My lovely wife and 5-year old son will be flying to San Diego the first week of June. They will be gone for 14 days total enjoying all the sun and fun that San Diego has to offer while I stay back, stuck here in Idaho, having to work. I will miss them terribly, especially ..
My nickname, or handle, or whatever people want to call it now is FrizzleFried… my real first name being Jon… and I am an arcade game addict. I grew up with arcade games, they were everywhere. At the liquor stores. At the gas stations. At the local grocery store. I remember Denny's restaurant had a mini ..
I have been trying like HELL to get my multi-shooter PCB's all to play nicely with each other and I have failed miserably thus far and it's getting to me. I've probably spent a good 20 hours trying every which way to get all 6 game (now 5, more on that later) to work right ..
Are you more of an arcade enthusiast and less of a "computer guy"? Have you wanted to add a M.A.M.E. cabinet to your collection but dread the thought of putting together a personal computer, getting all the necessary software installed and configured to work properly? Is "tinkering with a PC" not something that you relish ..
Here is a collection of Attract-Mode front end layouts I’ve created or tweaked. Attract-Mode is a front end program used to launch MAME, FBA, Daphne, and other emulators. All these front ends were designed with lower resolution arcade monitors in mind. All these layout files have all modules included and implemented in the layouts themselves ..
Many of you may (or may not) have read my write up for the Capcom Anthology cabinet that I have in the arcade. It's running Darksoft's multi CPS2 kit in it, and until recently, I've also been running a Pandora's Box (first it was a PB3 then more recently a PB4) with all games disabled ..
Again I have somehow managed to "fill" the garagecade to the point where nothing else will fit. I had said I wasn't going to do it again… but it's amazing just how much room a Jurassic Park Lost World … and a Dynamo Showcase cabinet take up. This, on top of the fact that I'd just ..
It's something I have been hoping would come to pass for quite some time. For many many moons now I have been just about begging someone… anyone… to take on a high score save kit for Crazy Climber. Short of M. Spaeth bragging about how he's had one (of his own creation that he refused ..
When it comes to restoring an arcade game to it's former glory there are a few different avenues you can take to achieve your end goal. To do it properly you really want to try to mimic the way the artwork handled originally. Stenciled machines should be restored with stencils. Vinyl artwork should be (in ..
As any owner of a Sega NAOMI/NAOMI 2 with GDROM (or Netbooting), Chihiro or (I believe) Tri-Force systems will tell you… one of the bigger pains in the ass is the battery system that was used to retain data while the system is off. I have personal experience with Chihiro and NAOMI systems so please ..
If you've not, I invite you to read my blog post about the Exidy Combat cabinet that I bought a few years back knowing one day I would add the kick ass multi-kit from Mike Doyle & Friend, the Exidy Collex'n. Basically it's an add on kit with 2 PCB's that takes pretty much any ..
The heat, and to a lesser extent, the cold… it can be a problem in South West Idaho, which skirts the high desert area of Idaho. Situated about 30 minutes east of the Oregon border along the 84 FWY, some 60 to 80 miles north of the border with Nevada, the Treasure Valley, as the ..
The end of Spring and the beginning of Summer is typically a pretty busy time for me… and that did not change this year. The weather was fantastic for working out in the garagecade right up to July 3rd… starting with Independence Day, it’s not been below 95 degrees here with 9 of the last ..
JULY 6, 2019: I’ve discovered another small bug in one of my layouts. This time it’s the Diamondplate layout and the bug had to do with the gameslist (logos or text) appearing through the marquee window when there is no art present (my test-bed has “NO ART” placeholders hence the reason I didn’t detect the ..
I have added some Garagecade photos I took on September 27th to the Garagecade 2015 section (scroll down to view the latest photos)… you can get there directly by clicking HERE