The Fast and The Furious Arcade with the BSoD

I was at CiCi's Pizza and I looked over at the arcade room and saw The Fast and The Furious Arcade game with the BSoD!!!!!
I only took two pictures because there were a bunch of little kids in the arcade room and I didn't want their parents to think I was some sicko taking pictures of their kids.

 

Saw that myself at some point in the past couple years, crappy game too

 

Heh, I wasn't able to experience it thanks to Microsoft's lousy OS.
What OS do you think it's running?
And do you know if it's the whole(but stripped down) OS or just the kernel? Kind how the original Xbox OS is built upon the Windows 2000 kernel.

 

I'd guess XP embedded.

 

funny the BSOD comes up here the dirty Disc Error in obscure and recalled fighter Kakuto Chojin is a BSOD.

 

I don't follow what you you are saying GodofHardcore

 

Likely a version of XP.

The original FF runs off a hard drive on a PC board while Tokyo Drift runs off a stock Dell PC (with one USB flash drive holding the game and another USB security dongle). The same company also makes Guitar Hero arcade, which is similar.

Basic PC-in-a-box with dongle style security to prevent cloning.

-hl718

 

A lot of newer arcade games have swapped over to using a PC and modified version of XP. Kind of sad. =(

 

It's simple price vs performance.

When commodity hardware can equal or beat custom hardware in a $$/power ratio, you stick with the commodity hardware.

-hl718

 

I would have figured they would go for more custom hardware because it is less likely to be pirated/stolen. If your using a stock PC to run things, I can't imagine it to be very difficult to bypass any kind of anti-cloning protection.

 

Hence the above mentioned security dongle.

 

is possible to play this game any pc??? if you buy USB flash drive holding the game and another USB security dongle

 

Well, A good reason why not to use a modified pc? Harder to pirate. =(

It seems the security key for Type-X2 (and possibly X/X+) have been cracked and X2 games are hitting the net.

 

A few years back i saw a Arcade Machine (some hunting game) that had overheated (most likely cause cos the back of it was covered in pop and allsorts) rebooted itself and gone into Linux. Which i assume is the OS it was running on. Is it common for arcade systems to run on pcs?

 

Hey, Whats the retail on one of those?

 

Nowadays yes, pretty much every, if not every, arcade game released in the past few years has run on some sort of PC based hardware (Sega's Lindbergh or Taito's Type X/Type X2, for example).

 

Most arcades around here have this and the other "Fast and Furious" games. They're all crap, but it's the devs fault of making low quality / cheap products.

Most new / recent arcade "boards" are PC based hardware and thankfully it's what still maintain arcades alive. For companies like Sega, Namco, ... the investment on hardware becomes less expensive and helps to have more money on game development.

 

It just reminded me of that

 

Is it possible to find out what exactly caused this BSoD? There is some info on the screen...??

 

Probably a memory error, hard disk error... it could be anything