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Quoted from Md2020:

Thank you for the emotional support lol. I'm having a hard time justifying this purchase to begin with, but this game has a lot of memory "historical significance" with me. It was incredibly ironic that 1 day after I bought these two sys 11s, my gf said this mutual friend of ours was selling his DE GNR. Life is strange for sure.
If it's "BEAT" beat, I'm going to have to force myself to walk away. Not that I can't fix it up myself, but it's the principle. I've always wanted this game in my house and it's now my opportunity has been handed to me-the day after I drop a bunch of cash for 2 machines.

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Quoted from Md2020:

So if the pf is questionably worn, less than 4500? I guess if the pf is completely trashed I'll see it pretty much straight away. I'm hoping his pf waxing/maintenance was at least semi-regular

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Quoted from Md2020:

Ended up walking away. Upon arrival, I immediately saw the "slash feature" on the cracked G ramp was not functional and the linkage was down in the cabinet. Obvious outgassing on the DMD. What really got me was the driver board..... Looks like a ton of heat all over. Browned out/blackened heat exposed chips- ESPECIALLY above the large "blue" resistors. Below those, I found a missing tiny resistor with wire just hanging off the board and heat/and or explosion damage? I knew right then that I wouldn't be able to even plug this thing in without possibly blowing something else up. The fellow wanted 5g's right off the bat. He has offered to get it working before I purchase it. Even if he gets it working, I'm not sure it's worth 5k. Full fucking shop out, AT LEAST. It's very filthy. Idk, as much as I read this back and realize I dodged a bullet, I still had a hard time walking away from it. I wonder if this would be one of those offer 3 as-is situations? He didn't seem to want it to walk out below 5, but he knows it needs a shitload of work. This guy is a friend/operator going through hard times, and I want to help him out, but this GnR is ROUGH