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Very anti-consumer. Although microsoft is a big fan of that kind of practice. I also think that maybe there would be a class action because of this.

Excellent choice with Symphony X. I listened to a lot of them in High School and have been listening to them more recently. Smoke and Mirrors is an excellent choice. My absolute favorites are all on Iconoclast, although that is one of my favorite albums of all time. I got to see Symphony X live last year, it was a hell of a show. Although I don't think that "The Odyssey" is a great closer, especially when they are starting it at midnight and you gotta wake up for work at 5:30AM the next day.

Flash gordon, like a lot of games from that era and before that, are brutal. This was actually the first pinball machine I ever worked on actually. If memory serves it was because of sound issues. Another really fun one from that era (in my opinion) is Flight 2000. Love it to death.

So because I am under thirty I am not able to recognize a game as influential or important and have fun with it? Nowadays the "classics" have been available new a number of times on various platforms, so many of us have been able to experience them. For example with me I played the Mario Advance series growing up, which were just remakes of "classics" plus mario bros (my favorite arcade game because of that". Part of what makes some of these games truly classics is that they span generations I think.

Couple weeks ago I picked up a Nintendo Helifire cocktail table. Finally got it working tonite.

Finally got the board working enough to test my mod. Super happy that it is working as it should.

I think it's the sugar and salt combo because I feel like that would actually be pretty good. Kinda like putting salted peanuts in a bottle of coca cola. It's a weird combo that tastes surprisingly good. I'll have to try it.

Coffee isn't for everyone either. I only started drinking it because it was free. Also, I finally have a way to describe candy corn: it is the la croix water of candy.

I used to have a street fighter pinball. Had to sell it so I could get more arcade cabs.

No I quite enjoy coffee.

Candy corn is one of those things that I've never understood. Not a fan. Dunno maybe it's like enjoying coffee or something.

Dunno how I missed this topic but without reading anything (even this whole thread) or looking into this at all, suddenly my crackpot conspiracy theory that wata grading is being used for money laundering finally has some credibility.

I feel the exact same way about them. I don't know what it is is but I can never vibe with their sound. They got a few bangers like "hunting high and low" and "Paradise" but I just can't get through so many of their songs. A couple songs from their newest album are good, like "Survive".

So a few days ago I obtained a Nintendo Helifire cocktail table. The problem is that I like having all my games on free play if I can help it. Mainly because I don't want to keep a bunch of quarters around. Helifire unfortunately does not have a free play mode, so I had to mod the ROMs in order to support it. It was pretty interesting altogether. I used the MAME debugger to go through the disassembly in order to figure out what routines did what and where coin stuff and start stuff happened. The approach I took was to remap the coin switch to the start buttons, rewritting the routines to determine which button was press to add an appropriate amount of credits. From there I set up the game to autostart after coin insert. I tried just jumping to the start of the game but that did not work, it does some goofy stuff when it goes through the coin routine. After rewriting the routines to do act as a free play, it was just rewriting the "insert coin" and "credits" text. This is what I ended up with. I only ended up needing to change two of the ten ROM chips to support it. One with actual code and the other with the free play text. This was a bit more complicated than the free play mod I had to write for Head On N. I can't wait to try this on real hardware, I just have to fix the game board.

Neat. I've never used epoxy or anything after a pin repair, but looks interesting.

Why? With modern tech like Google Maps it warns you about accidents, slowdowns, and even speedtraps. No need to get upset over someone using something to their advantage. Consider this, if they have trouble navigating even with GPS, perhaps they aren't great drivers. Personally I use it when I am going somewhere I don't know the route to. I also use it when I start noticing slowdown on my commute to and from work. I also use it to get to locations I know are pains in the ass to get to during rush hour as it will give me the fastest route.

The anime has convinced me that dragonite is the best.

I absolutely love Primal Fear, they just came out with a new album not too long ago, Code Red. Some of my favorite songs are Supernova, The Sky is Burning, and Face the Emptiness. Also a big fan of Another Hero from their new album. They also did a couple pretty good covers, like Die Young which was originally sung by Dio. Also, I love their album covers. I think they are some of the best metal covers out there! Angry bird is the best.

I finalized the hardware stuff this weekend. I designed a new ROM board to be able to switch between upright and cocktail versions as well as freeplay versions. I also modified my power supply adapter for use on a different supply more suited for this application. I also rerouted the power switch to be inside the coin door area like I did with my other Nintendo cabinets. Nintendo put the switch on the back and it is really inconvenient. The last thing I did was make a back door sheet. I cannot do the artwork, but I made this one in the style of Radarscope/early donkey kong back door sheets. Attached it both as an image and pdf due to compression. Head On N Backdoor Sheet.pdf

I wonder if they were the same hardware as the other tetris keychains of early/mid 90s. I had one that was shaped kinda like a gameboy.

Apologies, skip mine if you want. I didn't follow the rules, I'll see if I can find something neat.

I couldn't think of anything so I nominate my boy but baby.

Well I am done messing around with the ROMs. I finished making the upright version of the ROMs. On top of that I even made a freeplay mod because most of the rest of my games are freeplay. What's next: - Custom artwork - Update power board to support RQ-125B power supply and switch to that supply - Update ROM board to have switches to enable/disable freeplay and switch to cocktail table mode.