Compare Pole Position I vs Pole Position II? Which is best?

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Compare Pole Position I vs Pole Position II? Which is best?

OK, so I have 2 machines, both Pole Position I (works great!) and a playable Pole Position II with a few graphics glitches (mainly title animation and the car color is grey no blue).

What are the differences other than the 4 tracks on PPII?
PPII has cooler explosions, but the sound seems different in the way the car revs.
The car does seem to drive the same in the little time I tried the PPII.

Would you guys try to get the PPII working 100% and keep or just sell and keep the PPI?
Help me decide!!! I don't have space for both.
 
PPII is faster. PPI has better engine sound. PPII has 3 additional tracks above PPI. Winner: PPII
 
I vote for PPII as well. The shifting sound anomaly doesn't bother me much and you can't beat having a variety of tracks. Plus, as Friz has pointed out, the car travels much faster in PPII than PP. With PPII you need to watch your speed and shift around 192- 200 MPH

But now that I have Rush The Rock's, my PPII is not getting much love :cool:
 
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I recently had both boards and played them both a bit.

I sold the pp2 board because Ididn't like the sounds.

I am sure it is better with more track options and all, but I didn't think so.

I settled for the nostalgia of the original.
 
Why not keep one machine and swap out the boards from time to time?

I am gifting one of the machines to a friend who has helped me immensely. He is an absolute Pole Position fanatic and has never owned an arcade machine. So I will keep one machine and create another arcade hobbyist hopefully. :D Both the cabinets are in really good condition, so I'd feel bad killing one anyway. I've already test point power modded both and added a Dallas Sram to eliminate the batts too. Both now operate on switchers. Now if I can just get the PPII graphics glitch fixed... <sigh>

I really appreciate the feedback guys!
 
Hey Mac somebody listed a fully working PP2 bd on here recently..Look for it and then sell the one with the glitch to Bitslicer or somebody else who repairs them... You will help 3 diff guys out at once including yourself lol.....
 
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