Stools (and a rant on games)
Monday February 20, 2023
Small update. My friend Mike made me some nice stools with the Sega logo laser engraved on each one.
That’s really all for now. I ordered a CHAMMA to JAMMA adapter and that should be here on Friday, so I’ll actually be able to play on this thing for real using the Pandora Box. I’m in the process of trying to get new panels, kick harnesses, and I might get a Dreamcast to JAMMA adapter. Naomi would be cool but I’ll worry about Naomi if I ever get a Blast City or something.
On the same note, I’m going insane trying to figure out which game I’m going to put in there. Here is my line of thinking:
- Getting a CPS3 would be crazy because there are 2 places locally that I could go to and play Third Strike on a Versus City. Seems dumb to spend $5000+ just to do what I can already do for free.
- Naomi would be awesome. I really like Project Justice. I hear that Naomi games at 15khz look like shit. It would be a shame to go this hard and spend this much money just for the games to look like shit. I am pretty sure my cab is set up for Naomi already. Maybe a Dreamcast to JAMMA adapter would be enough. I won’t care as much if it looks bad if I got it set up for cheap.
- CPS2 seems like a really good idea. I could get a CPS2 with Vampire Savior or something and possibly Darksoft it later. Expensive, but that’s a lot of banger fighting games. None that I’m super into at the moment but it would be fun to learn a new one.
- MiSTer is another option, and a pretty attractive one at that. For around the price of one CPS2 set up, I could get a million more games. CPS3 being worked on makes it even more appealing.
I think I’m leaning towards a MiSTer. If I still have the intense desire for “real hardware” later, I can find real hardware. I think having a game that supports the winner lamps would be really cool. This small update ended up not being so small.