MAGFEST 2013 (Jan 3-6)

[StarCreator]

I won't be able to make it until Thursday night. I can probably drop off the PCBs with StarCreator and he can haul them in, if that's cool.

I guess we'll have to pick a day to do lunch. I forget, is your Ibara vanilla or Kuro? (Is that one of the PCBs Strider intends to bring?)

I have to work a full day Wednesday but should be able to come by at night, would be around 8 PM ish. Supposedly I have Thursday and Friday off, but that's fallen through the last three years so far.

Preference is to start with the J360 since that enables Ketsui or Mushihimesama HD (1.5). It's amazing how much can be played without a J360 these days though!

I also have another friend willing to bring the following if they're needed:

Ibara
Ibara Kuro
Mushihimetama
Fist of the North Star (Atomiswave)
Demon Front (might be glitchy?)

[Gwyrgyn Blood]

Mine is regular Ibara.

Bring Fist of the North Star. I want to make people cry.

[majors]

Bring Fist of the North Star.

If someone brings an AW setup, I can put it in a Naomi Uni that has been converted to JAMMA. We can get that VGA goodness. I just need to remember to bring the 15pin gender changer.

[Yes Boss!]

I'll bring the atomiswave.

StarCreator is tracking, but I'll be there Friday thru Sunday. Sounds like you have a good rotation system in place so a day or two into the fest will be OK. Usually I play it on the Egret 3 with the tri-sync via VGA. I don't think I've acutally seen it low-res.

I really wanna put my Kuru out there and get some nice scores on my board. That would please me.

Also, I've got a big-ass executive suite room which I plan on putting some stuff in as a late-night getaway if anybody is down. I'll bring J-360s and all the shmups, a supergun, fun arcade sticks, and other fun stuff.

[Kiken]

I don't know if any of you guys collect old gaming mags.. but I've been trying to get rid of mine.. just don't really have the space for them anymore. Rather then throw them out, I'd prefer to give them to a good home. I was thinking about bringing my old box of Diehard Gamefan issues as well as my haphazard collection of Famitsu issues.

[majors]

I'll bring the atomiswave.

I have been told that someone is bringing Rumble Fish 2 also, but I have not confirmed if it's just the cart or complete AW system. With the rotation we have, we can run Fist and Rumble both. Bring your system with games in case the dude from Cali bails on his side. Thanks!

I'll PM you about Kuru.

[Yes Boss!]

I'll bring the atomiswave.

I have been told that someone is bringing Rumble Fish 2 also, but I have not confirmed if it's just the cart or complete AW system. With the rotation we have, we can run Fist and Rumble both. Bring your system with games in case the dude from Cali bails on his side. Thanks!

I'll PM you about Kuru.

I'll bring the atomiswave, so either way we should be good to go. It has a dipswitch for both resolutions. I tried it out at the lower res and it looks good, as well. We need to find somebody with a Dolphin Blue cart.

[majors]

We need to find somebody with a Dolphin Blue cart.

I'm working on that. A local game store has a AW w/ DB (along with a spare MVS) that I plan to pickup this week. I will post up when I have it in my hands but your system could work as backup just in case.

[EllertMichael]

Astro City - shumps TBA <- Strider77 PCB's

5 More Days!
Any word yet on what Tim is bringing?

[majors]

Any word yet on what Tim is bringing?

Tim can't make it, some life shit happend. He was only gonna be able to bring 2 boards, so I'm relying on the shmups community to bring the goodness. I will have something running in each cab Thursday morning. When folks show up with boards, I can swap them in then. I plan to use the candy cabs for shooters and I have a max of three that can be rotated. I need to leave two of the three hori until ppl bring their games. I can rotate the CRT without too much trouble at the show.

We may have more cabs to use but I do not know until I get to MAGFest. I can only speak for what I'm bringing.

[EllertMichael]

Any word yet on what Tim is bringing?

Tim can't make it, some life shit happend.

Aw shit, I hope everything is okay

Thanks for the update, Majors.

[majors]

Aw shit, I hope everything is okay

Tim's health is fine. He had a couple of unexpected changes that made his finances not as solid. Another friend from Colorado is in the same boat, and they can't make it also. Standard con attrition...

[StarCreator]

Kinda sorta undecided on whether I'm coming to set up Wednesday night or Thursday morning. Might depend more on what is going on at the console side of things.

[majors]

Kinda sorta undecided on whether I'm coming to set up Wednesday night or Thursday morning.

I have to be there Wednesday due to travel and setup time. I have enough boards to have every cab up and running so do not feel you have to be at the show early. I'm not gonna say that the games that'll I'll be running will be the best (that is where you guys come in!).

The main arcade group have been transporting gear to the Gaylord since Monday.

Boss -> I have an Atomiswave system with Dolphin Blue. Someone has confirmed to bringing Rumble Fish 2. You do not need to bring your system but if you want to bring FotNS, we could throw it in rotation.

[Yes Boss!]

I'll just bring everything I've got, less the atomiswave mobo, in a box. Should probably get their Friday afternoonl, evening at the latest. Picking up my rental car at 11am so I'll probably head out around 2pm.

[StarCreator]

Going to skip out on Wednesday setup and just come Thursday morning. Let me know if you need me to bring anything beyond the agreed upon!

[ratikal]

1 more day. GET HYPED!

[Kiken]

Minzoku and I will see you all Friday morning.

[EllertMichael]

LET'S PARTY!!!

[Gwyrgyn Blood]

It's really hard to play Ibara and explain how to play Ibara at the same time.

[Kiken]

Things I learned at MagFest:

Batrider does not provide sufficient protection against the elements.

[majors]

some poor vid's (too dark)
http://youtu.be/u5Zpkhc8BOs
http://youtu.be/Lh1iLBOQRp4

Setup shots of the Wedoca area at the MAGFest arcade area.




Once MAGFest opened up, the lights went off in the arcade:








Shout outs to StarCreator, Kiken, Yes Boss!, EllertMichael, Gwyrgyn Blood and anyone else I met while piss drunk. You guys made my cabs shine! Animazement is the next big con I do that could use some shmup help. We can make it a meet for folks in the Southeast.

[EllertMichael]

Thanks, majors! MAGfest wouldn't have been half as fun without you!
It was really great meeting everyone


Things I learned:

majors needs some 1p CPs for those tated cabs

[majors]

majors needs some 1p CPs for those tated cabs

Funny you say that...I just today got a Versus CP to replace my Astro 1l6b...so I do have a solo player panel now...and it even matches the Astro City

We can totally rock a high score challenge the next time!

[Minzoku]

FWIW, I threw some photos on Facebook!

...yeah, I know, it's FACEBOOK, but I got lazy, and it's almost the easiest for organization [almost, 'cause it kept losing where my photos were in relation to each other from uploading 100+ at a time]. If you need a login, use panbiscuit @ gmail . com, pw "biscuit1" [junk account I don't use]