How do you Arcade game at home?

[Retrocade Fantasia]

Yeah: http://www.projectvb.com/arcade/

DogP

Your power bill must be a bitch

[DogP]

Statistically speaking, that's more ARCADE per square foot than BASEMENT.

Epic in every conceivable sense!

Thanks... yes, there's pretty much no "basement", just arcade.

Your power bill must be a bitch

Heh, with everything running it's about 10kW, so it costs around $1 per hour. Not too bad, and I usually only turn on the games I want to play, except when I'm having a party.

DogP

[Frankie_Says_Relax]

Thanks... yes, there's pretty much no "basement", just arcade.



Heh, with everything running it's about 10kW, so it costs around $1 per hour. Not too bad, and I usually only turn on the games I want to play, except when I'm having a party.

DogP

How's the "action" on your Top Skater?

That's one of my all time favorite SEGA arcade cabinets, despite its rather limited scope of play available.

When the mechanism is in perfect working order I'm pretty darn good at it, but in the wild that thing never seemed to hold up to the extreme physical abuse that the game seems to almost require ... and the release of that cabinet was pretty close to the ultimate downturn in arcade business in the US where arcades that had it never seemed to fix it when it broke.

Did you obtain it in any type of disrepair? Have you ever had to service it? What's that like? Is it a complicated mechanism in there or just a glorified L-R analog slider.

[DogP]

How's the "action" on your Top Skater?

That's one of my all time favorite SEGA arcade cabinets, despite its rather limited scope of play available.

When the mechanism is in perfect working order I'm pretty darn good at it, but in the wild that thing never seemed to hold up to the extreme physical abuse that the game seems to almost require ... and the release of that cabinet was pretty close to the ultimate downturn in arcade business in the US where arcades that had it never seemed to fix it when it broke.

Did you obtain it in any type of disrepair? Have you ever had to service it? What's that like? Is it a complicated mechanism in there or just a glorified L-R analog slider.

Mine works great, but yeah... in the wild, good luck finding one w/o problems. When I got it, the skateboard had pieces missing which I ended up replacing as well as rebuilding a lot of the wear parts. It's basically got two pots and a couple switches... one pot in the board to determine lean, the other underneath attached to a gear for the side to side motion... and a switch for stepping on the front and back of the board. A major problem is the metal shaft that comes out of the skateboard to the gear gets broken because of the lock which is supposed to keep people from swinging the skateboard when they're not playing, but instead people stand on it and try to swing against the brake. If the brake wasn't there and freely swung back and forth all the time, there'd be minimal stress on that part.

Top Skater is definitely one of my favorite games, and I just recently picked up an Air Trix boardset which I'm working on installing (selectable by a switch). I can't wait to get that set up!

DogP

[Frankie_Says_Relax]

Mine works great, but yeah... in the wild, good luck finding one w/o problems. When I got it, the skateboard had pieces missing which I ended up replacing as well as rebuilding a lot of the wear parts. It's basically got two pots and a couple switches... one pot in the board to determine lean, the other underneath attached to a gear for the side to side motion... and a switch for stepping on the front and back of the board. A major problem is the metal shaft that comes out of the skateboard to the gear gets broken because of the lock which is supposed to keep people from swinging the skateboard when they're not playing, but instead people stand on it and try to swing against the brake. If the brake wasn't there and freely swung back and forth all the time, there'd be minimal stress on that part.

Top Skater is definitely one of my favorite games, and I just recently picked up an Air Trix boardset which I'm working on installing (selectable by a switch). I can't wait to get that set up!

DogP

Sweet. Thanks for the info!

[Neb6]

TRON (1982) upright full-size cabinet.

A number of system boards (Space Duel, Star Wars, Scramble, ...).

Otherwise I use a modded XBOX or X-Arcade.

[Videogamerdaryll]

An apartment full of cabs...


https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?...1&l=f77d71bb2d

[InsaneDavid]

Seeing this thread come around again reminds me I should start collecting parts for my Pole Position cabinet to be converted again. My new idea is to set it up with a four switch early era Atari shifter and swap in a Pole Position cockpit pedal assembly (which has two pedals, accelerator and brake, but the same plate dimensions) and use it as a multi driver but still keep it looking pretty much stock. I'm contemplating surface mounting a button flush with the top of the shift knob for games like Turbo Outrun and most importantly Chase H.Q.

[Videogamerdaryll]

Seeing this thread come around again reminds me I should start collecting parts for my Pole Position cabinet to be converted again. My new idea is to set it up with a four switch early era Atari shifter and swap in a Pole Position cockpit pedal assembly (which has but the same plate dimensions) and use it as a multi driver but still keep it looking pretty much stock. I'm contemplating surface mounting a button flush with the top of the shift knob for games like Turbo Outrun and most importantly Chase H.Q.

That would be awesome to do David..
You sent a chill up my spine hearing that you may be able have =two pedals, accelerator and brake,..and play games like Turbo Outrun and most importantly Chase H.Q

Turbo Outrun and Chase H.Q two of my all times favorites..

Chase H.Q sits in my SNES at all times..

[InsaneDavid]

That would be awesome to do David..
You sent a chill up my spine hearing that you may be able have =two pedals, accelerator and brake,..and play games like Turbo Outrun and most importantly Chase H.Q

Turbo Outrun and Chase H.Q two of my all times favorites..

Chase H.Q sits in my SNES at all times..

With the setup I had before I was able to play Pole Position, Pole Position II, Championship Sprint, Super Sprint, Konami GT, Danny Sullivan's Indy Heat, Ironman Ivan Stewart's Super Off-Road, Badlands and Stocker pretty well. I was using a very underpowered computer and archaic DOS MAME v0.56b so I really couldn't get away with much more. Admittedly Virtua Racing and Radmobile are also a pretty big draw for this setup.

[Ex_Mosquito]

Hi guys, I've only just heard of this website. I like the mixture of old and new gaming. Good stuff! I mainly play arcade games these days using a mixture of PCBs and Mame.

A video of my Arcade set-up

[Neb6]

Yeah: http://www.projectvb.com/arcade/

DogP

Nice!

One of the few home collections that actually looks like a classic arcade.


I see there's a Donkey Kong screen on a Donkey Kong Jr. cabinet. ?


Oh, and you managed to get some cool pinball machines. Does anyone recall the name of the one with the Giger-esque Alien on it? Haven't seen that one in awhile.

[Mr Roboto]

Building my own MAME cabinet of an MKII cabinet. Gutted the cabinet and am CNC milling the control panel. Bought all the controls from HAPPS and will be wiring them to an iPAC controller. Turned an old PC into and emulation machine running Hyperspin. Can't wait to get it all done.

[Greg2600]

Bought an Ouya for Mame, takes up little space!

[klausien]

I play arcade games on my 32" plasma or 36" Sony Trinitron via emulation, using CoinOPs on a softmodded XBox with a 250 GB HDD. I love the convenience of being able to play on my couch rather than having to sit at my desk to play on the PC. I live in a small apartment so cabs are unfortunately not an option. The controller used is what makes the real difference these days IMHO.

My weapon of choice is a Hori/Namco Tekken 5 10th Anniversary PS2 stick (HRAP 1) chassis modified with a PS1 Dual Shock PCB and full Seimitsu hardware. The Dual Shock allows for lag-free play though a converter on just about every system I own in addition to the XBox. The joystick is an LS-58 with octo gate and Sanwa battop. Player two is the exact same configuration, only with an LS-32 with a circle gate (Focus Attack 3 way gate) rather than the LS-58. This shmup fan can fire up anything from Batsugun to Ketsui Kizuna Jigoku Tachi with this setup, in addition to every beat 'em up and 1v1 fighter worth playing. It is honestly almost too good to be true.

The sticks work perfectly with converters on the XBox 360 as well, allowing for arcade-style control of the immaculate Mushihimesama Futari, Raiden Fighters Aces, and several other can't miss shmups on the system. It's a good time to be a retrogamer, that's for sure.

[CRTGAMER]

For the owners of dedicated Arcade Cabinets, please don't take this the wrong way I love your cabs.

Do you get a lot of use out of them gameplay time wise compared to gaming on a console or PC?

For me the closest I have to an Arcade cab is a modified Zaxxon Controller Panel with extra buttons and a Spinner and can direct plug into PSX, PS/2 or USB PC/Mac and C64/2600.

[MarioMania]

MAME on my PC, Wii and Dreamcast

[Oldskool]

This is how I do it.

6-slot Big Red MVS BABY! WOO HOO!!!

http://s754.photobucket.com/user/mke...l?sort=3&o=400

Some things I need to do with it but it's an 90 percent fully functioning cab. I still need to fix the EL Lighting and one of the coin slots won't accept quarters. As far as the looks go I really want to stuff an LCD in it. The cab itself is in pretty good shape. It is missing the monitor protective glass/panel, and it could use some new switches. They seem to work best once it's been warmed up a bit and you've worked the switches several times.

[BricatSegaFan]

On my new but work in progress MVS 4 slot!

[Neb6]

For the owners of dedicated Arcade Cabinets, please don't take this the wrong way I love your cabs.

Do you get a lot of use out of them gameplay time wise compared to gaming on a console or PC?

For me the closest I have to an Arcade cab is a modified Zaxxon Controller Panel with extra buttons and a Spinner and can direct plug into PSX, PS/2 or USB PC/Mac and C64/2600.

Wow! now THAT is nice.

What a great arcading stick for your various home systems. Very cool idea.

As for time spent using the original coin-ops.... I'd say TRON gets the most use, since I've yet to find a way to play it on an emulator. That and I tend to get pretty rough with it on the MCP and Light Cycle levels. A heavy machine like that can put up with the stress. A lot of the stuff that's easy to emulate is played on XBOX, Macs, or PCs since they're convenient. It's mainly the stuff with highly-customized control systems that get the most attention in arcade cabinet form.