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Title: Mario Bros. Widebody Restoration
Post by: blkdog7 on April 05, 2008, 11:30:51 pm

Yeeha!! I got up this morning to work on my Mario Bros. Widebody... and I'm done!! Took me about 8 hours to complete all the tasks but I think it was worth it. It looks kick butt!!

I took a ton of photos of the restoration in process, they can be seen here:

http://zerocommit.com/dk/album/index.html

Here's all the things I did today:

Work Completed:

New Side Art
New CPO Artowk
New T-Molding
High-Score Save Kit
New Buttons
New Marquee Light Bulb
New Coin Door Bulbs
Touched up black paint everywhere
Cleaned the heck out of the sides
Used Novus 1,2, & 3 to reomove bezel scratches

Left to do: Monitor Cap Kit!

(http://zerocommit.com/mario_bros_2.jpg)

Title: Re: Mario Bros. Widebody Restoration
Post by: DaOld Man on April 06, 2008, 06:19:56 am

Nice work!
 :applaud: :applaud: :applaud:

Title: Re: Mario Bros. Widebody Restoration
Post by: BUCKETHEAD on April 06, 2008, 09:44:44 am

Damn!  That looks awesome !!!!    :applaud:

Title: Re: Mario Bros. Widebody Restoration
Post by: blkdog7 on April 06, 2008, 10:19:20 am

Thanks guys. I am really proud of how it turned out. This is my first time getting my hands dirty on one of these machines and I had a great time working on it.

Title: Re: Mario Bros. Widebody Restoration
Post by: BUCKETHEAD on April 06, 2008, 11:58:22 am

Your Donkey Kong Looks nice also!

I'm working on a Donkey Kong right now.

Well it was an old empty Popeye Cabinet.

So i painted it red, Going with a Donkey Kong theme.

I loved the red Donkey Kong's

Im going to mame it.

Here's a picture below.

Keep up the the excellent work !

Title: Re: Mario Bros. Widebody Restoration
Post by: blkdog7 on April 06, 2008, 03:45:19 pm

Quote from: BUCKETHEAD on April 06, 2008, 11:58:22 am

Your Donkey Kong Looks nice also!

I'm working on a Donkey Kong right now.

Well it was an old empty Popeye Cabinet.

So i painted it red, Going with a Donkey Kong theme.

I loved the red Donkey Kong's

Im going to mame it.

Here's a picture below.

Keep up the the excellent work !

That looks pretty cool! Kind of makes me a little ill to think you're gonna MAME that!! Why not just make it a nice dedicated DK??

Title: Re: Mario Bros. Widebody Restoration
Post by: Level42 on April 06, 2008, 04:18:03 pm

Quote from: blkdog7 on April 06, 2008, 03:45:19 pm

Quote from: BUCKETHEAD on April 06, 2008, 11:58:22 am

Your Donkey Kong Looks nice also!

I'm working on a Donkey Kong right now.

Well it was an old empty Popeye Cabinet.

So i painted it red, Going with a Donkey Kong theme.

I loved the red Donkey Kong's

Im going to mame it.

Here's a picture below.

Keep up the the excellent work !

That looks pretty cool! Kind of makes me a little ill to think you're gonna MAME that!! Why not just make it a nice dedicated DK??

Hear, hear !

Title: Re: Mario Bros. Widebody Restoration
Post by: chopps on April 06, 2008, 06:39:13 pm

hopefully he ment a dedicated maming. ??? :dunno

Title: Re: Mario Bros. Widebody Restoration
Post by: BUCKETHEAD on April 06, 2008, 08:06:19 pm

Quote

That looks pretty cool! Kind of makes me a little ill to think you're gonna MAME that!! Why not just make it a nice dedicated DK??

Lol. I knew this was coming.   :)

If i had gotten it with all the guts, monitor, etc ....

Yes, I would have probably did that.

But i received totally empty, And free by the way!

Another reason, Having a dedicated GALAGA and PAC-MAN

I know how these old pcb's act up.

I would like to at least have one reliable machine around, I don't have to worry about.

With that being said, Im not going to do anything to mess the cabinet up.

If i ever choose to let it go.

Eveything is staying all original.

Im going to run Atomic Fe, with a few vertical games.

All the DK's, Pac's, etc .....

Here's the before picture.