I see these "I talked to gene" posts often, from what I know they don't mean much.

Not to rain on your parade but Unless Gene and Rick have come to some sort of agreement wizard blocks is just not gonna happen. Let alone Chuck is busy with his new company so i doubt he has much time to devote to anything nucore right now. Last time i asked Chuck he just said NOT likely anytime soon.

Kingpin has been a fizzle for years. Gene's weak ass excuse on the cpu needing to be reversed engineered is complete SHIT. Why...um pretty sure its emulated via pinmame.......so anybody that believes that is just well special. It's easier to re do the cpu board based fromt eh ground up to run the code. His excuse here is oh well people want it to be the same as Capcom. I call B.S on that too at this point people realize its this way or no way. You think people would have not bought bbb if it ran off a willams cpu if it was possible or a custom rig? I dont. People just want to play the game. I dont believe anything Gene says as he is a pathological liar.

This is nothing new, by any means. Kingpin is going to cost $8000, when and if he ever gets to it. He has been promising production to begin "in a month or two" for 2 years.

The price has been raised from $7,000 when the project was first proposed to $8,000 now:

http://www.bbbstuff.com/Kingpin_Info/kingpin_info.html

There is nothing to prove really. Gene has been saying for years like gambit says 2 months. When asked what the hold up is its MY guy has not cracked CPU yet. There is nothing to crack its been done for years in pinmame. You can play Kingpin in visual pinball.

No secret Chuck as well as larry demar and a bunch of other big wigs started this company http://spookycool.com

Your not wrong Gene tells that stuff to anyone who will listen like Wayno did with the MM remake.

Sorry if its not what you wanted to hear but it is the truth people that have been around in the hobby long enough know this.

This happens alot people that are somewhat new talk to gene get all siked on WB. Trust me i would love for WB to get finished. I know nucore is able to run the WMS version right now. Just no tables to run it. I have played WB in person the spinning lights are badass. He offered the game as well as the 3 extra tables for sale a few years back at his open house. Price was crazy though like 10g a table.

I hope He does the full machine!

I also sat and talked to Gene for a while at PATZ. He claims that the reverse engineering has been completed and that a test run was going to be made on another Capcom machine(Airborne) that he has with the prototype logic.

Yes , he is saying soon, again.

+1 Would be nice, but sadly it won't happen.

If it ever gets done, it will be more like $10K, maybe $12k.

He needs to get back some of the money he lost on BBB, and now he doesn't have "free" CPU's like he did with BBB.

Besides, with BBB going for $15k now, $12k would probably be a reasonable price of another limited edition machine.

Robert

Talk of making this game is old. People need to move on. Ain't gonna happen

I Never say never!

Is that the one where you take the top off an IC and read it ?

You need to get in deep when talking exact details of what has been done.

LTG

I saved up for Kingpin a few years back after I talked to Gene. Got my 'preorder' in as well. Since the project still hasn't gone anywhere, that money went toward WOZECLE...

I am generally speaking...of course!!!

believe it when i see it