Got a free cab!

Nostromo

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Ok its not special, but hey, ITS FREE!!

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sliceypete

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no bad:buttrock: free is free. did it come with pulstar or did you put it in? nice snag anyway
 

OldSchoolGamer

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AWESOME MAN!

Free is always good. Especially when its fully functional. I am going to assume it was pre-wired for jamma and you put a MVS board and pulstar in it.

I got a free Bump n Jump cab once...someone was throwing it out. It needed a cap kit and all that and had no back door. At the time I didn't know that and I ended up trading it into an arcade shop a state over to get $60 off a Neo Geo 2 slot gold cab. Ah, live and learn :).

Thats a nice find though, where did you get it from?
 

Nostromo

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It came with a MVS 1-slot... Pulstar is mine (didnt have any game cart in it). True it doesnt look like much but it is 100% functional. The coin mech has been removed and insert coin works by pressing that yellow button in the middle. I think I will buy some random jamma board and put it in it.

Tomorrow I am going to get another cab, but not a free one. I will put photos.

PS I got it from a friend whose family runs arcade business...
 
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loegan43

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Hey congrats, you got a nice looking, fully functional cab for free. Around here, people are asking 50-100 bucks for crappy non-working cabs w/o monitors.
 

Arcademan

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A free cab is always a good thing. You could probably fix the cab up to look nice...make it a personal custom job that you can show off to everyone. Nice :)
 

ratson

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Looks really nice for a freebie and the monitor looks bright and crispy.Good for you man:buttrock:
 

Nostromo

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As you can see in the photo, I got a second cab today, albeit not free.
 

OldSchoolGamer

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Just from the picture persepctive, I think the free cab actually looks it be in better shape than the one you paid for. That spraypain on the marquee glass looks awefull :(. Nice though. 2 cabs for the price of 1 is fantastic.
 

BeaglePuss

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Is it wrong that I think both those cabs look sweet, ESPECIALLY the free one? That small cab looks super cool! I would love to have that little cab at my place.

Do you mind me asking how much you ended up paying the the other cab? I would slap a Neo two-slot Marquee in the top, and convert that bad-boy.
 

Nostromo

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LOL i have edited out the marquee in the top part because there are the sellers details on the marquee , and he does not want me to paste the pic all of over the interwebs.
 

Electric Grave

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Ok its not special, but hey, ITS FREE!!

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The red cab is so damn pretty! I would love to find me a cab like that to turn it into a lordsvale cab given that is not likely to find one in the US:(.
 
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ratson

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I would love to have a lordsvale but never seen one in the Netherlands.
And EG is right the free one would make a nice lordsvale conversion
 

astrodan88

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For free and cheap cabs those look very clean. Great score.

A little love (and some new sticks/buttons) and those will be winners.
 

Electric Grave

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I would love to have a lordsvale but never seen one in the Netherlands.
And EG is right the free one would make a nice lordsvale conversion
I was debating wether it was lordvale or lordsdale...damn it! I never get it right.
 

kernow

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wow, they are definitely nice for free. good score man.

edit: oh wait the bigger one wasn't free. still it looks solid enough to use. good going! ;)
 
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