Appraise my Konami/Midway "multi-machine" please ;)

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Appraise my Konami/Midway "multi-machine" please ;)

With a twist of Data East, lol.

Everything is legit. This was originally a TMNT machine; I bought it as a Simpsons convert and reconditioned the CP (the original TMNT one looked awful), repainted the whole machine and repaired most of the dings in the cab, metal plated the corners, put it on 200lb steel wheels, and rewired the whole thing. The CP-side wiring is all original (so is the harness) so it's a bit chopped up, but I think I cleaned it up nicely. All of the buttons and sticks are new Happ pieces w/ new cherry switches.

The cab houses 5 completely legit PCBs:
1. X-Men (Konami)
2. NBA Jam (Midway) [rev 1.0 installed, have the 3.0 ROMs as well]
3. Sunset Riders (Konami)
4. Captain America & the Avengers (Data East)
5. The Simpsons (Konami)

Everything works 100%. The NBA Jam has it's own 3P/4P harness specially wired to simply plug into the 9-pin connectors on the 3/4 player CP ends. Want to play a Konami game? Just unplug the Midway connectors and swap in the Konami ones.

So, what would you guys value this at? I ask because I'm no arcade pro...I put this sucker together last year and it was kind of a personal project that taught me a lot about arcade machines. I learned all that I know from this one ;)
 

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Very nice but how do you switch between the games, do you have to swap the harness between the games one at a time? If so why not put in a multi Jamma switcher.:D
 
It's clean. It's nice. It's simple. I'd value the whole unit with boards and everything in it at about $500. Once upon a time, stuff like this would be worth much more, but xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx-in 1 boards have severely diminished the value on other 'multi' units.
 
If I were to sell something like that, I'd ask at least $800. You don't find those games on xxx-in-1 boards. And the cab is clean and looks solid. Maybe my appraisal is too high, but if you try to sell it, don't sell to a KLOVer. We're too used to buying cheap cabs!
 
The pcbs alone are worth atleast $400-$500

I wouldn't put much value into the cab itself though. Most people on here would prefer the cab to be restored back to TMNT or atleast the Simpsons conversion.

But that should be no problem for people buying this off you from craigslist. I say $800!
 
Thanks guys. Like I said, I'm definitely far from pro on this. I bought this and a Neo Geo both were damaged, and I just used standard man-knowledge to rebuild/repair. There was a bad paint job under mine, and it looked like when converted to The Simpsons, the guy just painted over the TMNT side-decals. It's a shame. I'd have loved to just have it be a TMNT machine. The TMNT CP / CPO are crap because it looks like at one point the guy had it being used as a MK machine, so there are holes all over the place on the old CP.

Very nice but how do you switch between the games, do you have to swap the harness between the games one at a time? If so why not put in a multi Jamma switcher.:D

I just power off, then move the JAMMA by hand. I had looked at switchers, but with the size or these PCBs, it didn't look like they'd fit on a switcher, so I built my little ghetto multi-PCB holder. I'm not familiar with old PCBs either so I was also concerned about heat issues, so I gave them each about 1 1/2 - 2 inches of space for breathing, and also why I used the boards with holes in them.
 
BTW, I do want to keep it, but if I move, I don't know if I want to ship it or not...so I might end up selling it later. I was just looking for a price in case I did end up deciding to sell it.

Do you think maybe it would be more beneficial to sell of the PCBs separately, and then just sell the "NBA JAM" machine locally?

...or maybe just keep the PCBs, trash/sell the cab and buy a new cab when/if I move.
 
BTW, I do want to keep it, but if I move, I don't know if I want to ship it or not...so I might end up selling it later. I was just looking for a price in case I did end up deciding to sell it.

Do you think maybe it would be more beneficial to sell of the PCBs separately, and then just sell the "NBA JAM" machine locally?

...or maybe just keep the PCBs, trash/sell the cab and buy a new cab when/if I move.

Absolutely. Keep it an NBA Jam cab when it's time for sale, then part out the other boards separately. You'll sell it faster and make more money off it.
 
Thanks guys. Like I said, I'm definitely far from pro on this. I bought this and a Neo Geo both were damaged, and I just used standard man-knowledge to rebuild/repair. There was a bad paint job under mine, and it looked like when converted to The Simpsons, the guy just painted over the TMNT side-decals. It's a shame. I'd have loved to just have it be a TMNT machine. The TMNT CP / CPO are crap because it looks like at one point the guy had it being used as a MK machine, so there are holes all over the place on the old CP.



I just power off, then move the JAMMA by hand. I had looked at switchers, but with the size or these PCBs, it didn't look like they'd fit on a switcher, so I built my little ghetto multi-PCB holder. I'm not familiar with old PCBs either so I was also concerned about heat issues, so I gave them each about 1 1/2 - 2 inches of space for breathing, and also why I used the boards with holes in them.

I was thinking about Clay Cowgills Multi Jamma
http://www.multigame.com/jamma.html
He is sometimes hard to get up with and I am not sure he still sells them but they are still on his site so you might look into one. You have one board that connects to your jamma harness and a switch board (one for each game)that plugs into the jamma connector on the game board and it connects to the multijamma board with a ribbon cable.
You will have to add a power supply, must be big enough to power all game boards at the same time because all the games will be powered up and running together and you switch between games by pushing a button.
It will switch up to 8 boards if you have room for them.
 
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