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Poulet
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Hello everybody. Benjamin from france 39 years old.
I fell in the arcade with double dragon. I love this game. I remember playing with my brother on holidays.
Some other games too like the first turtles, robocop, double dragon 2 and operation wolf for example.
It was great memories.
Since 3 years maybe more, I start to pick up my favorite game with a supergun thanks to a friend. And now i like to talk and discover old games.
huluhala
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I'm from China,my English is poor,sorry.
A DIYer & CRT beginner, love shmups, now I'm trying to repari some Blastcity in Liehuo Shanghai.
ArcadeDream
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Hei all, finally decided to go ahead in building an arcade cabinet from scratch...hoping to find some info on designing one here!
Corentino
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Hi, Iam Corentin, 34yo from France. In arcade, my favorites games are shump even if iam not really good at it. Play a bit of 2x too.
I own 3 Egret 2.
Jermz1
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her0oftim3 wrote: August 2nd, 2021, 8:00 am Currently stationed in South Korea, just recently bought a vewlix cab and am ready to kit it out!!
Welcome! What part? Im at camp humpreys, nice how did you manage to import a vewlix at a time like this. This place is flooded with chewlixes.
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leadedsolder
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Hi, I'm just starting to get into arcade repair. I've fixed a bunch of 8- and 16-bit computers and blogged about it, but the arcades are pretty tempting.

At the risk of being way too ambitious, my first projects are:
  • a Neo-Geo 1-slot that needed some small battery damage repair and a universe bios. Come to think of it, I should get around to burning that BIOS...
  • a Sega ST-V board that I found without a bus terminator board installed - I designed a quickie board for it
  • an Arkanoid bootleg having an I/O error (probably whatever the equivalent of a coin hybrid) – I have to also build a spinner for this
  • a stack of five Sega System-24 boards from Yahoo Auctions - I plan on building a floppy board for this (almost done) and also a ROM/copy-protection board (very scary, not even started) so I can eventually play Bonanza Bros. I may also get rid of a floppy board + mainboard combo to a friend who wants to play Gain Ground. Of course, these things only happen if any of these main-boards are not total junk.
Specifically, I'm working on putting together a "minigun" supergun and getting a power supply so at least I can start testing these boards. I'm really impressed by the ingenuity and deep diagnostic understanding on display in the PCB repair logs, and I feel like I've learned a bunch just from reading them. I'd love to get to that level of troubleshooting and understanding one day.

Happy to be here!
candycabs4life
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Hey everyone! I am totally addicted to candy cabs and retro gaming hardware :)
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Post by repute »

Hey everyone! I've collected arcades for about a decade now and just got my first (hopefully, of many) candy cab. I'm incredibly excited about my New Net City and look forward to getting to know the community.
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AmetDj
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Ciao everybody! I'm AmetDj and I collect arcade cards, old and new! 8-)
Arcade cards collector!
stark
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Hi everyone! I used to be a coin-op developer and am getting back into the scene by reviving an blast city candy cabinet.
falcontoys
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My name is Mike, I am the owner/operator of Electric Starship Arcade in Haltom City, Texas.
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ChrisBEANS
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falcontoys wrote: December 22nd, 2021, 4:16 am My name is Mike, I am the owner/operator of Electric Starship Arcade in Haltom City, Texas.
Dude!!! Welcome!!! I love your videos!!!

Erm, I mean… whatever, I’m like, all cool and not bothered. Welcome, I suppose.



(Seriously, huge fan!! The screen(s) on that X-men blew my mind. At first glance I thought it was some crazy ultra wide CRT)
002
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Post by 002 »

Hi -- I'm from Australia. Mostly my interests are in professional grade CRTs like PVMs etc, but I do have a Sega Astro City and I love arcade games.
Whenever I repair or modify electronics I have a habit of meticulously documenting it. I like to contribute to wikis and have done so on the arcadeotaku wiki already for the MS8-29FSG.

I'm hoping to get some help with my MS8-29FSG actually - if anyone happens to have the resistor value for R447 that would be most helpful and save me creating a new thread just to ask a single question 😳
LinkToThis
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Enjoyed shmups since playing Ikaruga on the dreamcast way back when.

Here mostly to check the price of some old games I have.
sirocco2
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Hi all!

I'm from Barcelona (Spain) I love arcade sports games and a mvs collector. I expect i can find help to finish the King of fighters saga, only 98 left.

Regards Albert
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JBuenoMD
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Hey there greetings from Mexico.

Not much to say about myself, a small time arcade enthusiast with a focus on shooting games. Very rarely post on shmups and the projects siTe, have the same handle in my social media.

Hope to learn a thing or two troubleshooting my monitors and PCBs, lots of seasoned experienced people here. Maybe sometime doing business with some of you too.

Nice to meet you guys!
Sefirosu789
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Post by Sefirosu789 »

Hi,

Thanks for accepting me on the forum. I'm mostly a console gamer and into CRT's, but one day I'll likely get into arcades, so thought I'd sign up here! :)
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Tandgnissle
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Hello, another Swedish arcade nut here. Getting back into the hobby now again after a ten year slump shocked how expensive everything is these days. Trying to get into board repairs and generally learning more about what makes these things tick this time around.
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LadyBug
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Hi everyone!
I'm from Germany.and one of the strangely very very few women who indulge in this hobby. I like maze games (LADY BUG, PENGO, AMIDAR) & shooters (BOSCONIAN GALAXIAN MOON PATROL etc) the most. :-)
Best regards!
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babybearable
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Chris here.

Mini cute huntin'
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