Monday, October 1, 2012

Lazy, Lazy, Lazy !

So my Popeye cabinet is all set up and working great, WWF Wrestlefest installed and gets some decent amount of play. Mario MAME (as I've nicknamed it) is still at the "mostly complete" stage,  the PC side of this project is taking long. I wanted to (want to) complete my ultimate project, full console emulation with a pair of Aim Trak guns. I've got a few emulators installed and configured, but more work is required. I really need to make the final push and get this tossed in, even as is. For what it's worth I'm not opposed to housing the PC inside with the emulators istalled as of now. I have NES, SNES, Sega Master System and Turbo GRAFX 16 installed and working well.





My buddy decided that he was out of the hobby and just going to keep two machines. His dedicated MK1 cabinet with Hyperspin, console emulation, and soon to have an Aim Trak gun attached. . His other keeper is a restored PacMan cocktail cabinet that is going to have Hyperspin V2.0 which has vertical support. He's going to let me copy his hard drive to a spare PC I have laying around, this PC I can always toss into Mario MAME if I so decide. OR............I could keep it for a future project.

NOW................... my two "for sale" projects.
I completed the 1st cabinet, a vertical 60-in-1 unit that I'm selling locally on Kijiji.
I think the machine looks good, all the parts are new, the color and molding really pop, however the interest has been minimal. I think it was this lack of interest that is keeping me from banging out the other cabinet.

I'm still on the fence. The blue 60 in 1 is %100 for sale. The yellow cabinet has taken on (in concept) many forms. It was to be "MAMEMANIA" a pure wrestling inspired MAME cabinet. It then was going to house my "Bad Dudes" board, from that it was going to be Bad Dudes and Final Fight (allowing me to sell the gutted Final Fight that I have). As of present day today I picked up two WWF Superstars boards, this has brought me back to the original idea of a wrestling cabinet.

I'm still torn! But things should be more clear when I do some tests. My Bad Dudes board was giving me an issue, which I press the ATTACK button it triggered ATTACK + JUMP, so the board could be damaged. I'm yet to test this to officially confirm. The WWF boards arrived not working and I'm waiting to get them to a friend to give them a look. If the Bad Dudes works I might go with a Bad Dudes cabinet, but also keep the WWF or Final Fight board installed simultaneously. Or I still might restore the Final Fight. It won't be done this year, however the yellow machine will be done this year.







Over the weekend I was able to install the monitor into the machine and I actually should test my boards today !

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