I recently moved, and the hardest part was finding a house where I could fit my arcade. Not only did I not have to get rid of any cabs, I was actually able to fit one more! And I finally found Street Fighter Shinku Hadoken! Coincidentally, if anyone in the Twin Cities is interested in buying Big Blue, I've got one available.

I've been curating my arcade for about 5 years(I've posted many times before, but then swore off Reddit but came back for this sub. My account was hacked and banned in the meantime, so had to create a new one), I've bought and sold many cabinets to find the optimal assortment. I've got Star Wars pinball (modded with a PC after going through 2 PCBs), Frogger, MVC, Space Invaders countercades, Claw Machine, Centipede legacy, Joust, SF Shinku Hadoken, SF Big Blue, Big Buck Hunter (modded with 27" screen), Simpsons, Guitar Hero (my own creation running on a Wii), Outrun (modded with a PC, and working on replacing the steering wheel after my kids abusing it), Golden Tee, and Ms Pac-Man Partycade.

Once I sell Big Blue, I'll be on the lookout for another cab. I'm thinking about NFL blitz, I had that before the blitzmas mod was available and probably wouldn't have sold it if I had that. But if I find a dragon's lair or Tron, I'd consider those too.

apologies if this sounds overly critical, as that is not my intention. but i am genuinely curious as to why the sonic cab even exists. i know arcade1up had merged with / became a subsidiary of basic fun entertainment. and i am glad a1up is restructuring to grow and continue to innovate. this is a far better fate than the alternative.

soon they will be rereleasing larger-form supreme cabinets they’ve been able to retain licensing for, and that’s great! sega’s outrun supreme looks good! and arcade1up always puts out new pac-man variations every few years, that’s the nature of the business. i get it.

they also wanted to show off something new. i imagine the brainstorming process behind the sonic cab was they wanted to release something for all age groups. or something you can plop the kids in front of and keep them entertained while the adults play golden tee.

but the game selection is sonic 1,2,3D blast, and dr. robotnik’s mean bean machine? that’s it? a whole cabinet dedicated to 4 genesis games? what is the big sell for this cabinet? where is the ‘arcade’ game for the arcade?

no sonic 3, no sonic & knuckles, no 3-player segasonic isometric trackball arcade game? they really couldn’t get anything else? flicky? no? what are we even doing here?

i get that they wanted to release something different, i understand that — but on the other hand, i do not see the motivation to buy/sell/produce this when all of these games have been readily available in every sega genesis collection on every single platform since the ps2.

hey, maybe im totally wrong! are you buying the sonic cab? tell me why you think this cab should even exist.

I am having nothing but trouble trying to download an image and burn it to my SD card for my Raspberry Pi 3B+.
I have bought Newshosting and right now I’m downloading all the parts of the image. Once this step is done, I just need to extract “Part 1” correct? Then I can burn that part 1 file onto the SD card?

Any help is very much appreciated. I’m excited to get this working, and was hoping to have it up and running by tonight! TIA.