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caldenza @caldenza.gg · 30/09/2026

www.youtube.com/watch?v=muPQ... Oh! Why not one more Quest for Fame post? I stayed up all night creating a pretty thorough longplay video of this weird beautiful mess being played in MAME. It includes a pretty ridiculous writeup going into the history of "What The Fuck Is This Even?". Enjoy!

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NAMCO Aerosmith Quest for Fame - MAME Full Longplay + ROM Dump

YouTube video by caldenza

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caldenza @caldenza.gg · 30/09/2026

And why not some bonus stuff we were able to accomplish? Some extra dumps that were able to be done in the process of QFF. Please enjoy responsibly~ NAMCO Cool Gunman Full ROM archive.org/details/NAMC... NAMCO Jumpin Jackpot Program ROM archive.org/details/NAMC...

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NAMCO - Cool Gunman - Full PCB ROM Dump

Followup[ to https://archive.org/details/26.3.6-cool-gunman-cgm-1.-mpro-dump-1This is a full ROM dump of both the socketed program ROM and the Sound ROM for the NAMCO arcade game Cool Gunman.

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caldenza @caldenza.gg · 30/09/2026

It is done! The game is fully dumped and already added to MAME for the next update. Apologies for the radio silence, it wasn't what we wanted, but it was what was necessary to make sure everything lined up perfect and was done right! Grab it here and "NAIL THAT RIFF!" archive.org/details/NAMC...

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Virtual Music/NAMCO - Aerosmith Quest For Fame - Full PCB ROM + CD Dump

This is a full ROM and CD dump of the Virtual Music/NAMCO released arcade version of Aerosmith Quest for Fame.At the time of writing, this is soon to be added into mame:https://github.com/mamedev/mame...

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caldenza @caldenza.gg · 25/09/2026

"12 pack of that gorilla"

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caldenza @caldenza.gg · 20/09/2026

THE INTERNATIONAL 2ND DANCE FLOOR

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caldenza @caldenza.gg · 14/09/2026

DAYTONA USA COMING SOON ONLY ON SEGA SATURN

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caldenza @caldenza.gg · 10/09/2026

hilariously manic game

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caldenza @caldenza.gg · 06/09/2026

san japan has been absolutely amazing so far. here's some miscellaneous bullshit from the many photos taken so far this weekend from my roaming arcade silliness-

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caldenza @caldenza.gg · 01/09/2026

outta here. see you soon san japan. 🩵

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caldenza @caldenza.gg · 30/08/2026

please do not set drink on an angled surface thanks

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caldenza @caldenza.gg · 30/08/2026

flow state of sleep deprivation found

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caldenza @caldenza.gg · 28/08/2026

fuckin looney tunes ass machine.

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caldenza @caldenza.gg · 27/08/2026

strange times from 2023~

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caldenza @caldenza.gg · 21/08/2026

beatmania 7thmix.....

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caldenza @caldenza.gg · 20/08/2026

"U MADE IT." more soon.

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caldenza @caldenza.gg · 20/08/2026

more misc old photo posting while in stasis beatmania mini turntable/KB disassembly

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caldenza @caldenza.gg · 17/08/2026

flying high at sparks passport~

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caldenza @caldenza.gg · 13/08/2026

"upper left flipper aint workin" yeah i bet it aint

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caldenza @caldenza.gg · 09/08/2026

the voyager cab and starfighter cab are some definite eyebrow raises for sure

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caldenza @caldenza.gg · 08/08/2026

night work at one of the locs

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caldenza @caldenza.gg · 05/08/2026

Bizarrely enough, it is a System 12 (C) with extra middle boards in the stack to add CD support presumably shared across the other NAMCO rhythm games of the time. To my knowledge, it is identical to the dumped Lammy stack, but NAMCO liked making hyperspecific revisions, so this is not confirmed!

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caldenza @caldenza.gg · 05/08/2026

and one last thing! mentioned in the thread below is the exorbitant cost of this machine. it's been requested to stay private, but it isn't pretty! as it's a cost that's already been eaten, any extra money raised at this point will be on the material expenses to keep the machine running in public~

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caldenza @caldenza.gg · 05/08/2026

holy moly we have already hit the goal! thank you everyone for the support!! >...<!! for a vague timeline, we hope to have this all done and dusted within the next couple months. when we have more updates, you will see them~!

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caldenza @caldenza.gg · 04/08/2026

technically not guitar jam!

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caldenza @caldenza.gg · 04/08/2026

and i want to be as transparent as i possibly can on the vague details, just please understand that some stuff directly involves people wanting to remain anonymous, which i do wish to respect. if you read this far, thank you for taking the time to do so, and i hope your day is wonderful :-) (9/?)

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caldenza @caldenza.gg · 04/08/2026

a couple final things, all of the support to this so far has been overwhelmingly appreciated and seriously softens the blow on the final few expenses to ensure the proper parties can come in to save this thing. (8/?)

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caldenza @caldenza.gg · 04/08/2026

we want to make sure it's done right this time. this gigantic blob of posts truncates a lot of info and specifics that, quite frankly, i cant fit into a bsky thread proper. this is a decade long debacle in the making, and we hope to have something exciting to show for it soon. (7/?)

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caldenza @caldenza.gg · 04/08/2026

as a result, between the five(?) unique titles, there is only a single digit known total amount of cabinets known for each of them, if at all. this may well be one of the last surviving QFF's in the world, with equally little surviving PCB's to boot. (6/?)

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caldenza @caldenza.gg · 04/08/2026

all of the dedicated NAMCO rhythm game cabinets in this era got extremely limited releases, presumably due to the aggressive nature of KONAMI's legal antics at the advent of bemani. the titles in unique cabinets include Aerosmith QFF, Teknowerk, Guitar Jam, Parappa AC, and Lammy AC (5/?)

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caldenza @caldenza.gg · 04/08/2026

the ball specifically got rolling again when another machine, owned by steven tyler himself from aerosmith, came up at an estate sale. the original owner of the first machine paid an exorbitant price to secure it out of sheer love of the game. there's rightfully paranoia, given prior events. (4/?)

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caldenza @caldenza.gg · 04/08/2026

the cabinet guts that remained were rendered useless without the one of a kind PCB internals, and that cabinet shuffled hands for years to follow from owner to owner before unfortunately meeting its eventual destruction. (3/?)

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caldenza @caldenza.gg · 04/08/2026

that first cabinet's PCB was sent to a specific mame dumper almost a decade ago after acquisition to preserve, only to be "lost in the mail" (years later this would turn out to be stolen, very long story.) (2/?)

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caldenza @caldenza.gg · 04/08/2026

strap in, before even getting to QFF we have to cover how we got here. this quest for fame in specific is the second known surviving cabinet of this game, the first known hilariously enough shared the same owner as this one does now. (1/?)

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caldenza @caldenza.gg · 03/08/2026

*HONESTLY NOT WRONG*

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caldenza @caldenza.gg · 03/08/2026

Sure, let me follow back and send away-

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caldenza @caldenza.gg · 31/07/2026

www.gofundme.com/f/fund-expen... Hey! We have the last Aerosmith: Quest For Fame in the world. We're trying to crowdfund to cover the expenses to preserve it. This is a unique piece of rhythm game history, and we plan to place it in a public arcade! Any support would be wildly appreciated!

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caldenza @caldenza.gg · 29/07/2026

Some say they've seen the dead cruiser in a flash of lightning around the shadowy curves of the highway Some say he was just a kid who met his fate in a firey crash But anyone fool enough to venture out onto that treacherous road should know one thing There's no turning back.

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caldenza @caldenza.gg · 29/07/2026

This is what would be one side panel of a JP WMMT3 machine, part of the upper body construction that encloses the monitor and mounts the topper. The interesting part of this piece is that it presumably is from a location test cabinet. Japanese cab body but fully localized and all that.

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caldenza @caldenza.gg · 26/07/2026

you could say it was booming

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caldenza @caldenza.gg · 26/07/2026

boomers were unironically going wild for this one

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caldenza @caldenza.gg · 21/07/2026

to four years of no self sabotage or attempts on myself, after a lot of struggle, proving mental stability and independence is not unattainable after all. far from perfect but one day at a time. not dead yet.

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caldenza @caldenza.gg · 20/07/2026

wait a second can we trade

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