Hey Bill,

Any word on TGM3? Do you have a cabinet for it yet? When do you think it will be installed and ready to play?

Thanks a lot, I really appreciate all this. I don't know if you realize what an amazing amount this means to the TGM community in the US - it's the only TGM3 in a public arcade in the whole country.

Yes, we have a 27" cabinet, the usual upright variety.  Our techs kit these up at night as extra work after their shift.  Therefore, they move slowly.  I would guess about a week, and hopefully we will have it booted up. 
Looked over at tetrisconcept.  That site loads painfully slow on my puter for some reason. 

Not sure what to yank out for TGM coming in.  Will have to think about that one.  Maybe all that Bemani crap?  Hehehehe.  Kidding of course.

I went to Acme tonight, and it was great! Far better than Gameworks, for sure.

ITG was eating coins when I left, but my phone died so I couldn't call the service line. The pads worked well before that, though, and the volume was good enough. The machine was rebooted, but it didn't help. Coin jam!

DM hi-hat is "good enough" again, but as plzhelpme said I don't think it's really possible for it to work any better. I didn't notice any severe problems. Thanks!

Pop'n was in perfect condition as far as I could tell.

GF buttons are still a little stiff, but the popping sounds and screen distortion seem to have been fixed. Woohoo! I set some new records on that tonight.

Max2's monitor is turning purple, but the pads are excellent (no pad misses at all).

Supernova, I didn't play it.

So that's my report. Good stuff! I'll be sure to come back next week, heh.

everything's working great but boourns at the machine timer on ITG being turned back on my fat ass can't keep up

ITG had a major program failure yesterday. 

Kevin, please confirm that the Tetris GM3 is supposed to be a two player cabinet?  It appears that way, although we do not quite have it booted on the monitor yet.  But it appears to be two player, whereas the old tetris games I remember were all single player. 

That's strange about the ITG cabinet.

Yes, TGM3 is for a two player 4button cabinet. It offers single player modes as well as a "interesting" multiplayer mode.

Thanks for everything!

yeah i figured it was something like that actually, good to hear though. was it caused by anything? i know people reset the crap out of it to make the usb faster and less problematic -- and thank you for the heads up as always.

To clarify, each player has 4 buttons: 3 rotations (A and C act as the same rotation direction), and a button for the thumb that you use to use the Hold feature.

Diagram time!:
  ABC
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Yeah...I was going to make that post, but I didn't want to spam up the thread with my OCD freaking out about TGM3 coming!

Can't wait! (Well...I guess I have to but you know what I mean!)

I haven't heard anything about TGM3 for a bit. Any status updates?

It's now booted up, waiting for it's control wiring and control panel button and sticks.  Getting closer, should be at Acme next week. 

Awesome, good to hear!

Kevin: I expect lots of pictures and videos when it goes up. :]

went to acme. funny new additions he he. Max2 works great. Drummania 1st player coin slot is jammed(physically). everything else seemed to work fine. met some guy named Keby who was pretty good. fine day at acme

oh hai! thats me. Yeah I really like that ITG machine down in Acme bowl. I'm sad I didn't find that place before the PIU:pro machine was taken away

the Teris GM3 is done.  Look for it's arrival on Thursday if the delivery schedule goes down as planned.

Yeeeeeeaaaaaaaahhhh!!!!

What time is it going to be installed? I have a half day, so I'll try and make it for the glorious arrival.

Kevin, I would say betwwen 11:00 and noon, looking at the truck schedule.  Hope you like the game.  Will be sitting where Silver Strike Bowling is now, which is being pulled.  Also an old school Tekken 5 will be there, to compliment the new Blazblue fighter that will arrive in a few weeks.

YES I am so psyched for TGM

Then when I finally play it I'll suck 

wait, wait.....you guys are getting blazblue? holy crap awesome!
It will be an import right?

I've got the Fanta Grape ready! (Bad in-joke.)



I'll be at Acme from 5:15 onwards. Someone better show up so I don't feel weird stacking 4 piece blocks into lines over 120 times per minute.

So is that Pump Cabinet still available? We might be ready to purchase it soon...

As of today, the PIU is still available.

Yes, Blazblue is an import.  Doing it up nicely with a huge cabinet and 32" hi def widescreen monitor.

Bill, do you think you could provide pictures of the cabinet? One of the whole machine and then one of it being used would be perfect. I just think our arcade would be more likely to buy if they could see the machine itself...

Well, we could, BUT, I cannot see any commercial venue that could possibly be happy with this cabinet!  Unless they want if played free, that is.  It is haunted with the free credit glitch.  really only good as a home use machine.