So what other Arcade Stuff you guys have?

[sploit]

I have,

SegaSonic The Hedgehog Rev. A (not an original ROM board - conversion board,was originally spiderman), this came with a track ball harness and that was it, the motherboard for this was fine and I bought 3 happ track balls for it and six arcade buttons then sourced some help to set it all up (as I am not technical), once all the buttons and trackballs were wired up, I got my grandad to build me a wooden panel to encase the buttons and trackballs.

That was my first arcade purchase and I did not know about conversion boards, as I thought I was purchasing an original.

SegaSonic The Hedgehog Rev. C (original ROM board and original track ball panel) - the suicide battery is modded so it has 2 lithium cels meaning that one can be taken out and replaced whilst the other is left in, so power to the sucide battery never cuts out (I bought it like that). The motherboard that came with this was not working.

Currently the Rev. C ROM board has been placed onto the working motherboard from the other one and is running the custom panel that is set up on that motherboard. The original panel I got later is not currently in use.

I also have a SEGA Model 2B motherboard and 2 ROM boards for that.

The first ROM board is again a Conversion one (I knew better this time, but got tricked at the time, so again I thought I was buying an original. This is a Sonic The Fighters Board.

Unhappy with this, I then bought an Original one. I sent the Conversion one away so that a hack could be installed in order to previously unplayable characters become playable.

I have a SEGA MegaPlay Motherboard with a Sonic 2 cartridge. And finally, I have Sonic 1 and 2 cartridges for the SEGA MegaTech, but do not have the motherboard for this.

In case it wasn't obvious from the above, Sonic is my favourite game series ;D

I really want to get the Sonic 1 MegaPlay cartridge and the SEGA MegaTech Motherboard

[WukaChopSuey]

I've got a broken NeoGeo MVS board... Somewhere, I really must find that and mend it.
That conversion board sounds interesting, can you tell me more about it?

[MIK]

Official Audio recording on cassette of OutRun 1986 music that came with the Commodore 64 floppy release I bought. That did me proud for years until it finally released on Sega Saturn in 1996!

Would of had Power Drift soiund track. I took the Super Woofer down the arcades to record some action but the Head Phone socket was shagged.

[Mr Needlemouse]

Buying an arcade cab is always something I've wanted to do since I was about 8 and first went in to an arcade. Sadly, I'm not exactly technically minded (I don't really understand what JAMMA is and if I can plug different arcade ROMs into it) so until I read-up, get well again and get my own place again, this dream will have to remain as such.

[NeoGeoNinja]

SORRY IN ADVANCE SPLOIT...
for going slightly off topic, but like MrNM, I too (as have many here I imagine) have always been around the arcade scene since a young age, as I grew up in a Coastal town and arcades, piers etc were aplenty. A real kids playground! Needless to say, I always have and always will love arcades and arcade games.

However, even all these years later as an adult, the allure of an arcade cab has never hit me. I don't know why? Maybe it was my age. I certainly wasn't hanging around arcades as early as 8, but I certainly hit them hard in my early teens - playing all the Capcom, SNK, Namco & SEGA titles my pocket money could afford. I think, the key was, I had a PS1 and Saturn not all that long (a year or so) after my love affair with Arcades began, and we always used to get (what I considered) really amazing conversions of those games at home... the likes of Xmen COTA, SFAlpha, VF2, SoulEdge, CyberSled etc - so my arcade thirst was always quenched.

The byproduct of this though was I always preferred playing my games with a pad. I always remember playing the likes of XMvsSF and thinking "when this finally comes out on PS1 or Saturn, I'll be miles better at it because I can use a pad!". Similarly, when I played other PPL at the arcade, I used to comment (like a w@nker!!) that if we were playing this on a console, I'd be much better with a pad. I actually wished at one point that the respective Arcade cabs had pad ports for Saturn & PS1 pads built in! (interestingly, Namco actually did this with Tekken 5, for PS controllers!!).

Anyway, what I'm trying to say is, that although I love arcade games and indeed, visiting and playing arcade games, it was the likes of Saturn & PS1 that made me actually prefer playing those games at home, on a console, with a pad, in my living room and, tbh, the idea of having 'my own' arcade cab has never really entered my mind on a serious level vs the fantasy conversations such as "if you could have any 5 arcade cabs?" etc.

SO, YEAH...
I don't have any arcade stuff I'm afraid. I suppose the nearest related item would be my AES as it shares the same architecture as the MVS

[Tripredacus]

The only arcade item I have is an After Burner manual.

I had owned a marquee for a redemption game called Meltdown. It turned out to be very rare. In my research only 3 machines still existed. One was restored and can be found online. Another one is in the hands of a collector in Washington. The other is incomplete and I don't know who owns it. The other 47 (only 50 were produced) were destroyed by the manufacturer. The guy from WA's machine was complete except for the marquee, so I sold him mine. He then later did a repro marquee and mailed it to me for free.

The only other item I've ever owned was an "Any" coin mech, which is a custom product designed to accept any size or weight coins or tokens. I had won it as a prize for getting the highest score in Pengo for a competition. I later gave it to a co-worker as a wedding present.

[sploit]

Jan 11, 2013 1:33:33 GMT WukaChopSuey said:

I've got a broken NeoGeo MVS board... Somewhere, I really must find that and mend it.
That conversion board sounds interesting, can you tell me more about it?

What would you like to know?

[WukaChopSuey]

Just wondering how they do a conversion, I don't know much about arcade cabinets and I've never heard of a conversion being done before.

[sploit]

I do not have any cabinets myself, just the PCB's from inside of a couple.

Conversions are simply where they take one game, and change the chips on the ROM board (or burn new data onto the existing ones) in order to make it become another game, so a game running off a certain motherboard, could have its rom board converted into another game that uses the same one. Sometimes they were done as official upgardes but many conversions are done to make a common game into a less common one (purely to play the less common games, or in the cases of some people - to sell them for more). As was the case of my first Sonic one. I learnt the hard way about this, as given that it was not an official conversion it meant although my board was all made from original SEGA parts etc. the game itself was not technically original . In the end I got an original ROM board of that game.

The ROM boards are like the actual games and the Motherboards are like the consoles, so you can also switch out one original ROM board for another original one too, like putting in a different cartridge. But converting a ROM board, is kinda like, getting a game on CD and then going, ohh I'm gonna re-write this CD and put a different game on instead.

Thats about the best I can explain it as I am not super knowledgeable about the technical side of it myself. I just learnt a few things after collecting a couple of arcade items over the past couple of years.

As stated before I don't have an actual arcade cabinet. I run my arcade boards through a Supergun - a little interface device that connects to the arcade boards (using the whole PCB like one giant cartridge), and has two controller ports coming off it for (games pads to be placed into), it has a coin/credit button on, a power switch, a power lead/supply and has a scart lead running from it.

I cannot run my Sonic Fighters board through this though as it is not a standard JAMMA board and also it cannot be used with normal TV's, so I've been advised that I'll need a cabinet for it.

[chapddr]

I'm a proud owner of a sega naomi cabinet



It's a pc (Mame and SSF4AE steam) cabinet. I love arcade cabinets but I only have room for one (I saw a crazy taxi cabinet a few months ago, almost bought it until I realised that it won't fit in my room.)

[MIK]

chapddr, wow that is gaming heaven right there! Loving the screen size and one cool cab all round.

[chapddr]

Haha, thanks. It was quite a bargain but it was just the cabinet with monitor. Someone made the control panel for me and I bought a pc from a friend. But still, totally worth the money. ( 330 euro total ) Sadly, the monitor is sort of dying. The monitor made a huge bang yesterday and then the screen was zoomed in. I fixed it with the horizontal en vertical width settings. Let's just hope this won't happen again. ( New monitor can be expensive as hell )

I'm still waiting for a new marquee and instruction strip ( The glass above the control panel ) and the cabinet is still missing a lamp. (TL? Dutch name for the lamp that I need)

[FuturePrimitive]

I'm a proud owner of a sega naomi cabinet

...The things I would do to that sexy cabinet. ;D

[chapddr]

www.arcadeotaku.com <- go get one? Just sell your body for a few weeks and you can buy a cabinet!

[FuturePrimitive]

<- go get one? Just sell your body for a few weeks and you can buy a cabinet!

Now the question is... What would I be willing to do for a candy cab?

...Unspeakable things.