Sega Mini Cab Conversions

[Paulie]

Amazing stuff Frannylicious

I always <3 to see you work

[andygeezer]

When dinokings comes to EOL. I might be able to secure them. Currently they are operated in LeisureProjects arcades such as butlins,haven,park resorts and other holiday parks. Must be 100+ in circulation.

If demand is high enough I might get pangs chequebook out.

[Paulie]

I think a fair few of us would be interested depending on the price.

[andygeezer]

I think a fair few of us would be interested depending on the price.

What price would people pay? Probably not enough when you factor the costs for new metal work, plastics, sticks, buttons. PSU, wiring.

[opt2not]

Any worry of heat warping the acrylic while in the cab?

[virtvic]

I'd be interested in one, Mr.Geezer.

I'm an engineer like Franco, so have the means to do roughly the same as him.

I'd like to do one as a dedicated Bank Panic.

[FrancoB]

Any worry of heat warping the acrylic while in the cab?

Non in the slightest

Even with no cooling I wouldn't expect any problems with 8mm acrylic but there will be at least one fan in the hood for the chassis.

[gargoyle67]

I like putting things in my hood too

[baddy]

When dinokings comes to EOL. I might be able to secure them. Currently they are operated in LeisureProjects arcades such as butlins,haven,park resorts and other holiday parks. Must be 100+ in circulation.

If demand is high enough I might get pangs chequebook out.

If they were plentiful I'd be willing to put 150 to 200£ max on one, considering the work to have them made playable.

[TadCool]

Andy, count me in for two of these babies - one for each of mah boys.

Mosh, you know you'll be nagged.

[moshpit]

Jeeebus

[FrancoB]

I had a bit of a panic earlier. I'm getting rid of my Blast and my NAC to free up some space and I want these cabs to play the games that I play on the Blast/NAC. The NAC has been my 'play anything in 15k' cab as I've not had any issues playing any 15k games on the MS9.

The PFX in my Naomi on the other hand is completely different and won't play nicely with F3, System16B and Namco NB-2 (The Outfoxies) even though it plays Point Blank (NB-1) fine.

Anyway, I thought if the 14" monitors in the minis didn't play my troublesome PCBs then I would be screwed so I thought I had better check them before I sold the NAC.

Just for reference they are Chunghwa M34AFA63X01 tubes with a Rodotron CH-666A-29 chassis. The have a really nice little remote board on them with pretty much everything you would want but unfortunately they don't have RGB pots on them. IIRC there are red and blue gains on the neckboard along with RGB cut offs. I may possibly relocate those pots.



When I got the first monitor I tried it quickly with a one slot and Puzzle Bobble but I didn't mess about with it as I didn't have the yoke plugs on correct and the image was flipped. This time around I thought I would try Daimakaimura first as it was close to hand. I fired it up and I was pretty shocked how good the picture was!

The light was a bit crap for taking pics and I only have a camera phone so this is the best I could get:



The scan lines are lovely and the colours are really great! My pictures realyl don't do it justice.

Next up I thought I would try the troublesome F3. I fired it up and was greeted with this:



'Great' I thought. I thought that these monitors were not going to play nice either and that I was going to have to withdraw the NAC from sale but after a quick tweek of the horizontal hold pot on the remote board, bingo bango!:



Outfoxies is fine too





So all in all I'm really happy and it looks like they'll play all of my games and they'll look **** hot too

[crunchywasp]

Wowsers! Looks absolutely f(r)antastic

[TadCool]

Oh dear, so lovely... I'm melting here.

[KmanSweden]

[emphatic]

Sexy stuff, Fran-man.

[Spectre]

Personally I think you're mad to sell your NAC btw. These mini cabs are nice, but I rapidly decided that mine was simply not comfortable enough to keep as my main cab. I also felt like a total pillock playing it, as you have to straddle the cab with your legs either side

[andygeezer]

Personally I think you're mad to sell your NAC btw. These mini cabs are nice, but I rapidly decided that mine was simply not comfortable enough to keep as my main cab. I also felt like a total pillock playing it, as you have to straddle the cab with your legs either side

Depends I think most cabs have worse issues when playing 2players together - not enough real estate. Lindbergh was OK. But if you measure the size of say of a 1 player dino its more space than 2 player on an astro.

[Spectre]

Depends I think most cabs have worse issues when playing 2players together - not enough real estate. Lindbergh was OK. But if you measure the size of say of a 1 player dino its more space than 2 player on an astro.

1 player panel ftw

[Paulie]

you have to straddle the cab with your legs either side

Thats the best part of playing on a mini cab, makes me feel all sexeh.