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I did the play at home, go to arcade racket back in 1992. That year where both SF2 and MK1 sat side by side, and I had access to an arcade at a camp then. I got aggravated by people stepping in when I was working on getting better playing various characters to finish the game as it was a real toss up win-loss, and it would set me back to first fight. I bought the games and put hours in at home, such as like with SF2 I could take down the AI on LV7 across the board other than Zangief with Lv5, just didn't care, hated that full circle motion for that large attack. After a couple weeks, went back in, people thought they could push me off, and quickly people learned don't bother putting a quarter on the glass for the most part when I was there. MK1 was pretty much the same despite the lame dumbing down of the fatalities in the SNES game, the motions were still there.

I can attest to that with @newtmonkey on Wing Commander. My first play was a 386sx16 but when I went to a 486DX33 and later a P100, I was forced to really learn my tricks playing around with stuff like MOSLO which came out back in the early 90s. Even then various games still had issues, WC1 ran great, but the mouths on the cinema bits was like watching the micro machine man go at it. Thankfully the speed did limit for combat or it would have been a disaster. I tried using MOSLO on Hi Octane after originally screwing around with the cycles settings etc and it just never was nice at all. It was like a reverse of Wing Commander actually, the menus were nice, but the driving was light speed. Even a 1/2 second tap on the keyboard would send you flying at least 45 degrees into the nearest wall.

Hah. Wow that's impressive, the picture doesn't give me the impression it's that huge. I was thinking more like Neo Geo Mini sized but those buttons do look fairly well sized. I do love some of the old 80s Sega arcade stuff quite a bit, so I kind of do hope this pops up over here, as I think importing could get ugly. I don't much collect these things as I once did (mini arcades) but I do make exceptions, like I did with the NGM when I could get it cheap enough. The MyArcade stuff isn't all that nice, the Namco big one is very poorly assembled so that was a mistake, but the Sega one looks more tough and with a far better game selection too.

If you feel that a 2ft drop onto fuzzy carpet with a thick pad is me being abusive enough to break it, you're crazy. It's not like I threw it down. There's no excuse for the screen to drop into the system from that height. It's a sign of being poorly built using a couple cheap thin strips of double faced tape to hold that in there. The USB cable, they're cheap anywhere, that's understandable. Like it or not, that's a sign of poor workmanship, so I don't know why you're getting all offended by that. The cheapo little keychains and bridge direct mini arcade stuff is a mix of being tabbed and small screws to keep things in place.

Yeah that one, I've got a boxed up copy of it I bought earlier this year. I tried to put up with the PS1 release and it's terrible so I put the effort into PCEm for it and a few others and it was worth it. I took notes how to set it up again if it ever fails or can't be transferred I typed into a notepad file to save the head ache again. I agree entirely, DOSBox is #1, but when it fails on like a percentage of the games out there, a small 1GB corner set away on your HDD for a vintage 1995~ era abouts PC with 98se running on it in PCem gets the job done. By the time you hit XP those games still will work today so it's fine, but you go back into the 90s with those weird quirks of DOS or earlier windows or the lame 16bit exe/installers you get screwed.

I have owned it on PCE, Genesis, Game Gear, GBA (Sega Arcade Gallery), and 3DS download currently or before. The 3DS one isn't fair, it's just the arcade game, but if you skip back to those attempts to do it, the PCE really is the closest which is kind of a shaming on the Genesis for sucking worse from their own maker. Very well aware of that, I was speaking more in generality as well as myself as it sticks out quite a bit. You'll need probably near a pinball machine sized space to do it while the stand ups aren't all that big.

I suffered through trying to set it up on my own and configure it to get into having an OS on my machine, but damn it was worth it. I recreated my third PC I ever owned a Pentium 100mhz. I gave it the max memory, hdd storage, and other limitations that Win98SE would allow. I did this because I own some games that will not run, or they run like they're on speedballs in DOSBox such as Hi-Octane which is fantastic. The encapsulation of an entire PC within a PC is a totality of it all. From the moment you hit the menus power on button you're taken right back to flipping the old switch/button on a PC with the BIOS screen, the system checks, and then the OS etc loading up as it would at the same speed and limitations of that specific era of parts. It's just fantastic as it opened a good many doors. Between the detachable USB A: I have and my optical, it's a total experience there without the hell of buying an old PC and nursing it to life and continued existence with 30 year old parts.

That does seem like a glaring oversight, but also a kick in the teeth they dropped it with the PS2 or systems even since going into internal storage. I wonder if it's just the last file removed or if you can recover multiple on that PS1.

Wow, image is a little blurry but you really can see it seems to be a fairly nice screen with a decently setup cabinet there. With that date though, you can forget importing it to your home until 2021 though.

I do like that Outrun cabinet, just no room for something like that with the sit down attached. I saw this video the other day that compared like a dozen + releases of the original and was surprised to see short of emulation the PC Engine one seems to be the most nice version you can pick off which pleases me as I own it. For the price and room they eat up I really wish they all ran more than like 3-4 games a piece. I know some have the button array and stick with it where you could swap PCBs, that is an option at least.

No I didn't take it as you were stupid and lazy, I was trying to motivate you to save some serious money as it's very easy to do unlike many years ago where it took a lot of time sucking menu and configuration file fiddling to behave right. You're being kind of a dick pulling out the childish flex comment. I'll be sure to keep replying to you if you're that triggered over some help. I wrote it pretty clear and easy there it's as easy as opening up a file these days in a popular office app. That the level of setup is no worse than a standard windows game. And even told you were and how to get the games short of linking it so I don't get in trouble for linking roms, and you have attitude about it. Whatever works I guess, but I don't see the need for a tantrum. If that is too complicated and you want a Pi, go for it, they're not easy to setup or configure if you're new to it, and given what you said I'd never recommend one. Retroarch is finicky as are some other pi based tools built from it so I was trying to keep it simple. If you go that route, find someone who can set it up just as you want it, and also offers extended support in case you have problems so you don't end up paying twice.

Hey if that is their (at the time) official art card for it, then yeah that 1944 game likely well end up with a pillar boxing effect in the other direction to go horizontal on a vertical. That dumb Namco Museum MyArcade 10" thing does that for more than half the games it had. I had one for all of a few days, waste of money, so shittily built the double faced tape(?!) holding the LCD dropped into the machine and I couldn't get it apart and it started acting odd and all this from a 2ft fall onto carpet from my lap which also broke the usb plug on the cable - I was pissed. I know their smaller stuff is better assembled than that on the inside which is pathetic. I don't know for a replicade if I'd drop $120 on a 1942-45 cabinet, but it looks sweet. Personally I'd want SF2 but it seems they don't sell it and the ebay asshole scalpers want like $600 for it which is disgusting. Dragon's Lair I'd be all over, if it had the modern hack they did since the Wii to have on screen prompts as I can't remember the moves, never was capable of that, but as a timing event I can go pretty well into it which is fun as it requires real speed.

This may be worth your while. I use this on a PC, but there is this unofficial port of the program for MacOS. It's called PCem. https://github.com/kyr0/PCemV14MacOSX The short of it, it's a virtual machine. You pick your PC processor/speed you want, RAM setup, size of your hard drive etc. It simulates all sorts of PC environments right down to using original BIOS's as well. I've got it on my computer for a few games that can't stand 64bit windows at all or have stupidly never been coded to limit the FPS for faster PCs. I created this Pentium1 environment at 100mhz, with a good bit of ram and a decent sized HDD and installed originally DOS 6.22, then Win98se to it, and it's excellent. It runs from my own memory of owning said speed computer long ago, just right.

That last bit in the earlier post about 1942 in 2021 having perhaps more than one game. I find that interesting. I also would not be surprised if that means it also includes staying point 1943 if not also 1943 KAI too. That would be a fantastic on point bundle to add a bit of value to the package. I keep thinking about it and likely won't buy it, but Dragon's Lair looks phenomenal. The price vs the fact my short term memory is garbage shies me away from it. I love and hate the game as I can never remember many of the sequences, speed isn't a problem. If this had the more modern decade old twist the WII trilogy package (it had space ace with DL2) where you can turn it into a QTE due to prompts I'd be all over that. The game was still damn hard, just not unreasonable since memory wasn't in the equation.

Yes and I'd agree with you 20 years ago, but in the last decade emulators have come a very long way on your stock standard PC running Windows. Emulators are basically idiot proof they're so setup you don't have to do any clicks more than like firing up a MS Office app, clicking File, Open, and clicking the file and clicking OK. That seriously is all it takes for your popular console and handheld systems to work now. The only potential extra setup may be to download a tiny BIOS file, sometimes truly optional, if necessary as the author may have made their own version for that too. The only other thing you'd do, you would do on a PC game anyway from the menu, such as setting up your controller button setup. A default setup for an audio and video side of an emulator usually gives the best normal performance, the rest of the tweak really there for people with junk hardware that need help or someone who wants to go above and beyond. Spending that kind of money if you're using a PC already is point blank stupid and lazy. If the ROMs are an issue, and I can't link you roms, but I can say this much, that place known as the internet archive that's more known for archiving old web addresses also does files. Among those files people maintain collections of no intro or pure ROM sets by system. The total files are fairly large, but you can expand them and pick the ones you want as single game downloads. I just did all the work for you, but if you feel the need to waste that money, go for it.

Huh he damaged eh? Ball is in your court if you want a little potential pay back considering his behavior. Given the attitude problem, then breaks it more and sends it back, ebay won't like that.

So yeah I had a small bit of nice fortune at one goodwill on the weekend I figured I'd share, not bothering with images though this time. I got $14 into it, but the entire boxed set (box outer sleeve is somewhat thrashed on both edges) of Wii's Guitar Hero III Legends of Rock, and it appears the guitar most likely has never been used as it's all still in pieces and bags. The decal sheets are still sealed up too and the strap is still bundled and tied up in its location, game looks to have been used a little as it's not perfect so someone looks to have just played in gamepad mode. I know guitars used to be throw aways but gained in some value in recent years, found that the box set it like worth $60 so that's a score. And elsewhere in the store a boxed set for PC Zoo Tycoon with the add-on disc too in its little cardboard box set for $2 and that's worth like $40. The one other find, it's utterly mind blowing for me at least. It's damaged, worst being the hole up top someone made when the original tab sheered off. But yet despite that I caught this as it went out on the floor with a $2 sticker on it and snatched it fast. I knew it was real, just not how old or more until I looked later. Even a beat to hell one in worse shape than this with rust and paint loss is worth over $100. This one is fairly clean and works perfectly.

This has been a wild ride of happy finds this week, and seeing as this thread has been silent since Tuesday here's what I got Thursday, then Friday. I found the first image stuff on Thursday, drove over to the next county after talking with this older couple on messenger and then they flake and I sit for a 1/2 hour. As I"m most of the way home, they figure it out and get super apologetic and already start up the freeway to make it right. I had gone down there to save $20 as it was off the price, but got it reduced further to $45. Now if this isn't nice enough, and I didn't put it on photo intentionally, it gets a little twisted. While I could clean it off the inside of the GB battery door entirely, the reverse of 4/5 carts has a name and a social security number! on the back. WTF?! I've never seen that in 25 years of buying second hand games, not once, as it's just scary stupid given the wrong person gets it (guessing it was likely their kids now a grown adult if still alive) someone could use it to do anything from identity theft to helping smuggle people or whatever or be the ID for an illegal. Earlier ago I popped the lens off, put a glass one on there, it looks marvelous. LCD got a little scuffy damage due to bad glue on the original lens, so I'm probably going to buy a kit and do another IPS upgrade as they're fun. So then today, this went like clockwork, but again, worked out better than expected. Listing was $120, talked nicely a bit on messenger tried to get it split as I just wanted the non-DS stuff. We agreed on $85. They show up a moment before I did, and instead well, they brought it all anyway, didn't want more, and got all that still. There was a messed up set of intec cheap plastic accessories that were rough so I pitched em, but the rest is as it is. DSLite is like brand new, clean inside, barely a scuff outside, box was CIB entirely, but I own a matching one which lacked the bags, non-manual paper, and the tray so I took em. 😉 SP has no charger but works, it's a survivor, probably going to re-shell it and get an oem adapter for it too. So yeah within 48 hours all that, I'm up to finding 5 GBA SP 101s this year between early summer to now, that's never happened

So I just saw this morning the $50 Contra cabinet and obviously being boxed and sealed up it's just the shell and box art, looks amazing. I was curious if anyone owned one of those yet and had a feel given it's the arcade game given the added price and screen style too. They were supposed to have a wicked SF2CE cabinet out already but I guess it's another chinese communist party victim as well. Any dates on that or price? I really was looking forward to that one with it's little stick (that isn't a d-pad like contra) and layout it has for it. I did want that 1/4 cade for it but it's just too damn much money and space eaten for random fun and if the myarcade is the arcade one anyway, why not? I'm curious if those premium cabs could be tweaked for other things too.

I don't see a good reason not to do an Analogue N64. As long as either than can make a FPGA for it, or license/buy the one off Marshall for the UltraHDMI kit they have a hard key part of it knocked out as it's incredible. The whole niche argument is crap given they've dug into the NEC circles now, not that Neo Geo was all that huge either all thing considered.

Looks like a custom creation of a N64 original board with the UltraHDMI (or equal) kit to bring an upgrade to the unit getting it happy on a modern TV. I've already got an UltraHDMI installed console so I'm set, but anyone stuck using the old setup this is invaluable if priced right.

Well this Japanese site I found probably a decade ago and keep bookmarked as they update it in both their language and an english mirror. It shows every licensed first party component Nintendo ever made for their own devices, even those that never left Japan. There is some truly obscure stuff here. https://maru-chang.com/hard/gb/english.htm

Wow now that's luck. I've hit it twice before with great prices on lucky finds for arcade too a few years back, one from the era, another a modern cocktail but still -- damn good fun. And on that... I got this today in an open box/overstock store in town here for $35. Given it still sells new at retail for $99 and came out a year ago for $20 more than that I'm psyched. I've wanted it since then just didn't like the sticker price. Patience wins the day.

That williams one is tempting, never been a fan of gottlieb tables so the other I'd pass on. That's a good spread on the arcade1up choice too and not a bad size to the table. If I ever got another pinball, given all the maintenance and tuning involved I got fed up with, that would be the way to go.

I would agree with that. It takes the good parts of the games I mentioned of the 90s, but then sucks the depth of them out entirely, then puts a bunch of poorly excuted more modern fluff like the parts, coupled with the forced moments that stop the game until you get it right and it's just a put off.