(figured I’d ‘do my part’ and make my first Lemmy post…!)

I love this thing too much to part with, but I’m gonna have to be honest: I barely use it. More often or not I retro-game on my Steam Deck…slightly more portable!

Has anyone else built their own units for retro-gaming though?

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    Made this guy back in 2015… Have made a couple changes here & there. I’ve had the itch to sell it and make a new one from scratch, taking into account things I’ve learned & wanted to change…

    Arcade machine

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    About 13 years ago, I made this fella.

    https://i.imgur.com/hZYFEmC.jpg

    It was a huge amount of fun to build and I was very happy with the result. I hardly play it, but sometimes just put it on and let it cycle through games to fill the house with an arcade-y ambiance.

    It started off life with an old PC in it, but currently runs a Raspberry Pi 3.

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    I’m definitely thinking about it. I played around with the idea a while back, but remember getting frustrated with the key mapping.

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    It’s on my to-do list, but the arcade hardware itself can get quite pricy. I may end up just using USB controllers instead of the buttons, sticks, and trackballs.

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    I received a raspberry pi as a gift a few years ago. I had so many plans. Currently I don’t know where it is, but I know it’s full of dust.

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    I picked up a little bartop cabinet from a local arcade convention a few years back for a few hundred bucks. Ended up ripping out the Pandora’s Box (overseas piracy device with a bunch of dumped ROMs) and threw a Raspberry Pi into it. Got everything wired up with RetroPi… then realized I needed to add more buttons.

    It’s been in that state for years lol

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    I built a small Batocera machine a couple months ago using an Odroid N2+ board. Pretty simple to get up and running and plays anything oldschool I could ever want. I get the urge to play it pretty regularly too, so I’m happy it’s ready to go when I am!

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    We’ve got a full-size arcade cabinet in our kitchen. Was a DIY passion project of my husband’s before we met, and it was fun for a while because the various niblings would play with it when they came round for the big family breakfasts we used to do. Sometimes if I was alone in the house I’d leave it on demo mode just to have some comforting background noise.

    Niblings grew up, I got used to the quiet of a small town, and I don’t think it’s even been turned on in about five years because we’ve also got way more portable options 😅

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    Nothing wrong with not using it a ton. Sometimes it is about the journey not the destination. The thrill of building cool stuff vs the thrill of using it are two different things.

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    Sure, I built a retro arcade cabinet from a raspberry pi, crt tv and arcade parts. It’s fun af.

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    I’ve MacGyvered a makeshift arcade machine in my computer room. I’ve got a Legends Gamer Pro (a little somethin’ somethin’ I bought during the pandemic), set on a stand under a small TV mounted on the wall. It’s far from elegant, but when the mood strikes for old-school video games, it’s always there, ready to meet that need. And that mount is a Pipishell, so I can turn the TV on its side and play vertical games with their proper aspect ratios.