Are you running FPGA/Emulation to protect your boards?

This hobby is different to each of us. Of the 20 games I have, 17 of them are multi in some way.

Outrun - Running a multigame setup via a Pi.
Multi-Williams - FPGA
Multi-Kong - Original PCB's running a Multi Kit
Naomi cabinet - It's a multi by it's vary nature.
Star Wars - Original PCB with ESB multikit
Asteroids - Emulation multigame.
Capcom Anthology - CPSII original PCB with a Multi Kit & A Pi5 on a switcher.
MAME Cabinet - Um... PC Emulation
Multipede - Vertical emulation multigame running Pi5.
Pac Man - Original Hardware with Multigame kit attached.
Crazy Climber - 100% all original
Rush the Rock - 100% all original
Outrun 2 - It's actually a multigame by design but it runs Outrun 2 SE dedicated.
Need For Speed Multigame - Original Hardware with a simple switch involved.
Combat - Original hardware with Exidy Collexm multigame kit but that's extra... I also have the FPGA multigame and that's what is running.
Race Drivin' - 100% all original
TMNT 4P Multigame - Running a Pi5.
Golden Tee Fore Multigame - Running original hardware with some wizardry involved.
Showcase Shooting Cabinet - Running 6 games via a switcher... all original PCBs thus far but I am trying to build a multigame Pi5 to add to one slot.
 
This hobby is different to each of us. Of the 20 games I have, 17 of them are multi in some way.

Outrun - Running a multigame setup via a Pi.
Multi-Williams - FPGA
Multi-Kong - Original PCB's running a Multi Kit
Naomi cabinet - It's a multi by it's vary nature.
Star Wars - Original PCB with ESB multikit
Asteroids - Emulation multigame.
Capcom Anthology - CPSII original PCB with a Multi Kit & A Pi5 on a switcher.
MAME Cabinet - Um... PC Emulation
Multipede - Vertical emulation multigame running Pi5.
Pac Man - Original Hardware with Multigame kit attached.
Crazy Climber - 100% all original
Rush the Rock - 100% all original
Outrun 2 - It's actually a multigame by design but it runs Outrun 2 SE dedicated.
Need For Speed Multigame - Original Hardware with a simple switch involved.
Combat - Original hardware with Exidy Collexm multigame kit but that's extra... I also have the FPGA multigame and that's what is running.
Race Drivin' - 100% all original
TMNT 4P Multigame - Running a Pi5.
Golden Tee Fore Multigame - Running original hardware with some wizardry involved.
Showcase Shooting Cabinet - Running 6 games via a switcher... all original PCBs thus far but I am trying to build a multigame Pi5 to add to one slot.

No it's not, you must fall in line with those who shout from the highest pedestal in an effort to prove they are better than you. Make sure your games fall in line with their expectations or face the consequences of their disapproval.

Also you have to have the approved moustache or you will be shunned, shun the non-believer, ,shhhhhhuuuuuuunnnnnnn.

 
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Nice pile.
Your showcase shooter wouldn't happen to have a CRT would it?
Trying to sort out a functional lightgun machine for a Pi (or PC maybe I guess?!) with a tube.
This hobby is different to each of us. Of the 20 games I have, 17 of them are multi in some way.

Outrun - Running a multigame setup via a Pi.
Multi-Williams - FPGA
Multi-Kong - Original PCB's running a Multi Kit
Naomi cabinet - It's a multi by it's vary nature.
Star Wars - Original PCB with ESB multikit
Asteroids - Emulation multigame.
Capcom Anthology - CPSII original PCB with a Multi Kit & A Pi5 on a switcher.
MAME Cabinet - Um... PC Emulation
Multipede - Vertical emulation multigame running Pi5.
Pac Man - Original Hardware with Multigame kit attached.
Crazy Climber - 100% all original
Rush the Rock - 100% all original
Outrun 2 - It's actually a multigame by design but it runs Outrun 2 SE dedicated.
Need For Speed Multigame - Original Hardware with a simple switch involved.
Combat - Original hardware with Exidy Collexm multigame kit but that's extra... I also have the FPGA multigame and that's what is running.
Race Drivin' - 100% all original
TMNT 4P Multigame - Running a Pi5.
Golden Tee Fore Multigame - Running original hardware with some wizardry involved.
Showcase Shooting Cabinet - Running 6 games via a switcher... all original PCBs thus far but I am trying to build a multigame Pi5 to add to one slot.
 
Isn't this a forum to preserve video arcade machines?

Laughs.

And yes, i dont care what is in anyone else's collection. It explains why I was never excited about rare machines that showed up at mop.

The owner expect me to get excited by every over priced rare machine he picked up.

They were just more work and a drain on the small cache of spare parts that banning had.
 
For the whorish jezebells that want to find alternative ways to enjoy CRTs and new tech I just received one of these.

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Plug in a 2,3,4 pi and flash the RGB-PI OS to your SD Card your options are huge. Shipped this card costs around $70.


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For the whorish jezebells that want to find alternative ways to enjoy CRTs and new tech I just received one of these.

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Plug in a 2,3,4 pi and flash the RGB-PI OS to your SD Card your options are huge. Shipped this card costs around $70.


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Ok wow…that's cheap. How have I not known about this?
 
The puritansism has its place for true preservation focused collectors and that is to be respected and acknowledged. For the rest of us that just want to play great games in cabinets the options are huge. Live and let live.
 
I am the Jezebel you speak of and have an ever growing stack of this type of thing- and nobody writing the software for these things (which I am humbly incapable of doing) seems to care about analog or hall effect joystick function.
It sucks.
I wanna play some EftPotRM and I Robot and Road Runner dammit.
And the chances of me owning originals of those are higher than that of the wicked witch of the west's monkeys exiting my anus aeronautically.

For the whorish jezebells that want to find alternative ways to enjoy CRTs and new tech I just received one of these.

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Plug in a 2,3,4 pi and flash the RGB-PI OS to your SD Card your options are huge. Shipped this card costs around $70.


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Once I get the guns working right I'll make a post. Right now I get tracking, but only movement at the top 1/5th of the screen. It's TRACKING at the bottom 4/5ths of the screen as if I move the gun down at the bottom left, it will still show the crosshair/dot moving at the top right... but it's not going below the 1/5th of the way down from the top.

The guns are cheap... I wanna say I paid around $40.00 shipped for mine. They are all over ebay.
 
This hobby is different to each of us. Of the 20 games I have, 17 of them are multi in some way.

Outrun - Running a multigame setup via a Pi.
Multi-Williams - FPGA
Multi-Kong - Original PCB's running a Multi Kit
Naomi cabinet - It's a multi by it's vary nature.
Star Wars - Original PCB with ESB multikit
Asteroids - Emulation multigame.
Capcom Anthology - CPSII original PCB with a Multi Kit & A Pi5 on a switcher.
MAME Cabinet - Um... PC Emulation
Multipede - Vertical emulation multigame running Pi5.
Pac Man - Original Hardware with Multigame kit attached.
Crazy Climber - 100% all original
Rush the Rock - 100% all original
Outrun 2 - It's actually a multigame by design but it runs Outrun 2 SE dedicated.
Need For Speed Multigame - Original Hardware with a simple switch involved.
Combat - Original hardware with Exidy Collexm multigame kit but that's extra... I also have the FPGA multigame and that's what is running.
Race Drivin' - 100% all original
TMNT 4P Multigame - Running a Pi5.
Golden Tee Fore Multigame - Running original hardware with some wizardry involved.
Showcase Shooting Cabinet - Running 6 games via a switcher... all original PCBs thus far but I am trying to build a multigame Pi5 to add to one slot.
Can you elaborate on the Golden Tee Fore multi game?
 
1 PC + HD switcher essentially. That said, there is some wizardry going on with the sec. key though...
 
I have a couple multi kits in my collection from Braze tech.
Asteroids Deluxe, Space Invaders, Millipede, Lunar Lander.
Course, these run on original boards.

I've used a JROK FPGA previously as a temporary solution on my Robotron, but I do not own one currently. I wouldn't mind owning a Bitkit, but I don't have a cabinet I'd be willing to modify to use it.

Everything else in my collection runs original hardware, and mostly original PSUs also. Only exception is Solar Fox, which has a switcher. I'll get around to replacing that eventually...

I generally have faith that if something goes wrong with one of my machines, I will be able to fix it. I do the essential preventative maintenance (I.e. replace 3055s, clean edge connectors, rebuild monitors or other high failure rate parts) but otherwise do not go out of my way to "upgrade" things.
 
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