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The story of KP's Arcade Machine. I rebuilt a Game Elf 412 powered Arcade and ended up with a Mini PC based Arcade instead. It was a long and fun journey.
Created:
2021-07-19
Updated:
2022-05-26
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The Arcade I had, powered by a Game Elf 412 Arcade thingy. You had little control of the config...
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My 20+ years old X-Arcade game board I imported from the USA. Awesome kit but I never found any...
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Controller connection to Game Elf 412.
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The old wiring to buttons + joystick.
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A new JAMMA harness connected to the existing connector. I tried to keep the old Game Elf still...
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The X-Arcade essentials. Board + wiring. Trying to figure shit out. Lots of wires to try to kee...
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Controller wiring with the X-Arcade game board connected in the background
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The X-Arcade game board connected to the JAMMA connecter (inside the arcade machine.) The X-Arc...
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I got all the wires connected and grouped. I built most of the mess into a box to protect it fr...
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The old Game Elf 412 is still mounted to the cabinet wall. Theoretically I should still be able...
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Most of the wiring stuffed away in the cable boxes. My old (10+ years) Dell Optiplex 360 Comput...
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My old Dell Optiplex 360 PC with a Nvidia GT 240 GFX helped me prove the concept on Windows 10 ...
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Ooh aah, a pink joystick guitar. Is it "1984" or "1942"? You still gotta have fun playing "1942...
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One last look inside before I close up the cabinet with the back plate. I had to drill a couple...
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A view thru the front coin opening. It's possible to reach the Mini PC power button from the fr...
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Got the machine pushed back into it's corner spot. Hopefully I'm done with the hardware stuff f...
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I found a tool named Launch Box / Big Box. It's supposed to be install n play, but it is also a...
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A man and his Arcade machine, a project that never ends. Newest job: make the Coin Acceptor wor...
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A look from the back of the machine. I tidied up the wiring a bit later. It's getting crowded i...
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A look from the front of the machine (with the key and joystick board opened for maintenance.) ...
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I built a control box with 4 buttons on top of the cabinet. The buttons are used to "(Re)Start ...
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A top view of the external control box and the internal encoder box. The encoder box now contai...
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A look inside the cabinet with the updated encoder box in place. I have removed the old Game El...
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Frontview of the cabinet. I swapped the 2P button for a 3rd game button. A few games require 3 ...
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The various Launcher programs I could find/download/buy on the internet were all pissing me off...
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KP's Arcade Launcher v4.7. It does what I want it to do. Quite happy with what I've programmed....
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Great Arcade gaming requires great 1980s Arcade music. Here is my current playlist. Many of the...
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