Turnarcades dual-core PC upgrade - First look!

This video shows the new Turnarcades PC system upgrade that has been worked on behind the scenes for the last few months, and will finally be officially offered as an upgrade on all larger Turnarcades machines from the end of March 2012. This is our first system upgrade option for over 3 years, following the phasing out of our earlier P3-based systems and our heavily-optimised P4 systems being the standard in most our models for the last 2 years. The new system Is from the same product line of our trusted small form factor P4 systems, but with a whole new architecture with the following specs: Intel Core2Duo dual 2.2Ghz CPU 512mb-1Gb RAM NVIDIA Geforce (or equivalent) 1Ghz graphics card 120Gb hard drive Extended software system (5th/6th-gen console and modern PC gaming capabilities) The new system has been introduced due to increased demand for modern PC games, as well as requests for better support of newer builds of MAME and later/more complex console emulation. The new system is currently set up to run Atari Jaguar and Sega Saturn, and very soon we will be adding support for Virtual Boy and hopefully Sega Dreamcast too. This is in addition to the more advanced systems like Laserdisc Arcade, Playstation 1, Nintendo 64 and Gameboy Advance that were already available on our old P4 systems with a hard drive upgrade, which are all set up as standard on our new dual-core spec. MAME 0.142 will also be pre-configured so other Laserdisc, .chd-based games and highly reuested titles like Street Fighter 3 (+sequels) will all be available, with easier upgrading to newer MAME releases. The system will now play things like well-coded PC homebrew such as the excellent Strrets Of Rage Remake, Street Fighter 4 and Super Street Fighter 4 AE, and will also soon support Taito Type X arcade system games such as BlazBlue and King Of Fighters 12. This will be of particular interest to modern fighting game fanatics, as is the fact that upcoming Windows releases such as Street Fighter X Tekken etc. should also run on our systems with a few minor file alterations to tie them into our front-end software. The new system will be priced at between £150-£200 (POA) as an upgrade on new systems, and we will be looking at the possibility of part-ex upgrades for previous customers who already own one of our machines, to be worked out in the coming weeks. Please post any comments here but forward any enquiries through our normal channels.