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Title: Poor man's Arcade: Built in a Minute
Post by: TOMMYGUN on March 31, 2025, 03:05:13 pm

When this baby hits 88 degrees an hour you're going to see some serious ---steaming pile of meadow muffin---.  :lol

Hi all a quick arcade i built over a few weeks of software preparing and such, fitting the components, the actual putting together took a few minutes at most.

It is an old nightstand i made holes in with a hammer and screwdriver and grip thongs, i just broke the wood off till there was a hole big enough  :lol
Old I5 hexcore with Club 3D Radeon R9 280X royalQueen 16GB RAM, i spent like 30 bucks on it.
Fairly new free TV from a friend.
Old Xarcade Tankstick
And a himalayan salt lamp, no fancy marquees for me too expensive  :lol

Software: CoinOps Ultimate Max
With the software Xoutput to convert the old Xarcade to Xinput, < lot of ex's  :lol

Anyway although it is crappy it is good enough for me now, maybe i will put all that stuff in a real cab but for now good enough, just wanted to share.  :cheers:

Title: Re: Poor man's Arcade: Built in a Minute
Post by: TOMMYGUN on March 31, 2025, 03:06:29 pm

More pics

Title: Re: Poor man's Arcade: Built in a Minute
Post by: TOMMYGUN on March 31, 2025, 03:17:06 pm

Sry had aspect ratio problems with the pictures

Title: Re: Poor man's Arcade: Built in a Minute
Post by: firedance on April 02, 2025, 08:36:17 am

Er - congrats, I think  ;)

As long as it makes you happy then go for it, maybe the next one will be better  ;D

Title: Re: Poor man's Arcade: Built in a Minute
Post by: pbj on April 02, 2025, 11:28:23 pm

Still better than a Weecade

Title: Re: Poor man's Arcade: Built in a Minute
Post by: SNAAKE on August 22, 2025, 10:08:10 am

why do you hate weecade lol..they are pretty cool

Title: Re: Poor man's Arcade: Built in a Minute
Post by: javeryh on August 24, 2025, 12:10:39 pm

This is making me twitch.

Title: Re: Poor man's Arcade: Built in a Minute
Post by: jasonharrod007 on November 01, 2025, 04:54:02 pm

Looks fine. I wish I had gone this route the 1st go around 10 years ago.

Title: Re: Poor man's Arcade: Built in a Minute
Post by: danny_galaga on November 04, 2025, 04:59:35 pm

I like it. This is a great way to get a feel for the dimensions that suit you.  I went all out on my upright, making it 'just so'. Once I had a few friends play on it with me we realised it's about 100mm too short, because well, we were shorter in the olden days 😄

So now my finely tuned design sits on a 100mm plinth.

Title: Re: Poor man's Arcade: Built in a Minute
Post by: severdhed on November 08, 2025, 09:55:27 pm

nothing wrong with that.  it is better than what I started out with.  i did something similar with my x-arcade for a while and then decided to step it up later.

(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-fzaN56TRrI0/UwwVu2kfrrI/AAAAAAAADI0/Ds9fpjZ2uag/w480-h640-no/before_cabinet.JPG)