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Arcade Collecting => Miscellaneous Arcade Talk => Topic started by: CheffoJeffo on June 21, 2007, 06:28:15 pm

Title: Pole Position Clone Update
Post by: CheffoJeffo on June 21, 2007, 06:28:15 pm: I can't remember who here had asked me about these, but apparently there is an update (http://groups.google.ca/group/rec.games.video.arcade.collecting/browse_frm/thread/54534b348cf20f98/faec658b186d59ec#faec658b186d59ec).
Title: Re: Pole Position Clone Update
Post by: SavannahLion on June 21, 2007, 10:40:15 pm: What's his goal behind that project? To create a PPoaC? To create readily available replacement parts using modern IC's for dying PP boards? Just for :censored: and giggles?
Title: Re: Pole Position Clone Update
Post by: CheffoJeffo on June 21, 2007, 10:57:46 pm: PP boardsets are really ba PITA (for more info, there was an article in GameRoom (http://www.gameroommagazine.com) a ways back on it).

First mention I saw of the project (http://groups.google.ca/group/rec.games.video.arcade.collecting/browse_frm/thread/ec6179af175326c5/37f64ece15d24374?lnk=st&q=pole+position+clone&rnum=2#37f64ece15d24374)
Title: Re: Pole Position Clone Update
Post by: SavannahLion on June 22, 2007, 01:48:32 am: Couldn't find what you're talking about at Gameroom, but I did find a bunch of memos....

PP was really that bad? Coin errors, trace cuts, bad masks, bad ROM, bad RAM.... nice....
Title: Re: Pole Position Clone Update
Post by: Kremmit on June 22, 2007, 02:19:27 am: Quote from: CheffoJeffo on June 21, 2007, 06:28:15 pm
I can't remember who here had asked me about these, but apparently there is an update (http://groups.google.ca/group/rec.games.video.arcade.collecting/browse_frm/thread/54534b348cf20f98/faec658b186d59ec#faec658b186d59ec).

That was me. I'm down to one or two Pole cabs here that need boards, I wonder if he'll finish the project before I unload them?

Either way, it's great that somebody's doing this. We all owe that guy a beer! :cheers:
Title: Re: Pole Position Clone Update
Post by: CheffoJeffo on June 22, 2007, 06:45:26 am: Quote from: SavannahLion on June 22, 2007, 01:48:32 am
Couldn't find what you're talking about at Gameroom, but I did find a bunch of memos....

Sorry, the link was just a gratuitous plug for GRM -- I don't think the article is available online.
Title: Re: Pole Position Clone Update
Post by: Angry_Radish on June 22, 2007, 08:48:38 am: This is the first I have heard of this, great news!
http://ppclone.blogspot.com/ is the blog site for those wanting to bookmark something :)
Title: Re: Pole Position Clone Update
Post by: ChadTower on June 22, 2007, 09:29:47 am: Yes, PP was always that bad. Unreliable out of the box. Nearly impossible with reasonable effort levels now.

BTW, cool. I have always loved PP and PPII... but even building a MAME based cab for it is dicey because of the calibration of the wheel.
Title: Re: Pole Position Clone Update
Post by: Angry_Radish on June 22, 2007, 10:46:58 am: I didn't have any wheel problems with my PP mame cabinet, though I ended up recompiling to add the proper shifter support :dizzy: