Hey, all, the guys over at /r/retrogaming sent us all an invite. /r/cade has been a part of the Retro Gaming Network for quite some time now. They have launched a discord server for all of the member subreddits this week. We have our own channel over there as well. Come hang out and mingle with all the other retro gamers! <3
Here's the invite: https://discord.gg/A98SXF4tzG
I want to get into building a bartop arcade since I live in a small apartment and don't have room for a full sized cabinet. I want to load my own roms on it so stuff like arcade1up with 3~ games per cabinet don't interest me. I'm not tech savvy although I have built a PC before so I can probably connect and wire everything up. But unfortunately I'm not tool handy at all so designing and building a cabinet is completely out of my depth since that requires woodworking and such.
My question is if anyone knows any places, preferably in Canada, that sell pre-assembled cabinets or ones that can be put together with minimal work? I've been looking into this but DIY kits either require a lot of assembly (measuring, drilling, fastening, etc.) or are very expensive. At this point I am considering just buying one of those pandora boxes that come in the arcade cabs from aliexpress and just reconfiguring the internals swapping to a mini-PC instead. That almost seems cheaper than buying a pre-built cabinet or all the components individually anyways.
Hi, I’m building a multi cade. Based on a vertical 42” samsung tv and a mini pc g2 mini.
I was wondering how you guys turn on the pc and tv when you don’t have access to their power buttons?
Hi all I built my brother a retro pie bubble bobble desktop barcade. We've found retroarch and other settings and constant maintenance a bit frustrating for him.
I was hoping to keep the cabinet, screen, joysticks etc and replace the pi.
I was wondering if there was something more maintenance free in 2024 like a Pandora's box or something else that seems more stable and turn on and just play.
I'd love some opinions! Thank you!
Is there a good way to get low resolution video (CGA, 320x240, etc) from a small form factor PC? Back in the day there were specific video cards (blade3d etc) to look for- I'm wondering what options there are now for USB video cards or similar?
I'm looking to run a pc in a Sega New Astro City occasionally, but I think the missing piece would be a video car with low resolution output to run through something like a J-Pac
I just bought a 30 year old arcade machine on a whim and I'm hoping to fix it up, but I know absolutely nothing about arcades, I'm very ambitious. If anyone knows anything about the old street fighter arcade machines or has any tips on restoring arcade machines let me know. The monitor works perfect and it turns on just fine but there's a board inside of it that's not working anymore.
Does anyone know where I can buy a 40 pin to usb-a adaptor I can’t seem to find any on Amazon or AliExpress I need the adaptor for the game pad I’m using for it
Purchased a Pac-Man Pixel Bash Upright second hand about 3 years ago and it worked perfectly, but around 6 months ago it decided to stop booting up all together. The lights turn on, even what I assume is the power indicator LED on the main PCB, but I get no audio or visual on the screen. I don’t see any obvious scorching on the PCB, and all wire connections have been re-seated.
I’ve contacted Speedy’s Repair Service, but if I can avoid sending the components off, I’d like to. Please help
Two sinden guns. Love teknoparrot but grew up with street fighter and Mario. Didn't have plans, just eyeballed the design from other builds. Used plywood from my childhood bed frame, so it's dried out and light as hell. But I added bricks on the bottom for reinforcement.
It does have a drawer that stores mouse and keyboard. Also has a racing wheel. The game board or whatever is called opens up from the back, it's on hinges so I can remove it whenever. Other than that, I am probably going to cover it in vinyl stickers from my childhood, mostly guitars, bands, skateboards, and California themed nostalgia from the 80s/90s.
MAME 0.266 is ready just in time for the end of May. The first thing you’ll notice is that Taito F3 video emulation has been reimplemented, fixing numerous long-standing graphical issues. The dynamic range compression used by several Yamaha synthesisers seems to finally be understood, fixing audible distortion. Speaking of sound, a previously missing Game Boy Advance sound channel is now emulated.
Several additional members of Nokia’s MikroMikko 1 line of 8-bit business computers from the 1980s are now supported. In PC emulation, S3 ViRGE video accelerator emulation has been simplified and improved. A couple more cartridge types have been added for MSX home computers.
This release also adds plenty of software list items and arcade bootlegs. Lots of code has been cleaned up and modernised, with various bugs fixed along the way. We’ve also added a workaround for the regression in clang 18 that was causing build failures.
As always, you can read about all the changes in this release in the whatsnew.txt file, or get the source code and 64-bit Windows binary packages from the download page.
Does anyone have a good source for learning how to alter rgb buttons to respond to game inputs? I want to have the player's buttons match the characters color after selecting the character. For instance, turn blue when you select Leonardo or white when you play as Storm. Didn't know if it has been done and if it is worth the mental anguish.
