General Arcade & Retro Chat' Special Championship Edition

Atavan-Halen

Yep they’re IKEA Gnedby ones. They come with a little hole/attachment piece at the top to hold them all together

https://www.ikea.com/ie/en/p/gnedby-shelving-unit-white-40277143/

o1s1n

Anyone see Dave 'The Games Animal' Perry started up his own youtube tvshow?

If anyone missed his gloating and wants to watch him waxing lyrical about how great he was 'back in the day', it's definitely worth a look!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-VvEqzaboo

Jesus, watch the first episode, half way through the starts going on about Mario 64!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPQaGsizkQs

McDermotX

Analogue Pockets delayed till October for first shipments.

Component shortage, logistics etc

Not the end of the world, but no doubt there'll be the usual twitter rows

Inviere

Mizzurna Falls for Playstation has been fan translated - https://www.romhacking.net/translations/6027/

The game is one of the first open world adventure games ever made and focuses on the search for a lost classmate in a small rural American town.

The game has never been localized outside of Japan, but fan translation projects have attempted to translate it.

The game takes place in Mizzurna Falls, a fictional town in Colorado near the Rocky mountains. On Christmas Day 1995 a young girl, Kathy Flannery is discovered unconscious in the forest, apparently attacked by a bear. Soon after, high school student Emma Rowland goes missing. Emma's classmate Matthew Williams becomes involved in the mystery surrounding the disappearance and the dark secrets of the town.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mizzurna_Falls

Retr0gamer

McDermotX wrote: »

Analogue Pockets delayed till October for first shipments.

Component shortage, logistics etc

Not the end of the world, but no doubt there'll be the usual twitter rows

I was looking forward to it but as someone looking for a GPU I can understand their position.

Inviere wrote: »

Mizzurna Falls for Playstation has been fan translated - https://www.romhacking.net/translations/6027/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mizzurna_Falls

Thank god for that. There was some amount of BS over that games translation.

o1s1n

Retr0gamer wrote: »

I was looking forward to it but as someone looking for a GPU I can understand their position.

It's an absolute disaster isnt it?

A friend of mine was going to sell me his 1080ti and then upgrade to something fancier back in September. We've been waiting since then and just watched the market get worse and worse - as you can imagine, he's still using that 1080ti!

Retr0gamer

I wish I have a 1080ti. I've a 1070 trying to power a 3440x1440 monitor that it's always struggled with.

Inviere

New 3D Printing forum approved and live (temporary home to see how it does.) Hopefully it does well enough to be kept around! - https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=1875

CiDeRmAn

Inviere wrote: »

New 3D Printing forum approved and lie (temporary home to see how it does.) Hopefully it does well enough to be kept around! - https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=1875

New forum name incoming!

Arcade, Retro, Emulation and 3D Printing forum (+Marketplace)!

Steve X2

Inviere wrote: »

New 3D Printing forum approved and live (temporary home to see how it does.) Hopefully it does well enough to be kept around! - https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=1875

Hopefully it takes off. 3D printing is starting to become quite popular in Ireland these days. I've 900+ people in my Irish 3D printing Facebook group. We did some amount of work between us when the pandemic kicked in last year and there was a huge lack of PPE/face shields for frontline workers.

CiDeRmAn

While I think all of our PPE came from foreign parts, I do know that there was a serious under-supply to many of my colleagues in other services.
Thanks to your efforts, and the efforts of your 3D Printing community, be in no doubt that your services saved lives.
Again, on behalf of myself as a nurse manager and those I work alongside and those I work to support, thanks Steve.

Inviere

Steve X2 wrote: »

Hopefully it takes off. 3D printing is starting to become quite popular in Ireland these days.

Hopefully yeah. Slightly odd the forum was opened with a charter which forbids selling/dealing....I'd have thought that'd be a staple of any such forum. Without a marketplace, it risks being a 'share your pics and settings' echo chamber. I've asked the question in the forum, but tumbleweed so far. Also really doesn't help burying new forums in the "Talk To" section of Boards. I addressed that too, and tumbleweeds again. The pace of change on Boards is mind numbing sometimes.

I've 900+ people in my Irish 3D printing Facebook group. We did some amount of work between us when the pandemic kicked in last year and there was a huge lack of PPE/face shields for frontline workers.

Heroes among us

Steve X2

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

While I think all of our PPE came from foreign parts, I do know that there was a serious under-supply to many of my colleagues in other services.
Thanks to your efforts, and the efforts of your 3D Printing community, be in no doubt that your services saved lives.
Again, on behalf of myself as a nurse manager and those I work alongside and those I work to support, thanks Steve.

It was definitely a team effort and was great to see people with 1 printer helping out as well as those with 5, 10, 45 machines. I think at one stage I was pumping out 400+ face shields a day for weeks(including the clear plastic covers etc). It was madness that there just wasn't enough PPE in Ireland and i know we were all glad to help out in whatever way we could.

Although, and perhaps you might have a good view on this, hospital administration was a bit of a nightmare in some places and the staff wanted the shields(as they had next to nothing) but management said no to the 3D printed ones. So that led to a few weird meetings at night in hospital car parks handing over boxes of PPE direct to staff.
After a few positive news stories about all the PPE 3D printing going on this got less and less of a problem.

DaveyDave

Jesus hearing about shields being printed is a distant memory. Mad how different things are a year later but still a long way to go.

My mam got her vaccine the other day, I thought she'd be waiting longer considering how slow the rollout seemed to be going. One less thing to worry about. At least we can finally see some positive change now.

Inviere

Steve X2 wrote: »

hospital administration was a bit of a nightmare in some places and the staff wanted the shields(as they had next to nothing) but management said no to the 3D printed ones. So that led to a few weird meetings at night in hospital car parks handing over boxes of PPE direct to staff.

In HSE land, ya gotta be paying x10 times over the odds for contracts & stuff like that....away with your common sense Steve

MrVestek

Just ordered a replacement starter bulb and flurescent tube for the Blast City. Also have an RGP-Jamma board on the way so that I can get something up and running on her at least.

I'll have to order new wiring harnesses too for the CP and a kick harness for the I/O board so that I can splice into it for the Jamma connector for the Pi.

Reproduction 2 player CP should be on the way.

Looks like whatever arcade this machine was in in Japan glued the balltop onto the joystick at some point. Any tips for removing it, other than attacking it with a pliers or ordering a new joystick?

TechnoFreek

Great progress vestek.

I'd want to replace the joysticks anyway so if losing one is the only way to do that so be it.

You can try the pliers. Not sure how solid the shafts are (ooh matron), you could get a junior saw and try cut the ball off.
Then let the Sanwa versus Seimitsu debate begin!

Don't forget that smut photos of the cab are always welcome for us candy pervs. Just go easy on the shafts and balls!



Edit: from long distant memory, I also think if you can access the underside of the joystick you may be able to release the shaft from there and push out through the top. There's an eclip that needs to be prised off. That should allow it all to come apart then. Check the first minute of the vid.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1dj-4W7V9Q

MrVestek

TechnoFreek wrote: »

Great progress vestek.

I'd want to replace the joysticks anyway so if losing one is the only way to do that so be it.

You can try the pliers. Not sure how solid the shafts are (ooh matron), you could get a junior saw and try cut the ball off.
Then let the Sanwa versus Seimitsu debate begin!

Don't forget that smut photos of the cab are always welcome for us candy pervs. Just go easy on the shafts and balls!



Edit: from long distant memory, I also think if you can access the underside of the joystick you may be able to release the shaft from there and push out through the top. There's an eclip that needs to be prised off. That should allow it all to come apart then. Check the first minute of the vid.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1dj-4W7V9Q

Ohhh wait. I could just remove the E-Ring and pull the joystick out the top of it's mechanism, right?

Also I'm going stock on everything so Sanwa JLF sticks and OSBF 30 & 24 buttons in the appropriate pink and green colour scheme. :-)

MrVestek

Somebody called for porn? The next time somebody questions my choices on not wanting children (no judgement on those that do) I'll just be showing them this picture form now on:

TechnoFreek

MrVestek wrote: »

Ohhh wait. I could just remove the E-Ring and pull the joystick out the top of it's mechanism, right?

Exactly.

Jack burton

MrVestek wrote: »

Somebody called for porn? The next time somebody questions my choices on not wanting children (no judgement on those that do) I'll just be showing them this picture form now on:

Be careful they multiply





Those are old pics. What started off as wanting one cab had now has turned into 4 pinballs, 8 arcade cabs.....and I just bought another poker cab today to convert to something again

It's a slippery slope haha

She's looking well vestec.

She's looking well jack

MrVestek

So... I'm an idiot.

I noticed that the latching mechanism of the control panel wasn't working properly... then I noticed that the piano latch seemed to be screwed together to keep the latches away from the locking mechanism.

There was an unsightly gap between the Control Panel and the screen bezel so I wanted to close that gap. I pushed the top layer of the control panel forward and screwed it back into place so that the latch would work again.

I then, stupidly, closed the control panel to see what the new fit was like - perfect!

Except... I hadn't actually yet replaced the cam lock... and now I'm locked out of the bloody control panel like an idiot.

So... does anybody have any idea as to how I can undo the latching mechanism? The only access I have is a small hole where the camlock should be.

I feel like a complete tool right now, I should have seen that coming. HALP!

MrVestek

Disregard, I got it open again.

Got the locking mechanism kinda working with the new camlock but the spring for the latches is ancient so it doesn't really lock properly. I'll have to find a suitable replacement at some point.

I might even try my best to find actual Sega Cam locks at some point, although I understand that they're super rare.

MrVestek

They multiply? I barely have enough room in my flat for the one... I think I'm good. Dream realised. :-)

CiDeRmAn

Steve X2 wrote: »

Although, and perhaps you might have a good view on this, hospital administration was a bit of a nightmare in some places and the staff wanted the shields(as they had next to nothing) but management said no to the 3D printed ones. So that led to a few weird meetings at night in hospital car parks handing over boxes of PPE direct to staff.
After a few positive news stories about all the PPE 3D printing going on this got less and less of a problem.

Around this time last year, I was redeployed from my typical station, which is a mostly non-frontline role in auditing and compliance, I had been developing Covid specific protocols and easy read documentation for staff and residents, as well as assisting with PPE training for staff, throughout the month of March.
Then I ended up on the front-line for about six weeks, going from location to location and positive cases in every place!
But the most appalling thing was the relative headlessness of the approach to PPE and other aspects of supply, such as alcohol hand sanitizer.
It was all desperately short and it became quite frightening to many.
Where I ended up, we rationed it as we could and did okay, but we were reliant, as a service, on the PPE stocks coming to us from China, not all of which was useful.
We never got anything 3D printed, in fairness, but I can imagine that from a service point of view they wouldn't have accepted it as it wasn't safety rated, not that much of the PPE coming into the service was safety rated in any workable way.
This is why it doesn't surprise me that most of the PPE you and your colleagues produced went straight into the hands of those who used it, they would have been far more appreciative.
Often, the person who is ordering and stocking is not the same person who ends up using it!

dav09

Some more pics from the Star Wars Cockpit Repro build project, hopefully will be done in about a week's time and will do a thread then on the build. Only waiting on Artwork and finishing the construction of the cabinet.

Inviere

This star wars replica is gonna go down in history I feel.....

Jack burton

Fantastic work!