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Mame arcade overload!!!
paigeoliver:
--- Quote from: Apollo on February 05, 2004, 04:55:36 am ---All credit to you Paige but I've just got to say, you do spend a lot of time telling everyone else here how many games, cabs, pcbs, parts you have and how much of an unbelievable deal u got at the latest auction.
How about posting some tips on how u restored them or how u got such a great deal on ______?
Ya know?
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Apollo, a while back I posted a quite detailed post explaining exactly how I look for games. Look for "The real place to find games". If anyone else wants help in that area then feel free to message me. I have also posted detailed information about cleaning up steering wheel panels, $3 overlays for wooden panels, the RIGHT place for the 4-way joystick in a mixed panel, how to touch up atari sideart, what to do at the auction, what not to do to your cabinet, where to find cheap quality top fire sticks, and many others. I can repost or bump (if I can find it), any of this information on request.
I do not post a lot of detailed conversion info because I largely do not do anything unique. There are plenty of posts already around explaining how to hook up an I-Pac, hack a gamepad, or hack a keyboard. I have only built one cabinet from scratch, and it was a single sided cocktail that I did without any plans. I enjoyed it for a while and eventually took my Mame stuff out and traded the cabinet empty as part of a trade for my pinball machine (also gave a Final Fight, another empty cocktail, and ALOT of parts).
Now I might post more stuff like that if I actually had a decent digital camera (and internet access at home), but I don't. Someday I do plan on getting a good camera and extensively documenting all my stuff. But right now I can't even update my web page (server issue).
Some of the above could possibly be for sale or trade. I live in St. Louis, MO and do not deliver. Send offers if you are interested in any of it.
Patrickl.
I collect basically just to have my own personal collection, but I do trade and sell from time to time. I (believe) I have been wisely trading for a long time, and because of that many of my games/cabinets have ended up having an essential cost of almost nothing. I keep them all in my apartment, although a few of the dead ones (both Defenders and that Turbo) are in my basement storage.
Stingray:
In Paige's defense, he certainly does offer a lot of good information. I have no idea what I would do in your situation, Paige. Die of euphoria, maybe. Probably the first project I would tackle would be the Battlezone. That one really needs to be running!
I say again, I am green with envy of your collection.
-S
Wade:
Paige,
I'd suggest selling off a lot of the cabinets that aren't fully working with real boards and a lot of the parts, and making some of those Mame'd machines into real machines. Move way from having lots of half-games, and towards having a collection of working games that actually hold some value (read: original parts and not Mame conversions). Obviously, you love this hobby, but you might as well be building some value into your collection instead of just growing a large number of relatively low-value games.
Also, this would work better for your space situation. People who have a house and have a room (or garage) dedicated as a gameroom is one thing. But having a small apartment (with probably very little furniture), and arcade games (working or not) scattered all around in the living room, kitchen, bedroom, etc. is something else entirely. I mean, I think it's kinda cool, if you lived near me I'd come and visit often. ;) But what does the average person think? You probably don't care too much, but you occasionally talk about women on these boards, and let me tell you, it'd be enough to scare off 95% of the women out there.
There is a lot to be said for a Mame cabinet that is configured with a large monitor and a variety of controls, too. You could replace virtually all of your Mame cabinets with one well planned cabinet. If you sold off a lot of your parts you could probably do it for very little money. I recently added a cocktail Mame game and even it feels redundant since I can play all the same stuff on my big Mame. And, that Mame will go after I get a real nice authentic classic cocktail of a game I really like.
Just some suggestions.
Wade
BillyJack:
Yeah, Paige is quite helpful. He hooked me up with a guy to get used cabs from. Hey Paige, have you ever done any business with MSVend on ebay, or Mike Smith, of Mike's vending in Pryor OK (same person)?
BillyJack
Apollo:
Yeah sorry Paige, long day at work when I wrote that. I'm just jealous that's all. No hard feelings I hope.
You have posted a lot of very useful stuff in the past, certainly more than I have to offer, lol.
Keep up the good work! :)
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