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Arcade Collecting => Miscellaneous Arcade Talk => Topic started by: Luigi on December 29, 2006, 04:35:10 am
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Does anyone know this guy?
http://picasaweb.google.com/sorahn/Wiicade
Tell him that he is obviously mad >:(
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Whale hunting, slaying off baby seals.....and now this.......some people have no feelings at all !
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wow how completely unnecessary.
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What a great idea! I was looking for something to do with that Defender Prototype cabinet.
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It seems horrible, but honestly, there have to be more Tempest cabs out there than there are working vector monitors to restore them. I can imagine worse fates. :dunno
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Can someone please find this guy and trade him a black genericab???
As to vector monitors, I could totally live with a mame setup in an authentic cab. ;D
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Can someone please find this guy and trade him a black genericab???
As to vector monitors, I could totally live with a mame setup in an authentic cab. ;D
YES!! Much better than converting it to a Wii cab :(
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I hope he throws his wiimote into the tv. >:D
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I think its a cool idea but not in a tempest. With that cabinet in that condition I would hunt like crazy for a vector monitor.
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I don't even understand having a Wii in a cabinet. You can't lean forward and grab a set of controls. There's no control panel. Thus, there's no point. The Wii was designed for moving around.
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Unless you were to just solder the digital controls up to a panel like with Dreamcast/Playstation controller hacks. But wow would that be a waste: waste of money, waste of time, and you would lose most of the play-list of games, leaving mostly the old NES games to play on it. Yippee.
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I could see it being used for the shooters the wii is going to have.
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oh no he didn't....
i may be forced to exercise my right to flag every one of those pictures as "inappropriate content"
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The "HORROR"
I agree with shardian, someone get this guy a generic cab and save the life of the tempest cabinet. Its obvious that this guy doesnt know the "First Commandment" of owning a vintage cabinet. " Thou shalt not ruin a perfectly good classic video game for the substitution of a game console"
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The "HORROR"
I agree with shardian, someone get this guy a generic cab and save the life of the tempest cabinet. Its obvious that this guy doesnt know the "First Commandment" of owning a vintage cabinet. " Thou shalt not ruin a perfectly good classic video game for the substitution of a game console"
I assume he doesn't know he has one...makes it even more worse and the cab will die in the future if noone stops him from doing that :(
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It seems horrible, but honestly, there have to be more Tempest cabs out there than there are working vector monitors to restore them. I can imagine worse fates. :dunno
Actually, if you notice, there is a pic of the moron THROWING AWAY the vector monitor! That 6100 is worth more than his stupid Wii cost!
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Did somebody say this was a good idea but not on a tempest? What would it be a good idea on exactly? No offense, but if you understand how the wii works and how you are supposed to play it and how an arcade cab works and how you are supposed to play it, this is the stupidest idea in the history of stupid ideas.
First I'm going to completely ignore the fact that a prefectly good tempest cab was butchered.
You need room to play the wii. As a matter of fact, the wii ir sensor won't even pick up unless you are three feet away from the tv. You know the sides of the cabinet? Ir can't magically flow through them, so two people will never be able to play because the sides block the sensor bar. Heck, since the inside of the cab is so small, I doubt one person would have an easy time playing it. An arcade cab requires you to stand really close to the monitor. It is huge not to accomidate the hardware, but to accomidate the giant control panel. A control panel that this cab now lacks. Since I've already stated that you can't play the wii up close, what you basically have here (or would have with any arcade cab) is a very expensive, space-consuming, tv stand, which blocks signals from the ir sensor and has the monitor at an extreme angle, thus throwing the accuracy of the sensor off.
Oh and don't mention virtual console games as they are console games and have no business on an arcade cab.
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Oh and don't mention virtual console games as they are console games and have no business on an arcade cab.
I won't bother trying to argue the first part, since I do not know the details of how this thing has been set up to compensate for limitations, but I would disagree on the second part. Now if you want to say "console games are designed for longer term playing than the average arcade game, and therefore are more suited to a sitdown playing method such as their original console and a TV, a cocktail cabinet, or a candy cab plus a chair", then you'd have an excellent point in most cases. However, to say it as though arcade games are on some holy pedestal and those FOUL console games should never dare try to touch them is, to be completely honest, nothing short of insulting to both sides of the arcade/console debate.
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yalborap,
Cats out of the bag. Circa 70-80's games are on a holy pedestal, especially the Tempest machine with a vector monitor ( try finding one). For most of the guys on this site and myself, we are in are 30's and most of us spent time in arcades in the 80's its a sacred era for us. To see someone put a good vector screen in the trash and gut the cab for a wii console....well its like trading a Ferrari 250 California GT for a Ford Pinto, you just dont do it.
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That is not an accurate comparison. Tempest is not a Ferrari to the Wii's Pinto. Give the Wii SOME credit. A more accurate comparison would be Tempest is a FORD COBRA compared to the Wii's Dodge Viper. Both cars are fast and kickass, but the Cobra is all that much better just for being a classic.
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That's just stupid. I am not even attached to old games like some people are, but I would hate playing a wii with a setup like that. ??? I hope his friends all tell him his setup sucks.
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Okay, the Ferrari comparison is a bit overkill, and the Wii is actually a fun console machine. I just wouldnt convert a cab for it.
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Cabs are butchered every day. Those old vector monitors are getting hard to fix because you can't find flybacks for them now.
That's why we have Mame, to preserve the game while the hardware is dying a horrible death around us.
If he wants to play Wii on that, it's his arcade machine. I bet there is enough tempest games out there to sit one in a museum.
I have had a tempest cab. It had a freaking baseball game in it when I got it.
Not every cab can be restored, and not every car can be restored. Some just need to be made into something else.