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Crazy Taxi might be one too yeah now that it's mentioned here, one I played a lot of years ago.

It's a special one and one from your list, I shall post some photos of it when it lands next week, it's somewhere on the Atlantic ocean at the minute!

I have a board to allow you use the LCD in that cab as a standard VGA monitor and I also have a 19in1 'horizontal' multi board which has Robotron.

I believe the board can be configured to boot directly into that game directly but I haven't really played around with it.

The cab controls might just need some re-wiring maybe? Audio should be straight forward to sort.

Artwork might be the only problem :D

Have any of you visited any cool arcades in recent years? Recently took at trip to the UK, there is a really good scene developing over there with a bunch of new London arcades after popping up in the past year and a half.

FreePlay City

£10 to get in for the day everything on Free play, early days for them but is absolutely brilliant for anyone who's into fighting games and rhythm games, have some decent shooters and drivers there too. It's currently in one big warehouse. Lots of candies and looking to see how they develop.

Gravity Wandsworth

Really neat place in the center of London. It is huge with 3 floors! Looks like they're going for a sorta modern Trocedaro by the sounds of it with bars, Restaurants, bowling, mini golf, go karting and tonnes more. Arcade wise they were all new games, could have a better selection imo with some older stuff/more videos rather than redemption. But the games they do have are really really good. ATV Slam is a deluxe motion game, really competitive and very hardcore, motion on it feels really great. As with House Of The Dead Scarlet Dawn, really super game. Some good pins and other games there too, but as I said sorta felt it was overdone with redemption a little, but hopefully they'll get more and more variety's as lots of empty space there still for more! Really worth a visit though.

Las Vegas Soho

Probably needs no introduction, cool place in the very center of London near Leicester Square. Some good games there, lots of newer dance machines and rhythm games along with some older games too like Grid and Guitar Hero.

Flip Out Croydon

Pinball club in Croydon. There are a lot of pins here, some really rare ones too like Cactus Canyon, Circuits Zoltair and all the classics like Twilight Zone, Simpsons Pinball Party, etc. Newer Stern's too, really cool club.

I checked out Cheif Coffee too, small coffee shop with Japanese Arcade and about 8 pins, mix of newer Stern's and older pins like Cactus Canyon, Monster Bash. Really great spot with some rare Japanese games like Initial D Zero, Chunithm, synchronica and more. Phone died so haven't any decent photos but lots online.

Ones in London I didn't get to see were Vega London, Heart of Gaming in Croydon and one or two others.

Arcade Club Bury

Took a trip up to Manchester too to see Arcade Club, obviously needs no introduction. I should've take more photos of the new games downstairs as they have Scarlet Dawn, Luigi's Mansion, Dancerush, Missing Impossible Super Deluxe and a few more good newer games. Old stuff speaks for itself, really enjoyed Star Wars, Flicky, Outrun Dlx, Rally X, Sega Rally, Beatmania IIDX and loads more. It's really a super arcade and probably the best in Europe.

When things die down a little with COVID I definitely recommend a trip over to London to see all it has to offer, said I'd to a write up as there are some really good arcades there again which is great to see.

@dav09 Thanks for the write up, hopefully it gets as busy over here for arcades. Still have to visit you in Limerick.

Yeah, I'm struggling to think of a better table. The layout was very good. The features (Electromagnets, "Thing" picking up ball, CPU-controlled flippers etc) were cool and well implemented. As you can imaging, it was quite complex to work on, mind you. a LOT of heavy duty electronics under the table. While it would be on my bucket list, you'd definitely notice it on your ESB bill :D

I think TZ and TOTAN are better games.

Aways thought medieval madness was a it overrated, always kind of seemed easy to me whenever I got a chance to play one

Calibrated my Aero City monitor colours

Before

After

moved to CRT thread

That's what I keep telling you. Furniture is a waste of time.

I have some white buttons coming in the post and will need to get some mounting plates for the sticks, but it seems like it'll be comfortable for SNK games with these buttons in place.

Real test will be when I get a kick harness going and if the palm space is adequate.

I was tempted to give that a go but thought it would make it look a bit too generic and not like an SNK cabinet anymore.

Finally managed to get this panel sorted - stupid me bought the wrong mounting plates! I thought they were LS-56 sticks but completely forgot I threw a pair of LS-32s into it a few years ago.

Got stung on the wrong plates too for tax, so in total I must have spent 40-50 euro getting two mounting plates sorted hah (which are only a fiver each!). Managed to find my old kick harness from the Sega Aero so that's wired up now too - just have to wait for my MiSTercade and MiSTer to arrive now.

Literally melting into the floor :(

I’m starting to look into buying a second cabinet, but the global situation is hurting shipping so Ronnie’s offerings seem thin on the ground.

If I get another cab, I’d want something with a 31KHz monitor so I can dabble in Naomi, just to try and differentiate it a bit more.

What am I looking at at a min? A Blast City?

Atomiswave SD is probably the best way to go alright with it's tri-sync. Probably the cheapest option out of the above.

To differentiate it a bit, would you not think about the second cabinet's primary function being a vertical setup? Opens up so many new games to play which don't run properly on a hori cabinet.

Can't beat a bit of Mercs running in it's proper vertical orientation, full screen!

Anybody know where I might be able to go to purchase a Sega Triforce and possible Sega Chihiro?

ukVac appears to have been down for quite some time as they attempt to upgrade the forum... I really hope that doesn't turn into another boards.ie job.

Anyway, struggling to find anywhere local(ish) where someone may have one handy!

I plan to turn my Blast City into the ultimate Sega Machine with hot-swappable Naomi 2, Triforce and Chihiro! :-P The one good thing about that particular line of arcade hardware from Sega is that the peripherals like NetDimm etc are interchangeable.

Sega Triforce is really hard to come by, I think the last place I got one was from either China or Japan for repair of a Mario Kart. Honestly, most games on the Triforce and Chihiro need unique controls i.e. drivers, shooters, etc, would you not maybe get a Taito X2 Multi, Naomi Net Dimm and maybe a Lindbergh Multi or something? I suppose it all depends on what games you want to play.

I've never bought off of Mo before myself but I know he has probably a lot of what you're after:

https://www.videotronicsuk.com/pcbs-hardware/motherboards.html?p=3

Sega Triforce on eBay now from Japan but big money - the game base doesn't seem that exciting unless I'm missing a classic in there?

+1 for a Naomi/Naomi2 with a NetDimm and a net loading setup - a lot of great titles on the Naomi

This is arcade I guess.

New shelf in the Sega Astro City.

Had a spare piece of plywood. Wasn't long enough but just moved the cashbox screw.

Why does Boards keep rotating my pics incorrectly, grrrr

Unsure how someone can break them, not a whole lot to go wrong unless the previous owner had a tinker?

If it has the original LCD, there are adapter boards to give VGA/HDMI input so you can throw anything in it

I've a couple 14 inch arcade crts too if you need one. all working with chassis and frame and don't need an ISO transformer ;)