8th Bay Area shmupmeet (is over)

Post by **Dave_K.** » Tue Jul 24, 2007 3:31 pm

Date/Time:
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Sunday August 26th, starting 10am ending 5pm.

House Rules:
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Same deal as before, everyone pays $5 at the door for food/drink which I will supply. Pizza run around Noon. Please feel free to bring more food, as the money would barely cover my electric bill as it is.

Machines are purposly NOT setup for freeplay. So respect the credit (limit your continues), and don't take home my quarters.

Please do not open machines, or my PCBs. If you brought you're own PCBs, let me know and I will install them myself. I'll make one general swap out of games after lunch to accommodate the groups taste.

Confirm w/me if you are bringing any guests. This is not an open invitation for your friends to play arcade machines for free. This is primarily for shmups.com members. Thanks!

About 14 people so far (not counting me):
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Sven666 + 1?
IlMrm + 1
Pixelcorps
shariar07 +1
DirtyMonk
Piratero
Kiselgof
louisg
BER
Segasonicfan
Ironish

bay · Post by **bay** » Tue Jul 24, 2007 4:10 pm

i thought sven had to cancel his trip?

Post by **Dave_K.** » Tue Jul 24, 2007 5:06 pm

In Sven's USA trip thread he last wrote this:

sven666 wrote: aaaaand some more news is i WILL be going to USA after all, altho the trip has been cut short and changed location a little, i will be in LA from aug 19th to aug 31st.

so let the tips rain!

itd still be great to meet up with some of you guys if anyone has the time and is in the area!

dave_k are you still hosting a shmeet?

sven666 · Post by **sven666** » Tue Jul 24, 2007 5:48 pm

bay wrote:i thought sven had to cancel his trip?

i did.. and then i managed to uncancel it

if you make it to the westcoast it would be very cool to meet up bay!

im in california from aug 19th till 31st.

im travelling with a friend whos not into videogames that much but ill give him money for the movies or something during the meet.

umm ive never been to the states so i have no idea about where you live dave and what distance it is away from things?

Post by **Dave_K.** » Tue Jul 24, 2007 8:19 pm

sven666 wrote: umm ive never been to the states so i have no idea about where you live dave and what distance it is away from things?

I'm located in San Jose, California (near San Francisco). So thats about 350 miles North of LA (5-6 hours driving time one way). It would have been worth the trip here to also see the CA Extreme Show, but since that weekend is out of the question now, its up to you if you still want to drive up for a Bay Area shmupmeet. I know there is a large contingent of NeoGeo guys in LA (including Matsu) that could possibly also host a meet down there (Droid's house?).

seattlexc · Post by **seattlexc** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 3:00 am

sorry to hijack your thread, but I was wondering what what school your girlfriend is going to in Tacoma.

Post by **Dave_K.** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 3:16 am

She is studying Optometry at Berkeley, and has a 4 month residency at some hospital in Tacoma (I forget which one) as part of her last year of rotation work.

seattlexc · Post by **seattlexc** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 7:25 pm

cool, I was just wondering because I'm currently going to school in Tacoma. Make sure she doesn't stay in Parkland, an area south of Tacoma, that place is a shithole.

IlMrm · Post by **IlMrm** » Thu Jul 26, 2007 6:43 am

Hard to believe it's the 8th meet already.

shariar07 · Post by **shariar07** » Thu Jul 26, 2007 4:27 pm

My vacation starts on Aug 20 to Sept 3 and i would be in San Jose, CA to visit my pops. Could we have a shmupmeet during that time. Its been a while since we had one. I have not seen Dave for a while and his mastery of the shmup world, hehehe

Post by **Dave_K.** » Fri Jul 27, 2007 4:50 am

Shawn, that would be awesome if you could join us! Looks like your dates overlap with Sven's, so I'm hoping the weekend of the 25th/26th will work out for you both. Stay tuned for the final date/time.

sven666 · Post by **sven666** » Fri Jul 27, 2007 6:33 am

Dave_K. wrote:Shawn, that would be awesome if you could join us! Looks like your dates overlap with Sven's, so I'm hoping the weekend of the 28th/29th will work out for you both. Stay tuned for the final date/time.

that sounds great actually, then we could go up to SJ for that weekend and head back for our flight home on the 31st afterwards

mrkotfw · Post by **mrkotfw** » Mon Jul 30, 2007 1:11 am

I've been waiting for the next meet! Maybe I can finally see Ketsui in action?

sven666 · Post by **sven666** » Mon Jul 30, 2007 6:39 am

Piratero wrote:I've been waiting for the next meet! Maybe I can finally see Ketsui in action?

i certainly hope for a showdown seeing as me and dave have nearly the same HS

Post by **Dave_K.** » Mon Jul 30, 2007 5:18 pm

sven666 wrote: i certainly hope for a showdown seeing as me and dave have nearly the same HS

Game on!

IlMrm · Post by **IlMrm** » Tue Jul 31, 2007 10:45 am

Looking forward to the dual.

Where's Bernard? It'd be great if he can attend this meet. Usually he's the one who makes the inform post on the thread.

I can't begin to imagine how many games you now have Dave.

Post by **Dave_K.** » Tue Jul 31, 2007 3:06 pm

Bernard is aware, but he's still working weekends, so not sure if he can make it. I tried to give him as much lead time as possible for this one.

The only notable games I've gotten since the last meet are: Espgaluda II, Pink Sweets, DonPachi, Batsugun, RSG, and Sonic Wings Limited/Special. I haven't even played Espgaluda II yet! Oh yeah, there is this other big cab I got in the back, but it still needs some work.

I think my garage arcade is now officially full/complete, so I'll need to come up with a better name than Dave's Arcade.

louisg · Post by **louisg** » Wed Aug 01, 2007 8:42 pm

I'm down.

How's Spy Hunter doing?

Post by **Dave_K.** » Wed Aug 01, 2007 9:31 pm

louisg wrote:How's Spy Hunter doing?

Oh thats right, you were not at the last shmeet. Its working, but has a humm to the sound. Its also incredibly difficult.

Kiselgof · Post by **Kiselgof** » Thu Aug 02, 2007 6:35 am

Sweet, looking forward to this one!

Sincerely,

Mikhail

louisg · Post by **louisg** » Thu Aug 02, 2007 9:56 pm

Dave_K. wrote: Its also incredibly difficult.

Sweet! Yeah, Spy Hunter is a rough game. Someone on the shmups IRC channel said the stick shift should be labeled Lo and Die

Anything I can bring to contribute? I think I brought Saturn Souky last time. Since then I acquired the Salamander best-of disc with 2 on it. I also have the C64 DTV stick with Uridium. I have Karous, too, but you probably have that.

Post by **Dave_K.** » Thu Aug 02, 2007 11:02 pm

louisg wrote: Anything I can bring to contribute? I think I brought Saturn Souky last time. Since then I acquired the Salamander best-of disc with 2 on it. I also have the C64 DTV stick with Uridium. I have Karous, too, but you probably have that.

I have Karous and Souky (ST-V). Not sure I have room to hookup another console like last time. I don't think it got a lot of playtime anyway, so you don't have to burden yourself unless you really want to.

louisg · Post by **louisg** » Fri Aug 03, 2007 5:59 am

Dave_K. wrote:I have Karous and Souky (ST-V). Not sure I have room to hookup another console like last time. I don't think it got a lot of playtime anyway, so you don't have to burden yourself unless you really want to.

Oh very cool, when did you get the ST-V? And what do you think of Souky?

Post by **Dave_K.** » Fri Aug 03, 2007 6:47 am

Haven't played Souky much since the cab I was running it on had sound problems (lost all sound). It has since been fixed.

I got the ST-V mobo after the last meet...sorry wasn't on my noteable upate list. I feel people are only interested in playing cave games. I've got Soukyugurentai, Raident Silvergun, Shienryu, and Cotton 2. Also not mentioned were a few gnet shooters (Psyvariar Revision, Shikigaminoshiro, and Night Raid). Since a few of these are horizontal, I may load them up on the one cab.

PC Engine Fan X! · Post by **PC Engine Fan X!** » Fri Aug 03, 2007 8:50 pm

For Dave K.,

Question about your copy of Taito G-Card Psyvariar Revision:

Have you checked out the Superplays stored on your Psy-R card?

And are they as good as ISO's Taito Psy-R G-Card Superplay?

I have one but the Japanese player isn't as good as the master Psy-R player by the name of 'ISO' whose handiwork is featured in the Psvyariar Appreciate Vol. 1 DVD from Reverse Babel Label... ^_~

It's interesting to note that such Psy-R Superplays are saved individually directly to the Taito G-Card itself for posterity and can't be viewed on such another Psy-R Card anyways (but just on the G-Card currently being played)...

Only that Takumi produced arcade shmup title of Night Raid is a horizontal displayed game (like that of Gigawing 1 & 2 or Mars Matrix) whereas both Psyvariar Revision and Shirogami No Shiro are vertical oriented arcade shump titles, of course..... ^_~

PC Engine Fan X! ^_~

Post by **Dave_K.** » Fri Aug 03, 2007 11:36 pm

PC Engine Fan X! wrote:Have you checked out the Superplays stored on your Psy-R card? And are they as good as ISO's Taito Psy-R G-Card Superplay?

Yes there are a bunch of ALL replays saved, but I have no idea how good they compare to ISO's superplay, as I've never seen it (nor know what score obtains).

PCEFX, will you be joining us for this meet?

pixelcorps · Post by **pixelcorps** » Sat Aug 04, 2007 10:04 pm

gah!! i MIGHT just be back from vacation the night before!!

i'm definitely down, but need to ask the GF what day i get back, then i can show off my sunburn hehe..

DirtyMonk · Post by **DirtyMonk** » Sun Aug 05, 2007 8:04 am

I know I've been lurking for way too long, but I wanted to chime in and say that I'm up for it as well.

pixelcorps · Post by **pixelcorps** » Mon Aug 06, 2007 7:29 am

ok, so i'm back the night before, so if I can get out of bed the next day, i'm there!!

anyone travelling from SF???

IlMrm · Post by **IlMrm** » Mon Aug 06, 2007 8:05 am

pixelcorps wrote:ok, so i'm back the night before, so if I can get out of bed the next day, i'm there!!

anyone travelling from SF???

Right here.

I gotta warn you though, we take off early in the morning, as I always get to Dave's place promptly at 10.

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