Chicagoland Winter Carnival 2011 - March 4th-6th

ubersaurus · Post by **ubersaurus** » Thu Feb 05, 2009 6:28 pm

szycag wrote:If this is an issue I should bring my actual Famicom. It's the AV style (pic)

I still need to get some dogbone style pads. I bought two cheap chinese pads with turbo buttons, but those d-pads are really bad at picking up diagonals so they're mostly only good for Mega Man.

You can't find any legit NES controllers? Cuz US ones work on the A/V famicom.

drboom · Post by **drboom** » Thu Feb 05, 2009 6:34 pm

Dog bones are sweet though. I have a top loader, but no dog bone controllers.
Bring the A/V - got some Famicom games as well. It'll save me from having to buy the adaptor!

I'm also going to pick up a few more TV's -

szycag · Post by **szycag** » Thu Feb 05, 2009 6:35 pm

Yeah. I've just put it off because I wanted the new style controllers.

Sonic R · Post by **Sonic R** » Thu Feb 05, 2009 7:56 pm

I have one dog bone controller and two bricks I can bring.

I was using the dog bone for several years, but returned to the brick after having some bad plays in Contra…

I can also bring my only other Famicom game - Crisis Force (Konami 2p shooter)

drboom · Post by **drboom** » Thu Feb 05, 2009 8:06 pm

Yeah - bring it on down! This should be a hella good meet.

szycag · Post by **szycag** » Thu Feb 05, 2009 11:23 pm

CRISIS FORCE!

This should be a fun meet, I hope we don't run out all the Cave folks with our 8-bit stuff. Actually probably will go the other way around.

jonny5 · Post by **jonny5** » Fri Feb 06, 2009 12:06 am

man...wish i had the cash to come down for this....saving for a new loft tho.....

hopefully you will host something again drboom....perhaps some toronto heads might join me in the trek.....gotta get a new passport first tho.....

have fun kiddies

and post pics

drboom · Post by **drboom** » Fri Feb 06, 2009 1:16 am

I'm planning on hosting something again for sure jonny5 - if this goes well (which I think it should). Love to have some Toronto folk down - you'll have to bring poutine tho'...

jonny5 · Post by **jonny5** » Fri Feb 06, 2009 1:19 am

drboom wrote: you'll have to bring poutine tho'...

thats quebec.....

drboom · Post by **drboom** » Fri Feb 06, 2009 1:30 am

Love to learn who came up with that stuff.

I'm actually hoping to make this contest/meet a yearly thing - Summer Carnival in the winter. I'll also have to find out how to get a copy of Hi-Ten Bomberman at some point.

Sonic R · Post by **Sonic R** » Sat Feb 07, 2009 12:27 am

drboom wrote: I'm actually hoping to make this contest/meet a yearly thing - Summer Carnival in the winter. I'll also have to find out how to get a copy of Hi-Ten Bomberman at some point.

I think that would be great to have an annual affair!
It works well logistically as Chicago is a good central point for the midwest. I am already looking forward to the fellowship of the St. Louis/KC folks as well as possible folks from Indiana and we will represent Detroit (and Toledo for Davey

). Hopefully the folks from Canada can make it next time!

A Thank You in advance drboom, for putting this together and hosting!

gunbird18 · Post by **gunbird18** » Sat Feb 07, 2009 5:06 pm

Aarrgh! I am not getting alerts when this thread gets posted to!

Wow, this is going to be BIG, drboom! I can bring a Jp Dreamcast, in case anyone doesn't want to risk their modded DC or wasting time with a boot disc. Let me know if you want me to bring it and it will get packed.

drboom · Post by **drboom** » Sat Feb 07, 2009 5:23 pm

gunbird18 - the JP Dreamcast would be a good idea. Let me say that if anyone has a console they want to bring, bring it. Post about it, but bring it. I'm going to see if I can get a few more 27" TV's, so we'll have plenty of console love. I love the idea of getting some Recca/Alzadick dual screen action.

Sonic R - thanks for the thank you! I'm pretty stoked with the response as well - this should be a great turnout. But besides Andi - where's all the Chicago folk?

Andi · Post by **Andi** » Mon Feb 09, 2009 12:48 am

drboom wrote:Sonic R - thanks for the thank you! I'm pretty stoked with the response as well - this should be a great turnout. But besides Andi - where's all the Chicago folk?

There's a dude named Landshark on these forums who is from the suburbs. I haven't seen him pop into this thread yet.

stuminator · Post by **stuminator** » Tue Feb 10, 2009 8:12 pm

Sorry but I won't be able to make it this time.

I won't be able to get away from work this weekend. Maybe next time...

drboom · Post by **drboom** » Tue Feb 10, 2009 8:34 pm

Bummer, man. I was looking forward to having you there. You can always call in sick or something.

drboom · Post by **drboom** » Thu Feb 12, 2009 1:33 pm

OK - for those who are planning on comming, you need to make sure you have replied to the thread as I will be sending out PM's with my addy and other info about the meet soon.

handsome_rakshas · Post by **handsome_rakshas** » Thu Feb 12, 2009 9:42 pm

I'm going to try like hell to get the day off of work, this is a major event.

drboom · Post by **drboom** » Mon Feb 16, 2009 6:08 pm

Got a famicom adapter and it works great, so we'll be good with Famicom carts. Playing The Goonies with it at the moment.
Dave'll be over this following weekend to help me set up and get his cab loaded into the apartment.
Those that have responded in the thread will be getting an email from me this week with my address and information about my neighborhood. You'll need parking stickers to park on my block (and most of the blocks surrounding) and I have a slew of them, so when you get here, I'll hand one out to each car owner which will cover you for 24 hours. If you are staying longer than that, I'll give you two.

I also have three old school pcb's on the way, all Toaplan love...

szycag · Post by **szycag** » Mon Feb 16, 2009 9:10 pm

Any of the stuff that's soundless in MAME like Dogyuun?

t0yrobo · Post by **t0yrobo** » Mon Feb 16, 2009 11:46 pm

Man it's looking like I won't be able to make it. I hope you do this again next year, it looks like it's shaping up to be a hell of a good time.

drboom · Post by **drboom** » Tue Feb 17, 2009 12:02 am

szycag wrote:Any of the stuff that's soundless in MAME like Dogyuun?

Dogyuun is one of them.

Been dying to play this for some time now.

gunbird18 · Post by **gunbird18** » Tue Feb 17, 2009 12:31 am

drboom wrote:
szycag wrote:Any of the stuff that's soundless in MAME like Dogyuun?
Dogyuun is one of them. Been dying to play this for some time now.

Shhhweeet! I am dying to play Dogyuun with sound!

Non-shooty: I should have Demon Front in my possession for the meet! I don't imagine very many of us have seen this game in action??? Should be fun!

drboom · Post by **drboom** » Thu Feb 19, 2009 6:51 pm

Got Dogyuun yesterday, got Recca yesterday (and set a new high score for myself at ~458,000 in 2 min mode) got the top scorer prize, got 2 other boards...
This should be pretty fun.

drboom · Post by **drboom** » Fri Feb 20, 2009 4:40 am

Just sent out the info for the mneet - address, phone number, etc, so if you didn't get it and you plan on comming, please pm me and I'll get you straightened out.
I have to say, I'm really looking forward to this.

Andi · Post by **Andi** » Sat Feb 21, 2009 1:14 am

Maybe I've missed this somewhere, but what time do the festivities start on Saturday? 7AM right?

szycag · Post by **szycag** » Sat Feb 21, 2009 1:18 am

10 am til late! it's on the invite picture thing.

drboom · Post by **drboom** » Sat Feb 21, 2009 2:15 pm

Bingo. I'll put it in the title of the post just to make sure - Feb. 28th, 10 a.m. '
till late!

drboom · Post by **drboom** » Wed Feb 25, 2009 1:14 pm

It occured to me that we probably don't want to be playing Recca and Alzadick all day and night for score as there will be a lot of other games to get to, so how about limiting the time you can post scores from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m., with a half hour break for lunch? That way, the Michaganers get fair shot as hey are coming up aroud noon Saturday.

szycag · Post by **szycag** » Fri Feb 27, 2009 12:41 am

Packed in my lunchbox:
Genesis flashcart full of stuff (Slap Fight, Eliminate Down, Battle Mania 2 etc.)
Air Buster, Musha, Grind Stormer, Elemental Master, Sagaia, Trouble Shooter (Battle Mania 1), Rainbow Islands Extra, Twin Hawk. I can bring Fire Shark but I think I remember you having that, probably my favorite Toaplan game.

Famicom: Over Horizon, Final Mission, Abadox, New Ghostbusters II, Gradius II, Splatterhouse WG.