darkchao
Student
Hey everyone!
I've had a very strange and scattered background with arcade stuff since I was growing up, was sort of born into the industry. I don't wanna sound like a horn tooter so i'll cut to it: In 2011 I formed a company called Save Point - it was initially a last-ditch effort for myself due to a non-paying development studio. We opened the store in September with the contents of my bedroom as a combination buy/sell/trade game store and arcade. The company is much larger now, and something we're all really proud of. We've got a massive collection (~170 pieces) of SEGA arcades, music games, and pinballs. We take machines all across the USA to different events for people to enjoy, and the other portions of the business have allowed me to grow an arcade collection that is really crazy (multiple DDR SOLO cabs, linked Ollie Kings, freaking Planet Harriers).
Sometimes I feel really crazy for opening up Save Point. It's not a thing that generates a ton of money, and it's definitely a bunch of hobbies spiraling out of control. I'm sitting here writing this while fixing a Williams System 6 MPU and an FDS console, but there's people on this forum that are attempting to do things like inject the english DC GD-ROM version of Typing Of The Dead into the NAOMI cart dump and then turn it into a .BIN to get netboot'd, just for one example, but tons of other things that I've thought "holy crap, this should exist!" - and then promptly dropped.
The reason I'm telling you guys about our collection of games isn't to dickwag - we're sitting on a lot of rare (and broken) stuff. I want that stuff to not sit and rot, and if there's anything I can provide to help out a project, I'm more than happy to. I don't know how many people are local, but hopefully Save Point can also serve as a test bed for projects that users have here in the future.
I don't do forums. I don't do anything public usually. You guys seem awesome, and I'm happy to be a part of this community that I didn't know was so lively.
So, cheers! Thanks for making me feel less crazy, I'm hoping to contribute what I can to anyone that needs help, and I'm excited to learn new things about the machines that are so dear to me.
I've had a very strange and scattered background with arcade stuff since I was growing up, was sort of born into the industry. I don't wanna sound like a horn tooter so i'll cut to it: In 2011 I formed a company called Save Point - it was initially a last-ditch effort for myself due to a non-paying development studio. We opened the store in September with the contents of my bedroom as a combination buy/sell/trade game store and arcade. The company is much larger now, and something we're all really proud of. We've got a massive collection (~170 pieces) of SEGA arcades, music games, and pinballs. We take machines all across the USA to different events for people to enjoy, and the other portions of the business have allowed me to grow an arcade collection that is really crazy (multiple DDR SOLO cabs, linked Ollie Kings, freaking Planet Harriers).
Sometimes I feel really crazy for opening up Save Point. It's not a thing that generates a ton of money, and it's definitely a bunch of hobbies spiraling out of control. I'm sitting here writing this while fixing a Williams System 6 MPU and an FDS console, but there's people on this forum that are attempting to do things like inject the english DC GD-ROM version of Typing Of The Dead into the NAOMI cart dump and then turn it into a .BIN to get netboot'd, just for one example, but tons of other things that I've thought "holy crap, this should exist!" - and then promptly dropped.
The reason I'm telling you guys about our collection of games isn't to dickwag - we're sitting on a lot of rare (and broken) stuff. I want that stuff to not sit and rot, and if there's anything I can provide to help out a project, I'm more than happy to. I don't know how many people are local, but hopefully Save Point can also serve as a test bed for projects that users have here in the future.
I don't do forums. I don't do anything public usually. You guys seem awesome, and I'm happy to be a part of this community that I didn't know was so lively.
So, cheers! Thanks for making me feel less crazy, I'm hoping to contribute what I can to anyone that needs help, and I'm excited to learn new things about the machines that are so dear to me.
