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5191175 No.5191175 [Reply] [Original]

Is it worth it?

>https://www.walmart.com/ip/Arcade1Up-Rampage-Machine-4ft/114274755

>> No.5191179

>>5191175
No

>> No.5191219
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5191219

>>5191175
only if youre short

>> No.5191259

>>5191175
I was just at Walmart a few hours ago. My location had two of those mini arcade cabinets; one with Pac-Man and one with Galaga.

>> No.5191265
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5191265

>Four fucking feet tall
>Shitty LCD screen
I pass.

>> No.5191295

>>5191175
The build quality on them is shit. Don't even bother.

>> No.5191432

>>5191175
Only if you're a sucker

>> No.5191447

>>5191175
How do they expect 3 people to play on this thing?

>> No.5191453

>No, ackshually, a real cabinet is taller and you can build on with raspberry pi and just a little carpentry and programming skills anon.

You faggots have gotten downright insufferable.

They’re not that bad OP. If you got the extra cash, go for it. They’re fairly easy to mod and look cool of you have a game room. Don’t pay attention to /vr/. They’re the video game equivalent to a woman who has to rub her clit raw and shove a dildo in her ass during sex because they’re so desensitized to fun that nothing makes them happy anymore.

>> No.5191463

>>5191175
I walked by one in there tonight still in the box that was Pac-Man & Ms Pac-Man. They wanted $299 for it,

>> No.5191523

If you do, get the riser they sell separately for a much needed extra foot

>> No.5191706

>>5191175
It's shit. Not worth much of anything.

>> No.5191741

>>5191447

3 midgets

>> No.5191798

>>5191175
No. The size isn't even an issue. You can put the fucking thing on a plastic tub or a couple of boxes. The thing isn't that heavy. The problem is that the screen is garbage, the controllers are cheap, the cabinet is shitty, the graphics peel off within weeks etc. It's a great idea executed poorly.

>> No.5191828

>>5191798
Later models do use a VA screen thats 4:3 or 3:4 as earlier models used a wrong rated TN screen.

The controller get better with later models but they're still not Sanwa parts.

>Nintendo games???
If Nintendo were to do this they will do it themselves and have Nintendo NERD do it as was the case with the Classics.

>> No.5191929

>>5191828
The issue with the screen was it was garbage and many people reported issues with dead pixels. The control issues that I have read are for the cabinets that have a trackball or knob.
Is it possible to replace the controls in these? I have a spare sanwa stick and buttons lying around.

>> No.5191951

>>5191453
>They’re fairly easy to mod
Mod in what way? I'm not sure how you would add more games to it.

>> No.5192230

>>5191175
Would it be worth it to get one of these to switch out the controls and shit and put a raspberry pi in it?

>> No.5192285

>>5191175
The one at my Wal-Mart is actually tall, like there's some kind of add-on thing to boost the height that they're going to sell extra...or someone there built something for it, I have no clue.

>> No.5193163

For the love of god, NO.
I went to walmart and saw one of these, and decided to try it out. I expected as much. Shitty DIY machine, about as tall as a Moppet Video cab, but with shitty particle board parts. Naturally it uses an LCD screen, which is fucking garbage, and only has a few game to select. Upon the one I saw (a Pac-man/Pac-man Plus configuration) I assumed the way to exit to the menu to select Pac-man Plus was to hold 1P and 2P Start, and it was. However upon "booting" back into the menu the fucking bios shitted out and got fucked up and started glitching, then finally restarted. I finally accessed the menu after some other antics, but the menu screen with still a mess of glitches. I selected Plus, and it took about 3 minutes tops to load the game. This game is like 30KB, right? So why the long load time? I don't know, but what I do know is that it's not worth getting.

>> No.5193442

I just brought one yesterday, the plan is to use a crt computer monitor and an old pc, I'm still deciding if I should make a new bezel for vertical games. I don't see the point of using the inbuilt screen because I could just play the games on my tv. Vertical crt with a spinner is my goal for tempest and pacman. Also the thing is a lot heavier and bigger than I expected so I have to make room.

>> No.5193626

>>5191828
>The controller get better with later models but they're still not Sanwa parts.
It would be really fucking weird for western retro machines to have sanwa buttons. Happ is what you are looking for if you want authentic retro and you are a white person with a soul.

Sanwa is only if you are ken-sama trying to emulate grorius nippon master race, or a SF4 tryhard, or if you were raised on an airforce base in japan. Not retro at all.

>> No.5193915

>>5191175
I'd say no simply because it's too short. You can mount it on top of something if you wanna play it in a standing position or just get a stool so you can play on it in a sitting position (I assume this is how they intended for it to be played), but otherwise the low height is kind of a dealbreaker. You could go with the first idea and make something that looks really cool though.

>> No.5195069

I have the Street Fighter cab, its worth it, maybe look around brickseek for lower prices because some wal-marts may have them on clearance for $200. definitely a lot of fun having an arcade machine in my home, the riser is an absolute must have if you are not buying it for children.

>> No.5195096

>>5193442
that thing cannot support the weight of a crt

>> No.5195102

>>5193626
yeah but dude, the happ of yesterday is not the happ of today.

>> No.5195247

>>5195102
So buy IL Suzo controls, they're the version still made in Europe and are still good quality compared to the Chinese Happ stuff. They sell them at Paradise arcade shop.

>> No.5196705

just build a mame cab

>> No.5196707

>Defender instead of Robotron
Gay

>> No.5197294

>>5196705
That costs like 3 times as much

>> No.5197398

>>5197294
for 3x the build quality and like 1000x the games

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>>5191175
It is perfect, fits right in.

>> No.5199427

so taito type x runs on windows, does that mean i could convert one to a mame cab?

>> No.5200063

>>5197398
You could attain the second part by modding the 1up cab.

If you wanted a cab that played 1000+ games your cheapest bet is honestly probably buying one of these, removing the board/computer, and hooking a raspberry pi up to the thing. You could also replace the garbage controls.

>> No.5200064

>>5192230
There's a youtube video of a guy who did that. The unfortunate thing is that since everything is on 1 board, even the LCD driver, it means to use a raspi you'd have to replaced everything except the wood and the LCD panel.