best trade of my life (so far)

discgolfer72

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back story
local clerk at my pc shop i buy my lcd screens for multigames had a pc10 and a tekken tag
wanted me to repair them but had no cash
(pc10 had bad top monitor (horz hold ) and right joystick didnt work)
(tekken tag was playing fine then shot craps in the middle of a game )
i told him since he had no cash id fix one and take the other in trade
he mulled over it and every time iwent in he said he would get ahold of me
nothing ever came of the deal

well i just took in a tekken 3 in trade twards amulti game (gave 75$ credit )because i need a25 inch for agoldentee im working on
turned out the 25 incher had all sorts of problems bad chassis and monitor
but the tekken 3 worked great just no monitor


move on 2 weeks and a nice burn free 19 7k wg pops up on cl for 40$ so i bought it made a mount and threw it into the tekken 3


yesterday went up to the clerk and said i have a fully working tekken 3 im giving you first dibs
again no cash he says
i offer ill give you it in trade for bolth of your broken games

he bit
so i bring home a partly working pc 10 with a full set of games and a weird tekken tag cab with no power at all

all im out of pocket is 125$

as soon as i see the tekken tag i was intruged as i had never seen the style of cab
once i got it unloaded at home and start poking around i find out its a machine imported from europe as it has astep up transformer in it and all kind of stamps on the inside saying namco europe
and after a little further poking around ifind an interlock switch that was totaly falling appart replaced it with one i just pulled from a gutted pede and bam i have a awsome tekken tag with a27 inch hantrex monitor

(anyone ever come across any of these cabs any info on them )
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and on to the pc 10
descent shape for siting in his garage smells like cat spray but i can fix that with alittle vingar
need to recap bolth monitors (and probaly a horz hold pot on upper monitor)
need a new gun (wires there but noones home)
new molding
and new cpo
came with
smb
volleyball
hogans ally
tennis
baseball
gradius
wild gunman
excitebike
and a couple others
(sent out tennis baseball,and 2 others to have them hacked with other chips )

ps ineed some help with my smb cart in the tech section
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lol just wish i had a gun to play it if icant find a gun soon i will be looking to trade the 3 gun games for non gun games

but a little update 15 mins and agood horz hold pot from a ez chassis i had in my parts shelf and bam works great
(has slight jail bars but im 3caps shy of afull kit for this monitor ill live with it untill ineed to make anew order)

note to self spilling soda on keyboard makes typing hard when buttons always stick down lol

ahh much better
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lol just wish i had a gun to play it if icant find a gun soon i will be looking to trade the 3 gun games for non gun games

but a little update 15 mins and agood horz hold pot from a ez chassis i had in my parts shelf and bam works great
(has slight jail bars but im 3caps shy of afull kit for this monitor ill live with it untill ineed to make anew order)

note to self spilling soda on keyboard makes typing hard when buttons always stick down lol

ahh much better
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Someone recently posted on the forums about buying broken guns and repairing them and selling working ones. Do a search for that. I bet he could help.

Update...

http://forums.arcade-museum.com/showthread.php?t=135968&highlight=playchoice+guns
 
lol yup just messiin on the net and came across thebasmentarcade site and just finished hooking up a zapper to my cab need to pull the holster and run the wire into it and reinstall and im finished
weeeee just waiting on my new molding and my hacked roms to be burned and then im all done untill i track down a good repro or nos cpo
 
yea the tekken is pretty sweet esp since it has a almost new looking plastic overlay on the cp
i just finished cleaning it up and installing a cardboard bezl around the monitor
then luged it down to the basement (what a tight fit its 33 inches wide my doors are 35 1/2)
ill get some pics of it up tommorow


been bashing away on the pc 10 using my new zapper lol
its working perfect
i installed the wire thrue the holster like the original setup
but the nes zapper wire is fatter so i could not use the metal case that the old gun used
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when i go pick up my new chips im gonna check if my guy has any revolver light gun carcases lying around so i can at least make it look somewhat like an arcade gun

here is a short vid of the zapper in action
(not to easy to play while looking at my camera screen lol)
 
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