This is great. Wish I would have got the beta kit & saved a bit of cash. I ALMOST pulled the trigger and then went back and sold out. I see it's now in pre-order for October.
I think you should try to procure and LCD screen for the Marquee and make some kind of enclosure. Yes, it is fun with the unicorn and all, but the resolution is not high enough for anything meaningful, so let's go for a LCD instead. Eh?
ordered my one last week,,,,,, so many screws :) as an owner of the 1st Picade ( large screen ) looking forward too 2 players. already have the pi 5, heatsink fan and nvme pcb all from pimoroni, what size nvme do you suggest,, 500gb too small , too big ?? only going for the boring Arcade stuff and maybe early consoles. ( at my age early consoles are 1975 - 1995 ( ish ), ) looking forward to not having too many screws left over :D
The last pieces just dropped into place, so we're shipping out the betas from tomorrow \o/ 500GB is a good sweet spot for a fairly comprehensive collection and is a good price point per GB. You'll probably get away with 250GB just fine for early stuff.
@@kevin1970 I went OTT and got a 2tb SSD, but it will have plenty of room to pack out each platform in the future, as well as house the rather large pre-built images from places like ArcadePunks, which are over a TB in size with all the graphics and videos etc 👍🏻
@@MrRHeath86 Don't know if you'll read this but for that size drive you put in, you won't even come close to filling it up with older arcade and consoles. Not even if you have every laser disc game ever made in there. Heck a ton of PS1 games can probably fit, plus tons of gamecube, wii, dreamcast, PSP and a ton more to where you couldn't even use the built-in controls for how modern the setup will be. You could load it full of movies to play via Kodi too, again for the size drive you're using.
I know this might seem sacreligous, but is there holes on the back for pulling out USB or HDMI cords if you need it for special needs? I have some kind of weird hybrid dream of using it as a 4player arcade in emergency situations and pulling a long cord to my television for player 3 and 4. What I really want is a lag free way of connecting 2 of these MFs for 3 and 4 player action, but I suppose a man can only dream about such nonsense. Yes, I bought the OG 12" version about 10 years ago - yes, not the redesigned 10" version that you young whippersnappers think is OG. Two of my friends bought it as well and we had a common assemblathon. It was fun. I know realize that a 2-player version was what I needed all along. I guess you played the long game, making me buy both.
Meh, not really worth it. Look at getting or making a 4-player arcade unit, or two doubles and connect them to a pi or other emjulator computer and connect to a big TV. Back in the day when 4-player cabinets were made, they always stretched the outside players around the corner a bit and it was never really ideal. Now that you can buy a 47 inch LED TV for about $10 at Costco it seems, why go backwards, especially when other solutions are more portable.
This is great. Wish I would have got the beta kit & saved a bit of cash. I ALMOST pulled the trigger and then went back and sold out. I see it's now in pre-order for October.
Teasing us before the beta kits start shipping out 😩
I think you should try to procure and LCD screen for the Marquee and make some kind of enclosure. Yes, it is fun with the unicorn and all, but the resolution is not high enough for anything meaningful, so let's go for a LCD instead. Eh?
ordered my one last week,,,,,, so many screws :) as an owner of the 1st Picade ( large screen ) looking forward too 2 players. already have the pi 5, heatsink fan and nvme pcb all from pimoroni, what size nvme do you suggest,, 500gb too small , too big ?? only going for the boring Arcade stuff and maybe early consoles. ( at my age early consoles are 1975 - 1995 ( ish ), ) looking forward to not having too many screws left over :D
The last pieces just dropped into place, so we're shipping out the betas from tomorrow \o/
500GB is a good sweet spot for a fairly comprehensive collection and is a good price point per GB. You'll probably get away with 250GB just fine for early stuff.
@@kevin1970 I went OTT and got a 2tb SSD, but it will have plenty of room to pack out each platform in the future, as well as house the rather large pre-built images from places like ArcadePunks, which are over a TB in size with all the graphics and videos etc 👍🏻
@@MrRHeath86 Don't know if you'll read this but for that size drive you put in, you won't even come close to filling it up with older arcade and consoles. Not even if you have every laser disc game ever made in there. Heck a ton of PS1 games can probably fit, plus tons of gamecube, wii, dreamcast, PSP and a ton more to where you couldn't even use the built-in controls for how modern the setup will be. You could load it full of movies to play via Kodi too, again for the size drive you're using.
I know this might seem sacreligous, but is there holes on the back for pulling out USB or HDMI cords if you need it for special needs? I have some kind of weird hybrid dream of using it as a 4player arcade in emergency situations and pulling a long cord to my television for player 3 and 4.
What I really want is a lag free way of connecting 2 of these MFs for 3 and 4 player action, but I suppose a man can only dream about such nonsense.
Yes, I bought the OG 12" version about 10 years ago - yes, not the redesigned 10" version that you young whippersnappers think is OG.
Two of my friends bought it as well and we had a common assemblathon. It was fun. I know realize that a 2-player version was what I needed all along. I guess you played the long game, making me buy both.
Meh, not really worth it. Look at getting or making a 4-player arcade unit, or two doubles and connect them to a pi or other emjulator computer and connect to a big TV. Back in the day when 4-player cabinets were made, they always stretched the outside players around the corner a bit and it was never really ideal. Now that you can buy a 47 inch LED TV for about $10 at Costco it seems, why go backwards, especially when other solutions are more portable.