Hello guys i recently bought an aerocity cabinet in pretty bad condition for 150 USD , running games from an old Xbox . My goal is to restore from 0 . So I need all information need it.
From control panel to stickers .
Story:
So , 2 months ago I was searching on internet for an arcade machine, but here in Mexico is really expensive to import an arcade machine (3000 use at least) . So searching In Facebook market I found that arcade machine.
The arcade machine location was 2 hours from my house. The guy who sold me makes me a video all to figured it out if the arcade can be loaded in my car.
Talking with this guy told me that he lives in a ranch.
Here in Mexico is pretty dangerous to travel those kind of areas because we don’t know exactly what kind of people are dealing with, I offer 50 ducks for the delivery and finally he accepted it , At the end the guy accept to delivered but at cost for 50 bucks more.
I waited for 5 hours just to he arrived to my home the rest is history
Anyone can help me?
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Great, I’ll star to dissembled next Saturday, I have to make a plan for that machine.
Question:
I need info about all electronics components I think I’ll start to make a setup with rhe panel control so .
What are the components to buy?
I already have 2 sanwa joystick. And 16 buttons.
I don’t have any cable
In terms of just general supplies to carry out the repair you’ll want to have a soldering iron, a crimper/wire stripper isn’t necessary but does help quite a bit, quick disconnects for your buttons (I believe the standard is 2.8mm), lengths of wire as Dark said (get a small spool of each colour you’re using, get twice as much black since everything has to go to ground)
Your panel doesn’t look standard. 9-buttons per side arranged in a square?..
It also looks like there are Happ buttons and joysticks there, which have different sizes and mounts.
Not sure what your plan is with the control panel; if it were me, I’d go out and get a whole new repro CP to properly be able to mount in Japanese parts.
My intention is to rebuild the arcade machine as the original one, so I have 2 options:
1 buy original parts
2 make a new one here in Mexico
Of course is in bad conditions , is a lot of work , but I think I can repair it.
Here in Mexico, the delivery service is really bad. So I’m trying to figure out what will be better
Thank you very much to give info cause I don’t have any idea about cabinets and also I’m new in this kind of quest!
Did a bit of digging myself (mainly because I’m at work and it’s more entertaining that actually doing work).
This person (alberto1225) is doing repro Aero City panels; his last post in the thread was a couple of weeks ago. I believe he’s possibly based out of Taiwan.
I’ve dealt with him about 5-6 years ago for some other arcade control panels, and was very satisfied with the service and end-result.
Hello againg guys. I’m here to update this post.
I barely disassemble the control panel
And everything was in pretty bad conditions , even the wires. So here are some pictures.
