u/el_ghosteo

I’m converting an arcade machine and needed to paint the side white after realizing vinyl wrap wasn’t cutting it. Sanded the laminated MDF, Primed with Behr Acrylic-Alkyd enamel undercoater, sanded, then painted with Behr cabinet, door, and trim enamel in a satin finish, sanding between coats. in person it’s not bad (for someone like me who never painted outside of art classes before) but you can see with flash on in the 2nd and 3rd pictures that there’s a couple weird spots. I’m not upset about it as it looks good enough to me so i’m going to sand it with a fine sandpaper and let it cure for like a month before slapping some side art on so i’m not too worried but i would still like to learn. Why did this happen and how can i avoid it in the future?

Installed my new CPO, replaced red buttons with black, swapped out the crusty 1P 2P buttons, and began wrapping the sides of the machine white. I’m not sure how i feel about the wrap job so once i’m done repairing a hole in the wood on the left side of the machine i’ll wrap that side and see if it comes out better. If it does, i’ll install the side art. If not, i’ll have to paint instead. So far i’m pretty stoked with how it’s coming out. Anyone have any tips on making the seam where the vinyl wrap meets a bit more hidden?

I’m in the process of turning my multicade into a Pac mania cabinet (and use the 60-1 on a jamma switcher) so i designed and ordered some graphics for it. Just wanted to get a general consensus on if this multicade CPO is worth saving since some people get pretty mad about destroying original things. I see similar ones on ebay so i’m assuming it’s no biggie.

Stay cool out there y’all

I’ve had this 1998 iMac 233 G3 Rev A since i was a teenager and some time in the early 2020s it stopped booting. No chime, no display, nothing. I’m no stranger to these getting really finicky as they age but i’m at a loss with this. I’ve tested the +5 and +12 volt rails, done the cuda reset, replaced batteries, attempted boot with no memory to see if i can even get an error beep and it’s still just flatline. All i get is the display degauss sound, fan spinning, and an orange. I just stripped it down to the bare components and inspected the fly back for cracks and looked for bulging or leaking caps and it’s all visually fine. There’s no glow on the neck of the tube but i read that if the logic board is bad it could fail to send the wake up to the display. I think i’m ready to move on and it’s a shame because this was my birthday gift and i loved it. Normally i would buy another working one and test the board in that to narrow it down but these are trendy right now and they’ve ballooned in price. It’s a shame too because the plastic in mine hasn’t gone excessively brittle yet and is still all in one piece. I’ve just lost faith in ever getting it to work again and i fear selling it would make it wind up in the hands of someone who would gut it and turn it into something else instead of fixing the problem. idk.

has anyone else had a feeling like this with a machine they really cared about?

The highest i’ve ever scored was around 400k on the real machine (2nd photo) and i’ve been hoping to get that close with my Arcade1Up but playing right handed is still tricky to me. I didn’t think scores over 999,999 were possible?

picked up this multicade from Facebook Marketplace for $200 as it worked intermittently. Replaced the power cable as it was all chewed up and took it apart to deep clean and now it’s been working perfectly. It was just the power cable. The screen is super bright and clear and all the buttons and everything works as expected. It’s got one of those 60 in 1 iCade boards inside. I still need to replace the lightbulbs for the coin door, figure out why a new light tube isn’t working in the marquee, and get a coin bucket. I kinda underestimated how big it was but i managed to make space for it in my closet.