I sold most of my vids to make room for pins over the last couple of years, but the vids are starting to make a comeback.

Bubbles
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Super Sprint
Rastan (soon to be converted back into Robotron)
Centipede cabaret
Stunt Cycle
Big Buck Safari (for sale or trade)
Pole Position cockpit (will be delivered soon)
Roadblasters cockpit (will be delivered soon, and will need some work)

I am actually considering putting my No Fear up for sale or trade to get more arcade games. I found that Metallica is the pin I play 99% of the time, so I don't feel the need to have too many others.

I actually just got the Roadblasters working last month! I also picked up a Frogger, Ms Pacman, and a Rapid Fire since the last post. I have an Omega Race coming in next month, then I will be searching for a Nintendo Red Tent.

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I really want a Sinistar cockpit!

I will be searching for a Donkey Kong soon. If you know of any reasonably close to Reno, NV, please let me know.

I have a Bally Rapid Fire that will be for sale/trade soon as well. I figured I would mention that in this thread since it is about as popular as arcade games here on Pinside. lol

You know how a bunch of people here complain about the afm and mm remakes because they are not original? It is pretty much the same thing with emulation in the arcade world. It has to be original, or it sucks.

Emulation may not be perfect, but you can have a lot of fun playing the emulated games.

If you have good controls, a lot of games will feel just like the originals.

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I haven’t played a 60-1, but have compared donkey Kong in mame against an original. I did not notice any difference. I was playing with a nintendo controller, and original dk jump button on the mame cabinet. I am not a great player, but I was at 278,500 at that time (I am sure way worse now as I have barely played in years). The timing felt identical to me. I would expect the 60-1 to have more emulation bugs. I think they use a fairly old version of mame, and there has been development on the dkong driver over the years. I remember quite a few years ago the sound emulation was rewritten to try to correctly emulate the hardware. After that was added, my athlon xp was no longer fast enough to run donkey Kong in mame, so I built a new computer based on the core2duo.

When you hear complaints about emulation, I think a lot of them are from people using older versions of mame, or bad controls. If there is a legitimate bug in the emulation of a popular game like donkey Kong, it is probably because the people who notice it don’t bother to report it to to the mame team (mametesters.org). There are also some players that just notice input lag way more than others.

The original sticks for those aren't too hard to find. A wanted post on klov should bring a few out of hiding. They pop up on ebay as well.

If you don't care about the exact feel of the original, pretty much any joystick will work, just leave the other two switches unconnected.

I used to have a few big racing games, and a giant Time Crisis 3. They are just too big. Now my biggest is a pole position cockpit. The rest are just uprights, and the 3 pins.

I finally got Mr Do down in the gameroom. Had to have new studs welded onto the control panel to mount the original stick.

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You probably just need to do a cap kit on the monitor chassis. If you are comfortable soldering, the kits are available for less than $20.

You can probably find someone in your area to do it for you if you don't solder. It is a pretty easy job. Just remove the old caps one at a time, and replace them with the new one as you go. You just have to make sure the new one goes in the same way to match the polarity of the old one.

You can also just buy an already rebuilt chassis (probably KLOV is your best bet) and just swap it if you don't want to solder.

I think CRTs look way better than LCDs on games that were designed to use them. It is easier to go LCD though, so a lot of people do it. More resolution is not always better if the games were designed to be a bit blurry (ie, pacman looks like a circle because the image isn't clear enough to see the blockiness of the pixels).

Also, if you think you might sell it later, most collectors would want the original CRT instead of an LCD.

I wish I had more space. A sinister cockpit would make me consider getting rid of bubbles. I just don’t know if I could get it to the basement.