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Arcades!

screamingtiger

I built these last fall, the one on the left is mine.  It has a lot of buttons to be able play SNES games.  The one on the right I built for my brother and his children.  Of course mine isn't don't yet but it is fully functional.

 

It uses a front end called HyperSpin.  It has nearly 20K games on it between all the arcade and console games.  Atari, NES, Sega etc.. the list goes on.

I found that for NES and SNES the experience of playing these games in an arcade format is actually better than the console.

-Higher resolution

-Better control format

-Ability to save any game at any point and resume it.

 

The last point allows me to  beat any game.  The yellow buttons in the left upper corner are the save and load state buttons.  It also works for some arcades as well.

 

The buttons are light up buttons.  I am building an Arduino based LED controller using some mosfets.  I want to get them flashing sequences, and I want to make an effect that when I push a button, it lights up and then fades out.

 

Eventually I want to get the buttons flashing to music as well, I have a fairly hefty speaker system in stalled in mine.

 

Last year I did consider using a Raspberry Pi for the arcade.  However that RPi2 wasn't out yet and the performance was only marginal.  I found that a cheap computer from Ebay that is  5-8 years old such as an Athlon X2 and 2-4GB of ram is suffice.  these can be had for as little as $30USD.  I may attempt smaller version that is single player with an RP2 in it.

 

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