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Does anyone have any experience in buying cabinets from Japan? Shipping costs and the like are my main concerns.
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noirstronaut posted:Does anyone have any experience in buying cabinets from Japan? Shipping costs and the like are my main concerns. http://windygaming.com Why yes I do post links to them semi-regularly, glad you've noticed. Seriously though there's only about 2 people who regularly import candy cabs to the US, and that's the best one.
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Oct 2, 2014 20:13
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noirstronaut posted:Does anyone have any experience in buying cabinets from Japan? Shipping costs and the like are my main concerns. Caitlin posted:http://windygaming.com For what it's worth the last time I checked with the Windy Gaming folks it was close to $1,000 for the cab and then another $400 for long distance shipping.
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Oct 2, 2014 20:22
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McCracAttack posted:For what it's worth the last time I checked with the Windy Gaming folks it was close to $1,000 for the cab and then another $400 for long distance shipping. You are welcome to arrange your own pickup with him and his prices are listed on his site, it's gonna depend on what kind of cabinet you want.
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Oct 2, 2014 20:28
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McCracAttack posted:For what it's worth the last time I checked with the Windy Gaming folks it was close to $1,000 for the cab and then another $400 for long distance shipping. That's not a bad price for a cab in good condition (the guy at Windy has pretty high quality standards for the cabs he imports, and he mainly does Astro/Blast/NNC and sometimes E2's, but I don't think those usually make it to the site). Agrias120 fucked around with this message at 21:31 on Oct 2, 2014 |
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Oct 2, 2014 20:49
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Housh posted:BINGO! I just turned the P2 mic off and the buzz is completely gone. I wish I waited before ordering that other power adapter. Oh well, I'm sure I can always use it for something else since it's universal. Thanks for the help, guys! For the record that Velleman universal dealio is wonderful so no worries. I use mine to power the PC Engine the late great Acid Police sent me and it works flawlessly. I've used it off and on to power/test various things and it's one of the best electronics purchases I've made in recent years.
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Oct 2, 2014 21:26
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noirstronaut posted:Does anyone have any experience in buying cabinets from Japan? Shipping costs and the like are my main concerns. Where do you live, because the guy I got mine from is doing another group buy next year (also he might have an extra blast city for sale) edit: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Sega-Blast-...=item2a442e0185 for some reason his price went up when he relisted. If you live in the surrounding states I could give you his number for info on the next group sale though moron izzard fucked around with this message at 21:54 on Oct 2, 2014 |
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Oct 2, 2014 21:28
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King Vidiot posted:I'm curious if the Napoleon decks I spotted on eBay (just did a check out of curiousity) are actually the brand-new decks, and if that price they're asking is just a ridiculous mark-up. Because $400+ seems really excessive, especially since it looks like at the official Nintendo site for their card sets they're only $20 or so (2000 yen). Has to be markup, I bought my Napoleon President deck from Amazon and it was around $20. They also have the Mario deck for $45 but I doubt it's worth it
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Oct 2, 2014 21:44
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Gals Panic is fun as poo poo, at least some of them. Most of the Kaneko games listed in MAME as "expose" games, anyway. There is even at least one that is non-porny. So much better than Qix from a gameplay perspective though, they are surprisingly frantic and tactical games sometimes. Gotta get those power ups, collect phone numbers? and EXTRA coins and get 100%! It's pretty challenging stuff sometimes. Protip for new players, try and keep the boss on the black part of the screen, wall them in and hope they don't break through.
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Oct 2, 2014 22:17
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I'm surprised we've gotten this far in the "Qix Clone"/Gals Panic talk without any mention of the hilarious dogshit that is Fantasia. What other game could see Michael Jackson facing off against Hudson Hawk?
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Oct 2, 2014 23:16
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Wise Fwom Yo Gwave posted:I'm surprised we've gotten this far in the "Qix Clone"/Gals Panic talk without any mention of the hilarious dogshit that is Fantasia. What other game could see Michael Jackson facing off against Hudson Hawk? back it up I need more information on this posthaste
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Oct 2, 2014 23:31
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Wise Fwom Yo Gwave posted:I'm surprised we've gotten this far in the "Qix Clone"/Gals Panic talk without any mention of the hilarious dogshit that is Fantasia. What other game could see Michael Jackson facing off against Hudson Hawk? The sequal, New Fantasia has possibly the greatest character roster in any videogame : Arnold Schwarzenegger Uncle Fester Robin Williams Robocop Yasser Arafat Saddam Hussein
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Oct 2, 2014 23:35
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Now I'm just really disappointed I'm probably never going to be able to convince the arcade operators I know to get porn games.
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Oct 2, 2014 23:37
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Caitlin posted:back it up I need more information on this posthaste You will must be a winner!  (Fantasia)  (New Fantasia) After the second game, all the sequals ditched the character select, and let you select the ethnicity of the woman being revealed, instead :{ I've only played New Fantasia a few times, but my friends are all apparantly really into it, because it's somehow the 3rd most played game on my cabinet, behind Mark Of The Wolves and Uncle Poo.
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Oct 2, 2014 23:42
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Tyma posted:You will must be a winner! Thank you for clarifying that I only need to care about Fantasia and New Fantasia because YOU ARE DARN TOOTIN' I need to be able to select Hudson Hawk to play Qix-with-porn.
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Oct 2, 2014 23:44
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Retrogame supernoob question: I just bought copies of Street Fighter II and Mortal Kombat II for SNES, PAL version. When I start them up I see a green screen, that flickers to black a few times and then is just green. Other games work fine. Tried cleaning the end of the cartridge with a q tip and alchohol solution. Any ideas on what to do to fix this?
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Oct 2, 2014 23:45
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Bolverkur posted:Retrogame supernoob question: I just bought copies of Street Fighter II and Mortal Kombat II for SNES, PAL version. When I start them up I see a green screen, that flickers to black a few times and then is just green. Other games work fine. Tried cleaning the end of the cartridge with a q tip and alchohol solution. Any ideas on what to do to fix this? Obvious solution: scrub harder. The flickering like that indicates bad contact between the system and the cart. You might need to use something like Brasso to give them a real scrubbing. Also, you guys play your Porn Qix, I'll just stick with Volfied/Super Qix, thank you very much.
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Oct 3, 2014 00:16
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These perverts will play all sorts of depraved roms to get their Qix.
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Oct 3, 2014 00:36
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Bolverkur posted:Retrogame supernoob question: I just bought copies of Street Fighter II and Mortal Kombat II for SNES, PAL version. When I start them up I see a green screen, that flickers to black a few times and then is just green. Other games work fine. Tried cleaning the end of the cartridge with a q tip and alchohol solution. Any ideas on what to do to fix this? Use an eraser on the contacts if alcohol and Brasso doesn't work, then go over it once more with alcohol. You'll probably have to take the cart apart to do this. I just got an NES mainboard working again by doing this after trying multiple carts/connectors on it.
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Oct 3, 2014 00:39
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Well, I beat Conker's Bad Fur Day. Fun game. I think held up pretty well for the most part. I didn't really care for the swimming sections though. Those were just the worst. Probably start up Perfect Dark tomorrow. In other news I ordered a copy of Mother 2 for the Super Famicom because my Earthbound cart ended up completely broken and unplayable a few months back. I ordered Mother 2 because it was about 180 dollars less than buying another physical copy of Earthbound, plus I have Earthbound on the Wii U's virtual console so it's not like I can't play it or anything.
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Oct 3, 2014 01:33
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Mednafen question: How do I resize the screen? I know that's pretty basic, but I've never used Mednafen before and I'm pretty stonewalled with the interface and the info I've been able to find so far. I'm using MedGui, and I have gone into Advanced Mode to try changing the resolution from "Desktop" to other presets, but it doesn't change anything in actual practice. I still end up playing TG-CD games in a postage stamp:  Alt-Enter to fullscreen just puts the postage stamp in the center of the screen, surrounded by a sea of black. I also tried changing the pce.xscale and pce.yscale values from 1 to 3, just to see if it would change anything (the hope was that it would stretch the window to 3x its size), but no. Any advice?
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Oct 3, 2014 02:03
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Uncle at Nintendo posted:That's a very fair price considering I think it took me like 5 hours to install the NESRGB (2 hours removing the drat PPU). I haven't noticed anything specific on my PVM, I'll up the brightness and see if anything shows up. Usually wavy lines in the picture means the power cap is starting to go, but that should show up in all video modes.
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Oct 3, 2014 02:23
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There's an arcade in Miami that has a ton of those Gals Panic/Dancing Eyes type games, coincidentally the guys who run the place are incredibly gross weirdos and the clientele is mostly "anime people" (I like some anime too but you know who I mean)
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Oct 3, 2014 02:52
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I have a 3DO FZ-1 with a busted CD drive. I disassembled everything and found a gear with a crack in it. Specifically, it's a gear that drives the laser assembly up and down its tracks. The crack makes the gear stick, so the laser can't move and discs can't be read. A user on the 3DO Zone forums made this graphic. The problem is, we don't know where to source a replacement for this gear. And honestly, I have no idea what search terms to use to find such a thing. Anyone have any idea what this is called? (Or better yet, have a part number??) 
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Oct 3, 2014 03:38
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Mobius posted:I have a 3DO FZ-1 with a busted CD drive. I disassembled everything and found a gear with a crack in it. Specifically, it's a gear that drives the laser assembly up and down its tracks. The crack makes the gear stick, so the laser can't move and discs can't be read. Probably not the exact term for it, but that looks like a Edit: I was close, it's a helical gear. Spiral bevel is at an angle. 8-bit Miniboss fucked around with this message at 03:46 on Oct 3, 2014 |
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Oct 3, 2014 03:41
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8-bit Miniboss posted:Probably not the exact term for it, but that looks like a Ah! I was just about to say it wasn't a bevel, but looked like it might be helical, but you beat me with the edit! Nevertheless, you got me one step closer. Thanks!
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Oct 3, 2014 03:52
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Housh posted:
A little late responding to this but here are some Famicom Disk only games: Otoky Arumana no Kiseki Monty on the Run (NOT the computer game) There are also some very memorable FDS games that aren't exactly great: Youkai Yashiki Fire Bam Gall Force Kiki Kaikai All Night Nippon Super Mario Bros. (  )Kaette Kita Mario Bros. And ones that are better on the FDS while still playable: Bio Miracle Bokutte Upa (NES and Famicom Pirate "Baby Mario" exists, but worse music) Bubble Bobble Dr. Chaos Moero Twinbee: Cinnamon Hakase wo Sukue! (Stinger on NES) Metroid (has saves and extra audio track on FDS) Akumajou Dracula (Castlevania) There are a lot of games by Squaresoft. Most all of them are loving terrible.
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Oct 3, 2014 04:16
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d0s posted:There's an arcade in Miami that has a ton of those Gals Panic/Dancing Eyes type games, coincidentally the guys who run the place are incredibly gross weirdos and the clientele is mostly "anime people" (I like some anime too but you know who I mean) man, how creepy do you have to be to get even slightly turned on by those games
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Oct 3, 2014 04:16
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rdbbb posted:man, how creepy do you have to be to get even slightly turned on by those games Sometimes a lonely salaryman just needs a pick-me-up on the way home from being forced into drinking with their superiors.
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Oct 3, 2014 04:19
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Pastry of the Year posted:Mednafen question: I spent a lot of time messing around with Mednafen today, it is not very user friendly! One required option is "Desktop", which it sounds like you've got (which will keep your desktop resolution); then you want "Fullscreen" set to 1, and then you can mess around with Scale; probably set it to "Aspect".
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Oct 3, 2014 04:20
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I lurk this thread but don't have much to offer because I ebayed all my retro stuff years ago. In fact, since the d-pad on my Logitech USB controller went out about a year ago, I haven't even played any games at all. So I browse youtube for my fix. Figured I'd share some of the channels I subscribe to that have good playthroughs. Replay Burners. Great channel with tons of games, mostly arcade, but there are some console titles here and there. I like this one the best for two reasons: 1) the runs are done by actual experts at the game, from what I can tell. Deaths and whatnot are left in for a more genuine experience. 2) They use that blended-frame technique to give the illusion of a smoother framerate. Some games really pile on the flicker effects, so this allows you to see more, at the expense of a bit of blur. YMMV on this kind of visual. They also have a secondary account (RB Video Library) that has a few bonus games. World of Longplays. They have a fuckton of stuff across all systems past and present, but a lot of older-generation stuff suffers in quality due to the 30 FPS cap. No blended frames here. Also, apparently the runs are tool-assisted when possible, which is less fun to watch, IMO. SaikyoMog. Just a dude who posts full video walkthroughs (sans commentary). I think I remember reading he's got some kind of terminal illness so he makes these to pass the time. Has lots of time-consuming runs like RPGs and whatnot. HCBailly. This is more of a Let's Play thing. While a lot of non-SA Youtube LPers are absolutely terrible, this guy isn't bad. His enthusiastic commentary might be off-putting to some, but I enjoy it. He's pretty good at explaining what's going on. Also, he does his homework on the games - lots of sidequests and secrets and stuff. All videos are in small bite-size chunks of 20 minutes or so. I think he records/uploads one every day in the morning. Seahawk0027. I watch mostly for his shmup vids, some of which are played on the highest difficulty to show off I guess. Has games in other genres as well. This run of Gradius III arcade is amazing recovery and success on the last stage on the next-to-last life, I highly recommend it.
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Oct 3, 2014 04:54
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Heran Bago posted:A little late responding to this but here are some Famicom Disk only games: Also add to the list: Fds only (and my favs) Ai Senshi Nicol Meikyuu Jiin Dababa The Goonies Different but cool: Vs Excitebike (you can actually save tracks you make without the tape drive) Ice Climber (port of vs ice climbers has level select) Green Beret (rush 'n attack but mechanics are a tad different) flyboi fucked around with this message at 05:06 on Oct 3, 2014 |
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Oct 3, 2014 05:03
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rdbbb posted:man, how creepy do you have to be to get even slightly turned on by those games They had the original with real models in it under a tent when i was a teen at the county fair. That was some hot stuff.
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Oct 3, 2014 05:16
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Ofecks posted:World of Longplays. They have a fuckton of stuff across all systems past and present, but a lot of older-generation stuff suffers in quality due to the 30 FPS cap. No blended frames here. Also, apparently the runs are tool-assisted when possible, which is less fun to watch, IMO. I've been watching these for some games I really don't have access too and I really enjoy it. No commentary so that's a plus.
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Oct 3, 2014 06:19
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d0s posted:There's an arcade in Miami that has a ton of those Gals Panic/Dancing Eyes type games, coincidentally the guys who run the place are incredibly gross weirdos and the clientele is mostly "anime people" (I like some anime too but you know who I mean) Quoting myself here because I just remembered that they removed a bunch of good shooters and fighting games to make room for some of these and when people complained on their facebook they said that the anime porn games made more money and that fighting games in particular attracted "the wrong crowd" (normal people?!) and they wanted something that would bring more ladies in (???) I thought it was a weird joke until I met the guy who runs the place and it was one of those conversations where you slowly start to realize the person you're talking to is half-retarded or autistic or something
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Oct 3, 2014 08:34
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dj_pain posted:No commentary so that's a plus. God seriously. There have been a tiny amount of narrated longplays/speedruns/etc I've liked, but 99% of the time I go without. So I guess World of Longplays is Cubex55's channel? I used to watch a lot of stuff under Cubex55's uploads, but searching for that takes me to WoL. DerSchmu is good for C64 stuff too.
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Oct 3, 2014 08:42
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d0s posted:They said that the anime porn games made more money and that fighting games in particular attracted "the wrong crowd" (normal people?!) and they wanted something that would bring more ladies in (???) Aren't the King Of Fighters games credited with a huge uptake in schoolgirls going to arcades in the mid 90s? The best explanation I've heard is that the Kyo and Iori characters were insanely popular, and girls wanted to go to the arcades to watch them "compete"? Hopefuly someone with a better understanding of the metascene can explain this? It seems like it's not that simple.
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Oct 3, 2014 08:58
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Tyma posted:Aren't the King Of Fighters games credited with a huge uptake in schoolgirls going to arcades in the mid 90s? The best explanation I've heard is that the Kyo and Iori characters were insanely popular, and girls wanted to go to the arcades to watch them "compete"? Yes, particularly in China, Taiwan etc. I think the entire explanation is "SNK draws attractive dudes". Apparently there is an enormous fanfiction/yaoi culture surrounding the series. EDIT: I don't think this applies to the USA at all though, aside from probably a very small niche. EDIT2: I read that in China specifically there are really strict regulations on certain things like yaoi manga but as the Neo-Geo is so easily bootlegged and KOF is everywhere people just started using the games as a stand-in somehow. It was a really long time ago so I'm sure I have the details confused. d0s fucked around with this message at 09:36 on Oct 3, 2014 |
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Oct 3, 2014 09:30
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Mobius posted:I have a 3DO FZ-1 with a busted CD drive. I disassembled everything and found a gear with a crack in it. Specifically, it's a gear that drives the laser assembly up and down its tracks. The crack makes the gear stick, so the laser can't move and discs can't be read. Maybe just take measurements and get somebody to 3d print a replacement? It doesn't look like it's all that complicated of a part.
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Yeah, that would be a perfect application of 3d printing. You ship this out and get it modeled and put on the thingiverse if you'd like (let me know, I've been working with a makerspace / 3d print shop for the past few weeks)
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