New Multi-Board review thread

I don't think the King of Games is that bad to be honest.

They are not terrible Shanghai, just should be alot better

shanghaiguide wrote: To paraphrase an 80's (or was it 70's?) TV show: A board barely alive.  We can rebuild it, we have the technology, we can make it better than it was before; better, stronger, faster. :) Anyway, I'm working on that, so should be able to have something like the above in the next month or three. Unless I get distracted with new shiny toys in the interim of course!

@shanghaiguide can you get it to run older games at full speed?

Looking forward to seeing what you can improve on the kob 188 in 1

KFM still shite then

frothmeister wrote: ben76 wrote: Picked up the 138-1 from the sorting office today. Runs a bit funny the sound seems to only work if its in a certain postion could be my cab though. The emulation on them aint that great on most of the games I tried. KFM is on half speed. The sound on Pac-land is shite also scrolling is a bit crap on most of them. Lucky I've got PL and KFM pcbs Hyper Sports works quite well though Gauntlet is just about a pass Metrocross scrolls badly Overall its quite good! - Ben ©Baz 2012

It was an after thought to post it here and I was too lazy to re type it so I did a Baz
- Ben

IDCHAPPY wrote: Shame on you Ben, i sense a big lawsuit comin your way

He'll try and sue for copyright on copy and pasting and the cost will be my robocop pcb or something
- Ben

Similar the pic of the game is below the names instead of to the right. Also anyone know what the timer is for?
- Ben

Got my 138-in-1 yesterday and have had a good run through of it, here are my thoughts.

Setting up and initial observations

· Nice small board, proper volume pot rather than having to adjust through a menu.
· Setup pages easy to get to by holding a switch on power up. Can adjust individual game settings.
· Boot time - 15 seconds from power to menu, games load quickly.

On first plugging in I got nothing but a blank screen on my Egret II. I've had this before with multi boards on this cab so tried it on another jamma cab and it booted fine.

Made a little adapter that cut pin 27 as the board uses that for button 6 and the cab wants a ground there, linked all the other grounds and it fired up fine.

Interesting selection of games, menu is ok - coin in and pick a game from the menu, screenshot loads for each game in the list.

I went through a good selection of games and tried to pick ones I know so I can judge how well they run, some are almost unplayable, some are fine. Volime levels are all similar unlike other multi boards I've tried.

Insert credit > pick game > game loads and adds a credit for you > at game over the game stays on (unlike 60-in-1 etc.) and you can add more credits or continue. To return to the menu hold 1p start for 5 seconds.

Edit Mode

· To enter config power on and when the 'Game Family' screen appears hold the switch in next to the dip switches. This will bring up the config menu.

· You can choose game edit from here and turn on or off games in the list, turn on freeplay, timer etc.

· If you leave edit mode on you can go back to the main game list and alter dips for each game.

· Free play is well thought out - pick your game then press 1p or 2p start to insert a coin, it's the perfect way to have freeplay set on a board like this.

Game list and performance

Run down of some games and how they hold up, marked as L.S - small amount of frameskip, M.S - moderate frameskip, H.S - Heavy frameskip, X - almost unplayable, OK - Runs fine.

1. Defender L.S
2. Stargate L.S
3. Bubbles OK
4. Joust OK
5. Robotron OK - Hold button 2 to move with the stick, hold button 3 to fire with the stick - works quite well!
6. Blaster OK
7. Splat OK
8. Rally X L.S
9. Battle City OK
10. Mario Bros. OK
11. New Rally X L.S.
12. Ghosts n' Goblins L.S
13. Solomons Key OK
14. Sky Kid L.S
15. The Fairyland Story X (runs at half speed)
16. Super Mario Bros. H.S
17. Do! Run Run OK
18. Kick Rider M.S.
19. 4-D Warriors OK
20. Acrobatic Dog Fight M.S.
21. Airwolf OK
22. Cobra Command M.S.
23. Missile Command OK
24. Super Missile Command OK
25. Shoot Out OK
26. Street Fight H.S.
27. Swimmer L.S.
28. Time Tunnel OK
29. Black Dragon L.S
30. Tricky Doc OK
33. Bank Panic OK
57. Green Beret OK
64. Wonderboy L.S
69. Insector X H.S
89. Pac-Land X (bad sound, runs about 2fps)
94. Pitfall II OK
104. Rygar M.S
109. Sega Ninja OK
117. Yie Ar Kung Fu X (runs at half speed)
118. Tetris OK
121. Double Dragon (OK but sound is bad)
122. Double Dragon 2 (OK but sound is bad)
123. Hyper Olympic OK
126. Life Force L.S
129. Hyper Sports OK
132. Plump Pop H.S (runs at half speed)
134. Blood Bros. L.S
136. Rambo OK
137. Gauntlet OK (some picture is cut though as it's too big)
138. Tetris (sega) OK

There are a number of duplicates in the list, I counted 5 on a quick look (boots/different regions)

Obviously there's a lot more games in the list I didn't try, it seems that static screen games and older titles run fine others vary in quality.

There are some good titles on there that run well so certainly worth it for those, some won't be worth playing at all. Sound seems to be ok for the majority of the games which is usually an issue with these type of boards. Not a bad deal for the money, although I wish the manufacturers would just put a better processor on there so they would run everything right.

Edited by muddymusic - 19 June 2012 at 4:15pm

To add on the Olly scale
Metrocross H.S
- Ben