Switched from Maximus arcade to retrobat. Now 99% of my games actually run compared to maybe 30% before.
Also ordered a pair of sinden light guns to complete the unit.
Still need to clean up some duplicates in the Mame section but I’d guess there’s about 8.5k playable games, including Atari, gameboy, gba, nes, snes and sega genesis.
Was lucky enough to scoop this unit for $200 on fb marketplace! It’s a 2008 mtn dew “old school, new school” giveaway item, not much online about it but I’ve seen a few others that are the same.

Can anyone help me get this multicade machine running ? It’s stuck in this screen it hasn’t been turned on in years . Any advice is appreciated

The Polycade website has a google spreadsheet listing “retro games”. Does that list consist of the preloaded games? Trying to get an idea of what comes preloaded (understanding that the more modern games can be found on steam and their own platform). Thanks.

Finally finished my build. Going to be called the "Poochies Pallet-cade".

The plan was a small pedestal machine for light guns that was built out of old pallets. Then the design got out of hand!!!! Morphed in to a 4 player deck with track ball, spinner and 2 sinden light guns. The pallets wouldn't come apart well enough for a decent build and I ended up over engineering the shit out of it!!!!

Base is built from 2x4's and 1x4 furring timbers to look like pallet wood. After the doors were built and the light guns mounted i gave the rough timbers a slight weathering char with a map gas torch.

Deck 50x30 ish 3/4 mdf with 20 degree wings for player 3 and 4 and a 5 degree slope for a wrist break. I have 2 gas lift struts inside to open lid. But not being a carpenter i have to move the brackets as it wont shut currently because the struts are in the wrong spot. Added 4 remote usb's on the front edge for game pad connection and remote power button on the front panel and an hdmi port to the rear panel.

Controls are all from thunder stick studios / glens retro show. 4 players each with 10 full function led buttons, and track ball and spinner kit, and 2 Sinden light guns.

Running batocera v43 on a dell optiplex 7010 sff. I used a self powered USB hub for all the controls so I can "shut off" the light gun (otherwise there is constantly cross hairs in the corner of the screen) and then I'm not drawing extra power for all of the led buttons.

Final steps are a custom splash / system load video, wire the power button and fix the lift struts.

They seem to be putting a lot of effort into the new Silver Strike Bowling game, even saw an ad for the world championships for June of 2026, but no videos anywhere.

Golden Tee is much bigger and has tons of videos, any ideas on if there are tournament videos out there?

Will the home version only be able to play against other home users, and if so do we have any idea how many home users for Silver Strike there are? Lots of Golden Tee users, but if there are only a few hundred home users for SS, it might not be a great investment.

Thanks everyone.

Bonjour je recherche une image pour une carte SD H3 HOME LITE V1D4. Après vérification de la carte plus de 6Go de données sont corrompues..... S'il vous plait je n'arrive pas a trouver d'archives.

I've been working on this 3D plan for an arcade cabinet for a while now, and I'm finally ready to order the parts. Before I pull the trigger, could you guys check if I made any glaring mistakes?

Onshape link

The plan is parametric, built around the monitor size and wood I can buy at local stores.

Long time collector though, alas, been whittling down my collection lately (need some quick cash). Hate to have to do it, but necessary.

That said, there are the favorites that I will not part with. This is the “keeper” pile.

It says you can, but I might be doing it wrong.

Can anyone recommend a light gun to play on my mame cabinet? something that is easy to set up? thanks

I have just finished my home arcade that i've been working on for the past few months. I decided i wanted a real crt in my arcade machine which made the build quite a lot more complicated. The cabinet is built out of old cupboards i had laying around, which had the effect of making the cabinet very heavy. I used some cheap arcade control boards for the two sets of controls. Each player has a joystick and 6 buttons, which i found was enough for a lot of games. But there's also wired controllers for the games that need more buttons.
The crt is a Bang & Olufsen Mx4000 tv, that i chose primarily because it supports rgb scart input. And i found this one cheap locally. To drive the screen i am using an older slim formfactor hp office pc. With an i7 4770k and 32gb's of ram.
I really wanted to use the RGB Scart input on the monitor, but i also wanted the pc to be powerful enough to emulate newer consoles like the Nintendo switch. So i had to look for a gpu that would meet my requirements:
Being able to emulate newer consoles,
15khz vga or dvi-a output capability,
reasonable price.
So i landed on the Amd r7 260x. It can do 15khz output through its dvi port (which im adapting to vga, and then to scart), while being new enough to be powerful enough. But at last it was really worth it. Im running it at 720x576i or 720x288p depending on the game, and it looks really nice.

I'm running debian and the entire budget was ~250€

Questions or ideas are greatly appreciated :)

Enduro Racer (エンデューロレーサー) is a 1986 racing video game developed and published by Sega for arcades. It was released in two arcade cabinet versions: a stand-up cabinet with handlebars and a full-sized dirt bike cabinet. It is often seen as a dirt racing version of Hang-On, as it uses a similar engine and PCB. The game was later released for the Master System, ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, Thomson computers and Atari ST in 1987.[7]

Bought two broken Golden Tee Fore! Cabinets for $200. The game board and monitor didn’t work in this one, so I set up a Windows 10 PC running MAME, set up a J-PAC, put in a USB speaker, fixed the Marquee Light, swapped the Trackball, mounted a new monitor, made the custom monitor cover, and got coin/bills working! It even has the tournament sign on the back.

Plan is to sell this one then convert the second one into a retro emulator!

Hey everyone! I’ve been sharing videos of my TCADE project here over the past few weeks. This time, I’ve filmed the assembly process, and I’d love to hear what you think.

I’ve assembled it so many times that it feels straightforward to me now, but that makes it hard to judge how it would look to someone seeing it for the first time.

Based on the video, does the assembly look manageable? And does anything look like it could make accessing or replacing components difficult later?

I’m sure many of you have experience building and repairing arcade cabinets, so I’d really appreciate an honest critique 😄

I’m almost done with cutting wood. I’ve cut so much wood.
I thought I was going to be priming and painting a week ago, but I am still cutting wood. Tomorrow I will continue to cut Wood. Only this time we’re doing more finishing cuts, which are scarier on thinner, nicer pieces of wood. I have become a woodsman. I would like to go back to playing Pac-Man on a wide format that no one liked. But I am continuing to cut Wood.

Really wanted to use a marquee that changes depending on the game you're currently on, after finishing it does look really small compared to the top part but oh well it's still cool. We thought it was also be cool to put smash bros for the switch on it and it works surprisingly well with the arcade layout. Entire project costed just south of $1000. Definitely not perfection but it's something we can add to overtime and we're definitely proud of.

I'm looking to order a piece of tempered glass to put over my MDF bezel and screen and have my custom artwork printed on it around the borders. Any recommendations of where to get both done (the glass and the printing)? Is there a one-stop-shop where I can just specify dimensions and upload my artwork?

Size will be 30" wide by about 25" inches tall and thinking 3/16" thickness. Any ideas or known vendors are appreciated!

So far I’ve paid three parts documenting the process of building their head cabinet from scratch here in the next couple weeks. I should be completely done.

Tiny arcade machines ips muti cabinet playing Punisher, Afterburner and Time crisis with sinden light gun.

Modded arcade 1 up pinball with team encoder pi 5 max hat+LG 32 inch monitor playing American DAD, Doom and Sorcerers lair.