Wanted to share my experience with ordering an arcade control panel from gameroomsolutions.com. Though I used to own a Neo Geo Big Red in the past, I never had to do any maintenance on it. So wiring and all that is very new to me. I wanted to build an arcade stick for a raspberry pi that I got setup with retropie/emulationstation. Since I was so new I was looking for something simple and not too expensive just in case I screwed the whole thing up. I found gameroomsolutions off of /cade over on reddit and the Arcade Control Panel they had listed fit my needs perfectly. I had some back and forth with Ryan before ordering - I was trying to get the PSD template beforehand so they could print and apply the artwork. He told me i had to order first and then he would send the file. I did so and as promised he sent the PSD template as well as the instructions for getting a hyperpie image and the config files. It took me about a week to finish up the design (I'm new to photoshop too) and once I sent it to him and took maybe 3/4 days before he shipped it out. Once received everything looked good (only 1 small chip on the MDF sideboard) but the 6 white LED buttons I ordered were just 6 white buttons. I emailed Ryan and he apologized same day and in about 4 days I received the correct LED buttons. It went together fairly easy even though I made my fair share of wiring mistakes. I would say the most difficult thing was the hyperpie image stuff. I could not get hyperpie and the arcade sticks to work right. not all buttons were being recognized, and the hotkeys (joystick or keyboard) were not working either. I eventually gave up and did a completely different frontend (motion blue) and did not use Ryan's config file. Everything is working now as it should. Here is a quick vid of the end results:
I was a little concerned after I ordered when I started seeing some negative reviews. In the end though I didn't have any issues and I'm happy with my experience and the results. Possibly because what I ordered was so simple. Anyway, just wanted to share.
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