This is the last part of the DIY Arcade cabinet tutorial series. In this guide, I will show the overall steps to add an emulator. Since there are many different emulators, I cannot write a guide for every emulator. instead, I will show the default steps you should do when adding an emulator to your system.
Category: Arcade
Collection of DIY Projects on Arcade Cabinet
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Arcade Cabinet – Setup Hyperspin & Controllers
This part of the DIY Arcade guide will cover the installation and setup of the main software on your arcade. This includes: Setting up windows, configuring your USB Controllers, Installing and configuring the Front-End and much more.
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Arcade Cabinet – Installing & Wiring Cabinet Electronics
In this part, I will install the electronics in the main cabinet. this includes the computer, speakers, cabinet lighting, coin doors, in cabinet lighting, fans, power supplies, USB hub…
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Arcade Cabinet – Building the Control Panel
This part will cover the build of the control panel. This includes the building of the control panel, drilling and installing buttons & joysticks, wiring the Controls & LEDs, Installing the Trackball & Spinner…
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Arcade Cabinet – Building the Arcade Cabinet
This part will cover the assembly of the arcade cabinet. As well as creating cutouts for coin doors, speakers, wheels, power button, RJ45 connector…
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Arcade Cabinet – Introduction & Design
This is the introduction to building your own full-size, 4-player Arcade Machine. In here you will find everything you need to start building your own. In this part, we will decide over the design of the cabinet, what special effects, controls, TV, artwork and much more. This is a very large project and I recommend to thoroughly plan your build ahead so you don’t run into troubles during the actual build.
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Build a Coctail Arcade Cabinet using Raspberry Pi
In this guide, I will build a small cocktail arcade machine based on RetroPie running on Raspberry Pi. It has an ‘old school’ look with original arcade controls, can be played with any USB controller you can find, is fairly cheap and easy to build and there is an unlimited amount of retro game ROMS available online.
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Virtual Pinball – Adding Games & Tables
This is the last tutorial in the virtual pinball series which will focus on installing different games for your front-end. The most popular games are Pinball FX2/FX3, Virtual and Visual Pinball.
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Virtual Pinball – Setup PinballX and Controllers
This part of the virtual pinball guide will cover the software. A visual pinball table requires a lot of software to work together to give a seamless feel when selecting and switching tables. the front end I’ll be using will be PinballX, which will basically show a list of all available pinball tables across all different games that are installed on your machine. Every platform installation is covered including the configuration of your cabinet special effects, buttons and graphics setup. This will be a large tutorial but I tried to cover all the steps as short as possible so you can just follow along on your own cabinet.
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Virtual Pinball – Installing Computer, Controls, Special Effects
This part will cover the wiring of your electronics, this includes the computer, DMD Screen, Audio, TV, buttons, plunger… It will take quite some time wiring everything up correctly and making sure everything is working as intended. But after this guide, it’s just software that remains.
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Virtual Pinball – Building the Cabinet
In this part of the Virtual Pinball guide, I will cover the build of the cabinet and control panel. This includes assembling the cabinet and backbox, painting the panels, mounting the legs. prepare holes for: the controls, speakers, DMD Screen, backglass monitor, Special effects… as well as the installation of the plunger, buttons, power switch, ethernet connector, Led strip profiles, fans…
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Virtual Pinball – Introduction & Design
This is the introduction to building your own Virtual pinball table. In here you will find everything you need to start building with all the items I bought for my build. There are other alternatives available but my guides will use the items described here. This part includes cabinet designs, special effects, information on the artwork, TV specifications and much more. This is a large project and I recommend to thoroughly plan your build ahead so you don’t run into troubles while building it.
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Barcade Arcade stand with storage space
In this guide, I will build a matching stand for the Bartop Arcade Cabinet I built earlier. This way it can be used as a regular stand-up arcade machine, also while I’m at it. I will add a storage compartment, LED strips, indoor lighting, and a coin door. The storage will be used to store all my retro USB controllers that can be used with the barcade itself.
Build a Bartop Arcade Cabinet using Raspberry Pi
In this guide, I will build a small bartop arcade machine based on RetroPie running on a raspberry Pi. It has an ‘old school’ look with original arcade controls, can be played with any USB controller you can find, is fairly cheap and easy to build and there is an unlimited amount of retro game ROMS available online.