Essential Arcade PCB's to own

[droid]

What do you guys consider to be essential arcade pcbs to have in your collection? (any genre, jamma, cps2, pgm etc.)

Thanks,

Droid

[stuffmonger]

If you've got a collection that's non-neo... you HAVE to have at least one street fighter game(my ssf2 for cps-2 is on it's way... ;) ).

[The Chief]

Excluding the Neo Geo here's my list

CPS2
Battle Circuit
Progear no Arashi
Street Fighter Alpha 2/3
X-Men vs. Street Fighter
Marvel vs. Capcom
Marvel Super Heroes
Giga Wing
Mighty Pang

Taito F-3
Elevator Action II
Land Maker
Kyukyoku Tiger II
Puzzle Bobble 2x
Puzzle Bobble 4
Gekirindan
Space Invaders DX

Taito G-Net
Psyvariar Medium Unit
Castle Shikigami No Shiro
Ray Crisis


Sega ST-V
Cotton 2
Guardian Force
Soukyugurentai
Shienryu

Atomiswave
Knights of Valour The Seven Spirits

JAMMA
Akku Gallet
Cannon Dancer
Bucky O'Hare
Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon
Sexy Parodius
Nebulas Ray
Raiden II
Nostradamus
Batsugun
Captain Commando
Charge Air Blade
Contra
Deroon Derodo
Dogyuun
G Darius
Mazinger Z
Mister Driller 2/G
Storm Blade
Turbo Force
Top Gunner
X-Men


and everything by Psikyo, Cave and Raizing.

[mainman]

Cps 1

The punisher
Cadillacs & dinosaurs
Warriors of fate
Street Fighter 2 (x3)
Final Fight
Captain commando


Cps 2

Dungeons & Dragons TOD
Dungeons & Dragons SOM
Aliens vs preators
Marvel Vs Capcom
Marvel super hero vs street fighter

Neo mvs

Last blade 1
Last blade 2
Samurai shodown 1
Samurai shodown 2
Samurai shodown 3
Samurai shodown 4
World heros 2
World heros 2 perfect
King of fighter 94
King of fighter 95
King of fighter 96
King of fighter 97
King of fighter 99
King of fighter 2000
King of fighter 2003 (x2)
Art of fighting 1
Art of fighting 2
Fatal Fury Special
Ninja Masters

Jamma

Tekken 2
Tenage mutant ninja turtles
Captain America
Martial Champions
Combat tribes
X men

[neo_X7]

How are all of you people keeping your CPS-1 Q sound boards alive.

[ttooddddyy]

galaga

[EVIL NICK]

No Naomi stuff?

Gundam DX!

[thegreathopper]

My essential's

Sega St-v Radiant silvergun
Capcom cps-2 Street fighter alpha 3
Neogeo mvs KOF 98
Namco system 12 Tekken 3

....

[mainman]

How are all of you people keeping your CPS-1 Q sound boards alive.


This is how http://www.arcadecollecting.com/dead/dead.html

All my cps 1 q sound boards are hacked and will never die

[neo_X7]

This is how http://www.arcadecollecting.com/dead/dead.html

All my cps 1 q sound boards are hacked and will never die
Cool, damn I want Punisher. Did you buy your boards pre-patched from a seller?

[mainman]

Cool, damn I want Punisher. Did you buy your boards pre-patched from a seller?

I am a technician by trade so following the instructions on that page I had no problem what so ever reanimating my board myself. The boards were dead when I bought them that is how I got such a great deal on them.

[MKL]

This is how http://www.arcadecollecting.com/dead/dead.html

All my cps 1 q sound boards are hacked and will never die

When Lazarus was raised from the dead did he become immortal? :kekeke:

Anyway, the big letdown with the patch roms on Dead Battery Society is that you can only revive boards as the US version which is of course better than nothing but still quite lame because as my friend Shito would say US = fake shit, JPN = real deal. I did revive several boards with those patch roms but always for other people, when I buy my own CPS boards they must come with the battery still going so I can turn them into the Japanese version with an easy rom swap, which cannot be done once the battery is dead (unless someone writes special patches)...

[ResO]

Capcom Classic:
Trojan
Ghosts 'N Goblins

Jamma:
Pooyan (Okay, but I still like it)
*Any CAVE shooter* (needs vert monitor, aside from Progear)
Ghouls 'N Ghosts
Street Fighter Hyper Fighting
Street Fighter Alpha 3
Galaxian Part X

If you can afford a Naomi Mobo w/Capcom converter, that opens a lot of doors as well.



Edit: Also if you're into old (and I mean OLD) SNK games, then I'd take a look into the game called Sasuke vs Commander.

[lostdog]

I think these are all really good suggestions, but for me the home arcade thing is simply nastalgia. Sometimes I'll crave the oddest title just because I have found memories of it from my youth. To me, that's an essential game, but I'd hardly recommend it to others. These days I don't get to play a lot, and I've sold off a lot of my boards, but there are a few I'll hold on to... just because they remind me of better days in the cade.

[ResO]

Oh yeah, If you like SVC Chaos and don't already own her for MVS or AES, an SVC Jamma PCB would be a great addition to your Impress cab.

[Xander Crews]

battle balls

any other savvy collector would know you mean business if you have a gem like that in your collection.

[neojedi]

battle balls

any other savvy collector would know you mean business if you have a gem like that in your collection.
No shit? I bought that years ago, but only because I enjoyed it in the arcade so much and I couldn't find a home port to save my own life. It's been a couple years since I booted it... I hope it didn't suicide.


Dungeons & Dragons TOD
Dungeons & Dragons SOM
Aliens vs preators
Agree... I have all 3, plus a custom harness I built that (with the Sigma 6000) lets me play 3-4 players on each using Neo Geo sticks. :) They aren't suicide-proof, though, here's another case where I need to boot them soon.


Atomiswave
Knights of Valour The Seven Spirits
I honestly don't know which KOV is the authoritative one. I have KOV9D now which of all of them I've heard the best things about. Gladiator and KOV7S get better press in some circles though. Too expensive to own all 3. Sigh.
:crying:

[neojedi]

double post :annoyed:

[mainman]

When Lazarus was raised from the dead did he become immortal? :kekeke:

I do not know you tell me I am not into mythology, Lazarus is he like the phoenix or something? Any way back to topic, I do not see the difference in gameplay between the U.S and japanese version of the games in question.

[mainman]

Agree... I have all 3, plus a custom harness I built that (with the Sigma 6000) lets me play 3-4 players on each using Neo Geo sticks. :) They aren't suicide-proof, though, here's another case where I need to boot them soon.

I suggest you change the battery, I just changed the batteries in all my cps 2 boards. I usaually do it every 3 years to be safe.

[Greywolf]

I suggest you change the battery, I just changed the batteries in all my cps 2 boards. I usaually do it every 3 years to be safe.

Either that, or have Raz fix them permanently. :cool:

[Freelancer]

Snow Bros (or some similar Bubble-Bobble type game). Snow Bros is a great game with lots of replay incentive and the PCB is really small too! Best of both worlds! :)

[C.A.R25]

DO DONPACHI

ESPrade

Air Gallet

Tengai/ Sengoku Blade

Vasara

... there are more great shooters out there :D

[racecar]

i love my cps2 board's
marvel vs capcom
xmen vs streetfighter
marvel superheroe's vs SF
gigawing
xmen COTA
SF zero
vampire savior
1944
it's a bitch to keep track of the battery life span :eye:

got other pcb's too but cps2 got my faviote title's

[ViceMikey]

I won't bore you with my non-jamma faves..

Nostalgic Jamma
MK II
Street Fighter II CE (take it back to the roots)
P.O.W.
Double Dragon II
Ghouls and Ghosts (Still can play for hours)

New[er] stuff:
CPS2 I like about everything for it.
Tekken Tag (awesome masher)
Naomi is tight if you got the loot

[Guilty Pleasure]

Jamma:

TMNT

TMNT: Turtles in Time

Final Fight

Metamorphic Force

Violent Storm

Ninja Gaiden

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