39 in 1 Jamma

[atari_overlord]

Just wondering if anyone has any experience with one of these boards. How do they play? Where is the best place to purchase one for a reasonable price? I did a search and nothing came up so sorry if this has been covered before.

[Hammy]

they are the equivelant of a power joy 2 mega on a jamma board (all the games are nes games)

avoid at all costs!

[atari_overlord]

Thanks for the fast response. That is kind of what I was worried about. It sounded a little too good to be true. Does anyone know of any other descent multi game options. I have no interest in using mame.

[Flack]

they are the equivelant of a power joy 2 mega on a jamma board (all the games are nes games)

avoid at all costs!

Are you sure? I played a couple of the 4-in-1 boards and some other boards at a local auction and they all looked and played pretty close to the originals. I assumed they were MAME on a board. Anyone else have any information about these?

[DogP]

Most are emulation boards, where it emulates the actual arcade game. The problem is the controls, as a lot of times 4 and 8 way games are mixed, which makes 4 way games hard to play, since the cabinet needs 8 way sticks.

There are also the crappy JAMMA NES emulation things, but those don't pop up very often, and it's really obvious if you look at a screenshot.

DogP

[MagicMajenta]

You can get it from Cosmicco Amusemet

http://home.netvigator.com/~cosmicco/pcblist.htm

[Hammy]

most of the emulation ones have waay more than 100 games on them.

there's macro's multigalaxians, the gauntlet switchers, pacman multis and stuff like that.

what you want is a list of games, and then you can tell.
if it's a mixture of arcade games on differant hardware, chances are it's emulation. if it's nintendoish games, ie it's got mario or battle city, baloon bomber etc on it, it's a nes thing. if all the games are on the same hardware, chances are you've got a pcb with a kit installed.

[atari_overlord]

Thanks for all the info on this guys. I have been doing some research and it seems to me that all the places that sell boards like this are fairly sketchy. When I finally decide to pick up one of these I guess I will just have to use the buyer beware mentality.
If anyone has one of these or knows someone personally who would sell one, please keep me in mind.
-ANdrew