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Arcade 1Up's Ikea cabinets
smass:
Well then. I am hoping my order goes through and I have one next week. I will "take one for the team" and give you guys a tour if I receive it.
Random thoughts:
- Size is perfect for kids.
- If you had a few of them you could easily build one long riser/platform against a wall and display them that way.
- If the buttons and joysticks are standard micro switch units, you could easily wire them to a zero-delay encoder or ipac and then connect to a computer or raspberry pi. The only other issue would be getting the signal to the lcd monitor, but I am sure there will be a way to hack that fairly easily. So conceivably, for possibly less than $100 more you may be able to stick a pi in there and have a fully functioning multi-cade.
- If a cheap hack like above is possible I think there could be an aftermarket where folks mod them up and sell them - sorta like you saw with nes and snes mini.
- If for some reason its overly difficult to hack into the lcd monitor that comes with the machine, you could simply pull the whole unit out, and replace with a $5 goodwill 17" lcd. I have two extra 4:3 17" lcds in my basement and see at least a couple every time I visit goodwill just sitting on the shelves collecting dust...so all you would need to do is wire the controls to the pi with a cheap zero delay, and connect pi to the lcd.
- Quite possibly, the build quality and overall gaming experience will suck. Nobody really knows at this point. So lets see. Nothing ventured nothing gained.
- Does the release of these things indicate that the retro-arcade scene has "jumped the shark"? :)
Mike A:
What the crap is going on?
"Gee the build quality will probably be bad. The controls and the internals will have to be replaced. I will have to build a riser for them. Sign me up for a pre-order."
JudgeRob:
Lol Mike. Part of the experience as a kid is looking up in wonder at the towering magic box with indestructible presence, not sitting in front of a wimpy feeling box as the stick rips out of the CP. :lol
JDFan:
Another thing I wonder is will these each have different hardware/software for the roms or will it be another case of the PCB having all of the games from all of the cabinets installed and just jumpers to determine which ones are active on a specific machine ( ie. like the Tiny Arcades that use a single resistor to short a jumper to select which of the 4 machines it is - so production remains the same for every one and they just short a different jumper at final assembly to decide which machine it is packaged as.) :dunno
Osirus23:
--- Quote from: BadMouth on July 28, 2018, 07:06:30 am ---Still, bashing them is like complaining about a $100 particleboard dresser bacause it's not made out of mahogany.
--- End quote ---
I've used $100 particleboard dressers. I don't bash them for not being mahogany. I bash them because they fell apart as soon as I put a pair of pants in the top drawer. I expect the same level of quality from these cabinets.
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