Archon's Turtles In Time Conversaion Project
 

So as you may know, Turtles in Time is really really hard to find. Even harder if you want it in good shape. Klov.com rates the game a 12 out of 100 for rarity (100 being most common).

Anyway, I've wanted a Turtles In Time 4-player upright for a long long time, but have never been able to find one in good enough shape that is close enough to me.

Then today I see this on ebay:

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When suddenly I am reminded that I purchased a working Turtles In Time JAMMA board several years ago:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...207_220025.jpg

So I swoop down on the Side Art, since complete sets INCLUDING the control panel overlay are few and far between.

On a lark, I then do a quick search for a Turtle in Time marquee. And low and behold there is one for pretty cheap! Swoop!

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"But Archon, you still don't have a cabinet!"

Well friends, the cool thing about all of the 4-Player Konami Titles (TMNT, TMNT:Turtles In Time, The Simpsons, Sunset Riders, G.I. Joe, X-men) is that they ALL use the exact same cabinet.

So I get on the horn with a few distributors I know, and it turns out that there is a guy in Los Angeles proper with a Sunset Riders cabinet. It is currently sight unseen, but I am going to be checking it out in the next couple days. If it is indeed still in a 4-player konami, I'm nabbing that bastard.

Costs so far (will keep this updated):

NOS Side Art + Control Panel Overlay: $300
Marquee: $20
JAMMA Board: $0 (Already had it in the collection)
4-Player Konami Cabinet: $400

Oh wow let us know how it goes. Then i will be coming over to your place to play it.

you realize you can download a MAME emulator and play it on the computer and it's just the same as the arcade, no change in quality. I have the original TMNT arcade on my handheld Dingoo A320. I'm working on TMNT 2 for it.

I would still have done the same thing though as nothing truly beats having an arcade cabinet to experience the real live thing. Awesome project.

Have a mame cabinet. Not the same. The games I really care about I get dedicated cabinets for.

Go for it, dude! Nothing beats having a working arcade cabinet in your home!

Can you show off your MAME cabinet?
And how is it not the same besides the fact that you are emulating the game? I realize that but any big problems?

Frickin' great stuff! Good luck to ya, and watch you don't step on them art bits, don't wanna get sucked into the time vortex!

sweeeeettttt hope you get it all! I saw 2 turtles in time boards as of late tho they are extremely rare, luck i bought mine when i did few years back.

This is a very cool project! Hope to see it get completed.

-ms

how many arcade games with cabinets do you have?


&& Good luck man !

I had to get rid of a few to make physical space for my wifes things when she moved in, so I'm currently down to 9 (including this one)

dude that's awesome. 9 Arcade systems in your house?? lol. thats sweet

Not actually in my house. They have a separate space. It's basically a two car garage. Though this one will be in the house with the rest of the turtles collection.

This is really cool! I can't wait to see your progress with it. I've always wanted the original arcade game cabinet but I've never found one close enough to my house that I could go and pick up.

So the sunset riders cabinet I was looking at fell through, but I found another one today. The guy is asking $400. I'm gonna go check it out tomorrow and I'll jump on it if it's in decent shape. He said the monitor works well, so that's a plus.

If this ends up being the cabinet I use, it'll bring the total to $720. Which is pretty much a steal for a Turtles in Time cabinet.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...t/100_4810.jpg

Donor cabinet!

This little guy was converted from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles into some other game at some point, so it is fitting that it should get turned back into a turtles game :-)

25 inch monitor works great. Working JAMMA harness and Power Supply.

Sweet Stephen! Look forward to seeing this finished!

Small Update:

Just got done stripping the hardware out of the control panel in prep from the arrival of the new art. There are a lot of hole left from the previous conversion. All of the holes in the picture with the blown out yellowish circle around them will have to be patched before the art goes on.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...212_045433.jpg

Hi guys,
A little progress report.

After having a hell of a time getting it in the apartment, I stripped one side of the donor cabinet. I just used a hair dryer to soften the glue and pulled. Came right off.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2..._7361582_n.jpg

As luck would have it, the cabinet art also came in the mail today. So with some help from my lovely wife, this is what we got:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2..._1491402_n.jpg

This is was a little trickier than I would have liked, as the art is actually in 3 sections, so it was a little bit of a pain to line up. This is because the images are actually much larger than the cabinet itself (so you have to trim them).

Over all I'm pretty pleased with the progress. :-)

Looking good. :tsmile: