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Hello. I collect miniature arcade machines. Maybe you would like to do so as well. Here are some examples of just that thing, from smallest to largest Tiny Arcade by Super Impulse  From the makers of the World's Smallest keychains, these are less than 4 inches tall and come in stand up and cocktail models. Most of them are new ports that are very true to the originals, although a couple have been modified to fit a 3:4 aspect ratio because the company didn't want to shell out for a new mould for a landscape screen. The one exception is their version of Ninja Turtles Arcade, which, bizarrely, appears to be a port of the Java flip-phone port of the NES game. It has three levels, you can only play Donatello, and it does not include the original music for copyright reasons. It is terrible, probably cost a bunch of money to license and make the new moulds for and it has sold very poorly. There were more J2ME ports planned, but they have since been cancelled and the company has stated that it does not plan to release any more entries in the Tiny Arcade line in the future. They have repurposed the hardware into a line of credit card-sized handhelds called Micro Arcade:  Super Impulse also has a line called Boardwalk Arcade that offers virtual versions of more physical arcade games that are almost but not quite to scale with the keychains. The only one worth getting at the moment is the TMNT virtual pinball, although hopes are high for the upcoming Dance Dance Revolution machine  When buying these, be aware that for some reason they also have a line of keychains that are 1:2 scale copies of these keychains that just flash lights and make noise:  Arcade Classics by Basic Fun  At about twice the size and twice the price, these are the first ones you might actually want to sit down and play for more than two minutes. They're both around six inches tall and they're both powered by famiclone SOCs running NES ports. There is a single entry in the series, Mortal Kombat, that uses sega genesis clone hardware instead, but you deserve to know before you buy it that the blood code has been disabled on the rom  Watch out for early releases in the Arcade Classics line. They look similar to the famiclones, but they're just LCD and LED games. You can tell at a glance which is which because the famiclone versions come in boxes. If you see a blister pack, put it back! Micro Player by My Arcade  Most of these are also famiclones, except they don't even try to hide the origins of its hardware, featuring a removable paddle stick that's just screwed into a dpad.  There is, however, a more upscale sub-line of machines that use the original arcade roms. These are much truer to the originals, with Space Invaders putting the monitor in the ceiling of the cabinet and reflecting it onto a coloured mirror, and Street Fighter using real microswitches for its controls. The Contra and Street Fighter cabinets can each be hooked up to another one using the included cable for multiplayer. They are also labelled Micro Player, but you can tell these apart from the lower end ones by the fact that they come in nicer boxes and cost twice as much. Can be powered by AA batteries or plugged into USB Replicade by New Wave Toys  Made by and for die-hard collectors with a price to match. 1:6 scale perfect replicas of cabinets, these reproduce the tiniest details while still being playable. Every cabinet has a light-up marquee, a working coin door and a handful of scale tokens. Dragon's Lair comes with a dollhouse-scale laserdisc and player, and both Street Fighter II and 1943 come with a second tiny control board for multiplayer. The SFII controller has found some niche popularity in the pro fighting games circuit, as the smallest mass-produced fight stick that uses real microswitches  Unfortunately, as they have positioned this line for collectors, every machine is a limited edition and most of the ones you want have already sold out Quarter Arcades by Numskull  1:4 scale, a little less attention to detail than Replicade but still good, but at a hundred and fifty bucks a pop you've got to be pretty dedicated at this point. I don't even care about these because they can't fit in my bookshelf Arcade1up  3/4 scale cabinets you can actually sit down at and play like they're the real thing. They offer standups, cocktail cabinets, sit-down driving cabinets and even virtual pinball machines. if you've got hundreds of dollars burning a hole in your pocket and an empty spot in the rec room that's just a little too small for the real thing, maybe this is for you. They use the cheapest possible parts, but there are plenty of third-party kits available to replace the controls with genuine sanwa sticks and buttons. At this point you should probably just build a mame cabinet! flavor.flv fucked around with this message at 19:30 on Oct 22, 2021 |
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I’ve got all of the Super Impulse tiny arcade machines except for Mappy I think? They’re a lot of fun. Have they announced any new ones? The most recent one I’ve seen is TMNT (which was a bit of a let down, it’s only part of the game and even then it doesn’t play that great).
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Oct 22, 2021 23:32
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There's a couple new things hitting stores this week: 
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Oct 23, 2021 00:01
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lol wow those are awesome. I am looking forward to the Arcade 1UP Killer Instinct machine, mostly because I can play it online.
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Oct 25, 2021 01:08
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While they're technically muticades, the Astro City mini and the Egret II mini are both worth mentioning in this thread, no? I've been pretty impressed with the Astro City mini and unreasonably excited for the Egret II mini: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UItWWp2Gdhc As someone who can't shell out for a real candy cab and doesn't have the space for mini-arcades dedicated to a single game, these are a pretty great value for money, even when paying the import fees.
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Oct 26, 2021 15:23
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Yeah, let's get those and the neo geo mini and the capcom retro station in here. Did you get any of the add ons? I'm curious about the controllers
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Oct 27, 2021 01:18
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flavor.flv posted:Yeah, let's get those and the neo geo mini and the capcom retro station in here.
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Oct 27, 2021 03:11
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They call this thing mini but is it really mini? It's basically the same height, just a bit less wide https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4Xmu8_sk9Y The rotatable screen is a nice touch though, especially with that widescreen that otherwise goes to waste displaying border art. Now it can be used for displaying tiny pinball tables. Assepoester fucked around with this message at 17:00 on Oct 31, 2021 |
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Oct 31, 2021 16:58
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If only the screen tilted backwards for pinball, it would be a must-have There was a guy on etsy making handmade mini astro city machines a while back with the same feature, but then the official ones came out and that was the end of that
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Nov 2, 2021 05:42
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Yeah the official Astro City mini looks great but it had the baffling bad decision of using a widescreen. Speaking of unfortunate tiny widescreens, China finally made some of those Pandora's Box-based countertop mini arcades what run off vape batteries that are actually attractive and with surprisingly good quality controls for the size, plus enough room inside to replace the pandora board with a more powerful rasberry pi or even x86 board. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AteeiO77PuA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vd3ihGQtnaw
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Nov 3, 2021 20:59
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Nice and compact pi-based tiny countertop cabinet, but again widescreen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpOsWEPYll0
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Nov 15, 2021 14:40
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The new batch of chinese desktop arcade consoles is leaps and bounds better than the crap that flooded the market for years. Now you get microswitches in the controls, high res displays and sd card support out of the box I snagged one of these from a clearance sale on some aliexpress store recently:  First impressions: Total crap, barely worth the ten bucks I paid. The gamepad mappings are wrong and can't be changed, the built-in games barely run and the battery doesn't hold a charge Impressions after installing custom firmware: Still pretty crappy, CPS2 games chug when there's too much happening onscreen, but not bad for a little thing to keep on your desk and have a quick vs match on your coffee break. Bad for a display piece, decent to actually play, but seriously gently caress that analog stick flavor.flv fucked around with this message at 19:08 on Nov 15, 2021 |
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Nov 15, 2021 18:40
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DDR and Atari are up on target.com https://www.target.com/p/tiny-arcade-dance-dance-revolution/-/A-82614574 https://www.target.com/p/tiny-arcade-atari-2600-desk-top-console/-/A-82614573 And this is how I find out that target no longer ships to Canada 
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Nov 23, 2021 04:17
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The day they make a semi-affordable 720 cabinet is the day my wallet is in serious, serious trouble.
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Dec 15, 2021 00:46
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The United States posted:Yeah the official Astro City mini looks great but it had the baffling bad decision of using a widescreen. https://twitter.com/ASTROCITYmini/status/1471808874890276869 It uses a larger, vertical/tate display and is utterly loaded with vertical shmups. Game list: Moon Cresta Zaxxon Terra Cresta Cosmo Police Galivan Action Fighter Tatsujin Wrestle War Fire Shark Raiden Out Zone (First Proper Home Release) Sonic Wings Truxton II (First Proper Home Release) Dogyuun (First Proper Home Release) Desert Breaker (First Proper Home Release) Batsugun V-Five Samurai Aces Kingdom Grand Prix Gunbird Strikers 1945 Armed Police Batrider (First Proper Home Release) Battle Bakraid Unlimited Ver. (First Proper Home Release)
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lol whose bright idea was it to put a giant trackball in the middle of the simpsons arcade cabinet, permanently loving up the button layout? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGzkVX7egrs The Kins posted:About that... the Astro City Mini V has just been announced for next summer in Japan. Taito: what if we just let people rotate the tiny screen? Sega: what if we sold them a brand new mini arcade? Assepoester fucked around with this message at 03:42 on Dec 20, 2021 |
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Dec 17, 2021 22:09
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The Egret II Mini has been confirmed for a US and European release. No specific word on a western release date, but presumably after the Japanese release in March.
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Dec 21, 2021 16:16
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I saw this at a Cracker Barrel and I regret not buying it
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Dec 22, 2021 20:48
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aperfectcirclefan posted:I saw this at a Cracker Barrel and I regret not buying it Does anyone know what 3 songs are included on here? This is something I would love if it included a couple games worth of music on and they raised the price to 50 or so.
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Dec 23, 2021 16:28
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ToxicToast posted:Does anyone know what 3 songs are included on here? https://www.target.com/p/tiny-arcade-dance-dance-revolution/-/A-82614574 Says from the first game. There's a video on that link but i'm not getting sound, maybe you will?
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Dec 23, 2021 16:56
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None of them are dynamite rave so who caresquote:The little cab is a functional game with 3 songs: KEEP ON MOVIN', MAKE IT BETTER and PARANOiA.
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Dec 23, 2021 17:10
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The United States posted:Taito: what if we just let people rotate the tiny screen? Weirdly enough, that conforms to the real cabs' designs. The Egret 2 has a rotate mechanism, while the Astro City requires you to remove the top/front half of the cabinet, unscrew and reposition the screen bezel, unbolt the monitor, pull the cage out and rotate it by hand with nothing supporting it, a two person job making the cab semi-permanent to the screen orientation because changing it is not a trivial thing. d0s fucked around with this message at 10:35 on Dec 27, 2021 |
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Dec 27, 2021 10:28
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flavor.flv posted:None of them are dynamite rave so who cares Let's face it Dynamite Rave and B4U are the main two songs people know from DDR, bizarre neither of those are included. Ah, it's based entirely on the first game in the series. Makes sense now. Dell_Zincht fucked around with this message at 11:13 on Jan 2, 2022 |
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Dell_Zincht posted:Let's face it Dynamite Rave and B4U are the main two songs people know from DDR, bizarre neither of those are included. Still doesn't explain the lack of Butterfly
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Jan 5, 2022 09:24
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Butterfly is a licensed song, the included 3 are Konami originals.
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Speaking of rotatable screens... Atgames Legends not-so-mini arcade review https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1T6nx35Rihk Arcade 1up Pro Series Announcement -Full height instead of needing riser -19" screen instead of 17" -Maybe better quality controls, maybe not -Real fake coin door, we promise https://arcade1up.com/products/ki-pro  d0s posted:Weirdly enough, that conforms to the real cabs' designs. The Egret 2 has a rotate mechanism, while the Astro City requires you to remove the top/front half of the cabinet, unscrew and reposition the screen bezel, unbolt the monitor, pull the cage out and rotate it by hand with nothing supporting it, a two person job making the cab semi-permanent to the screen orientation because changing it is not a trivial thing.
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drat, Killer Instinct is notoriously hard to emulate, they must be putting some muscle under the hood this time around. I wonder if there's any chance of hacking the new board The Neo Geo MVSX can be hacked pretty easily, and it can run up to CPS3. It was on sale for boxing day last week, I regret not picking one up now
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Jan 12, 2022 04:26
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The United States posted:Speaking of rotatable screens... I...really want the chair and mat?
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Jan 16, 2022 23:59
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Man, when the arcade1ups first came out, the street fighter cabs were on a black friday special for a hundred and fifty Canadian dollars. So I thought to myself those look pretty cool, I'll wait for the next sale and see if they get any cheaper I have never seen them go below five hundred since
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"When I was your age, I had to walk 5 miles to the arcade, uphill... and all we had at home were these crappy Tiger Electronics-tier mini arcade game cabinets" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xawc-HiQow8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIi0pg9U4sM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iuo0njOI-qE I remember that Pac Man one flavor.flv posted:drat, Killer Instinct is notoriously hard to emulate, they must be putting some muscle under the hood this time around. I wonder if there's any chance of hacking the new board flavor.flv posted:The Neo Geo MVSX can be hacked pretty easily, and it can run up to CPS3. It was on sale for boxing day last week, I regret not picking one up now flavor.flv posted:Man, when the arcade1ups first came out, the street fighter cabs were on a black friday special for a hundred and fifty Canadian dollars. 
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The United States posted:An Xbox with a 0.7 GHz Pentium 3 could emulate Killer Instinct arcade just fine, I don't know if it's so much hard to emulate as just something low end ARM CPUs can't handle well. The developer of the emulator for various Arcade1up titles, Code Mystics, did the official KI and KI2 emulators for Xbox One, so they know the territory at least.
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Jan 17, 2022 12:48
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The United States posted:"When I was your age, I had to walk 5 miles to the arcade, uphill... and all we had at home were these crappy Tiger Electronics-tier mini arcade game cabinets" I've got one of those, found it at a garage sale years ago, it's what got me interested in these things in the first place  It works, the batteries are just dead and I don't happen to have a half-dozen c-cells lying around
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Jan 18, 2022 02:18
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You need a little Tom Hanks to go with that little Zoltar
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I actually just got the Killer Instinct arcade1up. As for the hacking question, I noticed the board has not only a USB port but also a micro SD slot. Which is really weird. I can't imagine it being used for anything other than hacking. Where does everyone here find info on the updates to these things getting hacked by the way? Also when I was setting up the cabinet it asked me if I wanted to test the microphone for online play. I pressed test and it had me talk, then when it played the audio back there was silence. Is this thing supposed to have a built in microphone? I can't find documentation anywhere and I want to make sure the thing's mic isn't broken. The United States posted:
I remember that emulator, the game ran OK but it glitched like crazy in the fmvs and stuff. My make cabinet has a core i7 overclocked to 4.0ghz and Killer Instinct still doesn't run perfectly in mame. Every time the game says "fight on" it sounds screwed up. That issue isn't present on the arcade1up so I definitely agree that whatever they did (great programming or beefy cpu) would be really interesting to know.
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Jan 22, 2022 16:44
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 Got some new machines, decided it was time to renovate the bookshelf
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Lots of reviews of the Taito EGRET II Mini are out The Taito Egret II Mini Is A Doorway Into True Gaming History  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Mv0gftjJSA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZhTBWOrLj8 https://twitter.com/gosokkyu/status/1499935078717476866 Assepoester fucked around with this message at 17:52 on Mar 9, 2022 |
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Mar 9, 2022 17:50
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The United States posted:Lots of reviews of the Taito EGRET II Mini are out Gamesack did one too. It is good, apparently. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yO8jkxm3DE
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Mar 13, 2022 11:28
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It looked pretty neat until I found what they're asking for it. Preorders are $370 for the console + trackpad/paddle controller.
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loopsheloop posted:It looked pretty neat until I found what they're asking for it. Preorders are $370 for the console + trackpad/paddle controller. Don't use 100 yen = 1 USD. It's about 120 yen = 1 USD. Of course, that means that getting the system and paddle controller is just over $300 so that sticker shock is still there. The Astro City mini went on steep discount after its release so I'm gambling on being able to get this at half price a few months from now.
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I was looking at the Strictly Limited Games page here, which is I guess one of a couple resellers for the Western release? There's another place called Games Rocket taking preorders at the same pricing. They also say only 5000 units are getting released so it's all a bit convoluted. Here's hoping though!
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