover the cost of the PS4 once your taxes are filed next year.

[pbj]

Let me guess, you start by bartering your hooch to hobos and gypsies for food stamps, then you take those food stamps and buy pallets of elbow macaroni for the box tops. Then you found your own online college in order to redeem those box tops to get new computer for your school's computer lab. Once you have the computer, you pawn it for $50 cash and buy 10 cases of swisher sweets from the gas station. You stick them in rubbermaid totes with damp socks so it qualifies as humidor and you can legally relabel and them as "Jim's fine Q-ban cigars". You then market your cigars as $100 cigars on a website in Chad, where tobacco sales are unregulated. Since nobody would buy them, you donate the cigars to a charity thrift store as a $10,000 tax write-off that will cover the cost of the PS4 once your taxes are filed next year.

Nailed it.

[TopJimmyCooks]

What's on your guys' summer agendas?

She gets here tomorrow!

NIB?  you dog!

realistically I want to complete my barely started Terminator 2 restoration and at least make a start on black knight.  Restoring vids is quite easy and cheap compared to pins. 

[Vigo]

Because of my house move next week, I don't have much chuff planned. I have been planning for a while now, to build an arcade cabinet solely dedicated to what is around here often seen the most horrible genres of game created. I am hoping to have a little time this summer to finally build it and see what kind of reception it gets from here. 

[yotsuya]

Because of my house move next week, I don't have much chuff planned. I have been planning for a while now, to build an arcade cabinet solely dedicated to what is around here often seen the most horrible genres of game created. I am hoping to have a little time this summer to finally build it and see what kind of reception it gets from here. 

I'd be quite chuffed getting a new home! 

And with a description like that, I can't wait to see what you build.

[Generic Eric]

Because of my house move next week, I don't have much chuff planned.

[pbj]

Wrong Vaughn

 

[Generic Eric]

Huh
I don't know what to say

[Vigo]

Because of my house move next week, I don't have much chuff planned. I have been planning for a while now, to build an arcade cabinet solely dedicated to what is around here often seen the most horrible genres of game created. I am hoping to have a little time this summer to finally build it and see what kind of reception it gets from here. 

I'd be quite chuffed getting a new home! 

And with a description like that, I can't wait to see what you build.

Thanks! I think I am actually one step above quite chuffed, I believe the fitting term would be "indubitably chuffed"

And I can't wait for my next build. It is one of those things I want to do mainly because nobody here has attempted it, as far as I know. I want to force myself to appreciate the games myself, or at least see if they have any redeeming qualities whatsoever. I am betting that anyone who thinks about it long enough could figure out what I am gonna be up to. And no, it isn't a Gal's Panic machine.

[Le Chuck]

Because of my house move next week, I don't have much chuff planned. I have been planning for a while now, to build an arcade cabinet solely dedicated to what is around here often seen the most horrible genres of game created. I am hoping to have a little time this summer to finally build it and see what kind of reception it gets from here. 

I'd be quite chuffed getting a new home! 

And with a description like that, I can't wait to see what you build.

Thanks! I think I am actually one step above quite chuffed, I believe the fitting term would be "indubitably chuffed"

And I can't wait for my next build. It is one of those things I want to do mainly because nobody here has attempted it, as far as I know. I want to force myself to appreciate the games myself, or at least see if they have any redeeming qualities whatsoever. I am betting that anyone who thinks about it long enough could figure out what I am gonna be up to. And no, it isn't a Gal's Panic machine.

Tile games or fruit games?

[jaharr01]

my Summer chuff is to break into Nephast's house when he is gone and steal that sexy AC/DC pinball machine. Actually I'm going to try finish  my pinball cabinet. for side projects i'm gonna build my little girl a 2/3 scale Nintendo cabinet for NES and mame mostly. Also I'm gonna build my nephew a pacman bartop out of a plug in play. Other than that not much else. I would like to insulate my garage so it's not 130 degrees in summer and the 13 below zero in the winter.

Jay

[TopJimmyCooks]

Because of my house move next week, I don't have much chuff planned. I have been planning for a while now, to build an arcade cabinet solely dedicated to what is around here often seen the most horrible genres of game created. I am hoping to have a little time this summer to finally build it and see what kind of reception it gets from here. 

I'd be quite chuffed getting a new home! 

And with a description like that, I can't wait to see what you build.

Thanks! I think I am actually one step above quite chuffed, I believe the fitting term would be "indubitably chuffed"

And I can't wait for my next build. It is one of those things I want to do mainly because nobody here has attempted it, as far as I know. I want to force myself to appreciate the games myself, or at least see if they have any redeeming qualities whatsoever. I am betting that anyone who thinks about it long enough could figure out what I am gonna be up to. And no, it isn't a Gal's Panic machine.

Tile games or fruit games?

Ticket redemption.

[Generic Eric]

Because of my house move next week, I don't have much chuff planned. I have been planning for a while now, to build an arcade cabinet solely dedicated to what is around here often seen the most horrible genres of game created. I am hoping to have a little time this summer to finally build it and see what kind of reception it gets from here. 

I'd be quite chuffed getting a new home! 

And with a description like that, I can't wait to see what you build.

Thanks! I think I am actually one step above quite chuffed, I believe the fitting term would be "indubitably chuffed"

And I can't wait for my next build. It is one of those things I want to do mainly because nobody here has attempted it, as far as I know. I want to force myself to appreciate the games myself, or at least see if they have any redeeming qualities whatsoever. I am betting that anyone who thinks about it long enough could figure out what I am gonna be up to. And no, it isn't a Gal's Panic machine.

Tile games or fruit games?

Ticket redemption.

My bet is Gauntlet or Snacks'n Jaxson

[yotsuya]

World's first scratch-built Boonga Boonga?

[Vigo]

Le Chuck and Jimmy are sniffing in the right spot. Yotsuya, I don't wanna sniff where you are sniffing. Eric, there actually was a sweet Snack's n Jaxson restore over at arcadecollecting.com http://www.arcadecollecting.com/snacks/snacks.html   but doing one myself has been on my mind. It is actually a really cool cabinet, considering what is in it.