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jimmy_bored:

--- Quote from: HooPZ on August 28, 2006, 01:15:26 pm ---I'll make you an offer.  You find someone to swap cabinets with who won't bastardize that poor cabinet anymore and will restore it to Tron.  If you do that, I'll send that person a Tron marqee for free.  May help you find someone to trade with.   Deal?

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 :laugh2:  Tell you what...  I will do the conversion if you throw in a working PCB and a spinner with that marquee.

I will take care of the rest...

jimmy_bored:

--- Quote from: RayB on August 28, 2006, 01:50:14 pm ---I don't like Tron either.

Hey, not only has his cab been converted, it's had the control panel modified. (That's not the original control panel).

I'd.. umm, just throw in a JAMMA board (assuming it's JAMMA now?)


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Yeah is a jamma...  I really like the cabinet thought..  Its very easy to work on and provides easy access to everything on the inside.

Its one bazaar control panel... Take a look:

jimmy_bored:
Here's the strip down job:



Infinity_Yak:
*puts on flame retardant suit*

Those pics bring back good memories of my restoration project :)

November last year, I picked up a broken/free Two-Tigers converted TRON just like yours.  Personally, I hate Two-Tigers, and TRON, so I turned it into a custom-themed MAME cabinet. 

I did a pretty thorough rework, designing and building a custom control panel, artwork, custom lighting where the old under-controls neon went, etc...  But the whole thing cost less than $150 to rework into a fully-functional MAME cabinet that I use to play games that *I Like

I'm pretty sure a lot of people here would punch me in the junk me for not restoring it to its original TRON, but hey, I didn't have the money, and more important, I never really liked the game.

This hobby is all about doing things that *you like*, and while the majority of people here probably would never do that if *they* were in the same position, that doesn't make wrong...



CheffoJeffo:

--- Quote from: Infinity_Yak on August 28, 2006, 02:57:15 pm ---I'm pretty sure a lot of people here would punch me in the junk me for not restoring it to its original TRON, but hey, I didn't have the money, and more important, I never really liked the game.

This hobby is all about doing things that *you like*, and while the majority of people here probably would never do that if *they* were in the same position, that doesn't make wrong...
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I am kinda curious who appointed you the arbiter of what this hobby is "all about" (did DrewKaree make the pronouncement and I missed it?) ... I don't entirely disagree with you, but what this hobby is all about isn't up to you anymore than what you do with your cab is up to me.   :dizzy:

For the most part, I think those who would prefer to see unique cabinets restored get upset when people hack them up (and, to be sure, not everybody hacks them up) when there are better options available to them (e.g. swap the cab for something more suitable to the project) -- there are far too many Dynamos and big 4-player Midways in the world to be cutting into classics.

Having said that, there are also more Tron, MsPac and Pole Position cabs than working hardware, so doing things other than restoration make some sense (although I heard on the weekend that someone is putting together a repro PP board).

And just because *you* did it doesn't make it right ...  ;D

Cheers.

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