Your Arcade "To Do" Checklist

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Your Arcade "To Do" Checklist

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You know, the crap you're supposed to be doing to your machines but you keep getting tempted by the other cab(s) and end up playing.
I was making great progress last month, this month.. not so much.

I need to :

1. Recap Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike's sound caps, the sound dies randomly. I might send this one out as I have no skill soldiering to PCB's.
2. Wire service credit to 1P and 2P start buttons on my Q-25 I use for shooters
3. Sand and repaint the Control Panel of my newest Impress
4. Replace a foot (sheesh, they're like 2 bucks what the hell's wrong with me) on the same Impress
5. Clean my middle MVU-4-25, the inside is dustier than a AES collection
6. Build 2 backplates for my Mini Cutes, so I can shove a link cable through them without harming the original plating
7. Get a dent out of one of my MVU-4-25's on the back, I keep forgetting about it since I can't see it
8. Add the control panel locks to my pink mini cute (they get here next week)
9. Find a Neo 19 in the states :awe:

So, what have you been putting off?
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1)play cabs more
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Nothing.

The only arcade-related thing I think about atm is to choose a nice gift for myself when I turn 30 in December. :think:
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Dandy_Sephy wrote:1)play cabs more
Well that's a given :awe:
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Re-Wire Mushi (1) to JAMMA
Make Mushi VS Loom
Make Panels for Mushi
Wire Spinner
Bootleg SF4 HDDs
Build adapter to run a game using hall-effect joysticks when I only have Sega analogue ones
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Game Room:

1) find a lighting solution
2) tidy it up (and find a place for all the stuff for storage)
3) more posters

Mame Net City:

1) get a propper 1L6B panel with no card reader, drill 2 extra button holes in it and attach a Andy Geezer Services-MCS Net City overlay
2) raise the PFX so it is flush with the bezel (will get the appropriate bushes by tomorrow though
3) get a spare base with a propper coin door (one screw didn't come out when painting it and now it is a bit off when you open it) and have it painted better as one side is a bit dull
most importantly
4) install a propper frontend and do the final UI tweaks

New Net City:

1) put it back together - getting the required spare parts tomorrow though ; )
1b) get a GD Rom mount, GD rom power splitter cable and Sega SCSI-2 cable

Super Neo 29 Candy:

1) make up my mind if I want to rewire it to MVS or not
2) paint the bezel, cp upper, maybe cp lower and maybe rest of the body
(optional: Get artwork to convert it to Type II)
3) put a brand new monitor in it

Wooden Mini Megalo:

1) make up my mind if I still want it and if I want to finish this project
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1) Find bigger room
2) Buy more cabs
3) :awe:
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emphatic wrote:1) Find bigger room
2) Buy more cabs
3) :awe:
I think I have that tatoo'd on my head.

I'm currently in the process of annexing the basement :awe:

Just think of all the crap I don't need I could shove in there... pinballs.. mmmm..
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Could start with just owning anything arcade or a cab as I'm all out until my next 1 arrives & that could be some time...
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kernow wrote:erm nothing like that really apart from fit a proper E2 panel to my E2. thats it.

maybe stop thinking so many games suck **** and aren't worth owning :awe:
That's how you weed them out though, no one needs to own bang bead...

Did you sell that 1P panel you just got?
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kernow wrote:
ilazul wrote:
kernow wrote:erm nothing like that really apart from fit a proper E2 panel to my E2. thats it.

maybe stop thinking so many games suck **** and aren't worth owning :awe:
That's how you weed them out though, no one needs to own bang bead...

Did you sell that 1P panel you just got?
Its for sale if anyone wants to buy it but it might be going soon. \o
Didn't like it? I'm thinking of getting a 1P panel for one of the new astros I'm getting.
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I still have to buy a candy but keep spending my money on mvs and other stuff :cry:
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this year? nothing
over the next twelve months

Strip and respray both the cyberlead2 and the Egret2

Buy a couple of new games maybe thinking PGM2 and much later in 2010 some higher res stuff.
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1. Respray the top panel on the base section (looks like it was [over]sprayed in an inch-thick coat by a 5-year-old).
2. Get some proper sized leg art that wasn't meant for an SD cab (I wish it just had the stock clear Naomi Uni stuff on there)
3. Design custom CPO and marquee, and get rid of the 'Net City' stuff
4. Find good printer for custom CPO and marquee
5. One day track down a burn-free MS2932 ( :lol: )
6. replace the CP lower that has some unidentified holes drilled in it (I'm pretty sure they are holes, just don't know why they are there)
7. Find a nice mini cab and convince the missus I need it
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:think:
1. make an arcade to do list ! :awe:
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Mine is simple.

Sell up and move to a better country!!
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andygeezer wrote:Mine is simple.

Sell up and move to a better country!!

quote :)
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andygeezer wrote:Mine is simple.

Sell up and move to a better country!!
:o Why? Anything bad happened??
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I have to get a Virtua Cop 2 cabinet up in the attic - without using the door (10 cm too small) :D . Really don't know how to do this right now, the only way seems to be lifting it through the window... :problem: :think:
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take off the door frame ?
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