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« on: August 21, 2014, 07:16:24 pm »

Hi!!! Few weeks ago I bought my first arcade cabinet with a Neo Geo MVS 1 slot inside. Its a generic cabinet but it was in great shape actualy. Its has some dent on it but nothing serious.
I bought it as an restauration project and because I alway wanted and arcade cabinet.

This is the cabinet:



Its look prety good, I love that Video Game marquee.  Grin Grin

My idea on the restoration is "emulate" an original Neo Geo MVS cabinet, not 100% acurate to the original, but something like the original.

So, the first thing I did, was disassembling, sanding and repearing the dents on it.







Next step was the painting. I put 4 coats of paint on it to made it look good.





In the meantime, I've cleaned the buttons and the joysticks. I want to change them, but in the meantime I will use them.



Once I had all painting ready, I started to assemble the cabinet, starting with the backlight of the markee.







I'm still not finished yeat, but I'm very closed.
All I left to do it find the T-molding (something really hard to do in Argentina, I went to several places and I still cannot find it  Angry ), The vessel glass and the art work.
I hope to made all that in the next week or so.

I hope you liked it was I did with the cabinet, it's my first time working on an arcade cabinet, so I'm a neewby jejejeje

Best regads

PS: sorry for my english.






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« Reply #1 on: August 22, 2014, 02:34:35 am »

Ah, really cool, looks more like a regular Neo Geo cabinet already Smiley.

Just wondering, did you look into the multi carts for Neo Geo? I don't know if you want a cabinet capable of Neo Geo and more or just want Neo Geo games, but there are chinese manufacturers who make a 181 in one Neo Geo MS cart, with a lot of games on them.

Thgis guy even made a huge chart, showing which games are on which cart to help people decide which cart to get.
http://www.tighelory.com/2010/01/choosing-neo-geo-mvs-multi-cart.html
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« Reply #2 on: August 22, 2014, 06:54:22 am »

Good job  , get stuck in, love it.
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« Reply #3 on: August 22, 2014, 11:29:48 am »

Thanks!!!!

Daikath, I actually have an 161 in 1 cart. It's have all the games I want. The only things I don't like of this carts, its they have lot of KoF games. I like KoF, but I don't need all of them jejejeje.

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« Reply #4 on: August 23, 2014, 09:21:28 pm »

it looks like a defender cab .
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« Reply #5 on: August 24, 2014, 06:57:01 am »

it looks like a defender cab .


I'll have what he's having.
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« Reply #6 on: September 10, 2014, 05:02:30 am »

Good job! I agree bout the marquee, it looks cool. I have a similar Neo Geo conversion. Mine is a danish made JK universalcabinnet with a MVS FZ1 in it.
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« Reply #7 on: September 10, 2014, 07:39:52 pm »

Good job! I agree bout the marquee, it looks cool. I have a similar Neo Geo conversion. Mine is a danish made JK universalcabinnet with a MVS FZ1 in it.

I still need a CP overlay for mines.
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« Reply #8 on: September 23, 2014, 04:47:54 pm »

I still need a CP overlay for mine.
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CPO, i dont use one, since the JK jamma to Neo conversions i played in the wild, all those years ago, never had any. But a CPO won´t be hart to find i suppose.

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« Reply #9 on: September 24, 2014, 01:24:00 pm »

nice job. looks great
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« Reply #10 on: October 03, 2014, 01:10:15 am »

Wow fantastic job
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