Who Plays games on a Super Gun ?

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Who Plays games on a Super Gun ? Is it any fun playing arcade games on a TV sitting on the couch in your living room or bedroom ? Or is it kinda pointless if you already have a Jamma cab to swap boards in .
 
If you have a cab, I would think it's pointless, depending on your setup. Though I thing SGs are a good alternative for those with little room for cabs. I was considering building one several years ago, but never got around to doing it. In the end it seems a bit too expensive to build when I already had a good JAMMA cab with enough buttons for just about everthing.
 
I'm really sad that there wasn't someone that wanted to transfer the SGRepository to somewhere else. The projects on that site were amazing.
 
I did a Supergun once, just to do it. Though it was really more of an arcade machine crammed into a TV shell. I mounted an Electrohome G07 inside an old 19" TV case, had a power supply on the outside and a JAMMA harness with a hacked NES controller hooked up to it. It was totally ghetto but I could play JAMMA boards while sitting on my couch.
 
If you have a cab, I would think it's pointless, depending on your setup. Though I thing SGs are a good alternative for those with little room for cabs. I was considering building one several years ago, but never got around to doing it. In the end it seems a bit too expensive to build when I already had a good JAMMA cab with enough buttons for just about everthing.

I Feel the same way , seems too expensive to build when you can buy a complete cab for the same price . And thats what keeps me from doing it .
 
I did a Supergun once, just to do it. Though it was really more of an arcade machine crammed into a TV shell. I mounted an Electrohome G07 inside an old 19" TV case, had a power supply on the outside and a JAMMA harness with a hacked NES controller hooked up to it. It was totally ghetto but I could play JAMMA boards while sitting on my couch.

Was it fun playing arcade games like that ? How good was the nes controller with 4-way games ?

I actually have a couple Sony Trinitron monitors that have RGB connection .
 
I Feel the same way , seems too expensive to build when you can buy a complete cab for the same price . And thats what keeps me from doing it .

They don't have to be expensive to build it just depends on what you want. I built one years ago using a 2 person ps2 arcade stick, I got in a trade since it didn't work. I ripped all the ps2 specific interface connections out and wired in an old 25 centronics print cable. Then in a project box I had an old atx power supply and the JAMMA connector and a speaker. For the videos I made my own conversion board using an AD724 IC. All the parts were surplus, spare or samples. If you start out expecting to buy arcade quality parts then yes it will be very expensive. Retail mine might have been a few dollars (working sticks were about $75 themselves) but out of pocket it maybe cost me $20. Now I already had a cabinet so I never really used the supergun but that was never the point of the project. I wanted to do it just to say I did. I ended up selling it for $150 which is more than I have gotten for full cabinets.
 
I used an Amiga A520 video adapter, and then inputed in an external clock signal for the color sync. I only had a crude box for the joystick, the rest was all an exposed mess of wires. ;) This was back in 98 I think. Was it that long ago. :(
 
Supergun is how this hobby all started out for me.

I built a supergun when I realized you could buy arcade pcbs. Bought my first PCB TMNT off ebay and the rest is history. It's a good place to start and learn from. Of course it turned into now buying, restoring, and collecting arcade machines.

I don't know if it makes much sense for people with a basement arcade, but it might be a good idea for guys who don't have games inside the house. It was pretty fun when that's all I had.
 
Who Plays games on a Super Gun ? Is it any fun playing arcade games on a TV sitting on the couch in your living room or bedroom ? Or is it kinda pointless if you already have a Jamma cab to swap boards in .

If you have a jamma cab then i don't see why you would need a supergun. At least you're playing games the way they were meant to be played.

I have a supergun that I built myself. It's the only way I can play my games, since cabs would take up too much space in my humble apartment. It's a lot fun but the experience will vary depending on your setup.
 
Was it fun playing arcade games like that ? How good was the nes controller with 4-way games ?

I actually have a couple Sony Trinitron monitors that have RGB connection .

It worked well enough. Its been several years so its hard to remember just how well it worked but it was alright. I didn't have a lot of JAMMA boards. I think I just used it to play Double Dragon and Final Fight.
 
Supergun is how this hobby all started out for me.

I built a supergun when I realized you could buy arcade pcbs. Bought my first PCB TMNT off ebay and the rest is history. It's a good place to start and learn from. Of course it turned into now buying, restoring, and collecting arcade machines.

I don't know if it makes much sense for people with a basement arcade, but it might be a good idea for guys who don't have games inside the house. It was pretty fun when that's all I had.
Yeah that's pretty much how I got into the hobby as well (hence my user name :cool:). It was a Christmas gift back in 1999 and I still have it and use it sometimes. For me, when emulation didn't allow me to play X-Men, or The Simpsons is what really got me into buying boards and playing them on the "Home Game Arcade" from Great Western Trading.
 
Superguns were really hot when the fighting game scene was still running tournaments on arcade hardware. Back then it was a lot more practical to just buy the PCB and practice off of a television set than to utilize the space for a full cabinet in someone's 1-bedroom apartment.

Now days...enh. I think they are useful, but just not in the same way. If I was down to a 1-bedroom apartment again today, I'd just get a candy cab, wire in a bunch of kick/aux harnesses and run my JAMMA boards off of that. What 1-bedroom apartment doesn't have at least one corner available for a candy cab?
 
Superguns were really hot when the fighting game scene was still running tournaments on arcade hardware. Back then it was a lot more practical to just buy the PCB and practice off of a television set than to utilize the space for a full cabinet in someone's 1-bedroom apartment.

Now days...enh. I think they are useful, but just not in the same way. If I was down to a 1-bedroom apartment again today, I'd just get a candy cab, wire in a bunch of kick/aux harnesses and run my JAMMA boards off of that. What 1-bedroom apartment doesn't have at least one corner available for a candy cab?

Back when I lived in a 1 bedroom house, I had 6 vids and 2 pins in the place, though a couple of the vids had to reside in the bedroom. That was when I had the Super Gun thing. I even had room for a computer table and couch. My TV stand was a gutted mini Hang On cabinet. It had room for a 19" TV, VCR and all my tapes. That was a few years before I met my wife.
 
I use superguns exclusively now, since I live in Japan and space is tight. My wife says I can have all the cabinets and pinball machines I want once I buy a house with enough space for it.

I have a Sigma AV7000 with two controllers and a Sigma Raijin. I had bought the Raijin for use with rotary games, but since my AV7000 lost its RGB sync I switched the Raijin back to normal joysticks.

In this picture you can see the setup I had pre-tsunami. I use X68000 monitors (I have three now, for Ninja Warriors) as they can run at 15, 24 and 31kHz, so they're perfect for System 24 games etc. The quality of the display is excellent when using an RGB cable. On the right is Mushihimesama running on the supergun, and on the right is Fantasy Zone on the X68000. The actual supergun is right on the top-right of the picture, it's been a bit cut-off though. Though the RGB is gone, I can still play on my television using S-Video. I'm planning on getting a new one and selling this one soon though.



This is the Raijin, which is a monstrous piece of equipment.



At the moment I'm mostly playing Super Hang-On, I use the Raijin for power and video. Sound goes directly to external speakers, while I modified the harness slightly so I can play with an old PC joystick. I'm hoping to get the real handlebars soon.



My collection of control panels: Road Blasters, Escape from the Planet of the Robot Monsters, Thunder Blade (and After Burner), Power Drift (and Out Run) and Chase H.Q., again I've made up harnesses for these and others so I can play them on my supergun.

 
@Magic Knight

Dang that's awesome gaming corner you have there. I love that you have the XE-1ST2 which kinda rare to see, at least here in the states. I have two of them which I've modded for my supergun. I also have an old KBM Championship joystick that I modded with a SNK LS-30 rotary.

My old SG setup with VGA monitor and XRGB-2.

Old_SG_setup by jimxk, on Flickr

My RGB Monitors - I eventually chucked the XRGB-2 for two 13" RGB monitors. These monitors have excellent picture quality.

RGB_Monitors by jimxk, on Flickr

Current SG setup - Playing Robotron (ArcadeSD) almost everyday. Love dual stick games.

SG_setup by jimxk, on Flickr
 
Yes, I have two XE-1ST2 as well. I bought one in a small local game and manga shop and the guy didn't know what it was for. When I said it was for the X68000 and FM Towns he burst out laughing.

I made an adaptor for mine so that I can use them on my Atari ST and ZX Spectrum. The X68000 versions of Libble Rabble and Crazy Climber 1 & 2 I have can also make use of the two together. Micom made some very high quality stuff.
 
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