Driving the other day, someone threw out their entire arcade1up cab, with the riser and me that loves arcade machines, had to pick it up. Sure enough when I get home, the thing doesn't turn on, when you hit the on switch the screen darkens a little bit and there's a slight "pop" noise.

I've opened up the PCB and it looks like the 4th coil is damaged, not sure how I can possibly fix it or if it's even worth it.

Given that I kind of got this for free, I'm wondering if I should put any work into the PCB. I've heard about people modifying them to play other arcade games, like those 1000 in 1. The only thing is the controller panel is designed for only 3 player rampage.

I guess my main question overall is, for anyone that knows about these things is it possible at all to fix the PCB, work on it via mods or just get rid of it? I didn't realize how cheaply these were made, I can see why the guy threw it out lol...

So I bought a pre modded raspberry Pi Street Fighter 2 Legacy 1uparcade machine off some guy, everything works good, but he never connected the marquee light, stock on/off switch or stock volume switch. Admittedly i am a newbie but followed tutorials and got the marquee light working and the stock on/off switch turning everything off and on, no problem.

But the volume switch has seemed more difficult, the sound works fine and can be controlled in the Pi settings within emulation station. It is using the stock speakers connected to the hdmi control board via the plug in above the 3.5mm headphone jack. So I followed a tutorial on connecting the slider switch wires directly to the Keypad connection coming out of the hdmi control board (spliced them in) all seemed well, but then tried it out and the volume switch now controls screen brightness not volume, lol. The buttons on the keypad coming out of the hdmi controller also only control screen brightness. I tried the menu option on the keypad to see if I could change it to some kind of volume option, but it seems like the menu only has options for the screen (brightness, position, sizing, contrast). Have been looking for a way to change this to control volume but no luck. Might have to control volume in a different manner but before disconnecting what I already did thought i would reachout and see if anyone can help me out with this?

***UPDATE: So I decided to look at how the guy who did the mod initially wired the jst to the audio jack. It seemed he had the wires in the wrong order, so after changing that the stock volume switch partially works, lol, so it works when I turn the power on and up until the emulation station splash screen ends then it switches to brightness control again, so assuming it is a software issue. But I am getting closer!

This is local and I do enjoy the games included. But it’s an older cabinet and it looks like the plexiglass is cracked at all 4 screw holes. I was thinking $150 max?

This was a whole journey for this month - But I finished.

Summary: I’m early Gen Z, to which arcades don’t have too much appeal for our generation like Millenials (we’re probably the cutoff) but for the past few years I’ve been really into arcades, I got into them starting with going to Barcade in New York City and fell in love with the NBA Jam, Galaga, Crazy Taxi, Daytona USA, Crystal Castles, MK2, TMNT Cabinets and of course good old Donkey Kong and Pac-Man. Now that I have my own place and i’m also obsessed with interior design I wanted to get a cabinet and mod it! Even if i’m not playing it often, it’s a great conversational piece/accessory to my bachelor pad.

All in all, setup is relatively easy assuming you do research and binge videos of modding. Half the time during assembly I even wasn’t watching tutorial videos because it was so straightforward. Board assembly is easy and the part I had to pay attention mostly for was just setting up the Raspberry Pi and the converter board.

Now instead of just NBA Jam I have 10,000+ games and a nice arcade for whenever I host parties.

Arcade1 Up NBA Jam Cabinet - FREE
Amazon royally fucked up my order and shipped it with no box (just the original box the arcade comes with) and left my package in the lobby room in an apartment building of 18 floors. We have a package room room, so they left it at the front for strangers to come and potentially steal it. I complained to customer service and managed to get a full refund while keeping the arcade.

Showtime Gaming Mod Kit (NBA Jam 2 Player) - $463.92
I used showtime gaming to mod my Arcade. I paid to get a Raspberry Pi 5 included (Batocera and 10,000 +games pre-installed) and the kit came with everything I needed to get the arcade running. I did not pay for controls with them because I wanted a Sanwa with LED buttons. Their customer support is super responsive and awesome and even if I paid slightly more with getting the modding work done with them, I wanted piece of mind and simplicity.

DIY Retro Arcade - $185.73
Got the Encoders, Buttons, Sanwa Sticks, Bat Tops here. Switched the spring to 2lb.

After a lot of back and forth with a few sellers I finally was able to snag my second cabinet. I'm pumped that it is the Street Fighter Legacy cabinet because I love a good game of 1944 and Ghouls and Ghosts.

I finally upgraded to a 4lb spring and played all 15 levels of 1944 and is definitely more comfortable. Should have done this years ago. I have transparent clear Ball Tops ordered as well. Also looking into a good speaker upgrade for this unit, possibly the Dayton PC105-4.