First Cave pcb to own

[Ali710]

Well I had Espgaluda partial kit long ago but sold it, now I’m planning to buy Cave pcbs from scratch, what’s ur recommendation ti start with.

Bare pcbs or full kits?

[arcnl]

So is this an "investment" type of affair or do you want to play some games? If its the latter, check them out on mame and buy the one you find most enjoyable

[thegreathopper]

Kits are nice, gives you some place to store the pcb.

[sven666]

Theres a dude over at arcade projects selling a bunch of high end kits at fair prices some really hard to find ones like ibara kuro and ddpdoj bl..

Ed, hes on here aswell.. viewtopic.php?t=46398

[thomj]

Buy Ibara. You don't need the rest.

[geotrig]

pata koi ibara is the only answe as tom said

[yosai]

Buy Ibara. You don't need the rest.

For me it would be Futari Black Label.

[Ali710]

Buy Ibara. You don't need the rest.

Standard Ibara or Kuro Black.

Sometimes I think what I got myself into, this hobby is damn expensive.

Put more insult to injury? Mushihimesama matsuri for 5 million yen in Beep!!!!! WTH

[SuperPang]

So is this an "investment" type of affair or do you want to play some games?

Do people really buy CAVE games as an investment? If they do then Ali710 has certainly missed the boat.

[Ali710]

So is this an "investment" type of affair or do you want to play some games?

Do people really buy CAVE games as an investment? If they do then Ali710 has certainly missed the boat.

Yeah I’m late for the party, now it’s more of a loan

[zak]

Standard Ibara or Kuro Black.

They're quite different. Do you like Raizing style or CAVE style?

[Ali710]

Well mostly been playing Raiden 2 , tried cave games in Japan, Esprade and Mushihimesama futari

[cools]

DoDonPachi

[Ali710]

It’s a nice game but really hate chaining system

[sven666]

Why dont you buy an xbox360 and all the ports? Cost you less than 1 pcb and many of the ports are superior to the pcb anyway...

[Ali710]

Nothing beats playing on Arcade

[Ali710]

Mushihimesama same futari black label 1.5 or Another Version?

[ChrisBEANS]

Surely the move is to buy whatever you enjoyed most when playing in Japan, or try them all out on MAME and see what you like best?

If you’re looking for conversation on the subject though…

Personally I think one of the ‘coolest’ and certainly best Cave titles is Esp.Ra.De. Plays great.
Think Akira (or some sort of moody Manga) meets SHMUP.

If you want ‘accessible’, then maybe go back to Espgaluda. You still see cheap kits, plays amazingly well, sounds great, looks great if you like that sort of aesthetic.

Both are great, I don’t own many big ticket PCBs but own both of these. However, I will say once I learned about Batrider it quickly became my favourite SHMUP.
If you want fun, playable, expensive PCBs, Raizing is a good place to look too.

[Ali710]

Surely the move is to buy whatever you enjoyed most when playing in Japan, or try them all out on MAME and see what you like best?

If you’re looking for conversation on the subject though…

Personally I think one of the ‘coolest’ and certainly best Cave titles is Esp.Ra.De. Plays great.
Think Akira (or some sort of moody Manga) meets SHMUP.

If you want ‘accessible’, then maybe go back to Espgaluda. You still see cheap kits, plays amazingly well, sounds great, looks great if you like that sort of aesthetic.

Both are great, I don’t own many big ticket PCBs but own both of these. However, I will say once I learned about Batrider it quickly became my favourite SHMUP.
If you want fun, playable, expensive PCBs, Raizing is a good place to look too.

Your right I think will go for Esprade

[SquidDude]

If you want ‘accessible’, then maybe go back to Espgaluda. You still see cheap kits, plays amazingly well, sounds great, looks great if you like that sort of aesthetic.

Another good thing about Espgaluda (and the other PGM games) is that you can always go down the conversion cart route if you want a cheaper way to play on REAL HARDWARE (if you can put up with the cart slot issues )
The PGM games are the best of the bunch if you ask me.