My newest project...

[sp00ge]

Since I'm once again a bachelor and every woman I've dated since my wife left has had major issues, I'm now focusing my excess time (between looking for work and while my daughter is at school) on something more useful.

I'm not sure how I fared on the price, but $50 seems pretty decent:

http://i452.photobucket.com/albums/qq250/brokenpinata/Arcade%20Project/IMG_0391.jpg

An official Sega Fighting Vipers/DOA cabinet (delivered in 95, according to the service records), almost complete, minus the monitor. I'm not sure if it works or not, but once I find a monitor for it, you better believe I'm gonna try it out.

More pics:

http://s452.photobucket.com/albums/qq250/brokenpinata/Arcade%20Project/?albumview=grid

And a bonus! I just found a quarter jammed in the coin mechanism!

[aniousjoe]

It seems to be in pretty good shape. Good luck on your project, and good luck right now for life in general.

Personally, I love the DOA series, so that looks like a great find.

[sp00ge]

It seems to be in pretty good shape. Good luck on your project, and good luck right now for life in general.

Personally, I love the DOA series, so that looks like a great find.

My biggest gripe with it is it so fucking dirty. I've wiped the thing down five times and I'm still picking up grime. I guess it's been sitting in the warehouse for some time.

[jbroush99]

I wish I had a bigger house for a few cabinets. I'm still pissed at my wife for making me miss out on one last year at a Boys and Girls Club auction. They had an 100% working Ehrgeiz unit and nobody wanted to bid because it was so big. They opened the bidding at $500, then dropped to $300, then $200, $100, and finally $50 which someone bid. I started to raise my hand but my wife grabbed it and held it down. The guy got it for $50!

By the way, congrats on the quarter!

[ZerotypeX]

nice...are you just gonna leave it as a DOA/Fighting Vipers cabinet or you gonna add some other games to the cabinet?

[mtxbass1]

I'm interested in doing something similar to this myself, but perhaps with a Neo Geo setup. We'll see. Congrats on the find though OP.

[irishsoccermbw]

I just found a quarter jammed in the coin mechanism!

WIN

I wanna do something similar when I get out of the damn dorms....:) good luck let us know how it goes.

[sp00ge]

nice...are you just gonna leave it as a DOA/Fighting Vipers cabinet or you gonna add some other games to the cabinet?

I actually set out to buy a bare cabinet with the intention of making an old xbox into a stand-up, but I guess it all depends on if the PCB/ROM is functional.

The sticks/buttons are definitely getting upgraded, though.

[Vinny]

My biggest gripe with it is it so fucking dirty. I've wiped the thing down five times and I'm still picking up grime. I guess it's been sitting in the warehouse for some time.

Try use a combination of 50% purified water (don't get spring water, get purified water) and 50% rubbing alcohol (try to find 90% or higher) with a soft white cotton towel. That will give it a good cleaning but be careful, rub too hard to too much, and you'll start taking off the paint (which is why you want to use a white towel so you can check for color coming).

Good luck.

[LilPaintballer]

Lol, i started making an arcade cabinet with my dad about two years ago after reading arcadecontrol.com and we had all the pieces cut out in 5/8 mdf which was expensive and my mom throw the pieces away <.<

[sp00ge]

Lol, i started making an arcade cabinet with my dad about two years ago after reading arcadecontrol.com and we had all the pieces cut out in 5/8 mdf which was expensive and my mom throw the pieces away <.<

That's what I was going to do, but once I added up costs, I figured I would see if I could find an orphaned cabinet first. I'm glad I did.

I don't think I'm gonna even bother testing this thing now. I'll either need to find an RGB monitor or get an RGB -> VGA/NTSC adapter. I'll just end up throwing the whole PCB/ROM/Marquee on eBay and take whatever I get.

Looks like a stand-up XBOX to me. Now I just need to find one more broken xbox controller.

[LilPaintballer]

That's what I was going to do, but once I added up costs, I figured I would see if I could find an orphaned cabinet first. I'm glad I did.

I don't think I'm gonna even bother testing this thing now. I'll either need to find an RGB monitor or get an RGB -> VGA/NTSC adapter. I'll just end up throwing the whole PCB/ROM/Marquee on eBay and take whatever I get.

Looks like a stand-up XBOX to me. Now I just need to find one more broken xbox controller.


i think i have a broken duke controller, but i'm not sure what the diagnosis is, it may be the cable it may be the physical buttons, i assume your going to solder the buttons to the arcade components? You can do that with a keyboard too if you used a pc based machine

[sp00ge]

Yeah, but I have an extra xbox laying around, but not an extra PC.

And I may reconsider. I decided to say hell with it and just plugged the thing in. It started right up and since the speakers are still connected, I can hear the game playing. I just tried playing blind and that is NOT easy.

[Pirate331]

If Ray Charles could play the piano blind, surely you can handle an old arcade game.

I've been looking at Smash TV cabinets, myself... if only I had the money and somewhere to put it.

[Kerig]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BR1iv7P3P14

The best part about this video is the mom's name: Aquanetta, pronounced just like the hairspray...

[iNFiNiTE HORiZON]

Not trying to sound like a jerk, because that is a pretty remarkable story,

but the way the reporter over enunciates his words got me cracking up a bit,

"BUT HE IS TOTALLY...BBBBBBBBBBBLIND. HE CANT SEEEEE".
On some Chris Hansen shit lol.

[dv8mad]

That awesome! One of the most fun projects I have ever worked on was when I bought the full size dual monitor 6-player X-Men machine.
Must have taken me 3 weeks to get all the spider-webs, dust, dirt, grime, candy wrappers (how does this happen?) and other assorted crud out of that thing.
Then there was a non functional right speaker (just needed proper grounding) and a miscolored monitor (replaced with another used one with similar color to the other for only $30).
Damn... I really miss having that thing.
If you can clean it up nice and get it going, it's a really fantastic feeling to have one that you worked so hard on. GOOD LUCK!

[strikeratt]

Aye deff. fix it up and play the hell outa it :D A few months ago I traded a spare 360 I hade lying around for an In The Hunt machine. So much freakin fun but then again how is R-type and Metal Slug mashed into one not?

[sp00ge]

After doing some research, I just can't find an affordable replacement monitor, so I'm just going to strip the PCB/ROM out and eBay it. I already have a TV that fits perfectly in the cabinet, so I'm xboxing it like I originally planned.

[Ye0ldmario]

load up that xbox with every rom known to man and crank up some retro gaming!

arcade cabinets...........such a great spare time project

[LilPaintballer]

Should be great, i really wish i had my parts still, its not the same when its not in an arcade kiosk, but she was right just not room, need somewhere to put my wrestling mats.

[sp00ge]

Got the extra button holes drilled and the coin mechanism stripped. I'm gonna rig a microswitch behind each coin drop so when you push the coin return, it will add credits.

Next step is to pull out the PCB and list it on eBay.

[Dissolve]

A great use of $49.75 in my opinion. Would be cool to install a cheap little 1080p monitor in there.

[LilPaintballer]

Keep updated with pics if you have time, i'm really interested. Plus you'll have a before and after

[sp00ge]

Slight setback:

The TV I got for the cabinet had been sitting outdoors for at least a year. The plus side? It works. The downside? I think it has a small fucking beehive in it. This morning I had 5 small honeybees in the house, all on the window right next to the cabinet. I checked inside and out for any openings and nothing. I had already checked the cabinet and it was pest-free, aside from a few cobwebs. So the only culprit left is the TV. And it makes sense too.

It's been bloody cold outside still, so the bees are still hibernating. Now that the TV has been in the warm indoors for a few days, I think they're starting to wake. So this poses a problem...

How the fuck do I get them out of the house? I know waiting until night is the best option, but do I go ahead and just open the TV, armed with a shop vac? Or do I wrestle to get the TV out of the cabinet and take it outside, and hope I don't stir them while I'm carrying that hulking POS? Or do I completely seal the cabinet up and let the tv run for a few hours and roast the bastards?

The little bees weren't very active, so I was able to get them with the vac, and for good measure I soaked a cottonball with some rubbing alcohol and put it in the vac's canister.

EDIT: I found where they were coming from. One of the screw holes was missing the screw and there was some "mud" packed in and around the opening, with a tunnel going back into the tv. I taped that section and lugged the tv out onto the porch until the morning.

[lolwut?]

EDIT: I found where they were coming from. One of the screw holes was missing the screw and there was some "mud" packed in and around the opening, with a tunnel going back into the tv. I taped that section and lugged the tv out onto the porch until the morning.

Awesome pick-up. I don't have the room for any cabinents myself, but when I get my own place, I'm going to try to do something similar.

As for the setback, I would've flipped shit. I'm glad you found the hole they used to get in there. Be sure to let us know how you handle them :mrgreen:

[Sinnbox]

SWEET!!! I wish I could do somethign like that, but poeple around here with arcade cabnits then they are worth their weigth in gold, some guy contacted me last year with an old shinobi machine that his dog had torn up and he wanted over $500 for it untested!! I have had several other similar rediculous offers, due to an incident durring college I am living in my parents basement and they are remodeling it so sadly there will be no room for an arcade cabnit untill I get a house but soon after that there will be a wife so..proably no arcade for me...:(

[sp00ge]

And another setback...

The bees weren't that bad, like I had feared. There were four open holes, and the few bees that were in the house were hibernating in those holes. There was no nest, and the mud packing only went about halfway back into the holes. Problem averted.

And then the glass panel. My ex father-in-law, whose been helping me with any parts I need since he's a scrapper, told me he had a pane of glass that would be perfect for the cabinet, it would just need cut down. Simple enough, right? Wrong. It was tempered glass and as most people are unaware, tempered glass doesn't take kindly for being cut with basic cutting tools.

Long story short, he did the work, and I had to clean up the mess when the whole fucking pane EXPLODED all over his kitchen when he tapped it with a hammer. So today, I went to Lowes and grabbed some lexan. I'm not dealing with anymore glass cutting again.

So far, I've killed two xbox controllers (an S and a third party Pelican), but that's the only real casualties as of yet. My next victim is a Duke.

[saticoy]

Bees? In my TV? It's more likely than you think...

[mtxbass1]

heh heh. That's amusing somewhat about the tempered glass. I've had that happen with "shatterproof" glass before as well. If you hit it at just the right angle it will definitely shatter. Plexi is probably cheaper and should be a little lighter anyway.