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AtGames Officially Unveils Legends Ultimate Home Arcade (full-size machine)
negative1:
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When I joined this site it was full of people taking an old throw-away CRT and desktop, getting a load of MDF from Home Depot, and turning it into something that rivaled or surpassed genuine commercial arcade cabinets.
Now it's about buying cheap, flimsy, mass-produced consumer gimmicks and talking about how they're serviceable if you just perform X, Y, and Z mods.
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this one is using arcade quality parts, if you read the post,
and replacing it with other arcade quality parts, if you prefer bat tops to ball sticks, sanwa buttons, etc.
it should be perfectly playable as is, but everyone has different preferences.
later
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yotsuya:
--- Quote from: Osirus23 on October 26, 2018, 12:47:18 pm ---
--- Quote from: Nephasth on October 26, 2018, 12:42:43 am ---Another non-DIY piece of crap winds up on a DIY forum. :applaud:
--- End quote ---
When I joined this site it was full of people taking an old throw-away CRT and desktop, getting a load of MDF from Home Depot, and turning it into something that rivaled or surpassed genuine commercial arcade cabinets.
Now it's about buying cheap, flimsy, mass-produced consumer gimmicks and talking about how they're serviceable if you just perform X, Y, and Z mods.
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You know it’s funny, when I first started in this hobby in 2010, I was going to buy a Tank Stick and go that route, but it was this very site that persuaded me that I could do everything on my own. I was inspired by peoples projects and the custom things they created. It gave me the confidence to wire up my own control panel, and now I can do things with wood, paint, and electronics that I could only have dreamed about 8 years ago.
I get where you’re coming from.
Titchgamer:
Things like this dont interest me.
I would sooner go out and buy an original cabinet and do it up.
And the fact its from AT games whos reputation imo is utter ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- well yeah no interest at all.
I will stick with my home built mame machine and my A51 cab project.
On a Side note (and nothing to do with cabinets per se) I do have something very special I will be sharing with you guys in the next few weeks hopefully.
I cant say to much atm but it will be a review of sorts of something I am pretty excited about and some of you guys hopefully will be to!!
I will be bringing it here first though so watch out for it ;)
Howard_Casto:
I've been here far longer than most and I can tell you that a lot of the diy attitude back then came from the simple fact that you had no other choice. The earlier version of this site pre-dated (affordable) keyboard encoders... if you wanted to make a control panel you HAD to hack something. Pretty early on Andy started selling encoders and the jpac and many of the old guard was against this commercialized short-cut. Now we can all agree that is a bit silly. I for one am glad that people now have options as it means more people get to enjoy old games. I like to do it myself... hell I even write a lot of the software end of things as well, but someone that can't screw two pieces of wood together should be allowed to play as well.
My point is people byoac for different reasons.... for some it's the process and for others it's the end product and that's ok.
That being said, this is atGames. They couldn't even do a $20 hdmi stick right so I don't have any faith in this particular product.
JudgeRob:
I don't know man. Injecting profit and money into a hobby tends to incentivize those making the money to squeeze out and silence those who promote doing it for free (a hobby). Pulling interest into the hobby might be good, but pulling in straight up consumers is not all that great for products that were on the verge of being in the public domain.
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