Dragon's Lair Fans - Arcade Lifestyle
General Chat => Arcade Lifestyle => Topic started by: Raitsa on July 14, 2009, 05:09:20 PM
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Howdy guys.
Just bought my first dedicated cabinet, a Pit-Fighter in quite good shape.
Made by Atari in Ireland in 1990.
Now i just have to organize some shipping for it...
Any opinions, is this one worth restoring or shall i just go for full on Mameing...?
Honestly, I am more interested in Mame as a whole than i am playing just one beat-em up game.
http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?game_id=9034
(http://huoltovalikko.keskustelupalstat.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=2960&stc=1&d=1247518713)
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to confirm your first thinking...
pit fighter is just one of the worst game ever.
So as the game isn't worth it, I would even remove all the pit fighter artworks,
and replace it with some nicer ones.
I hope you didn't pay too much for it and that the screen is working good either.
Anyway, it's a good 3 players panel, and that's cool for a jamma mamecab.
This cab has the good taste to be a jamma cab, so plug a mame computer shouldn't be too painful.
:wink:
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Same as Funky' ... I don't think they are many Pit Fighters around anyway ::) :P
But don't forget the major rule regarding a dedicated cab : If you change something, assure you that you'll be able to roll back : keep the original parts somewhere for example...
But maybe this rule is not applicable with this Pit Fighter ?! ::) ::) ::) :P ;D
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This cab is PERFECT for Mame !!!!
Or to run Jamma games....
You already have 3 joysticks, nice monitor ...is it working ?
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Thanks guys for the feedback and suggestions.
Its working smoothly as far as i know, i have tested it briefly at the seller´s place while i was around there with a smaller car.
I will Mame the cabinet with a possibility of a (future owner) restore someday.
I have a spare X-arcade dual joystick controller that i might disassemble and use the parts for a new control panel.
Mame is definitely the games thing for me, i would probably get bored in a week for just Pit-Fighting.
Gonna go pickup the cabinet tomorrow btw, a total of 450km drive.
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Gonna go pickup the cabinet tomorrow btw, a total of 450km drive.
First rule : never forget your digital camera during a road trip ;)
Be careful tomorrow 8)
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Yeah, roadtrip journals are always welcome in this forum if you ask me 8)
goodluck with the pick-up!
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Thanks a lot guys, the roadtrip was smooth sailing all the way, sunny day and no problems at all.
Here are a few pics of the trip on a sunny day in southern Finland, 454km´s total.
Now the Pit-Fighter has been played by 3 players at the same time and awaiting for a Mame PC in the garage.
Interestingly, the game has a counter in the coin door, which was showing over 44.500 plays :)
Where´s the money?!!
Starting the trip:
(http://huoltovalikko.keskustelupalstat.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=2962&stc=1&d=1247863054)
Perfect weather for a arcade roadtrip:
(http://huoltovalikko.keskustelupalstat.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=2964&stc=1&d=1247863054)
All packed up on the car:
(http://huoltovalikko.keskustelupalstat.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=2965&stc=1&d=1247863054)
On the garage waiting for Mame´ing starting right away:
(http://huoltovalikko.keskustelupalstat.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=2966&stc=1&d=1247863054)
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man, what kind of car do you have? there seems to be enough space for more than one game :shock:
got luck with the mame-ification ;D
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Hey Superully, the car was an Opel Vivaro, a loaner from friend who is in to old school games as well.
I just had to pay for the gas.
Here is the car, the bigger one below:
(http://www.3dbug.com/bp/Car/Opel%20Vivaro%202007%20Van.JPG)
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Nice pics! , looks like perfect weather !
Goodluck mame-ing it!
Pictures from the progress of mame-ing belong here ;)