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[Tizoc]

For some time now I've been looking to get the Arcade ver. of Capcom's 1993 Punisher game. One item I found on Ebay had such a game but for around 700+ USD!
Among the other results are these
http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_odk...oar.TRS0&_nkw=multigame+arcade+board&_sacat=0

Or commonly known as Pandora's Box apparently

What I'd like to know is
1- How legal are these boards?

2- Can one switch the region and language of the games in these boards? Some contain Capcom games such as Punisher, but from what I read online, the JP ver. of it has a few animations not in the English versions, like Punisher and Fury's Flaming Dive Kick move

3- Say I were to get one, how would I go about setting it up to run on HDTV+Using for example PS4 controllers?

 

[tomwhite2004]

They are just cheap pcs with a jamma edge connector for use in arcade cabs or with a supergun where you don't have the budget to use a proper pc with a jpac or buy original pcbs. They are entirely emulation based (probably using mame without a license) and more often or not too weak to run the games at full framerates. They also more often or not squish tate games into a horizontal resolution with no option to rotate.

Honestly you are better off getting as raspberry pi 3 if you are on that much of a budget and want to play some arcade games. I spend a lot of time lurking around arcade focused forums and they do not have a good reputation at all, steer clear.

 

[Tizoc]

They are just cheap pcs with a jamma edge connector for use in arcade cabs or with a supergun where you don't have the budget to use a proper pc with a jpac or buy original pcbs. They are entirely emulation based (probably using mame without a license) and more often or not too weak to run the games at full framerates. They also more often or not squish tate games into a horizontal resolution with no option to rotate.

Honestly you are better off getting as raspberry pi 3 if you are on that much of a budget and want to play some arcade games. I spend a lot of time lurking around arcade focused forums and they do not have a good reputation at all, steer clear.

Thanks for the info, I'll look into that, although that leaves me back into square one in trying to find the certain arcade board I want >_<

 

[SiegfriedFM]

Original arcade boards can be really expensive for popular games. I paid about $250 for a JAMMA-converted Bubble Bobble and that was a good price.

I would never go for X in 1 board though, not even for Neo-Geo. Then what's the point? If you want to lug around a huge, heavy cabinet with an aging CRT monitor, you want it to play arcade boards. Otherwise you can just play MAME on any PC.

 

[tomwhite2004]

Thanks for the info, I'll look into that, although that leaves me back into square one in trying to find the certain arcade board I want >_<

what are you looking for, do you not have a pc at all?

 

[Tizoc]

what are you looking for, do you not have a pc at all?

Well as I wrote, I've mainly been looking for PCB of Punisher 1993 by Capcom; I'm trying to find the board of that game, but alas ebay prices are quite high @_@

I know of how one could get those games and have them run a Raspberry Pi but I kinda wanna get the original game as a novelty kind of thing.

Off topic, but I did find THIS and ordered it instead, for that price it was a great find ^^;
http://www.ebay.com/itm/CAPCOM-The-...082510?hash=item1a2b541d4e:g:kKkAAOSwjqVZC49v

 

[tomwhite2004]

If you want to lug around a huge, heavy cabinet with an aging CRT monitor, you want it to play arcade boards. Otherwise you can just play MAME on any PC.

Groovymame run through a 15khz capable pc into an arcade cab is incredible though, I sold everything but a few mvs carts once I got it up and running.

 

[Kyari]

Well as I wrote, I've mainly been looking for PCB of Punisher 1993 by Capcom; I'm trying to find the board of that game, but alas ebay prices are quite high @_@

For legitimate arcade boards this is basically true of every game, yeah.

 

[tomwhite2004]

Well as I wrote, I've mainly been looking for PCB of Punisher 1993 by Capcom; I'm trying to find the board of that game, but alas ebay prices are quite high @_@

sorry, missed that part. yeah like cadillacs and dinosaurs the punisher is one of the most expensive cps1 games, even outside of ebay they are around that price.