Hardware

Looking to buy TGM 2 Plus PCB

invalid@example.com (deeden) — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 02:52:44 +0000

Hello everyone,

Anyone out there willing to part with a TAP PCB? If yes, please send me a DM!

Thank you,

deeden

2021: running TGM and TAP on a Mac (M1)

invalid@example.com (Amnesia) — Sun, 15 Aug 2021 20:11:14 +0000

So...?
Can we have a good way to play these two with at least, no more input lag than the best Mame we had so far for Window since approximately 2016 ?

TGM 3 questions

invalid@example.com (apextoejam96) — Tue, 03 Aug 2021 13:16:37 +0000

I have 4 questions.

1-wich cab do i need to play TGM 3.
2-what are the pieces that i need for the cab to run TGM 3.
3-where do i put the pieces in the cab to make it work.
4-or, is there any way to play the original arcade version of TGM 3 on a tv (not on pc with a HDMI cable)

I would like to have a tgm 3 cabinet (or the real game on a tv) cause i am playing it on pc and i would prefer to play it on a cab.
Thanks for the answers if you can find some!

Brook Ultimate Fighting Board Terror Instinct

invalid@example.com (taitovlx) — Tue, 06 Apr 2021 06:21:06 +0000

Trying to use the Brook UFB with Terror Instinct via altiinput.

The buttons work, but the directional pad is all over the place. Anyone ever got the Brook UFB to work with Ti?

Tetris The Grandmaster III Terror Instinct USB Dongle

invalid@example.com (Tetris997) — Mon, 31 Aug 2020 12:11:24 +0000

Hi All

My USB Dongle for Tetris The Grandmaster III has stopped working.

Can/Will Taito repair my broken USB Dongle?

Has anybody else's USB dongle been damaged? If so, how did you repair it?

Are there any specialists out there who can repair them?

Thanks in advance.

Getting a Sega Astrocity

invalid@example.com (Costra) — Sat, 11 Jul 2020 17:34:13 +0000

Hello! Im about to get a Sega Astrocity and im im planing to run it with a PC with groovymame and CRT emudriver.
As this cabinet has a dualsync monitor, how it will behave with TI or other Taito Type X games? I guess with interlaced resolution, am i i right? Is it playable?

Ah and how do you guys have a setup that allows you to record? Do you record INPs? And how do you do livestream? Thanks.

TGM3 lag?

invalid@example.com (Tarhalindur) — Fri, 19 Jun 2020 14:29:16 +0000

My TGM3 setup has a problem; in game timers (besides the visible ones, also the ones for ARE, etc.) seem to run twice as slow as they should. Is this a known thing, and is there a way to fix this? Thanks.

joystick pcb controllers

invalid@example.com (user401730) — Wed, 18 Mar 2020 07:07:27 +0000

petite-prince helpfully linked http://inputlag.science/ ~6 weeks ago. please do check this site and its links out.

i had had suspicions about the quality of my joystick. reading the science led me to finally change the pcb; and it is a change surely worth investigating.

here's an advertisement for a nice and inexpensive replacement board, from a good french vendor. qlex may shop here as well....

joystick pcb controllers

Taito Type X+ MultiGames 18in1

invalid@example.com (cleure) — Tue, 03 Dec 2019 01:49:55 +0000

Anyone have info on these?

Code:

 Was in warehouse,Brand New,Like New,Collection.

No IO,No Power Line.

It's a little scratched because it's age-old.

Visit My shop For more Shmups MultiGames

GameList
Chaos Breaker
Chaos Breaker (EXP)
GigaWing Generations
Goketsuji Ichizoku
Homura
Raiden III
Raiden III (EXP)
Raiden IV
Raiden IV (EXP)
Shikigami no Shiro III
Spica Adventure
Taisen Hot Gimmick 5(Some IO does not work)
Taisen Hot Gimmick Mix Party(Some IO does not work)
Tetris The Grand Master 3...

Taito Type X+ MultiGames 18in1

OBS, Moving the Stats?

invalid@example.com (Mike) — Sat, 19 Oct 2019 00:34:00 +0000

Hey, not sure if this is the right place for this question, but I just started using OBS to capture my games from a console, and I got everything working, and made an overlay, but now I want to move stuff around relative to each other. I want to move the score, and line count and next box to all be stacked vertically. I've seen other streamers do similar things.

At first I thought I would just duplicate my source, then make a different mask, and position it were I want, but whenever I change...

OBS, Moving the Stats?

TGM1 troubleshooting help

invalid@example.com (Philip Novak) — Fri, 27 Sep 2019 20:45:49 +0000

ESSENTIALLY: I am getting a blank (?) video signal and seemingly no audio from TGM1. I think it's a problem with either the TGM or ZN2 board. How do I troubleshoot further?

Background:
Hello, I'm new here and hope someone can help me out. I bought TGM1 with the ZN2 board from Sophia Corp a few months ago. By the time I got all the equipment necessary and became relatively confident that I was doing everything right, I realized that things were still not working properly. I have been messing...

TGM1 troubleshooting help

Seimitsu Buttons

invalid@example.com (JBroms) — Tue, 24 Sep 2019 18:47:10 +0000

Here in the TGM community we have plenty of discussions about why the Sanwa JLF is the best stick for TGM, but hardly any time is spent talking about the optimal buttons. From my entirely anecdotal research, most people just stick with Sanwa for buttons as well. As someone who has clocked quite a bit of play time with both sets of buttons, I firmly believe that Seimitsu buttons are better than Sanwa buttons, at least for TGM.

Sanwa buttons have something of a "mushy" feel to them. The button...

Seimitsu Buttons

Sanwa JLF-MW washer & springs

invalid@example.com (user401730) — Fri, 06 Sep 2019 13:21:19 +0000

Years ago I noticed the washer in my JLF-TP-8Y coming loose. This is the metal washer opposite the pivot, with the main body in between. I couldn't find a way to get that guy to stay stuck.

By chance I recently ordered a 2kg spring, and now this washer stays locked. I guess then that this problem indicates a need for a new spring, no matter the resistance. Is it so?

2kg resistance is a big change from maybe ~0.2kg, haha. How much resistance do you like? Do you know for other players?

shmupmametgm on Raspberry Pi/RetroPie

invalid@example.com (FreakyByte) — Mon, 19 Aug 2019 14:57:22 +0000

I maybe setting up a gaming room with some friends in the future, and we want to have a MAME setup in there. I obviously want to be able to play some TGM there, and since I'm used to mametgm with the correct framerate I wouldn't want to switch to a different version.

Our provisional setup would be to use a Raspberry Pi with the RetroPie OS, but since I hardly ever used Linux before I don't know how I would set up mametgm on the Pi. I don't even know where I...

shmupmametgm on Raspberry Pi/RetroPie

TAP Sound Bug on MAME

invalid@example.com (TheFellowJasper) — Thu, 02 May 2019 08:09:48 +0000

Ok, so I'm at the point where I'm starting to play TAP more and one thing is somethat iritating me. During 500-699 section on master, one of the samples in 7/10-9/10 games get looped. Now, while I know it's happening even on actual PCB, I wonder, if it as often, and can you somehow decrease the frequency of that bug appearing? One thing is that on Death the same music in 0-299 section get bugged much less than in master

PS. I'm using latest shumpmametgm with speed fix

TGM1 Setup Questions

invalid@example.com (botitas) — Thu, 25 Apr 2019 12:57:36 +0000

I've been interested lately in having a small TGM1 setup. I just have some questions
1) I know that to play the game (without emulation) i need a Supergun, an arcade stick/controller/whatever (and stuff to hook it up to the board), and, of course, the PCB itself. However i still need to get a Capcom ZN2 even if i use a Supergun, right? My friend who knows a lot about arcade hardware doesn't know.
2) I have an old CRT from my childhood (More specifically, a Sony Trinitron KV-25FV12/5, according...

TGM1 Setup Questions

Are "dogbone"-style NES controllers legal in CTWC?

invalid@example.com (Khaaan) — Thu, 14 Mar 2019 22:59:31 +0000

The CTWC rules require the use of an "original standard unmodified NES controller". Do the NES-101 "dogbone" controllers qualify?

Arcade stick with other games

invalid@example.com (petaQ) — Fri, 01 Mar 2019 16:09:49 +0000

Hi! New here, hope I make sense.
I speedrun a sega game called Mercs, it's a run and gun and I'm finding d-pads are horribly imprecise because of misdirected movement. I'm considering investing in an seimitsu arcade stick, and octagonal gate, and was wondering if anyone has experience of using such a thing for such games, and whether this might help since I cannot seem to find any better custom solution.

How quickly does your NES controller deteriorate?

invalid@example.com (GyRo) — Tue, 22 Jan 2019 23:12:09 +0000

It's possible I'm just having a bad day, but I definitely feel like my controller is failing me already. (I don't believe it started with all fresh innards, mechanically speaking.)

How long does a fresh controller build last you? I imagine hypertapping is much rougher on them than DAS, and I'm tapping somewhat forcefully to make sure it registers.

Are there Sanwa-like components for NES controller innards? Are they tournament legal?

TGM Tap PCB issue

invalid@example.com (Rezwalker) — Fri, 11 Jan 2019 05:10:04 +0000

Hi Guys

I recently found a issue with my Tap PCB
The image is not static anymore its always moving kinda like wave
i changed the cap on the pcb it fixed the issue for like 2 weeks then it came back
anyone saw or know how to fix this issue ?

thx in advance

Rez