Posted by Torgo on August 10, 1999 at 00:10:29:
I just bought a fully functional SFIIce cabinet
on ebay for $380 to use for a MAME conversion. I picked
this one because of the way the controls are layed out
and at that price it SEEMED like a good deal. Keep in
mind here that I am not that good with woodworking
(horrible in fact) so building my own cabinet is really
not an option, besides I only have a bare minimum set of
tools (mostly for working on cars. pretty much no
woodworking tools except a screwdriver) I do however have
soldering supplies and experience and shouldn't need to do
too much work to convert this thing (well, we'll see.)
So I wanted to get peoples opinions because I'm having a little bit
of buyers remorse. I spoke with the folks at Hanaho
about getting the ArcadePC Mini cabinet without the
monitor or controls and they still wanted $499!! (the sfIIce
cabinet has the controls laid out the exact same way
as their control panels i.e 2 Happ joysticks with 6 buttons
per player.) I'm also feeling a bit weird about gutting
a perfectly good machine. So, what do ya think? Did I
get burned/burn myself?