Seriously just take the train up from portland. It's not ridiculously expensive.
That or just find a ride if you can. In fact drag all the portland kids up in one massive car pool one weekend.

sarah, if you ever make it up to Washington you should definitely stop by.

This place sounds epic as fuck.

ack, i didn't see your response.

I don't think the button itself is sticking mechanically, but the 2 and 3 buttons definitely stick pretty badly, and it's ever since what was pretty obviously a mechanically sticky situation with the left most 3 buttons... not quite sure what's going on but probably sticky inside or something.

Alright! A good night at Acme!

Machine Statuses:
ITG: Perfect.
DDR: The volume is way too quiet on this. I could hardly hear it!
Pop'n: The second left most button ("2") was sticking pretty hardcore. Other than that it was alright.
Drummania: Works great! The bass pedal is still really really loud and clunky though. I'm pretty sure that can be fixed with something as simple as a little strip of foam.

Good times at Acme! Yeah!

Nice playing with everyone last night. Had fun even though I failed half of what I attempted. Heh

A few videos of it are uploaded.

I should point out that I didn't have much time to mess around but I did back up the machine records onto a flash drive. Just in case.

Had a good day at acme today. 1st player itg coin slot is jammed and restarting the machine seems to make the 1st player usb slot work. Everything else seemed fine.

Something I forgot to mention, I think someone pulled the chain off of the drum stool keeping it attached to the DM machine.

Heh, that's odd. I restarted it when I got there and it worked fine for me earlier. I think the problem must be coming back though, so I'll ask around and see what I can do. I really thought I'd fixed it...shit.

Oh yeah, minor tech issue: The bass pedal on Drummania clunks REALLY LOUDLY whenever you let go of it. It's pretty distracting, especially after having played on a machine where this doesn't happen. Is there any way to fix that?

1st player slot on itg isn't working for me at all. I'll try to restart the machine next time and see if that works.

We will have to take a look at SN2 volume it sounds like.

Our tech checked Pop N today, and could not get the buttons to stay down like they were sticking.  Is the problem that the buttons were sticking down?

Yeah, my Pop'n pals told me the same thing about the machine. It's got some sticky buttons.

Also, this was the first time I've been able to go to Acme in ages. I was rather disappointed in the volume of SN2. I'm probably the only person who plays it, but I couldn't hear anything at all when ITG was on. I expect it to be slightly difficult to hear, but it was nearly unplayable. Also, there wasn't a whole lot of other activity in the arcade at that time, so I can't blame it on the typical Saturday night noise blitz. I think that boosting the volume a notch or two would do it well.

Bill,

I keep meaning to call your support line but I keep forgetting, so I'll post it here for now.  On pop'n music, about 2 or 3 weeks ago, I think someone may have spilled a drink on it.  The leftmost 3 buttons stick intermittently mechanically.

Hey Chris,
Glad the DM is holding in there.  I wish the SF4 was missing due to being relocated.  It is at the sharp, and down hard.  Looks to be a bad video card, and we are fumbling to come up with a compatible card. 

Yo Bill,
Well it was tough to readjust after jamming on Drummania XG a few weeks back, but the DM V3 at ACME is in good shape still.  Thanks for keeping the machine in good condition =)

I assume the 2nd Street Fighter IV cabinet has moved to wild waves for the summer?  My friend was asking about it.
Best,
C

Hey Patrick, not sure what happened there. When I came into Acme today the machine was unplugged, so I plugged it in and found that the 1p coin mech was jammed. However, the 2p side one was fine. Anyway, I tried out my drive with 50 songs on it and it worked just fine. I guess the machine needed rebooting or something. It's hard to say; let me know if you have any more problems.

went to acme today. saw a few unfamiliar faces.
The 1st player usb slot took forever to load and froze my game which ate my dollar. Had to restart the machine and didn't use my usb after. The custom song folders seem to lag a lot but everything else was ok.

Thanks. I'm slowly tryin to work up the stamina for 13s.

Tuan and I lately have begun to prefer the right-side more than the left. It was no surprise that a Dragonforce song was what knocked out the latest screw.

Hey hey! nice score! You're gettin there

Also, I think most of the screws that have fallen out are stripped.

Had better luck with the usb drives last night, but the right-side pad now has an unsteady right-arrow corner, since the screws are all coming out.
(total of 4 knocked-out and/or missing screws presently)

Amusing little barely pass, for my first try on CH:speedy mix Screenshot

The usb ports were very iffy tonight for Rudo and I..
Even after reseting the ITG machine a couple times, I only got it to work for 1 set of songs.

It sometimes has this tendency to imply that it has loaded my profile. Then once we get to the song selection, it would change our names to "No Profile Data".

Bill, Called these in last night.  I don't play any of these but it's kind of bad when some of your main earners are on the fritz.
Street Fighter IV 1P Cabinet: Looked like a white screen of death.  Possibly fixed with unplugging/plugging in the machine?
Wangan Midnight 3: 2 of the 4 cabinets had out of service signs on them.  Honestly I don't really know what the issue was.
Initial D 4: The 2P Cabinet had a card reader issue.
House of the Dead: I think the light guns may need to be calibrated?  Notice people playing it but they die after like 30 seconds.  Are people really that bad at HOTD?  I figure it must be that the machine needs some love.
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Drummania working well as always.  Snare drum is mis-registering a bit I think but nothing major.

Tonight there shall be some beasting at Acme.. I hope.

Methinks I'll get there around 9.

I'm very interested in this. Please keep me (us) in the loop Bill.