I just wanted to share a recent project that I have been working on for months now. It's a total "plug-n-play" job as I wanted everything to be original hardware, and if anything goes, it's easy to swap/replace. It's fully working, but I was having a hard time getting a good picture of a game running. I need to move it to a different place in my gameroom where the light glare isn't as bad. I was just too lazy to do so yet.
So I picked up this dead Assault cab at a local auction for $10. When I brought it home, there was still $2.50 in quarters in the bucket, so I actually only paid $7.50.
Anyway, over the course of couple weeks, I slowly stripped it down and emptied all the guts. I put the joystick panel on ebay for a starting bid of $30 and it ended up selling for almost $300 to my surprise.
Spent a few days sanding and priming the sides, then insalled the marquee light and LCD bracket for the TV.
I had the marquee made at a local graphic design place, and I was quite happy with how it came out.
I purchased a recapped USA TurboDuo and had a region mod done so it will play all Hu Cards.
Right now, it's just painted black as I am having a hard time deciding what to put on the sides. I plan on having a couple vinyl decals made up, but I'm not sure what yet. Still a couple small things to iron out before it's considered "complete", but here it is so far.
(I'm prepared for all the insults, so have at it)
