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yottabit

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Wrapped up converting one of my Rush 2049 cabinets with an LCD monitor in anticipation of turning it into a racing emulation cabinet in the next month or so. I think it came out very well and nearly looks stock IMO. Now I have to do it to my other one.

I got my hands on 2 16:10 25.5" ASUS monitors which are the best possible fit for both 4:3 and 16:9 games in this thing, and was tricky to find considering it's a 15 year old monitor and I saw less than 10 of them across the entire country.

Man Rush 2049 is one of my all time favorites. Does the arcade version include the stunt mode like the home console ports did?
 

purbeast0

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Man Rush 2049 is one of my all time favorites. Does the arcade version include the stunt mode like the home console ports did?
It does not unfortunately. I loved playing the stunt mode on Dreamcast though. It does have the coins though that you can hunt for.
 

purbeast0

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Damn if this isn't already on the drives that I'm getting, I may have to grab that myself so I can play it at that resolution and FPS. That looks noticeably better than the OG game.

I am pretty surprised how good the OG game looks straight up on LCD though, even stretched. It's definitely more vivid too than the CRT.

Here's a comparison video I made after finishing up the first conversion with the arcade hardware. It's hard to get a real quality comparison with this kind of video but you can see the aspect ratio and stuff. I wrapped up the 2nd one last night too and am now just waiting on the hardware to interface the cabinets with the PC before I do the emulation conversion.

 
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I wish someone would release a proper Cisco Heat remake, without the weird compromises they had to make in the animations due to the limitations of that era.
 
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It's weird being in a class with a bunch of 18-22 year olds.
I was in the 42 coding bootcamp with that age group. Not fun. They just didn't want to collaborate with me and since most of them were green, their understanding of coding was just bonkers. The way they would try to explain some concepts, I was surprised that their programs even compiled. Found out much later that a lot of them were cheating and some even used ChatGPT. That was totally fine with the French organizers of the bootcamp because according to them, you use whatever advantage you can get in life because life is unfair :oops:
 

Red Squirrel

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I was in the 42 coding bootcamp with that age group. Not fun. They just didn't want to collaborate with me and since most of them were green, their understanding of coding was just bonkers. The way they would try to explain some concepts, I was surprised that their programs even compiled. Found out much later that a lot of them were cheating and some even used ChatGPT. That was totally fine with the French organizers of the bootcamp because according to them, you use whatever advantage you can get in life because life is unfair :oops:

I felt the same way in college with people in my own age group, felt like I was the only person in there that understood basic programming. I was there eager to learn more advanced concepts that I don't know but ended up being the unofficial class tutor instead lol.
 
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Chaotic42

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I was in the 42 coding bootcamp with that age group. Not fun. They just didn't want to collaborate with me and since most of them were green, their understanding of coding was just bonkers. The way they would try to explain some concepts, I was surprised that their programs even compiled. Found out much later that a lot of them were cheating and some even used ChatGPT. That was totally fine with the French organizers of the bootcamp because according to them, you use whatever advantage you can get in life because life is unfair :oops:
They're on their phones constantly, but every one of them has been friendly and helpful. I'm very extroverted and southern, so between that and being old, I think they weren't sure how to deal with me at first.
 
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I was there eager to learn more advanced concepts that I don't know but ended up being the unofficial class tutor instead lol.
Yeah. That's so annoying having to tutor a bunch of newbies and you feel bad if you don't teach them but there is basically no reward. Most of the times, not even a thank you. The best you will get is sometimes someone will ask you a hard question, forcing you to think of a problem in a new way. But most of the time, you don't progress in your understanding to more advanced concepts and even if some of the newbies get better than you, it's no good for you because they won't even talk to you afterwards once they don't need you anymore.

This is kind of the story behind the creation of the WordPerfect word processor. The professor was astounded that some of his students were making more than him after learning from him so he gave up teaching and just created a word processor with another guy to rake in the big bucks.

By the way, two of the girls who improved their concepts by discussing things with me, both of them got 66 in the final exam whereas I got only 60 (I'd had only 4 hours of sleep, got a hard problem that I hated and it took most of my time and then final 20 minutes, my entire section of computers lost power so I just sat there like a stupid duck!).
 

Red Squirrel

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Oh man Corel Wordperfect that brings me back. Used to be the gold standard in the school system. I think they had a program where they gave it to schools for free. Same with Novel I think schools either got it for free or at a high discount.