those crappy 100 in 1's = arcade auction gold

just got back from the timonium auction. Decent amount of dedicated Neos, all went for around 200. The most expensive was a crappy 1 slot conversion with a multicart. 450. You put "multi" in the title of any POS at an arcade auction, and dimwits will shell out $$$. Especially for those 60 in 1's.

No doubt

There are guys around her in MN that gut shitty old cabs convert them to multi games and sell them for triple of what they are worth. Decent racket those guys have going.

True. The few auctions I've been to were flooded with multi-cades, generally homemade, and priced well above dedicated original cabs. There are plenty of half-assed home projects with what looks like ink-jet printouts stuck on as side artwork with requests of $1000+ in classified ads. I don't know what some of them pull in, but it's enough to where these things still show up and are clearly different machines.

The cocktail I have was a Williams converted to Techmo with Rygar inside. I'd like to convert back to a Williams with a cocktail multi-board to avoid PCB swapping. The alternative is to custom build a few PCB slots inside the machine and fill them, moving the harness around as needed. It's very limited but keeps original hardware. I have no plans on simply flipping the arcade on Craigslist once I'm done as many others do.

It's hard to justify the amount of space a dedicated cab takes up for 1 game. I restored this 1 slot cab a few months ago and have only taken the (well worth the money) 100 in 1 out once or twice to play KOF 2003.

The convience of having all those games on one cart far outweighs the QQs of stuck up Neo collecters.

oh god its fett again doing the usual, only posting about his fabulous multicart.

Fett said:

It's hard to justify the amount of space a dedicated cab takes up for 1 game. I restored this 1 slot cab a few months ago and have only taken the (well worth the money) 100 in 1 out once or twice to play KOF 2003.

The convience of having all those games on one cart far outweighs the QQs of stuck up Neo collecters.

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yeah, that's great. until your cart starts corrupting the game files and they no longer work properly. Enjoy.

SamuraiShodownSensei said:

just got back from the timonium auction. Decent amount of dedicated Neos, all went for around 200. The most expensive was a crappy 1 slot conversion with a multicart. 450. You put "multi" in the title of any POS at an arcade auction, and dimwits will shell out $$$. Especially for those 60 in 1's.

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Dammit, all of my house buying hysteria over the past week made me completely forget about the Timonium arcade auction. Aside from Neos, were there any other noteworthy cabs this time? Didn't you or Justin get a decent Exceleena a few auction's back?

Fett said:

I restored this 1 slot cab a few months ago.

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That's a Williams cab converted to a Neo

Fett said:

It's hard to justify the amount of space a dedicated cab takes up for 1 game.

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If only there was some sort of cartridge based arcade system where a person could have a single cab, but change games in and out as necessary. Or maybe even a system that could hold multiple cartridges that could be selected by the user.

madman said:

If only there was some sort of cartridge based arcade system where a person could have a single cab, but change games in and out as necessary. Or maybe even a system that could hold multiple cartridges that could be selected by the user.

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It would never work.

madman said:

If only there was some sort of cartridge based arcade system where a person could have a single cab, but change games in and out as necessary. Or maybe even a system that could hold multiple cartridges that could be selected by the user.

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Are you crazy? Do you want the whole town after you with pitchforks and torches? Stop speaking such heresy!

DeadPixels said:

Dammit, all of my house buying hysteria over the past week made me completely forget about the Timonium arcade auction. Aside from Neos, were there any other noteworthy cabs this time? Didn't you or Justin get a decent Exceleena a few auction's back?

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No candies. There were 2 stand up naomi universal crazy taxi's. Thought I almost had one, then the price suddenly sky rocketed.

last CT upright one i saw at auction went for over 2grand

SamuraiShodownSensei said:

No candies. There were 2 stand up naomi universal crazy taxi's. Thought I almost had one, then the price suddenly sky rocketed.

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