Arcade boards for sale!

[KevinDDR]

TGM3 - Make an offer (it works)
TGM1 - $100 (it also works) Sold to cyberguile!
Tetris Plus - $75 (it probably works)
Capcom JAMMA/JVS converter - $200 (wiring is bizarre, but it works)

All prices don't include shipping. If you're going to the Strasbourg meeting shipping is free.
I take Paypal.

PM me.

Fucking done with this bullshit.

[Rosti LFC]

Would shipping also be free if you could stay at my house? ;)

[muf]

Another day, another whim.

Does your TGM1 have copied art or original art?

[KevinDDR]

@Rosti: Shipping will be free for you too, assuming you're willing to wait until I'm in England.

@Muf: Copied art.

[K]

TGM3 - Make an offer (it works)

5000 Francs CFA :sneaky:

[Budster]

Uh... You know what, I don't have enough disposable income to buy TGM3.

I will trade you a holographic Charizard for it?
http://koti.phnet.fi/bast/pokemon/card_charizard.jpg

[cyberguile]

Me wants your TGM1
Me buys your tgm1
Me brings 100 bucks at strasbourg
Me gets back with tgm1 to lyon

[Geist]

I am also interested in TGM1....

[Amnesia]

5000 Francs CFA = 50 Francs = 8 €.

Sorry jago you failed.

[muf]

5000 Francs CFA = 50 Francs = 8 €.

Sorry jago you failed.

You fail at getting jokes.

[KevinDDR]

Me wants your TGM1
Me buys your tgm1
Me brings 100 bucks at strasbourg
Me gets back with tgm1 to lyon

Deal.

[brookman]

Sorry for asking some stupid questions: What exactly is an arcade board? Is it just a naked piece hardware or a complete system? How do you get it running? What additional parts do you need? Where can you buy them?

Thanks for helping a noob. :D

[cyberguile]

depends the system
for tgm 1 and 2, all you need is an arcade system with a jamma plugger, you plug the card and you play
for tgm 3 you will need a jamma/jvs convertor

other systems like the atomiswave, mvs or CPS, the game is cartidge format (BIG ones) and you plug it on their respective system (atomiswave, mvs slot, cps) which you plug to the jamma
some others like the naomi 2, the game is a GD-rom which you insert on the system which you plug to the jamma

etc etc etc

[DeHackEd]

Arcade games are (usually) sold in the form of a large circuit board with a standard connector (JAMMA) which provides power, inputs, and outputs. The program ROM, main CPU, memory, etc are all hardwired onto it, though the game ROM may be modular to allow for switching games or upgrades.

http://coinoparcade.com/pcbs/BLOXEED%20JAMMA%20ARCADE%20PCB%20LIKE%20TETRIS.jpg
Behold! TGM1 and 2(+) look a lot like this. TGM2 consists of mostly hardwired components, but 2 chips are removable to facilitate the Plus upgrade.

[muf]

Sorry for asking some stupid questions: What exactly is an arcade board? Is it just a naked piece hardware or a complete system? How do you get it running? What additional parts do you need? Where can you buy them?

Thanks for helping a noob. :D

Think of it like a naked games console without a monitor or any controllers. The JAMMA (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JAMMA#Connector_standards) connection hooks up power and controls to the board, and audio and video from the board. Some boards are for a single game only (like TAP), others have interchangeable cartridges or daughterboards kind of like home consoles have swappable games. Most newer arcade games (with notable exception of Cave games (http://system16.com/hardware.php?id=868)) come in the shape of an enclosed motherboard, based either on PC hardware (http://system16.com/base.php#11) (Type-X (http://system16.com/hardware.php?id=677), Lindbergh (http://system16.com/hardware.php?id=731), Europa-R (http://system16.com/hardware.php?id=907)) or on spruced up console hardware (Dreamcast (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreamcast)->NAOMI (http://system16.com/hardware.php?id=721), GameCube (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_GameCube)->TriForce (http://system16.com/hardware.php?id=728), PS2 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_2)->System 246 (http://system16.com/hardware.php?id=543)), with swappable cartridges or hard drives.

TGM1 runs on Sony/Capcom ZN-2 (http://system16.com/hardware.php?id=797) hardware (which is based on the PlayStation), where the game resides on a daughterboard. On YAJ (http://auctions.yahoo.co.jp/) you can sometimes buy a ZN-2 motherboard or TGM1 daughterboard separately, but most of the time they're sold together.

TAP runs on Hitachi/Psikyo SH-2 (http://system16.com/hardware.php?id=811) hardware, and the game is burned into the ROM chips (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mask_ROM) on the board permanently. The layout of the board (there are several revisions of SH-2 boards) is identical to two other games (Gunbarich and Dragon Blaze), but the ROM chips are surface mounted (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface-mount_technology) so you cannot simply swap them out. The main game code resides on EEPROM chips (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EEPROM) mounted in DIP sockets (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_in-line_package), so those can be swapped; this is how you upgrade from TGM2 (http://tetrisconcept.net/wiki/TGM2) to TAP (http://tetrisconcept.net/wiki/TAP).

Ti runs on Taito Type-X (http://system16.com/hardware.php?id=677) hardware (PC-based) and the game comes in the form of a hard drive. However, Arika has chosen only to sell bundles where you buy the Type-X system complete with game. It's very hard to find separate Ti hard drives for sale, as virtually all home owners and arcade resellers bought it as a complete package for a relatively high price and hope to sell it like that.

To play a JAMMA game, you need either a complete arcade cabinet, or a SuperGun (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SuperGun), which is basically a small enclosure that provides the necessary connectivity for the game to run while allowing you to connect a joystick and television/monitor. Most of the more serious/expensive superguns are complete two-player control panels (http://img200.imageshack.us/img200/1926/boardmaster8xa.jpg). When buying a cabinet, it doesn't really matter what you get, the only things you should note are:
- The TGM series are Japanese games and are most authentically played on a Candy Cabinet (http://hard--candy.com/) with Sanwa (http://www.akihabarashop.jp/catalogs/Sanwa0910.pdf)- or Seimitsu (http://www.akihabarashop.jp/catalogs/Seimitsu2007.pdf)-brand controls. You don't want to be like KevinDDR (http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs306.snc3/28933_420836566809_595986809_5354729_5376700_n.jpg ), with a ghetto-ass wooden cabinet.
- Resolution (http://wiki.arcadeotaku.com/w/Beginners_Guide_To_Candy_Cabs#What_about_monitor_r esolutions.3F), TGM1 and TAP are 15KHz (320x240, CGA), and Ti is 31KHz (640x480, VGA), so make sure your cabinet monitor supports the right sync frequencies.

This is probably much more than you needed to know, but I was bored :V.

[Rosti LFC]

tepples, how did you get control of muf's account?

[muf]

:colbert:

[brookman]

a lot of information

Wow, thank you!
Now I just have to buy one. But first I should probably move to a large flat. :)

[TWF]

tepples, how did you get control of muf's account?

10/10 i chuckled