I received today...

[complexz]

well... nothing compared to some of your hauls, but I just added a few classics to my library

not a big KOF fan but I thought I can't have a neogeo cabinet and not at least have 98.

samurai shodown was inevitable of course I never actively searched for it out since I have SS2, but I always planned on grabbing it if the price was right with another cart....and this time it was The carts were dirty as fuck, but they work and are official, so I am happy might give em a date with the dishwasher later, but for now cleaning the contacts got me playing

 

[Kid Panda]

well... nothing compared to some of your hauls, but I just added a few classics to my library

not a big KOF fan but I thought I can't have a neogeo cabinet and not at least have 98.

samurai shodown was inevitable of course I never actively searched for it out since I have SS2, but I always planned on grabbing it if the price was right with another cart....and this time it was The carts were dirty as fuck, but they work and are official, so I am happy might give em a date with the dishwasher later, but for now cleaning the contacts got me playing

98 is great good picks!

 

[complexz]

samurai shodown 1 aged so damn well... I am just as blown away by it today as I was as a kid. I kinda knew this as I've played ports and shit many times over the years.... but it never quite comes together until you see it in a cab with a crispy monitor.

 

[Hawkeye]

samurai shodown 1 aged so damn well... I am just as blown away by it today as I was as a kid. I kinda knew this as I've played ports and shit many times over the years.... but it never quite comes together until you see it in a cab with a crispy monitor.

Amen to that. I've been playing it recently in my cab and it sure beats the SNK classics version for the wii

 

[mr_b]

Daioh! Awesome game, played it during the STGT over the summer, brutal rank indeed.

Here it is folks, I've officially been broken in, my first PCB arrived and is in full working order.

Congrats! Nothing like your first board. My first shmup pcb was Raiden 2.

 

[codecrank]

samurai shodown 1 aged so damn well... I am just as blown away by it today as I was as a kid.

Completely agree, the intro just throws me into instant flashback . I have to sit there and watch the whole thing every time I boot the game

Ippon !

 

[Electric Grave]

You guys buy way too much shit!

I just keep going to my storage and grabbing old stuff I haven't used pretending I'm a big spender...

 

[Ninjatemper]

You guys buy way too much shit!

I just keep going to my storage and grabbing old stuff I haven't used pretending I'm a big spender...

You need to have a bunch of shit already in order to have stuff to go back to storage for instead of just buying something new. I bet you've spent a ton on cool shit too.

 

[Electric Grave]

little bit by little bits. I've never been a big spender, the only time I spent what I consider to be a lot of money for the arcade hobby, was on 2 sets of 2 candies and when I treated myself to some later cave PCBs. It has however been biting me in the ass lately. One of my EIIs has a bad flyback transformer and I fried a 500 dollar SH3 PCB. Sometimes these type of problems make me wanna sell everything and just play current gen and MAME.

Funny thing about the 2 sets of candies was that one set 2 NACs came from the bigsley group buy which was a fiasco and most people will back me up on this. The second set, 2 EIIs I got from Bibliophile, I paid him right away and told him to hold them for me while I was selling some cabs and making room for the EIIs and when I was finnaly ready to make shipping arrengements he was arrested. I couldn't get in contact with the man for a while. It was a tough time 'cause I knew he wasn't trying to pull a fast one but I couldn't get my cabs. In the end it all got sorted out but god damn!

That's just 2 stories, all of it for the love of the game...this hobby is so uncertain, sometimes it makes you wanna quit but then you find yourself 1CC'ing a game or doing better than you ever thoguht you could and thinking it was all worth it. It's a rollercoaster.

 

[Ninjatemper]

little bit by little bits. I've never been a big spender, the only time I spent what I consider to be a lot of money for the arcade hobby, was on 2 sets of 2 candies and when I treated myself to some later cave PCBs. It has however been biting me in the ass lately. One of my EIIs has a bad flyback transformer and I fried a 500 dollar SH3 PCB. Sometimes these type of problems make me wanna sell everything and just play current gen and MAME.

Funny thing about the 2 sets of candies was that one set 2 NACs came from the bigsley group buy which was a fiasco and most people will back me up on this. The second set, 2 EIIs I got from Bibliophile, I paid him right away and told him to hold them for me while I was selling some cabs and making room for the EIIs and when I was finnaly ready to make shipping arrengements he was arrested. I couldn't get in contact with the man for a while. It was a tough time 'cause I knew he wasn't trying to pull a fast one but I couldn't get my cabs. In the end it all got sorted out but god damn!

That's just 2 stories, all of it for the love of the game...this hobby is so uncertain, sometimes it makes you wanna quit but then you find yourself 1CC'ing a game or doing better than you ever thoguht you could and thinking it was all worth it. It's a rollercoaster.

I'm too chicken shit to get a cab unless it's a damn good deal. The amount of people I see on here having problems with their cabs keeps me from taking the plunge. I'm content with a supergun setup for now.

 

[Electric Grave]

There's one cab that can do it all and is innexpensive. The Astro City is cheap if you are very patient and there's parts for it everywhere. Best cab ever hands down and this is coming from someone who has played at least 25 different types of cabs(not at once) in my own home. From personal experience I feel the Astro is the easiest cab to work with, to carry, to rotate without having a mech, EII would be the second but they're heavier and they are def bulkier. The Astro brakes apartt in 3 main pieces, as long as you aren't leery about lifting the monitor for rotation you are golden, or better yet get 2 or 3 and dedicate one to vertical use, if that's your thing of course. If you only intent on owning one cab then EII might be the way to go but an Astro will do just as good, specially if you're not a fan of vertical games. Both cabs use the same monitor.

 

[Chempop]

Wise words Electric. I just entered the jamma scene and decided a supergun would ease me into it better than a cab. I thought for a while that Blasts City was the biggest and best, but after researching so much about trouble-shooting and maintenance I think an Astro or NAC is what I'll be looking for first once I take the candy plunge.

 

[Professor Plum]

I read somewhere a car analogy regarding these candy cabs. Egret 2's are the Rolls-Royce of candies, the Sega Blast City is the Ferrari and the Astro City is the Honda Accord.
The honda accord is a good car and there are pleanty of parts around and will get you from point A to point B but... it doesn't have the style of a Rolls.

I think in general this analogy fits pretty well.

 

[Electric Grave]

Blast City cabs look awesome from far, once you get in there it's a wiring nightmare and no matter how much they tell you the monitors can do low rez well, they are simply justifying their purchase, it looks OK but it doesn't even begin to rival the worse type of low rez monitors out there, the washed out blurry effect done to the jamma games can only be seen in person, pics won't do, vids won't cut it, you have to be there to really see what's up. Great cabs for 31khz gaming but the good Jamma stuff is meant to be played in low rez, mind as well play Mame if you wanna play in a Blast City, the games will look way better than any Jamma PCB at less you're using RGB encoders to help clean the signal. Some VGA monitors (which is what the BC cabs have) have a multi sync which works like a dual rez 15khz - 24khz monitor, the switch is seamless and it looks great but not all VGA monitors are capable of such thing and this BC monitors aren't one of them. Also the cab breaks up in so many little parts, it's almost an unnecessary engineering design, well at less there was a plan for those parts to be removed and replaced with others, but I just don't see it. Sega just wanted the taller marquees to stand out in the business as most cabs are usually the same height and so with the taller marquee you get more attention just like in the 80's and 90's were the wood cabs would be designed with taller and taller marquees, Capcom and SNK being the worse, every revision of their flagship cab kept getting taller and taller.

Astro all the way brother, don't let anyone feed you any stories and try to sell you something you can't work with.
THere are other cabs that work real well but nothing really compares to the Astro, the original bad boy!

One thing I wouldn't mind is a 25" screen, makes for easier replacement and rotation, only 'cause the US is plagued with 25" screens and not so many 27" (29" in japan as they have small dicks so their measuring is a bit off. "That's a foot, honey, trust me") Kinda like Americans measuring wood studs, a 4"x4" is 3.5" really?! Why?!

 

[robot]

Got this the other day - Elevator Action Returns!

Holy smokes, what an awesome game. Might be in my top ten.

Now to find more F3 games! And maybe a PGM motherboard!

 

[Professor Plum]

I agree about the Blast City I am not a huge fan of them. The giant marquee is too much. The Egret 2's are my favorite cab. I also really like the Egret 29s. They are pretty unique looking, 4 speakers... and they have cup holders.. lol They really went over the top on the design of these.

 

[Electric Grave]

I read somewhere a car analogy regarding these candy cabs. Egret 2's are the Rolls-Royce of candies, the Sega Blast City is the Ferrari and the Astro City is the Honda Accord.
The honda accord is a good car and there are pleanty of parts around and will get you from point A to point B but... it doesn't have the style of a Rolls.

I think in general this analogy fits pretty well.

There's nothing an EII can do that the AC can't (OK excpet for the setereo swicth but that can be taken care of), if the EII is a rolls the AC is a god damn Aston Martin or a Bentley however I don't think neither of these two cabs fit in those type of categories. The BC ain't no ferrari, more like a hughe SUV that a sucker drives to the drive thru. The Atomiswave SD or the EIII is a better cab. The only advantage a BC has over any other Hi-Rez cabs is the JVS readyness, and the Naomi versatility with the many different panels which are based on the Astro design, that's it. You're better off swapping your chassi for a try-synch in your Astro and forget owning that frankestein. OK that was harsh but only 'cause those cabs get so overhyped, they're allright but there's a better bang for the money out there.

I love the E29's great cabs, nice monitors, cool shape, however there are two main problems with them. No elbow room and no PCB room. This is one of those designs were the engineer or designer wasn't thinking clearly when making the CP, so much wasted space on the sides that could have been used for the CP. Elbow room is one of the most important things to me and this cab along with many failed that aspect. The PCB space is horrible, do you see that door at the very bottom? That's where the PCB goes, no room whatsoever, a real shame.

Personaly as far as other cabs go I like these

Windy
Q25 only if you're getting the one with rotating mech, best rotating mech I've ever seen, makes the EII and E29 rotating mechs look like an amateur built it. Q sound amp of course, the real con is that it weights more than any other candy, it's made out of wood inside but once situated it's the balls!
Cyberlead (NO tate but the fact that you get two instruction card spots makes this one of the nicest fighting cabs) Plastic gets real brittle though, not a good choice of raw material.
MVU4 (No tate, very little elbow room but the design is so great, if the coin slot wasn't taking a 1/4 of the CP and spread the CP some more it would have been the perfect Neo cab.
Neo29 in all its forms, great cab, really great cab! All you guys drilling 7 holes on these should be ashamed, buy a secondary CP and make it a 6 button one. People are making these out there, I've seen them.
Impress, basically an AC with a capcom logo slapped on it like the Windy (Konami) however the Qsound amp is a nice add on! Don't like the Pink blue motif though.
I love them Jaleco little cabs with 3 button CPs, I can't recall what they are called, I think Pony? Nah that was the later ones, I just can't remember now.

 

[KaPH33n]

Today I got a NAOMI2 mobo... Can't wait to check out VF4FT. I don't even like VF games... but I'm a Sega and Naomi fanatic.

 

[wataru330]

For JAMMA/JVS, I like me a CyberLead. Love these things. LED header is neat, & I like the aesthetic of the cab.

 

[Professor Plum]

There's nothing an EII can do that the AC can't (OK excpet for the setereo swicth but that can be taken care of),

I think you forgot to mention the rotate mech on the E2 that makes rotating the monitor SAFE and QUICK. I will race you any day rotating an AC to my E2's. Also there is the rarity. E2's are way more rare in the US. And even if you have the money to buy an E2 nobody wants to sell theirs because they are sweet cabs.

I would agree the Astro city is a good cab but it doesn't have the coolness factor of an E2. lol

 

[wataru330]

Yeah, the quick/easy rotate is clutch for shooties.

Wish I had room for a few of each :^(

 

[ReplicaX]

I will race you any day rotating an AC to my E2's. Also there is the rarity. E2's are way more rare in the US. And even if you have the money to buy an E2 nobody wants to sell theirs because they are sweet cabs.

My E2 is jealous of my Q25 though, no screws on rotate mech/bezel and a Qsound Amp :P

 

[Electric Grave]

I think you forgot to mention the rotate mech on the E2 that makes rotating the monitor SAFE and QUICK. I will race you any day rotating an AC to my E2's. Also there is the rarity. E2's are way more rare in the US. And even if you have the money to buy an E2 nobody wants to sell theirs because they are sweet cabs.

I would agree the Astro city is a good cab but it doesn't have the coolness factor of an E2. lol

Yes that is very true, what I meant was the end result though, the cab rotates and plays tated just like an EII would. I'm seriously thinking of parting with mine and getting Astros instead though, I have 3 big candies at home, 2 EIIs and 1 NAC, having 3 NACs would be awesome, I'd leave one tated for good and that's that. The bad thing about the EII is that you can't get a 1P CP, I was gonna get a repro from someone here but this member was trying to take me for a ride by charging me twice the price he paid for and he said he taught that was fair. The nerve some people have. I have moved my cabs 3 times and when I'm taking about weight and ease of moving I gotta say the NAC or AC is the best, I always take my monitors out of my cabs to move them, just so is easier on everyone and the NAC is the lightest cab ever! No other cab I have carried weights less except for a mini cute or a mini neo 19. Actually scratch that, they're about the same weight, the NAC is just bigger.

 

[SSS]

I'm too chicken shit to get a cab unless it's a damn good deal. The amount of people I see on here having problems with their cabs keeps me from taking the plunge. I'm content with a supergun setup for now.

Eh? Who's "all the people"? Other than the monitor, there's nothing in a cab overly complicated. Just a switching power supply and wiring. The only monitor I've had die on me in the last few years was my Samsung HDTV. I've had 20 plus candy cabs over the last 5 years or so. No major problems with any of them.

 

[Ninjatemper]

Eh? Who's "all the people"? Other than the monitor, there's nothing in a cab overly complicated. Just a switching power supply and wiring. The only monitor I've had die on me in the last few years was my Samsung HDTV. I've had 20 plus candy cabs over the last 5 years or so. No major problems with any of them.

Maybe my concerns aren't founded then. If an Astro City ever comes up in my area (not likely at all) I'll snatch it up.