Retrollections

[Toneman]

Amazing Collection Tone Man
Especailly the Neo Geo..I wonder more on the price you paid for that, From what I understand those don't come cheap, neither do the games.
Any idea where a guiy could get a deal on one of those babies?

Had this set since 2002, for 200 bucks with Samurai Spirits 1 and 2, and Fatal Fury Special

[Rcoehrs]

duely noted gonna start using other thread now sorry!

[nintendodork]

Just recently?!  Post it in the " All other Finds" thread!

[Drakon]

this's what my arcade supergun looks like when it's hooked up to a pcb, in this picture it's hooked into ketsui




on the right is a sf2 world warrior 911101 pcb, this's the revision without glitches in it.  The neo geo on the left has a female headphone jack which I wired into stereo sound.  Sounds way better than mono through the jamma harness











from top to bottom: neo drift out bootleg, neo driftout legit, world heroes perfect legit, samurai showdown 4 legit, and samurai showdown 2 legit (which I sold since I took this picture)


stuff I was too lazy to take pictures of:
snes model 2
various cheap import megadrive games
various cheap snes/sfc games
few genesis games
2 sega genesis model 2s, one I modded to play megadrive games only because I was bored
various cheap nes games
various cheap gameboy and gbc carts
other controllers (I have 2 official japanese controllers for my import consoles)
snes multitap because 3 player secret of mana is awesome
snes mouse and mario paint (the mouse is probably worth more than the game)

[son_ov_hades]

I'm quite jealous of the supergun.

[Drakon]

I'm quite jealous of the supergun.

thanks.  I built it myself (as you can probably tell).  It works great.  uses usb cords for kick buttons.  And the rgb to s-video circuit is hooked up through a scart switch so anything that has a scart cable can use it.  So I also use the rgb to s-video for my megadrive and super famicom just at the simple flick of a switch.

[son_ov_hades]

Very nice, I wish I had the knowledge to build one of those.

[L___E___T]

Cool!

Out of interest, what are the glitches that were taken out of SF2?   

I especially like how you've set up the boards in tupperware housings   genius!

[Rogles]

Yeah, the supergun is awesome.

[Drakon]

Very nice, I wish I had the knowledge to build one of those.

you honestly want to know how I learned how to build one?  google, wikipedia, more google, ebay for parts.  I started with zero knowledge of how to build one and how it even works.  Then I spent about half a year carefully researching on jamma, rgb to ntsc, how to do modding, etc.  And carefully searching for the cheapest parts possible.  And I also built it slowly piece by piece to make sure each individual part worked.

l_e_t if you want to find out the glitches use youtube and type in "street fighter world warrior glitches", they're pretty bad glitches.  And yeah I figured since I'm putting money into buying a pcb spending another 15$ to build a proper container with a cooling fan to keep it safe wouldn't hurt.  I have a lot of parties with this thing so I don't want to spill a drink or accidentally break a pcb somehow.  Anyway here's a bit more detail on the supergun

power supply, it's just a regular 25$ atx 2.whatever psu I bought from a computer store, completely original and unmodded



my supergun is based on a vogatek that uses sega genesis controllers for the basic jamma buttons.  So here's what the inside of my arcade sticks look like.  Kick buttons are simply straight wired.



Other end of the controller cables is very simple.  Sega genesis plug for regular jamma buttons, usb plug for extra buttons.



Here's the sticks I'm using on my supergun, got them for VERY cheap because they were "not working" when I purchased them.  I got the x-arcade for 15$ and the street fighter one for 25$.  And I'm talking canadian $ here.



demonstration of how my pcbs are firmly fastened to their containers and basically don't go anywhere.  You can turn it upside down do whatever and the pcb stays firmly in place



Here's my neo geo case, showing you the basic features I implement into my cases.  Mono sound can come out of the supergun itself.  For stereo sound I get it straight from the neo geo pcb.



Here's the rgb to s-video board.  The rgb lines just come out of a scart plug.  The rgb to s-video board has the colour saturation too high.  So to solve this I added resisters to the colour wire of the s-video cord coming out of it.  Now the picture is perfect.



Quick screenshot



Here's the scart switch I use.  It lets me switch between using rgb to s-video for my supergun, sega megadrive, and super famicom just by hitting a simple switch.  rgb to ntsc is powered by the same psu that powers the supergun.  the atx extension cable between the psu and the supergun I soldered the power on wire to ground so it automatically turns on when I flick the switch at the back.  So to power the rgb to s-video circuit only I simply disconnect the atx cord from my supergun.



I could have gotten rgb lines from my scart by lobbing apart a scart cord but this method looks a little nicer.  And I can quickly disconnect r, g, b, and sync for testing purposes with this setup



another random screenshot



here's some of the features on the supergun



here's the rest



Here's the supergun guts.  I started with a vogatek and did a LOT of modding.  sync wire is soldered directly from the jamma harness to the sync line on the scart port.  Audio has left and right speakers soldered together since it's mono.  And the ground on the audio port is disconnected since I'm plugging it into an amplifier and it doesn't work when the ground is connected.



picture of it hooked up to my neo geo



pcb feet holding the vogatek in place



here's it running



quiet desynced video of it working

http://drakonmusic.com/rare/supergun/supergun%20playing.avi

so here's the bad things about my supergun

1: it's sort of ugly
2: it's not as small and portable as it could possibly be, but luckily I don't care about taking it anywhere
3: building it took a lot of time and research
4: all the soldering caused my electrical bill to go insane for one month, but luckily my landlady was okay with it happening just this one time

here's the good things

1: it was stupidly cheap, less than half the price of other superguns and that's including the cost of arcade sticks
2: it produces amazing quality s-video picture, all my friends who also play on expensive new arcade cabinets agree my supergun picture quality looks amazing.
3: with it you can use either rgb through scart or s-video through my encoder
4: the s-video encoder can be used with anything that has a scart cable
5: it supports both stereo and mono sound through a simple stereo headphone jack
6: the sound can be plugged into an amplifier so you can really getting it sounding better than at the arcade
7: everything is safe, you can spill a drink on it, push it around, even when it's running and nothing happens to the supergun or the pcb
8: everything is connected through easy to connect ports.  It takes me less than a minute to switch pcbs.  And I could train a kid how to hook a game up to my supergun including extra features like stereo sound and kick buttons and the cooling fan.
9: it supports up to 3 extra buttons for stuff like neo geo or fighting games which use kick buttons.
10: coin and bios buttons are on the supergun so you don't accidentally hit them while playing your game
11: everything is adjustable.  On my amp I can adjust bass, volume, treble.  On my rgb to s-video board I can adjust r, g, b levels individually
12: everything is powered by the same psu and I can unplug the atx port to power the rgb to s-video board on its own.

So what does it support?  Anything that uses standard jamma, neo geo extra jamma buttons, stereo sound, mono sound, street fighter and other fighting game kick buttons.  Easy to switch rgb to s-video circuit for any other system I own that doesn't internally generate great looking s-video.  And all the parts were things you can buy almost anywhere.  Only rare parts I use are a vogatek and the pcbs themselves.  And the only other rare thing I came across was arcade sticks being so cheap.  Tools I used were a soldering iron, solder, exacto knife, small screwdrivers, regular screwdrivers, hammer, vice grips, plyers, hot glue gun, hot glue sticks, scissors, electrical tape, and decades worth of soldering/electronics handling experience that I already had.  So aside from the decades of experience all the tools I used were extremely common.  Well, I hope you guys found all of this to be somehow interesting.

[Medisinyl]

I've got a bunch of systems, but hardly consider anything newer than NES as particularly retro, though don't own anything older than that era either.  The pic shows about 200 NES games including the CIBs I haven't taken out (most recent addition was Mermaids of Atlantis for $1.50 at a local PlayNTrade [half off $2.99--they seem to price all of their American Video style carts for $2.99]).  Famicom and Famicom Disk games have been a fairly recent thing I've gotten into, so there isn't a whole lot there, but I've got Castlevania 3, Splatterhouse, and Kid Dracula on the way (as well as a recent 8-bit porn purchase from JC [sounds like it may be Sexy Derby from other posts--just so I can say I have one without going the expensive NES Panesian route...yet]).  I also took a shot of the title screen (camera made it look weird) for my SMB2j cart (I don't know if it is a less or more common pirate screen [perhaps someone will inform me], but it does have the level select [seems all the pirate screenshots I've been seeing lately have actually said Super Mario 2 or are blank).   

[turbo D]

=P~ @ your Super Mario 2 (3?) pirate cart! Rambo, eh? How is it, is there much differences? I've never heard of or seen this hack! Also, great collection there. Remember, using turbo is not cheating if it is built into the console.

[Medisinyl]

=P~ @ your Super Mario 2 (3?) pirate cart! Rambo, eh? How is it, is there much differences? I've never heard of or seen this hack! Also, great collection there. Remember, using turbo is not cheating if it is built into the console.

Aside from the weird title screen and using the name Rambo for Mario (in addition to the handy level select), it is identical to Super Mario 2 that was made on the FDS. 

[Mindfreak]

Awesome stuff, guys!!!

[FamicomFreak]

Wow you guys have some interesting stuff. Great collections!