First Arcade Shooter - Cave's Ibara

This week I will receive Ibara, a Shmup, to put in my Sega New Astro City. Its a vertical shooter so Ill have to rotate the Astro's monitor 90 degrees counter clockwise. Ill post pics of that when I do it. Here is a pic of the Ibara kit:





Ibara is a Bullet Hell game made by Cave. Ive heard its super hard and frustrating. Luckily, someone has just found a "special version" of the game hidden in the program code that allows level select, pause, slow motion and more! All of this info and pics were found on the Shmups forum here:

Link -> Ibara Special Version

To access the "special version" you need to have DIP switch #2 flipped like this:



Power on the game
Hold down the A+B buttons & release once the loading screen displays
You will enter a special version of the setup which looks like this:



Now press the A button to return to the main title screen. The title screen will be the same except "Special Ver" will be displayed on the right.



- At the title screen, move the stick left or right to select a stage (great for practice)

- While playing press the start buton to pause or hold the start button to slo-mo

- Rank counter is at the top of the screen during gameplay

- Ability to take over control of either ship and play during the demo cycle

- Hold A+B+C for 2 seconds and the game will reboot. You can also hold A+B immediately after this to boot right back into Special Mode.

- You can hold C with up/down to bring up the debug screens (anywhere except during play)

- While viewing debug info, you can press start to resume playing while keeping the debug screen overlayed

*The rank indicator appears to consists of two parts, a rank level, and a rank counter. The counter continually decrements from a high hex number. The rank level starts at 10 and slowly goes up by 1 or 2 each stage.



Here is a video of Ibara's stage 1 (normal version) on someone's Taito Egret II:



Ill post more once I have it, tate my monitor, and get the game in the cabinet.

Sega Universal -> New Net City Rebuild

I bought a chopped Sega Naomi Universal arcade cabinet in the spring and I wanted to clean it up and turn it into a Sega New Net City:



Wanted to freshin the paint up and give it a good cleaning. Around this time I bought a US PFX to replace the 31k Nanao it came with. But I had just bought a New Astro and had no where to put it at my house. So I dismantled it and stored at work in a closet. Being the noob that I am. I took lots of pics of the dismantle and labled bag after bag of all the parts. Finally, I just made some room and had time to rebuild it over the holidays. Still working on the PFX power adapter, but wanted to get it working to play for the next week. So here is my rebuild in all of its glory. :P Reading this post is what really inspired me to do this:

viewtopic.php?f=6&t=2436

I had my friend paint some of the plastics in Appliance Gloss White. I wanted to do the metal base and doors also but I just didnt have the recources or time. I focused on what I could do. I magic erased the **** out of everything I could. I bought a NNC kit from Craig @:

http://www.giz10p.co.uk/Cabinet-Parts/S ... od_89.html

Also sourced a new marquee holder. Bought new parts when I could. A new marquee, buttons, and sticks. Bought a cheap Naomi board with broken Gd-Rom for cheap. Adjusted the Gd-Rom laser pot and fixed. Magic erased the whole Naomi board and good as new. Resoldered the RCAs on the cabinet sound amp to fix sound problems. Replaced dead Sun psu fan. Then I started the rebuild of my chopped Uni.



















































































Put the OG Nanao 31k until I have the PFX adapter sorted. Lent out my only Naomi game so threw in my Xbox360 pad hacks and tested out SF4. Everything turned on and ran great. Pretty surprised being I know nothing about this stuff. I owe it all to Arcade Otaku!

http://forum.arcadeotaku.com/index.php

:D Thanks to everyone who helps out there. I still have a little more work to do but I cant believe how great it turned out. Thanks again.

Wii New Super Mario Bros. 1up Trick!

So Ive been playing the New Super Mario Bros on the Wii. Its just like the OG Nes version just more refined and added moves. You still have 2 buttons and the D-pad, but you can do so much with them. We like to get extra lives in level 2-3. Mid ways through there is a pipe up in the air. Go in this pipe and hit the p block and you get six 1ups. Now at the end of this level there is a turtle coming down the stairs before the flag pole. I instantly was reminded of the 1up trick in the Nes Mario Bros. World 3-1 where the 2 turtles are coming down the steps. It looks a little something like this:



Well after many times through 2-3 I finally did it. So if you want a quick way to get 99 men, this is pretty nice. I find standing on the edge of the 3rd step and doing a little jump to start it off works the best.