So after a little arranging in the current house and after picking up my wife a Skill Crane she wanted last year, I've somehow managed to go from having room for one cabinet to four. Up until yesterday I had three (SFII, Skill Crane, and a Neo-Geo).
While at work I got a CL notification on my phone. I check it expecting it to be the some old overpriced crap people here have been trying to unload for months. But it wasn't - it was a beat up Mario Bros. for $150. I messaged my wife kind of as a joke, not expecting her to go for it. She replied back, "Do you want me to txt him?"
Skip ahead a bit - by the time I got home from work, she'd talked to the guy and he'd said that it didn't currently work as it had died about a year ago. He'd since replaced the parts but had not yet hooked them up so he's not sure if it works or not. My wife told him that we'd give him $75 as-is, but that if he could confirm it worked, we'd give him the full $150.
He took the $75 just get it out.
I assume it won't work, but hey, I'm happy. I spent some time reading through previous restoration threads and I'm really looking forward to trying to fix this one up. I'm a newbie at classic machines like this, so I've no clue what I'm doing. All this Nintendo stuff is foreign to me!
Apparently the part that went out was the power supply, so that's what he replaced and never hooked up. It all looks very straight forward to put back together, but is there anything I should look out for? He was also in the middle of restoring the control panel as you can see in the pics, but he gave me the buttons and sticks.
Anyway, on to the pics! Look for a restoration thread this summer!
While at work I got a CL notification on my phone. I check it expecting it to be the some old overpriced crap people here have been trying to unload for months. But it wasn't - it was a beat up Mario Bros. for $150. I messaged my wife kind of as a joke, not expecting her to go for it. She replied back, "Do you want me to txt him?"
Skip ahead a bit - by the time I got home from work, she'd talked to the guy and he'd said that it didn't currently work as it had died about a year ago. He'd since replaced the parts but had not yet hooked them up so he's not sure if it works or not. My wife told him that we'd give him $75 as-is, but that if he could confirm it worked, we'd give him the full $150.
He took the $75 just get it out.
I assume it won't work, but hey, I'm happy. I spent some time reading through previous restoration threads and I'm really looking forward to trying to fix this one up. I'm a newbie at classic machines like this, so I've no clue what I'm doing. All this Nintendo stuff is foreign to me!
Apparently the part that went out was the power supply, so that's what he replaced and never hooked up. It all looks very straight forward to put back together, but is there anything I should look out for? He was also in the middle of restoring the control panel as you can see in the pics, but he gave me the buttons and sticks.
Anyway, on to the pics! Look for a restoration thread this summer!

