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.

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.

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?

Arcade 1up is dead to me.

So many times I have modded arcade 1ups, so many aftermarket parts, so many hours spent, so much work just to run coinops or retro bat or open bor or anything.

Having to replace all the sticks and buttons, having to get the HDMI PCB board, having to figure out sound, a power splitter to light up the Marquee, all that and more of you want to add trackballs, guns, wheels, guitars, and whatever else your particular build needs.

NOT THE FUCK ANYMORE!!!!!!

I found this little gem in Indianapolis for $300 due to some cosmetic issues.

I brought it home, cleaned it up, did some temporary things to hide those blemishes and got to work.

There are a few ways to mod this thing in a kind of "self contained" way with flash drives and stuff, but no, not for me, not yet anyway.

I found that you can just straight up connect your PC to this wonder machine and your just off to the races.

I already had a small form factor PC with coin ops, retro bat, and open BOR on it.

I hooked it up and it just works right out of the gate.

Just plug in the HDMI, use a USB-A to USB-A cable, enable "OTG MODE", press the display button and BAM.

Plus we have pretty decent sound, and at least a 1080p widescreen display.

Tomorrow I'm going to pickup the FOUR PLAYER CONTROL DECK!!!!!

Hello everyone. I have a Burgertime cabinet in mint condition that I bought when they were orginally made by Arcade1up. I’d like to sell it but I’m unsure about how much to ask for my Burgertime as a fair price. I was hoping to get opinions on what I should ask for it. It is number 385 out of the 3075 that were made. I have that certificate from Arcade1up that came with it to go with the cabinet if it sells. Thanks for any advice you can give me.