Off-Topic

A few nights back a roommate and I somehow settled on the idea of getting an arcade cabinet and began scouring craigslist. After a few expensive dead ends we settled on a MAME cabinet. MAME is an emulator that allows the user to download a handful of legal ROMs that resemble older arcade games, and if one so choose illegal ROMs to play 1000s of arcade games.

Well the MAME cabinet fell through and in our sorrow we drove 40 minutes to grab a Virtua Fighter Remix Cabinet. Its a simple machine with a lack of artwork but it works. And more importantly it can be a great start to a custom MAME machine in the future, but for now I have an arcade cabinet sitting in my house.

From here we plan to add a few more joysticks and buttons (preferably 6-8 per player) and of course clean the cabinet up a bit.

@VinceNotVance: No I don't think it is. The only art is the marquee on top and everything else is black.

From what we could tell using google images there were two main versions of Remix both with extensive, and rather awesome looking, side art. We got neither.

You can see in the picture the lack of art, so I'm thinking maybe it was a later version? I still need to crack open the back and take a look around it some more.

Sweet!

That thing looks heavy...

You have taken your first step down a long dark, but dimly lit path or arcade cabinet ownership.

That is kind of awesome though. I'd so rock to a Gauntlet Legends cabinet

@MrMazz said:

You have taken your first step down a long dark, but dimly lit path or arcade cabinet ownership.

That is kind of awesome though. I'd so rock to a Gauntlet Legends cabinet

I almost bought a Neo Geo cabinet because it had Samurai Showdown 2 and Turf Masters but I chickened out because I didn't want to start down that dark path.

I miss the arcade days so much good times.