Budget Atari and Capcom arcade cabinets to see release this fall!

[phoenixdownita]

@-1

 

Man, you do freaking rock those old arcades ... I feel like bowing somewhat.

 

Jeez, how did you even find 3 hours to get to the kill screen ..... I barely have time to pee these days!

 

EDIT: me so envious!!!

[negative1]

@-1

 

Man, you do freaking rock those old arcades ... I feel like bowing somewhat.

 

Jeez, how did you even find 3 hours to get to the kill screen ..... I barely have time to pee these days!

 

EDIT: me so envious!!!

thanks, well i'm an independent computer contractor, so i set my own hours and jobs.

 

also, i do a lot of late night gaming : so from 8pm-3am or so, there's plenty of time for games.

 

finally, pac-man is actually easier the better you get. 9th key patterns are slow, and take about

1 minute per level, and you don't need razor sharp reflexes. just concentrating is the hard part,

because if you mess up, its tough to recover.

 

i messed up my pattern on the 2nd to last level on pac-man plus with my last man. fortunately

i recovered:

 

 

shorter version:

 

later

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Edited December 13, 2018 by negative1

[negative1]

as far as the centipede cabinet goes, it has liberator, and super breakout as extra games:

 

 

later

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[negative1]

Succesfully did the arcade joystick mod to pac-man, it was a pain getting the joystick off.

1) 6 screws very tightly put on

2) The joystick plate would not budge at all

3) I finally had to pry it off using a lot of force, several times, luckily did not damage the board.

 

joystick bottom plate:

 

 

top of joystick : 4 inner screws

 

 

 

 

 

new joystick wired up, and tested to work:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/121691769605

 

 

 

I've got it now, and it works beautifully.

 

It also has a 2/4/8 way gate on it.

 

Next step, waiting for the monitor interface, and getting a MAME PC up and

running...

 

later

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Edited December 14, 2018 by negative1

[+GoldenWheels]

All my zippyys worked great at first too. They don't wear well...

[4300]

as far as the centipede cabinet goes, it has liberator, and super breakout as extra games:

 

 

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Outstanding. I've been waiting for someone to hack the Centipede cab. Looks like I'm adding a usb port to mine.

[negative1]

Space invaders cabinet, short look at:

 

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[Skeeter]

Waiting patiently for that Space Invaders. Very nice looking cab.

[NE146]

Yeah it's nice.. but I'm just thinking friggin if it's really just MAME in there, they could have thrown customers a bone and put in the background artwork, with bezel optional or not.

 

Granted it's not "authentic" but the jigs up with that dumb claim. And it'd look a lot more interesting than the bare bones B&W presentation which honestly is boring to most.

 

 

Lest we forget..that's how it's supposed to look

 

 

 

 

 

[+x=usr(1536)]

I'm just looking forward to seeing these emulated in MAME at some point in the future. Much as with the x-in-1 PCBs running ancient versions of MAME that have made it in there, there's something about the inherent recursion in this that amuses me.

[BrianC]

I'm a bit puzzled why the cab even has a joystick. The cabs I have played of SI had buttons instead of a joystick.

Edited December 15, 2018 by BrianC

[negative1]

I'm a bit puzzled why the cab even has a joystick. The cabs I have played of SI had buttons instead of a joystick.

Thats the original Taito version.

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[BrianC]

Thats the original Taito version.

later

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oops. The earlier pic isn't, though. I was confused because I saw a pic of a Taito cab with buttons. I heard somewhere that the Taito cab used joystick, but I wasn't 100% sure. Joystick isn't bad for SI, but I heard the Arcade 1up joysticks aren't that great.

Edited December 15, 2018 by BrianC

[negative1]

Build video for Space Invaders:

 

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[4300]

My overlay arrived today. The fitment is shit. The colors are washed out compared to the original. At least it's protected i guess.

[Tanooki]

Wow that's bad, why could they not have just done a clear protector for the original?

[negative1]

Mame running on the Street Fighter 2 Cabinet:

 

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[negative1]

I'm just looking forward to seeing these emulated in MAME at some point in the future. Much as with the x-in-1 PCBs running ancient versions of MAME that have made it in there, there's something about the inherent recursion in this that amuses me.

There's no point in trying to emulate the Linux boot up, etc.

 

Unless they are going to do Pandora's box emulation, it would be exactly the same thing.

 

later

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[+x=usr(1536)]

There's no point in trying to emulate the Linux boot up, etc.

 

Unless they are going to do Pandora's box emulation, it would be exactly the same thing.

 

later

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True, but I'm just amused by MAME running inside of MAME. Besides, given that MAME's goal is preservation, it's pretty much guaranteed that it would get the full boot treatment.

[John Stamos Mullet]

 

True, but I'm just amused by MAME running inside of MAME. Besides, given that MAME's goal is preservation, it's pretty much guaranteed that it would get the full boot treatment.

its not mame running inside of mame. It's an instance mame running on the Linux OS that drives these boards.

[negative1]

some gameplay of space invaders in color:

 

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[+x=usr(1536)]

its not mame running inside of mame. It's an instance mame running on the Linux OS that drives these boards.

 

Understood, but ultimately it's the same difference. It could be MAME running on BeOS inside of MAME, but the end result would be the same.

[NE146]

"Yo dawg we heard you like Mame, so we.." ?

[Gregory DG]

Here's my "consumer-level" version of a mod, just adding my Raspberry Pi into it with my Xarcade Tankstick (for now.)

 

 

This is just the beginning...

[The Historian]

Wow that's bad, why could they not have just done a clear protector for the original?

They will be in the next series released.