{"id":1624,"date":"2015-08-09T22:17:27","date_gmt":"2015-08-09T22:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.system11.org\/?p=1624"},"modified":"2015-08-09T22:17:27","modified_gmt":"2015-08-09T22:17:27","slug":"new-arrivals-090815","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/?p=1624","title":{"rendered":"New arrivals 09\/08\/15"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of long term hunted games in here, and a bit of luck.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Wolf Fang: Kuhga 2001 &#8211; Japanese version of Wolf Fang with the story and level select.\u00a0 This came in a box which was &#8230; not strong enough at all (total junk in fact) but luckily it was undamaged.\u00a0 I suppose I can sell my world one now.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/20150809_wolf_fang.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1632\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/20150809_wolf_fang-300x211.jpg\" alt=\"20150809_wolf_fang\" width=\"300\" height=\"211\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/20150809_wolf_fang-300x211.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/20150809_wolf_fang-768x540.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/20150809_wolf_fang.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Super Zaxxon &#8211; now this is rare.\u00a0 Really rare.\u00a0 Unfortunately it was the other game in the box with Wolf Fang, and it bore the brunt of the damage.\u00a0 The top mini layer was skewed out of position and all the long connect pins were bent and twisted out of place.\u00a0 This in turn had forced the middle layer to bend pretty badly.\u00a0 It took 20 minutes to straighten out the damage, and luckily it does still work.\u00a0 I have a question mark on some of the colour strength but that&#8217;s probably unrelated to the squashing.\u00a0 A couple of caps will need replacing too.\u00a0 Never ship one of these unless the box is heavy duty.\u00a0 Back to the game, it&#8217;s a bastard hard version of Zaxxon which never really saw mainstream popularity.\u00a0 And yes, the board really is that big.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/20150809_super_zaxxon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1629\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/20150809_super_zaxxon-300x172.jpg\" alt=\"20150809_super_zaxxon\" width=\"300\" height=\"172\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/20150809_super_zaxxon-300x172.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/20150809_super_zaxxon-768x440.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/20150809_super_zaxxon.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Violent Storm &#8211; Japanese one (with art) to replace my Asia board which will be up for sale soon.\u00a0 Konamis answer to Capcom side brawlers and honestly it&#8217;s just as good, if not better than most of them.\u00a0 This game plays like an absolute dream, everything is so fluid and the graphics\/music are top class.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/20150809_violent_storm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1631\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/20150809_violent_storm-300x246.jpg\" alt=\"20150809_violent_storm\" width=\"300\" height=\"246\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/20150809_violent_storm-300x246.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/20150809_violent_storm-768x629.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/20150809_violent_storm.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Thunderjaws &#8211; terrible Atari Rolling Thunder style game.\u00a0 It&#8217;s amazing how clunky it feels to play, at this point in Atari&#8217;s gaming history, a lot of their games felt like this.\u00a0 Sort of cumbersome and mechanical feeling.\u00a0 Cool sharks though and unintentionally very funny.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/20150809_thunderjaws.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1630\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/20150809_thunderjaws-300x188.jpg\" alt=\"20150809_thunderjaws\" width=\"300\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/20150809_thunderjaws-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/20150809_thunderjaws-768x482.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/20150809_thunderjaws.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Puzzlove &#8211; another impossibly rare game by Para(dise of Amusement).\u00a0 I&#8217;d read somewhere that a lot of Silver Millennium were converted to this but that must be the other rom set if true, since this previously undumped Korean rev is simply a different physical board.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/20150809_puzzlove.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1628\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/20150809_puzzlove-300x231.jpg\" alt=\"20150809_puzzlove\" width=\"300\" height=\"231\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/20150809_puzzlove-300x231.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/20150809_puzzlove-768x590.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/20150809_puzzlove.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ninja Clowns &#8211; this had been on my wanted list for so long.\u00a0 So very long.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a dreadful game and feels sort of like Thunderjaws in a way, maybe all American companies lost their way by this point.\u00a0 In fact this might be one of the worst games ever despite the nice graphics in places.\u00a0 Zero points to the seller who faced with a blown fuse, wrapped a strand of wire around it.\u00a0 No, it didn&#8217;t work when I first tried it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/20150809_ninja_clowns.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1627\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/20150809_ninja_clowns-300x267.jpg\" alt=\"20150809_ninja_clowns\" width=\"300\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/20150809_ninja_clowns-300x267.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/20150809_ninja_clowns-768x684.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/20150809_ninja_clowns.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Battle Garegga &#8211; Chinese version someone has ROM swapped to Japan.\u00a0 I bought this as faulty and used it to study the &#8220;won&#8217;t boot on a lot of cabs&#8221; problem.\u00a0 Sure enough it didn&#8217;t.\u00a0 Fix is now documented on this blog and nonbooting Gareggas should become a thing of the past as people apply the correction.\u00a0 I also replaced a couple of resistors someone had cut off to disable the sound output filtering (why..?), put in the bolts on the amp which Chinese boards usually lack, and replaced the snipped wire links and original 2-way dip with a 4-way so it can be easily swapped between versions.\u00a0 Hoping to get the original ROMs from the previous owner too, I actually like China ver.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/20150809_battle_garegga.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1626\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/20150809_battle_garegga-300x237.jpg\" alt=\"20150809_battle_garegga\" width=\"300\" height=\"237\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/20150809_battle_garegga-300x237.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/20150809_battle_garegga-768x608.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/20150809_battle_garegga.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of long term hunted games in here, and a bit of luck. &nbsp; Wolf Fang: Kuhga 2001 &#8211; Japanese version of Wolf Fang with the story and level select.\u00a0 This came in a box which was &#8230; not strong enough at all (total junk in fact) but luckily it was undamaged.\u00a0 I suppose [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arcade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1624"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1624"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1633,"href":"https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1624\/revisions\/1633"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/36"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}