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That looks super fresh! Run into any difficulties at all?

Never underestimate the power of a cap kit My Pony's MS8 was quite dim when I got it and is now super bright and looks like new after a few bulging caps were replaced.

Would be great to get a 15k in there alright, although finding one of that size might be difficult. What's his face, the lad that runs Digitalsystemdesigns seemed to be the go to for 29 inch tri syncs for a while.

Ya the pots were a bit crusty alright but cleaned them and seem to be ok now.

Have left if power on for a few hours when doing the color gain/cutoff balancing act, possibly this is still wrong. I'm using the 240p SNES test suite for this.

The Last Bandit wrote: »

Nothing too difficult, just time consuming and used a lot of paint (4 cans so far) !!
Still need to cut and paint the side trim, fit new locks, sort out the top piece and thats just the mechanical stuff :D

Used appliance white enamel so it does look really clean and bright :pac:

Still not convinced the CRT is a good one, picture is not as bright and vibrant as I'd like, so probably need to recap the chassis and see if that improves things.
Ideally I'd like to to replace it with a 15KHz CRT as the cab is being converted to Jamma (and Mame PC)

Nice one on this, glad it got a better home than here with me, 2 years its been dead!! You resurrected it nicely mate. I have one chopped Naomi as my next project cab too, I have a 15k screen in it, got a jamma loom, jamma psu to wire up yet, but these are so nice compared to stand up naomi, i even have a New net city legs stickers I bought like 4 years ago to throw on it!

So far all I have legs chopped and Monitor working via VGA cable.

Hope the rest of project goes well, looking forward to the finished results and hope that monitor improves with some TLC. The screen is prob the most important part of any cab, rest of the parts can be fixed or improved over time.

Good work mate!

Looks like all those cabs went to Arcade Club in UK https://ibb.co/kNPDq0

Have to visit there some day.

You probably get the gist. I'm sure arcade club will provide sparkling photos in comparison once they get around to it.

Time Crisis 2. One of my grail cabs

80s Synth Pop wrote: »

Great pics there. Where in Ireland was this? (if you can say). Can't recall seeing these cabs in the wild.

It's probably not a brilliant secret at this stage, but think Northern. I've been all over the country at this stage and know a fair bit of what's where and maybe where

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Virtua Racing
And I divorced the wife and all in preparation!

I'm curious as to whether it was working or not. Very nice aesthetically. Loved the sonic emblems

Space, the final frontier (to owning arcade games). That's one of the things that got me thinking about emulating the arcade club over in England. I started a thread on it.

I mean, if you cant fit a hundred cabs into your house, may as well pretend to run a business to justify it :P

yeah +1 , The last few years pick ups are pretty non existant , i made a pact with myself about 10-12 years ago when my funds weren't as available for this stuff that id just pick up the one game a year at least !! the last 3-4 have been pretty much zero. and what i have picked up hasnt been anything of huge value or importance !

Pricing has tempted me to even offload some more stuff but have resisted for the most part so far ! :eek:

o1s1n wrote: »

Yep, AO and Ebay alright. AO used to have some bargains if you were quick enough, I bought a lot of stuff there over a few years.

When I saw Ibara and Esprade being listed for €600-800 I knew something was after changing since I'd been away from the site :eek:

Ebay has gone the same. I'd snipe a lot of auctions at the end. Can't do that anymore, always some loon willing to pay over the odds.

Dont go near yahoo so ,prices are ridiculous beyond believe at this stage.

I think the problem with Ibara & esprade is for a while like 1 or 2 other games they were undervalued probably more so with esprade for a while.

also cave :crazy:

Any recommendations for Co-op games on the SNES?

They are know for gouging on the shipping charges alright and will be probably with a courier so import tax is very likely.