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dax:

--- Quote from: MYX on February 17, 2006, 12:30:52 pm ---Pricing is relitive. What is it worth to you. I bought a Defender for 375 plus buyers premium and tax was about 450. But this was like my favorite game and was well worth it. I cleaned it up and eventually sold it for 455. I had to get new video decoders for it, so it was a 10-15 dollar video game rental for 4 months of having a great game in my house. Can't beat that.

DO NOT CONVERT. Unless it has already been badly bastardized. I converted a qix that was even converted already and it felt horrible. If you have any respect for what it is that you are buying. If you want a shell to MAME then check out e-bay and a lot of times there are cabs just prime for conversion. Beter yet... Build your own.

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It does seem that the consensus is to not convert, but instead restore?

Is there much of a market for restored vintage games?  I have been checking eBay and there seems to be a little activity, but not much.

Anyone care to comment on which of the games they think is most valuable if restored?  The cockpit Red Baron?

dax:

--- Quote from: HooPZ on February 17, 2006, 12:11:38 pm ---You didn't have to delete your posts Ahigh, I mean dax.

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It looks like you're accusing me of being another personality on the board?  That's provacative.  I don't know why you guys think that there can only be one person who disagrees with you.  I find that amusing.

Can we move beyond this?

Tiger-Heli:

--- Quote from: MYX on February 17, 2006, 12:30:52 pm ---DO NOT CONVERT.

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I'm a little more liberal in this respect than many of the "purists" on here.

--- Quote ---Unless it has already been badly bastardized.

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Agreed - probably the best choice if you want a fully custom machine, or

2.  Unless it can be restored back with no trouble - i.e. if you find a Centipede with perfect marquee and sideart  and you remove the metal CP and PCB's, install a wood 2-player CP and player shum'ups on it, no problem.  If you paint it blue with custom side art and chop it down to hang an X-arcade off it, problem . . . , or.

3.  The machine isn't worth restoring - This is a gray area, but let's say you find a Galaga with the original joystick replaced, the marquee cracked, and no side-art on one side and damaged on the other.  Galaga is a true classic, IMHO, but also a fairly common game, so I do think they sell for much . . .  To fix it up would not return as much as you would put into it, so it's PROBABLY okay to MAME, but I would likely look for a more bastardized cab myself.

dax:
Yea, a friend of mine bought a Galaga '88 machine at the last auction where I got my NeoGeo.  He paid $45 for the unit, tweaked it just a tad, and sold it for $350, and it was in raggy condition.

I can appreciate the satisfaction of building a custom cabinet.  I'm just not looking forward to doing things like T-moulding and stuff like that because I don't have a router.  I'd rather jump right into modifying the control surface, painting the cabinet and integrating the computer.  Along those lines, the Simpsons cab seems like it has a lot of potential.  However, that's because I'm under the impression the Simpsons as a stand-alone game isn't that valuable an item.  When I converted my Neo cabinet, I set it up so that I could switch it back to the original setup if I wanted.  This next project would be the next step for me, which would be completely changing a cabinet, but not doing it from the gound up.  I figure a third project would probaby be a cocktail or tabletop.

Here are some pictures of some of the cabs:



AtomSmasher:
Back to the question at hand, where is this auction?  ;D  I doubt it's near me, but it never hurts asking.

I would of tried answering your questions if I had an intelligent answer to give, unfortunately I'm fairly new to the mame scene and have no idea.  I do think you should build instead of convert, but if you can't build, then spend $100 and get an empty cab that no one will miss.

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