ScumBum
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Whats a good price for a Candy Cab ? Are they hard to find in the SF Bay Area ?
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For a decent condition cabinet, I'd say anything under $500 is good.
Under $500 is going to get you a clone candy cab made in Korea or China, or you might luck out and get an Astro City in bad shape for that price. It all depends on the availability of cabinets in your area or if you are willing to ship. You won't find any Egret2 cabinet or Blast City for that price range in the Bay Area. The cheapest I have ever seen an Egret 2 was $950 and the most expensive was $1500. It was all about condition and if they had the original parts like the control panel etc.
I have owned over 15 candy cabs, many different kinds, and there is a big difference between how they are made. Some are made mostly of ABS plastic and can crack easily and yellow in color and some are all metal or mostly metal. Some are just designed better for easier maintenance, easier to move around, access to control panel and harness, room for PCBs, etc....
Yeah for Naomi or xbox 360 games you want a VGA monitor or Tri-Sync monitor. But almost every good PCB is standard resolution. Candy cabs are like candy, one piece isn't enough. lol
If you want a VGA cab I would look at getting a Namco Noir or if you have lots of money to throw around a Vewlix! Drool....
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I just picked up a Namco Exceleena 2 for $200. This was in socal.
Yeah I got my excellena with a stack of CPS2 boards for 700. Today those boards are work more than $700. I got the trisync for free.
Most of the better candy cabs are 27" standard resolution.
You can look on Arcade Otaku wiki for a list of different candy cab specs and see which one jumps out at you the most.
http://wiki.arcadeotaku.com/w/List_of_Candy_Cabinets
Here is another very good spec list on different candy cabs.
http://slawdog.net/hc/index.asp?page=Cabinet+List
Here is a good beginners guide to Candy Cab page.
http://wiki.arcadeotaku.com/w/Beginners_Guide_To_Candy_Cabs
I am of the opinion that the Egret 2 is one of the best designs because of the ease of changing the monitor orientation. I don't know how easy it would be to put a tri sync in the rotating monitor bracket though.