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The ULTIMATE DIY Arcade Machine Guide

Gaming PC getting old? What if we told you that instead of trashing it, you could make it into a BALLER home arcade setup?

 

Buy the buttons and controls provided by Ultimarc: https://www.ultimarc.com/

Order the cabinet and mounting hardware provided by Northcoast Custom Arcades: https://www.mameroom.com/

 

 

Buy an arcade machine hit by a shrink ray:
Amazon: http://geni.us/GyEeFN
Newegg: http://geni.us/8H9O4

 

Buy the Raspberry Pi to go with it:
Amazon: http://geni.us/LWhWG
Newegg: http://geni.us/J55B7X

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@floppy disk mayhem, here's the arcade cabinet. 

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get a raspberry pi 2 or 3 if you want something cheap, you can easily build something like this under 100$( if you drop things like RGB). 

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That's pretty cool, you should donate that to a local arcade game room. 

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Genuine question, is there any 100% legal emulation options? We regularly talk about having an arcade machine in the break out area at work, but always park the idea as it's illegal.

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There, I finally know why @GabenJr was asking me months about about Guncon 2's and otherwise pimping me for my light gun knowledge.

I was like "YOU HAVE TO TELL ME WHAT LTT IS DOING WITH LIGHT GUNS" and he wouldn't say.  ...Okay, it kinda became obvious when the cab turned up on The WAN Show a few weeks ago, but still.

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So why are the scripting needed?

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2 hours ago, Skeeter said:

Genuine question, is there any 100% legal emulation options? We regularly talk about having an arcade machine in the break out area at work, but always park the idea as it's illegal.

emulators are legal, roms of existing games(people do often make new and original roms for games) are a legal grey area in a lot of countries.

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50 minutes ago, Scruffy90 said:

So why are the scripting needed?

For game-based ServoStik restrictor changing and support for lighting the buttons on a per-game basis.

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Man that is a fucking sweet project. Any reason you guys used such a powerful system though? A 2500k and a 4870 seems like some serious overkill. I remember when I built a system in 2006 with a $60 Athlon64x2 and used the GeForce 6150 graphics on my budget board that thing could easily play MAME in Linux.

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58 minutes ago, CrazyByDefault said:

Could we get a more detailed description of how the software had to be configured?

This is LTT, you're lucky that they covered as much as they did.

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Break off your chains

And look what I've found in the dirt.

 

Pale battered body

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Fierce Bloody Angel

The blood is on your hands

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Everybody turns to dust.

 

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Shout out to RetroArch's perplexingly bad input setup.

 

You know something is wrong when you can easily screw up your control of the software itself while trying to set up input for the games and you have to frequently re-install or delete settings files just to be able to navigate menus again.

 

A massively less sarcastic shout out for finding what looks like a great CRT unit.

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Great, now even Linus is doing the stupid overly dramatic facial expression YouTube thumbnails :(

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im going to be upgrading my dad's old I3 machine to a Ryzen 5 system here soon. I've been toying with the idea of using the leftovers for a mame cabinet.

 

22 hours ago, Skeeter said:

Genuine question, is there any 100% legal emulation options? We regularly talk about having an arcade machine in the break out area at work, but always park the idea as it's illegal.

As mentioned earlier emulators are legal in the U.S, but downloading Roms of games you do not own is not legal at all.

 

Dumping roms from games you own, or downloading roms from the internet for games you already own is in a legal grey area.  

 

That being said there are a lot of unlicensed & home brew games that have been developed by independent developers that are legal.  

 

It would be nice to know where LTT got their 100% legal roms.

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16 hours ago, ltguy said:

Great, now even Linus is doing the stupid overly dramatic facial expression YouTube thumbnails :(

Where have you been? This has been a foregone conclusion for a while now....

 

Does this mean that it's ok to talk about Emulators/roms/etc as long as we all put in the "100% LEGALLY OBTAINED" qualifier in the beginning like you guys did? Or is this going to go down the same road as your double standard towards Hackintoshes xD

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37 minutes ago, imreloadin said:

Where have you been? This has been a foregone conclusion for a while now....

 

Does this mean that it's ok to talk about Emulators/roms/etc as long as we all put in the "100% LEGALLY OBTAINED" qualifier in the beginning like you guys did? Or is this going to go down the same road as your double standard towards Hackintoshes xD

Same road :P

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23 hours ago, SteveGrabowski0 said:

Man that is a fucking sweet project. Any reason you guys used such a powerful system though? A 2500k and a 4870 seems like some serious overkill. I remember when I built a system in 2006 with a $60 Athlon64x2 and used the GeForce 6150 graphics on my budget board that thing could easily play MAME in Linux.

To show people who have a soon to be obsolete PC what they can do with it when they buy a new one.

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3 hours ago, LinusTech said:

Same road :P

 

Touche sir....touche...

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On 7/10/2017 at 1:11 PM, LinusTechTipsFanFromDarlo said:

That's pretty cool, you should donate that to a local arcade game room. 

There are non local to World Domination HQ

Arcade rooms have long since gone, rent is too high. Computers in homes.

Is the one even still open on Cambie.

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On 7/13/2017 at 8:42 PM, yathis said:

There are non local to World Domination HQ

Arcade rooms have long since gone, rent is too high. Computers in homes.

Is the one even still open on Cambie.

You sure about that?  Because this just opened a few weeks ago in Toronto.  Me and friends checked it out last Friday. :D

 

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Im on the other side of the universe brutha.

Movie Theaters have some arcades, but to be called a true "Arcade" I'd say that picture defines that.

How much are games now? Twoonies and Loonies

 

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