Quarter Size Pac-Man Arcade Cabinet | Ashens

It's a 1/4 size Pac-Man arcade cabinet! An early version of one being released in a few months, in fact. But is it worth the hefty price tag? That's for you to decide, but I shall provide essential information along with audio-visual proof for you to make an informed decision. Because yes.

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[muhammadshafiq]

When will get our own Quarter sized Ashens figure? With accessories like floating hands, brown sofa, and LIQUID FILTH

[joynalmiah]

Paint your white sofa brown. I don't like change.

[gigaherz_]

The screen issue has a really "easy" solution (but not a cheap one): You get a screen that is too large, draw the game on a perfect scaling centered on that screen, but keep the extra screen area hidden behind the cabinet decorations.

[TheBrianJ]

Are you telling me you've had more than one sofa this whole time and never told us?

What kind of ramshackle operation are you running here?!?

[semi-average-guy]

What do we want?
"Ashens BROWN SOFA!!!"
When do we want it?
"Next upload is fine... cheers"

[FordGTmaniac]

"Pac-Man goes skating— no, I made that one up."
Pac-Man World 2 actually has him skating in a few levels XD

[b]

They could've used a larger-than-necessary screen, had the game play in a box in the middle of the screen at an integer-scaled resolution, and then used the bezel to cover the rest of the screen. That probably would have been the most cost-effective way of dealing with the scaling issues.

[mu-]

Why move sofa? Could you not have repositioned the camera, which you had to do with the creamy elephant?

[GenSmashsed]

They should joke about offering a 1/4 scale Polybius machine, for next april fools.

[TheTurnipKing]

2:24 3 by 4 technically, the tube was mounted vertically. But it was just a standard monitor tube, which were pretty much all 4:3 then

10:20 The resolution is a different issue. But one potential solution would be a physically larger display and then hide chunks of it behind the bezel so you can have 1:1 pixel matching on a small visible area. Kind of like how the 2DS only had one screen and hid chunks of it for the lower resolution touch display.

14:46 You could probably crowbar a few classic games on there if you repurpose the player 1&2 buttons as fire buttons. Galaga springs to mind as an obvious candidate. Frogger would work too but I don't think it's a Namco game.

[BlickWinkel]

Looks bigger than a quarter.
Bigger than a half-dollar, even.

[residentelect]

13:16 I think that must be the only time I've watched a sofa video where Stuart's head actually appears in frame?!
And was said head adorned with a baseball cap?!

[dan_loup]

There are ways with subsampling and bilinear filtering that can fix the screen resolution mismatch without needing a superduper screen.
The snes mini etc use those to avoid the scroll shimmering.

[jdod]

Now Ashens, that's clearly bigger than a quarter. Its about the size of a large christmas turkey.

[tomboz]

Ah yes!

I'm a member of The Society for the Appreciation of Gremlins 2:A New Batch. We aren't many, but we are a great organisation.👍

[Asobitech]

Really hard to justify the cost of this thing. As lovely as it is. That screen resolution scaling is the biggest turn off for me.

[CiromBreeze]

Man, that screen really kills it for me. I absolutely hate it when the graphics look distorted and not integer scaled. I'd rather have a tiny playing screen than a distorted one.

[ImmortalInflames]

Thank you for this video, this is on my list to buy - but no videos of it until now. Will watch now and help me decide, thank you again!

[bigbetsdrumming]

I'm a simple man, I want new ashen videos and this one gets delivered on my birthday.

[CodeUnltd]

Pac-Man arcades were in the 3:4 (4:3 turned to portrait) aspect ratio.