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Got a Dragon's Lair cabinet for $25. What should I do with it??
pgifford:
Hi,
I've posted this on a couple of other venues (newsgroup, mame) and someone suggested I post here. After looking through the board I see this should have been my first stop.
I picked up a Buster Bros. cabinet (gutted) that I plan to convert to a MAME box. The next day a friend points me to an auto parts store that has an arcade game for sale sitting out front. It's not in great shape and has some water in it, but for $25 I couldn't resist (obviously my wife wasn't with me).
The guy tells me it worked until a kid reached in (from where I don't know) and pulled 4 wires out. Fine. I get it home and it looks like the wires go to the coin mech so that shouldn't affect the game starting. The game doesn't work (I tried) but haven't had a chance to troubleshoot it. It's a Gladiator conversion so I don't care too much about the game anyway.
Finally, the question: what would you do with the cabinet? I have pictures here:
http://www.digitalironworks.com/game/
The first few pictures are for a guy interested in buying some parts off it for a Thayer's Quest he is building...he wanted to see a few things close up.
I could gut it and make it a Daphne box (after a while...don't have that many computers laying around) or my MAME box (and use Buster Bros. for something else). I could turn it back into Dragon's Lair. I could put some other machine in it. Or as one person suggested, I could toss it in a dumpster.
What would you do with it? I'm new to this so I don't feel I have a grasp of all the things I could do.
Thanks!
Paul
krick:
Welcome to BYOAC, Paul. I was the guy in the MAME forum who sent you here.
As for what to do with your cabinet.... I'm sure one of the helpful people in this forum will set you on the right path. My guess is that they'll probably tell you to restore it. Or at least, clean it up and put it on eBay for someone else to restore. It's a unique cabinet shape from a classic game so I doubt they'll tell you to MAME it.
I looked at your pictures. All I have to say is, "Man, look at the set of speakers on that cab!" They're HUGE!
Just a tip, you should probably edit your original post and change the title to something like "Got a Dragon's Lair cabinet for $25. What should I do with it?" to get more attention.
...
Krick
pgifford:
Thanks Krick...I made the change...let's see what happens! :)
Daniel270:
One suggestion (and mind I said "suggestion")...
Sell off whatever you can for the Thayer's Quest inquiry, then make it into a working DL machine.. If you look on Ebay, you can find several copies of the DL game on CD by Readysoft (if you want a cheaper version of the game, that is). Then install a PC into the cab and you'd also be able to play quite a few other games on MAME as well.
Just my $.02
Daniel
JoeB:
It all depends on how good you are with woodworking and electronics.
If you're so so and can't spare the time (and money) then just sell it off to someone else who will want to restore it.
The cab is old (circa 1983) and working with it requires a lot of time and effort. What ever you do, do NOT run a CD version of daphne on it.. it'll look cheap and crappy. At the least run the DVD version!!!!
As far as what's inside of it.. is that a laser disc player on the bottom of the cab? You also never showed how the side art looks like (if it's there).. maybe there's an amazing dragon's lair sideart under the black paint!
MAMEing a mid-90's generic arcade machine is much better than touching a classic.
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