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    • minouch
      minouch last edited by

      Hello everyone,

      thanks to your wonderfull project which is recalbox, and thanks to the community, I was able to get enough motivation to build my own arcade cabinet. I chose Zelda theme and I was inspired by Phrazelle : https://www.instructables.com/id/Legend-of-Zelda-Bartop-Arcade-Cabinet/

      My father and I worked on it since last year. here are few pictures about this :
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      I used 2 usb encoders hosting 12 buttons each (necessary to play N64 or PSX games even if sometimes I agree that it's not easy)

      I used the next level theme which I reviewed for the buttons configuration so I customized it for each emulator. example with N64 :

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      So player can see this during the game selection list for N64 here and it makes things easyer before starting a game πŸ™‚

      The speakers are on the sides since I used some nice ones dedicated for cars at the beginning and it was too big to place them on the top corners of the screen on the square panel.

      since I only had 4 USB ports on the PI3, I used 2 of them for the encoders, 1 for a usb key for my games and configurations and a last one for a nice keyboard with touchpad included. this keyboard is hidden on the bottom part and is very nice to play games like ScummVM, MSDOS and some others. that means I didn't convert the sound to USB but I let it in jack. maybe not the best choice ever but the sound quality is good enough for me actually. I'm using a potentiometer which is on the top left corner of the main board to adapt the sound :

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      It's the first time i'm working on a project like this without any specific skills (some in programming a bit but that's it) so it's not perfect but I like it how it is actually :-). i felet a lack of skill especially in electronic stuff. With some more knowledges I think I would have been able to do much better.

      For the sticker, I took some pictures from internet and I pasted them in order to build some nice designs with filters. I used GIMP for all of them. there are 3 of them I just found on internet and didn't change at all cause they were already nice to me.

      I hope you will appreciate it πŸ™‚

      I wanted to thanks everyone who participated in the recalbox project, and also a lot of people from the community who helped me a lot to make my arcade cabinet done.
      Special thanks to :

      @abunille for his help to my mapping issues I had with NES and ScummVM
      @Norde for his help to modify the theme and add my own button configuration mapping
      @Gaetan for his wonderful theme i'm using here.(great job !)
      @Substring & @acris for their help to optimise PSP games
      al programmers/developpers for Recalbox

      Thanks everyone

      //minouch

      RPI3 - Recalbox 4.1 - Manette Xbox360 USB

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      • voljega
        voljega Banned @minouch last edited by

        @minouch said in My Zelda Arcade Cabinet:

        I used 2 usb encoders hosting 12 buttons each (necessary to play N64 or PSX games even if sometimes I agree that it's not easy)

        Which encoders are you using ?

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        • Norde
          Norde last edited by

          Nice work πŸ˜„

          Here is a beautiful arcade cabinet, congrats!

          Happy to have been able to help (a little bit) πŸ˜‰

          Boards : Rpi1 B+, Rpi2 B, Rpi3 B, Rpi3 B+
          Controllers : Xbox One S controller, PS1 controllers
          Case : Superpi case Retroflag

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          • Scavy
            Scavy Global moderator
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            last edited by

            Hi, very nice cabinet and great design. Have a lot of fun with it 🐡

            • RPi0w : GPi Case
            • RPi4-2Go : Nespi4case - SN30 pro+ & PS3 DualShock pads - Logitech M170 (BT) keyboard/mouse set
            • Odroid Go Advance
            • PC : CPU i5 core 2.8/3.4 GHz - GPU GeForce 850M - RAM 8Go DDR3L
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            • minouch
              minouch last edited by minouch

              @voljega I was not able to double check the rΓ©fΓ©rence but here is a picture about the one I'm using :
              link
              and here is the amazon link for the kit I purchased : link.
              They are working perfectly with recalbox and allow to host up to 12 buttons / player

              @Norde Thanks :p. actually you told me what I needed to hear to unlock the situation. I'm just not really confident with themes values. I just tried different numbers and crossed my fingers so the design is at the good place :D. I had few tries before I got it like I wanted.

              @Scavy Thanks a lot :-). really appreciate. I'm having a lot of fun yes. (especially when I see my wife falling down everytime in the same hole in mario 3...) She will never learn I suppose.

              RPI3 - Recalbox 4.1 - Manette Xbox360 USB

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              • Scavy
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                @minouch also thanx 4 the link for the encoders. A little question, they are connected to different USB ports or on the same with a USB hub ? My own cabinet is in progress πŸ™‚

                • RPi0w : GPi Case
                • RPi4-2Go : Nespi4case - SN30 pro+ & PS3 DualShock pads - Logitech M170 (BT) keyboard/mouse set
                • Odroid Go Advance
                • PC : CPU i5 core 2.8/3.4 GHz - GPU GeForce 850M - RAM 8Go DDR3L
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                • minouch
                  minouch @Scavy last edited by

                  @scavy hi scavy. They are using 2 native usb pprts of the raspberry. Then one usb port is used for the keyboard and the last one is used for my usb key containing games and config files

                  RPI3 - Recalbox 4.1 - Manette Xbox360 USB

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