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Arcade 1Up's Ikea cabinets
« on: July 25, 2018, 05:07:32 pm »
https://www.arcade1up.com/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIydX2lb-43AIVAxgMCh1RAQ0YEAAYASAAEgKejPD_BwE

3/4 sized $499 DIY kits isn't bad. You could easily rip out the guts and replace the controls and brains with better parts. I like that it comes with a 4:3 LCD monitor, but no details on the type of panel so lag might be an issue.

Still, this is probably the better of those Walmart specials I've seen hit the market. Especially with the price being a bit more manageable.


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Re: Arcade 1Up's Ikea cabinets
« Reply #2 on: July 26, 2018, 10:42:22 am »
Why not just scratch build a 3/4 size cabinet? You can make it how you like.

I do like that they didn't use the stupid slim form factor. These look like they won't fall on top of you when you lean on them.

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« Reply #3 on: July 26, 2018, 10:44:36 am »
Wallet's twitching here.  Impossible to build these things for $300.  The Slick Deals thread is humorous if you want to watch idiots argue about how this is a rip off. 

"All I had to do was buy a cabinet off Craig's List, haul it home, strip it, sand the whole thing, repaint it, add a monitor, PC, and then configure all the software.  Way better than this.  0/10 would not buy." 

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Re: Arcade 1Up's Ikea cabinets
« Reply #4 on: July 26, 2018, 10:55:17 am »
Yeah. If you are not going to mod it. You can't beat that price.

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Re: Arcade 1Up's Ikea cabinets
« Reply #5 on: July 26, 2018, 11:09:03 am »
I ordered two from Walmart.... I figure how hard it is to find Cabaret cabs, this is a steal for $299.00 and free shipping. Plus it will help me save a bit of room in my Basement. I like the construction, I like the look, and I really don't mind LCD's for vector games.

Ordered the Asteroids and the Centipede.

Tempest and Major Havok are what sold me.
And I always wanted a cabaret Centipede.

Pretty jazzed.
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Re: Arcade 1Up's Ikea cabinets
« Reply #6 on: July 26, 2018, 11:18:15 am »
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Re: Arcade 1Up's Ikea cabinets
« Reply #7 on: July 26, 2018, 11:25:35 am »
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I really don't mind LCD's for vector games
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I am CRT purest for Pixels and Sprites all day long Mike! These will be my first LCD monitors in my basement bar (plus I have ulterior motives once I get my Universal/Mame 3.0 cab issues ironed out) 

on a side note, these things only being 4 feet tall... how the hell are you going to get three of your buddies to play Rampage? Or even another buddy to play Street Fighter? That is the only reason I would say this is a bad idea. But the other two are pretty sweet looking.
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Re: Arcade 1Up's Ikea cabinets
« Reply #8 on: July 26, 2018, 11:28:56 am »
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I always wanted a cabaret Centipede

I have a  repro Dig Dug cabaret control panel. I also have 2 repro blank CPs that can be used for Centipede.

classicarcadecabinets.com has the cut files for the centipede cabaret.

We could make that happen. I plan on building a couple cabarets once summer winds down.

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Re: Arcade 1Up's Ikea cabinets
« Reply #9 on: July 26, 2018, 11:41:57 am »
I was a little disappointed they didn't remake that weird sideways spinner thing for Major Havoc.


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Re: Arcade 1Up's Ikea cabinets
« Reply #10 on: July 26, 2018, 11:45:31 am »
I was a little disappointed they didn't remake that weird sideways spinner thing for Major Havoc.

Me too... If I ever find one I may be able to add it to this thing.
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Re: Arcade 1Up's Ikea cabinets
« Reply #11 on: July 26, 2018, 12:00:55 pm »
That Major Havoc spinner doesn't look too complex. Has someone tried to build something similar? A full on reproduction has its difficulties, but just making something similar doesn't seem like it should be that difficult for all of you 3d printer guys.

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Re: Arcade 1Up's Ikea cabinets
« Reply #12 on: July 26, 2018, 12:08:25 pm »
The primary issue is that Major Havoc sucks.

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Re: Arcade 1Up's Ikea cabinets
« Reply #13 on: July 26, 2018, 12:09:01 pm »
That Major Havoc spinner doesn't look too complex. Has someone tried to build something similar? A full on reproduction has its difficulties, but just making something similar doesn't seem like it should be that difficult for all of you 3d printer guys.

No, I would agree it couldn't be all that bad to replicate.... but as far as I know Major Havoc is the only game that had it. So it probably doesn't make a ton of sense to actually build it custom when a spinner does the same thing.
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Re: Arcade 1Up's Ikea cabinets
« Reply #14 on: July 26, 2018, 12:11:01 pm »
The primary issue is that Major Havoc sucks.

I like it... its cross between Berzerk and Tempest. But I also like Space Raider, so maybe I just have crap taste in space shooters. lol
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Re: Arcade 1Up's Ikea cabinets
« Reply #15 on: July 26, 2018, 02:09:20 pm »
I just saw these and damn! For $300 that's quite the deal.

Do we have any specs on them? We know its a 4:3 monitor but what size? What is the system specs? A pi? Intel PC stick? What are the dimensions? The street fighter cab looks like two players might be a little tight.

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Re: Arcade 1Up's Ikea cabinets
« Reply #16 on: July 26, 2018, 02:19:24 pm »
I just saw these and damn! For $300 that's quite the deal.

Do we have any specs on them? We know its a 4:3 monitor but what size? What is the system specs? A pi? Intel PC stick? What are the dimensions? The street fighter cab looks like two players might be a little tight.
I believe the site says it's a 17" LCD monitor. I'd be interested in knowing what kind of panel it is, if it's prone to display lag or slow pixel-rates.
The dimensions are also on the site, or within their assembly video.

As for the brains, it looks like they're sitting inside the CP. They haven't shown any pictures under-the-hood, but I would guess it's a cheap chinese-made emu board, similar to the Arcade Legends cabinets, running some antiquated version of Mame.

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Re: Arcade 1Up's Ikea cabinets
« Reply #17 on: July 26, 2018, 02:34:35 pm »
Enh... these aren’t true cabarets... you don’t need a chair to sit in one.

It’s a commercial product, not someone’s project, so I don’t mind saying I think they look like ass. But y’all enjoy.
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Re: Arcade 1Up's Ikea cabinets
« Reply #18 on: July 26, 2018, 02:43:09 pm »
Enh... these aren’t true cabarets... you don’t need a chair to sit in one.

The MVS-2 Mini begs to differ ;) :




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« Reply #19 on: July 26, 2018, 02:52:55 pm »
Never seen one of those in real life. Oh wait, I have, at a repair party. Enh, says I, Enh!
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« Reply #20 on: July 26, 2018, 03:00:56 pm »
Seems to be pretty cheap pressed board with a few screws and wood dowels holding it together so  will be hard to keep it from wobbling and falling apart. - If I were assembling I'd probably glue the thing together as well  :dunno

For $300 shipped it's not too bad but they most likely are using a single custom PCB and who knows what emulation as well as cheap buttons/trackball/spinner so doubt they'll age well and will probably wind up being sold off cheap after they don't sell well in store like the last attempt at home arcade machine production by  Big Electronic Games ( At least they are using a 17" lcd instead of the 14" one the last attempt used. )


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Re: Arcade 1Up's Ikea cabinets
« Reply #21 on: July 26, 2018, 03:28:57 pm »
I am going to bite on at least one - with the intention to raspberry pi mod it.  I am sure that a pi hack cable will be available pronto. 

They are also selling a stand for it to raise it to normal arcade height - but you could build your own for cheap of course.  The price is just too good considering its ready to go with an art package and all.  Full size flat back arcade kits with shipping are more expensive than this.  And they require buttons, art, computer/pi.

I was actually considering building a few cabaret machines from scratch, but screw that for now.  So I'm in for at least one to give it a try at modding it if nothing else...I like the centipede and asteroids for the spinner and track ball.  But the street fighter one would probably best for a pi hack as you get two 8 way joysticks and 6 buttons per player....so I might go with that one for my mod experiment :)
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Re: Arcade 1Up's Ikea cabinets
« Reply #22 on: July 26, 2018, 03:30:47 pm »
Never seen one of those in real life. Oh wait, I have, at a repair party. Enh, says I, Enh!
Last time I saw one in the wild was at the Disneyland arcade, near Magic Mountain.  It might still be there, dunno, it's been a few years.  They're really cute cabinets, but not very practical to play on. But I do agree with you, if you're going with a cabaret it shouldn't require a chair.  The whole point of a cabaret is to reduce the square-footage footprint it takes up, having to use a chair defeats that purpose.  Cabarets were mainly placed in Hotel lobbies, waiting rooms, diners etc.  Places where people congregate, but are limited in space. I have my Robotron cabaret tucked snug into a corner in our 900 sqft apartment. It's takes very little room, and doesn't annoy the wife for being too big or too much of an eyesore.



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« Reply #23 on: July 26, 2018, 03:34:53 pm »
Here is the stand that they will be selling - easy to make your own of course....

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« Reply #24 on: July 26, 2018, 04:26:02 pm »
Looks pretty sturdy in the assembly video to me.  Looking forward to seeing some reviews....


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« Reply #25 on: July 26, 2018, 05:22:56 pm »
Looks pretty sturdy in the assembly video to me.  Looking forward to seeing some reviews....

Looks more like a 3d render used for assembly than an actual unit ( notice the panels don't bend down when assembling to the sides ) - Have a feeling in real life they would snap or at least bend downward if not held up due to gravity - so looks like they made a 3d model and animated the assembly process and not used actual real life parts because gravity would make those panels fall toward the ground if it was actually a real unit being assembled. (doubt you'll be able to actually assemble it like shown in step 4 without placing blocks under the parts to hold them up before installing the second side ! )
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Re: Arcade 1Up's Ikea cabinets
« Reply #26 on: July 26, 2018, 05:35:19 pm »
Enh... these aren’t true cabarets... you don’t need a chair to sit in one.

It’s a commercial product, not someone’s project, so I don’t mind saying I think they look like ass. But y’all enjoy.

That's fair... I know they are not true Cabarets Yots, I guess my point was that Cabarets are hard to find, and this is a nicer alternative for my situation (limited space). I dig the look of them, and from what I saw on youtube, everyone was very impressed with the build and the parts are said to be high quality. So who knows. When I get mine I will do a review for you guys and let you know. I am sure with in a week they will be hacked and they will have a 1000 games on them.


Here is one video up close in action.... buttons seem to me to be as good as any Happs buttons.

https://youtu.be/S7XlI1iQOso?t=1m23s


Another video... not as great, but again it passes the eye test. I think these are pretty solid units.


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« Reply #27 on: July 26, 2018, 05:43:43 pm »
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« Reply #28 on: July 26, 2018, 07:17:18 pm »
Here is the stand that they will be selling - easy to make your own of course....

Looks perfect for a Pi.


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« Reply #29 on: July 26, 2018, 08:16:15 pm »
They are pretty small. I still almost want to pull the trigger on the SF cab to make it a miniMAME
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« Reply #30 on: July 26, 2018, 08:30:21 pm »
I'm tempted by the Asteroids one. Lunar Lander was the first arcade game I ever played (the science museum near me had one set to free play). It doesn't seem right without the throttle handle though.

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« Reply #31 on: July 26, 2018, 08:47:24 pm »
Judging from those youtube videos, the game lists were better when these were prototypes. 

SF1 / SF2 / SF3

Final Fight / SF2 / Strider / Ghouls n Ghosts   <- I'd probably pull the trigger on this one  ("strido" lol damn youtuber)

Though it makes me hopeful they can be easily modded.






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« Reply #32 on: July 26, 2018, 09:14:41 pm »
I was amazed that these don't look completely terrible.  Decent controls, good layout, decent monitor.  I think we may have gotten to the stage to where (gasp) commercially made emulation cabs don't totally suck. 

I'm not real fond of that 17 inch monitor or the cabaret height, but the art is really nice and pbj is right, it'd be hard to scratch build for that price.  Super tempted to pull the trigger on that centipede. 

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« Reply #33 on: July 26, 2018, 09:21:42 pm »
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« Reply #34 on: July 26, 2018, 09:32:37 pm »
I wonder if Walmart is going to wind up cancelling all of their pre-orders when the time comes and say they posted the wrong price ( wouldn't be the first time they cancelled a batch of pre-orders (ie. the NES classic when they sold too many ! ) - If the $299 winds up being the actual sales price then it seems a decent deal but find it hard to believe Walmart would be $100 cheaper than direct from 1UP !!

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« Reply #35 on: July 26, 2018, 10:58:47 pm »
None of these games have cabaret height. Cabaret games have the control panel at the same place that normal games do, they just cut off all the stuff above the monitor to make them smaller. These games just chopped the bottom of the cabinet off to save $8 in production cost while completely killing anything that would ever make them feel like an arcade game.

The manufacturers don't care if these games work right, if they did then they would possibly have a 3 player game with a 19" wide panel, that requires every player to sit in a chair.
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« Reply #36 on: July 26, 2018, 11:29:03 pm »
According to their twitter, Walmart isn’t a price mistake and the riser will be $40....


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Re: Arcade 1Up's Ikea cabinets
« Reply #37 on: July 26, 2018, 11:38:09 pm »
Walmart probably pre-purchased the cabs in bulk to get a discount that they could pass along to us.  I'm thinking the small size is purposeful.... probably requires them to use one less sheet of mdf or it dramatically reduces the artwork cost or something, which would be more than $8.  Yeah the rampage one is cramped, but it uses real controls, the cp layout is correct and the art on the cpo is correct.  Let's not complain too much when things are improving compared to multi-cades in the past.  I mean they aren't perfect but seeing as how none of us built them how could they be?  ;)


Personally I'd build a riser myself as they are generic and don't reflect the art of some of the cabs.  We could probably make one that doesn't like the thing is sitting on a glorified milk crate as well. 

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« Reply #38 on: July 26, 2018, 11:57:47 pm »
Walmart probably pre-purchased the cabs in bulk to get a discount that they could pass along to us.  I'm thinking the small size is purposeful.... probably requires them to use one less sheet of mdf or it dramatically reduces the artwork cost or something, which would be more than $8.  Yeah the rampage one is cramped, but it uses real controls, the cp layout is correct and the art on the cpo is correct.  Let's not complain too much when things are improving compared to multi-cades in the past.  I mean they aren't perfect but seeing as how none of us built them how could they be?  ;)


Personally I'd build a riser myself as they are generic and don't reflect the art of some of the cabs.  We could probably make one that doesn't like the thing is sitting on a glorified milk crate as well.

THat and probably makes them cheaper to ship since they only weigh around 60 Lbs. so don't have to be shipped by Freight ! ( though not sure if they are MDF or a cheaper pressed board since MDF would weigh more than 60 lbs. even for that small of a cab ! )

Also looks like they are probably being imported rather than built here since the Mom and Pop distribution says to contact - Master Toys and Novelties, Inc which is an importer based in Los Angeles
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Re: Arcade 1Up's Ikea cabinets
« Reply #39 on: July 27, 2018, 02:54:45 am »
I watched the assembly video and it was very enlightening.  There are several exposed screws throughout the machine.... most notably on the sides of the cab and the top of the cp. I don't seem to see those in any of the promotional shots.  It also looks like the brains of the thing are attached to the lcd because that's the only way having the power plug only into the lcd and having a ribbon cable with so many wires going to the cp makes any sense.  The marquee is a solid piece of wood, so there's no hope of lighting it up.