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So, i picked up my first cab about a month ago or so. It was a converted shinobi cab. Fixed the monitor and the board. Thing works awesome.

So now i want more to do. And being as i only have a limited budget, i was wondering if anyone had some opinions on this.

Do i finish restoring the cab? with new artwork, and go about refinishing the outside

Or do I build a mame adapter? Im gonna build a harness adapter so i can plug the computer into the original harness (I dont wanna canabalize a perfectly good game) and get a few more games outta the thing
 
So, i picked up my first cab about a month ago or so. It was a converted shinobi cab. Fixed the monitor and the board. Thing works awesome.

So now i want more to do. And being as i only have a limited budget, i was wondering if anyone had some opinions on this.

Do i finish restoring the cab? with new artwork, and go about refinishing the outside

Or do I build a mame adapter? Im gonna build a harness adapter so i can plug the computer into the original harness (I dont wanna canabalize a perfectly good game) and get a few more games outta the thing

What game was it converted from? A converted Shinobi cab would infer that it was a Shinobi cab converted to something else, which isn't really possible, as there really were no dedicated Shinobi cabs (or any other Sega 16 games for that matter). It has to have been something else previously. Depending on what exactly would determine my course of action.
 
there really were no dedicated Shinobi cabs (or any other Sega 16 games for that matter)


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Sorry, from what i could tell it was a star trek cab converted to a shinobi (I can only tell cause there is one original cabinet sticker in the back from star trek). Not that it was converted from a shinobi. from what i could tell, original marquee, somewhat orignal contorl panel, rough shape side art, and orignal bezel. Got it for 50 bucks. monitor was bad, so i swapped it out. not in terrible shape. ill post pics later when i get a chance
 
personally I might tack down a sega 16 to Jamma adapter(not a jamma to sega 16 mind you) so you can collect boards. Maming anything that actually works gets to me and makes me what to call people bad names.

I picked a Jamma cab for my first one so I can just buy boards...
 
personally I might tack down a sega 16 to Jamma adapter(not a jamma to sega 16 mind you) so you can collect boards. Maming anything that actually works gets to me and makes me what to call people bad names.

I picked a Jamma cab for my first one so I can just buy boards...

I do like this idea as well. I would way rather have orignal gameboards than emulating. Do i risk any of the originality of having the original harness if i do this? and i guess it comes down to how often i wanna switch games. Mind you, i wouldnt be ditching any of the original hardware (I would not trash orignal hardware over mame any day.) it just be an adapter for the current hardware, as in id unplug the connector and plug it into my own game board. Ideally, id just like to build a whole other mame cabinet, with jamma capibilities and not thrash an origanal game.
 
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