Played yesterday. Volumes much better; was good earlier in the day when no one was there but seeing as it was Friday, before long the arcade was filling up and the machine again unhearable. This is why we need to be SUPER CAREFUL after tournaments... Anyway probably it's not very desirable to play after about 6pm due to other noise drowning it out, but so long as there's no one there it's fine. It would be greatly appreciated if we could just nudge the volume a tad up again so that we can again hear it when people are there. Thanks! 


Also someone messed with the USB settings at the tournament and now it's inexplicably not reading songs that it was before, not only for myself, but for others as well. So what gives? Or how about we just not make changes to the USB settings unless someone who actually uses a USB is there to make sure things don't go awry 

Hey Bill,

any updates on when SSFIV AE might show up at ACME ?

Thanks.

It's a bit late with the crisis going on in Japan, but we are hoping in the next week.

I'll be going in thursday night n Friday morning :-)

I should be there tonight as well. Work's been crazy, I haven't really played since the tournament : (

yeah for me part time work and school have been a marathon for me too :O but i'll be there near 7:00-7:30 tonight and ill come near 11am/noon tomorrow for some non-rush time playing.

Oh boy, monitor is starting to show signs of a puke on ITG.  Please let me know status after you all play tonight.
Thx.

Nimm, if the monitor is doing fine tonight I might join you tomorrow morning. Let me know how it is!

Went in today, that monitor is goofy! it seems as if the brightness/contrast was turned a little high, so even when u choose a song, you look at the blackness of the screen, n it looks like grey, for a second i thought someone put in a new monitor.

it didn't interfere too much, but it was quite odd going through the menu n whatnot. the color vividness n richness was worse than it was at the tourney, but it wasn't overly distracting like it gets to be on some bad ddr monitors.

I'll be in near 11/noon to start, to literally break records and break my physical limits on the machine

I'll be coming through tomorrow most likely in the evening time near 7:30pm until 9/9:30. Hope to see anyone there!

How is that monitor looking now?  THX

Any updates for the SSFIV AE upgrade at ACME ?

Yes!  The kits just arrived, and are being installed now.  They will be off to Sakuracon next week, then to Acme on Sunday night just after Sakuracon. 

Went in today, volume is excellently fantastic made it a good experience.

The monitor seemed much better and less grey and grainy than before, however, i have forgotten what it looked liked before its grey and grainy-ness that occurred last time i went. Thank you for the fix :]

Thanks for the update on SSFIV AE Bill.   So will we see the new game at ACME at all before Sakuracon or will they be at ACME for the first time on Sunday after Sakuracon ?

Planning on setting up the SF Sunday around 6:00 P.M.

Please note, ITG players, the cabinet will be going to Sakuracon, leaving Wednesday early afternoon.  Back Sunday 6:00 P.M.

SAD NEWS:
ITG will not boot after coming back from the Con.  The guys set it up, and it would not completely boot.  Any possibility too many song packs went in?  Or any ideas?  I forget exactly what the error says, but you are welcome to plug in and watch the screen for the error.
I am not sure where to start.  If we send the board off for repair, I have a feeling everything special will be erased.  Any ITG board experts here with ideas, please contact me ASAP. 
Thanks

Bill,

That's so weird, because it booted fine at the con and we didn't change anything after that!

Either way, as soon as Tony is around I'll have him email you.

The physical configuration of the computer should be the same as it was pre-con - I never had a chance to stick in the new hard drive (it's still shrinkwrapped and sitting in my living room), nothing is plugged into the computer that wasn't before.  In terms of internal changes, we added songs and nothing more (we were going to tweak the settings so that the default song isn't a hard custom edit, but I didn't get a chance to do so, yet).

This leads me to believe it's a matter of drive space.  We did reboot the machine a couple times over the weekend with no issues, but we were getting very close to the machine's size limit (we were SSHing into the machine and installing packs directly, since the pack manager takes approx. double the space [you load a zipped pack, ITG then unzips it on reboot, or something like that, so all of the data exists in two places]) which was maxing out the space.  If ITG has been writing to log files or something, we might used some space required for unzip of ITG 3 and Rebirth.

If it's just a matter of drive space, DDR Encore is a very large pack (~500 MB of ITG's 8 GB partition) that can be dropped for a few days until I have the new 250 GB drive ready to go.  I'd run down during my lunch break, but Acme's not open until 3:00 pm on a Monday, so I'll have to run down after work.  If it's just drive space, it's a 5 minute fix and I have all the necessary equipment ready to go.

Bill, what's the actual error you're getting. I can tell you if I've seen something similar or not.

Likewise. I can't make it down to Acme until Sunday but I can help out maybe if I find out what the error is.

Tony and I are going down there around 6, when he gets off of work.  We think it's just that we need to clear some space on the hard drive, which we can easily do by deleting Encore while we prep the new hard drive.

Hoping that clearing Encore will be a sufficient triage effort until I can get the new drive in there - we'll see how it goes.  If that's not enough, I will be taking thorough notes so that those of you with a better background in (and/or better contacts for) OpenITG debugging can diagnose the problem.

I have my tools from the con ready to go - screwdriver, bootable USB drive, keyboard, netbook (for SSH/SFTP) - in addition to the few notes I wrote down notes.

Cool!  Lots of good ideas floating around here.  I wish I could tell you exactly what the error reads.  I hope you can still work on it even though it will not fully boot up? 
Our guys are going to be there in a few minutes, and they are instructed to only pull the box apart and make sure nothing came loose.  I did not want them to go in too far yet, as we do not want to wreck all the hard work you all have invested in this.
Thanks for having your tool boxes all loaded up!  Makes me feel good about a positive outcome.  What a great player community we have here!  :-)

Oh, another thing.  Do you guys have a way to get it in to test mode while going in from behind the machine?  If so, it still needs to be taken off free play, as well as the song length setting put back to where it was before the Con.  Of course, we were not able to do that last night without the game fully booting.  If you cannot get it in to test, we will need to send someone up.  Or, if Bluee SS is around, I know he has a key for the top service door.