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Arcade Collecting => Arcade1Up & Similar => Topic started by: negative1 on April 25, 2020, 01:24:36 pm

Title: Star Wars arcade with Bench - preorder coming $499
Post by: negative1 on April 25, 2020, 01:24:36 pm
This was in the works, and will probably be delayed:

(https://i.redd.it/65izi6dplyu41.jpg)

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Title: Re: Star Wars arcade with Bench - preorder coming $499
Post by: negative1 on April 27, 2020, 09:40:42 am
preorder is here:
https://www.walmart.com/ip/Star-Wars-Arcade-With-Bench-Seat-Arcade1Up/248851348

the empire strikes back marquee is probably just an early prototype.

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Title: Re: Star Wars arcade with Bench - preorder coming $499
Post by: StefanBurger on April 30, 2020, 09:11:50 am
By the look of the picture, I wonder how comfortable it might be. Imagine hands/arms need to reach out to the yoke, but not really much space for legs.
Title: Re: Star Wars arcade with Bench - preorder coming $499
Post by: negative1 on April 30, 2020, 09:21:42 am
By the look of the picture, I wonder how comfortable it might be. Imagine hands/arms need to reach out to the yoke, but not really much space for legs.

the distance is adjustable.

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Title: Re: Star Wars arcade with Bench - preorder coming $499
Post by: StefanBurger on April 30, 2020, 11:40:34 am
By the look of the picture, I wonder how comfortable it might be. Imagine hands/arms need to reach out to the yoke, but not really much space for legs.

the distance is adjustable.

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I'm aware of that. But the further you move the seat back, the further the hands have to reach. In a car like setup you would place legs beneith steering wheel/console, which here is not possible due to closed kickplate
Title: Re: Star Wars arcade with Bench - preorder coming $499
Post by: JDFan on April 30, 2020, 12:01:56 pm
By the look of the picture, I wonder how comfortable it might be. Imagine hands/arms need to reach out to the yoke, but not really much space for legs.

the distance is adjustable.

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I'm aware of that. But the further you move the seat back, the further the hands have to reach. In a car like setup you would place legs beneith steering wheel/console, which here is not possible due to closed kickplate

FIgure if you are modding it to make a driving cab - opening the kick plate area for your legs to go beneath the wheel is just another part of the mod that could be done if you wanted !
Title: Re: Star Wars arcade with Bench - preorder coming $499
Post by: Howard_Casto on April 30, 2020, 01:07:41 pm
Yeah but you shouldn't have to mod a $500 cabinet just to make it useable.  This whole bench mode thing is just a half-assed afterthought that I doubt any of the creators even bothered to sit on the prototype before it went into production. 
Title: Star Wars arcade with Bench - preorder coming $499
Post by: yotsuya on April 30, 2020, 03:03:50 pm
Yeah but you shouldn't have to mod a $500 cabinet just to make it useable.  This whole bench mode thing is just a half-assed afterthought that I doubt any of the creators even bothered to sit on the prototype before it went into production.
Arcade1Up enthusiasts are willingly used to it by now.
Title: Re: Star Wars arcade with Bench - preorder coming $499
Post by: negative1 on May 02, 2020, 10:50:20 am
Another bundle from walmart, star wars and robot $350:

https://www.walmart.com/nco/Star-Wars-Arcade-with-Riser-with-BONUS-Stormtrooper-Robot/160576604

(https://i5.walmartimages.com/asr/a90f2ba5-82bc-42b1-a448-3354dfa362db_1.fd4b2df292d699c23582e873ed8c2ee4.jpeg?odnWidth=450&odnHeight=450&odnBg=ffffff)

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Title: Re: Star Wars arcade with Bench - preorder coming $499
Post by: negative1 on May 13, 2020, 12:17:39 pm
Preorder for Star Wars Bench $415:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Arcade1Up/comments/gijlwk/arcade1up_star_wars_with_bench_seat_preorder/

(https://preview.redd.it/pybmqcke8ey41.jpg?width=640&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=eeb28531d11bc120bedc9ba1aa47cdf346f2c57d)

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Title: Re: Star Wars arcade with Bench - preorder coming $499
Post by: Necro on May 14, 2020, 08:44:59 am
So...I've been out of the game for a bit since my cab is done and it's just minor software tweaks for me most of the time.  But, what's the current status re: Star Wars Yoke or replacements?  Aside from the RAM Controls debacle, I'm not aware of a solution and it seems if the cab can be had for $100 or less, it might be worth for the yoke (assuming a rebuild) alone.   
Title: Re: Star Wars arcade with Bench - preorder coming $499
Post by: PL1 on May 14, 2020, 11:00:24 am
what's the current status re: Star Wars Yoke or replacements?  Aside from the RAM Controls debacle, I'm not aware of a solution
There's the Alan-1 yoke that's arguably a slight improvement over the original Atari controller.   ;D

https://alan-1.com/product/alan-1-star-wars-flight-yoke/ (https://alan-1.com/product/alan-1-star-wars-flight-yoke/)

Personally, I'd use a $5 Arduino Pro Micro with the KADE miniArcade 2.0 firmware (related post and tutorial link here (http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,154126.msg1713271.html#msg1713271)) instead of their $99 USB encoder here (https://alan-1.com/product/flight-yoke-usb-adapter/).  YMMV.


Scott
Title: Re: Star Wars arcade with Bench - preorder coming $499
Post by: negative1 on May 28, 2020, 02:15:25 pm
People are getting their shipments now:

(https://preview.redd.it/ur7t2cotjj151.jpg?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=a5eef7d2ded184189b5c261c68aa0eba8044dc6d)

The blue LED backlighting was visible in earlier videos, but not pointed out.

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Title: Re: Star Wars arcade with Bench - preorder coming $499
Post by: negative1 on May 28, 2020, 10:33:17 pm
Picture of assembled unit:

(https://i.ibb.co/3Y6C3tT/20200528-141110.jpg)

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Title: Re: Star Wars arcade with Bench - preorder coming $499
Post by: negative1 on June 02, 2020, 06:23:37 am
review of the bench:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-stMjBqI9nY

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Title: Re: Star Wars arcade with Bench - preorder coming $499
Post by: negative1 on June 04, 2020, 09:46:44 am
or for those handy with building your own bench:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Arcade1Up/comments/gw8wcw/tutorial_video_coming_soon_on_my_channel/

(https://preview.redd.it/n7apmsl37t251.jpg?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=74da7ecb6cf6a5b80011b55449aa93f4345473b4)

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