My wife and I picked up an arcade1up with the intent of modding it and your tutorials have been crazy helpful. We joked about using it as a coin bank but after watching how easy it is I think I'm actually going to go for it!
I patiently waited 5 months to get my coin slots from X-Arcade. Can't believe it took that long but glad I finally got it! I love your videos man, great job!
Wow I have not heard that coin sound in probably 10 years. Very cool. I would probably want to put a coin door in mortal kombat, final fight, or pacman.
YUNVMY COOLNAME Right? Doesnt he remind you of those old Do it zyourself shows from the 80,'s and 90s? But if he needs his own show, TH-cam is a perfect platform. He would just need to rethink how he makes content and make it more "Show" like.
Excellent Video. I have the Arcade Coin Door With single Coin Mech from X-Arcade. two quick notes it only works with US Quarters and the plug is used to illuminate the reject button. it is not needed to register the coin credits. Note You need something inside you cabinet to catch your coins. I recommend you use the splitter connection cable otherwise you are going to need a lot of quarters or need to constantly retrieve your coins from the cabinet. You arcade will double as piggy bank.
I am thinking about getting a streetfighter fame and putting it in a high traffic bar.. can you set it to where it is 50c per play?? Can you really charge money or is it only for show?? Donyou think you could wire this to charge by card?
ETA Prime, you're my hero! So many of your videos have helped me with projects...thank you so much for making these great tutorials!! Worked perfectly!
Sweet!! I didnt realize the power source for the coin selector's lamps would be a wall outlet plug. I thought it would be a simple 5v wires. Plug directly to the pi for power.
It always amazes me how clearly you explain things.. Better than ALL of my professors!! ...........except for one, but he does not count since the class was European History :(
Hey the cool part about it is it can also be a bank as well so you can save money and also charge your company when it come over to play it best of both worlds
i use the single version in a mini Tron i built. they work great. but in mine, i added a microswitch so when you push in the coin return, it also adds a credit.
You can buy a door for the multicoin accepter you showed in at the start of the video. They come pre cut out ready for use. You can get them from arcadeworld.
Any Door can be a Door to Match your Cab, and Coin Acceptor's can be bought separately, or twin or light-up, the choice is your's, When i built a Mame Cabinet many years ago, not much in the way of choice, as price's where high, You guy's today are so lucky, i would be making these things by the Dozen
I'm building one into a Bartop arcade machine for a friend so her kids can play on it but also save money for a holiday next year. That way they will be saving money for themselves without even realising, but also they will probably not spend as much time playing games on it when they are having to pay for each game.
I see this version use only quarter dollar, I have to change the coin mech if I want something else so is cool. door but if. I have to buy extra the coin mech is useless.. I need something else, the door is cool. and the video is nice thank you
cool so i can also install a Sacoa RFID arcade reader to the Arcade1up machine in combination with Retropie.. i work for an redemption center, which have those devices laying around.. it would be cool to charge people a little bit of money (25cnt) just to play on the Arcade1up :)
I need help i got a coin acceptor used and the push to eject latches are missing so the push to eject button dorsnt work, how can i solve this? Ive tried ebay and cant figure out what to search. A coin eject push latch doesnt appear
Thinking about putting two cabinets into two local bars. I haven’t installed any money mechs yet but I was thinking that I should just take bills being as it isn’t 92 anymore. I’ll cut the bars a small cut from weekly payment and see how it goes.
As an electronics engineer I do not recommend twisting any cables together it is always best to soldering the wires together and heat shrinking them up
Awesome vid!!! So easy to follow instructions!!! Is it possible to toggle between free play and pay to play??? Just when the boys come over I can have quarters ready for that nostalgic feel but when the kids play it's free play???
Hello. Thank you for your explanation. The cable that cames out from my zero delay encoders led are 3. How i can find the proper One to be connected to the Coin acceptor switch?
*NOTE* I got a generic Amazon coin acceptor (model # ch-296) and apparently those kinds of coin acceptors send a low constant pulse signal to the USB encoder making it think I'm constantly putting a coin in. I ordered this double slot coin door from X-arcade so I'm hoping this works because I have this same setup
Great video! 1 question: Can you disable the option of going in the emulation controller menu? Because now it seems like anyone can just hit the 2-button combination and change the "select" button to whatever they want. I hope my question is clear.
great video!! can you show us how you actually mounted the coin door to the arcade? I’m guessing the front kick panel needs to be reinforced with cross bars of some sort (unless it’s solid already) thanks!
this is really cool. I wonder if the coin acceptor can be set to use tokens from that rat pizza place. or, make some slugs that fit & sell them to my nephews when they want to play
I’ve been following your videos to build my first arcade cabinet. I am adding the single slot coin door that you recommended in this video. I am not sure which connectors to purchase to have a coin slot and select button piggybacked together. Would you please respond with the type needed or a link to them? Thanks for all your help. Your videos made it so easy.
so how does one use both select button and a coin slot button? like a coin button on the front aswell as the coin slot so you can choose to use either?
Is there any way to reprogram the coin reader for other types of coins or even custom tokens? Because if I ever get a chance to own my own arcade machine I would want custom tokens instead of just normal coins. I know some arcades use tokens instead of real coins so it’s definitely possible, I’m just not sure if you would need to like custom order coin readers that recognize tokens or if you can just use any normal ones.
Great video! I have a question though. What exactly are the ‘quick connect’ pieces he is using? And how do you connect the using the wires that cane with the coin mechanism. It’s probably very simple, I have zero wiring experience. Maybe there is a video showing how to do it? Also, if someone can provide a link to the ‘quick connect’ product on Amazon, it would be much appreciated.
Can you do a video on how to make a rasbarry pi run only one game and it have the game start screen open up straight away and stay on just like the old arcades
You could use a seperate diy counter circuit connecting to the select button, similar to RAM to hold the memory. And You could have a switch/button to activate the circuits output. Although it wouldn't be integrated with the software and would essentially double your credits, so if you put lets say five credits in and you use up 1-5 credits and switch to a new game you still have five unused credits.
I've always been fascinated with arcade games, and I always dreamed of having my own private arcade cabinet as a piggy bank, one that is entertaining and does not have to be broken with a hammer in order to acces the money I save, lol. Seriously, and yes, it adds more authenticity to the experience. I am finally going to build my table top minicade, already had 2 solid japanese joysticks through AliExpress that were gathering dust, recently ordered 2 Sinden guns that should arrive in a few weeks and a Botacera pendrive with version 37 that should have those guns working right out of the box. Judging from your video, this coin acceptor would work exactly the same with Botacera wouldn't it? Same wiring and same configuration steps no? A Botacera enabled piggy bank, isn't that any kid's dream? I'll buy one of those coin acceptors, could anyone confirm they work with Batocera the same way?
Just to recap. I already have a arcade build finished with a coin and select button wired and working. Now I want to add the coin mech, but I want to still be able to use the coin button if I don't feel like using the quarters. So all I have to do is tap off the working coin button to run the coin mech correct? Then both will be working at the same time giving me the option to use both, right?
Can the insert coin eject buttons be replaced with buttons? I have an insert coin button that looks like eject buttons and would love to have this for looks and not function
Hello. Is it possible to install another coin with a diameter smaller than the standard on this coin acceptor? Will it accept another coin in such a case? Or it only accepts 25 cents? I'm from a different country than the US, but I love the design of this coin mechanism. Tell me please. Thank you.
Great video! One question however. I assume by adding the coin acceptor device, and mapping the select button to the coin input, the game automatically knows to display "insert coin"? Obviously without the coin acceptor device, there isn't a "insert coin" display, so I assume retropie automatically knows that the coin door is present?
Not really, the idea is these versions of these games were built in a way that only allow player control if the "credit input" is pressed, which is hidden behind the coin mechanism - it's essentially a big weird button wired to the board that can only be pressed with the correct coin insert. If you emulate any of these games without the coin mechanism they'll still flash "insert coin" but the program probably has the "credit" input mapped to something like the Enter key or the left trigger on a controller.
I was assuming it could be done if you wired the coin acceptor then ran a splitter to the bill acceptor mechanism. However, any dollar bill would count as "1" credit unless there was a work around for that.
@@SandyRidgeWoodshop yes I did, I’m looking at them right now and I don’t remember the complexity of it. But all I did was plug the 2pin connecter into the slot on the 3pin encoder... leaving the left pin open. It’ll fit just leave the left one open If that makes sense
Have a question. The clicker that the coin hits before it falls out of the bottom of the coin mechanism doesn't add credits when the coin goes thru. Even when I take my finger and click the clicker it makes no noise for credits. What could be the issue?
been looking around everywhere but cant find an answer. what are you guys using to collect the coins and keep it safe until you come with a key to collect them?
My wife and I picked up an arcade1up with the intent of modding it and your tutorials have been crazy helpful. We joked about using it as a coin bank but after watching how easy it is I think I'm actually going to go for it!
How did that build go? Thinking about putting it in my restaurant
I have to say, man... You're really good at explaining things. This is a great addition to a home cab!
Wow a psychic who knows exactly what tutorial I was gonna search for. 😁
perfect, now i just need an ATM machine in the living room and i'm set!
Should I really charge my wife to play? HELL YEAH! No, but seriously ETA Prime, you are the man!
This is my way of saving money 😂
Same bud
I patiently waited 5 months to get my coin slots from X-Arcade. Can't believe it took that long but glad I finally got it! I love your videos man, great job!
Based on the comments I read every time, yeah, I have to agree, you're constantly making videos to address every possible question. You're the man!
Wow I have not heard that coin sound in probably 10 years. Very cool. I would probably want to put a coin door in mortal kombat, final fight, or pacman.
ETA prime needs his own tv show ..
YUNVMY COOLNAME Right? Doesnt he remind you of those old Do it zyourself shows from the 80,'s and 90s?
But if he needs his own show, TH-cam is a perfect platform. He would just need to rethink how he makes content and make it more "Show" like.
Man, you have so many good things to try I can never keep up. I just have a playlist full of your content that I can one day get to. Lol
Excellent Video. I have the Arcade Coin Door With single Coin Mech from X-Arcade. two quick notes it only works with US Quarters and the plug is used to illuminate the reject button. it is not needed to register the coin credits. Note You need something inside you cabinet to catch your coins. I recommend you use the splitter connection cable otherwise you are going to need a lot of quarters or need to constantly retrieve your coins from the cabinet. You arcade will double as piggy bank.
I am thinking about getting a streetfighter fame and putting it in a high traffic bar.. can you set it to where it is 50c per play?? Can you really charge money or is it only for show?? Donyou think you could wire this to charge by card?
Love this! I'm definitely going to add a coin acceptor once I build an arcade.
I have stock coin acceptors at home. Time to put them to some good use. Good upload!
Great video once again, great addition to a home arcade, makes the whole experience legit.
I’ve actually wanted to do this for a while!
Nice! I hope to build an arcade in winter. And this makes it a perfect machine.
ETA Prime, you're my hero! So many of your videos have helped me with projects...thank you so much for making these great tutorials!! Worked perfectly!
Another great tutorial, ETA! Always wondered if this could be done...dream solved! 👍
Grand total of $95 for me, thanks ETA prime. First build … newbie here.
Sweet!! I didnt realize the power source for the coin selector's lamps would be a wall outlet plug. I thought it would be a simple 5v wires. Plug directly to the pi for power.
I'm sure that can be modded
the hits keep coming, thank you for all the great content!!
It always amazes me how clearly you explain things.. Better than ALL of my professors!! ...........except for one, but he does not count since the class was European History :(
I miss these types of videos
Now I'm gonna officially build my own cab. I always wanted to make a 4 player cab running all the best titles.
888 likes 8 dislikes lol but why would you dislike this video?? Your awesome ETA PRIME, you did it again!
ETA Prime your the best. Keep up the great arcade tech videos.
The Best coin Door for proyect arcade, thank you for tutorial!!!
Hey, thanks for this video man! I've been researching this recently, and yours really makes it easier.
Looks neat, 20 years ago i folded a bit of alloy and put in what was Cheap back then $60 for a single coin acceptor
i linked in to one of the Buttons i had for Coin, now both work (Free Play or Coin)
Like you i linked in to one of the Buttons i had for Coin, now both work (Free Play or Coin), and also Side Buttons for Pinball Games
excellent tutorial, thank you!
That was an awesome video great job I know when I build my cabinet I'm deathly going to put one of those on my
Like Always Thnx For The Video ETA PRIME!! Very easy to follow ...
Great video like always ETA PRIME!
Hey the cool part about it is it can also be a bank as well so you can save money and also charge your company when it come over to play it best of both worlds
The missing link to making things feel legit!! Bravo sir
You always have the best tutorials!
i use the single version in a mini Tron i built. they work great. but in mine, i added a microswitch so when you push in the coin return, it also adds a credit.
That’s really cool, nice job. You do great videos
Another one! Seriously thank you for the tutorials
Right before I seen this video, I was wondering if it was possible to add a real coin mechanism to it. Thanks.
Thanks I see the link already Thanks
All good vids from you. Great job.
Great job 👍👍👍
Make some custom tokens.
Great video man! Only issue I could see is if you quit a game you lose your credits they don't carry game to game
It's a whole lot simpler than I thought.
Thanks for the video Prime!
Thx for the really insightful video.
I wired up mine with the ability disable the credit button. with a switch behind the coin acceptor door. to force people to pay😁
Best piggy bank replacement one can possibly DIY. ( given of course the individual has some spending discipline)
You can buy a door for the multicoin accepter you showed in at the start of the video. They come pre cut out ready for use. You can get them from arcadeworld.
I actually saw that last night they even sell double doors. I might pick that up for the Arcade1UP
Any Door can be a Door to Match your Cab, and Coin Acceptor's can be bought separately, or twin or light-up, the choice is your's,
When i built a Mame Cabinet many years ago, not much in the way of choice, as price's where high, You guy's today are so lucky, i would be making these things by the Dozen
I'm putting one in mine and making my 4 year old daughter pay to play 🤣
That's the way, no free game in life
I'm building one into a Bartop arcade machine for a friend so her kids can play on it but also save money for a holiday next year. That way they will be saving money for themselves without even realising, but also they will probably not spend as much time playing games on it when they are having to pay for each game.
Very cool idea, kids want Lollies and Toys, i don't see her paying much for retro gaming, Adults = give em beer and sell em anything LoL
Hahahahhahahaha
Yes! To show her the old school way of gaming lol
Can you show how you're going to add the coin mech? I just got my Alpha cade today and might consider adding a coin slot to it
I see this version use only quarter dollar, I have to change the coin mech if I want something else so is cool. door but if. I have to buy extra the coin mech is useless.. I need something else, the door is cool. and the video is nice thank you
Thank you a lot this was a great tutorial
Can we add a bill acceptor to ??
Thanks again
cool so i can also install a Sacoa RFID arcade reader to the Arcade1up machine in combination with Retropie.. i work for an redemption center, which have those devices laying around.. it would be cool to charge people a little bit of money (25cnt) just to play on the Arcade1up :)
I need help i got a coin acceptor used and the push to eject latches are missing so the push to eject button dorsnt work, how can i solve this? Ive tried ebay and cant figure out what to search. A coin eject push latch doesnt appear
Nicely done! Is there away to carry credits over to another game?
Thinking about putting two cabinets into two local bars. I haven’t installed any money mechs yet but I was thinking that I should just take bills being as it isn’t 92 anymore. I’ll cut the bars a small cut from weekly payment and see how it goes.
As an electronics engineer I do not recommend twisting any cables together it is always best to soldering the wires together and heat shrinking them up
Thanks!
Awesome vid!!! So easy to follow instructions!!! Is it possible to toggle between free play and pay to play??? Just when the boys come over I can have quarters ready for that nostalgic feel but when the kids play it's free play???
thnk you for this mr Prime 😀
Perfect and thank you very much great job 👍 do you have the link for coin slot i like to buy 2 of this items ?? Thanks again
Hello. Thank you for your explanation. The cable that cames out from my zero delay encoders led are 3. How i can find the proper One to be connected to the Coin acceptor switch?
Just a totally awesome channel,thankyou
So good!
*NOTE* I got a generic Amazon coin acceptor (model # ch-296) and apparently those kinds of coin acceptors send a low constant pulse signal to the USB encoder making it think I'm constantly putting a coin in. I ordered this double slot coin door from X-arcade so I'm hoping this works because I have this same setup
One of these days I’ll have a home with enough room to build something awesome like this.
Great video! 1 question: Can you disable the option of going in the emulation controller menu? Because now it seems like anyone can just hit the 2-button combination and change the "select" button to whatever they want. I hope my question is clear.
Did anyone figure this out?
@@calebg8078 I have the same question.
@@zvizionaero I ended up figuring it out I have faith in you!!
Nice tutorial video. Question: will it also work with EmuELEC?
This adding a money door tutorial will also for a arcade 1 up machine
this is awesome, thanks!
You should show if you put in anything other than a quarter. Does it reject it?
great video!! can you show us how you actually mounted the coin door to the arcade? I’m guessing the front kick panel needs to be reinforced with cross bars of some sort (unless it’s solid already) thanks!
Do you have a tutorial on how to do this on the Atgames’s legends? And where did you buy that coin door?
this is really cool. I wonder if the coin acceptor can be set to use tokens from that rat pizza place. or, make some slugs that fit & sell them to my nephews when they want to play
I’ve been following your videos to build my first arcade cabinet. I am adding the single slot coin door that you recommended in this video. I am not sure which connectors to purchase to have a coin slot and select button piggybacked together. Would you please respond with the type needed or a link to them? Thanks for all your help. Your videos made it so easy.
so how does one use both select button and a coin slot button? like a coin button on the front aswell as the coin slot so you can choose to use either?
Thats a great video, Thank you!
Is there any way to reprogram the coin reader for other types of coins or even custom tokens? Because if I ever get a chance to own my own arcade machine I would want custom tokens instead of just normal coins.
I know some arcades use tokens instead of real coins so it’s definitely possible, I’m just not sure if you would need to like custom order coin readers that recognize tokens or if you can just use any normal ones.
Great video! I have a question though. What exactly are the ‘quick connect’ pieces he is using? And how do you connect the using the wires that cane with the coin mechanism. It’s probably very simple, I have zero wiring experience. Maybe there is a video showing how to do it?
Also, if someone can provide a link to the ‘quick connect’ product on Amazon, it would be much appreciated.
Can you do a video on how to make a rasbarry pi run only one game and it have the game start screen open up straight away and stay on just like the old arcades
Now, how-to make it, so credits carry over when you switch games :-)
GO!
You could use a seperate diy counter circuit connecting to the select button, similar to RAM to hold the memory. And You could have a switch/button to activate the circuits output. Although it wouldn't be integrated with the software and would essentially double your credits, so if you put lets say five credits in and you use up 1-5 credits and switch to a new game you still have five unused credits.
I've always been fascinated with arcade games, and I always dreamed of having my own private arcade cabinet as a piggy bank, one that is entertaining and does not have to be broken with a hammer in order to acces the money I save, lol. Seriously, and yes, it adds more authenticity to the experience. I am finally going to build my table top minicade, already had 2 solid japanese joysticks through AliExpress that were gathering dust, recently ordered 2 Sinden guns that should arrive in a few weeks and a Botacera pendrive with version 37 that should have those guns working right out of the box. Judging from your video, this coin acceptor would work exactly the same with Botacera wouldn't it? Same wiring and same configuration steps no? A Botacera enabled piggy bank, isn't that any kid's dream? I'll buy one of those coin acceptors, could anyone confirm they work with Batocera the same way?
Might make a couple and put them places to make money
Thx
This is awesome, I just wish Amazon Canada carried it 😪
Just to recap. I already have a arcade build finished with a coin and select button wired and working. Now I want to add the coin mech, but I want to still be able to use the coin button if I don't feel like using the quarters. So all I have to do is tap off the working coin button to run the coin mech correct? Then both will be working at the same time giving me the option to use both, right?
Can the insert coin eject buttons be replaced with buttons? I have an insert coin button that looks like eject buttons and would love to have this for looks and not function
Hello. Is it possible to install another coin with a diameter smaller than the standard on this coin acceptor? Will it accept another coin in such a case? Or it only accepts 25 cents? I'm from a different country than the US, but I love the design of this coin mechanism. Tell me please. Thank you.
Hi could you tell me please how to connect simple multicoin acceptor with timer box to arcade controller?
That is awesome
Great video! One question however. I assume by adding the coin acceptor device, and mapping the select button to the coin input, the game automatically knows to display "insert coin"? Obviously without the coin acceptor device, there isn't a "insert coin" display, so I assume retropie automatically knows that the coin door is present?
Not really, the idea is these versions of these games were built in a way that only allow player control if the "credit input" is pressed, which is hidden behind the coin mechanism - it's essentially a big weird button wired to the board that can only be pressed with the correct coin insert.
If you emulate any of these games without the coin mechanism they'll still flash "insert coin" but the program probably has the "credit" input mapped to something like the Enter key or the left trigger on a controller.
Any news on if you can get it to do dollar bill insert to play mechanism?
I was assuming it could be done if you wired the coin acceptor then ran a splitter to the bill acceptor mechanism. However, any dollar bill would count as "1" credit unless there was a work around for that.
So I may be a little confused. Can I make it so you can only use the coin acceptor on arcade games, but select button on non-arcade games?
I have a new style button kit that comes with 3pin encoder wires, how do I connect them from the 2 wires coming from the arcade door ?
Ever figure this out?
@@SandyRidgeWoodshop yes I did, I’m looking at them right now and I don’t remember the complexity of it. But all I did was plug the 2pin connecter into the slot on the 3pin encoder... leaving the left pin open. It’ll fit just leave the left one open
If that makes sense
@@CreampuffK Mind sending me a photo? I don't think I understand what you mean by that
What about the power hook up to light the coin doors?
Have a question. The clicker that the coin hits before it falls out of the bottom of the coin mechanism doesn't add credits when the coin goes thru. Even when I take my finger and click the clicker it makes no noise for credits. What could be the issue?
been looking around everywhere but cant find an answer. what are you guys using to collect the coins and keep it safe until you come with a key to collect them?