Project C.O.E.

Congrats to all involved This is an excellent thread, so let's keep it up!

The best donation I've ever received was this... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zN5AakqG1NE Yeah Rich I'm a hardcore snob haha. I wouldn't have bought this myself, but hey it was donated so why not right? I'm much more of an authentic arcade player myself. I will try my darnest to stay objective, and I'll be comparing CPS2 and 3 games to this, as well as few Neo games like Metal Slug. My objective is essentially to say if it's worth the price of admission for those who own a SuperGun or cabinet.

Awesome stuff there Rich. I had a DHL package arrive today, and it was a donation, which is always a pleasant surprise. This will be interesting to review, as I'll be able to compare my MVS games to this emulation box and see how it holds up, as well as try some CPS2 and CPS3 games and see how they hold up. I personally haven't tried any emulation multicades like this before, so this will prove to be most interesting. How is the Elf?

Good job Reaperman, who needs fat wallets haha. I'm with you on Art of Fighting 3, beautiful looking game, but the soundtrack never appealed to me. Let us know about the sound when your copy of KOF arrives.

If you're going to do PGM2, do it right! (Referring to the SNK game you see in the mobo) I wanted to grab Knights of Valour 3, and DoDonPachi DaiOuJou Tamashii, but haven't had the chance yet.

Thanks Anthony I hope you guys enjoy the reviews I have to provide for your viewing pleasure over the coming weeks. I cover all 5 of the SNKP released games, and let me say right now, they're super fun

Yeah a few. Negotiations are still on-going. Meanwhile I'm negotiating a PGM board with 16 games. If this all pans out that would be 30 potential reviews, and hours upon hours of great times ahead Meanwhile my Atomiswave reviews are coming along nicely. I just put the finishing touches on Neo Geo Battle Coliseum. I always found that game to be SNK's version of Smash. So much fan service in that one.

I think the Atomiswave would have been more successful had Sammy and SEGA not merged. Once they merged in 2004, one year after the Atlmiswave launched, I knew the platform was done. I mean let's be honest here, why the heck would the conglomerate want to stick with the Atomiswave when SEGA offered significantly more powerful and popular arcade hardware. Personally the only arcade system I own that's consolized is the Neo. Everything else I use my SuperGun with. I've got a complete CPS-III set, a bunch of CPS-II games, Atomiswave, two one-slot MVS systems, and the PGM series. That doesn't include the PCBs either

Great idea. I'm super busy, but I know more than a few people here would love to contribute I like your idea for online too. I love videos like this that show the importance of taking care of your vintage videogames. New collectors can learn from these instructional videos In somewhat related news, I've officially scheduled my first Atomiswave videos, and have started negotiating for a bundle of 14 Neo Geo games. Mwa ha ha. 2016 is shaping up to be one hell of an awesome arcade-related year!

Oh today was a great day. I tested my second Atomiswave board, yes I have two Atomiswave boards haha, and guess what, the diodes are shot on my first unit, but not my second. That means I'm all set Today after I tested the two boards out, I had just enough time to play through Demolish Fist and Dolphin Blue. So that means it's on! You can count on 8 Atomiswave reviews before I jump back to the Neo. I've put up a request on the Neo forums asking if anyone is selling a few of the remaining Atomiswave games I'm interested in, and next week I'll be making my "Looking for" thread for Neo games. I'm going to aim for a bundle deal of 10 games. That would give us quite a few more reviews

Happy New Year everyone. This morning I finally got around to testing out my glorious Atomiswave with the Toro VGA box, which allows me to take the VGA signal and pass it through SCART, therefore through my XRGB-Mini Anyways, it all worked perfectly well until I tried to play a game. I'll have to find out what's going on with my Jamma Nation X SuperGun as the input/output is all screwed up. Only button 2 and 4 register, the rest aren't responding. So that's quite unfortunate. I'll update once I have some info back from James from JNX.

Sure thing I tried to connect the Atomiswave today, and I'm missing a male-to-female VGA connector. Grr. So I just ordered one, and will hopefully have everything I need by next week to try it out. Once I know it works, I'll have 8 weeks of Atomiswave games, and that gives me two months to score more Neo games. That shouldn't be too hard so long as people are willing to part with their goods

Maybe sometime this week I'll have the time to set everything up and let you know. If I can't record footage from it, then I'll have no choice but to revert back to my original plan and tackle some TurboGrafx-16/PC-Engine games while I wait for some new Neo Geo games to arrive

Since I own all of the SNKP released games, you can surely count on it I think that's exactly what I'll do. I still have to mess around with the Atomiswave to ensure I can actually capture footage from it, but if I can, then giddy up, you'll know what to expect for after the 13th, and then it'll be right back to the Neo

Hmm on second thought, I do have those Atomiswave games sitting around doing nothing. Maybe 8 reviews of those would tide people over until the next Neo wave