Hello, I am a gamer know as Gamemaster14. I have personally been into video games since a very young age playing consoles starting with the Atari 2600, NES and beyond. I have collected video games since I was young and continue to do so to this day. I had only within the past 10 years or so started to collect Arcade game hardware thanks to the man who inspired me to get into the hobby Lukemorse1. In this channel you will see my various videos about video games and arcade games that I plan and own. Enjoy.
A few tips, from someone who's been playing this a while: - Those heart blocks have a very special function. If you're up to the challenge, you can line all three of them up in a row, and you'll get a large score bonus, as well as become temporarily invincible while the enemies have to dance around. They all turn into fruits afterward, and picking them up scores just like defeating them. They'll turn back into enemies if you take too long, though. - Speaking of fruits, collect any you see. That counter in the bottom is how many fruits you've collected vs how many you need to have to get an extra life. A reliable way to make them appear is to destroy gold blocks. Huge fruits add 3 to your fruit counter. - Those manholes? You can cover them up with blocks! Clear the rest of the enemies while manholes are covered up to clear the stage without those enemies ever getting the chance to emerge - and you'll get bonus points! It also counts if you clear the last enemy while standing on one yourself!
I won't probably get an answer since this is an old video but I'll try regardless since you seem to know these things quite well. So I recently got my hands on a namco system 369 from japan, it came only with power cord and another cable but I don't know what it's for, it looks like it hooks into the cable in the arcade cabinet but I only got the pcb with dongles and stuff exactly like you're showing in the video. I bought it cause I'm planning on buying a noir hd cabinet but can't find it for now so I got this at the moment. Question I got is: I was just trying it out to see if all works fine even though the seller was very informative and professional just to be sure, so I hooked it up on my tv at home but when I boot it up it gets stuck on the screen where there is the blue loading bar at 75% and shows this under it: "JVS I/O STATUS Master (Ver I/O Board 1: Nothing I/O Board 2: Nothing" My question is if it's all fine I just need a jvs cable or whatever I'm missing or if it's a problem with the pcb? Thank you in advance
@@thegamenexus160 it's appreciated, and I think it's an untapped mine of content. I'm shocked how little video content is out there when the consoles are so exhaustively covered. It's also an integral part of the history of the consoles that's totally ignored. The story of Namco versus Sega in the arcades had a massive effect on the entire industry.
Hey man, been trying to track you down via my video comments. Finally made it. Been meaning to ask what speed you're burning your disks at? I've made a backup of my Dragonball Z and the audio/video is running super slow. I'm chalking it up to write speeds
as for ejecting the disk. I really don't recommend ejecting with the power on. I'm backing up Dragonball because the system spat the disk out still spinning and scratched a ring into it. Thankfully, the disk still works. I use the manual eject with power off.
When I was modding the game with my Soul Calibur 2 mods I had done, I used DVD-RW discs that only burned at 4x. That worked fine, Other than that bit of experimentation, I did not ever burn a 246/256 disc. As far as ejecting the disc, you should only do it at boot time before the game is full running, otherwise the system may be spinning the disc really fast. Plus if you swapped dongles already (to switch games), the disc wont be spun up much when the system realizes there is a mismatch.
It probably was just a final version of the game to stall as VF5 was getting ready to be released. Sega probably saw no point in adding too much more content as the completely new game and system would be out in no time. The best people would have been working on VF5 with only a skeleton crew doing anything more with VF4.
@@thegamenexus160 I kind of figured that AM-2 wouldn't have the time to make brand new fighters for Final Tuned. The last remake was a showcase on what to expect of Virtua Fighter 5 while Eileen and El Blaze were in development.
@@lamiatorchani7648 The Namco System 246 and 256 are actually very similar to neo geo mvs as all you need to do in order to swap games is chance out the disc and security dongle. The are not traditional arcade board that can only play a single game.
Yeah, in a way this one is the prototype for a larger cabinet in the future, I am sort of planning it in my head whenever I sit and have a free moment. Not sure when it will happen but the main sticking point at the moment is a big enough 4x3 monitor since finding one in 29 inches that the original cabinet used is kind of a hard thing to do. I kind of wanted to make it full sized to use a real control panel, but of course thats all something I need to figure out.
@@thegamenexus160 - thanks for the reply. Have you heard of Unico? I just found out they make 4x3 arcade flat screen monitors. They have a 26 inch screen that I suggest you check out.
