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| Overstock.com "Taito Floor Model Retro Arcade Game" $559.99 Shipped? |
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| lseelba:
Is this a good deal and does anyone have information on this thing? I heard it is Jamma based but no one knows for sure. Would it be easy to make it six buttons per player and drop a PC in there with a J-PAC and play some SFII? http://www.overstock.com/?page=proframe&prod_id=1882597 |
| kjoel0123:
Looks like a wanna be cheap piece of crap with good looking stickers on it.. I bet its just one of those $10 video game units connected to a no frills parts. I heard alot of others talk about these and they are crap !! period .. no coin door, no lit marquee. Hell I think target even sells this crap , that to me says it all !! |
| AlanS17:
Everything I've been able to find about the bartop version is that it is JAMMA comptible. Considering it's brand new, being under $600 would make it a decent deal. I couldn't find any info on the monitor, but my best guess is that it is CGA. That means you'd probably want an ArcadeVGA video card for any PC you plan on using. I've used a J-Pac with a similar setup and it worked like a charm. As far as using a SF button layout, I don't think that will be a problem at all. There looks to be plenty of room between players 1 and 2. I bet you could just drill new holes straight into the existing control panel to add more buttons. All-in-all, I think this looks like a good option for someone and wants a quick and easy solution. Unfortunately, I'm having the same problem with tracking better info on the subject. The only thing I could find was this: http://www.retroblast.com/reviews/GameRoomClassicsCabinet-08012006-02.html ... but that's for the bartop version. |
| AlanS17:
--- Quote from: kjoel0123 on November 08, 2006, 06:54:42 pm ---Looks like a wanna be cheap piece of crap with good looking stickers on it.. I bet its just one of those $10 video game units connected to a no frills parts. I heard alot of others talk about these and they are crap !! period .. no coin door, no lit marquee. Hell I think target even sells this crap , that to me says it all !! --- End quote --- Obviously an emotionally charge post. I haven't heard anything one way or another. I've just read an unbiased, professional review online that had decent things to say about the bartop version. I think it's a good place to start if you don't have the technical skill or will to build a machine for yourself. About the only left for someone to do would be the set up the PC that goes in it (and add more buttons). The absence of a coin door isn't so bad. You can always add credit buttons underneath. Plus there's got to be at least one extra button already on the control panel to access the menu. That could easily be remapped as a credit button. |
| GoPodular.com:
Read the retroblast review of the Taito countertop model (it's a mixed review): http://www.retroblast.com/reviews/GameRoomClassicsCabinet-08012006-01.html In one of the pics on the second page you can see they don't even use glue to hold the sides together. There were some other "issues" with the way it was put together. The good news: "According to our contact at PVG Tech, the cabinet runs off of a standard JAMMA board and a standard arcade monitor, and that their board can easily be swapped out for any other JAMMA game. Considering the JAMMA harness is what ties this cabinet together, I’m rather convinced that this cabinet could be converted to a MAME cabinet using an Ultimarc J-Pac with minimal effort, even with space being somewhat limited." Here's the pic showing no glue: |
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