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Have you had any preventative cap kits or the like done on any of them? Inviere was nice to do a capkit on my SNK cabinet ten years ago or so, I had my Pony chassis done then too. Both still look like new.

I've a spare new old stock LOPT for the Toei chassis in my SNK cabinet in case that ever goes, keeping an eye out for one for the Pony too.

I'd say down the line when things really start going hairy, there'll be some sort of universal chassis created by enthusiasts to keep monitors going.

They do indeed but I think they're not very sophisticated or well made. I might be wrong though! Never tried one out.

I've never experienced them but they're cheap and apparently not great but have been tempted to try with their price, apparently work better on pure flat monitors than curved, Intervideo or Hantarax or one of them also apparently used some of those ali express chassis apparently by default for some of their last monitors to be manufactured. I have a bunch of spare chassis, trying to calculate how many I am going to need for the amount of cabs I intend to keep but know I wont see some of these again which is the hard part. I think eventually someone will probably do a modular chassis to fit different pins, necks, scancoils, etc I think I seen a project discussing this before and it wouldn't be straight forward.

Grant in 2150

Suppose we'll all just have to LCDs eventually.

I actually have 3 monitors I need to get done 🫣

Very cool. Is this the latest craze in Japan arcades I was reading about? I'm definitely getting old, I can't keep up with the player in that video to even see what they're doing...

Arcade machine maintenance with cats in the room:

'Oh, a secret compartment for me to climb into?'

'Oh a progressively smaller and smaller space while you wheel the big thing back in against the wall?'

Got a nice bit of monitor calibration sorted last night, haven't really gone near the pots much since moving last year so it needed a bit of work.

Always hard to photograph but you can get a sense as to how vibrant the monitor looks. About ten years on from when Grantspain did a chassis service.

New sticks and buttons arrived in the post today so that'll be a bit of fun giving it a visual overhaul this evening.

After writing a big long post and adding lots of pictures, everything got deleted. Nice.

Quicker shattier version. Pony looks good, don't turn into a bronie.

Newer arcade releases and what i thought.

4d dark escape, blinds you with puffs of air, okayish gameplay.

Sega Transformers sequel, like the films its hard to see what's going on. But decent.

Dancerush stardom, yeah very good. Evolution of dance dance revolution with crazy new dance pad.

Tomb raider, okay.

Walking dead, okay.

Jurassic Park, pants.

Pirates, pretty good.

Konami dj, very good.

House of the dead scarlet Dawn, excellent. Best new arcade game I've played in years.

Never played golden gun but I've seen it. Speaking of gun games Crypt Killer was a favourite of mine, blocky graphics but great fun, especially on 3 player.

A few other pictures from that arcade just for curiosity

Yeah that was fairly good, fast paced. The guns were modelled on being realistic ww2 guns in some way, lots of kickback.

It might not look it but the screen was massive.

Might of interest to those watching the Last of Us tv review and the arcade episode

Well here's something that worked a lot better than I thought it would.

Only have two cabinets with bugger all space but want that Game Centre feeling?

Full length mirrors! Two cabs instantly becomes a mini arcade.

Okay so it's a bit ridiculous but with everything on and lights flashing it seriously does feel like the space is twice the size with four machines. It's a bit freaky to be honest!

Found a site selling replacement Jaleco Pony control panel player 1 and player 2 stickers. First time I've seen them for sale anywhere and is probably one of the more expensive stickers I've bought...

Nooooo!!! The website said it's for a Pony 28 but it looks exactly the same. Didn't account for a bigger distance between the buttons.

Did a bit of hacking and got it to fit.

Not 100% happy as there's a cut line down the middle of it but it'll do for now.

I think I'll get in touch with the guy who sells them as a bit of a heads up that with a minor adjustment he could be selling these for arguably the more popular Pony cabinet.

Haha! Yeah I was thinking that when I saw it, it's 100% the flash showing up the wear and discoloration on the CP, doesn't actually look like that in reality.