Well overnight I got incredibly paranoid about losing the Beatmania harddrive and decided to order a CF card and IDE adapter, today I pre-emptively backed up the image using chdman, it went just fine:

We’ll see how it does when i try to write it. Assuming it works I’ll upload this somewhere.

 

I also attempted to 3d model one of the beacon domes for F14 tomcat. I’m going to attempt a print shortly, here it is in all its glory:

 

To be continued!