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Made a "small" tutorial video on setting up a rasberryPi solution to work with analogue controls (pots) ..and CRT, in an Outrun cab. should work with any driver cab that uses analogue controls too (I'll try this in a chase HQ next which uses an opto encoder instead) . Doesn't handle output (shaker motors, lights or force feedback ) but it's quite a serviceable solution if you're stuck with a dead cab and have the parts lying around . It's a rather simple setup but I haven't found it documented (or only partially) when I was going through my Turbo outrun restoration so I thought I'd do a video on it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jro5c-W9SM

Did the same type of interface with a pc and a "uhid" control interface to a namco driving cab. Like your set up Ollie, the uhid has no force feed back but that's fine as one side of the cab has a spring centering wheel and no ffb motor.

No matter how good a driving game is you will eventually get tired of it and having literally every arcade driving game available at home in a cab was the stuff of dreams as a kid.

There's a lad selling repro Jaleco Pony iii ashrays holders over on AO, I've never seen anyone repro them before and have been after one for years.

Recently got a repro one for my SNK cabinet and it really finishes it off visually.

The catch? $160 a pop, before postage! :eek:

Part of me is screaming 'this is your only chance to finish off this cabinet!' whereas the other part is screaming 'you don't even **** smoke!!'

Interesting thing I saw posted over on AO.

Neo Geo SC19 cabinets cost an absolute arm and a leg, but if you're interested in a design a Chinese company is now making a repro.

LCD and looks a little too modern for my tastes, but really interesting to see a classic design being remade.

I'd imagine the real deal is definitely over 4k now, starting to approach pinball machine money.

Wonder what these would come in at after shipping and tax from China?

Folks, an idea I long thought about was doing some sort of an arcade show/ event for a weekend here. I know it was mentioned on here before by a few different people in a few different shapes and forms over the years. I think a sort of format that would make sense to me is:

Hosting it at Level Up, using the new function room for lots of additional games. Bringing in rare games and big rare DLX games like Afterburner DLX, Outrun DLX, Tron, Tempest, Donkey Kong, 3 or 4 newer Jap games to have as many as possible for the event. Rare pinballs? Maybe having aiming to bring in 30+ games just for this on top of the other 50 or so already there. What would you like to see game wise?

Having all games on free play in the whole venue. Set entry fee in.

Having tournaments/ competitions throughout the weekend. I.e. Street Fighter, Tekken 7, etc. Pinball competition? (League would be finished for the year by the time it would probably happen). Prizes for the winners.

High score challenges on certain games, i.e. prizes for the winners.

Have a retro console area setup for the likes of SNES, NES, 2600, Etc.

Maybe bringing in some special guests for it that could perform something interesting? I.e. speedrunners, etc.

Would people be willing to travel to this/interested in attending this sort of thing? I would reckon it would cost a lot of money to run this, so to break even probably well over 100 tickets would have to be sold (if they were lets say somewhere around 20 quid each). Although a lower budget version might be possible to achieve if it was scaled back. It wouldn't be a big money spinner but it wouldn't really be about that, any additional money would probably be used to rent some more interesting cabinets for the event.

It's something I always thought would be neat, I know a few people previously talked about doing something similar but they've never happened. I suppose this is just gauging interest for something like this rather than "this is definitely going to happen" sort of thing. It might be a non-runner as it wouldn't be just up to me too and would need a lot of thought. But would you be interested? Any ideas? Good Idea/ bad idea?

+1 for another attendee here alright, would really love if something like this was on in Ireland and I'd be dragging quite a few people with me too!

Thanks folks, I know a lot of time/effort/money/planning would need to go into this so, I'm just scoping it out for the minute and gauging interest. I've seen similar events run in other countries (much larger countries however) but always thought it might be something that would be nice if one happened here, and I think I could organize some really cool games to be there.

Abominations of arcade cabs in my work office as part of 'Return to Office' events for those who weren't on site over the pox.

Took one look, saw LCDs, Pandora Boxes...well, I couldn't see anyone renting out cabs having CRTs. Too expensive to maintain.

So this fix didn't last long and I had 'the fear' of the DinoKing screen getting some image burn-in if the kids left the cab on without selecting a game as it would stay on the old 161-in-1 menu. Well no more! A kind soul showed how to easily use an Adafruit Trinket board to do the same job of holding the start button during power on. Some work later, direct into the PICKnMIX feature of the UniBios v4 with a 161-in-1 cart :)

Was in Token last night and the machines are in even worse condition than I remember.

Or maybe I notice more since getting my own cabinet.

For started, All the controls are unresponsive but also, loads of machines have had their CRTs replaced with LCDs and those with CRTs aren’t ever calibrated properly.

Point Blank - Brightness too high.

Mario Kart - One cab has screen off center.

Street Fighter - Colours all wrong

Loads of others are off center, or need some adjustment.

They also no longer sell lots of interesting beers, just whatever is owned by Heineken.

I guess it’s more about restaurant now, but we ended up giving away the last of our tokens and I won’t be back.

The moment you remove a CRT from a machine it ceases to be an arcade machine IMO. I wouldn't bother playing anything like that either.

A good tech with a practical approach to pins and cabs could do wonders for the place. Last time I was there the pins were in a sorry state or affairs

To be honest I can understand why places put LCDs into machines in a commercial environment. It's not ideal but saves time, money and esb so I can understand it.

But LCDS with original boards causes a good bit of lag right? If they are going to go that route it's probably worthwhile to take out all the original boards and replace the innards with mame and run the CRT emulators for the LCDs. Go all in.

4 player HOT ROD !!! ...i need it .although sys24 is a bugger and its massive ,food to see one surviving !

very nice

I reckon you could make that from a coat hanger and a roll of tinfoil.

Hahaha! I'm going to have to give that a go for a laugh now at some point. 😁

Years ago I bought a headphone jack adapter from a guy who was making them on Arcade Otaku. Has a cable that runs off the jamma edge, up into a blank button hole and you can connect up a 3.5mm pair of headphones.

That's the later one he made that auto detects the headphones (my other cab has his earlier version and you've to hit a manual switch to go between both)

The other connector is more interesting. The Last Bandit made that one up, it's so you can connect a Sega Saturn stick for player three.

On the other side there's a harness that connects up to the player 3 pins on arcade PCBs. Used to have it running with my FixEight and Mercs boards if I remember correctly!

Not for a very long time but it was used alright back when I had that three arcade setup in Bray. It was left connected up to my FixEight board.

Have me interested in trying it out again now, I'd completely forgotten it was there. Wonder is there some way of getting it hooked up to a DE10?

Ah yes! I remember now, he really did some great work. Also made those Negatron -5v adapters and the little voltage meters too.

I did the mental thing and went ahead and ordered one of those Pony III ashtray holders. :eek:

To be fair to the guy selling them, they actually look really well fabricated and he's made the mount for them too.

Haha!

Absolutely crazy to see both the MV25TA and SC25-4 in the same photo.

The SC25-4 is an incredibly rare 25 inch monitor version of the (already rare-ish) and mega popular/expensive SC19.

Don't even get me started though on how rare the MV25TA is. I remember a few years back when they only theoretically existed in flier pictures...!

I must grab a load of larger bags so!

@Mucashinto - sitting at an authentic cabinet is a great experience, but CRT and console with good cables is a similar experience.