A couple of the buttons on my Asteroids Deluxe are getting a bit sticky - there's a tendency for them to stick down a tiny bit - makes for a less responsive button.

Thinking it was a bit of dirt or similar I took the buttons out - easy to do and it's all by hand - but it looks like the springs in the buttons are knackered - there's hardly any resistance left in them. It looks like TNT have put new buttons on the control panel but have used legacy springs. They try to keep as much original stuff as possible.

I've stretched them a bit to make them resist more so the button springs up again quicker but it still isn't great. Any arcade heads know if the springs are available separately? I've googled around and can only find replacement buttons which I'm not keen to do because there's a good chance I'll pick the wrong size or something. They are the old leaf switch style and are cheap to buy but I'd just rather get the springs. They are conical shaped - I could just get some out of a hardware shop but I'd rather get the right shaped ones.

Nice thread about the troc here - https://twitter.com/MaxKriegerVG/status/1149725545317511173?s=20

Was there once only. It had a pile of games but I could tell that it had passed its prime. It was a bit tired and some areas were closed off.

Was still enjoyable but in its pomp it must have been quite something.

I used to pop in there quite often, I remember just being a teenager and feeling overwhelmed with how much there was to see.
Then there wasn’t. Then it closed.

I’m sad

Last time I was there I did a ride-the-mechanical-bull challenge in a dilapidated downstairs bit, which I was ungracefully owning btw, then one of the horns snapped off and sent me flying.  The guy running it didn't even attempt to conceal how pissed off he was.  Probably his last rodeo.

I went there with a mate from school shortly after SFIII released, so I'd have been about 14. Was reading games mags all the way there looking at screens of new arcades, couldn't wait to see SFIII. 'appy days.

Guy from work back from Japan today - picked this up for me.



one for the shmups thread then.

Guy rips Sonic 1 asunder...

I’m probably miles behind the curve here, but I’ve seen these things popping up in my Amazon recommendations lately. USB drives full of ROMs that work natively on the Playstation Classic.

https://www.truebluemini.com

Interesting, if they work that simply.

Not sure where to put this but it's a nicely written article that crystallises my thoughts and experience of gaming in my youf.

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2019-08-03-my-lost-childhood-with-daley-thompson

This was great, an interesting look at the FDS system and many of the weird and wonderful games that came out on it. I like how the BIOS theme tune for the FDS was used for the Gamecube system menu, but 2000x slower.

My MegaSD has arrived! Just need to wait for the big ol' CD games to download now. I've had a go on Sonic CD - works well. There a firmware update out soon that adds support for the Mega Drive version of Virtua Racer.

This is on Ultra Violence ofc.

I mean, it's impossible to get 100% on some of these levels without sparking in-fighting.

Nice article on Powerstone in The Guardians culture section today with insights from the producer and designer.

Keith Stuart is on fire at the moment. Just needs to do one on Eternal Champions then his work is done.

https://www.theguardian.com/games/2019/aug/14/power-stone-sega-dreamcast-fortnite-overwatch

nick_md wrote:

davyK wrote:

Love a bit of classic Doom.  keyboard controls and no pissing about looking up and down.

I started trying to play on KB only as per the mid 90s but just can't do it anymore, am using KB+mouse (no looking up / down tho).

I never played much FPS games after Doom 2. Played a bit of Quake(2?) on the office LAN but even then I stuck to keyboard and got my arse whipped as a result.