Master Phruby

Good Will has decide to up their price on games to $9.99. I guess they think their collection of sports and dance games are valuable. Too bad they don't sell systems anymore. Even funnier they had four games that were download only. Good luck selling those.

Or take a RPi Zero and put in a XBox controller.

Why not have put the PI in the XBox case?

I did most of the controller wiring last night. I picked up a set of crimp connectors from Amazon. No one sells this stuff! https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01FEZ1L8U/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 I have a green led button for the computer's power button. It lights up when the computer is on. I added a red led button for computer reset and lights up with HDD access. I mounted the encoder board to the bottom of the controller lid board and found some wire leads to extend the trackball and spinner to the encoder. I need to finish wiring up player one's controls with lengthen wire. The fan guard has been added. LaunchBox has been added and I've imported, MAME, SNES, Genesis, Sega CD and 3DO. I have to download retroarch for the 2600. I'm having trouble getting the PSOne stuff running. I have a license for Big Box and I like the way it works. It's much nicer than Hyperspin.

Very cool find! How much was it? I found my Kangaroo cab at a thrift store twenty years ago. I got it for $50 but they said the price was mismarked but let me have it anyway. A few days before they had a Popeye machine but I didn't get a chance to grab that one.

Ultimarc will happily sell you 7" wire extension for the trackball for $3. For the trackball you need two of them. They make $6 out of pennies of materials. I wish Radio Shack was still around.

I started wiring the controls and found out that a lot of the controls are out of reach of my wiring harness. I need to pick up a crimper and some crimp connectors at Home Depot today. It's amazing the number of little things you need for this kind of project. It's not just controls, wood and computer. The controls have to be wired in series and then individually wired to the encoder board. For some reason, Ultimarc sells their spinner control and track ball with only four inches of wire on their connectors. This makes wiring and placing the encoder board a lot harder. The trackball's wire comes out at the bottom of the unit making it hard to plug in the spinner and trackball at the same time without extending the wires.

The fan is there for ventilation mostly of the hdd. Everything else should stay pretty cool. I only used that fan because I had one laying around. The motherboard is secured to the board by those brass stands you use in computer cases. The psu and storage are all secured with velcro. I am going to tie down the usb and other cables with cable stables. I'm still waiting on a usb mother board header and some wires for power and reset switches. I've also got an Intel Centrino 2230 Mini pci express wifi/bluetooth card for the mother board coming. So many little parts that you never think to buy until you need them. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B009DAFJRM/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00P5TSJK4/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 Moved the coin buttons to the front. They will be replaced with a red LED button and another white button for system controls.

Here is an internal shot of the mother board, PSU and storage. The CPU doesn't need a fan but I decided to add one based on my heating experience with the Raspberry Pi. This is 128GB SSD as drive C and 640GB hdd for drive D. It runs Windows 10 with LaunchBox - BigBox interface. The coin slots are lit and I'm going to move them to front of the board. The two cables next to the PSU are for HDMI and USB 3.0. There is a hole for an ethernet cable.

I also use to visit this Time Out arcade in the Sherman Oaks Galleria. This mall is famous for being in such movies as Valley Girl, Commando and Fast Times at Ridgmount High.

Here is where I spent lots of quarters at Westworld arcade in Westwood Village next to UCLA. The place was dimly lit with neon and had a pizza place on left. A couple of doors down was the Mann Fox theater. Great for seeing Star Wars and other 80's blockbusters. Unfortunately, it's gone now.

Has anyone compared the picture quality of the SNES classic vs a real SNES running via SCART and a XRGB-mini?

I'd be happy with Donkey Kong and Pac-man DX.

A few months ago I built a MAME box using an X-Arcade Tank Stick and a Raspbery Pi 3. See pictures below. It works pretty well except for the ancient version of MAME that RetroPi uses. One thing to consider since it is a tight fit, the Pi does get hot playing games around the Super NES level of graphics. It is recommended to put in a fan or at least a vent in the box. You also need to take apart a power supply in order to make it fit and solder leads to a plug. Nice thing about this setup it is completely reversible.

Updated picture. Now I have to wire the controls to the controller board and nail down the motherboard. I'm thinking about moving the coin select buttons to the front center of the cabinet

Since that picture, I reduced the height by two inches making it 5" tall. I've added blue 1/2 round molding around the board and 1/4 round the sides to finish it off. It's painted gloss black. It is also hinged at the back. Its designed to sit on a coffee table in front of the family TV. The computer, PSU and ssd are inside the box. New pictures to come.

I built the box for the controller and test fitted it. I don't need that much room in side it. I think I'm going to reduce the height by about two inches.

The motherboard came today as well as the hdmi/usb plug. Hopefully I can build the box/base for this thing and start wiring it soon. I want to finish by our church's Trunk or Treat party so the kids can play some REAL video games for a change. If not I still have my backup moded x-arcade.

I'm pairing it with an 180w power supply. Anymore than that is a waste. We are going low power here. https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA6PW3T70487 I'm also using a small 60mm fan with blue leds to push air in to keep it cool. https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835119021 The box the board lays on will be about 6" in depth. I'm going to reroute the HDMI and usb plugs with this. The plug is the same size hole as a standard arcade button.I used this on my x-arcade tank stick. They have one that has two usbs or one usb/ one audio plug. https://www.amazon.com/USB-HDMI-Mount-Cable-Motorcycle/dp/B00VAJ76SE/ref=sr_1_1_sspa?s=wireless&ie=UTF8&qid=1506964597&sr=1-1-spons&keywords=hdmi+and+usb+car&psc=1

My last project was a Raspberry Pi inside a X-Arcade Tankstick. It worked out pretty well except for the limit of games I could put on a 32gb sd card. I did see some slow down on some MAME games. Sure I could have put in an SSD but there wasn't enough room for that and I really didn't want to mess with Linux config files again. For this machine, I wanted something a little more powerful but still not some $800 gaming rig so I went with Pentium processor and ITX board. https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157731 This has 16gb of ram and an SSD would be plenty of space for MAME and all the emulators up to N64. It's also stays cool and takes very little wattage. Sure I can't run Wii or Gamecube or PS2 emulators but those machines take different controllers to run well. It's not easy to play a Wii game without the proper controls.

Any updates?