Montreal Evolution

Well J.M. Amusement ( ex-pinochio ) got the Evo kit 2 days ago. Giant screen and all. Sticks got a remapping aswell.

 

That's great news. Where is J.M Amusements located? Do you know the address?

You'll have to update us on the Montreal scene as it develops, White. /versus/images/icons/smile.gif

cheers,

 

FANTASTIC.

Is it a GD-ROM?

GE

 

1825 Saint-Catherine West near Guy-Concordia metro station ( the saint-mathieu exit ) in Downtown Montreal. I dont know the specs for the kit though GE, Ill ask this afternoon for some info. Just wish we had cards....

 

Note: As far as I know only the Japanese Kits/version of EVO are GD-ROM. The Asian and NA kits are ROMs (i.e. a Naomi2 with a ROM board in it, instead of a DIMM board and the GD-ROM).

Why did they do this? Well this is a huge assumption on my part but I think they did it this way because with all the vf.net stuff removed from the game they were able to put all the data into a ROM board which is cheaper than the GD-ROM format (ROM based kits are approx $2K US and GD-ROM based kits are approx $5K US, they include card readers as well as the GD-ROM drive).

What I'm trying to say is they a probably NA kits. Hopefully they'll be Japanese GD-ROM versions though, so you could concievably get the card system going.


cheers,
kbcat.

 

I'll definitely stop by next time I am in Montreal!

 

Yeah its a naomi 2 with a ROM board in it. Thing is though that the owners seem to want to get a second Evo machine, which could conceivably be a GD-ROM version. We already have 1 VF4:Evo giant screen machine and 1 VF4 ver.B. They want to get rid of the ver.B soon. Here's hoping... BTW, the 2K price tag is correct.

3 of 5, stage select on, 60 second rounds ( !! ). They let the counters up on high cuz they knew we would be practicing the new moves and chars. We actually usually played for real only at the 5th round because we kept trying out new stuff. The lineup for play is long. Its been a few days now though, so we're ready to play ( at least I know I am with Wolf ).

 

Awesome,

Sounds like a nice setup -- 60 second rounds are nice. We only have 30 second rounds. Maybe in the new year the TO gang can find it way over to Montreal for a weekend.


cheers,
kbcat