/vr/ - Retro Games

>>4451798
that guy has way too much energy. does he do cocaine or something like guy fieri?

>>4451803
Yeah that beginning part is tough to get through, I know. Fast forward to where he gets to the event with the guys who made the Arcade cabinet. It's at like the #:00 minute mark. I'm telling you, I wasn't expecting much going in, but wait til you hear them talk about the history of that game and what they had to do to get a working version. It's unbelievable.

>>4451798
>MILLI FUCKING VANILLI

>>4451809
Sorry. God damn fat fingers. 3 minute mark.

>>4451810
Ripped jeans too lol. The '80's is all over that picture.

>>4451809
watching now this is pretty dang interesting. Also BILLY FUCKING MITCHELL

>>4451810
>>4451814
Peace looks significantly more attractive with her 80s look

>>4451798
There needs to be more porn of redhead Toadstool.

>>4451816
Before they made that cabinet with the board they found there was ONE WORKING ARCADE CABINET ON EARTH!

Really amazing stuff. I wish there were more people out there this passionate about preservation.

I prefer the guy's site (skyskipperproject.com) to the video. You can really appreciate his excitement to have located what may very well have been the only existing cab right there in NoA's headquarters and to be invited to go document it and making a trip of it really must have been awesome.

>>4452178
Those guys are so passionate and so knowledgeable about Arcade Games that their enthusiasm is infectious to me. When they get giddy telling the story I get giddy too. Plus, it helps because it's a subject that I am interested in i.e. Retro Video Games.

>>4452178
I'd love to have a shirt with the artwork from the side of the Sky Skipper cabinet on it. It looks so cool. It's classic old school arcade artwork.

>>4452832
The flyer's been known for a while here's a scan that's maybe high enough quality for printing

...and here's a low resolution watermarked copy of the reference photo he took of the original cab

>>4451798
wow, I'm quite interested in beta and unreleased stuff and yet I've never heard about this before.
Thanks for sharing this!

>>4452945
Wow thanks dude! That's a really sharp, detailed picture of the cabinet art. I saved it.

>>4452945
Now all I have to do is find Princess Peach's white Milli Vanilli sweat shirt and I'll be complete.

>>4451798
Here's some extra trivia. The art work from this game appears on the Game Boy Camera's Link Menu. Unbelievable.
http://l.j-factor.com/gifs/GameBoyCamera-Link.gif

>>4451798
Awesome

>>4453181
That's crazy.

I want to start collecting Nintendo arcade machines at some point, but I really need a big enough place to start something like that.

Sky Skipper would be very high on my list and I'd love to find a legit board and recreate the cabinet. I'd also love to recreate EVR Race as well, since there's no more machines in existence and it's recognised as Nintendo's first game; it's like a dream project for me.

>>4454386
Boy, that EVR Race looks like it'd be a tough one. In the video, the Sky Skipper guys said they sacrificed a Nintendo Versus cabinet that was either a Popeye or a Donkey Kong originally. They all had the same size, shape cabinet. That EVR Race cab looks so unique, is there anything else even like that? I guess you'd have to maybe recreate the dimensions of it, build it from scratch?

>>4454417
That would probably be even more expensive and definitely more time consuming. I got my Vs cab (Hogan's Alley) for about $30 iirc correctly but that was a long time ago. Non-functional cabs are definitely still floating around relatively cheap though because shipping them is pretty outrageous so you just have to find your local scene

>>4454386
Keep in mind that a PCB that HAD been a Sky Skipper and had been converted to Popeye went for almost $800 alone the last time it was on ebay. Vs PCBs can be converted to other Vs games pretty easily as long as they're the same PPU group (or you also have the right PPU) but I get the impression those earlier PCBs are trickier to convert. Even if you just used MAME instead of a PCB you'd still need that Whitney guy to share his cabinet art with you and even then between the cabinet and all the custom vinyl I'm sure you'd spend $1000 and lots and lots of time, twice that (or more, sky's the limit) if you wanted it to have an authentic PCB.

You'd be accomplishing something far greater if you spent all that time and money hunting down something from the big undumped list - although Sky Skipper was a good choice since the ROM was dumped and its hardware was known it could be recreated. There are probably other similar known but unreleased arcade games.

>>4451798
I opened the video and flipped to ten random points on the seek bar and I didn't see a single ounce of game footage so that video can go right to hell.

>>4454417
Yeah, I'd basically have to scourer the Internet for as much info on the machine's specifications as I can find (which probably isn't going to be much), so it'll likely be a ton of guesswork and will ultimately result in an inaccurate recreation. But I even still, it'll be at least *something* close to the original and I'll love it because I put way too much effort into it.

>>4454434
Are they many Nintendo arcade games that aren't dumped? EVR Race obviously isn't due to the nature of the machine, and probably a few more of the older ones.

Pic related, it's a list of Nintendo arcades I compiled. 1st of January is just a default date because I couldn't find exact dates.

>>4454691
Is Monkey Magic dumped/released?

>>4454691
https://mamedev.emulab.it/undumped/index.php?title=List_of_Undumped_Games#Nintendo

Prepare to be shocked at how incomplete our online catalog actually is

>>4454751
Much appreciated bud, I'm in the middle of updating my personal list now. A lot of those don't really seem dumpable though, like the EVR games and Laser Clay Shooting System, so I'm sorta confused as to why they're added. Nonetheless, if I ever come across this kinda stuff later on in life, I'll make sure to dump it.

>>4454751
Those Playchoice 10 versions of NES games, are they the same exact game, with just like a time limit or something added? Or do we not even know what all the differences are? Also, I wonder why they never got dumped. Do they just not exist anymore?

>>4455126
They have an extra rom that holds the instructional text and they use a different palette since they output RGB although it is very close to the NES's composite palette. Quite a few PC10s were cannibalized just for their PPU to make RGB NESs before the homebrew one was released.

>>4455490
Fuck you.

>>4455905
Harsh. I wonder what possessed you to type that to his comment? On the surface, I don't see anything that jumps out at me. Maybe you have a history with this Anon? Something I'm not picking up on? Please, enlighten me.

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