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Yeah I got 2!
9!
must of cost you a fortune!

TechnoFreek

urbanledge wrote: »

Yeah I got 2!
9!
must of cost you a fortune!

Thankfully mine are non back lit so the first two are 20 quid for both. Fiver each after that!. Decided to get a few at those prices.

Post up pics when you get them dude.

o1s1n

Ah damn it! Wish I'd seen that thread earlier. Would have loved the Metal Slug one!

Yeah i got 2 non back lit ones,
was temped to get extra but I said feck it.
Was also temped to get a sf4 back-lit one for the blast but again feck it!

TechnoFreek

o1s1n wrote: »

Ah damn it! Wish I'd seen that thread earlier. Would have loved the Metal Slug one!

Hehe. Metal slug is one of mine.

o1s1n

TechnoFreek wrote: »

Hehe. Metal slug is one of mine.

I'll convince you to part with it at some point... :pac:

TechnoFreek

o1s1n wrote: »

I'll convince you to part with it at some point... :pac:

As Ian Paisley would say "Neverrrrrrrrrrrrr"

Jack burton

Must get one myself....I'll have to wait till the next run

Hows the blast going for you?

Jack burton

She works anyway. I had zero money the last while to do anything with her though. Had a holiday and tons of stuff to pay for.

Actually lobbing some stuff up on adverts tonight to get some spends for it. Cleaned up the CP though and its actually mint under the bit of dirt. Hopefully I can order some nice things for it this week

o1s1n

Pony rotated and being posted Wednesday!!! It's finally happening!!! :eek:

Myrddin

o1s1n wrote: »

Pony rotated and being posted Wednesday!!! It's finally happening!!! :eek:

Would you not be better off leaving the Pony hori given its a six button setup, & rotating your current cab which has a cp better suited to shmups?

*not to reign on the parade, sweetness all round either way man!

o1s1n

That would make a mountain of sense if not for one thing - I really like the look of the Pony vertical, it's like it's made for playing vertical games

It's an absolutely massive first world problem. I am completely going with aesthetics on this one

On the plus side, I saw under the hood on someone's Pony and the monitor mounting has rotate handles...so would be an easy job if I wanted to go with that plan instead. Sure we'll see!

What monitors in them?

o1s1n

urbanledge wrote: »

What monitors in them?

Toshiba dual sync as far as I know. I think its kind of similar to the tosh in my current cab.

TechnoFreek

o1s1n wrote: »

Pony rotated and being posted Wednesday!!! It's finally happening!!! :eek:

Great stuff dude. I wonder would Ronnie rotate moniotrs on other more difficult cabs like egret 3s and Atomiswaves?

Let him take the hassle and risk. Thinking if I ever bought a second cab it would be another atomiswave for tate.

Is there much of a price difference between E2/E3's and Awaves?

TechnoFreek

urbanledge wrote: »

Is there much of a price difference between E2/E3's and Awaves?

E2s generally fetch a higher price due to the rotate mech even though they're older.

E3s and AWSDs are pretty much the same cb and carry similar price

o1s1n

I'd say he would rotate them for you alright. Lots of pics I've seen of his workshop have monitors out of cabs. Shouldn't be too much trouble to flip it for ya before sending out.

Optimus Prime

I used some Red Sugru last night to fix the whole in my time crisis cab where the gun is attatched. I guess this is a common break because of people in arcades pulling the gun off. There was no way the gun would have attatched due to the size and shape of the hole.

I used an old Truck Toy that holds smaller cars one of my kids had and cut out and shaped two pieces using the dremel. Then attatched it using the sugru and bolted on the gun to hold them in place while it cured. Turned out well! thought id post up some pics, this sugru stuff is great.

Original damaged piece, you can see where the screw holes are pratically gone.


The toy truck i used.


Cut out pieces from the truck


Some of sugru shaped on


Underneath pic of the gun holding the bottom panel in place


Top pic of the gun holding the top panel in place

o1s1n

Namco Consolette over on AO for sale.

Ronnie had two listed for ages and I always thought they were pig ugly. However, the were hori....this is the first I've seen one in vertical. Have to say, there's something quite nice about it!

http://forum.arcadeotaku.com/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=24041

Ah its fairly poxy looking!

Jack burton

Its looks like the 60s take on what futuristic arcades would looks like

Myrddin

Yeah its definitely pushing the limits

safetyboy

I like it

The Last Bandit

Its like a prop from Buck Rodgers...

o1s1n

o1s1n wrote: »

Pony rotated and being posted Wednesday!!! It's finally happening!!! :eek:

Still no sign of it?

o1s1n

urbanledge wrote: »

Still no sign of it?

Nope! Still waiting for a call... The suspense be killing me!

Andrew76

o1s1n wrote: »

Nope! Still waiting for a call... The suspense be killing me!

Should arrive before the long wkend? Be awesome. New thread with plenty of pics and lets see those vert shmups man! :cool:

Speaking of cabs and shmups, I went to put the jtag back in the cab at the wkend for some extra vert goodness. Had it all set up bar the sound and I was reminded of the dim picture I get with the 360, nowhere near as bright as PCBs. Cba so took it back out, leaving the cab stock, much less hassle.

o1s1n

o1s1n wrote: »

Nope! Still waiting for a call... The suspense be killing me!

I'd say so!
I need some advice.
Im tring to get the coulors on the blast city to "pop" a bit more.but I cant:(
they just seen to wash out.All the colours are there but there just not as rich as I'd like or as the E2
Heres a pic of both on the same screen via a Jpac.



heres a pic of the blasts test screen,Any advice?
theres also compression but I'm willing to ignore that for the moment