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Back again :D, G'Day from Sydney!


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I'm back!

 

And wow, what a ride!

 

Started in 2015 with my first cab. A bootleg Jungle King Ghetto cab not knowing anything at all about what I was doing.

Link to first introduction thread

 

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A few months later, I sold the little old ghetto cab and I picked up a New Astro City from One of you awesome peeps, and nurtured it back to full health :D (@80's KiD :P)

 

Repaired locks, tracked down a marquee, installed coin mech, replaced a few things here and there. Wasn't a lot to do, the hard stuff was already taken care of. You did good :)

Even threw in a NAMCO System 246 with Soul Calibur 2.

 

Since then I've gathered a few more games for the system, tracked down a NAMCO System 256 and got Chou DragonBall Z, Tekken 4 and Mobile Suit Gundam Z : AEUG vs Titans.

 

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I was finally happy for about a year... Then I picked up an LAI.

This thing came with a crappy Games Family board. The HDD refuses to boot.

No matter, I threw a Neo Geo MVS in it and picked up a few titles (Mostly Metal Slug)

The chassis however has a dry joint somewhere and needs a look at. I'll probably send it off to Jomac. It works if you give the side of the cab a love tap but I don't want to do it and total the chassis all together so it's best the cab stay off for now.

 

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September last year I picked up 2 Chinese/Korean(?) Candies for super cheap.

Pulled them out of Timezone. They were doing a cab clear out.

 

These cabs needed some work. Missing doors, no game board, no locks, requiring a harness etc etc.

I sold one this week, the buyer was thrilled :D

I've currently gotten mine to a working state and I need to do some more metal work and make a replacement front door. I also need to get a $1 top feed electronic coin mech (No microswitch mounts), some locks and finally bolt down the guts when I decide where I want them. Great little cab.

 

They were originally set up for a Taito Type X2 as a single back-to-back unit running Street Fighter IV. Unfortunately, the Taito didn't come with the cabs.

They were also set up for 1P CPs each. I've been working on a 2P conversion.

 

It's come together nicely :D

 

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Aaaaaaaaaand now I'm here.

Woke up yesterday morning, and house 3 doors down had put 2 cabs out to get scrapped...

 

This was the first thing I saw across the road yesterday morning

 

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Of course I ran down to ask the owners if they could pull it off the street while I organised a trailer (Was staying at my girlfriend's house).

 

When I got down to have a better look, after moving the Challenger clone to a safe place, I discovered how much of a brutal death 1942 had suffered.

R.I.P 1942.

 

I did however salvage the game board. I have yet to test it.

 

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As for the Challenger, it's in great nick and had a Game Box 2008 'Pandora' board installed (IT WORKS!).

When I picked it up, the owner of the house came out and handed me the marquee light box to go with it :D

With which I swapped out with the LAI, it looks much nicer in red.

 

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No Tekken Tag, but all in all. Can't complain with 2 game boards and a perfectly repairable cab for nothing :D

 

Plenty of work to keep me busy and I have still got a lot to learn but these last few years have been a massive learning experience and an absolute blast!

 

Now I need to continue my search for Tekken 5.1 and Soul Calibur 3 for the NAMCO System. Those are HIGH priority!

 

Sorry for the enormous post but I'm very happy to be back :)

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Thanks for the welcome :D

 

Great read. Sounds like you've been busy and thrive on a challenge.

 

I've been pretty busy but not as much as I'd like to. Been a slow process of saving money then waiting for parts.

Currently looking for a cheap/free 22" Monitor for the new blue cab pickup and get to work on that soon. I don't know what I'm doing with CRT and I'm not comfortable playing with those sorts of voltages just yet. I'll get there at some point but in the meantime, I'll get a cab running on LCD and if I feel like it later I can always go back to CRT.

 

 

Poor 1942 though :( I still need to get out there with a sledge hammer. I've salvaged all I can.

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