Hi Julian !
Welcome here and thanks for mentioning Eurocade in the interview and your kind words !
I was also very proud to read that Aart liked how well my Galaxian plays
Maybe you can write a piece about Eurocade 2012 ?
We did a little testing today and that was a good idea as we learned a couple of things that did and didn't work out as we hoped.
We will (have to) fix that before friday
At least we luckily had the CORRECT ROM set that Aart wants to play and also the one that he played at Fun Spot during his World Record.
It is also the "official" version that is set to 3 Galaxip and a bonus Galaxip at 7000 points.
We also tested the UPS (Uninterruptible Power Source) succesfully. It first had to charge the batteries but I tested it about half an hour ago. Pulling the plug didn't crash the game, tried it several times and it made the Galaxian run fine without mains power.
I tested how long it would last and let's say that it gives us a minute or 5 to replace any blown fuses in the electricity circuit, should that be the cause of any outage. We'd need a more powerful UPS if we want it to run longer than that (or maybe the batteries weren't entirely full yet) but the place is not that big and 5 minutes should be enough. The UPS starts beeping when mains fails, so we can't miss it for sure...
At least it gives it protection against surges and spikes and a short mains outage....I still wonder why about any WR attempt I have seen is done without one of these....esp. in the US where mains problems are much more often happening, then again you must be lucky enough to have access to one of these
We also adjusted the fire button a tiny bit to make it perfect (or close to perfect).
Regarding the streaming we will have to find another solution than the tablet hanging on the grill of the speaker of the cab. The thing is that the stream sometimes seems to stop for no apparent reason. We of course cannot "reset" that while Aart is playing next saturday, so I think we will have to go back to the initial plan of a separate camera and a computer to do the streaming.
Here's a picture of today...
Untitled by
Level_42, on Flickr
Looks pretty great.....who will beat who....man or machine.....
We will be putting black foil to the windows (behind the curtains) so the place will be a lot darker than this and also dress up the area nicely...man those curtains are ugly !
I haven't met many World Champions (saw some on film though..........) and I must say Aart must be one of the kindest around
