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Yea, I just made a birthday thread to myself.

Pictures of my gift should be up around 9pm Arizona time. Friend and I split it.

Is it that thing from IRC the other night?

This is something different. This is actually a split between one of my best friends and I. The other thing, ironically, is going to get paid for by someone buying a domain name from me.

Sure, it's a domain name I hadn't planned on selling, but shit, she's offering way too much to say no.

So schildlovesthenge.com is no longer on the market huh?

Unfortunately, no, long gone.

I didn't get you anything.

But I did offer you rum.

And I let you beat me at 50 Guitar Hero songs in a row.

Hopefully it's something even able to be "split", and not worth fighting over later?  :wink:

happy birthday

here's a happy picture, peace

(http://www.atomic.de/pics/-d_in_motion_cover/marvin%20gaye.jpg)

(http://jason.similarselection.org/xtras/cake_girl.jpg)

Just imagine a happy version of :mob: as my birthday wishes.

(http://pandadesigns.com/misc/smiles/birthday.gif) (http://pandadesigns.com/misc/smiles/party.gif) (http://pandadesigns.com/misc/smiles/dancingparty.gif)

Run, rabbit, run!  And congratulations.

(http://pbfcomics.com/archive/0PBF22048BC-Today_is_my_Birthday.gif)

Ding-Gratz!

Happy birthday! I'm too tired to write anything clever right now.

Sup

Happy Birthday!

(http://images.jupiterimages.com/common/detail/31/41/22854131.jpg)

What they said.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074812/

Just sayin.

Happy Birthday.

You're still a punk.

Shorter of breath and one day closer to death!

Happy B-day. Have fun celebrating before you are too old to enjoy it (or recover from it!).

Happy birthday!

Still waiting on pic.

Apparently the  joint gift was so cool that they haven't had time to post a pic.

Or, it was a joint, and the anti-drug ads are right about that shit making you lazy.

Gratz on another ding, soon you will be max level IRL. Pics of your gift better be NSFW.

Pics getting taken tonight. Had to drive across town to get a circuit board fixed (well, had to get the parts, paid for them to fix it so I didn't end up breaking the little bastards.

GJ, GG, HF, *S*

(http://www.f13.net/media/capcom_cab/cab00.jpg)

There's the top. The marquee is in perfect shape. I need to get a light put in behind it.

(http://www.f13.net/media/capcom_cab/cab01.jpg)

Here's the monitor. It's got zero burn-in (nearly new). The glass, however, has issues. Easy as hell to replace. Will probably replace with something more light weight and less glary though. Also, something that fits correctly. I tore the art out that was behind it because it looked like shit.

No pictures of the joystick panel yet, I'm replacing all the buttons with Happ competition stuff - they're sitting in a bag next to the machine. I was too busy drinking tonight to get that done. The buttons are in the standard Capcom 6 button layout.

And here's two pictures of the other games I acquired from the guy I purchased the cab from:

(http://www.f13.net/media/capcom_cab/cab03.jpg)

(http://www.f13.net/media/capcom_cab/cab04.jpg)

There's a lot of work yet to be done, but the cab itself is in much better shape than I'd expect given the coin counter has 77,000+ on it. Also, no cigarette burns on the unit... yet.

And let me just say, that there's NOTHING like playing an arcade machine. NOTHING. Game designers - despite knowing that arcades are all but dead in America - should really get themselves a NeoGeo MVS (my next purchase) or CPS-2 unit.

Edit: Before you ask, let me say, yes, I got it on the cheap.

Edit 2: Yes, I think the guy who sold the unit to me stole the monitor off the set of Braaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaazil.

Grats again! That's badass man  :-)

Very cool, big ++grats on the aquisition and not being dead for one more year.

Darkstalkers was a way underrated game, nice pickup.   Is that one of the multi-game arcades, or will you have to swap chips to play it?

Agreed about Darkstalkers.  I have never seen it in any but one arcade (the cinema at which I was the manager :) ) but I was addicted like crack to that thing.

Those blue things are giant cartridges. Once I get this thing cleaned up a bit more I'll be posting a lot more pictures. Essentially, a CAPCOM CPS-2 game is made up of two parts, the A Board and the B Board. The A Board has the outputs and system information on it, the stuff that stays the same through each game. It gets bolted to the arcade machine. The B Board is the game itself. It sits on top of the A Board and get's tighted on it with two metal fasteners. It's really quite amazing. I say amazing because it's so fucking simple. I don't know how many of you have ever read into arcade hardware before, but it makes home consoles look unoptimized.