MegaShocked
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Basically amounts to, "give me free money and I'll totally, absolutely 100% find these incredibly rare games and dump them...trust me...I'm for real".
What a garbage person.
Someone knock his teeth in for me.
Please do a little research before posting nonsense.
Yeah that's not gonna happen. Do research on a guy named ShouTime who's saying he can buy and release rare arcade games for 500 bucks a pop, with leads in the Japanese industry? Is this guy Razoola-tier? Because I've never heard of him.
I don't see any credentials on that kickstarter other than "I know people in Japan". So how about you look at this from a normal person's view who doesn't keep up with every single guy who posts on old video game forums, because I sure as hell haven't seen him here.
Yeah that's not gonna happen. Do research on a guy named ShouTime who's saying he can buy and release rare arcade games for 500 bucks a pop, with leads in the Japanese industry? Is this guy Razoola-tier? Because I've never heard of him.
I don't see any credentials on that kickstarter other than "I know people in Japan". So how about you look at this from a normal person's view who doesn't keep up with every single guy who posts on old video game forums, because I sure as hell haven't seen him here.
So how about you look at this from a normal person's view who doesn't keep up with every single guy who posts on old video game forums, because I sure as hell haven't seen him here.
I'll give you a number - how about over $100k spent on acquiring games for dumping out of my own pocket? How much have i received in donations? single digit %. The average proto is costing me about $3000 now. Mooglyguy has donated much to the cause and deserves props for his contributions.
The point is that acquiring rare games especially protos at this stage is not cheap, not easy, requires connections and time. Do you think anyone can walk into Sega, Taito etc and grab their protos? I have but it requires resources to get there. When I acquire protos, I also have conditions placed upon me. The Japanese collectors and devs do not like sharing but I have penetrated their inner circles. It is so extreme that I have received death threats in Japan for what I do and had to involve the cops to restrain some of these guys. When I do retro talk shows, I walk around with security to ensure the safety of protos due to companies like Konami using the yakuza on collectors to retrieve protos by force.
First off, I'm not advocating e-begging. As I stated in the first post, I don't even think this is really him.
What Shou does is basically the in between work. He has contacts at big companies and with big time collectors. This gives him access to proto boards that are otherwise never going to see the light of day. He then gets them dumped and tries to release the games or at least get them on a working boardset.
His most recent accomplishment was getting a working version of Supersonic Bros out and playable by the public. He went back and forth with the guy who owned the board and was threaten with legal action, ect. That ROM never got dumped, but he at least came to some sort of agreement to have the game at CAX.
Shou is also involved with the ex-A arcade board, which is looking to bring cart based games back to the arcades.
So is he cracking decryption, no. But he is trying to get games out of the hands of horder pieces of shit and out for folks to play. I know he's asked for donations in the past to build up funds to sway private collectors (and to pay dumpers, ect) I don't know if setting up a Patreon shows him in the best light (if it is him). However, to say the guy is a piece of garbage and needs his teeth kicked in is a bit much, even for you.
Quote Originally Posted by Shou-sama View Post
I'll give you a number - how about over $100k spent on acquiring games for dumping out of my own pocket? How much have i received in donations? single digit %. The average proto is costing me about $3000 now. Mooglyguy has donated much to the cause and deserves props for his contributions.
The point is that acquiring rare games especially protos at this stage is not cheap, not easy, requires connections and time. Do you think anyone can walk into Sega, Taito etc and grab their protos? I have but it requires resources to get there. When I acquire protos, I also have conditions placed upon me. The Japanese collectors and devs do not like sharing but I have penetrated their inner circles. It is so extreme that I have received death threats in Japan for what I do and had to involve the cops to restrain some of these guys. When I do retro talk shows, I walk around with security to ensure the safety of protos due to companies like Konami using the yakuza on collectors to retrieve protos by force.
$100k on games. Ya’ll a bunch of nerd weirdos
Honestly out of all the proto games that have been dumped and released I couldn't give two fucks about them after the initial 'oh that's cool' moment. Would it matter if none were ever found/dumped/released from here on? no.
I'm genuinely surprised people here don't know who ShouTime is.
I believe he's one of the biggest contributors in the arcade scene both in dumping arcade games and sharing knowledge about PCBs and whatnot. If you ever look at MAME's changelogs you'd read his name several times.
Of course I can't say anything about what he's doing here and now, just reporting things he's done in the past. I know he has dumped huge amount of money to buy rare PCBs all around the world, so I wouldn't mind him asking for some money, if not just to buy new stuff.
Bang Bang Busters is pretty sweet.
I just bought a Ghostlop cart too, so we'll see how that goes.
Honestly out of all the proto games that have been dumped and released I couldn't give two fucks about them after the initial 'oh that's cool' moment. Would it matter if none were ever found/dumped/released from here on? no.
A major issue with these protos is that they have such varying quality and levels of completeness. Games like Ghostlop are great, as they are complete. But some of these games are nowhere near finished, so they aren't very interesting.