Amano Jacu
Charles Barkley
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First of all, if somebody thinks this doesn't belong to this forum just move it to Unrelated.
OK, last week, when the new SNK games were announced for the Atomiswave, and I saw tha the prices for it weren't outrageous, plus it is very easy to use at home, I decided to buy an Atomiswave. I contacted cosmicco , where I use to buy MVS carts and regular arcade boards, and they had one with Demolish Fist in stock for 368$ (assumed second hand). Since it was considerable cheaper than coinopexpress , and I had never dealt with them, I decided to order it from Cosmicco quickly before it was sold to somebody else. Shipping via EMS to Spain was only 41$ (I asked coinopexpress and shipping via EMS was 58$ for them). Now the € is very strong against the $, so I think I had a fair price.
I must say that none of the current games were very appealing to me, but I am more interested in the future ones, so I bought it now in case its price increased. And also because it was my Birthday
. On the end, if I finish not liking it I'll just sell it.
So I decided to buy Demolish Fist because it was the cheapest game (plus it was the only one available at Cosmicco).
It came, as it was second hand, without any box, just the motherboard with the cart inserted, a poster of the game, and the manual of the game in Spanish, Korean and Japanese. I am very pissed that it doesn't have the motherboard manual. Oh well.
So here it is. It is quite small, around the same size of my small MVS board, the MV1-A, as you can see in this pic:
But it weights more, 1.5 kg, basically because of the metal panel in the bottom. The game cart is very tiny and light, only 100 g, and is similar in size to a n64 cart:
As for the connections, there's the JAMMA harness, 2 dip switches, a volume control, a serial port (fot the modem I believe), a connector for stereo sound (which I don't know how to use yet) and the VGA port. There are also 2 pieces of plastic that can be removed like the cart, one for other peripherals (guns, steering wheel, etc.) and the other for communications.
DIP switch number 1 is for selecting standar res or hi res. 2 is for accessing the configuration screen.
First of all let's use standar res.
I use my supergun with RGB output in my TV through scart RGB. Here's what I saw:
Sound got outputted through the JAMMA harness in mono format to my speakers.
Now I set the DIP to hi-res. Here's what I could see in my TV through RGB scart from the JAMMA harness:
The screen is doubled, so I switched it off.
OK, so now let's try the VGA output into my VGA LCD monitor:
The image looked much better than in my TV. Here you can see it actually is 31 khz, 640x480:
On a side note, the AW has a fan that makes quite a lot of noise, not as bad as a CPS2, but still is pretty annoying.
About the game itself, well, I found it to be an average beat'em-up. Not bad, but not really good either. I guess it'll be funnier when I play it with somebody else. As I said I got this game because it was the cheapest. I heard the best game right now is Knights of Valor but it was too expensive. I didn't heard many good references for Dolphin Blue and it was also considerably more expensive. The other one is Guilty Gear X 1.5 but I already have XX on Ps2.
That's it for now. If you have any question about it just ask.
OK, last week, when the new SNK games were announced for the Atomiswave, and I saw tha the prices for it weren't outrageous, plus it is very easy to use at home, I decided to buy an Atomiswave. I contacted cosmicco , where I use to buy MVS carts and regular arcade boards, and they had one with Demolish Fist in stock for 368$ (assumed second hand). Since it was considerable cheaper than coinopexpress , and I had never dealt with them, I decided to order it from Cosmicco quickly before it was sold to somebody else. Shipping via EMS to Spain was only 41$ (I asked coinopexpress and shipping via EMS was 58$ for them). Now the € is very strong against the $, so I think I had a fair price.
I must say that none of the current games were very appealing to me, but I am more interested in the future ones, so I bought it now in case its price increased. And also because it was my Birthday
. On the end, if I finish not liking it I'll just sell it.So I decided to buy Demolish Fist because it was the cheapest game (plus it was the only one available at Cosmicco).
It came, as it was second hand, without any box, just the motherboard with the cart inserted, a poster of the game, and the manual of the game in Spanish, Korean and Japanese. I am very pissed that it doesn't have the motherboard manual. Oh well.
So here it is. It is quite small, around the same size of my small MVS board, the MV1-A, as you can see in this pic:
But it weights more, 1.5 kg, basically because of the metal panel in the bottom. The game cart is very tiny and light, only 100 g, and is similar in size to a n64 cart:
As for the connections, there's the JAMMA harness, 2 dip switches, a volume control, a serial port (fot the modem I believe), a connector for stereo sound (which I don't know how to use yet) and the VGA port. There are also 2 pieces of plastic that can be removed like the cart, one for other peripherals (guns, steering wheel, etc.) and the other for communications.
DIP switch number 1 is for selecting standar res or hi res. 2 is for accessing the configuration screen.
First of all let's use standar res.
I use my supergun with RGB output in my TV through scart RGB. Here's what I saw:
Sound got outputted through the JAMMA harness in mono format to my speakers.
Now I set the DIP to hi-res. Here's what I could see in my TV through RGB scart from the JAMMA harness:
The screen is doubled, so I switched it off.
OK, so now let's try the VGA output into my VGA LCD monitor:
The image looked much better than in my TV. Here you can see it actually is 31 khz, 640x480:
On a side note, the AW has a fan that makes quite a lot of noise, not as bad as a CPS2, but still is pretty annoying.
About the game itself, well, I found it to be an average beat'em-up. Not bad, but not really good either. I guess it'll be funnier when I play it with somebody else. As I said I got this game because it was the cheapest. I heard the best game right now is Knights of Valor but it was too expensive. I didn't heard many good references for Dolphin Blue and it was also considerably more expensive. The other one is Guilty Gear X 1.5 but I already have XX on Ps2.
That's it for now. If you have any question about it just ask.
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