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I found a 1993 Neo-Geo arcade machine out at the curb amongst with a bunch of other junk with a free sign on it. I was like holy shit, I want that! So I ran and got the van before anyone else snatched it up. It powers on and everything lights up but it displays a video ram error with an error code. I looked up on line and its not too serious and is a common problem. It involves soldering in some new memory chips due to the battery exploding and eating away the old ones. What I'm going to do though is make it a MAME cabinet. Something I always wanted but I never felt like spending the money on an old arcade cabinet or even building one for that matter cause I always ended up just playing the games on my pc. I'm still debating using the 15hz arcade monitoring thats in it or yanking it and putting a regular CRT TV in there cause I just happen have the same size TV laying around. With a TV in there it would be a snap hooking up an old pentium 4 pc that I have with svideo out. Then the only thing I would need to by is the interface card to map the arcade sticks and buttons. I really dont feel like shelling out lot of money for a reprogrammed 15hz ati video card. I have played arcade roms on a regular TV before and it looks really close to what it should and dead on for console games. I'm not one of those hardcore arcade gamers that will sit there and count the scanlines. Im going to focus on getting all my roms, emulators and frontend set up on the the old pentium 4 this week and test it out on a tv so when the time comes I can just put the guts right into the cabinet. Ahh can't wait this is going to be a fun project!