Got a Virtua Fighter, sell complete or sell the parts and keep medium res montior?

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Got a Virtua Fighter, sell complete or sell the parts and keep medium res montior?

I picked up a Virtua Fighter in a package deal for a great price. It was not working. Put a new power supply in it and it now works fine.

My question is: Should I resell it complete for a reasonable price (not sure on the value of VF1)?
OR
part it out and sell all the parts, but keep the 25" medium res wells monitor?

Some day I want a pair of Rush: The Rock driver games and I know those use medium resolution monitors. It's not every day that a medium resolution monitor falls into my lap.
 
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I picked up a Virtua Fighter in a package deal for a great price. It was not working. Put a new power supply in it and it now works fine.

My question is: Should I resell it complete for a reasonable price (not sure on the value of VF1)?
OR
part it out and sell all the parts, but keep the 25" medium res wells monitor?

Some day I want a pair of Rush: The Rock driver games and I know those use medium resolution monitors. It's not every day that a medium resolution monitor falls into my lap.

Was that the Virtua Fighter for sale in Racine? If I had room I would grab it from you, It is on the list of games that I will get when I build another restaurant :)
 
Its hard as hell to sell the whole game and get a fair price. The monitor is worth more than the game as a whole. Just sayin.
 
Trash the hardware, hack a 60-in-1 board to display on that medium res monitor, and print really awkward multicade art and paste it on the side.

2000$ easily done!
 
You aren't going to get much for it complete. You probably also won't get much for the parts if parted out (other than the monitor).

Best strategy is probably to keep the monitor and try to sell the rest as a whole and let them deal with parting it out, or 60-in-1ing it, or what have you. Should that fail then part out what you can and trash the rest. Then try to get rid of the cabinet only for a sacrifice price, and trash it as well if it doesn't sell.

Sorry, btw, don't really consider Virtua Fighter to be a classic, a keeper, or even that good of a game. Other will disagree, but that is what I would do.
 
I'm a huge fan of VF1 and even I have to agree that it is a hard sell. The person has to be a fan and have nostalgia for it. Or maybe even appreciate it for being the first 3D fighter. I love mine, but I know I am in a minority. If it were a VF2, you'd probably have a lot more interest.

IIRC, people canibalize the board set for the GPU.
 
not sure what you paid but I had a few similar problems. cabs with good monitors but crap parts/whole game value. I gutted them and sold just the cab as a 'mame/multi project cab'. both sold empty for close to what I paid complete.
 
I'm a massive VF fan, I have a VF2 myself. But they don't sell for crap unfortunately. I've seen some decent ones on eBay sell for 300ish, but CL they are like 150-250 all the time. sosage said it best :)
 
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i hate to rain on your parade, but i believe dedicated Rush the Rocks take a 27" monitor, not a 25".

otherwise, it's a little sad to see any dedicated cabinet parted out but yeah, VF isn't one that very many people would cry over.
 
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