Your first claim.
They are not on par after minor mods. They are not exact clones. As much as you think how Chinese manufacturers work. The ones with legitimate contracts are not going to breach that contract with a $1.26 Billion Dollar Company. Smaller companies make the clones.
These clone manufacturers, again are Companies with under 100 employees. They cannot even meet the needs of Taito's demand. Nevermind ppl like you.
With said contract, there are product specs and quality control. Taito will refuse any machine not to their standards. Taito, like every Amusement Company will also test their products for abuse and reliability before making it available to Distributors and Operators.
The Chew you ordered does not have the same monitor and please by all means specify which Vewlix Diamond as not all Diamond models have the same monitor. If this is true please show your front mounted monitor remote board, proper monitor casing /w shielding, Chewlix in TATE without the Home Depot style "sold separately" brackets. As it comes from the same ppl you claim make it for Taito, we are talking pennies of a difference to add those in.
Why do ppl buy Chewlix clones, vinyl them with official Vewlix art, toss FMs or OSSCs in them, buy Taito parts for them? Toss mid to high PCs in them? That statement is pretty weak applied to anything as its based on the individual.
Why did Taito make their monitors 4:3 compatible and sell official JAMMA kits?
To make money and the understanding JP OPs have limited floor space, thus removing older 15k machines, yet still have the option to plug in their well paid off 15k JAMMA pcbs that still turn positive on collections unlike the many of the titles made for a Vewlix that die out in a year after release.
Here is the funny part. You are the one making all these unbelievable claims with no factual evidence and are just backpedaling after being called out. So at this point, everything from you is purely opinion, so why even make claims that stretch beyond that?
I don't even own a VLX, I fix other ppls shit. Both private and on location. Which for private, includes Chewlix. So there is no fanboy from me, its a paycheck outside my real job and the fact I have been doing it for a long time and worked with manufacturers in my younger years, knowing their standards, and that Operators will not stand for inferior products. Unlike the hobbyists, operator's wallets do the most damage to distributors and manufacturers. Especially, when the Video Arcade Industry has shrink so much over the years.
I've held my tongue for years hearing your bullshit. You can own 200 cabs, yet its still the same with you.
When someone asks the opinion on the quality of a clone and not state what they want to use it for in the original post. It is followed by baseless non-factual claims that the product is made by the same ppl as the original and of comparable quality. That sir is misdirecting and poor advice.
For someone like you to throw the "Arcade Elitist" term out there. After all these years asking for advice, all the times your machines broke, and asking ppl for or where to source replacement parts. Those ppl took the time to help you, whether you took their advice or not.
In the end, it's the OP's decision to make. Not everyone can mass ppl together and organize a group buy to reduce costs. Especially now compared to 2010 - 2017, due to the availability of cheaper real Vewlix cabs in the US.
Having all the options on the table, to include actual real Vewlix cabs that have gotten into an affordable range is not being an arcade elitist. The Vewlix L AMI I did for a friend runs a PS3 and Brooks, that sound "Elitist"? The difference is I maintained all the original looms if he wants to use real hardware in the future, as he got a FastIO and JVS I/O included with the cab.
The folks in this thread that have posted real Vewlix options and comparisons have restored their own cabs and modified them to their liking. So knock off the stupid analogies of shit like cam locks.
