"Dedicated" Aladdin's Castle conversion cab restore!
....Or the de-conversion of my former MAME cab back into a horizontal JAMMA cab.
The sad story of this cab...
About five years ago I was just starting out in the hobby and had just gotten my first two arcade games, Centipede and Xybots. Centipede was becoming an arcade game again and it needed a monitor. Lacking any real options, I started browsing my local Craigslist for a donor machine, which was this Aladdin's Castle conversion cab. Here is how I found it:
I robbed the monitor from it and gutted it. No real loss though, it had already been converted many times and the inner wiring was a mess.
So, I had this empty black cabinet, what to do with it? MAME it, of course! So, I turned it into a MAME rig for several years:
Years past, new games came into the collection and I ran out of room. I turned to PCB collecting and I eventually thought it would be a good idea to ditch the MAME and turn this into a horizontal JAMMA running Street Fighter II: Championship Ed. I've been getting parts together for it and yesterday was the day to start down the (long) restore process.
It's a colorful...cab, has front PCB access, and the profile is unique. Worth saving and I feel like I am righting a wrong. Progress so far, detailed after this first post:
....Or the de-conversion of my former MAME cab back into a horizontal JAMMA cab.
The sad story of this cab...
About five years ago I was just starting out in the hobby and had just gotten my first two arcade games, Centipede and Xybots. Centipede was becoming an arcade game again and it needed a monitor. Lacking any real options, I started browsing my local Craigslist for a donor machine, which was this Aladdin's Castle conversion cab. Here is how I found it:
I robbed the monitor from it and gutted it. No real loss though, it had already been converted many times and the inner wiring was a mess.
So, I had this empty black cabinet, what to do with it? MAME it, of course! So, I turned it into a MAME rig for several years:
Years past, new games came into the collection and I ran out of room. I turned to PCB collecting and I eventually thought it would be a good idea to ditch the MAME and turn this into a horizontal JAMMA running Street Fighter II: Championship Ed. I've been getting parts together for it and yesterday was the day to start down the (long) restore process.
It's a colorful...cab, has front PCB access, and the profile is unique. Worth saving and I feel like I am righting a wrong. Progress so far, detailed after this first post:
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