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Wow, that was quick. Kijiji had almost no traction, but on Facebook marketplace they went in an hour. Good to know for the next time I'm trying to get rid of stuff.

Selling a couple of appliances because of a kitchen reno (pictures in linked kijiji ads): Double oven stove: $250 OTR (hood vent) microwave: $50 I'd take $250 for the pair if you come get them this weekend.

Hey, I recognize that game :) Some nice upgrades, and those spare PFs aren't easy to come by.

Ended up just replacing it with another CRT I got for free on Kijiji last night. Needed to cut down the TV case a little, but it fits nicely. The last one lasted 14 years, so hopefully this one will too? I was actually surprised at how many CRTs were still out there for grabs. I figured most...

I have a 27" CRT in my MAME cabinet (old TV) that won't stay on anymore. I just tried it, and it stayed on for maybe a minute, and then sort of buzzed, flickered, and then powered off, and will not power back on. I'm assuming that something is overheating (maybe one of the capacitors), and I'm...

Nice! Is there a good up to date source on which games have compatible colour files? Mike had started a list in this thread, but that was a while ago. Tempted to get one of these for Ghostbusters.

I was wondering whether LCD games would push down DMD prices at all, kind of like DMD games depressed alphanumeric SS ones. In that case it wasn't just display tech but complexity (both mechanical and software) of the games, so in a lot of cases a DMD game would have more going on with it than...

Can go right next to the butt set? Technically reverse engineering that stuff would probably voilate their new EULA, but I don't think anyone is really going to care. For now, I'm just waiting to see if they add anything else useful to the games beyond achievements, basic score tracking, and...

I don't think I've seen anyone talk about a BIX block in a while :) I thought about trying to do something that sent the scanned signal over wifi to the pin (or at least a receiver cabled into the game), but that would require reverse-engineering the protocol they're using. Not impossible...

Yeah, all the spike2 games use RJ45 cabling, but it's wired closer to a serial bus between the node boards. Means they can use off the shelf wiring, but don't try to plug them into a standard network switch or you'll likely fry something. This is just a physical A/B/C/D switch that takes the...

Shares the one QR code scanner between 3 games. The switch is a physical RJ45 switch. Hit the button, and the scanner on the Godzilla apron works with IM or AIQ.

So I actually made a pinball thing! I wanted to set up IC on all my spike2 games, but didn't want to buy a kit for all of them. The features are cool, but not $700 cool. Ended up doing it for a $25 switch, 2 $12 microSD cards, and some reused ethernet cable. I designed and printed a bracket...

I guess it has been about 10 years. They're definitely not new to this, but I remember they were showing the prototypes at shows several years back. I always thought it looked super cool, but I've never played one. I always wondered how it'd shoot, given that there's basically nothing on the...

I'm honestly a little surprised that this hasn't happened sooner. Stern could keep selling runs of existing games (Godzilla, Elvira, Deadpool, JP etc) that have the engineering and code work done already. If you can sell out of those, 3 new games a year seems a little excessive. 2 is a little...

Is this a new location, or did the pint just change names again? Hopefully location games there do well once people are back downtown doing stuff.

Maintenance is actually pretty straightforward, especially on newer games. You'll probably need to learn some basics, but there's lots of resources online. I'd suggest joining a league, but everything is still shut down for covid. Those will give you the best chance to play a whole lot of...

I'd probably be interested if I hadn't just traded my CV away. Fun game, but it was time to move on to something I'd play more often. Elvira is something I'd like to dig into a little more though. Seemed a little simple at first, but I think the code updates really helped it. Seems like it...

What's a Ghostbusters premium even worth these days? Funny-I still think of that as a "new" game, but I just checked the receipt, and I got mine Dec 2016. The new code took a long time to get here, but it made the game better. I'm also surprised that the magna slings never got used anywhere...

That was actually more detailed than I expected, and it's a neat project. Replacing/re-creating a bunch of the internal logic is impressive, and it looks like it'd actually be a playable game (albeit very low to the ground). The metal studs on the outside were also a neat touch, although...

So he did end up selling both items. The shop dust collector ended up staying with the house, and the pool table went for $1000. Kind of a shame, but there's just not the demand these days.