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SF2, Asteroids, Final Fight, Gauntlet, Centipede & more multi-game arcade cabinets for $299
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At $299 I'm not super picky. I pre-ordered the SF2 one but there a lot of things that still need answering.
Are these running emulation underneath, or system-on-a-chip type solutions? Wonder if this is gonna turn into one of those Retron type fiascos where they are misusing open source emulation or the like.
What's the power draw on these, is there a power off button somewhere, volume control, etc?
Some idea of the internals would be nice from a fixability / mod-ability perspective. I know they're not gonna offer installing games or whatever but it would be nice to know if the parts are kinda standard enough that you can fix the joystick or a button if you need.
Wondering about the LCD viewing angles also, given how these are smaller / people end up sitting more diagonally for 2-player.
For all the "but Raspberry Pi!" naysayers, a lot of us have that kinda stuff already. I'm in it for the cool retro cabinet. Cabinets aren't cheap, I've been eyeballing having one for years.
I kinda want the Centipede one too, trackballs are a lot harder to come by than a good joystick, but I figure the SF2 one is gonna have the best mod-ability.
EDIT: update to my own post, Polygon says:
https://www.polygon.com/2018/2/16/17019860/arcade1up-cabinets-street-fighter-2-asteroids-centipede
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That Extension alpha-cade someone posted above is pretty cool looking though...funny, they recommend an Insignia 19" TV that I already have (bought it for working on my retropie and camping). It's an IPS LCD and the input lag on it isn't too bad from what I could tell. Makes the buy in for me a bit cheaper...hmmm..
Are these running emulation underneath, or system-on-a-chip type solutions? Wonder if this is gonna turn into one of those Retron type fiascos where they are misusing open source emulation or the like.
What's the power draw on these, is there a power off button somewhere, volume control, etc?
Some idea of the internals would be nice from a fixability / mod-ability perspective. I know they're not gonna offer installing games or whatever but it would be nice to know if the parts are kinda standard enough that you can fix the joystick or a button if you need.
Wondering about the LCD viewing angles also, given how these are smaller / people end up sitting more diagonally for 2-player.
For all the "but Raspberry Pi!" naysayers, a lot of us have that kinda stuff already. I'm in it for the cool retro cabinet. Cabinets aren't cheap, I've been eyeballing having one for years.
I kinda want the Centipede one too, trackballs are a lot harder to come by than a good joystick, but I figure the SF2 one is gonna have the best mod-ability.
EDIT: update to my own post, Polygon says:
https://www.polygon.com/2018/2/16/17019860/arcade1up-cabinets-street-fighter-2-asteroids-centipede
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That Extension alpha-cade someone posted above is pretty cool looking though...funny, they recommend an Insignia 19" TV that I already have (bought it for working on my retropie and camping). It's an IPS LCD and the input lag on it isn't too bad from what I could tell. Makes the buy in for me a bit cheaper...hmmm..
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Don't think I saw it mentioned anywhere yet, but there's now a listing for a Walmart exlcusive Galaga cab (w/ Galaxian). Same price as the others.
Disappointed to hear the Final Fight cab is delayed. That's probably the one I'd want the most. SF cab is cool, but I feel like it would've been better if it had been different SF games instead of three different SF II revisions.
Disappointed to hear the Final Fight cab is delayed. That's probably the one I'd want the most. SF cab is cool, but I feel like it would've been better if it had been different SF games instead of three different SF II revisions.
The Galaga One looks good... but only two games? No Galaga '88?
It's a pretty big rip that that one's only got two games while all the others have four. There's no reason not to fill out that roster with Gaplus and Galaga '88 if they wanted to stick to the same series/similar games.
Also the sideart being pushed down much lower than on an actual cab looks really off. I love me some Galaga, but hard pass.
Yeah, like someone said, putting a Darkstalkers game in there would have been a nice addition to make it a more rounded package.
Then I'm out. These will look like blocky messes without the scanlines and being so up close, wont they?
Crt filters and scanlines are different things.
Scanlines alone aren't enough, but frankly this was never going to be crt-royale able at this price.
Anyway I feel like the crt thing is them not understanding that it's a software shader and not, you know, an actual crt as their twitter believes we're asking
This was a German ad for these cabinets earlier this year and seemed like an MK collection was in the pipeline at some point. Interesting that they originally included MK4 and not the first game. For the ones that are coming out, I definitely want that Final Fight cab!
Edit: I stand corrected, I meant Swedish! lol
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I pre ordered one from Wal Mart for 299. Can always cancel between now and Sep 27, so, not really committing anything.
I would think these are possibly a very high risk to become a hot christmas item and be impossible to find later? Possibly something you could even make money reselling. But maybe I'm wrong, since pre orders have been up a day or two without sellout.
I guess the big question for me would be the quality, of the joysticks and monitor mainly. No telling.
also it looks pretty decent size wize with the rise, but the riser is another $100? wonder how difficult it would be to mock a riser up, or just set it in a ten dollar wal mart mini table or something? I would think it would slide around though on the latter.
Maybe just me but it DOES reach deep inside me and grab that nostalgia bone, even moreso than SNES Mini's and stuff. But OTOH, it could be a total waste of $300.
Hopefully there will be more reports on the quality before release to help me decide whether to keep my preorder.
Also I'm kinda bummed some of the early material showed a cab with SF2, Ghosts N Goblins, Final Fight, and Strider I believe, Now that woulda been cool lineup. But as is we're just getting a cab with multiple versions of SF2, and then the other games were split off to other cabs :(
Edit: was just reading a twitter reply by their account and the risers are actually going to be $50, not $100 as I'd been led to believe. Better. And as someone said $50 probably translates to a WM price of 39.99.
I would think these are possibly a very high risk to become a hot christmas item and be impossible to find later? Possibly something you could even make money reselling. But maybe I'm wrong, since pre orders have been up a day or two without sellout.
I guess the big question for me would be the quality, of the joysticks and monitor mainly. No telling.
also it looks pretty decent size wize with the rise, but the riser is another $100? wonder how difficult it would be to mock a riser up, or just set it in a ten dollar wal mart mini table or something? I would think it would slide around though on the latter.
Maybe just me but it DOES reach deep inside me and grab that nostalgia bone, even moreso than SNES Mini's and stuff. But OTOH, it could be a total waste of $300.
Hopefully there will be more reports on the quality before release to help me decide whether to keep my preorder.
Also I'm kinda bummed some of the early material showed a cab with SF2, Ghosts N Goblins, Final Fight, and Strider I believe, Now that woulda been cool lineup. But as is we're just getting a cab with multiple versions of SF2, and then the other games were split off to other cabs :(
Edit: was just reading a twitter reply by their account and the risers are actually going to be $50, not $100 as I'd been led to believe. Better. And as someone said $50 probably translates to a WM price of 39.99.
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This was a German ad for these cabinets earlier this year and seemed like an MK collection was in the pipeline at some point. Interesting that they originally included MK4 and not the first game. For the ones that are coming out, I definitely want that Final Fight cab!
I kid of feel like getting the SFII Cab is the most versatile at least you get a surplus of buttons...or do even the simpler games like rampage have 6 buttons? If these are confirmed hackable I am in. I've always wanted a MAME cab. My plan would be to replace everything with Sanwa or Semitsu buttons and then put as many roms in this as possible.
The jamma standard is 3 buttons plus start, so the vast, vast majority of arcade games use 3 buttons or less. On a real arcade cabinet, if you want more than 3 buttons, you need to wire up a kickharness for the spare buttons, and every single board had a different wiring schematic (i.e. unlike buttons 1-3, buttons 4-6 are non standard between boards).
Some games like primal rage would try to get around this (becauss your game being non jamma standard meant less sales) by treating start as a 4th button. So on a primal rage cabinet, youll see the buttons in a square arrangement 2x2, with one of the buttons also being start.
Because neo geo games were so incredibly prominent, there is an unofficial standard called jamma+ that maps 2 more buttons, one for each player, to unused pins on the standard jamma harness. But outside of neo geo games, nearly nothing uses this jamma+ wiring.
Sure would be nice if they gave the dimensions of the riser anywhere on the site. Assuming the 23" depth measurement they give of the cab includes the overhang of the controls (the line on the graphic seems to only indicate that's the base, but consider that the height line doesn't extend to the end of what it's measuring...), putting the actual base of the thing somewhere around 19"x 20", A cheapo Parsons or Ikea Lack table seems like it would probably fit this thing's footprint quite nicely. Probably need to shorten the legs a touch, though.
Anyway, that might be a good temporary solution for a riser before you've actually put the machine through its paces and decided that it's worth keeping, let alone buying an overpriced official woodblock to sit upon.
Anyway, that might be a good temporary solution for a riser before you've actually put the machine through its paces and decided that it's worth keeping, let alone buying an overpriced official woodblock to sit upon.
I imagine this is super contentious to say, but no imo. Quarters or tokens or whatever are a huge part of arcades to me. It dictates the rewards punishment mechanic many games relies on. Being able to quarter scum your way through an arcade machine ruins the experience for me. counting your money and doing some math to figure out how much to allocate to a single game was a big part of the thrill. "Do i continue or not? If i do, i wont have enough money to play the new street fighter after..."
I keep a mason jar full of quarters next to my cabinet (about $50 in quarters), which has a full 2 coin mechanism wired up. When i feel like dicking around on the cabinet, i grab a small handful of quarters, like $2-$3 worth, and play till they are expended.
Serious answer, Arcade games are meant to be 1cced, so a trap door isn't their defining element and free play is better when playing vs fighting games anyway
Thank you for asking the important question. Super + Super Turbo? Whhhhhhyyyyyyy? Should have been CE/HF/ST.
Yep which is why for future mod abilities sake it would be easier just to buy a cab with 4-6 buttons and load 1-3 buttons on there.
This was a German ad for these cabinets earlier this year and seemed like an MK collection was in the pipeline at some point. Interesting that they originally included MK4 and not the first game. For the ones that are coming out, I definitely want that Final Fight cab!
Oh man! Looks like at one point the SFII and Final Fight cabs were combined... would have much rather had those four games in one (SFII, GnG, Final Fight, and Strider) compared to what they have going on now. I'm going to take a guess and say the MK licensing fell through, so broke out the Capcom games into two separate cabs to round out the line up....
Why CE edition instead of HF? I always felt that HF made CE redundant but it still shows up in the collection too?
Does anyone know why? is CE's balance that different that the same results cannot be achieved in HF?
Super is slow thats why no one liked it when it came out after HF.
Simpsons AND Ninja Turtles? Good luck navigating through the Mirage Studios/Nickelodeon/Konami licensing nightmare...
I love stuff like this, but it is a little too big to collect, and a little too small at the same time.
I keep quarters lined up on the screen of my Frogger cabinet 'I got next' style. I did cave and set Baby Bacman to freeplay, though, mainly because the screen is too vertical. I am adding a quarter slot to my multicade machine sometime this fall... playing 4 player Guantlet just loses something when you don't have limited life and 'your shots now hurt other players' rings shallow.
I keep quarters lined up on the screen of my Frogger cabinet 'I got next' style. I did cave and set Baby Bacman to freeplay, though, mainly because the screen is too vertical. I am adding a quarter slot to my multicade machine sometime this fall... playing 4 player Guantlet just loses something when you don't have limited life and 'your shots now hurt other players' rings shallow.
Well they both are redundant. Im just saying keep CE for the nostalgia. Whereas Super has none.
Gamespot did an interview with Arcade1up.
It isn't super informative (feels more like a soft ad really) but you get to see video of the machines running and how large they are.
It isn't super informative (feels more like a soft ad really) but you get to see video of the machines running and how large they are.
I'm mad the he said the Street Fighter cab comes with "1, 2, and 3..." I mean, how is it your job to get out there and sell this thing and you don't even know the games that are included in a given cab?
Yeah, the FAQ does say that it's just emulation, with no scanlines/crt filters.
Lol, yep I noticed that too! In his defense, that's the CEO of the company and not a PR person, but you would think you would know your own products. Feel like they are trying to make a quick buck, we shall see next week!
If you want to use quarters: https://www.walmart.com/ip/Ms-Pacman-Galaga-Classic-Arcade-24-Upright-Game-Cabinet/969452200
I mean, what were you expecting? A 1:1 recreation of the original arcade PCB?
It's supposed to be $100, but then again these were supposed to be $400 and they are marked down to $300 at Walmart and Gamestop. Stock up on BB&Beyond 20% coupons if you can.
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I wasn't expecting anything. It just seems like a lot of money and room to play ROMs.
I'm guessing you'll be able to get a riser for $50 at some point considering the entire unit is selling for $300. Honestly, I don't even think I can use one as it'll make the whole thing too tall for my gameroom.
There's a few replies on their Twitter account saying under $50.