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Opium

2015-04-30 10:13:46 am

like, arcade board as in the kind you install in a coin-op arcade machine?

DJGrenola

2015-04-30 10:14:26 am

yeah

SF2 in the arcades was my life for a good few years and I sort of want the memento

Opium

2015-04-30 10:15:18 am

Do you have an arcade machine to install it in?

DJGrenola

2015-04-30 10:16:19 am

there are a few on ebay going for a few hundred dollars, they're somewhat common I guess, every time I look there are one or two available

no, I don't, but you don't need one, there are solutions to hook them up to controllers / TVs / monitors (although actually building a cabinet would be another potential project)

Opium

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Opium: 2015-04-30 10:18:35 am

2015-04-30 10:17:39 am

If you shell out a few hundred dollars for one then I would hope that you actually use it to play. It's a cool momento but it almost seems a crime to just shelve it.

Googling how to use them now. I thought you had to have the arcade machine.

DJGrenola

2015-04-30 10:18:49 am

there were TV interfaces for arcade boards way back in the day as well, they used to be called "superguns" for some reason

opium yeah I guess I just sort of want to secure one so I know I have it

they're also kind of a good investment in a way I guess because they're only going to get more rare going forward

DJGrenola

2015-04-30 10:21:16 am

but they expire! lots of capcom hardware self-destructs (loses its decryption keys) when its onboard battery runs out!

so you do have to look after them, although there's a guy now who claims to have completely broken the security on the capcom CPS-1 'B' chips so maybe dead boards will soon be resurrectable

Opium

2015-04-30 10:22:10 am

I would love to play the arcade version of Rastan.

DJGrenola

2015-04-30 10:22:41 am

I remember that game, I think I played the megadrive / genesis or maybe the C64 port

Opium

2015-04-30 10:27:13 am

I loved it in the arcade, but it was expensive. Deaths came often. I could never afford to play too far into the game.

ryu

2015-04-30 10:57:15 am

Superguns are still around. I bought one (new) just this january.

DJGrenola

2015-04-30 10:58:26 am

ooh ooh, what boards do you have?

Quietus

2015-04-30 10:59:14 am

Super Secret Area - Dead Ahead!

DJ, if you're into the older Street Fighter 2 stuff, have you ever watched the origins videos? I think the original guy's videos are down, but this user has them. They were a great watch. aiwebs_004

ryu

2015-04-30 11:01:25 am

Quote from DJGrenola:

ooh ooh, what boards do you have?

a neo geo mvs motherboard, and a blazing star cartridge

http://marcade.org/files_2/mvsplushas.jpg
http://marcade.org/files_2/blazstar.jpg

Opium

2015-04-30 11:03:38 am

Ghouls and Ghosts arcade version would be the one I would want. Fuck Rastan.

DJGrenola

2015-04-30 11:16:58 am

ryu that's awesome ... looks a lot like the one they have at the centre for computing history here

http://chexum.co.uk/pics/314_cfch_IMG_3625.jpg

quietus no I've never seen those, I'll have a look, thanks