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Great video! Very inspiring for a simple DIY project. I really liked the video because you made everything easy to understand and it is step-by-step. What is great is that you did it as a 2 step process. After creating the base, if you want to continue to create the arcade box, go ahead. If not, you still play games using the joystick controls. So, I saw the comment below about having a complete equipped workshop. It would be nice to have everything but the whole project can be done with: * Drill with the correct bits and blades. - For all holes * Circular Saw - For the Main panel * Mitre Box and Hand Saw - Inside joints and supports * Jig Saw (Nice to have) - For the back. BTW, love the comments coming from the cat!

As someone who has built a lot of arcade cabinets and control panels...if you want an ultra permium finish use black matte finish kitchen grade laminate. ITs a bit pricey for a 4'x8' sheet but it lasts for a lot of projects. It will make your top scratch and spill proof and it looks sick.

I LOVE the cat at 16:45 hahaha

Thank you I've been looking for a electronics guide for this, the controllers specifically

I came for the pie, stayed for the build. Good stuff.

most user friendly guide ever

I am so going to use this video to help me build my dream man cave!

Great vid, this one was one of my favorites when I first started making these. I highly recommend a 30mm forstner for the regular arcade buttons. You can go 1-1/8 but will likely have to 'bore it out' a bit so that they fit. I made the same mistake with the plywood but it was my 1st one so I didn't care that it was a bit ugly lol. Thanks for the vid!

Great tip on drilling the holes for the buttons. This def. saved me trouble for using soft woods like birch.

Pretty good rig, I would have attached the PCB card to the side instead of the top in case the top takes impact, it doesn't rattle the wire connections.

What is it with youtubers often having a readily equipped workshop? :-) Geez, i don't even own an electric screwdriver. Great video man, really inspirational and nice to see.

Your cat is the star of this video!

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That cat is a mood

Thanks a lot for sharing this info. I really appreciate it. I would like to start a home-based business as my friends ordered some mini-arcade console. these videos are really helpful and solved my problem. Thanks. Aidan..Portugal

thank you so much, I have a school project for monday (5 days from now) and I think you just saved my life

That was the good old time when Raspberry Pi was easy to find and dirt cheap! Welcome to 2023

Thanks a ton for this walkthrough. I have never used RPi3 or the buttons/joysticks and you just solved all of my problems!

One other thing that is handy for an arcade stick thing is using a drawer box replacement. Edit: for loading the roms there is 2 methods which one is using a USB drive and the other is SSH which you can use your network or WinSCP which you can just drag and drop and the process and time is pretty much about the same and another thing is for having the roms appear you don't need to do a full restart on the system you could always just restart emulationstation and everything will be loaded up and goes a lot quicker.

Man, just found your channel a day ago and I love it! Great tutorials for cool projects

It’s great, it looks cool, look at my vertical arcade machine, the egg-shaped appearance, and the auto-rotating screen is also super cool

*watched for the arcade, stayed for the cat*

Loved the cat, funny as hell :)

Very entertaining and fun to watch. Thanks for posting this.

Thanks so much, You have no idea how helpful this is. I am very grateful...

your cat is very helpful

Great video. I have zero computer expertise and I was able to get my raspberry pi all set up correctly the first time with this video. The fun part will be programming the joysticks and buttons now....

Man really said "It's not like I can go buy one that actually works". There are Super Nintendos everywhere that work lol. Awesome tutorial though!

This is by far the least intimidating video on building a cabinet

congratulations yes beautiful arcade

Nice build sir..thanks for sharing with us

i used this technique of beggining the drilling counter clockwise when i installed parking sensors in car's bumpers, the paint will pop if you don't

This is the video I Like To Make Stuff should have made. Good video

Beginners guide where we the beginners don't have access to the materials to make an arcade lol

So I have questions about where/how to add and where to source light guns, trackballs, spinners and possibly steering wheels?

Congratulations Brett ! Very usefull !!!!

I would of counter sunk those screws around the joystick... man those would be tough on the knuckles after awhile!

Thank you So much

ok your cat is awesome

Great explanation! Thanks

Really well made video, nice one

Nice stuff . I really like it.Thanks

Nice video, but the bolts around the joystick can be done otherwise as it will irritate you hand while playing..

I like the idea but why the button layout? its the most inconvenient button layout lol

Yeah I feel your pain , I had to DL 5000 + roms for my machines that are broken ;)

Like the cat! :D Awesome DIY!

Awesome review and is going to help me big time. Many thanks for such an in-depth video.

Very cool!

Great vid shows everthing needed.Itake it retropie has all emu's in it?if so buy dropping M.A.M.E roms in sould be no probs right?It would be great to know what version of mame is running within retropie,i have 6 versions on my pc so I can play all of my fav games,trying to collect roms for .0169b but its gunna take a while!!!

haha Who names these things? RetroPie - then ApplePiBaker love it!

That shirt.. I need it

Totally lost it at 0:48 , lol - won a subscriber.

esos 4 pernos que quedan alrededor de la palanca ¿No molestan?

that cat chillin tho'..

I am using the same controllers on mine and set up the same way. But in games only the player 1 controller works for both players the player 2 controller does not work for playing, only the start and select work. What is wrong?

Great Job

thx broo..

the cat rocks!!!!!!!

6:38 You cannot use a joystick for this first go.. The mapper tries to map all buttons at once(will not let you skip). If you are using a joystick that does not have Start, Select, r1,r2,r3 L1,L2,L3, 2x analog pads, 1 digital d-pad, and 4 buttons, you will get stuck without a simple way to bypass. Use the keyboard and map out "up, down, left right on dpad, a, b, x, y, start and select" on the keyboard. Make sure to remember what you selected as the menu is going to need you to use them to navigate. You can just use all random letters to finish up the remaining buttons. After you map the keyboard. All new controller mappings should allow you to skip buttons that you don't already have (sega, nes, snes, n64 type controllers). Also If you do have a select button or a home button.. Make sure to use that as your (action button). This allows you to close out of games and go back to main menu by holding Start + Action button(Select or Home) at the same time.

Hey, that's pretty good!

any chance you have a cut list for all of the wood elements?

Cool, but obviously not geared for fighting games with that oddball layout vs the 6 button 3 over 3 (street fighter lay out). The other stick you showed at end, ya that's what i'm talking about :)

Thank you.

Hi Brett, I was looking for a reference video to find out how many (no player) arcade buttons are needed to be able to use and navigate the retropie, and I think I got my answer from your video. You really only need a "START" AND "SELECT"? Anything else that might be handy? Thanks for your great work

Which version of the raspberry pi 3 is better? Seen different ones unless im seeing things

Hi can i ask what is difference between usb drive and pendrive.can i use pendrive?

Forstner bits for the win!

i luv ur cat ~~ lol

Brilliant!!!

Brett, this is great! You really break it down in easy to understand segments. I wonder if you can help with something? I have successfully installed RetroPie on my R-Pi3. I have tried to upload the folders from the R-Pi3 onto two different USB sticks. When I plug the USB back into my laptop there are no files.

What the hell are you feeding that cat!!! It’s squashed ya couch 😺

Amigos eso de pegar la placa cero delay con silicona caliente ,está absolutamente mal ,usen tornillos

It has been known since ancient times that, generally, cat's don't care... 😄

great video...i copied exactly and have similar joystick /buttons kit, but gamepad is not detected when i plug it in....any advice appreciated!

Bret, how do you setup the controller to play Robotron with both joysticks only?

With an old minipac keyboard encoder will it connect to a two player cabinet? I heard I might need a new ipac2.

great vid. Could you tell me if the buttons you used click in? Does the sheet of wood have to be 1 inch for those buttons to click in? -Thanks

Putting your joystick on an angle is going to make your controls goofy. Up is actually up and to the right for player 1 and up and to the left for player 2

Hey, Brett, you have screw up sticks with a different angles, does this affect on input accuracy? I think that is because a lack of space. But will not be better to angle stick a way, that all 4 switches, face the right input directions (up, down, left, right)? I plan to build my own cabinet.

Do you have a material and layout design to download

What (concave) buttons do I buy that are the same size as classic arcade games were and that don't make the annoying, microswitch clicky sound like they all do now? (And are there light up ones that fit this bill too?)

Very cool, but that button layout hahaha

I have a question. I'm looking to making a raspberry pi arcade machine, and I want to mainly play the X-Men (arcade game), The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (arcade game), and The Simpsons (arcade game), as played on the big arcade consoles of the early 90's. As you mentioned these are games that were not reproduced for the other game systems. I was hoping to build my own panel and install my own joysticks and possibly go with a 4 player configuration for those games specifically. What raspberry pi machine would I get to accomplish this and would these same joysticks work, and the same process you showed work for that?

Are aware of that you can right click on the storage (SD-CARD) and choose to format it from there?

why click the second link (64bit) and not the first link (32bit)? Are you mixing 32 and 64 bit software?

When configuring the gamepad keyboard on 6:39, how do you skip the once the last key "X" Key and to quit? I am using a keyboard to configure. What key is pressed to skip the rest? thank you kindly.

I have a sneaking suspicion that doorbell/package pickup was faked. I don't know what to believe anymore.

Solve the problem no signal input,plzzzzzz

But what if you want it to actually support coins?

What raspberry pi should I get to handle everything from new games to arcade games to n64 games. Thanks :)

If you don't have the saw equipment, are there local places that can be rented out to do this? (Just throwing this out there - like doing this locally at a Lowe's or Home Depot?) Any response would be appreciated!

wise cat is wise...

hey bro! i installed the retropie in the pi but most of the games dont run.maybe the roms are not the suitable.where dou you download the roms from? thanks

Will it work with sanwa joystick and buttons ?

Great 👏👏👏👏👍🇹🇷

are those joysticks 8 way or 4 way?

So i am stuck at the the oi@retropie: $, I did everything as you did but mind will not boot into emulation station. how do i correct this?

Great tutorial, but it really doesn't need music. At least, not 18 mins of the same two bars.

Damm I’ll just buy a Pandora’s box for 130 but good video if u wanna build from scratch