Hey guys like i said in another post im going to be turning an original silver strike bowling cab into an nes powered arcade cabinet



do you think it would be better to butcher the control panel or make one from scratch ?

Going to be learning alot this year i think

@ OP I am extremely jealous  Turtles in time was my favourite snes game of all **** time and the arcade version 4x Better"

i was a turtles kid coming up

Again my project is to turn this dead silver strike bowling machine [dead game, monitor works just fine]
into a nes arcade conversion

hey guys jason here hailing from queensland australia

been an oldschool retro gamer all my life visiting arcades playing pac man , NES , SNES , and alot of the other retro arcade games

got an ongoing project in tech if you wanna contribute there ie turning an old silver strike bowling arcade machine into a NES arcade

Hello and greetings to johns arcade forum

i have dreamed for the last few years of having my own nintendo entertainment system arcade machine

the machine which i have already paid for half is Silver Strike Bowling with a 29 Inch Arcade Monitor [afraid i can't tell you the brand of monitor as im not sure myself all i know is the guy said its working and sells alot of machines and is well known his name is john of Arcade80s.com.au [australian]

i have no history with arcade machines other than playing them ofcourse  

the game in question is quite dead so im getting the cabinet and monitor for a good

as for the control panel do you think it will be hard to take the parts out and sand it back bog fill it before putting in my own controls ? do you see any issues

i am new to soldering but iv been told if i have the right pin out i was told its easy as pie,

any advice tips or know how in this would be VERY apreciated i plan on having it two  player aswel