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Apollo:
Please don't screw with this cab if it is in saveable condition. If you have the room just store it and get yourself another cab to mame. If you are new to this which I guess you are, by the time you have finished your first project you are going to want to fully restore that Galaga cab to its former glory. In my opinion one of the best games and coolest cabs ever manufactured.

SOAPboy:
i acually agree..

find a non classic game cabinet like i did.. capcom bowling worked perfect and i doubt anyone would care about it  ;D


seriously tho, dont destroy a galaga cab..

now, if you dont hack it up, so its fully restorable, i see no harm in tossing a computer in it and making your own CP withough destroying the orig..

just dont screw up the orig stuff man..

paigeoliver:
That is an insanely common cabinet though. Even thinking about Maming out a complete one is pure idiocy, even if it can be "reversed". Sell it off to someone else and buy an empty.

Maming out a complete Galaga is the equivalent of taking a 2 year old truck and chopping the rear half of it off to use as a trailer.

I know all these newbies THINK that empty cabinets are hard to find, but they are wrong. I have a basement full of them, FULL of them. I tell a lot of people to post requests on RGVAC for cabinets. A lot of those requests get ignored because mamers always ask for free cabinets and tend to have an incredible "flake out" rate.

Minwah:
Welcome to the board...

Once again, please don't MAME that cab tho  :)

Gunstar Hero:
I don't see why you couldn't use an original size Galaga/Galaxian/Pacman control panel for a stick and 4 buttons... even a 2 player setup.

It's a metal panel, right? Just fashion a new one (or better yet have a new metal one made) put the old Galaga one aside and go to town.

But really, if you want a MAME cab, and you don't have a mad on to have a Galaga looking one, get something with a bigger control panel. 2 players at once in front of that machine will be... cozy.  ;)

Still, a Galaga MAME might look pretty slick. I would love to find an empty/dead Asteroids and MAME it.

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