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Taito Egret II mini
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That is some BRAND NEW M-Fing I-N-F-A-R-M-A-T-I-O-N
Mufausa The 3rd
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wondermega
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Sorry I wrote that incorrectly! I mean they do plug into the unit - the cords do, rather - I just thought the whole front control panel swapped out or something, which it does not.
Roger Rabbit
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Got mine today. It's a very nice package.
It's bigger than Sega's and especially SNK'S machines.
The top lights up nicely when turned on, like the Astro City Mini.
It is so satisfying to turn the screen around. Really has a chunky feel to it. Not loose at all.
It was a little annoying that with the SD card in, it will only boot those games - the trackball controller games. To see the menu of other games, you have to take the SD card out.
I had a quick play on Arkanoid with the dial controller and then Elevator Action Returns.
It's bigger than Sega's and especially SNK'S machines.
The top lights up nicely when turned on, like the Astro City Mini.
It is so satisfying to turn the screen around. Really has a chunky feel to it. Not loose at all.
It was a little annoying that with the SD card in, it will only boot those games - the trackball controller games. To see the menu of other games, you have to take the SD card out.
I had a quick play on Arkanoid with the dial controller and then Elevator Action Returns.
wondermega
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Looking great! I am curious to see how this thing develops (more games, does anyone port MAME to it?) Enjoy your new toy!
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This is better than porn.Got mine today. It's a very nice package.
It's bigger than Sega's and especially SNK'S machines.
The top lights up nicely when turned on, like the Astro City Mini.
It is so satisfying to turn the screen around. Really has a chunky feel to it. Not loose at all.
It was a little annoying that with the SD card in, it will only boot those games - the trackball controller games. To see the menu of other games, you have to take the SD card out.
I had a quick play on Arkanoid with the dial controller and then Elevator Action Returns.
Thanks for the comparison photo, looks great.
How is the emulation?
Miyazaki’s Slave
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I am very happy the controllers are as large as they are in your pics. I pre ordered the set and in all of those photos the controllers looked rather tiny.
Thanks for the pics!!
Thanks for the pics!!
Roger Rabbit
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I'm no good for technical opinions. Hell, I need to read websites or listen to youtube commentary to know whether I'm playing at 30 or 60 FPS most of the time, and I had no idea that I was playing with input lag when I played the Saturn Cotton games on Switch last year.
The emulation seems fine to me, but retro videogame fans are hard to please, so I'm sure they'll find fault, and it may well be justified. It's perfectly to my taste.
My arcade stick is coming tonight.
The emulation seems fine to me, but retro videogame fans are hard to please, so I'm sure they'll find fault, and it may well be justified. It's perfectly to my taste.
My arcade stick is coming tonight.
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wondermega
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Book looks amazing! Wish i could read it..
Impotaku
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Played a few hours pretty happy with it, just a huge shame rainbow islands isn't on it as much as extra is neat to play it's not the same and rainbow islands is not just my favourite taito game it's my absolute favourite arcade game full stop. But what there is on this thing is a lot of fun. The paddle controller is really nice the spinner has gears on it so there's momentum and you can free spin it as much as you like still takes a while to get used to as im dieing all over the place in arkanoid. Cameltry is probably the best showcase for how accurate it is you can spin that maze like a fiend. In between playing on the built in screen i decided to hook it upto my vertical monitor for a bit too.
The trackball is lovely too it spins with momentum so you can really go at it, the metallic spinner is sadly plastic but you can't have it all
The trackball is lovely too it spins with momentum so you can really go at it, the metallic spinner is sadly plastic but you can't have it all
Honey Bunny
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How does the external arcade stick feel? And does it plug in via usb?Played a few hours pretty happy with it, just a huge shame rainbow islands isn't on it as much as extra is neat to play it's not the same and rainbow islands is not just my favourite taito game it's my absolute favourite arcade game full stop. But what there is on this thing is a lot of fun. The paddle controller is really nice the spinner has gears on it so there's momentum and you can free spin it as much as you like still takes a while to get used to as im dieing all over the place in arkanoid. Cameltry is probably the best showcase for how accurate it is you can spin that maze like a fiend. In between playing on the built in screen i decided to hook it upto my vertical monitor for a bit too.
The trackball is lovely too it spins with momentum so you can really go at it, the metallic spinner is sadly plastic but you can't have it all
Impotaku
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Yup all the extra controllers are normal usb they just plug in around the back of the unit, feels pretty nice. Haven't put it through it's paces yet but first impressions are that it'll get a lot of use with this thing.
SirTerry-T
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With that trackball controller, as long as we get a MAME port that's at least capable of running Missile Command all is good 
Impotaku
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At weekend i'll try plug it into my pc and fire up mame, i think the trackball & spinner act like mouse inputs from what i have been told so i'm sure i can make the settings in mame work out what to do with the inputs from the controller. I know the huge stick for the astro city mini worked on my pc in mame i just had to remap what all the buttons did on it, for emulator stuff they should be ok as you can remap.
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wondermega
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Ugh I am hoping beyond hope. Was really looking forward to see a Mame port of some sort run on NeoGeo mini.. nope. Then on Astro City Mini... also nope. At least this one takes SD cards... but we will see, not gonna get my hopes up just yet. If it does, I will buy one in a damn second..With that trackball controller, as long as we get a MAME port that's at least capable of running Missile Command all is good
Impotaku
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Today my instruction card box arrived, i did my homework beautifully and the entire stack of cards fit perfect. Ultrapro make trading card storage boxes, i used the 25 count one as it has the exact dimensions and depth to hold the whole 50 card bundle, the cards are a thinner so i took the size into account. With the cost of the bundle i wanted something better to keep them in than just the cardboard insert they come in wrapped in plastic.
Not very good to keep them in this, eventually taking them in & out is gonna mess the cards up.
This is way better, i also found a perfect use for that sticker sheet full of taito logos i could put one on the case and would make it look almost like it's official & branded, one small problem though i can't bring myself to use up my bonus sticker sheet damn my collecting brain.
They will no longer fit back in the card insert in the main box so i'm gonna put them in the arcade box where the hdmi cable & power cord are as the insert panel is stored in there so it makes sense to keep the cards with it. With buying one of the 2 huge bundles the only way you can get those instruction cards i'm making sure to keep them well protected as it's not like i'll be able to buy replacements, i did discover that the instruction cards are actually printed on thin plastic it's not cardboard.
Not very good to keep them in this, eventually taking them in & out is gonna mess the cards up.
This is way better, i also found a perfect use for that sticker sheet full of taito logos i could put one on the case and would make it look almost like it's official & branded, one small problem though i can't bring myself to use up my bonus sticker sheet damn my collecting brain.
They will no longer fit back in the card insert in the main box so i'm gonna put them in the arcade box where the hdmi cable & power cord are as the insert panel is stored in there so it makes sense to keep the cards with it. With buying one of the 2 huge bundles the only way you can get those instruction cards i'm making sure to keep them well protected as it's not like i'll be able to buy replacements, i did discover that the instruction cards are actually printed on thin plastic it's not cardboard.
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Impotaku
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Today in between giving this thing another gaming workout decided to find out where to stick the rest of the bonus stickers around the back, had to look online till i found a pic of the back of a real egret to see where the labels were attached as the size of the stickers on the sheet are not to scale i had to put them close as i could get. No idea where the machine alarmed sticker was suposed to go so i just guessed.
Now that i have a second set of bonus stickers to use, decided on putting this one on my instruction card case, almost looks like Taito sent them like this in the box all official. Keep looking on amazon japan in case any company makes a carry case or storage box for the egret II stuff
Now that i have a second set of bonus stickers to use, decided on putting this one on my instruction card case, almost looks like Taito sent them like this in the box all official. Keep looking on amazon japan in case any company makes a carry case or storage box for the egret II stuff
Impotaku
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Yeah the box clearly indicates the power requirement so does the manual, something youtubers totally ignored then bitched about endlessly. A while back i spent the money and bought a proper power brick that had 6 usb ports and was one that is regulated with charge protection. a 60 watt one that gives out 5.4v from all the ports at a max of 2.4A as using phone chargers is a bit hit & miss as i have a few iphone ones laying about but for something like this not suitable as it can lag if it doesn't get enough power on some of the less powerful minis it doesn't need as much juice but some do. The pc engine mini is another that's a bit tricky as it needs the exact power requirement, people were plugging raspberry pi adapters into it and totally frying the usb ports on the front as it gave a bit too much voltage.
I'd search amazon for a proper one, think mine set me back about £20-30 it's been a long time i tried searching on amazon for my exact brick but that listing is no longer there as i bought it in 2018 but there's loads like it just find one that has a regulated supply and charge protection as that's always safe to have. Btw you don't need a usb C charger it uses a usb C cable with the console having usb C input but the other end of the cable is a usb A that goes into the power brick.
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I ended up getting a proper power brick, it was only 66W with C and A options. So far everything seems to be working fine, I believe Ray Force and Darius are the problem games, but they seem to work. The cable in the box is pretty short too, so got a 3M cable. Seems nice.
Impotaku
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First expansion SD card set has been revealed called egret II mini arcade memories volume 1 and is available December 22nd. More info here about what 10 games are on the card
It comes with a taito station volume 2 book that is a similar format to the taito station volume 1 book that came in the deluxe box set did plus instruction cards for all 10 of the new games. From the info i have found it's a limited quantity item and the preorders close on sept 22th seems taito are working the bugs out as amazon japan is temp out of stock. Taito say to keep checking back on the official site at the weekend as they are trying to get the preorder system up & running again.
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It comes with a taito station volume 2 book that is a similar format to the taito station volume 1 book that came in the deluxe box set did plus instruction cards for all 10 of the new games. From the info i have found it's a limited quantity item and the preorders close on sept 22th seems taito are working the bugs out as amazon japan is temp out of stock. Taito say to keep checking back on the official site at the weekend as they are trying to get the preorder system up & running again.
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PuRiLuRa hot damn im there
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Impotaku
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Preorder now live on amazon japan for the arcade memories vol1, no idea why the preorder system was broken but they fixed it now. Despite what taiko mentioned on twitter i can't see any preorder cutoff date like they mentioned. For anyone wanting it the link is here, you may or may not need a middleman shipper to get it though.
Amazon.co.jp: アーケードメモリーズVOL.1 (イーグレットツーミニ本体別売) : ゲーム
Amazon.co.jp: アーケードメモリーズVOL.1 (イーグレットツーミニ本体別売) : ゲーム
www.amazon.co.jp
Impotaku
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Now there's a new version of the arcade memories coming Vol3 with 10 more games in december.
Comes in several variations you can get the arcade memories vol3 on it's own or there's 2 special sets. One is bundled with a new cyberstick variant and the other is bundled with the combine kit that adds in the base to the arcade machine and you get a stool to complete the look a bit like sega did with the astro mini. There's 2 replica taito pcb boxes that you can store all your instruction marquee cards in and the base has a flap at the back that comes off so you can store them all inside to keep them together, also a slot around the front to turn it into a money box.
Game lineup for vol3 is....
Galactic Storm
Wiz
Rumba Lumba
Metal Soldier Isaac II
Akkanvaders (Space Invaders '95: Attack of the Lunar Loonies)
Extermination
Dr Toppel Tankentai
Aqua Jack
Mr. DO
Top Landing
Akkanvader & mr Do! are the two main for me i fucking loooove akkanvader i have been begging Taito on twitter for ages to add it into the collection, dreams really do come true. Now if only they would give me the original raainbow islands.
Famitsu did a unveiling video of everything for the curious, absolutely love that they are still supporting it and making new volumes it continues to expand and be a nice purchase. A lot of the titles in these volumes haven't really had proper home console support so it's great to play them at home outside of pc arcade emulation.
Comes in several variations you can get the arcade memories vol3 on it's own or there's 2 special sets. One is bundled with a new cyberstick variant and the other is bundled with the combine kit that adds in the base to the arcade machine and you get a stool to complete the look a bit like sega did with the astro mini. There's 2 replica taito pcb boxes that you can store all your instruction marquee cards in and the base has a flap at the back that comes off so you can store them all inside to keep them together, also a slot around the front to turn it into a money box.
Game lineup for vol3 is....
Galactic Storm
Wiz
Rumba Lumba
Metal Soldier Isaac II
Akkanvaders (Space Invaders '95: Attack of the Lunar Loonies)
Extermination
Dr Toppel Tankentai
Aqua Jack
Mr. DO
Top Landing
Akkanvader & mr Do! are the two main for me i fucking loooove akkanvader i have been begging Taito on twitter for ages to add it into the collection, dreams really do come true. Now if only they would give me the original raainbow islands.
Famitsu did a unveiling video of everything for the curious, absolutely love that they are still supporting it and making new volumes it continues to expand and be a nice purchase. A lot of the titles in these volumes haven't really had proper home console support so it's great to play them at home outside of pc arcade emulation.
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Dragoon_lantz
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dang, any chance they reprint vol 1 and 2, missed out on those and they are expensive on ebay
calistan
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Now there's a new version of the arcade memories coming Vol3 with 10 more games in december.
Comes in several variations you can get the arcade memories vol3 on it's own or there's 2 special sets. One is bundled with a new cyberstick variant and the other is bundled with the combine kit that adds in the base to the arcade machine and you get a stool to complete the look a bit like sega did with the astro mini. There's 2 replica taito pcb boxes that you can store all your instruction marquee cards in and the base has a flap at the back that comes off so you can store them all inside to keep them together, also a slot around the front to turn it into a money box.
Game lineup for vol3 is....
Galactic Storm
Wiz
Rumba Lumba
Metal Soldier Isaac II
Akkanvaders (Space Invaders '95: Attack of the Lunar Loonies)
Extermination
Dr Toppel Tankentai
Aqua Jack
Mr. DO
Top Landing
Akkanvader & mr Do! are the two main for me i fucking loooove akkanvader i have been begging Taito on twitter for ages to add it into the collection, dreams really do come true. Now if only they would give me the original raainbow islands.
Famitsu did a unveiling video of everything for the curious, absolutely love that they are still supporting it and making new volumes it continues to expand and be a nice purchase. A lot of the titles in these volumes haven't really had proper home console support so it's great to play them at home outside of pc arcade emulation.
There's a bit of Rainbow Islands in the video. I hope this means they'll give us the proper original Rainbow Islands and not the current gimped version.
Miyazaki’s Slave
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Now there's a new version of the arcade memories coming Vol3 with 10 more games in december.
Comes in several variations you can get the arcade memories vol3 on it's own or there's 2 special sets. One is bundled with a new cyberstick variant and the other is bundled with the combine kit that adds in the base to the arcade machine and you get a stool to complete the look a bit like sega did with the astro mini. There's 2 replica taito pcb boxes that you can store all your instruction marquee cards in and the base has a flap at the back that comes off so you can store them all inside to keep them together, also a slot around the front to turn it into a money box.
Game lineup for vol3 is....
Galactic Storm
Wiz
Rumba Lumba
Metal Soldier Isaac II
Akkanvaders (Space Invaders '95: Attack of the Lunar Loonies)
Extermination
Dr Toppel Tankentai
Aqua Jack
Mr. DO
Top Landing
Akkanvader & mr Do! are the two main for me i fucking loooove akkanvader i have been begging Taito on twitter for ages to add it into the collection, dreams really do come true. Now if only they would give me the original raainbow islands.
Famitsu did a unveiling video of everything for the curious, absolutely love that they are still supporting it and making new volumes it continues to expand and be a nice purchase. A lot of the titles in these volumes haven't really had proper home console support so it's great to play them at home outside of pc arcade emulation.
Thank you for the post!!
Impotaku
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Finally gone box rummaging to get everything back out including my vertical monitor as it has been all stored away since i moved so i can finally set the egret back up as i wanted to play vol 3. Needed to find a SD card to do the latest firmware update so the new vol 3 would work as it seems you need to do it now with every edition as they have beefed up the SD card encryption to try and discourage people hacking. Least with firmware updates they try to fix various bugs like the wrong screen ratio in previous versions & some games having graphical & sound issues.
It's quite the mountain of boxes for 1 "mini" system but out of the arcade ones this ones kind of my fave it's a really nice way to play some pretty obscure Taito releases.
Withe the base attached it does look nice however the base doesn't lock in solid so you have to be careful when picking it up as the base can come loose if you grab it wrong, best to grab it by the egret & not the base.
The inside only has a tiny amount of space for the coins via the slot around the front the rest of the internal space has been allocated for storing your marquee cards thankfully the plastic box i use to keep all mine and the paddle expansion set fit inside but there's enough room to stack several boxes so it will be able to hold all of the collection with room for plenty more if they decide to keep going with more taito memories expansions.
Akkanvader my favourite out of Vol 3 easily and to be honest out of vol 1 & 2, it's one i have wanted on there since it was first released i'm happy it's now available to play again without having to resort to emulation or making do with the PS2/PSP releases. Plays really nice too got the vertical monitor set back up but i need to track down my HDMI input switcher so i can flip between the monitor & the TV.
Taito is still killing it with this thing. Actively still supporting it with new releases as well as fixing bugs puts it waaaaay ahead of the rest. Need to have a go of all the other titles in volume 3 as i have only been playing akkanvader for most of the afternoon with it all back out & set up again can play some of the other stuff too.
It's quite the mountain of boxes for 1 "mini" system but out of the arcade ones this ones kind of my fave it's a really nice way to play some pretty obscure Taito releases.
Withe the base attached it does look nice however the base doesn't lock in solid so you have to be careful when picking it up as the base can come loose if you grab it wrong, best to grab it by the egret & not the base.
The inside only has a tiny amount of space for the coins via the slot around the front the rest of the internal space has been allocated for storing your marquee cards thankfully the plastic box i use to keep all mine and the paddle expansion set fit inside but there's enough room to stack several boxes so it will be able to hold all of the collection with room for plenty more if they decide to keep going with more taito memories expansions.
Akkanvader my favourite out of Vol 3 easily and to be honest out of vol 1 & 2, it's one i have wanted on there since it was first released i'm happy it's now available to play again without having to resort to emulation or making do with the PS2/PSP releases. Plays really nice too got the vertical monitor set back up but i need to track down my HDMI input switcher so i can flip between the monitor & the TV.
Taito is still killing it with this thing. Actively still supporting it with new releases as well as fixing bugs puts it waaaaay ahead of the rest. Need to have a go of all the other titles in volume 3 as i have only been playing akkanvader for most of the afternoon with it all back out & set up again can play some of the other stuff too.
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wondermega
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So is this properly hacked to easily run MAME yet or what?
Impotaku
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It's been hacked for a while people are able to run batocera from a SD card however no idea how well it runs only heard people talking about it online. however with each official firmware update they released that you need to do to use the newest volume of taito's arcade memories collection they try to lock it down as the official cards are encrypted so they can't be detected by a pc without special methods to unlock the cards. The newest firmware that you need to install to have vol 3 work has locked it down a little bit more however some guy i follow on twitter has managed to get in and get around it but he hasn't released any of it to the public in a hack form.
I don't know how viable hacking is anymore considering all allocations of the main unit are sold out in japan and europe (not sure about usa) so the only ones out there n ow are stupidly expensive scalper priced ones. As taito have said they aren't planning on making any more of the unit or the older software volumes it limits the userbase to the small amount they made that are out there now can't imagine many are going to risk hacking them with no replacements easily found if you manage to screw things up hell they were expensive enough on their original release..
wondermega
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Miyazaki’s Slave
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I just got the joystick set in from Amazon.jp.
I'll never open it...but it looks cool!
I'll never open it...but it looks cool!
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The Egret II Mini is so awesome. I still regret not getting the big bundle back when it was cheaper.
I’m borrowing my friend’s knob/ball controller for use with the MiSTer, but I still haven’t been able to figure out how to use the knob and a standard controller at the same time… I wanna play Tron lol.
I updated to the latest firmware couple of weeks ago and then went ahead and hacked it to run batocera. I would say it runs up to PSX at full speed, most mame/arcade runs well (only ones that didn’t run great were things like vf1, tekken arcade roms etc and in those cases the 32x vf1 port is a good replacement and the psx tekken games run really well)
There is a Spanish image of roms that is popular, but honestly I’ve spent the last week populating with my own and matching up vids and screenshots
PSP some games are playable, others aren’t
N64 most are playable at full speed but ymmv
There’s a mixture of retro arch based cores and then some standalone emulator also, but really it could do with bringing up to date with a fresher batocera image. Been looking into how to compile that but it’s a steep learning curve and the original dev that did this has moved onto other projects and there hasn’t really been any work on updates since end of 2022
There is a Spanish image of roms that is popular, but honestly I’ve spent the last week populating with my own and matching up vids and screenshots
PSP some games are playable, others aren’t
N64 most are playable at full speed but ymmv
There’s a mixture of retro arch based cores and then some standalone emulator also, but really it could do with bringing up to date with a fresher batocera image. Been looking into how to compile that but it’s a steep learning curve and the original dev that did this has moved onto other projects and there hasn’t really been any work on updates since end of 2022
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