Help preserve two incredibly rare, unreleased arcade games

bulbousbeard

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If you want to help MAME, you can donate a little money to this fundraiser to get two rare games released.

Shoutime is an arcade enthusiast in Japan who has bought MANY PCBs and provided dumps to MAME. He's easily spent several dozens of thousands of dollars on boards and just given away the dumps. He's the person who acquired and released the ultra-rare Wing Force prototype shooter around a month ago and many other games.

He recently acquired two incredibly rare unreleased games and spent $13,000 out of his own pocket for them. He's looking to get only around half that back in donations to release these games for the whole planet to enjoy. One of the games is a 2 player simultaneous Data East beat 'em up that looks very intriguing.

If you can even donate a couple of bucks, every little helps. Without people like Shoutime, EVERY single one of these games would be sucked up by hoarding assholes in Japan and would never see the light of day.

http://www.mameworld.info/ubbthreads/showthreaded.php?Cat=&Number=350790&page=0&view=expanded&sb=5&o=&fpart=1&vc=1

http://shoutime.tumblr.com/post/140247302898/hangzo-ac-unreleased-2-player-simultaneous

http://shoutime.tumblr.com/
 

Heinz

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Amazing effort on Shoutime's part there. Incredibly selfless to do such a thing.
 

aha2940

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Amazing effort on Shoutime's part there. Incredibly selfless to do such a thing.

I agree, not everybody has $13000 to throw at a couple of games. He asks for half what he paid to dump them, but he gets to keep them once they are dumped, right? or are the games destroyed in the dumping process?
 

NeoTurfMasta

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I saw this on Twitter a few days ago but didn't know the story behind it. I'll definitely kick in some cash for this.
 

bulbousbeard

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I agree, not everybody has $13000 to throw at a couple of games. He asks for half what he paid to dump them, but he gets to keep them once they are dumped, right? or are the games destroyed in the dumping process?

The games won't be destroyed by the dumping process, but he's going to keep them or sell them after dumping to get some more games in the future probably.
 
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