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#1824

Asterix Marquee

I’m not sure on the history behind the Asterix artwork. I’m assuming there was some art distributed but I haven’t seen any actual Asterix cabinets in images online, so I can’t say. I did find a couple variations of a “marquee” but both appear to be something put together by fans after the fact. One looks based on a flyer and the other appears to be inspired by the instruction card, for which a scan does exist.

I liked the design of the one based on the flyer, but only low resolution copies of that are available, so I upscaled, traced and reproduced it in high resolution. I also added some trademark type text and symbols, as an actual marquee would normally have had that.

If anyone has information or an image about the actual original marquee let me know, otherwise I plan to create an overlay using what I produced:

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asterix-marquee-ars-invictus6144×1800 1.91 MB

I’m also thinking to put together a custom bezel and CPO design, as overlay options.

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#1825

I got it together. I’d forgotten how hard Ikari Warriors is! Very cool to be able to play it properly though.

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The cab is coming together too:

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#1826

very cool. how much cost thath gsr joystick?

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#1827

Stunning work as always

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#1828

Joystick is 80 dollars, which is a pretty good deal considering the options it offers in terms of 8/12/16/free way rotation. The Ultimarc rotary solution wasn’t so flexible and after adding in the price of the octagonal yellow top and base Sanwa joystick actually comes out to more. And this throws in 6 buttons and a built in encoder (which is optional, I’ll probably just use an I-Pac for the buttons in the cabinet.

I’ve only played on it a little bit at this point, but it seems to be pretty responsive with good switches, etc. It’s definitely not as responsive as a Sanwa, which is what I usually use, but definitely good enough for the handful of rotary games out there.

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#1829

Ikari Warriors is hard. Victory Road is even worse. Emulation without the rotator sticks makes playing them harder than it should be. I’ve been waiting to play Time Soldiers again properly. One of my favorites that I used to be able to finish on one credit.

The cabinet looks great. Will it be a dedicated Ikari Warriors cabinet or multi game? You’ll need a third button for a few of the other games.

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#1830

Let me know what you think of the stick when you get it too.

I’m planning to have it play at least a few other vertically oriented rotary joystick games, there are really only a handful out there. I haven’t looked into what games would require 3 buttons, but it might be possible to use the extra buttons for each player for the 3rd button, if it’s not something used frequently, each button will be mapped uniquely as I won’t wire them together. I also don’t want to alter the cabinet at all, I’m striving for authenticity.

But most of my nostalgia is around Ikari Warriors, I never really played the others back in the day, though I hear good things about Time Soldiers in particular.

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#1831

Still waiting… I definitely will let you know.

Here’s a list of rotary games:

Bermuda Triangle

DownTown

Gondomania

Guerrilla War

Heavy Barrel

Ikari Warriors

Ikari Warriors II: Victory Road

Ikari III: The Rescue

Midnight Resistance

T.N.K. III

Search And Rescue

Time Soldiers

Top Gunner aka Jackal bootleg uses the rotary sticks

The only one that requires 3 buttons is Ikari III. So not even an issue.

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#1832

There is no Asterix arcade machine, it was only a jamma

#1833

Usually a conversion kit would have included some art, at least a marquee and instruction card. And the instruction card is available, was there no marquee in this case at all?

#1834

Hi @ArsInvictus please can share to me a full vertical curve overlay like in this image? Thanks

#1835

things that exist for the game

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asterix-arc-europe-front460×650 107 KB
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asterix-arc-b53f91e01200×847 300 KB
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asterix_howto1600×430 397 KB

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#1836

I guess the custom marquee I have there will be the best option then. Thanks for the extra research!

#1837

You mean for Ikari Warriors? One already exists for that. I think @far327 is the one posting these to youtube: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/O7wem70zS5A

#1838

no just a full screen vertical curved without bezel i mean

#1839

Oh I’m just using the basic CRT-Guest shader on a mini-PC, it has a basic curve effect available. If I had a more powerful PC connected I’d use the more realistic 3D curve effect offered by the megabezel shader.

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#1840

Yes this was me posting the vid. Couldn’t resist with all the talk about Ikari Warriors. :upside_down_face: i admire @walter.farmacia work! Just flawless!

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#1841

He did a great job on the control panel render there, though the top parts were by me :grin::grin::grin:

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#1842

HA! I should of known. Sorry the lay file didn’t have you listed.

EDIT - I updated the art credits for the YT vid i posted. I’ll try to update others where this may also be the case.

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#1843

Finally got the sticks earlier today. I tested with Ikari Warriors first. It’s a bit loose compared to the original LS-30’s (the stick not the rotation) but they work really well and I can finally enjoy all the rotator stick games again.

If you think Ikari Warriors is hard wait until you play Time Soldiers. :smile:

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