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Force has better graphics and much better lighting than VOOT. Since Marz is based on simplified Force graphics, it's conceivable they upgraded not only the resolution, but the lighting as well. I'll probably get Marz one of these days but I don't hook my PS3 up to online often.

Go to Club Sega in Shinjuku. I was there in 2006 and they had VOOM, VOOT, and Force. They weren't on the first floor and it's not obvious that building has more than one floor, so find the stairs. Friday night is when a lot of them play, but that was years ago. VOOT 360 hadn't come out yet, etc. edi...

i shoot you with my pea shooter

These days I'm probably the western player that's trying to be most active, but my hours are odd so I have trouble finding games during the times I want to play. I get home around 10 pm California time. If you wait in the Player Lobby, I'll challenge you when I get on. I also tend to look in the Pla...

I was in a different part of California so I only played with the Camelot/SHGL crew a few times. I might never have met you. Or I might have only met you once back in the VOOM days, because I don't recall any Fei Yen player in VOOT other than myself. I knew Koichi, but mainly in VOOM days, and I was...

Yeah, there is usually at least one free Xbox Live Gold deal going on if you look hard enough. I haven't paid a cent for Xbox Live Gold in the one year I've been online playing VOOT.

VOOT isn't coming to PS3, is it? You must mean VOOM? Nice picture, I recognize most of the people in it, but not everyone. Some of the names and faces are fuzzy or mismatched to me. I clearly recognize MentholMoose, Naomi, Mitch, Thomas, Nat, and an Eddie (which one, I'm not sure). Who is above Mitc...

Also, for people who think VOOM had the best music in the series, the included VOOM soundtrack is different from every other VOOM soundtrack that was officially released or could be extracted from the Saturn or PC versions of the game. It's the true original scratchy, low quality arcade VOOM music! ...

Wow that place still exists. Yeah I remember that ~13 years ago I went to that exact arcade and either found or didn't find VOOT there. It's been so long, I actually can't remember what I found there. ;) I *think* I found VOOT there and told Mitch about it and he said something about it. I forgot wh...

I can see why pinball or pachinko machines wouldn't devalue. Electronics devalue in general, but physical things preserved in good condition tend to increase in value. Pinball and pachinko machines are largely physical and rely on technology that doesn't really advance quickly.

I guess I don't know what I'm talking about then. Anyway, the VOOT 5.2 machine at Pak-mann Arcade in Pasadena, right next to where I lived, was also in a VOOM cabinet. Hawaii never had any VOOT machines. Hrm, if I think about it, $1000+ to ship the machine is really not that expensive if you conside...

I think the best thing to do is either leave your machine as VOOM, or make it VOOT 5.2/5.4. The old versions of VOOT have some gameplay differences to 5.66 and each has their own charm. The Dreamcast version of 5.45 also included an unlockable option to revert to 5.2 mechanics, after all. If that's ...

Yeah on some days there were a ton of people, actually the most I had ever seen. And lots of leaderboard replays uploaded that day. But on other days everyone still seems to be gone, and the next day there are only a few new replays. So I'm hopeful but still not ready to declare this game resuscitat...

JTAG account? I haven't gotten into the modded console thing yet, but I had thought that JTAG referred to a modded console, not an account. And I thought that going online with a modded console gets you banned instantly?

Lol hey that's the exact same machine on Ebay that we were looking at here a couple months ago, too! Glad to see it went to a good home. I'll have to let the other forum members carry the conversation from here on though, cause I know diddly squat about operating or maintaining arcade machines or do...

Wow, it's amazing to hear that there were that many players when VOOT first released. In any case I had no complaints with finding diverse Japanese competition until the last few weeks; as long as I stayed up all night to play during Japan peak hours I was fine. I suspect that the Japanese players g...

I am sad, the last couple weeks I have really felt like playing VOOT seriously again but suddenly the majority of Japanese players have deserted the game. I have stayed up many nights and not found a single opponent as of late. I'm willing to declare VOOT stone cold dead at this point. Anyone can ve...

I noticed a few days ago that Yahoo Japan Auctions now directly links you to Buyee at the top of every auction listing. I don't remember it being like this when you first told me about Buyee. I don't know how they managed that arrangement but if it is permanent, Buyee will surely monopolize the Yaho...

I challenge Porcupine.

Hehe it was no where near as rare as that. Anyways yup that's just how the Internet goes. Information that is old tends to get lost forever, even if it was once plentiful. Especially when the information was originally mostly located on forums (which got erased) or sites that went down. In general I...