Arcade candy cab advice

paul79

Casey120 wrote: »

The wooden mounting plate is actually attached to the door itself making changing boards very easy :



The second harness dangling to the ground is the standard CPS2 kick harness .



Rotate the monitor and bezel in a minute .

Love the pics casey but stop rubbing it in lol

paul79

Anybody here have an neo geo aes or might be interested in a brand new daedalus converter?

paul79

Looking for some cps2 mounting clips anyone have some spare?

any sign of her yet?

Lost at sea?

o1s1n

I hope he's just too busy playing it!

over 4 weeks since he ordered!
painful

o1s1n

If he still doesn't have it by now my heart goes out to the chap, that's agonizing

CathalDublin

Maybe the Anode cap was loose when it arrived!

paul79

Hey sorry been up to my eyes with my apartment refurb and was away with work last week cab has been in dublin since friday before last will be taking delivery today all things going well extremely excited :-)

That'd kill me to leave that sitting !

paul79

urbanledge wrote: »

That'd kill me to leave that sitting !

It is killing me but I have sooooo much on at the minute
My own place is full of stuff so im going to set it up in my mates workshop for the minute.

safetyboy

Ronnie has one for sale at the moment for 1750

Silly money,
in fact thats pinball money

o1s1n

I'd really love to know how much they're being sourced for in Japan.

Jack burton

In was going to say about Ronnie's newsletter I got the other day aswell.

The cutes and neo 19s are really a stupid price. Looks like he has a pretty good supply of them.

Say he's making at the least 100% on what he pays for them. Hed have to be to make it worthwhile to be getting containers from Japan

paul79

urbanledge wrote: »

That'd kill me to leave that sitting !

It is killing me but I have sooooo much on at the minute
My own place is full of stuff so im going to set it up in my mates workshop for the minute.

o1s1n

I did read recently that his recent batch of Cutes did cost him a premium.

Whether that means €200 rather than €100 or €1000 rather than €700 I haven't a notion.

He must be making a few eurons anyway as people are still leaping on them. Do a bit of multiplication on the amount of cabs in this photo by the current asking price.

unky chop chop

Yeah I'd love to know how much he's getting them for originally.
It really p1sses me off that he's almost single handidly drivin up the price of imported candies in the last few years but fair play to him he must have some rock solid contact else every other aspiring entrepeneur would be trying to compete with him.

CathalDublin

I'm surprised someone in the UK or Ireland hasn't started doing it yet, I suppose the contact in Japan would probably involve a few trips over and then the funds and storage would put a lot of people off.

paul79

I know I know about time :-)

Andrew76

paul79 wrote: »

I know I know about time :-)

Very nice, congrats!

Lovely!
well what do you think of it?
what does the wife think of it ........ha ha ha

paul79

urbanledge wrote: »

Lovely!
well what do you think of it?
what does the wife think of it ........ha ha ha

Haha I love it she doesn't love it as much as me.
its a tight squeeze on 2 player tho.
screen is good except bottom left colours are off little darker than the rest?

TechnoFreek

Degauss?

o1s1n

Yeah I'd say it just needs a degauss after it's travels. The monitor does it itself every time it boots up.

If it's not getting rid of it I've a degaussing wand you can have a lend of if you're around Dublin? Really easy to use.

TechnoFreek

Do the cutes have a degauss button?

paul79

o1s1n wrote: »

Yeah I'd say it just needs a degauss after it's travels. The monitor does it itself every time it boots up.

If it's not getting rid of it I've a degaussing wand you can have a lend of if you're around Dublin? Really easy to use.

Cool thanks man im in carrickmines area. I played on it a couple of times and it didn't go,so maybe the wand will do the job,both joysticks all buttons work except 2p start button needs a new one doesn't work everytime might leave it and replace all in one go.
Sound and screen are good have a cps1 to cps2 kick harness ordered thanks franco b :-)
Street fighter is **** with only punches haha

paul79

TechnoFreek wrote: »

Do the cutes have a degauss button?

As far as I know it should do it every time its booted?

o1s1n

paul79 wrote: »

Cool thanks man im in carrickmines area. I played on it a couple of times and it didn't go,so maybe the wand will do the job,both joysticks all buttons work except 2p start button needs a new one doesn't work everytime might leave it and replace all in one go.
Sound and screen are good have a cps1 to cps2 kick harness ordered thanks franco b :-)
Street fighter is **** with only punches haha

Yeah if I were you I'd just refresh the whole control panel with new parts. It's fairly easy to do and makes a huge difference.

paul79 wrote: »

As far as I know it should do it every time its booted?

They do alright, but sometimes the discoloration is so bad that it needs a bit of extra help from a wand.

I did read about someone's cute having issues like this due to the speaker magnet, but that was at the top of the screen so it wouldn't be that. Might be worth making sure there are no other strong magnetic fields around it though (any chance it's sitting beside a stereo speaker/TV etc?)

Will see if I can get my degauss wand to you somehow anyway.

o1s1n

o1s1n wrote: »

Yeah if I were you I'd just refresh the whole control panel with new parts. It's fairly easy to do and makes a huge difference.



They do alright, but sometimes the discoloration is so bad that it needs a bit of extra help from a wand.

I did read about someone's cute having issues like this due to the speaker magnet, but that was at the top of the screen so it wouldn't be that. Might be worth making sure there are no other strong magnetic fields around it though (any chance it's sitting beside a stereo speaker/TV etc?)

Will see if I can get my degauss wand to you somehow anyway.

Also try rotating it,
as in if its facing north/south make it face west/east and see:D

Myrddin

urbanledge wrote: »

Also try rotating it,
as in if its facing north/south make it face west/east and see:D

Casey120

My Cute had discolouration in the lower left corner after it arrived and the startup degauss never got rid of it, Mario was all blue when he started in Donkey Kong .
A cheap Chinese degauss wand from ebay fixed it good though, you need a wand anyway if you own a cab as sometimes after rotation you need to use it again .

o1s1n

Anyone else find using a degaussing wand a whole lot of fun?

Or am I just a freak?

Andrew76

o1s1n wrote: »

Anyone else find using a degaussing wand a whole lot of fun?

Or am I just a freak?

Hmmm, what's a more polite word than freak to use... :P

I'm too chicken to use mine actually. I've a slight bit of discolouration in one of the corners on the BVM - not a hope I'm putting the wand near it for fear of making it worse. Or causing problems with the B&O or Trini next to it.

o1s1n

Andrew76 wrote: »

Hmmm, what's a more polite word than freak to use... :P

I'm too chicken to use mine actually. I've a slight bit of discolouration in one of the corners on the BVM - not a hope I'm putting the wand near it for fear of making it worse. Or causing problems with the B&O or Trini next to it.

Don't be such a wuss!

It's really easy to do and definitely worth trying out if you've loads of CRTs. Especially if you're rotating them.

There's really nothing to concern yourself with. Just start off with it close to the monitor and move your hand in circles as you slowly step away from it.

Keep doing it back further and in bigger circles until you don't see any effect on the monitor anymore. Done - simple as that.

It was scary the first time on my cab but then I realized how simple it is and use it on all my monitors now.

Casey120

Just point the wand and be that wizard .
You can even chant spells when using it !

I wonder how this lad is getting on with the cute?