An ITG hard drive wouldn't contain drivers for such recently made hardware. Maybe an openitg could have updated drivers installed though. Then again the card may have shut itself down and just needs a new fan.

It's not really a hassle. You can get old Nvidia AGP cards from Ebay or probably even Fry's.

These posts are making me nervous...

I believe in you Bill! The hope of the world rests on your shoulders!

I'm not nervous. It's easy to fix, and I trust Bill will get it done

Good news!

ITG 3 is back up and running after replacement of many bulging capacitors, a repaired and modified video card, etc.  Cards, gifts, and flowers are all welcome and should be sent to our technician, Mark.

Let us know it it's holding up, but we feel pretty good about it now.

Thanks Kevin B, for your offer of also helping out, appreciate it.

Thank you so much for maintaining the machine so well. We all really appreciate it : )

Sorry you and Sara had your arrow smashing dreams tarnished when you went yesterday.  Thanks Sara for reporting the issue.  I owe you free credits, remind me when you see me.

Bill, please than your maintenance team for us   You too, of course

Was there a resolution on the broken pop'n button?  I haven't gone there since putting in that call so I was just curious

New button and several switches were put in pop N.  Hoping all good!

Played today, working like a charm! Thanks a lot Bill!

Thank you so much!  It is so wonderful to have such great technicians working on the machine.  You're our hero!  =)

No free credits necessary, I was just doing my noble job to the community.  *hands on hips*  But I am a poor college student, so woohoo!! =p

Can we get some double for one credit on the DDR? Supernova 2 has that option.

i would love that too

ITG works great. Pop'n is also pretty good. Drummania has a really weak cymbal and the bass pedal is kind of clunky. That's my status report for today.

Actually, there's one other thing that kind of bothered me. The Maximum Tune cabinet second from the right absolutely ruined my card with data accumulated over $300 worth of playing on it. Luckily it still works, but the printer in the machine just threw down a big ol' smudge of ink right over the whole space where the play data is printed on the card making it completely illegible. Additionally, the machine lagged out and was unresponsive about halfway through my race. It then recovered, upon which I found my card in that condition. I then tried it in the cabinet second on the left, which didn't freeze but still left a kind of nasty smudge all over my card. Oh well, at least it works. It's due to expire again in about 15 games so I'll just transfer my data over to a new card. Still, I can imagine people getting really pissed about that sort of thing. I noticed that over on the Wangan Expressway forums, Acme's machines are listed as "in bad conditions". It's a shame to see the nearest machines to me in this state, especially when they're at Acme! Anyway, I'm sure the only reason they're not perfect is because some stupid MaxTune players never report anything ever.

Kevin, thanks for the report.   Time to service the card readers again.

We struggle with the card readers due to cards being "duped".  If you watch when some of the groups come in to play, you will see how they insert a card with scotch tape on it, and jerk the card out, push in a blank card, and duplicate the data.  They then get sold, traded, or whatever.  Makes keeping the card readers running a real chore!

Bill,
Do you want us to be watching for that kind of abuse on the machines and report it?

Personally I'm not a fan of a lot of those groups, they abuse your other machines in the arcade through rough use or leaving the controllers out of their holders after playing.  Not surprised to hear they abuse even the machines they actually "like" to play.

P.S> I think the cymbal on Drummania V3 is wearing down but could be just me.  Can anyone confirm?

The cymbal is indeed pretty bad. I had to really hit it pretty hard to get it to register. I didn't want to damage so I held off on playing any more games. I use very light sticks, but I still don't think it was anything like it should be. Additionally, both the hihat and the cymbal seemed like they could use some tightening of the under-pad screws.

Bill, thanks for checking into the card reader issue. I'd heard about duped cards before but never knew how it was done. Sounds like the people that play WMMT are generally a bunch of assholes if they do shit like that. I don't really know that community at all as I just tend to play on my own, but maybe it's better that way.

Looks like we need to give DM a love check.

As for the card duping on WMMT3, I think it's interestingly cool in some weird way.  the kids think they are getting away with something, but in effect, are promoting the game.  Everyone gets a faster car, and hence more fun and interest.  Yes, it causes a few problems, but hey, they are having fun which is what it's all about.  :-)

OK, as long as the benefits outweigh the costs.  And you know more about that than I do!

Okay, I went to play MT3 and ITG today. I know the techs didn't get a chance to head down there yet and check it out, but I thought a more detailed report might help:

1P: Crashed in the middle of a game. Reset and ejected my card. Card reader needs some work, too.
2P: Game was stuck on a "Card Jam" screen.
3P: When I was playing on the 4P cabinet, I watched the 3P machine lag out in the middle of a game just like yesterday. It's really strange! The audio cuts out as well. This machine has the worst card reader problem.
4P: Worked perfectly while I was there. It even reprinted my messed up card perfectly.

Hope this report helps!
ITG was great as usual.

I played some ITG yesterday night (saw a few d00ds with cards leave right when I jumped on) and it's amazing.  We don't have this in Spokane.

My wallet was stolen there unfortunately.  This is a far cry from working, but if you guys can keep out for a black leather wallet (Fossil brand) with the ID Jakob Rosman in it, that would be great.  That big security guy was pretty helpful.

Oh man, that sucks.    Acme unfortunately isn't the safest location to play at.

      I ran this by a few people who liked the idea and thought I'd throw it out there and see what people think. There basically isn't a really well maintained DDR Extreme machine anywhere near where Acme is, or in Seattle or anywhere. There are a couple around but they don't tend to be in really great condition and as I gather this is basically the most desirable mix to play. That being said, I would think an Extreme machine at Acme would be very well received (certainly by the people I've talked to). I also would like to note that there is already a well maintained SN2 machine in U-district, but none down further south.


      My suggestion is this: consider moving the SN2 machine at Acme to Narrows. Move Narrows' SuperNova machine to Daffodil Bowl, and Daffodil Bowl's perfect condition Extreme machine to Acme, assuming Daffodil's machine is still there (I haven't been there in a number of months. I also am only mostly sure this machine belongs to Bill. This swap would work fine with another Extreme machine's location as well obviously). This would effectively just change the Acme machine from SN2-> Extreme and upgrade the other 2 locations' cabinets.

What do you guys think? Want to see an Extreme machine at Acme? Bill, too much effort/otherwise infeasible to do so?

Maybe it's not a desirable or feasible change but thought I'd throw it out there Try to get us some So Deep and Rhythm and Police and the long list of other good songs Extreme has that SN2 doesn't.

So what say you guys? As I've surveyed, most people prefer Extreme over SN2; please chime in if this is or is specifically not the case.

I miss those songs...

Supernova has been getting a little repetitive lately for me, and I haven't played on an excellent quality extreme machine ever since they tore down Sunset Bowl near my place.

A big YES from me

I think it's a great idea. I'd really love to play Extreme at Acme.