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dstone:
That's about what I figured for my Mario Bros. narrow body. But, like you said, it's the project. That's what I discovered with my MAME cocktail; it was more fun to build it than to play it. I eventually traded it off for two real machines.

scott:
That's what I discovered with my MAME cocktail; it was more fun to build it than to play it. I
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As much as I love my mame cab, I look at it and think of how I could improve it. But I could never bring myself to tear it down and redo it. Its 100% custom and glued together so there is no tearing it apart without ruining something.

dstone:
As much as I love my mame cab, I look at it and think of how I could improve it. But I could never bring myself to tear it down and redo it. Its 100% custom and glued together so there is no tearing it apart without ruining something.
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That's part of the reason I traded mine off. The other guy had no problem tearing into it; he did a pretty nice job with the updates (arcade quality LCD, better speakers, new controls, all that mess).

I'm looking forward to starting another machine, but I think this one will be dedicated to a single game. Just wish I could arrange my schedule to allow me to put more time into it.

scott:
My problem is I treated it like a big art project and its my baby so any drastic structure changes I'd never bring myself to do. I've rewired it a few times and done internal work, no problem.

The other thing I was thinking was to eventually build a second with a horizontal screen and split my list of games in two. One for vert and one for horz. But that means having my own place.

dstone:
The other thing I was thinking was to eventually build a second with a horizontal screen and split my list of games in two. One for vert and one for horz. But that means having my own place.
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'Cause then they'll start breeding. :D

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