THE BORE
General => Video Game Bored => Topic started by: Arbys Roast Beef Sandwich on November 24, 2008, 10:23:29 PM
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As the topic says. I'm bored as crap and it might be good for a weekend project. Has anyone done anything similar?
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I haven't, but I know people who have. Best tip is: don't go for cheap parts. It's worth spending the money, cause you can tell the difference once you start putting some pressure on them.
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it's hard as hell to find good cabs here where I live though. Best I could find was an old Neo-Geo beater that was going for 150.
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makes sense, thanks. I'm gonna try and hit up a couple of arcades later.
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put your avatar real big on the side of it
(http://img151.imageshack.us/img151/4985/rickmartel1wq8.jpg)
it would look awesome
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I wish I had a high-res version of that, I'd totally do it :'(
Anyway some guy wanted 300 for an Astro City cabinet, just the monitor and cabinet, no game. Will prolly pass because the cabinet looked pretty dirty.
So dcharlie, if I get an Astro City, it should normally be prewired and all that?
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dcharlie, since you seem to know a fair bit about this stuff, what's a good idea for a monitor for one of these? I have two old arcade cabinets that I'm quite sure the monitors are fried in, but I've been kicking around the idea of making a MAME cabinet because of this thread. Should I just shell out and replace a monitor, or is there another route (trying to shoehorn a pc monitor in there) that I should be looking at?
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I've never gotten MAME to work without some crappy ass frontend that refuses to work with any game I want to play :'(
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dcharlie, since you seem to know a fair bit about this stuff, what's a good idea for a monitor for one of these? I have two old arcade cabinets that I'm quite sure the monitors are fried in, but I've been kicking around the idea of making a MAME cabinet because of this thread. Should I just shell out and replace a monitor, or is there another route (trying to shoehorn a pc monitor in there) that I should be looking at?
if you don't care about trying to get native resolutions etc out of the setup, it's a lot easier to do. In that case, you are really just looking at getting a 4:3 monitor that fits the gap. A rotatable one would be nice too (hello cave shooters :))
It's only really if you want to use the old legacy monitor that it becomes a pain. Getting a "proper" replacement monitor for the arcades i'd assume is pretty expensive these days too.
Cool. Yeah, these are old. They're a Double Dragon and 1942 machine.