And yeah, Round 1 will ban you if you get caught in the restroom with drugs.
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| Posted by: bradkinder May 26 2015, 12:52 PM |
| I'll start the list with this one: Puente Hills Mall Round 1 1600 S. Azusa Avenue, Suite 285 City of Industry, CA 91748 626-964-5336 I got banned from Round 1 (don't do drugs) so I'm looking for another location in which to play Arcade stage 8! Are there any other Los Angeles locations for IDAS8? |
| Posted by: OkamiWind May 26 2015, 01:44 PM | ||
You got banned from Round 1? Huh...interesting. Unfortunately you cannot plat IDAS8 anywhere else but Round 1, so if you are willing to go to the Moreno Valley Mall or the Lakeview Center Mall you are out of luck. Looking at the Round 1 website there should be a place opening up in the Main Place Hall in Santa Ana. But seriously...banned? |
| Posted by: SonicSP May 26 2015, 10:32 PM |
| It........happens. Trust me it happens. A friend of mine got banned once too. |
| Posted by: -=SHINN=- May 27 2015, 12:05 AM | ||
LOL I got banned too, but I have other places to go. So it wasn't that bad. |
| Posted by: Saint May 27 2015, 05:25 AM |
| How does a ban work in an arcade? Just curious. Do their staffs toss banned people out once identified? Is that legal? Hundreds of people coming in and out every day. |
| Posted by: SonicSP May 27 2015, 05:54 AM | ||
Yes that's legal. It's their premises, they can have you not be there if you want. It's like your house, if someone is there without your permission and you don't want you there, you can call the police and they'll arrest the trespasser. In the US, businesses can't discriminate based on race, religion and sex (sexual orientation is more complicated as recent political events in a few states have demonstrated; the federal civil rights bill doesn't specifically cover it when it was passed some decades back). But other than that, they can refuse service for good reasons or even if they don't like you for reasons unrelated to the categories I've mentioned earlier. Remember that you still need to change tokens/credits at the counter, they can spot you there. Since you're from Malaysia I'll use this example. CYC currently have two people on their ban list with their pictures on every outlet. If an employee sees them, I'm guessing they're supposed to ask them to leave before threatening to call the police if they don't. I don't know how much they actually enforce it though since employees just simply may not care or are preoccupied with other things. But it's theoretically possible to enforce it if they really want to. |
| Posted by: Saint May 27 2015, 06:45 AM |
| Not sure Malaysian cops care. Haha. Interesting to know that a Malaysian arcade bans people, though. |
| Posted by: SonicSP May 27 2015, 07:09 AM |
| I know they can call security though and likely they will comply. Most likely they won't have to resort to that though. I mean, it would be hard enough to play in arcade with the employees bothering you. And if they don't want to serve you, they'll at the very least won't charge your credit if you go get it yourself. I don't think they'll try that hard though. I mean, I'm sure they got better things to do unless management really makes it a high priority. |
| Posted by: bradkinder May 28 2015, 11:47 AM |
| Dah... Moreno Valley, Lakeview, and Santa Ana are all so very far away. There isn't an arcade in downtown LA with IDAS8? And yeah, Round 1 will ban you if you get caught in the restroom with drugs. |
| Posted by: SonicSP May 28 2015, 12:14 PM |
| Unfortunately, D8 is hard to find being a recent and Japanese language-only game and all. It was actually amazing that it came to the US so fast to and got into quite a few locations compared to D7 including some new ones. It was a shame that they couldn't follow through with the planned online commitment. I couldn't even find a single IDAS machine of any version in the entire state of Wisconsin. |
| Posted by: Rudy May 29 2015, 06:36 AM | ||
Yeah, if I got banned from any place of business, I probably wouldn't go there for a looong time. When a local arcade got a newer game, there was someone who had a lifetime ban that I know who "snuck in" to the arcade. He even brought his own sack of quarters so he didn't have to go near the change machine by the counter. But an employee spotted him on the camera. Next thing I know, I see two cops walk in and stand behind him. When he's done with his current round, one of them taps him on the shoulder. "Excuse me sir, is your name [banned player]?" "Uh, yes?" "Are you aware you're not welcome at this establishment?" "Yes?" "You're being placed under arrest for trespassing. Stand up and place your hands behind your back." The staff didn't even approached the guy, they just called the cops and now he has a larger criminal record. [ Post made via Mobile Device ] |
| Posted by: SonicSP May 29 2015, 06:48 AM |
| Oh man, that sounds serious. |
| Posted by: N643 May 30 2015, 08:11 AM |
| i been banned from an arcade before here in china, i knew the tech & most of the ppl that work there too story: that place had old mt dx+ machines & crappy id6, they have much feedback on them i slam the mt machine too hard & owner saw me, then he told me i was banned (well i didnt really care as the tech told me that the place will be close by the end of that month, so it didnt really matter) |
| Posted by: bradkinder May 30 2015, 02:47 PM |
| Would appreciate it if someone could post addresses of IDAS8 locations in Los Angeles county. And yeah, I snuck in a few times after being banned and was asked to leave each time (I have no idea how the manager recognized me). Next time he said he'd call security and the cops instead. I tried begging for forgiveness, but they said no. |
| Posted by: gns64 Jun 5 2015, 10:29 AM |
| Is there ID8 in norcal? does golfland have ID8 yet? I haven't been out there in years. |
| Posted by: EVA-01 Jun 5 2015, 01:00 PM |
| Apparently NorCal has none yet but they're building one in San Jose. They're also Building two new locations in So Cal according to their website (: |
| Posted by: rock_7 Aug 1 2015, 02:51 AM |
| I really hope RoundOne goes through with getting their Initial D 8 machines up with online support. I know they have a few other Japanese games running online with periodic server maintenance. [ Post made via Mobile Device ] |
| Posted by: SonicSP Aug 1 2015, 08:11 PM | ||
Ya that's not gonna happen since Sega does not allow machines located in the US to use online. Sega were considering it at one point but abandoned the idea. |
| Posted by: rock_7 Aug 2 2015, 02:30 AM |
| Aww man, I'll keep my fingers crossed. So it's confirmed that no location in the US has online support? |
| Posted by: SonicSP Aug 2 2015, 07:35 AM | ||
It has been a fact for years I'm afraid. Unlike most other arcade racing games, online races in IDAS happen close to real time. The US also use JPN version machines which are not even allowed to be able to connect online outside Japan in the first place. The problem is that US arcades are too difficult to link to international servers due to the fact that all the international servers and the arcade machines that play on those servers are located in Asia. When Asia arcades are in daytime, US is in nighttime and vice versa. IDAS online battles also function close to real time so you need a really a connection with very low ping between the two machines that are racing in order to achieve this and this is hard to achieve due to the geographical distance of the continents. Even among Asia countries, if you internet speed is below a certain threshold, Sega will not allow the arcade to have online battles because it severely affects the gameplay balance when the connection speeds between two machines are too different. The other option is for the US to have its own server in the region (much like China has its own server seperate from the International server used by Japan and the other countries in Asia), this will solve the time and lag issues. Unfortunately the number of arcades who even have D8 are too little for that to be an option worth pursuing for Sega. Arcade is already a niche industry and D8 in US is a niche game in that industry. There's so the question of how many US arcades are interested in the idea. Remember that they have to pay Sega to use the service. Sega did at least try and considered the idea though. For a short while when D8 was new, a new section called "US and Rest of The World" category appeared on the website. And from the reports I'm hearing from users on this forum, I know at least one arcade mentioned that Sega said there was going to be online at around the same time period so I guess Sega considered the idea initially. But it isn't going to happen I'm afraid, we're too deep on the game's lifecycle for that to start now. |
| Posted by: rock_7 Aug 2 2015, 05:23 PM |
| That all makes sense. Considering you can get a hold of one of those racing cabinets, do you think it's possible for someone to create their own server and make initial d 8 think it's actually the Sega server? I've seen people do this with other games with good results. Only thing is, everyone in the US would have to use this private server assuming it works. |
| Posted by: SonicSP Aug 2 2015, 06:06 PM |
| I don't think so, it looks like a complicated process. I assume it would be possible but it would be extremely difficult. I would say its something like tricking your PS4 or Xbox into thinking it's talking to a PSN or Xbox Live server, something that is possible in a broad sense but extremely hard to do in practice. Sega uses their own All.Net service for their online games. It would take a lot of effort to trick the cabinet I assume. |
| Posted by: rock_7 Aug 4 2015, 12:22 AM |
| Gotcha! Guess I'll have to wait till I travel to Japan to try out this online feature. Never the less, I'll be at the Santa Ana CA RoundOne. Those machines are awesome. If you guys ever find something wrong with them let me know and I'll try my best to do something about it. Santa Ana RoundOne Location: 4x Cabinets, In-Store battle only, 1 Play = 6 Credits = $1.50, Initial D Access Card = $6.00 Edit: 08/08/2015 (Low In-Stock, about 4 per machine). Hours of Operation: 10am-2am Everyday. Last call for arcade games about 1:40am. Arcade Machines shut off at 2am without warning so don't risk getting your cards stuck or corrupted. Address: Main Place Mall 2800 N. Main Street, Suite 1100 Santa Ana, CA 92705 714-619-6840 Hope to see you guys there!!  |
| Posted by: DK_Brawler Aug 4 2015, 04:44 PM |
| 6 credits? $1.50? That's like triple Japan's cost. Is it possible to have in store 2vs2? |
| Posted by: rock_7 Aug 4 2015, 06:28 PM |
| Yup it is, all four players have to get on and put 2v2. Then it will ask if you wanna do "2vs Story," "2vs2 online" or "2vs2 in-store" In that order. If everyone chooses the 3rd option 2vs2 in-store then everyone will battle. |
| Posted by: pinoyboiiiracer Sep 20 2015, 07:59 PM |
| If you live in Norcal , there's a Initial D AS8 machines in Round 1 Eastridge Mall |
| Posted by: dashing Oct 5 2015, 02:53 AM | ||
Someone from norcal! What's your card name? |
| Posted by: DK_Brawler Oct 5 2015, 11:36 AM | ||
I'm planning to make a trip down to NorCal within the next half year, we should race then! |
| Posted by: dashing Oct 5 2015, 01:21 PM | ||
That would be awesome man! Definitely looking forward to it. |
| Posted by: pinoyboiiiracer Oct 5 2015, 08:56 PM | ||
My card name is PINOY . I usually play there every weekend, sometimes during the weekday when im available. |
| Posted by: KM964 May 13 2016, 06:46 PM |
| Round 1 Parks Mall 3811 S Cooper St. Arlington, TX 76015 (817) 855-4941 4x ID8 Round 1 Grapevine Mills (opening 5/20/16) 3000 Grapevine Mills Pkwy. Grapevine, TX 76051 No phone listed yet 4x ID8 |
| Posted by: KillerClaw May 25 2016, 05:36 AM |
| Stage 8 coming to New York City's Chinatown Fair in mid-summer: facebook.com/ChinatownFairArcade/posts/946604722117290 |
| Posted by: holnivek May 25 2016, 11:39 AM |
NICE. I'm going to NYC this summer and looks like I'll be able to play D8 there. WOOO  |
| Posted by: wastedkrackr Aug 14 2016, 02:03 PM |
| The Chinatown fair D8 machine is finally in place. [ Post made via Mobile Device ] |
| Posted by: Alastair Aug 26 2016, 10:22 AM |
| Round 1 in concord California has ID8 infinity |
| Posted by: elfluffy69 Oct 17 2016, 09:57 AM |
| you can go to the round one in lake wood i believe if you get band from one you can still go to the rest of them. |
| Posted by: John61590 Oct 18 2016, 05:48 PM |
| Sunnyvale Golfland in Sunnyvale, CA has 4 Initial D 8 machines. They have cards in them as well. It is better than R1 SJ and Concord since only $1 a play and on Saturday 9AM-12PM you can get free play for only $6. |
| Posted by: deccandc Apr 12 2023, 09:18 AM | ||
Unfortunately, I'm not aware of any arcade in downtown LA that has Initial D Arcade Stage 8. However, there are several other arcade options in the area that you might enjoy. You might want to check out the Dave & Buster's at the Hollywood & Highland Center or the Family Arcade in Echo Park. As for Round 1's strict policy on drugs, it's important to follow the rules and regulations of any establishment you visit. It's always better to enjoy your time responsibly and avoid any potential consequences. On a different note, if you're interested in exploring other fun activities to do in a downtown area, you might want to check out this article on the best things to do in downtown Miami: http://touristdestiny.com/best-things-to-do-downtown-miami/. It offers some great suggestions for places to visit and things to see in the area. Enjoy! |