Dellamorte
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- Feb 14, 2017
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Hi Neo-Geo folks! So I just purchased an MVS 4 slotter from my local area from someone who'd started a restoration project and never really finished it.
First off here's a full view of the front of the machine:
Overall it's in decent-ish shape. There's a few small bumps and scrapes here and there, but the buttons all work and (once the repairs on the board are finished soon-ish) everything will be fine internally.
I think the first thing I'm going to try to fix/change will be the marquee, since it's a single light marquee and I'd like to have a proper 4 slotter one that'll game selection. The inside of the marquee looks like this:
First question: Where the heck can I find a replacement/swap for the parts in this thing and are they easy to swap around?
Next up are the side panels. They look absolutely terrible. They're apparently from some other arcade cabinet and they've been modified to look like Neo Geo panels since they're the same dimensions. Problem is - the previous owner didn't really sand them. Here's the left one:
It has vinyl Neo Geo logos applied over super uneven sanding work.
The other side doesn't have any Neo Geo logos. Here's a close-up of the right hand side to illustrate how terrible the sanding job must've been (if there even was one at all):
Yikes.
Anyway, my next question is how the heck can I remove these panels so that I can sand them down? Unfortunately I don't live in a place where I can move this cabinet around all the time and I'd prefer not to have to sand this stuff down inside. I scoped out the inside and I didn't see any screws or latches for these things, but there's got to be a way to remove them, right?
And lastly, once I finish the side panels and get new vinyl logos applied to them I'm going to replace the red t-molding with the proper black t-molding.
Anyway, sorry if this is the wrong sub-forum for this, I'm obviously pretty new. Any and all advice is greatly appreciated. Thanks!
First off here's a full view of the front of the machine:
Overall it's in decent-ish shape. There's a few small bumps and scrapes here and there, but the buttons all work and (once the repairs on the board are finished soon-ish) everything will be fine internally.
I think the first thing I'm going to try to fix/change will be the marquee, since it's a single light marquee and I'd like to have a proper 4 slotter one that'll game selection. The inside of the marquee looks like this:
First question: Where the heck can I find a replacement/swap for the parts in this thing and are they easy to swap around?
Next up are the side panels. They look absolutely terrible. They're apparently from some other arcade cabinet and they've been modified to look like Neo Geo panels since they're the same dimensions. Problem is - the previous owner didn't really sand them. Here's the left one:
It has vinyl Neo Geo logos applied over super uneven sanding work.
The other side doesn't have any Neo Geo logos. Here's a close-up of the right hand side to illustrate how terrible the sanding job must've been (if there even was one at all):
Yikes.
Anyway, my next question is how the heck can I remove these panels so that I can sand them down? Unfortunately I don't live in a place where I can move this cabinet around all the time and I'd prefer not to have to sand this stuff down inside. I scoped out the inside and I didn't see any screws or latches for these things, but there's got to be a way to remove them, right?
And lastly, once I finish the side panels and get new vinyl logos applied to them I'm going to replace the red t-molding with the proper black t-molding.
Anyway, sorry if this is the wrong sub-forum for this, I'm obviously pretty new. Any and all advice is greatly appreciated. Thanks!