Rasubosu
Crazed MVS Addict
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Hey all, longtime lurker here for a super long overdue post regarding my Super Neo 29 restore project that I've been documenting on some of the Facebook groups but may come in handy for some people here that aren't active on social medias. I just wanted to share my process in case anyone else decides they want to be dumb like me and try to do a restore process and maybe they can learn from my mistakes. A bunch of you on here already commented on my threads on the FB groups so this may be old news but it'll at least be centralized in a thread here without having to dig through the comments section for the extra steps and photos.
Backstory, about a year ago around November I hit up a seller in LA about a Super Neo 29 he had for sale that had some really bad photos. The Super Neo 29 is my favorite of the Neo Geo full sized candies because I really like the design of the cab and the colors in the art, totally my aesthetic. I met up with the guy in person with Shadowkin to review the cab and once we showed up it was apparent as to why the cab was sitting around for sale for so long.
It was covered in some weird textured stone paint and had some garbage CPO, looked like a total wreck so for the listed price it was not even worth it. I passed initially and went home but I couldn't stop thinking about the cab because the Super Neo 29 was basically the 1 candy cab I wanted. I hit him up a month later and we worked out a deal that got me the cab and a Slug 3 for a super good price.
Time for my first candy restoration.
You can see the before pics here, this is how I picked up the cab. Weird stone texture paint that looked horrid, said the guy who owned it before was a professional painter. I doubt it with how this thing actually was sprayed. Also realized the CPO was glued on and the original panel was undernearth which was amazing. The first night I had it we played a few matches of MvC and X-Men COTA to make sure it worked and then quickly started tearing the cab apart.
Backstory, about a year ago around November I hit up a seller in LA about a Super Neo 29 he had for sale that had some really bad photos. The Super Neo 29 is my favorite of the Neo Geo full sized candies because I really like the design of the cab and the colors in the art, totally my aesthetic. I met up with the guy in person with Shadowkin to review the cab and once we showed up it was apparent as to why the cab was sitting around for sale for so long.
It was covered in some weird textured stone paint and had some garbage CPO, looked like a total wreck so for the listed price it was not even worth it. I passed initially and went home but I couldn't stop thinking about the cab because the Super Neo 29 was basically the 1 candy cab I wanted. I hit him up a month later and we worked out a deal that got me the cab and a Slug 3 for a super good price.
Time for my first candy restoration.
You can see the before pics here, this is how I picked up the cab. Weird stone texture paint that looked horrid, said the guy who owned it before was a professional painter. I doubt it with how this thing actually was sprayed. Also realized the CPO was glued on and the original panel was undernearth which was amazing. The first night I had it we played a few matches of MvC and X-Men COTA to make sure it worked and then quickly started tearing the cab apart.