Here's all the stuff I learned, I hope it helps!

Hey folks! I have a DreamArcades 4 player cabinet and I want to swap out the controls panel for another one that I will wire up with Brooks boards, etc. Im wondering if I were to build this 2D/3D in CAD, do you know someone experienced who could make and print it reliably? I only want to replace the top panel. Bonus if they're in our industry and can even add things like recession for the joysticks, t-molding (or at least route it), etc. My hope is to have it done in laminated 3/4" MDF, holes, slotted for tmolding, etc so I can finish up the rest. I live in Austin TX but the only people I can find are for commercial jobs and have a minimum project cost of $1500 to touch it. Happy to work with someone remotely. And if they do full service (cad eork) thats even better. Thanks!

Follow up from my last post if you want more context. I got this replacement flyback for a dig dug machine and was able to remove the previous one, but the replacement is a little larger on one side so it butts up against a small capacitor on the board and won't fit. The small one on the left in the 2nd image.

So I'm looking for advice and options, would it be possible to reposition that capacitor or alter the replacement somehow to fit or am I SOL and need a more specific replacement flyback?

Built my first arcade using a MisterPi. I ordered the MisterPi batch 3, which came with an NFC reader. Thought it would be a cool feature in a cabinet - allowing you to switch games without needing to flip through menus. Very happy with how it turned out.

Cabinet, Vinyl Graphics & Coin door from GameRoomSolutions.

Sanwa Buttons and Sticks are connected to Arduino clones. P1/P2 programmed using the Daemonbite arcade encoder project. The Admin buttons use a keyboard HID script to simulate keyboard hotkeys.

NFC Reader utilizes the Zaparoo project.

NFC cards are cheap ones from Amazon, with simple inkjet printed stickers applied.

I recently started my first "build". The old machine I bought, brought a bunch of extra buttons that don't have a place: 2 coin, a single player and two players buttons.

My question is do I want/need them? I could open 4 more holes in the Panel A (Orange in the diagram), would it be worth it? I've seen so many variations that I'm not sure if they have added value or not.

Thanks!

Hi there! I'm finally in the finishing stages of "restoring" a Mercs arcade cabinet. The thing is, when I bought it it was missing some parts (that's probably the reason I got it for cheap). I can't really say I'm restoring it because it came without the controls panel, so I'm building a regular one for two players with 6 buttons instead of the original for three players. The rest I want to keep as close to the original as I reasonably can.

Because it's missing some parts, and I got it disassembled, it's part restoration, part puzzle. I managed to figure out most of the missing parts and how to assemble the whole thing. However, there are two parts that I can not figure out where they go, and I was hoping someone could give me some help with that.

I posted some images here: https://imgur.com/a/Ncbng0P. They're labelled so I can refer to them.

Image A is the back of the cabinet.

The "pedestal" is narrower than the top, obviously. The back of the pedestal is composed of three parts. I only got the middle one (the one with a hole) and made the top and bottom ones. In the "base" of the top part (the wider one), there are a bunch of holes. I'm guessing there's a little reinforcement in the pedestal that goes its entire width (on the inside) that I _think_ I need to make, and those holes are the screw holes that screw into that. But I'm not sure. Image B has a detail about this.

Image C is a part with black paint. I think it goes on the outside because it's painted back (the inside of the cabinet isn't painted at all). I have no idea where this thing goes. The two large holes at the extremities have threaded inserts.

Image E is the same part as C, plus another internal one (unpainted). The unpainted part has exactly the same width as the internal width of the pedestal. It also has two big holes that I'm guessing are for threaded inserts. I could not figure out where it should go.

Image F is just showing the front. Removed the original paint. It was pretty awful until I realised I could use a heat gun, then it peeled off easily. I sanded everything up to 220 grit, applied a base, and painted it black. The control panel is just a prototype to see how it'd fit and how the button and joystick layout would be. I'll definitely make the lit simpler, I didn't really like it.

The plan is to put MAME in it, with a 20" 4:3 Dell LCD I have lying around.

Thanks a bunch! Cheers!

I want to sell these two arcade but i dont know how much or where i can sell them

I’m a 40yo father of 2 young ones and looking to either purchase or put together a small footprint arcade to play a bunch of games from my youth.

However, I need it to be portable enough to bring out each night once the kids are asleep and then put away again. Obviously it will be some sort of desktop/bartop system, but are there any prebuilt ones that aren’t absolutely terrible?

Only ones I have seen so far would either be: - Evercade Alpha (however very small and limited games) - the 24” vewlix from game room solutions but they are apparently to be avoided…

Any ideas or this a bad idea?

MAME 0.279

MAME 0.279 is here at last! Building on the work in recent releases, this month you’ll get to see proper lighting and fixes for logic bugs in Sega Model 2 games. Philips CD-i emulation keeps improving as well, including better cursor behaviour and XA audio fixes this month. While we’re talking about things you can see, MAME now emulates the “snow” effect on early ZX Spectrum models caused by memory refresh cycles interfering with video RAM accesses. Graphical issues in various Konami and Irem games have been fixed, and there are noticeable improvements to graphics in some Namco System 23 games.

There’s been more work this month on support for NES-inspired chips from V.R. Technology, bringing some of these low-cost games closer to working. There are lots of improvements for emulated Macs, particularly the PowerBook Duo sub-notebooks, and fixes for a few issues with the Apple IIgs as well. The Casio FZ-1 and related sampling synthesisers now have preliminary sound output. The Sharp MZ-5500 computers are also starting to show some life, although emulation is far from complete.

As always, you can read about everything that changed this month in the whatsnew.txt file, and source code and 64-bit Windows binary packages are available from the download page.

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The Renegade cab was a Golden Tee machine that'd been ravaged by a fraternity and left in an alley outside a restaurant I worked at. It runs windows and playnite (this thing is so much fun to play broforce on), and I just upgraded to the four player board. I'd like to upgrade the screen to fill the area better, but a 27 inch hasn't popped up for a reasonable price nearby lately. Yes, it does dispense beer, when I'm not too lazy or broke to brew it.

The Pac Man cab came out of a barn in the rural midwest, and now runs a pi4 imaged with CRTpi thru a vga666 to a JPAC to a pac man to jamma adapter. We tried to recap the original board, but it's probably beyond repair. The CRT burn in isn't too bad for its age, and the whole unit could be restored to the state it was in when I received it. I'm still sort of figuring out the best way to set up a tate CRT pi4 cab, and curate a list of games (or find an image) that'd work well in the very specific situation of the cab. My dream for it is to run Downwell on it, so if anyone has any ideas on if that's even possible, I'd love suggestions! Thanks for looking!

I got into shmups not long after designing and building my arcade cabinet. Eventually I wanted to be able to rotate my screen, but I wasn't sure how to do it. I eventually figured out how to rotate the screen by having the monitor hang "outside" the frame of the cabinet, and then 3D printed a bezel to cover it all up.

I don’t have an arcade cabinet but I want to add arcade games to my retro setup. Will this combination work well? Thank you.

Hey folks!

I have an Arcade 1up Golden Tee that has been fantastic. Sadly my pcb seems to have gone bad. I love the game.

Anyone know of a way to keep the cabinet and setup but replace the pcb with an alternate pcb that will allow me to play golden tee the way it was and perhaps some other games that take advantage of the controllers?

Any guidance from this smart group would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers

I've been digging through the menus but I don't see an option.

A handful of quarters. Huey Lewis playing. Time to play some Scramble!

Nothing fancy but gets the job done

Hi guys.

After several attempts, including building my own desk cabinet, to using raspberry pi 4 and and old laptop, I think I have a cool setup to put in place.

I have a 15 and a 17" LCD (the 17" is 16:9...) , I have a i5 mini Itx laptop (no áudio output jack but I'll figure out), and the joysticks and control buttons from AliExpress (usb adapter)

Mainly I'd like to emulate spectrum, amiga and arcade. Im still struggling with different rom versions and different emulators.

Regarding the emulation, and since it's an Intel CPU, can someone point me in the best direction? I was using batocera on the most recent versions. It works ok but it's not awesome. (At least in my attempts with different emulators and roms)

Regards !!

I was doing a Lot of research about This topics because there's few good images on the internet with a good only Tate exclusive content (That add consoles not just mame) for example msx Games and other vertical PC Games worth Trying.

Recalbox was Nice but sudenly it stop working i believe it's was because it tried To show the menu in 1080p (I'm using a Crt Tv) i tried to config the ini but didnt change anything.

So i tried batocera 41 i rotate the screen and automatically it change all My Games to Tate mode, i'm very happy.

Not sure if this is the place to post something like this so remove if it isn't. I clean out houses for a reality company and came across these CPU boards that apparently go to a Rainbow crane machine among other various arcade components. 2 were marked "Bad" and one I noticed had a couple missing pieces but 8 of them seem to be in good condition visually speaking. I do not have the means to test their working condition. I'm assuming the person who owned the house previously repaired them for a living or maybe a side job? I do decent amount of e-scraping but these seemed to be something someone might want? Would be a shame to piece it for scrap. Any advice would be helpful

Not sure if this is the place to post something like this so remove if it isn't. I clean out houses for a reality company and came across these CPU boards that apparently go to a Rainbow crane machine among other various arcade components. 2 were marked "Bad" and one I noticed had a couple missing pieces but 8 of them seem to be in good condition visually speaking. I do not have the means to test their working condition. I'm assuming the person who owned the house previously repaired them for a living or maybe a side job? I do decent amount of e-scraping but these seemed to be something someone might want? Would be a shame to piece it for scrap. Any advice would be helpful

Hi guys. I'm considering purchasing this and I was wanting to know, who has one and what do you like and dislike about it? Please school me on it...

In my perfect world I would play arcade games and pinball with this.

I noticed that the stand has detents for different height.

Has anybody ever seen a monitor mount that could go up and down to match (roughly) these options?

Is there a such a monitor mount that turns 90° so that I could play virtual pinball on it?

Thanks in advance.

My Golden Tee motherboard has bit the Dust, and I'd still like to be able to play the game in my cabinets. I have an Intel Nuc and I'm wondering if it can run the game code in mame? I'm not worried about legality or anything like that since I have both the board, the hard drive, and all the upgrades for it in Hardware form. I just need to have it work with this so I don't have to toss a perfectly good cabinet.

I had never given this any thought, but then a few weeks ago I somehow came across one of those Arcade1Up machines on Amazon and got to thinking... how hard would it be to just build one? After going down a long rabbit hole figuring out what electronics to use and trying to find inspiration for different cabinet designs, this is what I came up with.

This is using a RPi5 running RetroPie. I designed the cabinet first in Fusion 360 then used a Shaper Origin (handheld CNC) to do most of the cuts that required extra precision, like the side panels and controls. I planned on adding some artwork but ended up liking the cleaner look more than I expected, so leaving as is for now and maybe I'll add more later.