London Meet 4!! (Feb 23rd to 25th + extra days)

ill6 · Post by **ill6** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 9:46 am

Not sure its practical to bring a while Naomi GDRom rig down... They are a pain in the arse... It is doable though if people are keen.

Ibara BL *needs* 4 buttons, that might be a consideration (4th button controls bullet type, needed to keep rank low at the bosses).

Souky, Mars M, Gigawing, etc etc are all fine hori-verts and we could replace Demolish Fist or something shit.

sven666 · Post by **sven666** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 10:47 am

ill6 wrote:
Ibara BL *needs* 4 buttons, that might be a consideration (4th button controls bullet type, needed to keep rank low at the bosses).

how does the 4th button map? neogeo stylie from the jamma or by a separate connection?

ill6 · Post by **ill6** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 11:49 am

From the Jamma; in my astro button 4 was wired to the kick but the neo-geo wire was in place and worked fine when I swapped it over.

DEL · Post by **DEL** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 12:50 pm

ill6 wrote;

Not sure its practical to bring a while Naomi GDRom rig down... They are a pain in the arse... It is doable though if people are keen.

Ibara BL *needs* 4 buttons, that might be a consideration (4th button controls bullet type, needed to keep rank low at the bosses).

Yep, so that counts those 2 out.

We don't need many titles for the Meet (based on previous experience). We most likely need ESP2, Ketsui, Mush, Batrider and perhaps Brave Blade & Cyvern. Its still a tall order to house 2 of those titles in decent vert cabs though.

ill6 · Post by **ill6** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 2:16 pm

Both are doable... If you don;t have a 4 button cab and a willing engineer for Ibara BL though we should certainly rule that out.

Naomi is possible, its just a shitty system to be honest... Can be done but I would only bring it if people were keen on a particular game (Trizeal anyone zzzzzzzzzzzzz)...

Espgaluda 2 is great; One thing, theres lots of small dodging required which is a whole pile of fun but might be a tricky one on those "fudgy" sticks they used to have... Did you get Jap sticks installed?

DEL · Post by **DEL** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 2:53 pm

ill6 wrote;

Espgaluda 2 is great; One thing, theres lots of small dodging required which is a whole pile of fun but might be a tricky one on those "fudgy" sticks they used to have... Did you get Jap sticks installed?

Well I was talking to the one and only chunkis on sunday about new sticks for Goodge St. Apparently the fighter players' plan is to use the money from Neoempire Tournaments to buy new sanwas for the arcade and install them, then buy a couple of candy cabs.
For now, the sticks on the left sides of the sit-down vert cab and the Mush cab are fine in my view (I had Bob improve them).
The rest of the sticks in vert cabs are horrible and I've gotta get on Bob's case.

Post by **Icarus** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 3:15 pm

Sticks and buttons available from the UK here:
http://www.gremlinsolutions.co.uk/sanwaparts.htm
There's really no excuse for an arcade operator in London to have degrading equipment, especially if tournaments and stuff happen on a regular basis.

ill6 · Post by **ill6** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 3:50 pm

The cost is negligable... We will put several hundred pounds in; maybe we can encourage a couple of sticks from them.

DEL · Post by **DEL** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 9:30 am

ill6 - You don't happen to have a Raiden DX PCB do you? Or jpj? Or anyone else within striking distance of London?
- A Mills DX run is worth watching!
I'll get onto masamune & Bob and see if the Casino DX board can be found...

Herr Schatten · Post by **Herr Schatten** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 12:09 pm

ill6 wrote:(Trizeal anyone)...

*raises hand*

(I'd prefer to rather play something I'm not familiar with at the meet, though.)

sven666 · Post by **sven666** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 1:46 pm

DEL wrote:ill6 - You don't happen to have a Raiden DX PCB do you? Or jpj? Or anyone else within striking distance of London?
- A Mills DX run is worth watching!
I'll get onto masamune & Bob and see if the Casino DX board can be found...

i do, i also have ddp doj bl i can bring if i decide to show up, but ill have to see if i can get some time off once i get back from japan.

neorichieb1971 · Post by **neorichieb1971** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 2:00 pm

Hi guys,

I am living in Bedford in the UK now, only about 50 miles north of London. I would like to attend some shmup meet so let me know when the next one is and how to get there.

My friend Danny would like to come as well

I only have a few MVS games like Blazing star and Strikers 1945 plus but I would bring them down. I got the first 4 slugs as well if thats of any interest.

LMK.. cheers.

Richie.

ill6 · Post by **ill6** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 2:07 pm

No DX.... Was going to buy it the other day though.

DEL · Post by **DEL** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 3:37 pm

neorichieb1971 - I think we're looking at the weekend of the 24th, 25th Feb.

As for titles, we are only looking for ESP2 from ill6 and Raiden DX....Will - Can you still get your hands on a DX board? Or was it one that you missed on Ebay? Its got a Sondtrack, so you should buy it

ill6 · Post by **ill6** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 5:54 pm

What the fuck is a sondtrack (soundtrack??).

I can get my hands on anything necassary (though I might need to save some money soon ... ) Hmm.

Masamune · Post by **Masamune** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 5:01 pm

Icarus wrote:Sticks and buttons available from the UK here:
http://www.gremlinsolutions.co.uk/sanwaparts.htm
There's really no excuse for an arcade operator in London to have degrading equipment, especially if tournaments and stuff happen on a regular basis.

LOL we know where to get sticks and buttons from.

exellent com
himura
coinopexpress
gremlin

its just a matter of the arcade owner understanding why we want flimsy japanese sticks and buttons instead of the long life parts that are already in there.

mulletgeezer · Post by **mulletgeezer** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 5:32 pm

Even though most games in London arcades have shite controls you Londoners are still lucky - we used to have an SF3:3S in Nottingham which had control problems after a heavy session. The bonehead arcade owners stuck the game in a nasty Tekken 5 cab, with those shitty black bat joysticks that trap the skin on your hands. Of course T5 is a 4 button game, so the engineers drilled holes and stuck in 2 extra buttons for each side but they weren't properly aligned, it was pretty gash. Then a few months later they let the suicide battery die and 3S was no more.

Now the only game local people play is SuperGhey SFA3, which also has control problems. After some time having knackered sticks they finally swapped one side out for a Seimitsu LS32, surely the finest stick known to man. Sadly it's not such a durable stick, and now after a few weeks of mashing from the local mongs it's shafted - they should have gone for a sanwa really. And now we've learned Nottingham's only ok arcade will be under new managment after Christmas and there's a strong possibility they'll ditch all the games and become a fruit machinists paradise

Post by **Icarus** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 5:38 pm

mulletgeezer wrote:And now we've learned Nottingham's only ok arcade will be under new managment after Christmas and there's a strong possibility they'll ditch all the games and become a fruit machinists paradise

You guys should count your lucky stars you have ONE decent arcade in the local vicinity at all, knackered controls or otherwise. It is already too late up here, everything that was an arcade of any real note is either dead or a fruitmachine hall, and anything that is still up and calling themselves an 'arcade' is usually filled with gun and racing games.

LUNardei · Post by **LUNardei** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 6:21 pm

Icarus wrote: You guys should count your lucky stars you have ONE decent arcade in the local vicinity at all, knackered controls or otherwise. It is already too late up here, everything that was an arcade of any real note is either dead or a fruitmachine hall, and anything that is still up and calling themselves an 'arcade' is usually filled with gun and racing games.

Same here. And with same I really mean exactly the same situation

DEL · Post by **DEL** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 7:01 pm

On top of that, the only other arcade with any hope outside London; the Southampton arcade, just closed...suddenly.
Yep, its the same the World Over (outside the Far East). I've popped my head in seaside arcades from Great Yarmouth to Knokke in Belgium to Holland....you name it, there's just 4minute per credit Driving, FPS, Virtua, Dance Dance and that's it. To be honest, its been like that for over 10 years.
So we're trying to mould Casino Arcade to our tastes while its still there.

Smraedis · Post by **Smraedis** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 7:14 pm

Icarus wrote:You guys should count your lucky stars you have ONE decent arcade in the local vicinity at all, knackered controls or otherwise. It is already too late up here, everything that was an arcade of any real note is either dead or a fruitmachine hall, and anything that is still up and calling themselves an 'arcade' is usually filled with gun and racing games.

This can be applied to so many places now sadly

DEL wrote:On top of that, the only other arcade with any hope outside London; the Southampton arcade, just closed...suddenly.

That is a big shame

We still have one place with arcades left in Manchester, but people only go to play 3rd Strike there, but it is still something.

mulletgeezer · Post by **mulletgeezer** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 7:15 pm

It's true I suppose, i have it better than most; I work 5 minutes away from the arcade and I often spend 40 minutes playing at lunch time, sometimes I even have a really fun time playing against the local fighting game fans, but of course there are no shmups. It's really frustrating though as i remember how good the local arcades used to be, and I've offered to put games in but they were totally uninterested, the fools.

What about the Arcadia arcade in the Isle of Wight? They had a quite good selection of games last time I looked on theri website, a nice mixture of ancient and modern stuff.

DEL · Post by **DEL** » Sat Dec 09, 2006 11:19 am

Last night I got Bob to switch the joystick console on the RF Jet Vert cab. For a better yellow one, as seen below:

So...one more vert cab is ready for a new game

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The Old Mills looping Fire Shark in Casino last night, complete with Sondtrack.

masamune overseeing the loop

Christmas in London

Mills · Post by **Mills** » Sat Dec 09, 2006 1:07 pm

You dont hang around posting stuff do you. although that giant sized snowman we saw at that chinese resturant had to be posted.

LUNardei · Post by **LUNardei** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 5:32 pm

Latest news from Italy:
Fontaz has already booked his flight (23 to 25) and I'm going to book too. It's almost sure that my girlfriend will be with me from 23 to 26! No news from other italians at the moment, they are deciding atm.
About the rooms (I'm talking to PLSM): I'll be in a double room with the girl, but you and the mighty HINATAFAN can stay with the other italians to save some money (I guess it's possible to use a room for 3/4/5 guys). Now all we need are other italians to come, I'll keep you posted!

DEL · Post by **DEL** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 6:52 pm

Feb 23 to 25 is on.

tassian · Post by **tassian** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 9:19 pm

This is actually my first post here but I've been hanging around at super-play for some time now -- I'm a shmup enthusiast as well (cheers PLASMO, LUN, rj and all others who I know from super-play!). I'd like to join you guys in London if you let me.

I'd be bringing my wife and we'd probably stay the week before or after to do some sightseeing around the city.

LUNardei · Post by **LUNardei** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 9:42 pm

tassian wrote:This is actually my first post here but I've been hanging around at super-play for some time now -- I'm a shmup enthusiast as well (cheers PLASMO, LUN, rj and all others who I know from super-play!). I'd like to join you guys in London if you let me. I'd be bringing my wife and we'd probably stay the week before or after to do some sightseeing around the city.

Very nice to have you here (and in London)! See you soon

Post by **Icarus** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 3:41 am

First post edited with the new meet dates (23rd to 25th Feb).

Anyone know of any decent online maps for London, for us non-London residents that might want some reference for getting around? ^_-

Also, could have had a Pink Sweets kit. ;_; There was one on YAJ this morning, and I had my eye on it hoping that the board wouldn't be spotted and the seller would drop his price when relisting (like what happened when I scored my Ibara kit) but someone grabbed it for the buyitnow price of 104,000Y (£450). Back to waiting patiently, then. ;_;

sven666 · Post by **sven666** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 6:40 am

Icarus wrote:Also, could have had a Pink Sweets kit. ;_; There was one on YAJ this morning, and I had my eye on it hoping that the board wouldn't be spotted and the seller would drop his price when relisting (like what happened when I scored my Ibara kit) but someone grabbed it for the buyitnow price of 104,000Y (£450). Back to waiting patiently, then. ;_;

you sneaky snake you

DEL> great pics, keep em coming!!

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