For a long time now I've wanted to build my own 80's style arcade cabinet. I don't know why...I've never been a gamer. And yet Arcade machines feature fondly in my childhood memory and mesh well with my love nostalgia, technology and making things.

Unfortunately these things are HUGE. Last year a neighbours sit down c**ktail table build inspired me to make something more compatible with our little house...

I present Col's Mini Arcade Cab. Its portable and plugs into a monitor or TV for 70s, 80s & 90's retrogaming goodness. Its powered by the remarkable Raspberry Pi and Recalbox.

There are enough games on board to last a lifetime...Indeed part two of this project is to refine the several thousand games down to something more manageable...top 50 games per console?

Good times

Hi,

I'm running an iPAC2 in a custom box with Recalbox 4b5. Buttons for both players work perfectly including coin, p1&p2 buttons...

My problems is that I can't get hotkeys, ESC, select, enter etc working...which means I have to run the box with a keyboard attached just to exit a game

Is mapping the additional buttons I've added to my controller possible? I've checked with WinIpac utility and the missing buttons are all mapped appropriately to the extra outputs on the IPAC (i.e., 1A, 1B, 2A & 2B) and if I test these, they send appropriate key presses...I just can't figure out how to get Recalbox to register them?

Thanks for any help

Thanks all for the kind words

Happy to share the theme except there is one glaring issue: its not complete or original. I've simply used a mixture of things from other theme projects to create something I like. I only have images for the consoles I have on my box so by no means a full recalbox implementation. With this in mind I'm more than happy to share if people want it

The power supply is from EBay. Very small and inexpensive. See http://www.ebay.com/itm/261875690150

For a long time now I've wanted to build my own 80's style arcade cabinet. I don't know why...I've never been a gamer. And yet Arcade machines feature fondly in my childhood memory and mesh well with my love nostalgia, technology and making things.

Unfortunately these things are HUGE. Last year a neighbours sit down c**ktail table build inspired me to make something more compatible with our little house...

I present Col's Mini Arcade Cab. Its portable and plugs into a monitor or TV for 70s, 80s & 90's retrogaming goodness. Its powered by the remarkable Raspberry Pi and Recalbox.

There are enough games on board to last a lifetime...Indeed part two of this project is to refine the several thousand games down to something more manageable...top 50 games per console?

Good times

Thanks. That got my "ESC" key combo working

I might just look at putting an additional IPAC2 in the cab and install the "keyboard" firmware on that so that I can connect my utility buttons directly to it.

Hi,

I'm running an iPAC2 in a custom box with Recalbox 4b5. Buttons for both players work perfectly including coin, p1&p2 buttons...

My problems is that I can't get hotkeys, ESC, select, enter etc working...which means I have to run the box with a keyboard attached just to exit a game

Is mapping the additional buttons I've added to my controller possible? I've checked with WinIpac utility and the missing buttons are all mapped appropriately to the extra outputs on the IPAC (i.e., 1A, 1B, 2A & 2B) and if I test these, they send appropriate key presses...I just can't figure out how to get Recalbox to register them?

Thanks for any help