Well, in arcade news, I received my Dragon Spirit board with out a hitch and it's every bit as wonderful as I remember it. The LifeForce board, well, that looked more like the people at the post office tried to save space by folding it in half. Needless to say, it didn't work and now I have to deal with the post office to get the insurance from them, which by the way will probably take half my life to get. Now on to the completely psychotic arcade collecting behavior.
I am attempting to take out a loan in order to purchase a......
Dance Dance Revolution 3rd Mix arcade machine.
I can't stop thinking about this game.. I am hopelessly addicted.. This game should be listed with the FDA as a narcotic. I have put too much money that I'd like to admit to in this games just in the past week. Now, if everything goes right I'll be making 22 hour round trip to New Jersey to pick it up by the end of the month. Hehehehehehe.
Another Day, Another Game.
February 28, 2001 - 10:16AM EST
To my great surprise I won an auction for a Life Force PCB on E-bay.. I put the bid in 10 minutes or so before the auction ended and figured for certain I would get sniped as usual. But I guess no one was looking, so I should have that board coming in by the end of the week..
I updated the my board list on the Projects page, I also removed Dragon Spirit from my Wishlist (looks like Gyruss is next) and added a full sized cabinet I never intend to get :). After which I added a price to the one PCB that I am passively selling on my For Sale page. It's shaping up to be a good day.
Monitor Progress
February 24, 2001 - 1:41AM EST
Got my monitors identified with the help of Bob Roberts' What's My Monitor?? page. Turns out my Aero Fighters cabinet has an Electrohome G07-CBO, and my Vendetta cabinet has a Wells-Gardner K4900 Series. I then placed and order with the sacred Happ Controls for 2 Cap Kits, which were only around 8 bucks, and some miscellaneous parts that I haven't been able to order because they weren't enough to make the $25 minimum order that Happ has. When I get the parts in I'll start working on that tutorial.. so expect that soon.
First Arcade Update of the Year!
February 23, 2001 - 11:03AM EST
Yes. Here it is, the first update since August of last year. So here we are! I finally got a Dragon Spirit board locked down. I sent the money order out today and hopefully should have the board some time by the end of next week! I ended up getting one for $175 (including shipping) which all in all is a good price since these PCBs are pretty hard to come by. Now if I could just get my hands on a good Gyruss board for $80 or less (preferably with JAMMA wiring harness).
I'm also in the process of figuring out what the manufactures of my monitors are so I can get Capacitor kits for both of them to hopefully get rid of the jailbars that are creeping up on the left side of my Aero Fighters cabinet. Maybe I can get that done tonight. I'll take some pictures and maybe put up a tutorial in the Technical Section.
