Icade 60 in 1 Pcb Lights Red Yellow and Green Blinking Continuously
- #1
Not a big fan of pre-JAMMA games. Don't like the hassle of setting them up, and honestly don't enjoy /most/ of the games' gameplay. But there are a few games I'd like to own, and almost all of them are on the 60-in-1 (Congo Bongo, Zaxxon, and DK3 are favorites). About the only other vertical pre-JAMMA titles I can think of I'd like is Super Zaxxon.
I remember people saying that one of these multiboards is actually good, and I think it was this one?
https://www.mikesarcade.com/cgi-bin/store.pl?sku=60IN1PCB
- #6
I'll have to pull my board out of a box and verify, but I remember DK having scratchy sound for Mario's walk. Also, Time Pilot's audio was pretty garbled as well.
- #7
I wonder if there's a workaround that could be done to improve the audio on some of these games. Kind of like how there are fixes for the 161-in-1 MVS cart.
- #8
I've heard the iCade 60 in 1 has some input lag issues and the sound quality isn't the best.
Most of the classics guys on KLOV swear by ArcadeSD (Emulation based with games loaded on an SD card) and the Bit Kit (FPGA based) as the only multi games worth playing. They're both community created devices as opposed to a Chinese cash-grab so there's at least some desire there to make it accurate.
The cost of the Arcade SD and Bit-Kit is quite a bit higher than the 60-in-1 and the supported games list has a lot of overlap with the 60-in-1 but there are some games that the 60-in-1 has that the others don't have.
ultimately it comes down to what games you want to play and how much accuracy in the emulation you're willing to pay for.
- #9
Hmm. Bitkit doesn't have anything I'm interested in on it at all except Pengo (which is on both other boards).
ArcadeSD however adds in Super Zaxxon, Bagman, and Super Bagman to the lineup. But has "Popcorn music" Pengo instead of just Pengo? Also adds in a bunch of horizontal games. It seems like the best option, and if it's highly regarded I'll go with that one.
$300 is less than I'd pay for two of the games anyway, so it still seems super reasonable to me.
I know I could setup yet another MAME setup, but I'd rather just have something I can toss in the cab when I want to, and pull out when I don't want to use it. MAME is cumbersome and takes up a cab somewhat permanently.
- #10
@brentradio is big on these things you you might want his take on it too. He's the one who encouraged me to design cases for both the Bit Kit and Arcade SD
You could also go with a JAMMA Pi board or something too.
- #11
I've had nothing but bad experiences with Pi's and MAME.
But I super appreciate the help, and hopefully brentradio will chime in too 
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- #12
I'm not super keen on the Pis for emulation either, the more I look into the the more problems there are with it.Personally I have a MAME PC with CRT_EmuDriver in an old Nintendo cab that I use for classic games but I did spend a little time with both the ArcadeSD and Bit Kit and both of them are pretty neat little devices. You can tell they were built by KLOVers as they don't have the typical stink of the normal X-in-1 Chinese shovelware. Most notably they seem to aim for quality emulation on each game over quantity of games they can shove on the device.
- #14
@twistedsymphony, yeah. I have a MAME setup in one of the Vewlixes, and another in one of the candies (not easy rotate) with CRT_EmuDriver, so the vertical 60-in-1 was really appealing since I wouldn't need yet another setup for vertical games.
- #18
there is no standard for which direction the screen is rotated for vertical games. it depends on manufacturer preference.
- #19
I mean. It's more like there's the Namco way (clockwise), and then almost literally everyone else (counter-clockwise). 
- #20
I did a goolge search for "ROT90" and "ROT270" against mamedev once... it's nearly 50/50
check out the vertical games on the F3 multi... it's close to half and half there too.
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