Re: Arcade cabs and boards
Woah, I certainly dig all the cabinets you've got. I wish I had some cabinets but unfortunately I'd have no where to put them, and insufficant funds to maintain a bunch.
I do however own a Street Fighter II Hyper Fighting PCB. I was thinking about tracking down a complete Mortal Kombat board set, as well as the Killer Instinct board and Harddisk. I am a big arcade gamer esspecially on some of the early fighters as you can see. Whenever I get the money and the place for them I hope to make quite a collection of nice arcade cabinets.
Re: Arcade cabs and boards
Nonono, those are all boards, not cabs. I only have one cab, and it's a Super Dodge Ball one (which was converted from Missile Command. It only has 2 buttons per player, unfortunately). I plan to get a few more cabinets (4 player, 2 player vertical screen, 6 button (for fighters), Neo Geo MVS), but at the moment it's not absolutely necessary.
It doesn't take that much money to get a good arcade collection going so long as you're not getting a cab for each game (and the game you're getting isn't horribly rare). I tend to spend between 10 and 40 dollars plus shipping for games, so it's really not all that pricey; at worst, it's like buying a new console game.
But yeah, let me know if you start getting more arcade games. It's always a fun topic to discuss. :)
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Ah I must not have read that right the first time. So do you play all your games in that cabinet or do you have a jamma rig put together? Personally I'd just get a jamma rig built opposed to a cabinet for the size factor. The only downside is not all TVs are very compatable with games that don't sync at 60hz, such as motral kombat and killer instinct. However coincidentally those are both games I'd want to get original cabinets or remade cabinets of. I'd want all the cabinet art and original control panel and such. That or something that looks just as good.
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I play on my Super Dodge Ball cab, though I wouldn't mind making a JAMMA rig (superguns, they're apparently called) for convenience. And yeah, I'd like to at least get one new cab that looks better than my current one. In other news, I might get Smash TV soon, which would be pretty cool. Fun game. :)
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http://www.massystems.com makes the SuperNova jamma rig with a whopping 200$ price tag as I recall. It's very shiney but too much in my opinion. Jamma rigs can be constructed for alot less if you gut other electronics, like old used cheap system parts. If you know how to do it it's really nice if you can construct a controller adapter to use something like a PSX controller, although there is the drawback of controller configuration unless you build it so you can reroute switches.
I have thought many times about making a jamma rig, but it takes time, money, and alot of effort.
Re: Arcade cabs and boards
http://www.massystems.com makes the SuperNova jamma rig with a whopping 200$ price tag as I recall. It's very shiney but too much in my opinion. Jamma rigs can be constructed for alot less if you gut other electronics, like old used cheap system parts. If you know how to do it it's really nice if you can construct a controller adapter to use something like a PSX controller, although there is the drawback of controller configuration unless you build it so you can reroute switches.
I have thought many times about making a jamma rig, but it takes time, money, and alot of effort.
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$300, it looks like, but it does look pretty nice. Seems like it'd be a pain to play some good games on it like Smash TV and Total Carnage, though, because of the controls, which kinda sucks. I'm currently battling with the controls for Total Carnage (and the sound, but that can be solved by just wiring up a removable potentiometer); my solution is going to be to use a 4PDT to swap controls so that you can only play one player, but that player uses both joysticks. Not the ideal solution, but better than 2 players who can only fire in 2 of 8 directions. ;) I also really need some new joysticks since the current ones are pretty crappy (especially the second player stick). I can't buy the ones I want right now, though, because they're a whopping $70 for a pair. Blah.
Re: Arcade cabs and boards
$300, it looks like, but it does look pretty nice. Seems like it'd be a pain to play some good games on it like Smash TV and Total Carnage, though, because of the controls, which kinda sucks. I'm currently battling with the controls for Total Carnage (and the sound, but that can be solved by just wiring up a removable potentiometer); my solution is going to be to use a 4PDT to swap controls so that you can only play one player, but that player uses both joysticks. Not the ideal solution, but better than 2 players who can only fire in 2 of 8 directions. ;) I also really need some new joysticks since the current ones are pretty crappy (especially the second player stick). I can't buy the ones I want right now, though, because they're a whopping $70 for a pair. Blah.
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Ya, it's "standard" 6 button controller really doesn't work unless you are playing like Capcom games, which use that exact setup. Mortal Kombat and other odd things like NeoGeo use a bit different setups. That is why I think a jamma rig really requires remappable input through connectors of some kind.
I can't afford any jamma stuff right now, other things came first when I had money to spend. If I ever get a jamma rig though, I'd wanna build a ghetto rig, just shamelessly gutting whatever old system parts I can find. =D