Mini Arcade Machine made from scratch

[vcoleiro1]

Check out this guys mini Arcade machine he made from scratch

https://www.youtube.com/embed/xMmpRtCKlkE?feature=oembed

 

[Fzero]

I love it!


Looks so well made too with nice paint job


I'm proper jealous of his skills and beast of a machine

 

[Fzero]

I was looking at this earlier, amazing but well out my price range, check it though it looks like pain glass table at first

https://www.youtube.com/embed/XZhTKbXigSs?feature=oembed

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7wCZPC-akM


that is a dream game machine for me


...one day, one day

 

[vcoleiro1]

@FZERO


Thats a cool coffee table. It lets you have a arcade machine while keeping the wife happy by also being a coffee table. It's important to keep the wife happy otherwise the arcade machine never gets into the house. lol

 

[Prometheus]

@FZERO - You might find the tables by Surface Tension to be of interest. They are gorgeous. The same folks make some awesome joystick-style coat hooks, too (which you can customise at checkout).


@vcoleiro - But sometimes it's the woman who brings in the arcade machine. :lol:

 

[second exodous]

I keep waiting for a Chinese company to make one of these with guts that will play ROMs and mass produce them. I mean the idea of an arcade machine this size has been around since 1981.


I also see too many x86 power hungry machines made like this. One of the most impressive ones I can remember was made with one of the Genesis-on-chips, the chips you find in the 6-in-one Genesis controllers, that used hardly any power.


Someone needs to take a Beagle Board or a Panda Board and do this, one that would run off of very little power and be very light. I bet they could sell quite a few of them.

 

[craigix]

I'm working on a new mini-arcade with Pandora internals.

 

[yoshi41dragon]

This guy made one with a Dingoo, pretty cool with great instructions B)

https://www.youtube.com/embed/-qI4zYo7bjM?feature=oembed

 

[yoshi41dragon]

And for those with enough change in the pocket, here some high-end models...


Arcade Cabinet (with rotating screen)

https://www.youtube.com/embed/kBsne98V8dY?feature=oembed

Web site and audio comment in german.

 

[second exodous]

I'm working on a new mini-arcade with Pandora internals.

Ahh, finally an ARM cabinet! Do you think you'll sell them pre-made or in kits? I think if you sold the guts some do-it-yourselfers(theirselfers?) would want to build the cabinet and put their own decals on it.

This guy made one with a Dingoo, pretty cool with great instructions B)

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That is really cool, I wonder if the company that makes the Dingoo have seen that? That would be a cool way for them to use the hardware they already have in a new way. I thought the screen was a little bit small though, good size cabinet but could have used a better screen for it's size.

 

[vcoleiro1]

@Yoshi


That vid is pretty cool. There are a few videos out there showing you how to create one of these mini arcades (Mame, Jamma or Plug and Play based). But that vid seems to provide a few details some of the others dont.


I am in the early stages of creating my own mini arcade , I have ordered a few parts already. Hopefully it wont turn out looking like the son of Frankenstein. Im going to use my full size video arcade machine as a guide, which reminds me, if you ever buy an arcade machine , dont buy one with a xxxx in 1 jamma board. Basically these boards are a windows pc motherboard and hard disk running mame with a Jamma connector (yes thats right, Mame and Jamma fused together) , they dont last - huge failure rate. In fact I think Jamma may not make them anymore but they are still around to purchase.

 

[Prometheus]

In fact I think Jamma may not make them anymore but they are still around to purchase.

The Japanese Amusement Machine Manufacturers Association doesn't manufacture them, though - they're bootlegs, essentially. Unless there's some company out there who's misappropriated the JAMMA name?


I don't even know of anywhere that still stocks them, myself - plenty of places that people mention having them all have notices up attesting to the enormous failure rate.

 

[vcoleiro1]

@Prometheus


Yeah the xxxx in 1 are terrible, they are still sold through www.jammaparts.net and ebay of course and a few other places.


JammBoards did have them , but as you say they have stopped selling them due to high failure rate -> http://www.jammaboards.com/store/arcade-boards-pcb-/jamma-pcbs/cat_22.html


I was going to replace the one I have but I might go for something more solid state and authentic ie with no Hard Drive to crash.

 

[Prometheus]

^ Now you've got me wondering whether it's possible to (safely) dock a Pandora into a JAMMA cabinet or not...

 

[yoshi41dragon]

Not really a mini cab :lol:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjVwnm87vsM

 

[vcoleiro1]

@Yoshi


Just put that thing on a trailer and add a Pandora battery into it and your good to go for 10 hours plus of extreme mobile gaming