My NAOMI collection so far

KaPH33n

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I just recently got a monkey ball gd which incentivized me to pull out my NAOMI stuff. Please judge my addiction.
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Game List:
MVC2
MBAA x2
MB AC
GGXX #R
GGXX Slash
GGXX ^C
Chaos Field
CVS2
Virtua Golf
Sports Jam
World Series Baseball
Monkey Ball
 
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FOMOCO&CO

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Nice collection! Here mine

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Jk but I have been wanting to get back into Naomi stuffs
 
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Mugicha

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It's good to see ya again Kaph :)

lovin what you got! do you still have the typing of the dead setup too?
 

KaPH33n

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lovin what you got! do you still have the typing of the dead setup too?

I have the cab, which was originally a Lupin the 3rd the typing cab. I did try turning it into a typing of the dead machine, but the naomi cart is not what I expected. Even with a US region bios the language is japanese. it uses western characters/keyboard but it has all japanese words? Found it to be kind of annoying to have to type words fast that I don't know. I ended up selling the cart and doing a US dream cast setup instead. Which worked out really nicely tbh. Now i'm planning to convert that same cab into my new monkey ball station. I have everything I need to make it work, just need to wire it up nicely.
 

Mugicha

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yeah japanese TotD is rough, I didn't know that about the cart and Im guessing it was never officially released in US arcades. It's a shame, especially for our computer-raised generation who are already half-decent at typing by default..

I'm glad to hear the cab is gonna see new life as a monkey ball, that banana stick panel is so wonderful. Can't wait to see some pics!
 

kuze

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yeah japanese TotD is rough, I didn't know that about the cart and Im guessing it was never officially released in US arcades. It's a shame, especially for our computer-raised generation who are already half-decent at typing by default..

I'm glad to hear the cab is gonna see new life as a monkey ball, that banana stick panel is so wonderful. Can't wait to see some pics!

I've always thought the Naomi ROM deserves a translation from the DC version. Easier said than done though.
 
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Awesome Naomi setup, ive been wanting to get into Naomi. However i normally blow all my cash on Neo or my car.
 

KaPH33n

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Awesome Naomi setup, ive been wanting to get into Naomi. However i normally blow all my cash on Neo or my car.

Thanks man, I luckily don't suffer from the neo addiction too badly. I used to have a pretty bad CPS2 addiction until I realized I only play 10 or so of the games... no need to have every one imo. My car on the other hand is definitely a costly bitch. When I started out collecting arcade stuff I wasn't making much money (6 or so years ago). At that time I could barely afford one cab, and there's no way it was going to be a JVS setup. I got a new astro to start me off because I was only interested in playing SF2 and SF3 back then. But as my time with the games extended I evolved.

I got blast cities to try out some newer things, but still wanted backwards compatibility to play the 15kHz stuff. That's when I decided to check out a naomi. This was all back before net dimm loading had been figured out. So trying games on the naomi was actually a really costly process. Just making the jump to get the gdrom/dimm setup for most people used to be a big deal, both financially and technically. Setting up all the damn hardware was impossible if you didn't know what connected to where. I remember when net booting first got figured out and the first time I loaded a game over ethernet :D. But for me, owning the legit arcade hardware is the best. a huge collection of downloaded games doesn't impress me.

The keys to a good collection:
1. have achievable goals
2. only buy things you can afford
3. don't sell anything you don't know where to buy again
 

stormS

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Not too severe. If you had link kit's and were trying to run 4 player Gundam that would be a different story :)
 

Mugicha

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The keys to a good collection:
1. have achievable goals
2. only buy things you can afford
3. don't sell anything you don't know where to buy again

^this 1000x. you nailed it Kaph. this needs a banner, lol
 

nug

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The keys to a good collection:
1. have achievable goals
2. only buy things you can afford
3. don't sell anything you don't know where to buy again

4. Only buy things you'll actually use/play
 

KaPH33n

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4. Only buy things you'll actually use/play

I go back and forth on this one myself. I know i've bought a lot of things and ended up selling them... and I've even bought things i don't care about with the strict intention of trading them for other rare things I do care about. In the end though... you're right. It's not a good idea to have a ton of money tied up in retro games that you don't even use. I ended up selling the early versions of all my cps2 games and just keeping the last one... SFA3, VS, ST, etc.
 

Mugicha

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4. Only buy things you'll actually use/play

like Kaph, I also agree that this is a good guideline, but not a set-in-stone rule.

There are many items I have glossed over, considered and then passed over wondering, "how badly do I really want it?" and "Am I really going to play it and get my money's worth?"

The other side of that coin for me is that I collect JP Dreamcast games (I like the orange ;) ) and have definitely purchased several titles that I have no intention of ever playing (they were all inexpensive, but I still probably won't play them).

tl;dr I do agree with you for the most part nug, but I don't follow that one 100%
 
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Hasuki-san

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have you done some modding on your Naomis, like LEDs, Multibios or silence fans ?
 

KaPH33n

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Finally got this all wired up and playable!
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Shout out to codecrank for his help!


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