Recent content by stringbean

Thank you! It's now actually sold. I sold it not long ago in August to a community member on the forum who now uses it along with another Astro City to run weekly 3rd Strike tournaments. Couldn't make me happier. :)

You and me both! :)

I think in the restoration thread I used one type of control panel, but I'll mention that I later replaced that with on from Alberto. All the locks are currently Sega 5575, but originally in the restoration thread I had used Sega 5380 locks. Everything has been locked to prevent tampering.

Back in 2020, I fully restored an Astro City arcade bought online and documented the process here: https://www.arcade-projects.com/threads/astro-city-restoration-stringbean.14335/ Since then, I have moved from Seattle to Nebraska and my Seattle home has been an AirBnb, but this home is now sold...

Thank you! He is my best helper :)

It's surprising how fast time flies. It's been 1.5 years since my last post and I've finally managed to set other projects aside and try completing this one. It's good to be back. In that time, I moved and had to pack up an entire arcade machine in boxes and pray nothing would be lost or...

It's still unfinished! Fortunately, I've now finally found some time to work on it again so I'm hoping this project may eventually come to a point of completion.

The shop that did the work is very experienced but ya I don't even think they knew what they were getting into. There were a lot of complaints when I was picking things up about how hard and unexpected everything was to re-plate. That being said it wasn't a cheap service. With all the metal it...

Two months really flew by there. It has been a while since I've written any updates primarily because I was waiting on various parts/services. I finally have everything I need to start re-assembly. Now, I just need to find time to do so. Here are some pretty things I recently received. Got...

Just received one of these Astro City marquee panels and realized I don't have any screws for it. Does anyone know a good place to get the top screws that hold the plastic pieces together? I think I need a small screw and dome shaped nut.

This is really exciting! Having this title in the DS multi setup will be great if possible. Especially considering how well it was done. I’ve never used the Super Turbo training rom so I can’t compare that but the description of this one sounds extra polished.

@rememberizer for those of us completely clueless on this, is there any way you could give a description of the steps to reproduce your success?

@codecrank oh, interesting. I wasn't aware of that. Only used it to polish up/restore the plastics. Fortunately, I wasn't planning on putting it in the joystick since I'm buying new sticks. :)

I would assume so as long as you dry the electronics thoroughly after finishing.

@Softdrink using a belt sander for the wheels was a genius move too. I also need to key my JAMMA connectors like you've done as well because I'm always paranoid about that.