NAMCO Noir(s)

[Retroman839]

Quick update.

The first Noir has been cleaned to within an inch of its life. The rusted control panel housing is due back from shot blasting and powder coating at the end of the week. I’m waiting on 7B exA-Arcadia-compatible control panels and new wiring harnesses so that the menu button works to arrive any day now too.

However, the most important part of the entire two-cab setup arrived just now. I now have Vs./4-Up capability due to this NAMCO Vs Connect PCB. Luckily, I found it for very cheap compared to what most sellers charge.

Everything is coming together nicely.

Quality !
guilty gear 4 up
Power stone 4 up 😁
Gaurdian heroes 😁
Darius burst 🥰
Turtles
Simpsons
Sunset riders
Xmen
Which other 4 player games are you looking forward too?

Is there any 4 player horizontal shmups ?
Kingdom Grand Prix would be cool

 

[thegreathopper]

Darius is a 4 player hi res horizontal shooter, how about Kizuna Encounter - 4 player looks great.

 

[Mr_Karate]

Pretty much everything that you said there. Even the Mrs. will play both versions of TMNT, The Simpsons and X-Men. FixEight exA Label is a 4-Up vertical Shmup, so I might get that. There’s also WWF Wrestlefest and the NBA Jam games. I’ve got the CPS-2 3-Up version of Final Fight. I could also get a smaller version of SSF2 Tournament going.

I’m still deciding on whether to put them back-to-back or next to each other. If I go back-to-back, I could fit that Aero City in.

 

[Mr_Karate]

Darius Burst is quality. I should have it soon as well. I’ll give Kizuna a try for sure.

I need more benches for everybody else to play now!

 

[Retroman839]

Darius is a 4 player hi res horizontal shooter, how about Kizuna Encounter - 4 player looks great.

🤪 apologies I ment vertical shooter !
Kizuna tag 4 way that’s cool ! Great game ..
Virtua Tennis ?

 

[thegreathopper]

I used to have Naomi tennis and the sequel, I think they were just 2 player.

Super family tennis PC engine is my fav 4 player game, that would be great in 2 cabs.

 

[Retroman839]

I used to have Naomi tennis and the sequel, I think they were just 2 player.

Super family tennis PC engine is my fav 4 player game, that would be great in 2 cabs.

Virtua tennis 4 is 4 player
On Lindbergh, or Xbox ,ps3
Has mini party games also.

Stakes Winner - neo geo
Is supposed to be fun 4 player

 

[MonkeyJuggleDX]

Super family tennis PC engine is my fav 4 player game, that would be great in 2 cabs.

You mean World Court? Same series but much earlier.

Final Match Tennis by Human was a vastly superior game and great in multi player.

 

[thegreathopper]

World court on PC engine by Namcot, that’s the one.

Used to play for hours back in the 90’s in 4 player mode, great game.

I don’t recall the Human tennis, I do remember Super soccer on SNES, a friend who was a football fan challenged me, when it got to 11 - 0 he got so angry he threw the controller and stormed out.

I miss those games, when the opponent loses it.

 

[Retroman839]

We played super tennis Super Nintendo

 

[Mr_Karate]

I only have JVS in these cabs with JAMMA additionally in one of them. I’m limited to PCB titles only, so there will be none of this Super Famicom Bomberman malarkey.

 

[thegreathopper]

There is a 4 player Jamma version of bomberman.

 

[Mr_Karate]

There are two. I’ve got them both.

 

[Mr_Karate]

This bad boy just turned up. It was harvested from a Cyberlead, but it works fine and dandy in a Noir. It needs a good clean and I’ll sort out new JAMMA and kick harnesses as this one has seen better days.

My plan is to have the exA-Arcadia and the Recalbox RGB JAMMA 2 in one cab and the TAITO Type X2 Multi and the JVS Expander MiSTer in t’other. The only thing that I’ll need to change is the direction of the VS CONNECT PCB depending on what I want to play if I’m going for Vs. or 4-Up.

In theory I could wire up a real thin video panel in the marquee holder and run the SVHS out from this board to have a video marquee thingybob. I’ll see if I can find anything suitable.

 

[Mr_Karate]

Initial 4-Up testing successful.

 

[r-type]

This is amazing. I'd not heard of that exA-Arcadia stuff before. None of this looks or sounds cheap so I'm guessing I shouldn't start putting these things on my xmas list!

Lovely cabs and a fantastic set-up. I'm envious already.

 

[Mr_Karate]

exA is current hardware, so is mighty expensive. I’ve spent almost £4,000 on the mobo and two carts so far. It’s a 4-slot so I still have space for two more carts.

I’m really pleased that these cabs came up for sale. I was on the lookout for one, so two was great. I’m having much fun restoring and modifying them too.

 

[thegreathopper]

What carts did you buy? eXa is one system I haven’t owned so far.

Still hoping for a top fighting game, perhaps a Samurai shodown 2 special, that would do it.

 

[Mr_Karate]

I’ve got Aka to Blue and Akai Katana. I’m going for DoDonPachi next. I’m going for all of the CAVE games now, while they are relatively cheap.

I was looking at SSV Perfect, but I’m not the biggest fan of SSV in general.

 

[thegreathopper]

Great choice for the eXa, SSV special did nothing for me even though I bought 2 new MVS kits on release and JPN home cart.

The only good thing was I lent Razoola my home cart and he unlocked the fatalities, then released a fix for the unibios.