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drjones

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Hi everyone. This is my first post - glad to be a part of the community. I'm doing my first restoration, trying to climb the learning curve. It's a DK restoration, picked the cab up at a reasonable price but it's totally gutted. Contemplating different ways of going about getting a DK boardset in there; I'm a little concerned about putting Nintendo parts and a Sanyo monitor in since it seems like those parts are really hard to come by (could be wrong) and I'm working on a budget. I don't know that I can justify shelling out hundreds for parts when I can probably find a working cab for the same amount and part it out. I'm thinking of going w/ a switching power supply and Jamma harness and then using the Nintendo adapter that Mike's sells to use original DK boards. Is this a viable solution? I'd really like to go all original, just don't know how economically feasible that is.
 
The parts wont be hard to find but the monitor and boardset will set you back a bit. A working boardset is around $150-$175 on average.
 
Thanks Riptor - I've found a Sanyo EZ with light burn for ~100, which I'm guessing is a reasonable price. Yeah I figured the boardset was going to be the killer. As far as other parts go I guess I'm a little lost on what I need - power supply, isolation transformer, harness, speaker...and I'm not sure what else. All I've managed to pick up so far is a coin door; it does have mechanically functioning mechs (after some wd-40 love), not sure about the electronics. If you can't tell, I'm totally new to this. I built a MAME machine in college out of an old Laser Ghost cabinet (hated that game so I felt absolutely no remorse there), but this is my first go at trying to keep it real - and it's a bit like learning through a firehose. I just want to make sure I don't 1.) buy things I don't need and 2.) blow my budget.
 
If the cabinet is already gutted I think your cheapest option would be a 60-1 board with a jamma harness. You can find an old pc monitor to use for next to nothing or free. Then later on you can restore it back to original when you collect all the parts you need.
 
The Mike's adaptor is probably an easy choice if you don't go the 60-1 route and want to keep things easy. I would try to stay all original and pickup the parts you already called out. Depends how thorough you feel you need to be and where you budget stands. Trying to do it right the first time, all original, is the best learning experience you can have. I am in the middle of putting together my DK from scratch and am happy to answer any questions.

Oh, any welcome to the boards!
 
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