For a lot of classic Nintendo arcade cabinets the base is quite beaten up. In this video Chance shows you our over-engineered solution to restoring the bottoms of these cabinets.
https://youtu.be/O5sYknlL3-s
Building A Better Nintendo Base
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Awesome - I ended up building a base for a DK cab I got from Newfie a while back, and I used pretty much the exact same process you did.
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Yep, same way I build the bases on the Nintendo cabinets I build. The originals have lasted 30 years so they can't really be all that bad though.
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If you want the 30 second Coles Notes version we posted it up on our Instagram channel haha
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rockinganker wrote:Yep, same way I build the bases on the Nintendo cabinets I build. The originals have lasted 30 years so they can't really be all that bad though.
Hey Terry - where were you during the Donkey Kong competition? I'm sure you could have easily beat my score
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