I’ve actually got most of the pieces mostly cut out for this. They’re upstairs in the attic. This project is on hold because it’s going to be a rather *expensive* project.
Yearly Archives: 2004
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I’m going to be using an original Moon Patrol panel on this cabinet. The plan was to have a wider CP, with different controls. The original CP had a lot of holes, so I thought I’d either make a new one or try to fix the old one. I brought […]
I’ve wanted a Pac-Man style cabinet for some time, so when Gary from Boston offered one up on RGVAC for $75, I jumped, since it came with a monitor. It did came with this control panel, but without the joystick or a PCB. The idea was to have vertical games […]
I received an extremely water damaged Taito cabinet a couple years ago from Dan Lane in MA. It was good for hardware only, as the wood had *extreme* water damage. It sat in my mothers garage until just last month. I had considered using it as a template and cutting […]
Here’s what it looked like before I bought it and started work. In it’s first life it was a WWF Wrestlefest cabinet. Since this is only a two player cabinet, the plan is to replace the front wood with an area for one door. Sell the other. Currently with a […]
I’ve been reading the old posts, back when I just had *two* projects going on. I can’t believe how much I’ve learned since I began these cabinets. I’ve got *real* arcade monitors. Two JAMMA cabinets. A Galaxian cabinet, and a Taito cabinet that aren’t even mentioned. A ton of learned […]
A user on the Arcade Controls Forums noted that Joust and other similar hardware Williams games had a strange behaviour. When you would put a coin into slot one (5) it would register one credit. When you would put it into the left slot (6) it would register *four* credits. […]
Here’s what the cabinet looked like before I got to it: Click an image for a larger version It was completely empty when I got it, with the exception of the control panel, a JAMMA harness and an isolation transformer. And here’s what it looks like now: Still left to […]