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The mame of shame

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    Wow...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,253 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,253 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


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

    WTF is with all the holes?

    file.php?id=7504&mode=view


  • Posts: 7,499 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Sweet baby jesus


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,253 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    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


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  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 2,975 Mod ✭✭✭✭LoGiE


    :eek:

    WHY! WHHY!


  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 10,474 Mod ✭✭✭✭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. :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,253 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    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!'


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,695 ✭✭✭DinoRex


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

    293344f48efe539b968f7883b2585494bf7426c9d092c7af894a1efd0b14aba4.jpg


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,630 CMod ✭✭✭✭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.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,253 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    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!)


  • Posts: 7,499 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    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!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,147 ✭✭✭Ronan|Raven


    Oh my..


  • Posts: 7,499 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Apty named "grounds for divorce"
    If my SO ever made a monstrosity like it they'd most certainly be divorced :D
    DSC04991.jpg

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

    that pinball :eek:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,790 ✭✭✭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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,146 ✭✭✭CathalDublin


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,253 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


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

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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭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'?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,253 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    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!


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,630 CMod ✭✭✭✭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.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,253 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    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 :D

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

    15-DSC01829.jpg


  • Posts: 7,499 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    You need more buttons


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,253 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


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


  • Posts: 7,499 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,123 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 3,184 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dr Bob


    urbanledge wrote: »
    Apty named "grounds for divorce"
    If my SO ever made a monstrosity like it they'd most certainly be divorced :D
    DSC04991.jpg

    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,790 ✭✭✭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


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,630 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 730 ✭✭✭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 :)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,253 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,790 ✭✭✭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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,253 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,325 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,253 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,146 ✭✭✭CathalDublin


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

    linky no work in your post!


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  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,630 CMod ✭✭✭✭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.


  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 10,474 Mod ✭✭✭✭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.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,630 CMod ✭✭✭✭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.


  • Posts: 7,499 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Update.......
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    553807FF-5DBF-4EEF-8275-710DD3F268DD_zpsgyk7fjlq.jpg

    :D:D:D:D:D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,253 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    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?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,146 ✭✭✭CathalDublin


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,253 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


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

    trackball_zpsb4aa8a63.jpg


  • Posts: 7,499 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 664 ✭✭✭Tomo.Murphy


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


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,630 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    o1s1n wrote: »
    I'd say trackball games are great craic to play on this.

    trackball_zpsb4aa8a63.jpg

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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,206 ✭✭✭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






  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,146 ✭✭✭CathalDublin


    I think that's a joke


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,206 ✭✭✭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



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,146 ✭✭✭CathalDublin


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,253 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    Another cracking pair from AO

    SVBUgIbh.jpg

    002-Custom.jpg


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