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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.

going to need a chassis recap. Top is first power in. Bottom after 10 - 20 mins.

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.

Have you removed a chassis before?

If you want a lend of my HV probe to discharge it let me know.

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.

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

Yeah the screen still looks brand new.

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!

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.

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.

Would love to buy and just have my wife and child come down to it one morning instead of the kitchen table.

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!

If you still have them in a few months and are selling give me a shout timing not great, they should go for a decent amount of money but can be a difficult sell in Ireland.

@o1s1n I actually know Mr_Kola for a good few years now. Was chatting him earlier today. There's a lot of stuff people don't know about and details that are being left out. But the pitchforks are out.

He did want to give back the items but there are claims for stuff he does not have.

Someone mentioned the 'King of Air' Pandora multi shmup board there recently and I remembered that I had one stored away in the attic. Was wondering why I didn't have it in one of the slots I'm my jamma selector as I'd two left empty.

Dug it out and remembered why, the edge of the casing for it has a plastic bit that stops you inserting it into a jamma multi board.

'hang on, why don't I just decase this thing??'

Not sure why that didn't occur to me before. Four screws and we were left with a tiny little PCB. I see there's a micro sd card on it too, wonder if you can fiddle about with it?

Slots on easy now.

Back in business!

Didn't think of that, that's a fantastic idea! will do that this evening. Was reading around and it seems Micro SD cards corrupting is actually a bit of an issue with Pandora multi boards.

How does it play? any stutters or slowness?

Managed to nab a successful image of that SD card. You were right, it's an 8GB C4 Chinese SanDisk clone.

Currently writing the image to a legit 32GB Class 10 SanDisk. Be interesting to see if there's any performance difference.

On the plus side the image works, new SD card in it running now. Must have a look on the forums to see if anyone was looking for a copy of it.

But yeah, no improvement in those games that had the bit of screen tearing. I did do some monitor adjusting though and it all looks a hell of a lot better.

It's weird, the issues don't seem to be caused by games being more demanding. Battle Garegga and Dodonpachi run great. Raiden on the other hand is the worst offender, with lots of background tearing and the music plays about 10 times slower than it's meant to.

Either way, should do until I finally get off my arse and buy another DE10 😁

Cool! That's a nice surprise. I love finding games that weren't released in arcades but would have made good arcade games. Ex-Zodiac would look amazing on that big monitor.

So would the millions of Metroidvanias available on Steam too actually.

There's a massive arcade auction taking place in Tennessee in two days. Over 450 lots in total. Be interesting to see what some of them go for.

https://hibid.com/catalog/570201

Bob's arcade in Skerries?

Some lads came over from the UK and hoovered up everything if I remember correctly.

Blog post about it here:

https://arcadeblogger.com/2020/02/14/arcade-raid-ireland-eu/

Not that I had space for any of it, but it's hard not to feel a bit sad seeing it all leave the country.