Fixing a Beatmania Pocket Arcade From 1998

[@DeathInTheSnow]

Mini Beatmania?? What's next, a Tetris handheld shaped like a McNugget??

[@Raidraptor_-_Ultimate_Falcon]

You bet your Wang it is

[@XephyrEnigma]

They also had a miniature DDR handheld at the time.

[@DUKE_of_RAMBLE]

😦 _YOU'RE BREAKING THE 4TH WALL!!_ 😅 _(yea, not really, but just roll with it... lol)_

[@Crippledipple]

i wang you to be wong but idk i have a nugget of thought that it might be next

[@uniform_cash9]

Wang get along with the pckcell

[@Duckboy_300]

James channel

[@LaskyLabs]

Dankpods

[@leoncaples2947]

James channel

[@antonsvids5237]

James channel

[@Zangamarth]

James channel

[@nezzled]

Dankpods

[@Thesnakerox]

Today I learned every nugget Wade has killed with the 1 grit lives in a bin and gets salvaged for parts

[@TheAssassin_2]

I came looking for this comment.

[@KamenRiderGumo]

@@TheAssassin_2 So did I.

[@DUKE_of_RAMBLE]

Holy hell, I didn't pay that close of attention... 😮 That is an amazing _nugget_ of info you've dropped! That kinda makes me feel alot better about him destructucating them 😅 Thanks for pointing this out! 🍻

[@JuanesChiwirosky]

I'm so happy to know this, and now that I think on it, those nuggets may be more useful by donating their parts than "using" them as planned from their factories

[@jeyendeoso]

james and wade uploading simultaneously 2 nuggets ? my body can't handle this much nuggetry.

[@XNick291X]

I like how this had 20 likes as well 😂

[@HDdeiu]

had the exact same taught!

[@samvimes9510]

help I'm overdosing on nuggets

[@GoldenPickaxe]

Wade got his nug from James it's really a double James day

[@lolmonke.]

fr

[@Alekkarl]

I saw the black and white screen of the "video" and my first immediate thought was "huh... wonder if someone could put Bad Apple on it"

[@948320z]

I think we should have a new Rule of the internet, that goes "every bitmap display _must_ show Bad Apple at some point" lol

[@startedtech]

Since it's just an epoxied chip on board I don't think there'd be any remotely reasonable way to load anything onto it. Could probably hijack the display lines though.

[@coten]

"and would it be properly charted (playable)"

[@rileysimmons9886]

​@startedtech yeah the video and audio are almost certainly on integrated ROM

[@Alekkarl]

@@startedtech That's what I was thinking, just find a way to plug something into the display lines and have the pixels correspond to the video output as well as audio... it's gotta be possible somehow

[@panagiotispappas1001]

We got Dankpods and James vid on the same time, WE’VE BEEN BLESSED!

[@FoolOfATuque]

You can get a James and Wade video almost every time if you watch garbage time. 😂

[@gir489returns2]

We finally got a full view of Jame's arcade room!

[@squidspecs]

I love how most people (even people who know about tech repair) would disregard this kind of stuff as "cheap garbage" but watching James explain and repair these old nuggets is so amazing.

[@mint_kyuu99]

7:20 That's a flower, and you can see it more clearly on the og Arcade version and console ports like the PSX one

[@DrBagPhD]

Yeah, there's a petal falling off it

[@DUKE_of_RAMBLE]

Holy hell I was right?! Awesome. 🤘

[@JoBot__]

I knew it was a flower with petals falling! :D

[@silent-science]

i spent far too long going frame by frame on that flying cam shot analyzing everything in the studio, i'd ask for a tour but i'm sure that would possibly take days lmao thank you for the quality content as always

[@Games_for_James]

I knew someone would! What did you spot?

[@silent-science]

@@Games_for_James the works! oscilloscopes, an audio mixer, 4x4 *and* 5x5 rubik's cubes, a portal gun??????, plenty of beautiful arcade cabinets, old crts, and too many cables for one mortal to yield it's genuinely a museum with so many different facets and interests, i hope you consider making videos on all your different passions!

[@Games_for_James]

Haha excellent!

[@NONAME_098]

⁠James has a portal gun?

[@shigento7131]

@@NONAME_098 a fully functional one that makes actual portals

[@vinculumstellarum]

bitcrushed 20, november at the end jumpscared me. absolutely ecstatic to see bemani acknowledged in the wider scope of things (and hey, pop'n cab!!)

[@peppers515]

I admire your ability to just open shit up and figure it out. Whether that’s to repair it like new, or smash a CRT in to a game boy

[@f0y]

BEMANI MENTIONED (you Australian lot are so lucky to be so close to Japan)

[@f0y]

"HOUSE" is 20,november, btw

[@Games_for_James]

WAAAAY more cabs come up for sale for cheap in the USA.

[@Games_for_James]

Yeah I know, the website says the actual titles but I stuck with the genre title for simplicity because it’s what the game uses. Anyone who cares probably knows already lol

[@f0y]

@@Games_for_James But you guys have cheap/shorter flights to Japan!(Anyway, I'm from the UK, where we only ever got DDR/Dancing Stage officially, meaning the scene here is a bit... complicated)

[@sgcs]

@@Games_for_James for yourself yeah, but 1) closer to japan as already mentioned 2) there are actual official cabs in australia iirc for like sega stuff

[@LtSerg756]

Also the weird graphic in Do You Love Me is supposed to be a flower sheding its petals, you can very clearly see it on the actual AC/CS BGA

[@anonony9081]

I have one of these. I used to play it on the train when I would go to school. It's really cool seeing you work on one of these on your channel. I love it. Also, I didn't realize you had so many Bemani cabinets. So jealous of your pop n music and drum mania cabs!!

[@ozmium6990]

When the PS3 was being worked on there was a leak of what the new controller was supposed to look like and it’s a sight to behold. I’d like to see James turn a DualShock 3 into the boomerang controller that was ultimately canned for obvious reasons.

[@ZakuIIKai]

The boomerang wasn't a leak. That's the design Sony officially showed when they first announced the console at E3.

[@ccricers]

The silver PS3 with boomerang controller would be so nice to have. The boomerang looks goofy but people that tried it said it was actually so comfortable to hold

[@itspumpkinninny]

I bought that on my one trip to Japan back in 2001. That's how it sounds. It doesn't get any better.

[@Psyched_Crow]

can he swing from a thread No he can't, he's a corpse. Look out, here comes the spider-corpse

[@SuperSmashDolls]

we are dangerously close to either Wade or James trying to play Taiko no Tatsujin on The Drum Thing

[@oscarcacnio8418]

Either that, or Wade suddenly has a taiko drum. Just a random import taiko he got from Cashies.

[@felixfdsj6808]

i really wanna see that happen

[@radzs9939]

Bruh James has everything. I wouldn't be suprised if he made an Aussie Stock Flux Capacitor for his Delorean.

[@jacobkamphaus5565]

3:58 - the lore deepens when we learn that James keeps all the one-grit corpses

[@1Pyroo]

another double upload from the two legends themselves 🔥

[@brendanroot]

I was actively working on cleaning some IIDX 7-key panels and the buttons when I saw this was uploaded lol I personally own/have IIDX, jubeat, and SDVX cabs in my house. I also go out of my way to maintain my local arcade’s rhythm games. Taiko (HD), MaiMai Finale, Rhythm Tengoku, Múseca, WACCA, Chunithm, Pop’n, IIDX, SDVX, Nostalgia, Groove Coaster, jubeat, and a StepMania converted DDR cab are all at the arcade. I love working on them all and seeing how they tick. Actually having schematics/documentation is so incredibly helpful. It’s amazing how intertwined the rhythm game scene is with other communities. I originally subscribed to you when the channel was mentioned on Garbage Time - since I noticed your cabs in the background lol I also have a few of the pockets myself, but still have yet to power test them 😅 At least I now know what could go wrong with them when I do go to try them, though! Thanks!

[@CraftyTheFox]

hi brendan

[@brendanroot]

@@CraftyTheFox hi lol

[@jadeharleyirl]

@@CraftyTheFox hi crafty

[@RadeonVega64]

​@@jadeharleyirlhi

[@CaroFDoom]

the GFDM jumpscare is a welcome surprise

[@BUNyPLUS]

fellow drummania cab owner!!!! it's also cool you have a pop'n, been trying to get a pop'n myself as that's my favorite game

[@CraftyTheFox]

never thought in my entire life that you would own a popn sd, pump it up sx, and a legacy drummania set, let alone make this video??? this is so sick!!!

[@SimoSensaiUK]

I absolutely love how this channel flys between niche little gaming items that need a small bit of care to angle grinders. James id love to see you rip a wheel and paddles from a arcade cab and get them working in a real car

[@soremuss]

No matter how old i get and how many of these types of videos i watch, electronics are always just magic to me.

[@DE23]

electricity is just a canon magic system anyways like our consciousness is literally made up of electrical signals in our neurons the same force that makes up our souls powers artifacts that can do the impossible like talk to someone across the globe or simulate a blue hedgehog with a nose

[@ArGame.]

God seeing all your BEMANI games was AWESOME, love to see someone with a similar interest as me!

[@Zodaxa_zdx]

the full room view was golden "so you like beat mania huh? You must own all of them huh?" James: well yeah look around

[@Most_Jeffinitely]

Both james and dankpods have iconic layouts James has a red table and dankpods has a green ipad James has a cat and dankpods has frank Dankpods is super into drums and ipad repair James is into video games, rigging and repairing consoles

[@sixty502]

We need the blue channel

[@Coolguy12601]

bemani mentioned!!!! very cool in depth look at this, would love to see you yap more about rhythm games!!!!

[@CraftyTheFox]

hi coolguy :)

[@jadeharleyirl]

hi coolguy

[@Furko08]

I love the way James moves his hands around when talking like in the beginning haha

[@LtSerg756]

When I asked if you intended to get a beatmania cab at some point back in your sega rally video I didn't mean this lmao

[@KrisTheArts]

6:26 Don’t forget to sample this mate

[@AidinZolghadr]

I love it that you are still a gamer at heart. People usually fixing stuff don't end up using them but seeing you fixing it and actually legit playing it warms my heart.

[@008Mamoru800]

You explaining the inner workings of these old techs is very interesting! Thank you!

[@squidcakez]

That's pretty awesome and impressive! Cool rhythm game collection btw ^_*

[@mattieglover2356]

the absolute synergy between this & the new Dankpods vid

[@edcramer6475]

100 milli-henries seems really high for an inductor with those physical dimensions, but 100 micro-henries would be pretty reasonable. Sometimes inductors are marked with colored dots on top, kind of like resistor color bands. You've already got the game running, but you could rebuild the original inductor by rewinding it with new magnet wire. Just make sure to count the number of wraps if you take it apart.

[@bigbangbot-SuperSqank]

I was looking through this channel earlier today funnily enough, thinking that a new video would be coming out in a couple of days. Turns out that it only needed a couple of hours. Awesome.

[@THENAMEISQUICKMAN]

My nerdiest moment of my life might actually be hearing 8:17 and going "OH MAN IT'S 20, NOVEMBER, WILL HE BE ABLE TO FIGURE OUT THE PIANO SECTION ON A LITTLE LCD SCREEN". Also, I can't believe they considered Salamander Beat Crush to be harder than 20 November on this thing. That song is monumentally easier in the real thing.

[@más72z]

Another banger Mr. Channel

[@Ibbys_space]

literally could not have expected you to be into the arcade rhythm game scene haha, what a sick place

[@rocketrocketjet]

I did NOT expect those cabinets. Subscribed immediately

[@Aeduo]

An impressive handheld for the time. Basically nothing out there was really doing samples and doing them particularly well and extensively.

[@Lizlodude]

That may be the best "I also have a few of these" flexes I've ever seen. I'm also just embracing the lore that James lives on the other side of Wade's warehouse, Wade throws all the gritted nuggets through a door and James throws car parts through another door 😂

[@MissingNo0001]

6:16 good to know that, even in a pocket game, beatmania is ruthless as ever

[@jonathanhodges3693]

Well I was going to sleep but Aussie man uploaded about something I’ve never heard

[@JoBot__]

Two Aussie men did!

[@Bearcade]

Glad I got suggested your channel. Subscribed and looking forward to more rhythm game stuff.

[@GooBomber1]

7:21 I think it is a flower having its petals fall off.

[@MedioPlague]

Yeah it is, I’ve played Beatmania and that the flower petals is from the “Do You Love Me?” Song

[@nick_XIII]

I'm so jealous of the Guiter Freaks cabinet..used to hit up the arcade down the road every weekend with my buddies when I lived in Japan awhile back and spend hours(and plenty of Yen) on GF.

[@cutelenagd]

i genuinely love the bemani series arcades and games, basically all of them have some sort of charm to them, i am a big rhythm game enthusiast and when i play a bemani game it just feels different, special. i envy james so much for having all of those bemani arcades since they tend to be really rare where i live in northern europe, as in as far as i there are like only a few arcades that have bemani arcades and non in my country of norway. it's possible to make your own home arcades (in fact i own some arcade controllers for bemani games) but as much fun as they are, they lack something from the actual physical cabs

[@PCFROMVCS]

Holy shit, I was not expecting all those rhythm game cabinets to be surrounding you. Nice collection man

[@megawolf77]

BEMANI games!! Also, great work on fixing that piece of Pocket Bemani history right there!

[@nerdspeed8982]

OMG James a big Bemani gaming fan!! Love seeing that last of the classic GFDM version cabs there!!

[@nerdspeed8982]

Also seeing the Eamusement system working in the Bemani arcade cabs there, I mean you are a true fan!!

[@swift_sam]

I'm blown away that there's some real care and artistry to this thing? Like, that seems like a really little game

[@ietonewowoi3053]

I’ve worked for two high end Electronics manufacturers, and we used hot glue regularly James is professional quality

[@dannyboy5514]

Another awesome video James!

[@etheweirdo_art]

honestly the fact that thing works as well as it does is crazy to me. While it doesn't read too well it can actually have 4 degrees of accuracy, which is wild. I'm sure it's not too fun to play but compared to some of the things I've seen made by companies that's insane.

[@Goddess_Freya218]

james channel is what i live for

[@felipecastro3315]

This is so cool!! I had a bunch of generic little pocket game thingies as a kid with little dot graphics that played shoot em ups and puzzle games and I played those a lot; if I had one of these though? Man, I would have been playing it nonstop. What a cute, extremely neat little game!!

[@freestyla101]

Beatmania is what I call a Friday night home alone

[@joshua01793]

"we will get back to that stuipd inductor" said every elecitrical enginner ever at least once :) love the video's keep em up!

[@AlvinFlang69420]

8:35 that “goodness me” came right from the soul

[@Astralnebula-tv4yf]

the coolest office Ive ever seen

[@Astralnebula-tv4yf]

LETS FUKIN GOO I GOT IN THE HIGHLIGHT

[@LouisTheSEGANerd]

Makes the WonderSwan version look and sound arcade perfect 😂

[@WilburJaywright]

I like the gimmick of showing the outro in the screen of whatever you messed with.

[@GigaLem]

A time where everyone wanted a slice of the hand held gaming pie, this meant pocket versions of bemani titles (including Wonderswan Beatmania) Edit: The songs in the pocket at least from what we heard are "u gotta groove" and "Do you love me" classics from that era of Beatmania. and one of the visuals is a flower with petal falling off of it. That fourth song is iconic it is "20, November" appearing in multiple Bemani series including DDR and Pop'n Music

[@DJignyte]

Aww dang, gave me idea to try and buy one of these for my partner who loves DJing, but then you said they were hard to get. Buh boh... Love the work, James. Keep it up!

[@yo_grrt]

I’ve always referred to those chip-on-board ICs as glob-tops since its basically just an ASIC die with a bunch of liquid tape globbed on top of the bond wires

[@dangdangdang27]

I love Pump it Up! Good shit Mr. James Channel

[@Mustylounge]

love the slight echo you hear in every james video lmao, makes it feel liminal as hell😂

[@TheVileBile]

Your collection of rhythm games made me say holy shit out loud. Hell of an arcade room

[@salixlol]

i love bemani (specially iidx) so this is really awesome to see

[@LibreImpacto]

That is an impressive collection! Wow!

[@silversteeldragunn]

despite the audio quality being dubious, boy! the songs are good. we can always fall back on bemani

[@benjaminvitters6321]

Yeah love these, sound on headphones has a bit less crackling but not much better.

[@coregroove]

The bemani pocket games that do pop up for sale from time to time have gotten quite expensive recently as well. I used to have a good handful of them myself, definitely regret offloading them at this point. They were always cool little toys to play with. Also very sick that you have GFdm & pop'n machines at your place! Excellent taste!

[@ariehcore]

calling pump bootleg bemani at 0:19 is painful, why would you hurt us all like this

[@Games_for_James]

It’s how it started 🤷‍♂️

[@hazel7296]

Every time I see more of James's space I am more impressed

[@DawsonsMemes]

I really wanted to hear what it sounded like with headphones

[@istdaslol]

from what i know, these radial inductors are always in micro henry so you should've found a 100_000µh inductor

[@JJST9978]

🗣🗣🗣I can do it so do it with me. You are the DJ, hit the keys. Do a scratch, bend the plane, feel the beat let's do it again. 🗣🗣🗣

[@oventree]

that rhythm game cabinet collection was sweet!

[@MedioPlague]

7:21 I’ve played that Beatmania song, those are supposed to be flower petals, The song is called “Do You Love Me?”

[@Undead_Chimera]

omg I'm so jealous of this rhythm game collection. I FUNKING LOVE gimmicky rhythm games and arcade machines. honestly one of the worst part of living in the boonies is there's no arcades within like 200 miles :(

[@SereneMidnight12]

I love Bemani games, especially Sound Voltex. ...So much so that I jumped through all the hoops and subscribed to an account just so I can play it at home, because Minnesota has yet to be graced by a Round1 arcade. Even got a custom controller for it.

[@android01978]

That’s actually a pretty cool little game with the matrix display on the right. Not that it affects gameplay but a nice little addition all the same.

[@_gherry]

yeaahh!! james channel upload forget SLEEP! it's 11 PM.

[@TheFinalDemon117]

Thank you, James .

[@F0r3v3rT0m0rr0w]

love the sega rally all cramped up their in the corner.

[@gorillazhead]

I miss the days when these small, single purpose games were everywhere, before everything was made for smartphones. There's just something quaint and familiar about them.

[@blankadams3120]

Thank you, James

[@NervesiT]

wow, this guy has an entire arcade inside his house, this guys house is literally my childhood dream

[@Jamesssssssssssssss]

This James is Jamesing so well. I proud

[@xDiend]

"What's the reset button do? Oh it reset it. Funny that." Best quote I've heard in a while

[@atsushihdez.993]

I'd love to play on an old Drummania cab, it looks so fun! Gitadora is also cool though

[@rgbmew]

I was not expecting James to be a BASED POPN MUSIC ENJOYER!!!!! :)

[@netako]

Totaku did a video about these little Benami machines a while ago, and I can confirm these consoles were not known for its sound quality. x) Also there's no music in the menus. Later models also has the Konami logo that flashes everytime you press a button, it's pretty cute.