Pete wrote: January 5th, 2023, 3:46 pmJPN Sega Lindy & glad I waited as the upgraded screen is lovely.
Did yours come with an upgraded screen or did you upgrade it yourself?
I've heard of an official one, but never seen it.
Pete wrote: January 5th, 2023, 3:46 pmJPN Sega Lindy & glad I waited as the upgraded screen is lovely.
Cools upgraded it with this:
bloodhokuto wrote: January 8th, 2023, 8:12 pmYou want your favourite arcade games on PCB? List your top 5, then cross out all but the top 2 or 3 and spend however many hundreds (or thousands) and that's your lot.
True in any hobby. Everything is suffering of the same issues, high demand, low supply, which increased dramatically over the pandemic. And some people see opportunities to make money.LarsVegas wrote: January 5th, 2023, 3:40 pm I'm sorry to tell, but my opinion is that there are to many people nowadays that see Hobbys as an investment.
I agree but this isn't exactly news. Bringing arcade hardware into your home has always been an obsessive niche. If it wasn't for these forums I'd never have met anyone else that's into it. It's also generational. You don't have to be much younger than me for arcade-authentic to be meaningless.LarsVegas wrote: January 10th, 2023, 11:10 pm Is owning a PCB for yourself and compete against the CPU in a fighting games authentic? Challenge others is authentic and that's only in an arcade or online. For shmups, definitely the PCB is the way to go, but 80% of the hardcore scoring guys don't use a PCB either. They take the mame or console route. Even for practice the emulation or console stuff is way better. Owning this stuff is complete luxury and has nothing to do with the real hardcore gaming experience only if you play in an arcade and put your score on the board there.
Or you could just invite people over to play games. Isn't that one of the reasons to own cabs?LarsVegas wrote: January 10th, 2023, 11:10 pm Is owning a PCB for yourself and compete against the CPU in a fighting games authentic? Challenge others is authentic and that's only in an arcade or online