Aside from the Boot up Jingle which haunts me in my dreams. I'm a fan of the PGM. I recently got the chance to play Demon Front, it's a competent Metal Slug Clone Beestorm may not have been made by Cave but it's not a bad game by any means. Spectral VS Generation is a good game. I like Martial Masters a lot as well. Then there's the Crystal System and of course the Atomiswave.OH and how can I forget the STV board? Who took SNK's Concept and best ran with it?
The Taito F3 had some good games as well. Lots of them actually. I hadn't heard of Demon Front before, I'll have to give it a try as I really enjoy the Metal Slug series.
Both Versions of MAME on the Raspberry Pi 3 do not like F3 games but You're right, Almost all of Taito's best shmups are on it. Rayforce and Genkriden are my shit. Demon Front won't blow your mind but it really feels like a lost Metal Slug game, without the vehicles.
SEGA's NAOMI was a great cartridge (and later GD-ROM) driven arcade platform, of which many are now playable practically arcade perfect on Dreamcast.
Yet CPS3 games run perfectly. MAME and Final Burn Alpha are Random as all hell on the Pi3. Some games do run but they have terrible sound. I'm getting a gaming Laptop soon so it won't be an issue for long. Anything my Pi Doesn't run the new Laptop will. I never really thought of the naomi as a Cart system but you're right.
There's also the Sega Mega Tech and Mega Play systems, both of which being based on the hardware of the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive console. Do those count? Oh, and don't forget the Konami Bubble System, and that used bubble memory technology. However, that system was a commercial failure, because it was too expensive and bubble memory chips are too sensitive to electromagnetic fields. Not only that, but Gradius and TwinBee first came out on the Bubble System before being re-released on standard ROM chips.
CPS2 - wasn't that the hardware famous for board suicide? Where the code to decrypt the roms was stored in volatile memory with a battery attached?
Yeah the CPS2 and 3 were nefarious for board failure, But a means of resurrecting these boards without the Phoenix hack has been discovered very recently.
Which is awesome because the Phoenix roms and other decrypted rom sets could be vulnerable to errors in the decryption process. Plus some people don't like the added Splash Screen and features. The other sets of decrypted roms don't have these but they don't cover all games. I think for a lot of people they'd rather have the board in original condition without hacked roms.
I don't know what non working boards go for nothing popped up on ebay, but getting those on the cheap would be great while all the cool kids are driving up Neo Geo Prices.
The F3 was an awesome system. I really love it and many of the games it got. http://www.system16.com/hardware.php?id=665 Elevator Action 2/Returns is criminally forgotten/underrated.
It did get a port to Playstation 2 that seemed solid. I really enjoyed EA Returns. I think I first played it thanks to MAME. Then I found out about the Saturn port which is sadly expensive last I checked. Then the PS2 got a port in a compilation. I think many other F3 games are in the same compilation.
F3 can be modded by cutting the plastic blocking out to make a system that works with any cartridge too. Easiest mod since the snes hot butter knife mod.
of all the games on the F3 the only one that runs on my Pi3 is Elevator Action Returns. The rest run slow or have sound problems. Oh and Bubble Memories/Symphony run ok as well. I love Bubble Symphony's opening.
