Quoting: Luke_Nukem

Quoting: razing32What hardware do you have under the hood ?
I'm guessing these are not the original boards but emulators , right ?

Given that CRT are hard to come by these days, and are a pain in the arse most times needing work etc, I've switched to running older harder with Nvidia 8600GT cards or higher - these can deal with MAME shaders with ease. And quite frankly, a 21" 4:3 ratio LCD plus shaders to mimic a CRT looks damn fine! And in the smaller red cab, a 19" LCD in either vertical of horizontal looks great.

I do have a ton of original hardware that I've started selling to the hardcore guys, stuff like Mortal Kombat 1-3, many Capcom CPS2 games etc.

And yes, I use Linux on them :D A custom Arch install to be specific, pared right down to bare minimum, boots directly to X with AttractMode frontend loading - this and an iPac controller board and you're set. Dunno why the fuck you would bother with that shitty (and fucking slow) Hyperspin FE, or Windows, or any of those ultra-super-crap xxx-in-1 boards.

(I'm probably a bit elitist when it comes to arcade cabs. I despise those ones that are built to have every single controller under the sun on a giant idiotic surfboard hanging off the front)

Wow , you seem really passionate about this stuff.
Didn;t know there was such a big community for arcades but then again I never was into arcade games as my parents were not too keen on me wasting money there when i had a computer and games at home.

Also they were very short lived in my country. I was born shortly before Communism collapsed so arcades only had a few years before PCs showed up and internet cafes were a thing.

Curios how you built that arch to accommodate the purpose. You'll have to forgive me but outside of MAME and the NES/SNES/PS1 most popular emulators I am rather clueless. I did not own a console growing up and as mentioned earlier I did not frequent arcades.

Also , per your icon you are on Open Suse. Curios why you chose Suse when you seem to have plenty of experience on Arch.

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Agree it looks like FTL:Train
If it has the same permadeath mechanics as FTL won't be as addicting for me :)

My only gripe is them saying we get to explore cities.
Haven't seen much of that in the trailer , unless that station is the whole "city"

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Quoting: razing32

Quoting: Luke_NukemGod damn! (pun intended)

Okay, I'm backing this, hell yes! This is the sort of game I'm tempted to build another arcade cab for.

You have an arcade cab ??

I build them :)

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:woot: wow , that's impressive.

What hardware do you have under the hood ?
I'm guessing these are not the original boards but emulators , right ?

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Look forward to the community games.
Hope they fall on the weekend.

But , I would need to see and in depth review before I buy. I want at least SOME single player to be there besides over glorified skirmish.

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Quoting: DudesowinWith a 4 faction system this looks more like Warcraft III. I hope they have plans to eventually add in Necrons and Tau.

I hope they add the Sisters of Battle in as well. I only got to play them in Soulstorm

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Quoting: razing32Out of curiosity why do you need an FPS limiter ?

Unstable FPS is terrible for reflex based games. Even if I got between 400-500 FPS I'd still want to cap it at 400.
But also, I don't even see the point in going that high anyway. After a certain point the only purpose it serves is e-peen or something.

I grew up playing shooter games with terrible FPS, and one thing was always obvious to me: Your eyes and brain adapt after about a solid week.
Most people are "adapted" to unstable FPS, so they're more keen on noticing differences and always think they have to go higher and higher and completely miss the value of having stable FPS.
It's sort of like how pro quake players actually take the time to measure exactly how far their mouse moves for a full rotation so they can always play at exactly the same sensitivity. It's not really something you benefit from on day 1, or even after a few days. But give it a week, or a month, and your skill goes way up due to the consistency because you adapt to it.

stable FPS is way more important than more FPS in my opinion. Unless you're below 60 I guess. But anything higher than that and I definitely want to cap it somewhere to achieve stability. My FPS in the middle of the action should be equivalent to my idle FPS.

Ok I understand what you mean.
I never played that many shooters and never on a competitive tournament level so I guess I either adapted or it did not bother me enough to want to cap it off.

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Quoting: Luke_NukemGod damn! (pun intended)

Okay, I'm backing this, hell yes! This is the sort of game I'm tempted to build another arcade cab for.

You have an arcade cab ??

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The mechanics seem interesting enough.
I like roguelikes that let you progress with each death.

also...

This game always reminded me of something.(based on screenshots)
A few beers later I found it : https://www.daimonin.org/ [External Link]
I played that MMO briefly in college.
I recall my character always getting diarrhea and dying.

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Yay for the fix.
:woot:

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Quoting: musojon74I bought the Humble Indie Bundle 18 :) I want to try out OwlBoy.

As a bonus to whoever is still reading this, here's a free key for A Story About My Uncle as I already have it. Great game.

https://www.humblebundle.com/gift?key=DaATM7CFbnzWH8SE [External Link]

First come first served :)

Claimed.

Thank you.

To keep up the good will , for anyone interested , first come first serve , Ziggurat :

https://www.humblebundle.com/gift?key=mymnuPD2GtaCENfu [External Link]

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