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Thank you!

It's not about showing off to visitors and certainly not all about the shelf for me. It's about playing this cutie. A plush Egret would be nice on the shelf though. And if you squeeze it lovely Taito sounds would come out:)

Don't do it. Darius Gaiden alone is a catastrophy. Skipping frames and skipping music when the smart is thrown. But the usual elephant in the room is also present: Input lag! All those minis and whatever other emu thingies suffer from severe lag. Darius Gaiden is unplayable. It's very sad...

Hi there! As teens we sneaked into arcades until we were thrown out 'cause 18+. We located machines in the weirdest places just to play those awesome games. And then there was Vulcan Venture which we played like crazy (with one being the pilot/gunner and the other one the weapon select and...

Thanks, sounds promising. All four caps are connected to the general ground plane (parts side). And on the other side to another plane. Just have to find out the specs of these caps specifically for the Metal Black ROM/extra GPU board with the TC0480 chip.

I also noticed that the 4 big caps on each corner of the ROM/ext. board are missing/ripped off. Hm, maybe that missing filtering could cause such unstable behavior on my particular monitor? Gotta replace them asap.

Here is a short vid. Sorry for the poor quality. As you can see while shifting the picture some really strange distortions are happening. You can also see those jittery lines even if the picture is centered. View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSQumbUvusU

Got a Metal Black whiche behaves a lttle strange on the sync side. It's the long board version if that matters. For some reason I have an unstable horizontal sync on my (SCART) 1084 non-S. On the upper half of the display some lines are shaky. Now if I shift the picture horizontally everything...