Arcade Cabinet Order Info
My arcade cabinet was built by extremehomearcades.com (then called Dream Home Arcades) as a custom order Megacade in 2016. It cost me $6386.96 before the LCD marquee that I bought from Vitrolight. That cost me $740 directly from Vitrolight. The first one they sent didn’t work according to EHA, and Vitrolight made me pay them $270 more to ship a second one from China to EHA for them to install. I begrudgingly paid them because the cabinet was already made, and the LCD marquee was essential to me. The total cost for me ended up being $7396.96. Extreme Home Arcades orders them from Vitrolight now, so they’re probably cheaper and more reliable now. Mine was the first one EHA ever did, and it was my custom request. I did a long review video of my cabinet here.
Arcade Cabinet Specs
TV: 49” diag Hitachi LE49A509 LCD
Marquee: 37.5" diag stretched bar Vitrolight LCD (Entire unit is 12" x 38")
Control panel: 48" W
Cabinet: 39.5" L, 45.75" W, 77.5" H
Floor to top of control panel at front: 33.875"
Floor to bottom of control panel box at front: 29.625"
Floor to top of control panel near TV: 35"
Center control panel depth 20.875"
Outer edge control panel depth 11.875"
TV glass to front of control panel 22"
I removed the wheels from it, so it's standing on its four metal feet.
Ultimarc I-PAC4, Four iL Eurojoystick joysticks, Happ trackball, 4-way joystick, spinner
PC: i5 4440, Nvidia GTX 750 Ti, 8 GB RAM, Windows 10
Speakers: Cyber Acoustics CA-3810 2.1 Multimedia Speaker System with Subwoofer, 80 Watts Peak Power https://a.co/d/gt0xZCu
You may notice that my newer videos have the marquee directly above the main monitor. That’s done in editing. In reality, the marquee is still higher than that with black space in between the marquee and the main monitor. I do that edit because people complained about the gameplay being too hard to see. The edit eliminates the black space between the marquee and main monitor and makes the gameplay more zoomed in and more visible. I explain that and show the difference at 0:28 in this video.
Arcade Cabinet Software
The OS is Windows 10 now. It was originally Windows 7. My front end is Hyperspin, and the launcher is Rocketlauncher. The marquee is being run by Hypermarquee and EDS. I share HyperMarquee and EDS install files here. I did a HyperMarquee/EDS tutorial video here. Rocketlauncher displays the bezels. I did a marquee, bezel, and fade screen art tutorial here. Most games I play are Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator (MAME) games. They’re real arcade games emulated as closely as possible to the original hardware. I use the latest MAME version here or the version released right before that (they release every month). I usually get all new roms every other month. In older videos, I was using version 0.184 or 0.219. I recommend keeping MAME as updated as possible because the devs are always improving emulation, adding features, adding games, and fixing bugs. I do not recommend using old versions of MAME, like the ones that usually are on Android or RetroPies. If you want to make MAME games running on a modern flat panel display look more like the original games, watch this HLSL tutorial video I made and read here. I share my ini files here. BGFX is another option if you prefer that over HLSL. You can read about that here.
My Original Arcade Machines (I buy games that are hard to emulate or have unique controls)
S.T.U.N. Runner
Ironman Ivan Stewart's Super Off Road
Vindicators
Cruis’n Exotica
Champion Pub pinball (Sold)
Monster Bash Remake LE pinball (Sold)
Medieval Madness Remake pinball (Sold)
My Vintage Arcade Preservation Society profile:
https://www.arcade-museum.com/members/member_detail.php?member_id=484862
Other PCs:
VR: Ryzen 7 7800X3D, RTX 4090, 32GB DDR5 6000 CAS30, CRUCIAL 4TB T705 Gen5 NVME, Samsung SSDs
Bedroom: i7 8700K, RTX 2070, 16GB DDR4 3200, Samsung SSD
Couch: i7 3770K, GTX 980 Ti, 16GB DDR3, Samsung SSD
Alienware X51 R2 (Unused): i7 4770K, Radeon R9 270X, 16 GB DDR3
Consoles I’ve Owned w/ Year Acquired (Bold means still own)
1986 Sega Master System
1989 Sega Genesis
1991 Sega Game Gear
1992 Sega CD
1994 Sega 32X
1994 Super Nintendo
1995 Sega Saturn
2000 Sega Dreamcast
2006 Microsoft Xbox
2007 Sony Playstation 3
2009 Nintendo Wii
2012 Nintendo Wii U
2013 Nintendo 3DS XL
2014 Sony Playstation 3 Slim
2015 New Nintendo 3DS XL
2015 Sony Playstation 4
2017 Nintendo Switch
2018 Sony Playstation 4 Pro
VR HMDs I’ve Owned w/ Year Acquired (Bold means still own)
2014 Oculus DK2
2014 Samsung Gear VR
2016 HTC Vive
2018 Playstation VR
2018 Oculus Rift
2018 Samsung Odyssey+
2019 Pimax 5K+
2019 Valve Index
2019 Oculus Rift S
2019 Oculus Quest
2020 Oculus Quest 2
2021 HP Reverb G2
2023 Meta Quest 3