Innundated with awesomeness

Today I was deluged wih goodness. In no particular order, the postal folk gave to me:

Espgaluda 2 poster

ketsui poster


Ketsui and Armed Police Batrider pcbs

The majority of an ESPGaluda kit

ESPGaluda II kit
An original E2 Marquee holder

Blue's Journey MVS cart and a pile of buttons. With that cart I now own half of the MVS games.

That's an incredible selection of shooters. Three of the four pcbs were in my top 10 most wanted list. But they came at a price. In order to get hold of them (and not bankrupt myself) I let go of my aero table and a few aero related bits and pieces I had. It pained me to see it go but I certainly got some awesome bits and bobs in return. It all happened in a bit of a whirl. Me and the other end of the trade arranged a deal really quickly and within 18 hours of shaking electronic hands it was gone. Quick and sharp probably was best. No long, drawn out goodbyes.

The aero table was a really beautiful cab. I'll miss it. Especially after all the hours and effort I put into it. If I ever own another cocktail table it will be a Jaleco Table Pony. Unless the lady friend talks me into a ms pacman cocktail. If there's ever one for sale near here it may end up heading this way. She's fanatical!

New arrivals - Paperwork and another cart

An extremely generous friend of mine sent me this viper phase 1 NV art set. What a fellow! I think I'll pop it and the game in a cab this week and have a bit of a session on it.


I also picked up this kit stuff for my muchi muchi pork pcb. It's not a complete kit but it's not far off. Finally I grabbed a breakers MVS cart. It's original with an original label but it's serial clipped. You don't see them all that often so I thought I'd grab this one. Fairly unbeliveably the seller sent it in just a paper envelope. No other packaging at all. It made it safely thankfully. That makes 73 of 148 MVS carts I have.

New arrivals - Couple of MVS carts, couple of shooter pcbs

I had these delivered this week. The left pcb is Heavy Unit by kaneko / taito. Doesn't look any different from the megadrive version if my memory's any good. The right one is aero fighters. It's the third time I've owned it. A few of my friends picked it up recently and I've played a bit of 2 and 3 and fancied a blast again. I may well put it in and instantly remember why I sold it twice.

The MVS carts are Real Bourt Fatal Fury and Garou Mark of The Wolves. Garou will be heading straight into the 4 slot and will probably stay there a while.

With that pair I now have 72 / 148 MVS carts.

New arrivals - The living and the dead

I had a couple of pcbs arrive. Above is a rather nice Wyvern Wings kit. It was purchased as NOS by the previous owner but died on him. He was kind enough to send it my way. I'll post it off for repair pretty soon. Then I'll be able to enjoy the amazing sounding Metallica midi soundtrack.


I also picked up this for the ladyfriend. She's a big Ms Pacman fan. Sadly the original is non-jamma and has strange voltage requirements. This bootleg Ms Pacman CE is jamma though. Not perfect but hopefully it'll keep her happy!

New arrivals - Cab refurb time again

Yesterday I had a very bulky delivery.

First up was this little lady


A second candy 18 which will sit next to it's twin. Twins they may be but they're not identical. There are a couple of minor differences between the pair I may make a post on at some point. Not a massive amount, just some little things with colour on the marquee holder and the stripe around the glass mainly. I'd paid for this a while back but left it with its previous owner for a bit then sent it to replay.

Also in the van were this lot:


Four very tired, ex trocadero Jaleco pony II 28s. I've been searching for one of these for a long time and when the opportunity to grab these I took it. They are in need of a massive amount of work though. They need repainting, new bezels, new CPOs, new header insert, probably new monitors. It won't be cheap or easy but I'm looking forward to restoring them and they should look fantastic once they're finished. I'll put all the progress on here as it happens!

New arrivals and a trip to replay

I had a good weekend. I took the long train journey over to Blackpool to replay. I'd lent a couple of cabs too. Was great to catch up with some friends from arcade otaku and play a few games. There was a bunch of console stuff, masses of pinball cabs and a fair number of woody cabs but I mainly stuck around the candy cabs. Mostly playing games I own too. I was unable to resist the siren call of ibara, the greatest game ever made. I managed to beat my high score on it too! Just a shame it's not on my pcb so it's not on my score table. I'll have to top it on my own. There was a small but nice row of candys. There were due to be a binch more but one exhibitor pulled out at the last minute sadly. I'd have lent more had I known.


While I was there I picked up a couple of bits and bobs

Since it's my favourite game I decided to pick up an ibara kit to go with my bare pcb. I'd love an original poster too in theory but actually I just don't think the picture's all that good. It's a shame. Nearly every ther cave game has a better poster. I also grabbed a stakes winner cart. That brings me to 70 of 148 MVS games owned.

The AWSD panel I plan to get a repro overlay for. I'll patch the card reader hole and turn it into a 1L E2 panel. I'll hold ono my nice original 2L 8B panel too but it's pretty much a dedicated ibara ca so I may as well have a 1L panel in it. I'll perhaps use button 3 as the start button though to make it easier to centre the options.

The new buttons and ball top are for the pony. I swapped them in today. The colours match those in the light up header. I quite like the look.