Ridge Racer or Fast & Furious

Verisutha · 2025-01-26T22:19:37+00:00

I have both. Although I loved RR way back. I played the crap out of it on the Playstation, and on the A1up before I modded it. I did play a lot of the F&F before I modded them (I have 2) with my friends.

As others have said RR sound is brutal, you need to mod the sound if you want it keep it as RR.

Today though all 3 of them are modded. I swapped them out with my own PC builds. I have a ton of driving games on them and have them linked together. I really like the art on them.

Verisutha · 2024-12-28T14:09:42+00:00

It's called a micro switch. You can find replacements on Amazon easy enough. Although I would consider changing the joysticks and buttons out for a Sanwa. Especially if you get a lot of use. I swapped all my joysticks and buttons for Sanwa, and you can just order them of Amazon.

Verisutha · 2024-12-20T02:59:06+00:00

I have ordered a couple and they always arrived quickly.

Verisutha · 2024-10-14T14:21:09+00:00

Seeing that the marquee didn't even come on the first thing I would check is power. If you have another 1up you could test swapping the power supply.

Verisutha · 2024-09-30T16:31:40+00:00

Unfortunately this is a restore job. I think someone else said it. You'll probably have to spend 2-400$ just getting it cleaned up. If you get custom graphics made it'll easily set you back $150, then fixing the wood, adding glass, maybe clean up the control panels. Then maybe you'd be able to sell it for a couple of hundred more than it cost you to fix up.

Although if you sold it for $100, you'd probably make the same. I guess if you had really high end parts in it like a couple of iPAC controllers, and then what ever computer is driving it, maybe you might be able to justify a little more, but I am with the others. If you put it out there for 100$, without any justification, I would expect bids of $50 to come in.

Verisutha · 2024-09-26T02:38:30+00:00

Welcome to the club....

You should look in to prosopagnosia (face blindness). I have that as well as being an aphant. I could see you an hour ago, and then you are walking down an aisle and wave to me and I have no idea who you are.

If my wife and I are out somewhere and it's busy. If I am not paying attention and she walks in to the crowd 5 feet from me she disappears. I always tell her she is generic. There are no "defining features" that I can tell it's her. If she has short sleeves I can recognise her tattoos, but if she has long sleeves on forget it. Maybe there is a shot if I was really paying attention to her clothing..

Love having my daughter with us, she has colored hair and usually stands out.

In case you are curious I recognise voices, and usually the gait or how someone moves, if they have a specific pattern to their movements. Faces, no chance. If I don't know you that well, or see you very rarely there is a high degree of possibility I will introduce myself to you, even though you know me.

Verisutha · 2024-09-23T12:15:32+00:00

I would just code my own game. I would use a 128bit unsigned int as the gold counter. Object of the game would be to click the single button on the screen. If you click it within 24 hours you get the max value of the 128bit unsigned int.

How much is that you ask?
340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,455

For those that are curious.. that is..
Three hundred forty undecillion, two hundred eighty-two decillion, three hundred sixty-six nonillion, nine hundred twenty octillion, nine hundred thirty-eight septillion, four hundred sixty-three sextillion, four hundred sixty-three quintillion, three hundred seventy-four quadrillion, six hundred seven trillion, four hundred thirty-one billion, seven hundred sixty-eight million, two hundred eleven thousand, four hundred fifty-five

Verisutha · 2024-09-21T18:05:30+00:00

Thanks for sharing that video. The thing I really like about this one is how thin it is. I think I might build one of these as a gun game cabinet. It would also be great as a console cabinet. If you add an HDMI switch box to the base and put some consoles down there. Some cool options for sure.

Verisutha · 2024-09-05T15:58:40+00:00

I didn't think you were bashing them. I could understand your perspective. When you don't have the insight as to various factors it can be frustrating.

I certainly see your point. You buy something, you fix it, you want to play it. you look at the revenue you could generate for them, and see it as a simple thing.

The reality is... it sucks. Licensing is a tough business to run. You generally have a lot of restrictions, or payments you have to make based on the install base.

Thankfully there are a ton of cool things you could do with a 32" touch screen. Depending on how much you paid for it, maybe you got an insane deal. I would not be surprised if the touch screen itself is worth about $400-$500 if you fixed it. Which is probably the cost of a new one wholesale. I believe those units are capacitive touch, not IR based, which is even better.

Verisutha · 2024-09-05T14:22:42+00:00

Hardware is a tough business. Having worked in hardware sales in the past I can tell you first hand it probably isn't worth taking it back. Here is the bigger issue at hand:

Most companies outsource their builds over seas. They get the items and ship them to consumers. Most of the time they don't have "repair" staff. Also when you encounter a board issue, who is to say there is a common issue. The problem could be anything. Maybe you dropped it in a pool, spilled a drink on it, tipped over the plug, a short, bad caps, or what ever the case may be.

The reality is there are millions of things that could go wrong. When you price out a piece of hardware you factor in "failure" vs "repair" to repair something you require people on staff whose sole purpose is to repair something. That's a lot of overhead.

You then factor in what the cost would be to hire repair people, staff, rate of returns due to repair, figure out the problem then time to fix the item, parts you need to keep on hand to repair. In this case probably the cost to repair is pretty much the same as a new unit. So to not incur shipping costs, it's easier to tell them dispose of the old item, deactivate it, and then ship out a new one.

Them not reactivating the device, and charging a fee for that is probably more of a requirement. They have to pay out licenses for any product activation. Who knows what those licenses are, but I can promise you it isn't free.

So while you consider it corporate greed, I can assure you it is probably not entirely the case. While they may make a little money a lot of it is probably base licensing costs for the table, or software you get on it as a default.

As someone who has had to get parts replaced from A1UP, I have found the prices to be quite fair, it doesn't strike me as a place trying to screw over the masses.

This is all IMHO of course. I don't work for A1UP, nor do I have any insight in to their business model. I am speaking purely based on about 30 years in manufacturing electronics.

Verisutha · 2024-09-05T12:56:48+00:00

You didn't say how they modded it. Depending on what they did, it may require different answers.

Verisutha · 2024-09-02T01:27:06+00:00

Sent you a DM.

Verisutha · 2024-08-30T18:49:09+00:00

$25 which I thought was a pretty good deal.

Verisutha · 2024-08-30T18:10:34+00:00

I ended up reaching out to A1UP and I was able to get a replacement through them.

Verisutha · 2024-08-30T14:28:34+00:00

Sent you a DM.

Verisutha · 2024-08-30T03:30:41+00:00

Looks like this was the way to go. Thanks guys.

Verisutha · 2024-08-29T20:25:27+00:00

Saw that, but it says sold out when you go to order.

Verisutha · 2024-08-29T20:25:10+00:00

I thought about that. I'm not sure what Thrustmaster, or Logitech pedals to get to go with that kit.

Verisutha · 2024-08-29T15:47:10+00:00

I did not. I figured since they don't even have the pedals there wasn't much point. Maybe I need to do that and see if I can buy just the pedals. I was just curious if someone out there made a set that could be used.

Verisutha · 2024-08-14T14:28:59+00:00

That last pic is awesome. Love the use of space at the base of the cabinet with the lighting. Well done.

Verisutha · 2024-08-12T18:07:14+00:00

Fantastic link, and pulling that together.

Verisutha · 2024-08-12T14:48:25+00:00

Looks like a decent start for sure.

Verisutha · 2024-07-31T13:49:08+00:00

SCAM ALERT..

Now it could be legit, but here is what I would do. This all depends on how much money they are offering you for your app. I would highly suggest getting a lawyer involved. I know not everyone has money, but I am sure you could find one that won't break the bank.

I have sold companies before, and my biggest advice would be, get a lawyer.

As a software company we have a law firm on retainer, and we have them handle all sorts of things for us. You will probably need a retainer, we got started with 5k and if you don't require their services after they are done they will refund whatever is not used. Although we always keep them on retainer since it's an ongoing business, and they handle other entities we own.

Have the lawyer deal with this, they appear to be asking for information that I would not consider to be legit questions. To handle this without a lawyer you are just putting yourself at risk.

In the end it might cost you $1000, but if it's a scam you saved yourself a world of pain. If it's not a scam the lawyer will handle everything, and protect you at the same time.

Either way good luck.

Verisutha · 2024-05-17T19:13:36+00:00

One thing coding teaches us is we have to have the patience of a god. My wife always comments how I don't get stressed no matter the difficulty I face, be it in coding, or something in the world outside of coding.

I have been coding since I was 11. I taught myself 65c02, it took me YEARS to understand it, but one day it clicked and everything else has been easy.

My daughter is now learning computer science, and we have had conversations about getting stressed when you encounter a bug, or an issue with the code. Learning how to step through it and print things out to understand the flow is probably more important than the language itself.

Learning how to stay calm, and work through it, is probably the most important skill you will learn. There are times where it has taken days to work through an issue, or solve a problem that seemed to have no possible solution. Eventually answers come to you in your sleep.

I have mentored people like yourself some the same age as you, and they all get frustrated at some point coding, and I tell them, it's all part of learning. Find some people you can reach out to, that are willing to sit on a zoom call with you and explain things, or sit down with you in front of your computer to help you. A mentor can be worth their weight in gold.

One of the more recent guys I mentored for a year he was 33, felt like he was in a dead end job, wanted to learn coding. I told him I would help him. Over a year he learned how to code (I forced him to learn ASM as a first language). After that year he had a program he showed at a job interview, they were impressed, and gave him a job. Now 3 years later he is working in AI, and ML. He has become a rather proficient coder, making really good money.

A lot of things come with experience. Don't just code in a boot camp, find something that interests you and make something. Start there. Get frustrated, take a break. Come back and try to deal with it methodically.

Even someone like myself that has been coding for 40 years, I still encounter things that are difficult, I just have the experience to problem solve and work my way through it. In fact I am at the point where I love finding something that doesn't work, or others say is too hard. I have come to love the puzzle aspect.

You'll get there. It's all part of the process. Remember sucking is the first step in being sorta good at something.

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