Happy Birthday my friend....have a great one!!

Hi everybody.


Anybody knows if there exists a list with cab sizes? 

Yesterday was a very happy day. Jochen Hippel came by to deliver the Sprint 2 cab he had loaded into his car in Hilversum because we couldn't fit it into ours due to the three Eurocade-cabs. I had bought it from Oliver (Cebulba, the guy with the countless concoles, homecomputers and TVs ) who brought it to Hilversum.

Though I had never seen nor played a Sprint before, I totally fell in love with the game and the cab. And so I was looking forward to get one.

OK, here are pics.

This (obviously) is the bottom of the cab. Two feet are completeley gone, we removed the remaining two so we didn't damage the floor in Dirk's hall (because on one the foot itself was missing and the other one was crumbled).



Here it is in full beauty.....we decided to let it rest for a while so it can get comfortable with the temperature  






The back of the cab. Easy access to (almost) all parts.




Meanwhile Dirk arrived and we talked a little about repairing Space Zap-PCBs (esp. about finding a working custom chip on GORF-boards) and this and that. And while the guys kept talking I soldered an adapter for the Shuffleshot-cab so I could hook up the speakers to that single 4pin connector in the cab. The adapter worked and we played two rounds of Shuffleshot. A great party game, I'm really looking forward to the next party where it can be played




Before Jochen left we switched on Sprint 2 to see if/how far it works. To my very surprise it almost worked perfectly. The screen still has a crisp (given the age it is coming from and it has) picture, the burns are almost invisible. The monitor artwork (both, the bezel/marquee and the cardboard) are perfect. The lit cone switches work. Gameplay: the white car (Player 1 on the right) runs perfectly. Player 2 (the black car, player 2 on the left) steers to the right, no matter in which direction the wheel is turned. Guess it's one of the optos, should be an easy fix.

So what can I say? I'm totally happy I bought this cab. Thanks to everyone who was involved

Pics:

Sprint 2 running.....I love it  






Dirk and Jochen playing....




A little detail....the sticker in perfect condition in front of real scanlines





To do:
* clean the cab
* repair the left steering wheel for the black car
* check if there is separate sound for player 2 and if it works
* repair the wood on the bottom of the sides
* is the marquee area supposed to be lit?

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I wanted to tell you about a nice small meeting in Volterra, Italy.

We spent a week in Vada, near Giulio's hometown Pomarance and we talked about meeting us in Volterra.

Well, it happened. He brought his wife Stefania, his daughter Cloe, his friend Stefano from Volterra and last but not least his cute dog (Milou??)

Stefano walked around with us and showed us some nice places and shops and some outstanding artwork from gold and alabaster.
Though we had to talks with hands and feet (the italian folks spoke a little english and we far less italian) we had a GREAT evening and this indeed was the best dinner we've ever had in Italy!!!


Thanks for having us there, Giulio! You are young, so I really hope I can return your hospitality one day!!!

Giulio also brought a present....we will use it for decoration in our gameroom ...thanks my friend

Hey there.

I have no use for these but I am always thirsty, especially when good friends are around.
So I wanna trade these 4 lamps for ONE beer at Eurocad 2014. Yes, you're reading right, ONE beer for all of these fine lamps 

They're made of plastic. 3 red ones, one blue...obviously.

Only trading at Eurocade, no shipping...unless you're making me an unethical offer.


Grab'em! You know you NEED them!

SOLD



I'm selling the Hyper Bishi Bashi Champ-board that I've bought when our HBBC died a few years ago.

The whole game is in japanese, only the settings pages are in english.

Japanese is not really a problem. The games shows what to do before each game starts


The game works, there's no error message at all. BUT it doesn't save the settings, i.e. sound volume, etc.
I assume it's the RTC but when booting it says "RTCRAM INITIALIZE COMPLETE" and it doesn't show an error message.

It comes with CD and (japanese) manual and (japanese) artwork (see pictures).


Here's a short video I took today from the boot sequence so you see there's no error message:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwfsdVZut84

Price is 100€ + shipping (or personal transfer at EC2014 )