Well.... we might actually not have it.
None of the staff actually owns any of the Bemani games. We have a group who comes every year and brings stuff to setup. They don't care about checking anything in and are pretty happy if we just let them setup in a lockbox and use one of the tvs.
I believe the desktop arcade guy's name is Steve Handelman
http://www.desktoparcade.com/
Tsuki the Otakon panels lady said I should drop him a line because he is interested in putting some of his controllers out on the floor. I haven't gotten a chance to do it just yet, but I hope to do so this evening. He might have some copies of the bemani game's we could put out as well.
No good news on the re-imbursement front. People can feel free to bring stuff at convention time and we'll be happy to lock it away in one of our boxes for use, but we can't make any replacement guarantees.
In general we always treat stuff like its our own.
If you want to bring some MVS games we could put them into one of the Neo cabs where they will be locked away. So they should be pretty safe there. And I can guarantee trying to break into one of the cabinets will be a good way to get your ass kicked and thrown out.
In general if people want to bring equipment and set it up at an empty television we will allow it. Again this would be totally at their own risk. The best we could offer is to lock the equipment up in one of our boxes.
We should have like 15 arcade cabinets total. For an update on some titles:
On Naomi we presently have:
Marvel vs Capcom 2 (2)
Dead or Alive 2 Millennium
Power Stone
Power Stone 2
I know Jeff got 2 new shmups from Chimpmeister but I don't recall their names. I've got the original Banpresto Macross shooter and Games Paradise for the Jaleco Mega System 32.
I picked up Street Fighter 3: 2nd Impact on CPS3 but I don't know if it will get put out. I've got an empty dynamo cab I would love to throw it in, but since it is sans monitor/power supply/general wiring, that would be even more dough I would need to throw down before Otakon. Not likely since I'll probably pony up for SSV(0) Special on AES so we'll have it to put out.
It doesn't look like we'll have any Atomiswave systems. Prices have come down but still the titles just aren't good enough to warrant spending our rapidly diminishing funding. Next year.
We will have trophies this year as prizes. We thought this would be a better choice since prizes are pretty much up to whatever our prize wrangler can get from dealers. Generally this is crap that they are giving away or can't sell.
The trophy bases will be a little generic but they will have a definite video gaming theme overall. Over time hopefully we will be able to build on the idea and develop our own sort of definitive Otakon video gaming trophies and people will look forward to competing and trying to win them.
Team and network play will see a BIG push at Otakon this year. We will have cubes linked for play with Super Mario Kart Double Dash in addition to the linked HALO play we featured last year. We will also be including a team HALO tournament in addition to the singles tournament.
We should have a little area setup for people to play Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow in versus mode.
In general we are doing our best to try and make things as cool as we can considering we are likely to be forced to work with fewer resources than we had last year.
- Jason