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Why Galaga PCBs so expensive?

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MonitorGuru:
Speak and ye shall receive... Have been looking for a killer price on an authentic midway galaga pcb and I found one today momemts after I posted that last message!  Finally my Galaga cabinet i found on the side of the road (with great side art) can come alive!

I need to get the wire harness however... otherwise I have everything else i need I think.  Anyone have a cheap wire harness available?

SirPeale:
I've got something cheaper, although it's still a Mame solution...

Get yourself a Delhi III motherboard.  They came in eMachines.  On eBay all the time.

There are DOS drivers for the sound, and there are onboard ATI graphics with non-shared memory.

Get a 16M flash card, with an IDE flash reader.  Set up DOS on it, with the sound drivers, and have it boot right to Mame and Galaga. 

This board runs Galaga @ full FPS with a 450 MHz processor.  And with .96u3 it's darned close to the real thing.  In fact, with the newest version I'm not sure what the difference is between Mame and a real board.

AlanS17:

--- Quote from: MonitorGuru on May 27, 2005, 02:42:53 pm ---Speak and ye shall receive... Have been looking for a killer price on an authentic midway galaga pcb and I found one today momemts after I posted that last message!
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MonitorGuru:
Thanks guys, but I require the original system and original (or at least redone to original) wiring harness.. I dont want to convert it to Jamma or mame it...

I got into mame, but have much more fun restoring classics... I still havn't built a mame and probably never will.. I just use it to test games out before I buy them now :)

ChadTower:

--- Quote from: Peale on May 27, 2005, 05:05:33 pm ---I've got something cheaper, although it's still a Mame solution...

Get yourself a Delhi III motherboard.  They came in eMachines.  On eBay all the time.

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You know, I have one of these sitting 8 feet from me, 533mhz I believe.

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