So, what you playing at the mo? Retro Edition

krudler

Andrew76 wrote: »

Maybe Black Tiger? Weird old man at 1min 5s.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BPtn6_vhNQ

Yes! that's it, thanking you sir

brianon

krudler wrote: »

Yes! that's it, thanking you sir

Didn't this just get released this week on Capcom Arcade Cabinet ?

o1s1n

Spent a good while this evening with Shinobi X.

When you put the dodgy filmed cut scenes aside (which have their own hilarious merit anyway) and pre rendered digitized sprites, it's not actually a bad game!

CiDeRmAn

I was playing Robotron this evening courtesy of the cab, and Snoopy Tennis, courtesy of my new Game & Watch!

KeRbDoG

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

It wouldn't be sold in a state of biosless-ness, no, the original bios is here somewhere...
Don't know if it's selling yet, will let you know

Socket BIOS MVS board. Original bios I'm sure is well gone by this stage. The Unibios is an original, always meant to send it back to have it upgraded. Note the serial number doesn't match the board as I think we swapped the bios from one MVS to another. Unsure why. That spare MVS board was already sold/swapped to someone on there.

TBH, I might nab it from Cider should he not need/want it

CiDeRmAn

Retr0 got the other MVS board, plus a couple of games.
The fate of the MVS board may be in doubt, but the 111in1 cart for it will be available soon, I'll stick it in the trade forum soon.

o1s1n

Have you tried out that ps1/ps2 JAMMA adapter yet? Be really interested in hearing if you've any better luck with the thing than I did!

CiDeRmAn

Yeah, no dice here either

o1s1n

Do you get picture and no controls yeah?

Looks like a grounding fingerboard is needed so

Maybe it's something FrancoB might offer.

Andrew76

Is that one of those MGCD boards or something else again?

o1s1n

Andrew76 wrote: »

Is that one of those MGCD boards or something else again?

Tis! Pyong had the exact same issue. It's a known problem with them, but I was hoping Ciderman's cab might have some luck with it.

The ground pins are stupidly wired to extra buttons on the Playstation pad. Why? I have no idea. They basically made the thing unusable out of the box because of it.

CiDeRmAn

The idea would be great, installing ones PS2 Shmup collection to a HDD, run the games off of that with FreeMcBoot and a Network Adapter, but the fecking interface card is banjaxed from the get-go.

Thinking of doing what O1s1n has and popping the DC into the Ikeacab, would look smashing

Andrew76

o1s1n wrote: »

Tis! Pyong had the exact same issue. It's a known problem with them, but I was hoping Ciderman's cab might have some luck with it.

The ground pins are stupidly wired to extra buttons on the Playstation pad. Why? I have no idea. They basically made the thing unusable out of the box because of it.

Lol I was following his trials with the yoke on his Youtube channel. Looks like he got it working on his CRT but not sure with his cab, there was soldering involved too. Put me right off getting one though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4n-RSjscRw

I was able to connect up the PS2 to the AWSD using a Sync Strike. Just need to buy a pad hack and it's all sorted.

o1s1n

Ah yeah, that's the one alright! Looks like he had the exact same issue I have.

Handy that you have that VGA input with your monitor. Anything I want to run needs to go through the harness.

Myrddin

Andrew76 wrote: »

Lol I was following his trials with the yoke on his Youtube channel. Looks like he got it working on his CRT but not sure with his cab, there was soldering involved too. Put me right off getting one though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4n-RSjscRw

I was able to connect up the PS2 to the AWSD using a Sync Strike. Just need to buy a pad hack and it's all sorted.

Some amount of kit there in that vid, it all goes way over my head. What are all the bits n bobs?

o1s1n

Yeah, it gets seriously messy when chaining stuff together like that. My IKEA cab looks very similar when trying to hook up Jamma boards.

He has the PS2 going to the MGCD (the PCB right beside it) which is connected to a supergun (the black box)

The video is coming out of the supergun via scart, to a sync strike (thing with the bright red light), which is going to a scaler (dim red light) and then going to a SLG 3000.

Basically in that setup, the supergun is supplying the Jamma board (MGCD & PS2) with power. He's routing video from the supergun to scart, and sending it through through the above VGA video chain (sync strike/Scaler/SLG) to a LCD I'd imagine.

The Last Bandit

I'm confused as to what he is trying to achieve with the above ?

o1s1n

It's just a supergun setup. All he's trying to achieve is to run a 'jamma board' on an LCD tv with proper scale and scanlines.

What makes it confusing are the inputs and outputs.

In - MGCD & PS2 -> pretty much just the equivalent of a JAMMA board.

Out - Sync Strike/Scaler/SLG3000 -> makes arcade boards or any other low res game look nice on an LCD. The equivalent of a scart cable.

The Last Bandit

ffs just plug the PS2 into the LCD and be done with it

Or buy a PS3 and use the backward compatibili.. .. oh wait .... never mind....

o1s1n

Well the only reason the PS2 is hooked up to the supergun is to test out to see if the MGCD works. I'm sure that isn't how he plays his PS2 games.

Although knowing Pyong, maybe it is

The Last Bandit

o1s1n wrote: »

Well the only reason the PS2 is hooked up to the supergun is to test out to see if the MGCD works.

Ah a Jamma loopback sort of thing make more sense alright

o1s1n

Yeah, I did something similar with my one to test out the controls. When you set it all up you can't help but have a 'wtf is this **** I've just created?!' moment

Now that I think about it, the controls worked grand via the MGCD through the supergun.

Andrew76

Yeah as o1s1n say's he just testing out the MGCD on a supergun because he initially didn't work on the cab.

The display in that video is actually a Dell CRT monitor (VGA) rather than an LCD, but same principle in that you need the Sync Strike and scaler. Presumably the SLG is an optional extra as the Dell would already have scanlines I would've thought.

o1s1n

Doesn't the higher resolution of a PC monitor make the scanlines a lot smaller? Maybe that's the reason for the SLG.

Andrew76

o1s1n wrote: »

Doesn't the higher resolution of a PC monitor make the scanlines a lot smaller? Maybe that's the reason for the SLG.

Aye that's probably the reason alright.

Sitting here gawking at the scanlines from Raiden, fecking gorgeous.

o1s1n

Still haven't been out to Bray to pick up my Raiden PCB yet! Along with all the other nice bits out there.

When I do, I might use that Amiga monitor I picked up a while back as a vertical shmup display until I figure out another solution. Lovely little monitor so it is.

murphyebass

Crush roller on ngpc. More I play this the more I like it.



Ps.. Battery life on ngpc is just ridiculous!

The Last Bandit

Still playing The Witcher, awesome rgp

MrVestek

o1s1n wrote: »

Still haven't been out to Bray to pick up my Raiden PCB yet! Along with all the other nice bits out there.

When I do, I might use that Amiga monitor I picked up a while back as a vertical shmup display until I figure out another solution. Lovely little monitor so it is.

I'm in Dun Laoghaire myself... feel free to drop in for a beer on your way back!

Retropolis

murphyebass wrote: »

Crush roller on ngpc. More I play this the more I like it.



Ps.. Battery life on ngpc is just ridiculous!

Nice game crush roller, about the battery life if your not playing it outside, I recommend you pick up a wii battery charger with a USB cable with the little yellow tip, it will fit in the ngp/ngpc/and gbp it won't charge it but will act as a ac adapter.

And not to derail the thread I'm playing Sonic 1, can't go wrong with that game at all