I've recently acquired a Dance Dance Revolution arcade machine that's going in my basement. I bought it from an arcade/golf center and it's in pretty good working order, but it's totally filthy and is missing a bunch of screws.
After I bought it I had to get into my house. I have an access door going from my garage to my basement, but it's narrower than a standard sized door, which makes it difficult.
I don't have photos detailing how I got it in since it was a spur-of-the-moment-struggle type of thing, but basically I had to remove the marquee, detach the stage, and remove the coin door in the front of the cabinet which required disconnecting a lot of wire harnesses. When I take my access door off the hinges, I have exactly 2 feet of space available and the cabinet seems to be almost exactly 2 feet deep (from front to back) without the small coin door pieces jutting out (which is why I had to take the door off).
Generally, the wiring is setup intelligently. There are many color-coded and keyed molex connectors, so it wasn't hard for me to reconnect everything once I got it inside.
Here is what it looks like, partially reassembled:
Currently, two of the yellow select arrows on the cabinet are unresponsive (both left arrows) and pressing right seems to register twice on every hit. The stage arrows seem mostly fine, just not very sensitive. Both of the red trick bars are a little wobbly. The top left light on the marquee does not light, but all other lights seems to be working. Almost every screw on the surface is rusted and many are stripped. The umbilicus that protects the wire harness connecting the stage to the cabinet is gone and replaced with some shoddy tubing held together with zip ties.
One thing I lucked out on was the monitor. It seems the original was replaced with an M31 Series CGA/EGA/VGA Monitor (by Wei-Ya/Huai Electronics). This monitor claims to handle a standard VGA signal which is good since I want to connect this to a PC to make it a Stepmania machine in the future.
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