blue elf/pink elf/pandoras box

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What is your guys opinion on these multi boards?

I recently bought a pandoras box and was not happy at ALL. Its as if the system isnt powerful enough to run its own games. Lag and choppy gameplay, static filled staggering music, grr!

I was sent a second unit in case the one i got was bad, but havent received it yet to review it.

Funny, i thought i heard good things about blue elf 2, except that the sega games dont play well
 
I've had most of them mate and they are all pretty much the same.
Most of the games play ok(not perfect) but a fair chunk play like crap. They are decent value for money but if your wanting perfection go for the real boards or MAME I guess.
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I have a 352-1 board(well 5 of them lol) but they seemed ok, I think the game boards just lack a bit of power to do the games justice. Either that or sloppy coding?
I'm a bit easier going on them though, I think I put on the rose tinted specs when i'm playing lol.
 
The Blue Elf 2 (2012 version, as Paradise Arcade sells) runs them pretty well. I haven't tried the Pandora's Box. I don't like that you have to rewire, but what can ya do.
 
Update, I had some time to play around with both a Blue Elf 2012 and a Pandora's Box in a cabinet that had the proper wiring to pass direct with no adapter. I even got into the settings a bit but I want to play with those some more before I end the experiment. I can say this for sure: the Blue Elf is the INDISPUTABLE winner between the two. Pandora can't even play Street Fighter II Champion Edition (CPS-1) reliably at full speed. Extremely disappointed, complete waste of money flusssshshhhhhhhh down the toilet it goes. However the Blue Elf seemed to choke only on the top few things it was emulating: CPS-3 for instance seemed to run at like 90%. It ran CPS-2 reasonably well, a purist would definitely be able to tell the difference, but for example it played more accurately than a console port of the same titles. Close, just not exact. On Neo Geo and CPS-1 games, the Blue Elf appeared to be running at 100% with no issues at all.

I have some standing orders for multi-fighters, and I can tell you right now which board I'm using for all of them.

Now if only the 138-in-1 horizontal multi would play Black Dragon/Black Tiger at full framerate... doesn't seem like that taxing an emulation, but apparently it is because it plays like crap and that game was one of the major reasons I bought the board. I don't want to spend the $300+ for the HDD-based XXXX-in-1 multi, and last I checked that game wasn't on the ArcadeSD yet (and might never be).
 
I know this is an old thread but I didn't see any other threads comparing these boards. That being said the newer Pandora board seem tu run very well and are obviously running better hardware as most of the games I've tried run great, that being said has anyone compared these to the Game Elf boards? Game Elf doesn't support HDMI so I'm thinking they might not be as powerful if course they might have decided to forego newer video interface for better emulation, thoughts?
 
Blue Elf was fine with its 621 boards, but changed hardware when it switched to the 750. It's pure garbage now. Input lag, CGA doesn't sync at ALL on most models, joystick commands won't work right...can't do a hadouken to save my life. Tested on a couple different cabinets and boards so the problem was very much proven to be the 750 model. I switched to the Pandora's Box 5 and it's much better, but still not perfect. It advertises Mortal Kombat I but it plays at about 80% speed.
 
I have a Pandora's Box X, and am happy with it. Some of the games don't work at all, and I found that Turtles in Time crashes after I think four levels. Still, a vast majority of the 700+ titles play just fine, and you can't expect a Chinese knockoff multi-board to play everything perfectly. I've had it for years, and haven't even played everything on it yet. In fact, I turned off probably 100 of the games. Mostly, it was the Neo-Geo four-button fighters, as the button configuration was too awkward to play those on my Big Blue.
 
Heroes 4 owner

I just bought a Heroes of the Storm 4 board and the A13 is running most of the CPS1, 2, and Neo Geo games. CPS3 and Sega system 16 games not so much. The hugest problem to me is that the game only transfers one credit to the game and wont let you continue in game no matter how man quarters you insert unless its free play. Does the Pandoras Box 5 have this problem?
 
I just bought a Heroes of the Storm 4 board and the A13 is running most of the CPS1, 2, and Neo Geo games. CPS3 and Sega system 16 games not so much. The hugest problem to me is that the game only transfers one credit to the game and wont let you continue in game no matter how man quarters you insert unless its free play. Does the Pandoras Box 5 have this problem?


I have pandoras box 3, 4s, 4sx and pandoras box 5s and they don't have that problem at all. Ebay has them cheap under $50 shipped
 
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