An arcade machine in my house!!!!

[BangBang]

Nice!!! Is it running off a Raspberry Pi? I got mine up and running, still a few problems with N64 games running smooth. I've thought about building an arcade cabinet to house it.

Yep, Pi 3 B+ with a “plug and play” 128gb SD card I bought on eBay preloaded with Retropie and all the game ROMs. It has N64 games on it, but they run pretty choppy. Not really a deal breaker for me because I was more interested in arcade ROMs as well as NES, SNES and Genesis. They all play flawlessly.

And man, I can’t get past the FIRST LEVEL of Ghosts n’ Goblins even with save states. I had forgotten how brutal that game was!

 

[roadsignmcclanahan]

Yep, Pi 3 B+ with a “plug and play” 128gb SD card I bought on eBay preloaded with Retropie and all the game ROMs. It has N64 games on it, but they run pretty choppy. Not really a deal breaker for me because I was more interested in arcade ROMs as well as NES, SNES and Genesis. They all play flawlessly.

And man, I can’t get past the FIRST LEVEL of Ghosts n’ Goblins even with save states. I had forgotten how brutal that game was!

I built my own card first...Nes, SNES, Arcade, Sega, all the good ones! Got to PS1. Kept messing up the code, finally broke down and bought the same or very similar plug and play card.

 

[lesptr]

Here you go!

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Awesome. That was my game.
When is the SET party at your place?
I can bring beer.

 

[Mac11FA]

Full size or these little mini cabinets?

Table top cabinets

 

[BangBang]

Being the old man that I am, I have no fucking clue what any of this means.

BAHAHA! Basically it means that my family hasn’t seen much more of me than SET has lately!

 

[BangBang]

I built my own card first...Nes, SNES, Arcade, Sega, all the good ones! Got to PS1. Kept messing up the code, finally broke down and bought the same or very similar plug and play card.

I did some reading and watched a few vids about building my own card, but decided it would just be faster and easier to buy one premade on eBay ready to go.

Here’s the video tutorial I went by to convert the Arcade1up cabinet to work with the Raspberry Pi

I also added a couple of 4” speakers to my marquee to take advantage of the stereo sound in some of those early 90’s arcade games.

 

[BangBang]

Awesome. That was my game.
When is the SET party at your place?
I can bring beer.

I had honestly never heard of that game before. I’ll have to check it out.

This cabinet is small enough that I could just bring it with me to a SET M&G! lol

 

[Willy Leadwell]

In 1987, my 'excitebike' was a chopped late 70s 1000cc Suzuki

Papaw!? Is that you??

 

[BangBang]

I loved Golden Axe

One of my all time favorites! We lived on Yokota Air Base when I was a teenager. The Military Airlift Command terminal (fancy name for the base airport) was within walking distance of my house and they had a small arcade in the lounge area. I was there every weekend with all my buddies. Golden Axe got a ton of our quarters!

 

[BangBang]

Table top cabinets

Those are pretty cool. I was eyeing some of the bartop kits on eBay before I bought my mini cabinet.

I’d really like to buy one of these kits....



and put one of these together.....

 

[BangBang]

Which one in the pictures is Greg?

Hahaha!! He’s been busy with his divorce and looking for a camper to live in lately. Hopefully when he gets all that sorted out he’ll have more time to get back online.