I saw someone mentioned on YouTube today that the Dreamcast Divers CRT console unit was a '7000 dollar console' and a lad replying saying he offered 5000 dollars to a shop in Japan who had one but they wouldn't sell it.
Thought they were just making shite up so had a look on eBay.
The only ones listed now are between 18,000 and 25,000 dollars.
Anything that's a bit desirable or out there that doesn't turn up too often seems to be going for insane cash. Would love to have a chat with someone who's spent that kinda money to get their take on it.
I see Ronnie is happily selling run of the mill non rare cabinets for in and around 2 grand these days and people are buying them. Ive seen folks comment on 3000 euro+ SNK cabinets saying what a good deal they are. The going rate in the US seems to be utterly mad. Was talking to a lad with a load of Jaleco Pony Tables over there and he was looking for 5,000 a piece.
So yep, the world has gone mad!
Four and a half grand....the world has gone mad
Would love to buy and just have my wife and child come down to it one morning instead of the kitchen table.
Sega Aero Table for sale over on Arcade Otaku in Germany. Has the speaker pod and marquee holder too.
It's ridiculously expensive at 4,500 euro, totally impractical to play games on but my god do I wish I had the money and space for it.
Well that flew under the radar, hadn't heard of it at all!
They've a few candy cabinets in the video:
Looks like a Blast City, Astro, Jaleco Pony IV and an Aero.
Anyone going to BaseArcade in Belfast this December? Tickets on sale now https://basearcade.com/#tickets
I'm heading up with a mate for the afternoon on Saturday 2nd so maybe see some of you there!
I did t have a candy cab when I visited Japan so the only coin I held on to was a 500¥ but I have been meaning to get some of those fake steel coins Kerbdog mentioned.
I picked up a bunch of 100yen 'MVS' like coins from AliExpress for that coin mech experiance :)
Just needed the magnet from the coin mech to be removed as the fake coins are steel
Do any of you guys use the coin mechs in your candy cabinets?
I've never really bothered over the years, just had all my PCBs on freeplay. After spending a bit of time dropping 100 yen coins into machines though I'd forgotten how enjoyable it was as part of the experience. Really makes you appreciate each individual credit.
Brought home 50 X 100 yen coins and changed the dip settings on my vertical PCBs installed at the moment back to running on coins.
First time I've actually tried the coin mech since owning my Pony actually believe it or not, works perfectly.
Something really nice about using coins that I actually picked up in Japan. Finally a decent use for my Taito Station bucket too. Wish I'd bought twice as many though!
Excellent! Amazing what a cap kit can do. Shame some of our bigger candy cabinet sellers don't offer it as a service before cabinets are shipped out.
I saw Ronnie list a Blast today for almost 2k. :eek:
Yeah the screen still looks brand new.
I think I paid about €35-45 VAT/Fees for my last chassis repair in November 2022(that was on the way back from the UK to me). Repair itself was £75 sterling+£18 shipping. That was all with DPD, not An Post. Cant remember what I paid to send it over with DPD, but it wasn't very cheap.
what's the process on the postage and customs sending to gunblade now? Did you have to pay customs on the way over and back? An post or UPS
Remember the good old days of sending boxes over and back to him with parcel motel
It probably auto discharges but worth doing the discharge procedure anyway
No worries! It's actually a lot simpler than you'd think. Main thing I found after discharging was just to make sure you take lots of photos as you disconnect all the wiring so you know where to put it back and make sure to note the orientation of connectors too if any have more than one pin.
Ah cool, I'll get in touch with him!
Thanks man, I'll take you up on that when the time comes. I've never removed a chassis before so need to do some research!
Have you removed a chassis before?
If you want a lend of my HV probe to discharge it let me know.
Sega Aero city. Full metal beast of a machine, weighs about 120kg. It's the 80s version of your blast :D
Had one for a while myself, still regret selling it!
How's your blast monitor looking these days after he worked on it? I think he did the service on my Pony in 2013, image still looks like it just rolled out of th factory.
I can't recommend gunblade over on UkVac enough for chassis repair by the way... dude does top quality work and helped me to revive the CRT in my Blast City for a fairly reasonable price all things considered. He has easily breathed another 20 years or so of life into my machine.
What machine is that out of curiosity? I see the Sega logo but don't recognise it as a New Net or Blast City but it looks candy shaped.
going to need a chassis recap. Top is first power in. Bottom after 10 - 20 mins.
I see the same person has a Naomi driver up too for a little cheaper.
Yeah it's pricey but at the same time with the way things have gone price wise, its hard to know what's a good/bad deal anymore!
Someone just listed a Neo Geo SC19 over on arcade otaku this morning, 3,100 euro. I actually said to myself 'woah, that's a good deal!' - and then realised the utter madness of my statement 😂
I see a Naomi stand up cab on adverts; https://www.adverts.ie/arcade-retro/arcade/31538909
Expensive but nice project, could be cut down to a sitdown cab - keep it a Naomi system or MiSTer/Pi/other.
Its a Namco System 21 machine/board for anyone interested;
Guess no one wants a lump of a machine, the one on adverts is the more compact version though. Pity the CRT was swapped for a flatscreen (thats too small)
Wow that's a bit of a steal.
Have to say, ads like that kill me. The amount of great deals I've seen over the years, if I'd had somewhere to actually put the things I'd probably have a full arcade at this point!
Saw this on Adverts, a very cheap €250 Namco Air Combat can.
It's one of my favourite games on the PS1 as well.
But I've zero room for this in my home, so I can't buy it :(
http://www.adverts.ie/31529399
Well that's a really smart idea! Will give that a go instead first, thanks.
Those magnetic strips used with the robot vacuums work just as well and a lot easier to get hold of.
Has anyone seen this guy over on arcade-projects making high quality home made convergence strips?
They're only a dollar each, can get a ten pack for ten dollars. Fairly cheap.
Was thinking about getting some and fine tuning the edges of my monitors. Anyone interested in a bit of a group order maybe to save on ye olde postage from the US? Would be super handy for tweaking CRT TVs too.
Yep it seems they way. I know you could probably pick up the Mini Cute, Sc19 and a repro Vewlix for the price of that shipped, I don't understand it either but from my last discussions with container distributors they blamed a huge home collector marking spawning in Japan when arcades closed during covid for nearly 2 years.
