re: CADs new obsession - buying & modding 1up cabinets to support full MAME library

Damn, y'all seen this?

this is getting ridiculous.

Real 25 cent coin activated coin door $49



On a 1up cab:



also, which should i go with?

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pdate: I had my joysticks physically inverted. I remounted them and re-wired all my buttons to the USB encoder to match each other. Note that when you map one set of joysticks and buttons in emulation station it defaults all joystick and button layouts to the one you mapped. So make them all match exactly.

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i'm not 100% sure that's required. i always map my player 1 controls then go in and map the player 2 controls afterwards and that seems to work.

i had this problem in the beginning as well but i'll have to flip over my control panel and see if I actually flipped the joystick or just fixed it in emulation station.

Where are you seeing tmnt for $200?

Around me, it’s someone on OfferUp. I’d much rather buy from Walmart but the Walmarts around me don’t have any clearancing of the arcade1ups going on

Hey, if I replace a vertical monitor with, say, a Dell turned vertically, is it easy to have the pi turn its output so that it displays correctly?

Thanks!

Grab the 8GB vertical game only rom image I posted back in this thread. They already rotated the games for you.

Will I be able to use a 42" TV in a Multicade cab?

diminishing returns. I get some of the light gun games and immersive games where you sit inside a booth have large screens but old school arcade games on a 20" display your standing in front of is plenty big.

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Well I have an extra, was thinking about using it.

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try it out. you can hook a pc or raspberry pi up to it and plug in a keyboard and try out the game roms.

i know of several that automatically put really nice bezels on the sides so the 16:9 isn't distracting.

42" consumer TVs lack the crispness of computer displays but since its very easy to test it out, give it a try. it wont fit in a 1up cabinet though

Pick up a $75 1up cabinet from Walmart, $35 raspberry pi, $8 32gb memory card and one of those button/joystick kits on Amazon for $30 with everything you need.

If you have an old set of computer speakers you're covered or you'll need to buy a $10 amp to reuse the existing speaker in the cabinet.

For display if you can find an old Dell 17" for $5 or $10 on Craigslist grab it and swap the built in. You'll need a VGA to HDMI cable.

If you can't find a display for cheap you'll have to pay $25 for a special doohickey that will let you use the one that came with the unit.

Borrow a drill bit or buy a cheap one from harbor freight and drill 6 button holes for each player (depending on which cabinet you find most of these may already exist)

Watch the eta prime video on YouTube that shows you how to connect it together. It's really easy.

That's the cheapest way to get 1,000s of games in a cabinet that I know of. Keep an eye out for those old Dell monitors. There are so many out there they are practically free.