The mame of shame

I think we need our own shame thread.
Let me start with this





You can follow the thread here
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,139064.0.html

Myrddin

Wow...

o1s1n

It's so horrific that the podium is actually crying tears of blood from the shame.

o1s1n

Just saw this over on AO. Poor Pony II - absolutely destroyed. Just look at the LED fans ffs.

WTF is with all the holes?

Sweet baby jesus

o1s1n

Here's the full thread if you'd like to witness the horror.

The really sad thing is that after he cleaned it up, it looked really well.

He then goes and destroys it! :eek:

http://www.hyperspin-fe.com/forum/showthread.php?32720-The-quot-restoration-quot-of-a-Jaleco-Pony-28-quot-Candy-Cab&

Check out the anger in the last comment :eek:

Wow,
just wow is all I can say.
Why didnt you just build your own instead of destroying a nice original cabinet?
You should be ashamed of yourself,you turned gold into a turd.
btw your a laughing stock in the arcade community

LoGiE

:eek:

WHY! WHHY!

Andrew76

o1s1n wrote: »

Check out the anger in the last comment :eek:

Wow,
just wow is all I can say.
Why didnt you just build your own instead of destroying a nice original cabinet?
You should be ashamed of yourself,you turned gold into a turd.
btw your a laughing stock in the arcade community

What a nice first post. :rolleyes:

Whereas the others are saying it's 'beautiful', 'looks amazing'... Strange bunch that think it looks good. Horrendous what he's done to the poor candy.

o1s1n

Andrew76 wrote: »

What a nice first post. :rolleyes:

Whereas the others are saying it's 'beautiful', 'looks amazing'... Strange bunch that think it looks good. Horrendous what he's done to the poor candy.

Yeah, bit over the top alright. You can be horrified without being an arse.

Although the fact that someone would sign up to a website to go on a rant about what he did just shows the stupidity of the modifications.

A lot of folks in the US see candy cabs as generic junk or don't really know what they are. I specifically remember reading a thread where someone was ruining a Jaleco Pony II 19 (with a value of about €2000) and one of the responses was something like - 'and it's only a little generic cabinet, so you don't need to feel guilty about Maming it!'

DinoRex

Oh dear, by post 9 on that thread I was like:

CiDeRmAn

I left a post there myself, trying to be just a little more positive about it but pointing out the folly of his/her work.
I wonder if they will take it well?
Seems that previous poster was banned for suggesting that the cab work was a bad idea, although his language was slightly more colourful than that.

o1s1n

Nice post

Unfortunately this poor Pony can't be saved, but it's nice to even make folks aware of the potential value of these things (both monetary and historical, it's it's not like the world is full of Pony IIs!)

I have to say **** that lad.
that was the first time I've ever been properly angry at a picture of a mame cab.
he deserves every bit of abuse thrown at him imo!

Ronan|Raven

Oh my..

Apty named "grounds for divorce"
If my SO ever made a monstrosity like it they'd most certainly be divorced


http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,136221.0.html

that pinball :eek:

Jack burton

Oh Christ


And that cost a lot to build I reckon!

That pony thread has the best quote ever on any arcade site

"Fans are mostly for show"

What a plonker

CathalDublin

The workmanship that go's into these horrific creations:eek:

o1s1n

CathalDublin wrote: »

The workmanship that go's into these horrific creations:eek:

And the subsequent back patting and high fives. It's insane :eek:

Myrddin

o1s1n wrote: »

And the subsequent back patting and high fives. It's insane :eek:

Is everyone just too polite to say it, or are cabs like that a 'culture thing'?

o1s1n

It's possible they just have a really warped view of what a MAME machine should look like as it's a forum dedicated to builds.

I guess for some people, building is the enjoyment. So they just keep adding more and more and more and end up with these monstrosities.

It doesn't take must of an eye to see these are in really bad taste though, so you do have to wonder!

CiDeRmAn

I wonder what responses I might get, when the Americans finally decide to get the hell up.
I tried to be as polite as I could.

O1s1n, you've one of those cabs, why not post up what it is supposed to look like.

o1s1n

My one is the sleeker Pony III, the one in the link is an older Pony II. They actually look quite different

Well, maybe to the trained eye. I do remember someone here saying that candy cabs all look the same

I'm sure the Americans on that forum would just tell me it looks like a washing machine!

You need more buttons

o1s1n

If that were my photo, it would mean I also have a Pony II :pac:

I cant believe im saying this but check out this grounds4devorce vid!
Fair play on the rotate mech
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIznd52hnQg

Star Lord

urbanledge wrote: »

I cant believe im saying this but check out this grounds4devorce vid!
Fair play on the rotate mech
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIznd52hnQg

The rotate mech in particular is nicely done, and other than all the unnecessary lights and what looks like a customised X arcade CP, it's not the worst I've seen. I quite like the way he's got the two screens too, especially for the pinball. I've never been the biggest fan of digital pinballs, but it works well in that regard.

Dr Bob

urbanledge wrote: »

Apty named "grounds for divorce"
If my SO ever made a monstrosity like it they'd most certainly be divorced


http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,136221.0.html

that pinball :eek:

if it doesnt play THIS on bootup its a wasted opportunity anyway.

Jack burton

Jesus that rotate mech is pretty nice.

Horrible to see that machine, guy who built it obviously has a lot of skill but just horrible taste

CiDeRmAn

On the Pony destroying thread I just got called a troll!
I have responded, wonder if they'll understand this time.

Hygro

It's all subjective, the person who's building their respective machines seems to like them.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder

o1s1n

Hygro wrote: »

It's all subjective, the person who's building their respective machines seems to like them.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder

Its akin to someone completely 'pimping' a desirable, rare and significant classic car in a really distasteful way.

Classic car enthusiasts would be bothered by that.

Jack burton

o1s1n wrote: »

Its akin to someone completely 'pimping' a desirable, rare and significant classic car in a really distasteful way.

Classic car enthusiasts would be bothered by that.

You might want to check what I said on that Pony thread haha

o1s1n

Jack burton wrote: »

You might want to check what I said on that Pony thread haha

Haha, that's gas!

Its a fair comparison too, pretty much the same thing.

Dozen Wicked Words

Excuse the ignorance, was the Pony an arcade machine that was used in Europe? Don't ever remember seeing that shape in my youth at the seaside in the UK. When arcades used to have actual games rather than fruit machines and 2p shovers.

o1s1n

Dozen Wicked Words wrote: »

Excuse the ignorance, was the Pony an arcade machine that was used in Europe? Don't ever remember seeing that shape in my youth at the seaside in the UK. When arcades used to have actual games rather than fruit machines and 2p shovers.

Only place I've ever seen them in Europe was the Troc in London.

They're Japanese cabs, which were rarely imported into Europe.

CathalDublin

Jack burton wrote: »

You might want to check what I said on that Pony thread haha

linky no work in your post!

CiDeRmAn

You're dead right there Ole Jack.
It's surprising and not entirely plausible that so few people frequenting a site like Hyperspin would not see the abject horror of fecking up a Pony, especially, as already said, halfway through the process, it looked pretty damn good.
Better perhaps to have done it to a AWSD or something, at least they're more common.
I'm not posting on that forum again though, Agrajags comment about my posts in the future to be going "onward and upward" really p1sses me off, judgemental twonk.

Andrew76

urbanledge wrote: »

I have to say **** that lad.
that was the first time I've ever been properly angry at a picture of a mame cab.
he deserves every bit of abuse thrown at him imo!

Seriously, he deserves abuse because his tastes are different?

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

You're dead right there Ole Jack.
It's surprising and not entirely plausible that so few people frequenting a site like Hyperspin would not see the abject horror of fecking up a Pony, especially, as already said, halfway through the process, it looked pretty damn good.
Better perhaps to have done it to a AWSD or something, at least they're more common.
I'm not posting on that forum again though, Agrajags comment about my posts in the future to be going "onward and upward" really p1sses me off, judgemental twonk.

Ah don't say that, you've been such a great contributor to their forum in the years you've been a member... :pac:

Seriously though, maybe "troll" wasn't accurate but Agrajag is spot on in that your first post was to give out about someone else's work, hardly a great introduction or constructive even. Yes what he's done looks crap in our opinion but what's the point in posting just to be negative. Folks on here would be rightly defensive if a first poster on here was to knock someone else's work.

CiDeRmAn

I was quite constructive, as you put it, and acknowledged the work put in, but I didn't like the work and explained why without being nasty.
Anyway, let them at it, it's a hideous thing but then there's a lot of people who wouldn't want my AWSD in their home.

Update.......




:D:D:D:D

o1s1n

I am hoping this isn't an artistic shot and it's actually been dumped :pac:

Where are you getting the original pics? Is there a thread dedicated to it somewhere?

CathalDublin

Definitely best left out there in the garden, pull the curtains and only reopen them when its rotted into the ground

o1s1n

I'd say trackball games are great craic to play on this.

link in the first post to the crying tree ha ha ha

Tomo.Murphy

I'm guessing its supposed to be a heart tree from Game of Thrones?

CiDeRmAn

o1s1n wrote: »

I'd say trackball games are great craic to play on this.

You'll recognise the dedicated Marble Madness and Missile Command player, they're the one with the persistent crick in their neck!

unky chop chop

I've seen this a few times before and it never fails to really annoy the living sh1t out of me...I mean WTF...WTF

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBM24u5SGLg

CathalDublin

I think that's a joke

unky chop chop

I really really wish he was but I think he's 100% genuine.
Check out his other vids on how to create a dice tray and zombie card game!!!
Then this cracking gun arcade cab he has strapped together..an absolute crock of shyt3, it's hillarious

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkVmp14YqZk

CathalDublin

Have a read of the comments, that's what's wrong with the world!

o1s1n

Another cracking pair from AO