Updated collection/basement pics

[Updated collection/basement pics]

Very nice set up. What's running the Mad Planets? Are you using an FPGA board? If so how do you like it?

 

Lmao nevermind, I googled "Mad Planets Cabaret" and your build thread was the first that showed up

 

 

[What did you buy today?.........]

 

 

Went on a 5 hour road trip to pick up this very fairly priced Revenge from Mars. This was one of my all time favs growing up. I managed to get this one in the basement by myself. It somehow felt even heavier than my Haunted House. The head was a pain in the ass to remove, but thankfully it had an LCD in it or else it would be nigh impossible for me to move it myself.

[The 8-bit guy blows up IBM 7496 prototype(?)]

1 hour ago, MikeDijital777 said:

I enjoy the site alot, and it gets better with every shithead I ignore.  Think of it as a parting gift for people who crave my attention.

 

Seek professional help

[What did you buy today?.........]

1 hour ago, 4300 said:

It's not that great as a standalone neon for the wall,  but I think it'll look pretty good as a topper. I'll rig up a better mount...

 

I thought the sign would be bigger.

 

Still jealous of that Devils Dare btw

 

[What did you buy today?.........]

1 hour ago, 4300 said:

*SNIP*

Good lord that's a handsome sign. I need one of those to put above my Gottlieb pins.

[Question / Help Request -- Mini Claw Game for School]

I dont have anything that could help you, but thanks for showing me these things exist. This would be awesome in my game room with some shooters.

[Dinosaur Planet N64 leaked]

21 minutes ago, Punisher5.0 said:

I tried it on my Everdrive and after the splash screen everything is black but there is still audio for some reason

Are you sure you're using the cracked rom file?

 

Here's a thread with people having a similar issue. See if this has any affect: 

 

[Dinosaur Planet N64 leaked]

 

Gameplay videos are now popping up. It's a shame this build got shelved, Rare really knew how to use the N64 hardware to its fullest extent.

 

[Dinosaur Planet N64 leaked]

A late build of Dinosaur Planet for the N64 got leaked. Current estimate is that it's 90% complete. Devs are working right now to fix software bugs and get it completely playable. Crazy stuff.

 

Here's the archive.org link for the unaltered ROM file. Playability is hit or miss on emulators but apparently it works well on actual hardware.

[The Ocean Hunter]

On 2/1/2021 at 3:42 PM, RJ said:

Why is this posted in the Arcade section?

.....because it's a video discussing an arcade game?

[Game Stop's Anti-Collector Mentality Continues!]

17 minutes ago, zzip said:

Is that a bad thing though?   Everyone knows the stock isn't worth these prices, so it would seem the retail customers should want to sell the stock and realize a sweet profit.

It is a bad thing considering Robinhood receives a huge portion of its revenue from Citadel LLC. Citadel LLC, if you recall, invested in Melvin Capital to bail it out after getting squeezed from the Gamestop short. Robinhood knows what side its bread is buttered on. Robinhood isn't looking to protect retail customers, it's looking to protect its own bottom line.

[Masters of the Universe - The Power of He-Man]

My favorite part about this ordeal is learning that not only does Itchy sockpuppet, but he argues with his own sockpuppet accounts.

 

 

[Empty cocktail table arcade game cabinet]

8 hours ago, Crazy Climber said:

I'd normally laugh at someone asking $130 for firewood....BUT....this is actually a pretty cool, unique little cabinet

Youd put more than $130 into building an equivalent cocktail cab, that's for sure

[Atari Centipede Cocktail Vertical Hold]

Okay. The horizontal freq and vertical hold pots for the G07-FBO are located on the monitor chassis board. If you want to adjust them safely then I'd suggest discharging the monitor and removing it from the cocktail. It's a pain in the ass to adjust it with the monitor in the cab.

[Atari Centipede Cocktail Vertical Hold]

I'll dig into my centipede cocktail when I get home in an hour or so. I remember adjusting it somewhere but I cant remember where.

[What did you buy today?.........]

1 hour ago, 4300 said:

Hnnnnnnnng... I've been looking for one of those for a while. Such an awesome theme/artwork

[Old soviet arcade]

If you want a non-joking reply, heres my take: it's worth whatever someone is willing to pay for it. Really. These things are rare enough that theres no real pricing info and depending on your location this can be either very rare or somewhat common. If you're looking to sell, I would start high and lower it as time goes on. If you're looking to buy, I personally wouldnt pay more than $400 for a nice working example. But if you really want it dont feel bad about paying more.

[What did you buy today?.........]

On 12/30/2020 at 4:06 PM, BDW said:

Picked up this Centipede cocktail from a local collector. Advertised as working with rebuilt trackballs. I met up with him and of course when we pulled it out of his storage shed and plugged it in it didnt work. I was able to get the test mode to work, so I guessed it was something like a rom chip getting unseated due to the cold. So, I haggled him down another 50 bucks and got an additional centipede board thrown in. I went home, started fiddling with rom chips and had it working in 5 minutes 

 

New overlays are on the way, dont worry

 

 

 

Night and day difference, huh?

 

[What did you buy today?.........]

Picked up this Centipede cocktail from a local collector. Advertised as working with rebuilt trackballs. I met up with him and of course when we pulled it out of his storage shed and plugged it in it didnt work. I was able to get the test mode to work, so I guessed it was something like a rom chip getting unseated due to the cold. So, I haggled him down another 50 bucks and got an additional centipede board thrown in. I went home, started fiddling with rom chips and had it working in 5 minutes 

 

New overlays are on the way, dont worry

 

 

 

[The Official "Thrift finds" Thread]

Bought 3 NIB Dell E773s 17" monitors for 50 bucks the other day. 10 years ago I would have balked at something like this but nowadays these things are worth their weight in gold. One went to my brother's DOS rig, the other 2 went to replacing arcade monitors with horrible burn in. Dog not included.

 

[Cyberpunk 2077]

On 12/26/2020 at 4:19 AM, youxia said:

 

*snip*

I just want you to know no matter how hard you project on the internet to total strangers, Marcin Iwiński and Michał Kiciński are not going to be friends with you. At the end of the day all they care about is your money. I know nothing I say will convince you otherwise, but companies like CDPR dont care about you at all. Feel free to send another 6 paragraph essay my way but I'm not going to read it 

[Soviet and Post-Soviet old Arcades]

The Museum of Soviet Arcade Machines has a very impressive collection of Soviet-era electromechanichal games. I'd love to visit someday if I ever find myself in St Petersburg.

 

 

[Table Tennis (Adventurevision)]

Never heard of the Adventurevision before now, but reading about it it's a very interesting piece of hardware from an engineering perspective. Great work on the game, I'm looking forward to seeing some tutorials.

 

Do you have a link to the technical documentation that you referenced in your post? Sounds like it would be some mighty fine toilet reading.

[ExA-Arcadia - The New Neo Geo MVS]

Excellent coverage and analysis. The system has a lot of potential.

 

I've been thinking very strongly about picking one of these systems up. Looking at the prices however it's clear the intended audience does not include home arcade enthusiasts. Over 1.5k for a single cartridge is too rich for my blood, even if I am already used to dropping thousands on a single arcade/pinball machine. I'm sure systems like this are the shot in the arm arcades will need in order to remain solvent in the covid economy but I'll be sticking to the PC games a lot of these were ported from  

[Cyberpunk 2077]

Cyberpunk 2020 fan and CDPR stock holder here.

 

I find it very ironic that Cyberpunk 2077 fans are defending CDPR to the teeth despite the entire franchise being about the dangers of unethical corporations. CDPR deliberately hid the poor performance of the PS4 and XBONE versions via review embargos and lack of screenshots and videos before release. No amount of forum shilling and desperate coping is going to take back the fact that their stock has lost almost half of it's value since the start of the month and investors have started a class action lawsuit over the lies and misrepresentation. 

 

Gamers aren't mad about the buggy performance as much as they are mad about the fact that CDPR overpromised and wayyyy underdelivered. And then tried to keep that fact a secret until after people forked their cash over.