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Crowquill:
I'm actually using a Primal Rage cabinet to run JAMMA games. Mine was converted to Tekken 3 when I got it.  The Tekken 3 board was burned out so I bought it not knowing if the monitor worked. I paid $100 with a (mostly) working 25" monitor. I thought that was a pretty good deal actually. I don't think it's a bad cabinet for either JAMMA or MAME.

The dedicated cabinet itself is a bit funkier than your average JAMMA cab, but I've grown fond of it for that reason. The control panel flips forward so that you can get to everything inside pretty easily (much like the Dynamo cabs). Primal Rage was also available as a conversion kit, so it could be in pretty much any cabinet. Everything else I'm posting is assuming it's the dedicated.

My monitor needs a cap kit and if you're looking to fix this one that's the first step. The scary part (for me at least) is that there are somewhere around 30 caps to replace on a Neotec 2515. The big "pro" though are that you have a 25" monitor. This is IF it has the factory monitor. If the monitor's completely shot, then you could always replace it with a TV for a MAME cabinet.

I'm actually considering whether I should pick up a 19" monitor and JAMMA harness for my MAME cab and move the computer over to the PR cab. If so, I was considering building a control panel very much like Pit Fighter/Rampart had as otherwise the cabs are pretty much identical. If you're wiring a MAME cab or using Primal Rage, there is a sub-woofer built into the front of the cab that you could use.

Attached is a pic of my cab. Here's a link to Pit Fighter's flyer to show what I plan to do with it:
http://www.arcadeflyers.com/?page=videodb&name=pit+fighter&year=&manu=&source=&submit=Search+the+Archive

I guess all-in-all it depends on whether you want to use an arcade monitor and the shape of the cabinet. It also depends on what you can find in your area. 

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