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General Arcade & Retro Chat' Special Championship Edition

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    #872
    beejee
    Registered Users Posts: 1,787 ✭✭✭beejee


    Yeah it's a cool cabinet, "don't enter the house alone!". There's a house dead 2 right next to it, standard upright but bloody massive in person, weighs 500 ton


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    #873
    Retr0gamer
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    Cake of Tremendous Power wrote: »
    Great writeup here on what potentially goes into translating a games text. Earthbound was a complete pig it seems.

    Apparently Seiken Densetsu 3 was even worse as the entire script was encrypted in a way to try and squeeze as much memory as possible out of the game. the fan translator said it was an absolute nightmare. Amazing that M2 probably went through that process to translate the game for a retro collection when the reason Square wouldn't release it as a full game for years was that it would cost too much to hack the encryption.
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    #874
    Jack burton
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    beejee wrote: »
    Yeah it's a cool cabinet, "don't enter the house alone!". There's a house dead 2 right next to it, standard upright but bloody massive in person, weighs 500 ton

    Yeah it's a hefty one alright. 25 inch monitor in it I think?

    My favourite of the HODs really. That sit-down cab is probably the best version of it to hit the arcade


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    #875
    o1s1n
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    Master of the Universe


    They still had a sit down deluxe HOTD2 in Bray bowl the last time I was there.

    Only bad thing about them really is, with the rear projection screens in them, they're mostly all unplayable at this stage. :(


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    #876
    DaveyDave
    Registered Users Posts: 6,190 ✭✭✭DaveyDave


    What kind of money would you be looking at for a small cab, either HotD 1 or 2? (Can't remember if I've asked this before...)


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    #877
    beejee
    Registered Users Posts: 1,787 ✭✭✭beejee


    DaveyDave wrote: »
    What kind of money would you be looking at for a small cab, either HotD 1 or 2? (Can't remember if I've asked this before...)

    Problem is rapidly becoming not " how much" but "how"!

    Been on the lookout for a hotd cabinet for a couple years with no joy, getting really scarce now. Problem is solved at last. Have yet to see a virtua cop, even rarer, in my experience so far


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    #878
    Kylo Ren
    Registered Users Posts: 10,364 ✭✭✭✭Kylo Ren


    Any of ye gents able to point me in the direction of the best cable to get for a PS2 on a modern TV? I have scart but no component input on it.


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    #879
    CosmicSmash
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    Kylo Ren wrote: »
    Any of ye gents able to point me in the direction of the best cable to get for a PS2 on a modern TV? I have scart but no component input on it.

    You can get PS2 HDMI adapters now, that'd be your least expensive option.


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    #880
    CosmicSmash
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    It looks like Ikaruga is going to get another physical release. I'm looking forward to this one.

    https://twitter.com/nicalis/status/1139563194387767297


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    #881
    o1s1n
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    Master of the Universe


    CosmicSmash wrote: »
    It looks like Ikaruga is going to get another physical release. I'm looking forward to this one.

    https://twitter.com/nicalis/status/1139563194387767297

    The Switch needs some kind of Tate mode stand, would be a great little console for shmups.


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    #882
    Tom Mann Centuria
    Registered Users Posts: 10,914 ✭✭✭✭Tom Mann Centuria


    I'm a huge fan of the Spectrum and a big fan of Mr. Do! So this is quite exciting news.

    There's an absolutely brilliant version just been released. The music is fantastic on the 128k version. Not charging for their remake either.

    https://twitter.com/MarkRJones1970/status/1139642477781164037?s=20

    Mark Jones was an artist at Ocean bitd, and hails from the rose of the shires Northamptonshire.

    Oh well, give me an easy life and a peaceful death.



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    #883
    RasTa
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    Never seen this before, mate working over at E3.

    Might be hard to fit through the front door.

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    #884
    sniper_samurai
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    RasTa wrote: »
    Never seen this before, mate working over at E3.

    Might be hard to fit through the front door.

    e431c358-c1d7-4cb9-bf53-49ad25509fd9.jpg

    That giant 60" Arcade 1up MSH cab is ridiculous.

    They're releasing a home cab with MSH, X-men: COTA and Punisher.

    They're also doing a 4 player cab for TMNT 1&3.


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    #885
    CosmicSmash
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    o1s1n wrote: »
    The Switch needs some kind of Tate mode stand, would be a great little console for shmups.

    There's always the Flip Grip. I don't have one myself but I heard they're very good.


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    https://www.fangamer.com/products/flip-grip


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    #886
    CiDeRmAn
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    o1s1n wrote: »
    The Switch needs some kind of Tate mode stand, would be a great little console for shmups.

    I got one of these a few months ago.
    The Flip Grip for the Switch.
    A nice little holder that lets you play Tate mode games either in the hand or with a card as a stand so you can play with your arcade stick or similar.
    Kickstarter Flip-Grip

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    #887
    Andrew76
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    o1s1n wrote: »
    The Switch needs some kind of Tate mode stand, would be a great little console for shmups.

    Just hook it up to something you can rotate. ;)

    But yeah it has a decent library of shmups these days, grand little machine for them.


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    #888
    DaveyDave
    Registered Users Posts: 6,190 ✭✭✭DaveyDave


    Might be a long shot here but there was a shooter in the M2 Complete Works documentary that I'm trying to suss out. You control a ship and it's in the style of Space Harrier perspective. I think it's the Mega Drive generation...


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    #889
    eddhorse
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    DaveyDave wrote: »
    Might be a long shot here but there was a shooter in the M2 Complete Works documentary that I'm trying to suss out. You control a ship and it's in the style of Space Harrier perspective. I think it's the Mega Drive generation...

    Do you have a screenshot or a minute of the video?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jc5DlOkOcU4


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    #890
    CiDeRmAn
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    Think it might be this
    Galaxy Force II, remade for the 3DS by M2 as part of the Sega Ages 3D series, a conversion of the arcade original.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4J1qIGT8rw


    This is the original Megadrive version
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BB8Bc1BhudE


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    #891
    o1s1n
    Registered Users Posts: 34,446 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    Cheers lads! Didn't know that flip grip existed, will pick one up.
    Andrew76 wrote: »
    Just hook it up to something you can rotate. ;)

    But yeah it has a decent library of shmups these days, grand little machine for them.

    Attach a Joy con to each side of a rotated PVM? Nothing can go wrong :pac:


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    #892
    Kylo Ren
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    CosmicSmash wrote: »
    You can get PS2 HDMI adapters now, that'd be your least expensive option.

    Excellent. Do you know of any in particular or does it matter?

    I ordered a cheap 5 quid PS2 scart cable on eBay to test out anyway.


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    #893
    DaveyDave
    Registered Users Posts: 6,190 ✭✭✭DaveyDave


    CiDeRmAn wrote: »
    Think it might be this
    Galaxy Force II, remade for the 3DS by M2 as part of the Sega Ages 3D series, a conversion of the arcade original.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4J1qIGT8rw


    This is the original Megadrive version
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BB8Bc1BhudE

    That's the one! It was late last night so didn't have a chance to scrub through an hours worth of video :D


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    #894
    CiDeRmAn
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    o1s1n wrote: »
    Attach a Joy con to each side of a rotated PVM? Nothing can go wrong :pac:

    Maybe a rotatable monitor,
    https://www.adverts.ie/monitors/hp-compaq-la2205wg-lcd-monitor-22-series/16291248


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    #895
    Inviere
    Registered Users Posts: 7,471 ✭✭✭Inviere


    Retro Computers/Consoles Repair/Restoration List



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    #896
    CiDeRmAn
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    Nor retro but certainly arcade,
    Radirgy Swag is out on Switch, from the Japanese eShop.
    Cost me about €16 or so.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9XDJoLqkQU


    Only thing is the borders on the left and right are a little big, particularly in portable mode, and I don't see a Tate mode, but then I don't read japanese!
    Might take a few screen shots and run it through Google Translate!


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    #897
    Retr0gamer
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    Didn't like Radirgy on the Dreamcast so not sure about that game.
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    #898
    CiDeRmAn
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    Retr0gamer wrote: »
    Didn't like Radirgy on the Dreamcast so not sure about that game.

    I'm hoping it is a good sign, maybe we'll see some more Shmups making their way to the format, hoping for Cave to make an appearance.

    Who knows....

    Maybe Under Defeat... ;)


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    #899
    Retr0gamer
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    Are Cave still around? I remember they were under severe financial pressure and haven't seen any other steam ports of their games in a while.
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    #900
    Shapey Fiend
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    Just looking at their wiki they'd 158 employees in 2012. That seems like an awful lot for such a niche genre.


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    #901
    Retr0gamer
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    Shapey Fiend wrote: »
    Just looking at their wiki they'd 158 employees in 2012. That seems like an awful lot for such a niche genre.

    They did a lot of mobile games then and ramped up that division. I think they were also still supporting Shin Megami Tensei: Imagine at that time which was a MMO.
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