Oh no! I gutted a Plieades Cabin for Mame!

[jeremysart]

I scored a Plieades cabin in exchange for doing a Tattoo..

Pheonix was always one of my favorite arcade games growing up, but I DO NOT remember Plieades.. when I got the cabin, it was in working order, it just needed a good cleaning.. but instead I gutted it to turn it into a MAME arcade

 

What did I do!? Why didn't I look it up first? Thats not like me

Oh well.. i'll have it boot up to Plieades, and i'll make a new Marquee for it.

I DO still have the game board, and all of the parts I removed.

 

Let this be a lesson, research before action!

 

(7:00 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyTBZ8MCGHk )

Edited September 6, 2009 by jeremysart

[DeadlyDiskKun]

I scored a Plieades cabin in exchange for doing a Tattoo..

Pheonix was always one of my favorite arcade games growing up, but I DO NOT remember Plieades.. when I got the cabin, it was in working order, it just needed a good cleaning.. but instead I gutted it to turn it into a MAME arcade

 

What did I do!? Why didn't I look it up first? Thats not like me

Oh well.. i'll have it boot up to Plieades, and i'll make a new Marquee for it.

I DO still have the game board, and all of the parts I removed.

 

Let this be a lesson, research before action!

 

(7:00 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyTBZ8MCGHk )

 

Jeeze, good going.

Congrats on turning a 3,000$ arcade cabinet into a 250$ Mame cabinet.

[MagitekAngel]

At least the cabinet's being put to good use.

At least you're not one of those people who throws videogame equipment in the garbage.

No point beating yourself up over it; you even kept all the important parts!

[CGQuarterly]

Can't you just put it back together? Did you destroy something?

 

Chris

[Jess Ragan]

Seems like a sensible course of action to take. Pleiades really bites. It takes all the choppiness of Phoenix, then takes out everything that made it fun.

[jeremysart]

Good point.

I do still have all the parts if I ever want to re-assemble it.

 

and Jess, it was no $3000 machine, it was not in the greatest condition. I was filled with mouse poop and spiders and dust, the marquee was all busted up, and the rubber pin stripe on one side is missing.

 

I am going to put it to use though. I am going to make a new Plieades marquee, and make it the game the system boots too, plus it will play more games.

Also, I am going to replace the screen with something along the lines of a 20" flat lcd monitor.

 

I just got bummed when I looked it up and realized how popular this particular Cabin is.. it even has its own wiki page :!:

[Spazmonkey]

Good point.

I do still have all the parts if I ever want to re-assemble it.

 

and Jess, it was no $3000 machine, it was not in the greatest condition. I was filled with mouse poop and spiders and dust, the marquee was all busted up, and the rubber pin stripe on one side is missing.

 

I am going to put it to use though. I am going to make a new Plieades marquee, and make it the game the system boots too, plus it will play more games.

Also, I am going to replace the screen with something along the lines of a 20" flat lcd monitor.

 

I just got bummed when I looked it up and realized how popular this particular Cabin is.. it even has its own wiki page :!:

 

Ew, do not put a new LCD. Get one of those video cards that output to RGB for arcade monitors, CRT will look way way better than any LCD.

[CGQuarterly]

Well you could always do a restoration job on the cabinet and then sell it. Then you could use the money to build a nice MAME cab. And like Spazmonkey said, do NOT use an LCD monitor. RGB arcade monitor is the only way to go.

 

Chris