Nice project! I was going to do something like this a couple years ago using one of those mini fix it felix arcade games. They're clearly designed after Donkey Kong so I wanted to add a pi that would auto boot into it. I ran into an issue like you mentioned where the screen was compatible with the pi...at one point...a long time ago with no updated drivers. I stumbled upon this video after finding the half finished project in my closet and I wanted to see if anyone had done something similar in the years since I'd given up.
I had a similar idea to this a while back, awesome job! The one I planned to use was smaller and had a single rom of tetris on it but was keychain sized. Thanks for sharing..
@@peanutismint I'm excited to see how it would turn out and after seeing yours I think I'll go ahead and give it a try. Thanks again man, have a good day..
Love this project! Have you attempted a recent version of this? Omxplayer stopped working with the newer RpiOS so VLC seems to be the only alternative. I got all the way to making the video play via terminal commands but I couldn't for the life of me get the thing to autorun on boot.
Hope it helps. I've watched enough of these inspirational maker videos in my time that I thought it'd be good to share my idea with others and hopefully give the same inspiration back!
@@peanutismint i actually have this very machine from years ago, but i was actually gonna try to mod a more recent MyArcade machine (a Data East classics one). I initially got excited because it came with a 5 inch display and the board ran on android for the included Data East roms, and the board had a USB input to regain control. I just dont think the board is powerful enough to run basic games that aren't the included ones (that, and not a lot of good front end options for the included Android 4.0 software). Gonna just take my losses with that idea and get a new display and hook it up to a Pi 0 or 3b+, as the case is nice enough.
Hey, very cool video. I have the same little machine and i want to do the exact same thing. Im currently running some test with a Raspberry Pi 3B+ and omxplayer is lagging (low framerate) with the video. Did you experience the same thing or did you do some tweaking to fix it?
Are you running via command line or GUI/desktop? I didn't have to do any tweaking to mine but I remember it being pretty laggy when i tried to run it via VLC on Ubuntu desktop.
I thought about that too but, as you guessed, the buttons were hard-soldered to the board. Funny thing is, the Pi Zero has bluetooth so if you wanted to you could probably connect a BT gamepad or even full size USB arcad stick and play some emulated games on this thing!
@@peanutismint Figured. MyArcade just came out with a Street Fighter 2 cab for $50. It's pretty fine on its own, but it could be even sweeter if you wanted to break it open and add your own screen, a pi 0, and if possible, reuse the existing controls. Haven't broken into it yet to see what's going on inside tho.
I didn't; sadly it was a sealed system and I didn't really care to be able to actually control the games, just play back video of them. You could, however, connect a wireless bluetooth joystick and play them that way... But I wouldn't really want to play amazing arcade games on such a tiny screen?
@@joehoughton11 there probably was a way, but too much for what I was trying to achieve. If I wanted to do that my guess would be to cut the original wires and re-wire the buttons to the GPIO pins on the Pi, then maybe use some code (or find some already written!) to pass the button inputs through to your emulator of choice as like an Xbox controller or keyboard buttons or something…. That’d be my guess! Good luck.
Hi! I have the same machine and I want to go to the next step than your project. I checked and I think I can reuse the same controls directly to the gpio and add a sound card and batteries to run independently. Can you share which screen are you using, please? Can this screen runs at 60hz with no problems? Thanks a lot in advance.
Hi, the screen I used was an iUniker 2.8" touchscreen; I bought it from Amazon but they stopped selling them for a long time. They recently started with a new one, though, that's slightly different. It may be useful. Hope you can take it to the next level! 👍
@@peanutismint I finally went to the next level and added a Full Raspberry PI 3A+ inside. Here is my tutorial to the construction. Thanks for your advices!! th-cam.com/video/EYVHPKQ16xY/w-d-xo.html
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This is neat! My aunt bought me one of these years ago, and now I finally have a use for it!
Amazing project. I have all these items at home and you inspired me to replicate your mini arcade . Cheers mate
Nice project! I was going to do something like this a couple years ago using one of those mini fix it felix arcade games. They're clearly designed after Donkey Kong so I wanted to add a pi that would auto boot into it. I ran into an issue like you mentioned where the screen was compatible with the pi...at one point...a long time ago with no updated drivers. I stumbled upon this video after finding the half finished project in my closet and I wanted to see if anyone had done something similar in the years since I'd given up.
8 GIG SD and all that on a Pi Zero and it still works well! damn, I am impressed man!
Great and awesome job! I'm kinda saddened that you never did a follow up with the decals. Hopefully one day you do.
Debating on doing this but putting in new controls to make a mini arcade machine
Good luck!
Brilliant idea, stumbled across this looking for a video to get retropie running on this little arcade box
Glad I could help!
How did it go? Had similar aspirations
I had a similar idea to this a while back, awesome job! The one I planned to use was smaller and had a single rom of tetris on it but was keychain sized. Thanks for sharing..
That sounds cool!
@@peanutismint I'm excited to see how it would turn out and after seeing yours I think I'll go ahead and give it a try. Thanks again man, have a good day..
Love this project! Have you attempted a recent version of this? Omxplayer stopped working with the newer RpiOS so VLC seems to be the only alternative. I got all the way to making the video play via terminal commands but I couldn't for the life of me get the thing to autorun on boot.
This was JUST the project I wanted to try, and bam, a video made recently appears.
Hope it helps. I've watched enough of these inspirational maker videos in my time that I thought it'd be good to share my idea with others and hopefully give the same inspiration back!
@@peanutismint i actually have this very machine from years ago, but i was actually gonna try to mod a more recent MyArcade machine (a Data East classics one). I initially got excited because it came with a 5 inch display and the board ran on android for the included Data East roms, and the board had a USB input to regain control. I just dont think the board is powerful enough to run basic games that aren't the included ones (that, and not a lot of good front end options for the included Android 4.0 software). Gonna just take my losses with that idea and get a new display and hook it up to a Pi 0 or 3b+, as the case is nice enough.
Have you ever tried this with a plug & play? My dad bought a pi 4 and I was wondering if I could add more games to my ms pacman plug & play.
I haven't, unfortunately.
It is possible to connect the mini arcade to a VGA screen ?
You totally need to find an old 80s stand up video arcade machine to fix up
Arcade1up cab works great. I modded the input for a Pandoras Box and can run it it demo mode like this.
Thats mad bro
Hey, very cool video. I have the same little machine and i want to do the exact same thing. Im currently running some test with a Raspberry Pi 3B+ and omxplayer is lagging (low framerate) with the video. Did you experience the same thing or did you do some tweaking to fix it?
Are you running via command line or GUI/desktop? I didn't have to do any tweaking to mine but I remember it being pretty laggy when i tried to run it via VLC on Ubuntu desktop.
@@peanutismint I was running it via command line with omxplayer. I think the screen im using is causing the issue
That’s pretty awesome, please tell me you installed Space Harrier
I did!!!
Oh, also, if you wanted to, could you repurpose the included controls, or were they basically stuck/locked into the control board?
I thought about that too but, as you guessed, the buttons were hard-soldered to the board. Funny thing is, the Pi Zero has bluetooth so if you wanted to you could probably connect a BT gamepad or even full size USB arcad stick and play some emulated games on this thing!
@@peanutismint Figured. MyArcade just came out with a Street Fighter 2 cab for $50. It's pretty fine on its own, but it could be even sweeter if you wanted to break it open and add your own screen, a pi 0, and if possible, reuse the existing controls. Haven't broken into it yet to see what's going on inside tho.
Hello there,
I would like to know how you manage to connect the raspberry with the joystick?
I didn't; sadly it was a sealed system and I didn't really care to be able to actually control the games, just play back video of them. You could, however, connect a wireless bluetooth joystick and play them that way... But I wouldn't really want to play amazing arcade games on such a tiny screen?
Hay was there anyway of saving the controls from the unit to work on pie ?
@@joehoughton11 there probably was a way, but too much for what I was trying to achieve. If I wanted to do that my guess would be to cut the original wires and re-wire the buttons to the GPIO pins on the Pi, then maybe use some code (or find some already written!) to pass the button inputs through to your emulator of choice as like an Xbox controller or keyboard buttons or something…. That’d be my guess! Good luck.
Hi! I have the same machine and I want to go to the next step than your project. I checked and I think I can reuse the same controls directly to the gpio and add a sound card and batteries to run independently.
Can you share which screen are you using, please? Can this screen runs at 60hz with no problems? Thanks a lot in advance.
Hi, the screen I used was an iUniker 2.8" touchscreen; I bought it from Amazon but they stopped selling them for a long time. They recently started with a new one, though, that's slightly different. It may be useful. Hope you can take it to the next level! 👍
@@peanutismint I finally went to the next level and added a Full Raspberry PI 3A+ inside. Here is my tutorial to the construction. Thanks for your advices!! th-cam.com/video/EYVHPKQ16xY/w-d-xo.html
Down the Pie hole!😂
Hi that is amazing unfortunately I can’t do this, would you mind customizing mine for a price 🤭😆
Yes I may start selling them if I can get ahold of parts!
All that just to play sample seconds of games videos...that you cant play just watch walk-throughs ...hoping i misunderstood
Nope that's about the size of things.
soulder or soder.
Solder.
Lul