I found a Waku Waku Sonic Patrol Car

Whatever happened to buying both of these games from someone in like...Florida was it(?) and dumping those? I think Jen had made that topic or something...

 

I don't remember that it ever actually got dumped, just that people were talking about it.

 

Are you wanting to own the board/machine itself or are you just purchasing for the purpose of dumping?

If you are purchasing it just for the ROM data and want to recoup money for it, I would buy the game board itself from you. Just offering anyway.

 

Okay, no worries!

 

Might be cool, but what would be able to play it? Or rather, what kind of board does it run on? The Waku_Waku_Sonic_Patrol_Car article isn't very in-depth.

 

Are you sure you can't rent the machine rather than buy it? Whoever owns it might give you a discount if you tell him/her that the steering wheel is busted, even...


Regarding where to play it, the MAME/MESS guys will probably make it playable within a couple of days after the dumps are released.

 

I kinda want to see what kind of price you can negotiate. It's not much, but I can contribute 20 €.

 

If it runs off C2 hardware, I imagine it will run in MAME if the romset can be dumped without issue, because there are other games on the C2 hardware that MAME can run as far as I am aware.

Playing it will be another thing altogether though, since it has specialised steering controller etc. and seemingly based on the video - motion action on the cabinet/ride thing itself...

 

MAME usually handles steering with analog controls so that probably wouldn't be an issue.

 

Well, I mean, the mall owners might be renting it from somewhere else.

I remember that, at least some time ago, those machines used to have a sheet of paper stuck somewhere with all the details, so unless the related Spanish laws have changed, it might be a good thing to look for such thing on any outside and inside surfaces.

 

Ah, so you're @anchuela. I saw you post this on twitter a while back.

 

I don't know about Spain, but here in the US a lot of malls, restaurants, stores, etc rent arcade cabinets, kiddy rides, and other general amusements from warehouses that specialize in them. There's a Burger King by my dad's house that has a full arcade in it with several Neo Geo cabinets and I asked the manager what the deal was with them and she said they rented them from a warehouse out of Brooklyn. That could be the case here, but you can easily talk to mall management and find out everything you need to know about who owns the machine and any contact info needed. Whatever you do, when negotiating over it with whoever owns it don't explain to them that it's rare. Just say you're interested in it and that you used to play on it as a kid and now want it for your own kids or something like that. If they don't already know it's rare then they'll probably sell it to you for a reasonable price, especially considering that it's broken.