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paigeoliver:
Right, I just don't understand why you would want to wipe out the legitimate Ultracade computer with all those LICENSED games on it that someone else could probably easily fix. Just so you can use it as an 8 year old PC.

icka:
Well to answer your question, i don't.  However that being said even david foley himself, on this message board, has stated ultracade is a dead product.


--- Quote from: davidrfoley on November 25, 2008, 11:55:07 am ---I sold UltraCade Technologies over two years ago and have not been involved in the system ever since.  It's a dead product.  Global VR discontinued the UltraCade and Arcade Legends product lines.  They renamed it to Global Arcade Classics, but then they laid off the team and did not renew a bunch of the licenses.

--- End quote ---

as found here: http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,86245.0.html

Just for note the people over at Globalvr say the same.

 Ultracade is STILL wrapped up in lawsuits from my understanding.  Each key needed to reinstall gamepacks is individual so its not a matter of going on the computer and finding one.  GlobalVR NO LONGER offers keys over the phone.  rather they offer you a distributor in your area which you MUST PAY and have the gamepacks reinstalled by them due to restrictions, lawsuits and other bs.  the entire system is working.  besides the bios not saving and constantly resetting to defaults.  that could be a simple battery issue though and when i am around the machine and buy another battery i plan to test that out.  the only other issue is that the games are freezing right after you start them up.  now clearly i am knew at this but ive spent nights now researching joshua os, jamma, ultracade, david r foley, j pacs and other blah blah blah.  maybe simply a fresh install of the gamepack would work with this issue?  maybe it is mobo related issue?  i can't really easily fidgit with it because of restrictions with the key?  From my understanding, and please correct me if i am talking out of my bum, not many other people would be able to easily fix this issue unless they had the licensing to do so? 

however that all being said, i am probably a lot less intelligent than some here and maybe somebody could fix it easy but its MY machine.  i could install an emulator on my pc and purchase a joystick but thats just not as cool as having a giant arcade machine in my living room.  HAH!  So i could probably sell it and buy another machine?  but the worth of the ultracade in its entirety is not very high?  people are saying they purchased them for 500/600 dollars.  ebay has one listed for 3400 or something but its not sold and its been listed before at the sameish price.  and lastly i am completely mesmerized by this machine and over the past 2 nights i have done more and more research on it and have some more to do.  :-D

So clearly i would rather the machine work as an ultracade machine but if that is not an option for me, i shall move on to plan b which is turning the machine into something else since the worth does not seem so high at this point in time.  also, there would be no handing you anything the machine weighs almost 300lbs.

whats funny is if i would have started working on this machine when i first got it in 2009 i wouldnt have run into these issues with the key as globalvr was just offering them over the phone :-/

paigeoliver:
I wasn't suggesting that you need to fix the machine up as an ultracade.  :banghead:

Mame the heck out of it.

What I keep trying to explain is that it makes no sense to try to reuse the old ultracade computer. You know, the COMPUTER. Not the entire 300 pound arcade cabinet.

The COMPUTER inside the Ultracade cabinet is rather low spec and as a COMPUTER is literally worth like $20, if that.

You could probably get a couple hundred bucks for the COMPUTER out of the ultracade, even though it is having problems. Someone else could probably easily repair the problem without involving GlobalVR or David Foley or any of that other mess. Chances are decent that your problems with Street Fighter 2 might not have even been related to a corrupt ultracade install, it could have just as easily been power supply problems or motherboard problems, or any one of a dozen other little computer hardware gremlins that may still rear their heads on the system even after you wipe the install.

There are millions of 8 year old PCs out there waiting to be had for free to $20. However the number of Ultracade PCs floating around is extremely limited. Someone will want that thing, I promise.

Ken Layton:
Chicago Gaming has some machines similar to Ultracades:

http://www.chicago-gaming.com/supercade.php

http://www.arcadelegends.com/

lilshawn:
what IS the computer?


it could be that someone had switched out the computer with one thought to be compatible but not enough to work.


I had installed the software on what I thought was a good board... everything works out...then boop! as soon as you start a game it crashed. turned


ended up finding a different computer and it worked properly.


here:


http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,107965.0.html

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