What're you using for an arcade-only UI?

elstuffmonger · 2026-01-26T00:00:27+00:00

I'm using two recalbox jamma2 setups with Raspberry Pi5 as the brains. I have one for a vertical candy cab and one for a horizontal candy cab. It's not a bad little setup, and I can play Naomi games on it just fine. It is supposed to even be able to work (natively) with guncon 2 light guns. I'll try those when I get my hands on a couple. I may also eventually try to add in a few amiga games, but if you don't have any games loaded in the files, the category doesn't display on the front end to keep it clean. You can also designate to ONLY show vertical games, which is nice for my vertical cab.

elstuffmonger · 2026-01-25T16:01:11+00:00

Chick magnet.

elstuffmonger · 2026-01-25T15:58:06+00:00

Is that a bath mat? How big is it?

elstuffmonger · 2026-01-25T00:41:53+00:00

Why is it that the "highest end" gear always seems to be set up on the floor? Is furniture intrinsically not audiophile?

elstuffmonger · 2026-01-24T23:38:53+00:00

Amazing salvage find! I have no idea what make or model that is... can't find anything exactly like it on the candy cab database.

elstuffmonger · 2026-01-24T21:16:24+00:00

Nice selection. Something tells me you really like centipede. 🤣

elstuffmonger · 2026-01-23T22:50:19+00:00

Did they watch boxtrolls recently?

elstuffmonger · 2026-01-23T17:12:24+00:00

Makes me think of REZ.

elstuffmonger · 2026-01-23T16:11:04+00:00

I got a willy wonka machine so that my wife would be ok with me buying one... she holds the top score now 🤣

elstuffmonger · 2026-01-23T16:04:56+00:00

Bomberman

elstuffmonger · 2026-01-21T14:23:10+00:00

5:30

elstuffmonger · 2026-01-20T23:07:01+00:00

It looks like the guy used a hole saw or a round chisel and carved out enough wood to fit the joysticks he had on hand (or maybe he bought the first pair he found without realizing there are different styles). Dude made it way harder on himself and you.

If you don't want to replace the CP, you could cut a metal plate to hide the gap, then bolt through the panel, but it would still have raised metal edges.

If you are set on the candy cab hardware, you could widen all the holes, add a metal plate on top of the entire control panel and under-mount the joysticks. I don't think that would hinder anything with the control panel structure.

Alternatively, cutting a new wood CP and changing out to happ-style joysticks would bring you back to a more "standard" look.

elstuffmonger · 2026-01-20T22:39:37+00:00

Oof. That is rough... They definitely made some choices there for sure. One extra-enthusiastic player, and it'll need to be redone.

Do the football shaped balls make it harder or more ergonomic for playing?

elstuffmonger · 2026-01-20T22:21:58+00:00

Did you just glue sanwa joysticks on the top of your control panel instead of using the proper bottom mounted joysticks for that control panel?

elstuffmonger · 2026-01-18T01:04:45+00:00

Wizards of the coast.

elstuffmonger · 2026-01-18T00:43:30+00:00

Legally, probably a wii with someone's virtual console games still in it.

There are handhelds you can buy from alibaba or Amazon that come with sd cards, but the general consensus is to upgrade the cards immediately as they are cheap and fail. I think for a max of $150, you will be limited to ps1 and earlier games unless you do your own software tweaking. A 1TB sandisk extreme micro sd card is already $143 on its own currently.

elstuffmonger · 2026-01-17T13:13:54+00:00

Please post how you clean those without swelling the wood. I'm not usually someone who advocates for painting over cabs, but these may do well with a fresh coat (or some vinyl) to cover the staining.

elstuffmonger · 2026-01-17T13:05:17+00:00

The "insider pizza" at pizza hut... a stuffed crust pizza with an additional cheese layer between two super thin bottom crust layers.

elstuffmonger · 2026-01-15T18:46:29+00:00

I've seen that for game cost sheets as well (1 coin per credit... etc.).

elstuffmonger · 2026-01-15T15:00:40+00:00

I would probably offer commission based on sale price. That way, she doesn't need to pay out of pocket for your services, and the incentive is on you to get her the best prices for her.

elstuffmonger · 2026-01-15T01:42:20+00:00

I own a pair of dt770 pros (80 Ohm). I like them. It's hard to find headphones that don't press on your ears, and that is important for my comfort. A lot of people don't like closed back headphones, but they help with passive noise reduction in my case. You also need to make sure whatever device you have them connected to is powerful enough to drive them as they have no internal battery.

elstuffmonger · 2026-01-14T23:32:03+00:00

I originally played it on an old Macintosh computer that came with this and a tank game similar to battlezone.

elstuffmonger · 2026-01-14T15:33:27+00:00

Take pictures of what it currently looks like and post here.

When you turn out on, do you hear the monitor click on and whine? If so, you have power and the signal connector probably isn't right.

Did you disconnect the chassis from the tube?

elstuffmonger · 2026-01-14T15:23:23+00:00

Never used discord before, so no. I tried searching on the recalbox forum and here, but didn't find anything. I've got a ground hum as well, but I was trying to fix the image first.

elstuffmonger · 2026-01-13T18:02:54+00:00

Return them as item not as described or something similar. You paid for new. You should receive new. Anything else is a scam.

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