![]() ![]() In case you’re asking why DIY in 2018 when you can just purchase a pre-made cabinet from a dedicated store such as GameRoomSolutions, ArcadeWorld or even eBay or Amazon, well… That’s not as simple as you might initially think. In case you want to build a full-size cabinet, you can check out this exceptional tutorial from. It’s more practical, expecially if you want to make it fit into an average apartment: the full-size cabinet requires a fixed place and a certain amount of space, while the bartop can be easily moved, placed upon a table/desk/shelf and so on.įor the above reasons, the guide you’re about to read will explain how to build an Arcade Bartop.It’s way easier to build, as you won’t have to do complex wood cuts.It’s way cheaper in terms of required raw materials and tools.Long story short, I went with the Bartop cabinet – I’ll just call it Arcade Bartop from now on – for three main reasons: Conversely, Countertop or Bartop cabinets are usually only large enough to house their monitors and control panels: they’re called that way because they can be usually found on bars or tables in pubs and restaurants. As clearly explained in this awesome Wikipedia page, the former are what we’re used to see in a typical Arcade Gaming Hall: over 6 feet (1.8 / 2 meters) tall, with the control panel set perpendicular to the monitor at slightly above waist level and the monitor itself at eye level, with the marquee above it – either matching the player’s head level or encompassing it. Introduction: Full-Size Cabinet vs Bartop CabinetĪs soon as I chose to build a gaming cabinet by myself, I was forced to choose between doing a Full-Size (aka Upright) or a Bartop (aka Countertop) cabinet. Part 6 of 6: Configuring the Software (Raspberry PI & Retropie)Ĭheck out all the pictures of the Arcade Bartop (all those used in this tutorial + more) on my Arcade Bartop album on.Part 1 of 6: Introduction & Raw Materials.They could still feel the joy of playing countless retro-games on a single machine, yet they won’t have the chance to revive the cabinet look & feel like the former ones.įor countless years I was one of them – until the day I decided I would also try to design and build my own Arcade Bartop! This post is the first part of an extensive tutorial containing all the required instructions on how to do that – together with a lot of pictures, graphics and photos explaining and documenting the task. I would have liked to condense everything into a single article, but considering the huge amount of info and photos I had to put up to decently explain all the required steps I eventually had to split the tutorial into six parts. ![]() Starting from the late ’90s, the MAME project ( Multiple-Arcade-Machine-Emulator) and the subsequent release of small single-board computers such as the NUC and the Raspberry PI paved the way to fix most of these issues – yet only for the few heroes brave (and capable) enough to build their own Arcade Cabinet and equip it with the required amount of hardware, software and ROMs to make everything work: those who couldn’t do that had to lower their standards down to a standard PC with a couple of joysticks/joypads. Unfortunately, they take up a lot of space in a typical house and they’re also rather expensive: on top of that, they are usually limited to a single game (or a given set of games), which is far from ideal for a home-entertainment scenario. In the address bar type in the following address and press Enter.Owning a “coin-op”, or to better say an arcade gaming cabinet, has always been one of my biggest dreams since I was a kid. On your Windows machine, open the file manager.Ģ. ROM transfer times will vary greatly depending on your connection (Ethernet being the preference) and the amount of ROMs and their size.ġ. Adding Games via SMB (Samba)Īdding games via a network share is a convenient and laughably simple task thanks to RetroPie automatically configuring an SMB (Samba) share. The games list will now update and show the available computers / consoles for which there are now games. When complete, remove the USB flash drive and press START and from the menu select Restart Emulationstation / Restart System. This could take minutes for a few games, or hours if transferring a large amount.Ħ. The time that this will take depends on how many games are transferred over. Eject the flash drive from your computer and place it back into a USB port of the Raspberry Pi 4. ![]() For example, put atari 2600 games in the /atari2600 folder.ĥ. ![]() Copy your games to the correct system / console folder in retropie/roms/. ![]()
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