This is simply...AWESOME! I don't think many people understand the amount of effort, passion and skill involved to bring together the experience shown. Well Done! Thank you for sharing!!!
My drive arrived last week. There's sooooo much there that I know I'll be discovering something new two years from now. The organization is done amazingly well. I now have both the this and the light gun drive because I have a seperate light gun Pedestal/cab. This is well worth the price. Very well done, Jasen.
Jasen is such a pleasure to deal with, I have one of his 32tb systems and he is quick to respond with fixes for you. So much fun to finally have one of your drives :)
Thanks for the kind words! The "quick" to respond has been harder and harder to keep up with. I need more automation to push out updates, I'm trying to get there.
Thanks for all of the hard work you put into the hard drive. My sons and I have been playing it for almost a month now and we keep discovering cool games to play. You really did make this a plug and plug drive. I ordered some light guns that will arrive beginning of March and we can't wait to play the shooter games. If anyone out there has any doubts about buying his hard drive, DON'T hesitate at all, just buy it and you will playing your favorite games in no time.
I thought I purchased a high end arcade machine only for the whole set up to be a bit of a joke….half the roms do not load and the ones that do work the buttons are not configured to the game properly….would purchasing this hard drive be a solution? I’m hoping….paid a lot of money for junk basically…the company in Australia went into liquidation so before I could go on a rant the moment it was delivered it was too late
@@ha_ya_to156 Sorry to hear that you are one of the victims of that belly up Aussie company. If your hardware was put together correctly on your arcade cabinet, as in all of the buttons are wired correctly, then the hard drive should work on your cabinet. I am using an X-Arcade Tankstick with Trackball, 2 Sinden Lightguns, 2 Xbox Controllers with my cabinet that I built. Jasen was able to get everything working without too much effort. You can always tweak your control mappings if you don't like how they are configured. Go ahead and contact Jasen, he stands behind his hard drive and gives A+ service.
I'd like to build one myself so... everything? The hardware setup, the software setup, choosing the components and the reason why you've picked them. You've made an awesome video. Very informative. I've watched it three times now and it's still wow!
This is built on an Intel Core I5-10400, 8GB of RAM and a GTX 1650 video card. It can run all the shaders you see in my video and everything in Teknoparrot and PS3. I use IPAC4 joystick encoders because of the flexibility of keyboard mode with the ability to assign multikey macros to single buttons.
This looks absolutely incredible. The inclusion of comics and mags kinda threw me but no shade. The jukebox is kinda cool to. I expected this to be games only but you went above and beyond. Obviously this was a huge amount of work and talent. I love it.
Well, comics did inspire a lot of the games and movies. TMNT, Punisher, Marvel vs Capcom for example. It's all part of the preservation of our childhood. :)
The comics caught my eye. Would be cool to have as reference for if you’re trying to follow the nonsense they call MCU 😆 Also big box is android ie portable friendly imagine have a tablet with nes/mame/comics 🧐
Not if you know where to look. There are places that sell hard drives pre-loaded with games. Or if you are internet savvy you will know where to look to get the games for free.
@@SirReptitious Finding isn't too hard it's just finding them in a no-intro format and configuring everything for multiple types of devices inputs like joysticks, mice, trackball, light guns and xinput/dinput controllers.
@@IntegrumRetro I wish there were a way to simply download an image. Such as how for raspberry pi they have images of 32gb all the way to 1 tb so that you just download the image, unpack and load to a micro SD card then start gaming right away. For PC this would be harder but i would not mind there being a free linux OS preloaded with 10tb+ of games or even 20tb+. Most people could grab their old desktop and make a great "arcade".
I feel you. I want to make a CoinOps version next, hands down it has some of the best video and artwork load screens around, combine it with the work I've done on the backend and I think I'd finally have something to "settle" on. =)
Just the setting and all the work.. I'd be lost completely. The wiring, cabinet and hardware is the easy part.. I wish I could build a front end like yours. Detailed and the little things that give it that feel.
@@SketchofGoogle1978 The joysticks I have are connected via USB to the PC on an Ultramarc IPAC-4 board. Then of course the wireless are just bluetooth xinput connected to the PC.
@@SketchofGoogle1978 yes, very similar, but the IPAC has more fancy features like the ability to switch between modes (keyboard, dinput, xinput) and control multiple devices under on board (joystick, mouse, trackball)
There are guys on TH-cam and other parts of the internet who freely give away their plans to build home arcade cabinets. Of course this assumes you have the tools you will need to build it. But when you look at how much companies that make home arcades charge for their units, making it yourself starts looking very appealing.
Greetings from Brazil! I just watched your vídeo. Wow!!! That's the best Arcade platform I've ever seen! Too bad we don't have someone so capable as you to sell one of these here. Anyway, CONGRATULATIONS! One more subscribe!
It also run games solid, that is a big thing with all these choice you have between arcade machines. I want one for my son he has a small arcade with simple games, and i noticed he realy likes it, so i was thinking about buying a 2 player cabinet for his room with 80/90's 2d classics, like double dragon, golden axe, wonderboy in monsterland etc.
If you're into modern, wall mounted cabinets, I do a nice 8TB Bigbox build for Umbrella Arcades. The PC inside is pretty beefy, even compared to a Megacade, so it plays nearly everything at 1440p resolution and 60 FPS, including PS3, Wii U, Gamecube, Switch etc.
I have a spare cabinet ready that I'm going to be building and documenting the build on. I wanted to see how far I could take the Megacade cabinet with a standard 1650 video card and Core I5 CPU. Do you have a link you can share on your build?
@@IntegrumRetro Ya I bet! I was thinking of doing the same but also including 70s-90s movies, and virtual pinball in a replica of an Atari Star Wars Arcade cockpit. XD But the time involved...:/ Keep the dream alive!!! 🙌🤘
congrats on the endeavor and good luck. would love to see how you configured teknoparrot. would also love to see how you configure something like golden tee with the trackball...
Good suggestion. Anything specific about Teknoparrot you'd like to see (Thinking of an outline of topics). I'm hearing more and more people want an input tutorial for Retroarch, so I'll start on that, but you first need to know how the underlying cores work, so I'm imagining this being a multipart series.
Great work! Been working on mine for about a year and a half and looking forward to seeing how you did the jukebox. Have over 100 systems but it still needs a jukebox.
The Jukebox was based off a pre-packaged coinops/RetroFE config. Someone built a template, then all you do is copy your music videos to the collection directory and make the artwork for the individual title strips.
@@IntegrumRetro Can you still do a video on this? I'm very interested to see how is done. I'm interested in the non gaming stuff as I've got the game stuff down in my arcade machine already. The Jukebox, the comics(looks like a video exists) and the magazines (similar to comics?).
Like how you setup Bezel Project and Function Key Combos to alternate between screen and bezels preferences. Tutorials on this would take an hour by itself, but appreciated if you would like to explain. Keep up the great work...
I wrote a python script to configure all the different possible bezel artwork for the various systems, but I'd be more than happy to make a tutorial. I can save many individuals a great deal of pain and suffering trying to figure that out. I'll add that to my list of future tutorials. Thanks for the suggestion!
@@IntegrumRetro Very interesting using a Python script, and was wondering how people worked around this issue since Bezels is one my big issues running different setups in LB and BigBox. Tutorial would be appreciated and keep up the great work!
I agree. The dedication and continuous development makes it worth the price. Though I admit, I held out until Black Friday to get their once a year discount. =)
This is amazing. I dabble in Emulators for my PC. But to have this would be a dream. I can't imagine what it would cost to have you build and program one to sell it.
I like this project. I've done a few myself just with not so many games. Only 200 of the best arcade games and 20 games of of the best consoles. With only 8 of the best consoles in history. I went for quality over quantity.
Thanks for the sub! If you have any tutorial requests, just let me know. I'd like to make videos on whatever people are struggling or most curious about.
@@IntegrumRetro I'm most curious about adding different controller types to the computer, like light guns, arcade sticks and buttons, paddles, and roller ball. Also I like little tweaks in the front end, like not having the taskbar show when the computer starts. Thanks again
@@jonathon6737 I have GUN4IR, Sinden, and Aimtrak guns, I'll probably have to make per system (Mame, Sega Model 2, NES, ect.) videos on light guns. What is different is I have most of them working with Retroarch vs standalone emulators. I can also do a video on analog devices and inputs in general for retroarch since 95% of all my drive uses Retroarch. Great ideas, I'll have to pick what I want to start on this weekend then!
Thank you very much! I'm hoping it's a precursor to the many tutorial videos on how I built this. I've released a controller mapping videos for RetroArch and a comic book tutorial since this video was published.
I love the old monitor bezel seen on doom gameplay. Thats what my childhood setup looked like to a T starting with my nes and on. I had a progressive scan monitor its just what my dad had picked me up.
Very nice build and presentation, but I would have liked to see the actual hardware build included in the discussion. Button mapping, cabinet build, specific PC specs, etc for those of us looking to build our own. Again, beautiful machine--I hope I can create something as nice for my gameroom.
You did an amazing job but with a giant screen arcade I do want to keep the proper screen ratio but I would love to have my old school arcade games much bigger on a bigger screen.
The shaders help print the size ratio into check when standing close. I need to experiment if I like it like that from the couch 8 feet away. Even without shaders, be sure to use integer scaling to ensure you don't get that weird stretching. It may not fill your screen, but none of the old arcade games were 16:9 like today's TVs.
@@IntegrumRetro I agree. The correct aspect ratio is important. Watching old films or games stretched out just looks wrong. I prefer plain black borders though.
1. Anyway to make a karaoke 🎤 interface with the jukebox? Or a iTunes / Spotify plugin? 2. Are you running an IPac encoder? Is it configured as an xinput or keyboard encoder or how’d you get your led blinky configured? 3. Do you have 4/8 way Servo sticks for your joysticks? 4. You running mame what version or through retroarch?
It's a PC so you can put whatever you like on it. It's running an IPAC4 in keyboard mode. I run 8-way joysticks with RetroArch and the mame current core with all the 4 way controller games running with 4-way enforced turned on.
@@IntegrumRetro 1. so where you able to Use the IPac plug and play with Bigbox or did you have to map buttons? 2. Have you tried a ps3 or ps4 controller? 3. Have you looked at led blinky and/or Servo sticke upgrades for your build? 4, your name is running through retroarch? No CHDs?? 5. Have you tired the mame import on latest BB release , any help with HLSL or scan lines would be epic 😉
This looks amazing, I have have been trying to get a good emulation setup on my PC but have had a lot of issues with controlers and bezels, every time I save settings in retroarch it seems to break something else or reset to default. looking forward to videos on how to setup the software so well. thanks.
Hey I noticed you have LED blinky is that correct? Any chance of sharing your colors.ini and LEDBlinkyControls.xml. If you have default colors setup per system/per game any more completeness helps!
@@drewjbx228 I haven't configured my setup yet, due to so many power outages I was losing my profiles. When I rebuild it again I'll share it. Still putting the finishing touches on the combability of the system, then I'll get into the eye candy. =)
@@IntegrumRetro Yep I understand, first this is first... and it is a never ending process. There will come a time we can actually just play and enjoy our arcade cabs!
I would like to see a step-by-step guide on how to do this from downloading and installing your appropriate software to obtaining and installing complete ROM sets which are clean and functional.
I can't cover obtaining the roms, but I can cover all the emualation software. There is going to be a long series of videos covering the needed topics to cover that request. I plan on doing retroarch and controller inputs for my next video.
When I get more free time, I'll be producing more how to content. If you enjoy "how it's made" videos, there was a lot of discovery and research to configure all this.
Honestly, for years I just gave up on all my movies thinking streaming would always have what I wanted, but seeing the industry now, even movie preservation is necessary it seems as every month some service loses some of the greats.
Yes, exactly. You’d think having A streaming service would be enough, but none guarantee that what you want will be there. So many gems are nowhere to be found even w multiple streaming subscriptions. Having a bottomless pit of digital movies/shows is essential imo. p.s. had two other ideas I figured I’d run by you. Some light guns (I think they’re called?) for shooter games like house of the dead. And and fire place setting. Just having fun dreaming don’t mind me.
I used to run Launchbox / Bigbox many years ago but now use a front end called COINOPS. Much better imho for various reasons. There's been various vids about it. It's just an alternative if your viewers wanted some options. Saying that, just out of interest i'm looking forward to your video series.
I agree the visuals on the CoinOps releases are incredible. I've stuck with LB/BB because of the massive metadata database and media imports. The only way I found to get media imports is through CoinOps packs. Is there a way though that I don't know of to auto update/scrape media with CoinOps? I'd love to incorporate it into my build since it's based off of RetroFE which is what the jukebox is using.
Remember, coinops isn't a front end. RetroFe is the frontend CO uses. Coinops is a build, similar to the Pi images around. With that said, the artwork in CO is beautiful. For a user to put their own build together, launchbox is probably easiest. But for someone that doesn't want to put in the work, CO is nice (but not the only options.
@@MrEd20901 Well put. CoinOps gets so much press because of it's eye candy, few realize the real front end. Are people manually getting all the artwork for RetroFe builds? I've been spoiled by the LB auto downloads, but I really like the flexibility and simplicity RetroFE brings to the table in customizing the visual experience.
@@IntegrumRetro yes, a lot of the CO art is created (especially can art) or old art, like marquees, has been cleaned up and upscaled. Pretty sure the vid snaps have been re-recorded in hi def to replace the standard ones floating around since hyperspin days.
Jasen thank you for inviting us and myself on this journey I am hoping that when you hit the big 1 million or ten million subscribers you remember the little people like me who were here before the Thousand subscribers hahaha but I want to see I really am interested in how you did that and regardless of if I just use my computer or laptop hooked up to a television rather than having an arcade board I am really appreciative of what you have in store and how you set it up you have just read my mind completely and I just want to thank you from the beginning with my whole heart I've continued to support you in any way I can and I just want to say that I'm look forward to all of your videos in the future and you did an incredible job and I'm really proud of you and I honestly can really appreciate the hard work even if this was just one video sorry for the long run on comments it's just that I'm busy and my hands are dirty so I'm using voice dictation😇👍🏼🤜🏽🤛🏽😎
Thank you very much for the support. The hardest part is which topic to cover next. I just wrapped up one of the more complicated topics on mapping controllers in RetroArch. What would you like to see next?
Having done so myself on a smaller scale that's a crapload of work. You usually need the big drive for everything above ps1. I had a hard time filling up half a 150GB SD card for my Recalbox RPi3 build.
There are plans to continue this when the new website goes live. I offer a retro consulting service and I've been slammed with consulting work so it's hard to balance what little free time, but I'm not abandoning the cause. I have a ton to share on how-to retro videos.
@@IntegrumRetro button and controller config in retroarch. It was challenging when i first did it. Also cover how you have the joystick and controller working simultaneously. Gamecube core never worked for me and I was obligated to use dolphin and it doesnt support bezels. Finally what I havent been able to figure out or find a good up to date tutorial on is how to use joysticks for pc games or xbox games. I use and ipac ultimate io. Check my channel.
@@tekkamanblade2244 Subbed to your channel. I can cover inputs after my comic video then. I am using the dolphin libretro core for Gamecube, so I could use that as an example. I believe the IPAC Ultimate supports multi mode, so you can create an IPC file to cause the ipac to switch to xinput compatibility for xbox. I prefer the IPAC multi mode and use the Xoutput software (sourceforge.net/projects/xoutput/) when I need the joysticks to appear as Xbox Controllers.
I am hoping I get the free time I want to show off all I've upgraded these last 6 months. But I love the surprise on people's faces when dual controllers just work out of the box. :)
Just discovered retro arcade cabinets like this. Love the idea. I have an 6 year old gaming PC I have decided to use for the hobby. Other than having downloaded Launchbox, I've done nothing. Not sure if your videos will be accessible to that level of noob but I'll subscribe with fingers crossed.
Oh absolutely! I'll be going through all the major emulators. I built 95% of my machine using Retroarch which relies on libretro cores (ported versions of all the major emulators including MAME). But I plan on making videos on each one.
I recently updated my arcade from a pi to a pc. But only because I needed the pi elsewhere. Have currently 50-60 arcade games on it. Have only games on it which I like and also play. Other systems I play also elsewhere and not on my cabinet.
I actually use a flat CRT shader for the 32bit consoles. I tried to reflect the style of TV depending on the era it was most played on. So Nintendo64 for example defaults to a Sony Trinitron flat screen look by default.
Great video… I like your setup, I am interested in following to upgrade my current arcade cab, I am a novice but good at following simple instructions 😊
Which would you like to see next? I was going to make a video next week on how to import digital comics and include things like how to extract the covers ect.
@@IntegrumRetro please get into the basics of big box, and mame with easy to understand educational information. A “how to” and demo of the best configuration with setting up the drive .. including a shopping list of parts .. and elude where to safely download? Old school arcade games are important to me … I spent time in the arcades growing up and look forward to that experience again in my home.. I love your cabinet with all the extras.. talk about your build also 😊
@@craigclukey3979 Lots of great suggestions, this will keep me busy for a few weeks at least. I think starting with the arcade emulation is a good start. I use retroarch with MAME, but I'm thinking I should do a video on MAME by itself first, before talking about the various MAME cores on Retroarch. I also have an Arcade shell from Monster Arcades so I'm hoping to show a full assembly of an arcade. I have all the parts ready to go.
The Comic book category look pretty cool but I think it would be cooler to have all Nintendo Power and classic video game magazines from the 80s and 90s
I didn't put that in the video, but I have all of those game magazines in my magazine category as well. I just posted a tutorial video on how I made my comic book category, but the same applies to all the magainzes I put on there as well.
Today's classic rock was rock, I never liked our version of classic rock. I'm very curious as to what they will call classic rock in 2040.. then what will that make 70's classic rock? Ancient Rock? =)
RetroArch has a hotkey to do that, but you also have to put the bezels in the various overlay directories so when you press the hotkey it cycles through the available shaders.
If anything, just plug it into a PC and use xbox compatible controllers. To make this work with joysticks vs xbox compatible controllers doesn't vary greatly.
This is simply...AWESOME! I don't think many people understand the amount of effort, passion and skill involved to bring together the experience shown. Well Done! Thank you for sharing!!!
The bezel reflections of the game footage is fantastic. It really sells the "playing on a real arcade cabinet" feel. Very cool
This is the cleanest arcade drive solution I've ever seen! There's so much passion and joy put into this collection! Amazing work!
My drive arrived last week. There's sooooo much there that I know I'll be discovering something new two years from now. The organization is done amazingly well. I now have both the this and the light gun drive because I have a seperate light gun Pedestal/cab. This is well worth the price. Very well done, Jasen.
Thank you for that awesome feedback! I have been working on these for years.
So you know this is Vidal.
How much?!! I may buy one if they’re available
@@henryblazer20 sure, just email me at jasen@integrumretro.com
Jasen is such a pleasure to deal with, I have one of his 32tb systems and he is quick to respond with fixes for you. So much fun to finally have one of your drives :)
Thanks for the kind words! The "quick" to respond has been harder and harder to keep up with. I need more automation to push out updates, I'm trying to get there.
The absolute best arcade drive period. This thing is amazing!!!
Thanks for all of the hard work you put into the hard drive. My sons and I have been playing it for almost a month now and we keep discovering cool games to play. You really did make this a plug and plug drive. I ordered some light guns that will arrive beginning of March and we can't wait to play the shooter games. If anyone out there has any doubts about buying his hard drive, DON'T hesitate at all, just buy it and you will playing your favorite games in no time.
I thought I purchased a high end arcade machine only for the whole set up to be a bit of a joke….half the roms do not load and the ones that do work the buttons are not configured to the game properly….would purchasing this hard drive be a solution? I’m hoping….paid a lot of money for junk basically…the company in Australia went into liquidation so before I could go on a rant the moment it was delivered it was too late
@@ha_ya_to156 Sorry to hear that you are one of the victims of that belly up Aussie company. If your hardware was put together correctly on your arcade cabinet, as in all of the buttons are wired correctly, then the hard drive should work on your cabinet. I am using an X-Arcade Tankstick with Trackball, 2 Sinden Lightguns, 2 Xbox Controllers with my cabinet that I built. Jasen was able to get everything working without too much effort. You can always tweak your control mappings if you don't like how they are configured. Go ahead and contact Jasen, he stands behind his hard drive and gives A+ service.
Yes, I'm familiar with their hardware and I've already restored a few of their machines back to life. Just email me at jasen@integrumretro.com
Great work! Wow just wow! Looking forward to see how you set up this drive.
I'd like to build one myself so... everything?
The hardware setup, the software setup, choosing the components and the reason why you've picked them.
You've made an awesome video. Very informative. I've watched it three times now and it's still wow!
This is built on an Intel Core I5-10400, 8GB of RAM and a GTX 1650 video card. It can run all the shaders you see in my video and everything in Teknoparrot and PS3. I use IPAC4 joystick encoders because of the flexibility of keyboard mode with the ability to assign multikey macros to single buttons.
@@IntegrumRetro
Wow! Thank you
@@IntegrumRetro why did you not go for an IPAC ULTIMATE IO?
@@DutchManticore It came with an IPAC4 and PACLED64 when I bought it. My new machines run dual Ultimate IO boards
Looking at what you have created makes me feel i did nothing important in life. Kudos for a cool setup.
Haha, we all have our crazy obsessions. I'm just lucky my wife supports my kind of crazy.
@@IntegrumRetro lmfao same man
😂 This comment would hold true even if @apollo gamet was a Doctor that goes on Medical Mission trips.
You need SERIOUS HELP.
Then I think you need a different perspective in life, sir.
LOVE THIS! Thanks for the inspiration and teaching us how to. More how to will always be appreciated!
This looks absolutely incredible. The inclusion of comics and mags kinda threw me but no shade. The jukebox is kinda cool to. I expected this to be games only but you went above and beyond. Obviously this was a huge amount of work and talent. I love it.
Well, comics did inspire a lot of the games and movies. TMNT, Punisher, Marvel vs Capcom for example. It's all part of the preservation of our childhood. :)
The comics caught my eye. Would be cool to have as reference for if you’re trying to follow the nonsense they call MCU 😆
Also big box is android ie portable friendly imagine have a tablet with nes/mame/comics 🧐
Wow, this is the ultimate home arcade alright. Just... wow. Finding all of those roms must have taken ages.
Treasure hunts are half the fun!
Not if you know where to look. There are places that sell hard drives pre-loaded with games. Or if you are internet savvy you will know where to look to get the games for free.
@@SirReptitious Finding isn't too hard it's just finding them in a no-intro format and configuring everything for multiple types of devices inputs like joysticks, mice, trackball, light guns and xinput/dinput controllers.
@@IntegrumRetro I wish there were a way to simply download an image. Such as how for raspberry pi they have images of 32gb all the way to 1 tb so that you just download the image, unpack and load to a micro SD card then start gaming right away. For PC this would be harder but i would not mind there being a free linux OS preloaded with 10tb+ of games or even 20tb+. Most people could grab their old desktop and make a great "arcade".
Been setting up all these front ends for the past twelve years, and still not finished it's never ending, great looking cabinet btw :)
I feel you. I want to make a CoinOps version next, hands down it has some of the best video and artwork load screens around, combine it with the work I've done on the backend and I think I'd finally have something to "settle" on. =)
Just the setting and all the work.. I'd be lost completely. The wiring, cabinet and hardware is the easy part.. I wish I could build a front end like yours. Detailed and the little things that give it that feel.
Subscribe to my channel and I'll show you. Have an empty cabinet I am going to document the build of and show how anyone can do this.
Already did. Thanks
This is a great arcade cabinet, i luv retro games sinds i was 12 year till now 43 years ago steel play my favorite game,you never get old of it!
There are millions of us middle aged men chasing nostalgia. =)
Outstanding work!!! I had to Sub immediately as I am going to build a DYI Megacade for my home. Your arcade made my jaw drop.
Awesome, quite impressive indeed...certainly looks like a labor of love.
My wife questioned if I loved this project more than her on occasion. :) Fortunately she likes gaming too.
@@IntegrumRetro and
@@bilottag I feel there was more you wanted to share? =)
That is a hell of a setup. The reflective bezels, the lit buttons, 4 joysticks, I'm assuming you also have light guns.
Looks Incredible. Congratulations!!!!
Thanks so much!
thankyou for your hard work, these games bring back super childhood memories, defnatly would love to make 1 of these
Glad you like them!
This is perfection!! I'm looking forward to seeing how you built this completely
Lots of videos to come. I think my next video will be the comics since that's a niche area, then a breakdown of all the craziness that is RetroArch.
@@IntegrumRetro how do you actually connect the PC to the arcade itself? I'm familiar with doing this with raspberry pi but not the PC
@@SketchofGoogle1978 The joysticks I have are connected via USB to the PC on an Ultramarc IPAC-4 board. Then of course the wireless are just bluetooth xinput connected to the PC.
@@IntegrumRetro so that's somewhat same board that raspberry pi use, like zero delay usb encoder?
@@SketchofGoogle1978 yes, very similar, but the IPAC has more fancy features like the ability to switch between modes (keyboard, dinput, xinput) and control multiple devices under on board (joystick, mouse, trackball)
Great vid Mr Baker, look forward to your next
Would love to know what you'd like to see next. I plan on tearing through all the RetroArch cores to detail the various nuances on configuring it.
I wish I had the skill level to accomplish something amazing such as this. I am in awe. Very very nicely done!
I agree. I had trouble understanding the video, yet alone how to even start the project myself.
There are guys on TH-cam and other parts of the internet who freely give away their plans to build home arcade cabinets. Of course this assumes you have the tools you will need to build it. But when you look at how much companies that make home arcades charge for their units, making it yourself starts looking very appealing.
Huge fan of the retro scene and I’m giving a shout out from Biddeford Maine
Awesome! We aren't far from each other.
@@IntegrumRetro awesome !!! How much for a copy of that ?
@@kinglouie9304 Send me an email at jasen@integrumretro.com
That emulation device is the Bugatti of arcade consoles! It's practically an electronic Library Of Congress! A marvel of engineering. 😲
This is incredible! What a labour of love.
Going on 4 years now. And building cabinets from xtremegamingcabinets.com.au here in the us to run the latest and best versions of this.
Greetings from Brazil! I just watched your vídeo. Wow!!! That's the best Arcade platform I've ever seen! Too bad we don't have someone so capable as you to sell one of these here. Anyway, CONGRATULATIONS! One more subscribe!
Welcome aboard!
*ohh wowwww Legendary gamer right here*
*Im in awe*
I gotta admit... I'm a little jealous of this setup. I'm old enough to remember all of these games and I really like what you're doing here.
"When you put your mind to it, you can accomplish anything" - George McFly
It also run games solid, that is a big thing with all these choice you have between arcade machines.
I want one for my son he has a small arcade with simple games, and i noticed he realy likes it, so i was thinking about buying a 2 player cabinet for his room with 80/90's 2d classics, like double dragon, golden axe, wonderboy in monsterland etc.
@@IntegrumRetro
Lol. I forgot about back to the future the game
one of the best arcade systems i have ever seen great job
tyvm! I'm hoping to put out my update video soon. I've made a lot of improvements since this came out.
@@IntegrumRetro sounds good can’t wait
OMG!! The Bezels are Amazing! I want them all lol. Glad I found your new channel :)
Thanks! Check out th-cam.com/users/OrionsAngel for the bezels. I wrote a script though to configure 100,000 profiles though. =)
Great video and an excellent build. The shaders really make a serious, positive impact, well done😁
They are the MegaBezel shaders if you are looking to add your own. I wrote a script to create 100k unique profiles for it.
Awesome package! Love the extra content there too!
Much appreciated!
If you're into modern, wall mounted cabinets, I do a nice 8TB Bigbox build for Umbrella Arcades. The PC inside is pretty beefy, even compared to a Megacade, so it plays nearly everything at 1440p resolution and 60 FPS, including PS3, Wii U, Gamecube, Switch etc.
I have a spare cabinet ready that I'm going to be building and documenting the build on. I wanted to see how far I could take the Megacade cabinet with a standard 1650 video card and Core I5 CPU. Do you have a link you can share on your build?
@@IntegrumRetro where are you located
Great work
@@krr7752 I'm based out of Maine
dude! this is gold. amazing work.
And to think it all started from buyers remorse. lol
That's the closes thing to a time machine I've seen yet. Good job!
hehe, thanks! This has been a passion project of preservation for sure!
@@IntegrumRetro Ya I bet! I was thinking of doing the same but also including 70s-90s movies, and virtual pinball in a replica of an Atari Star Wars Arcade cockpit. XD But the time involved...:/ Keep the dream alive!!! 🙌🤘
Awesome work on the whole setup.
congrats on the endeavor and good luck. would love to see how you configured teknoparrot. would also love to see how you configure something like golden tee with the trackball...
Good suggestion. Anything specific about Teknoparrot you'd like to see (Thinking of an outline of topics). I'm hearing more and more people want an input tutorial for Retroarch, so I'll start on that, but you first need to know how the underlying cores work, so I'm imagining this being a multipart series.
Great work! Been working on mine for about a year and a half and looking forward to seeing how you did the jukebox. Have over 100 systems but it still needs a jukebox.
The Jukebox was based off a pre-packaged coinops/RetroFE config. Someone built a template, then all you do is copy your music videos to the collection directory and make the artwork for the individual title strips.
@@IntegrumRetro Can you still do a video on this? I'm very interested to see how is done. I'm interested in the non gaming stuff as I've got the game stuff down in my arcade machine already. The Jukebox, the comics(looks like a video exists) and the magazines (similar to comics?).
Ultimate indeed.. Amazing cabinet. Just love it..
Well done to you sir 👍👍
Thank you very much! 16 months of almost daily work and my wife didn't divorce me. :)
Like how you setup Bezel Project and Function Key Combos to alternate between screen and bezels preferences.
Tutorials on this would take an hour by itself, but appreciated if you would like to explain. Keep up the great work...
I wrote a python script to configure all the different possible bezel artwork for the various systems, but I'd be more than happy to make a tutorial.
I can save many individuals a great deal of pain and suffering trying to figure that out. I'll add that to my list of future tutorials. Thanks for the suggestion!
@@IntegrumRetro Very interesting using a Python script, and was wondering how people worked around this issue since Bezels is one my big issues running different setups in LB and BigBox.
Tutorial would be appreciated and keep up the great work!
This is amazing, I wish I could buy the hard drive all categorized like this, I would pay ANY amount for this lol
Launchbox is the best!! nice to see it on an arcade setup like this!
I agree. The dedication and continuous development makes it worth the price. Though I admit, I held out until Black Friday to get their once a year discount. =)
This is amazing. I dabble in Emulators for my PC. But to have this would be a dream. I can't imagine what it would cost to have you build and program one to sell it.
Email me at jasen@integrumretro.com and we can talk about making that a reality.
I offer free remote service if needed as well to ensure it's the same experience as you see here.
I'm starting with the drive and hope to be selling complete PCs and then move to the cabinets themselves. I want that 100% plug and play experience.
Beautiful work buddy!
I like this project. I've done a few myself just with not so many games. Only 200 of the best arcade games and 20 games of of the best consoles. With only 8 of the best consoles in history.
I went for quality over quantity.
Thank God, and the lever at the correct position!
At the right side of the buttons!
Awesome project. Really want to see the jukebox section
That's a tough one, because the music causes copyright strikes, but I can put in some of the visuals in my upcoming videos as teasers.
This is one of the projects I wish I completed before I broke my back. I guess it's something to work towards.
Amazing! Thanks. I've subbed and I'm awaiting the tutorials :)
Thanks for the sub! If you have any tutorial requests, just let me know. I'd like to make videos on whatever people are struggling or most curious about.
@@IntegrumRetro I'm most curious about adding different controller types to the computer, like light guns, arcade sticks and buttons, paddles, and roller ball. Also I like little tweaks in the front end, like not having the taskbar show when the computer starts. Thanks again
@@jonathon6737 I have GUN4IR, Sinden, and Aimtrak guns, I'll probably have to make per system (Mame, Sega Model 2, NES, ect.) videos on light guns.
What is different is I have most of them working with Retroarch vs standalone emulators.
I can also do a video on analog devices and inputs in general for retroarch since 95% of all my drive uses Retroarch.
Great ideas, I'll have to pick what I want to start on this weekend then!
Congrats on the huge amount of views on this video- Incredible content makes for phenomenal results!
Thank you very much! I'm hoping it's a precursor to the many tutorial videos on how I built this. I've released a controller mapping videos for RetroArch and a comic book tutorial since this video was published.
@@IntegrumRetro Excellent!
I love the old monitor bezel seen on doom gameplay. Thats what my childhood setup looked like to a T starting with my nes and on. I had a progressive scan monitor its just what my dad had picked me up.
Have you done anything with LED Blinky? Seems like finding the correct buttons is always a challenge when playing retro games.
Was hoping to see a way to purchase the drives image lol. Great stuff
Very nice build and presentation, but I would have liked to see the actual hardware build included in the discussion. Button mapping, cabinet build, specific PC specs, etc for those of us looking to build our own. Again, beautiful machine--I hope I can create something as nice for my gameroom.
Agreed, there will be a series on the assembly and thought process into putting all that together.
Raaaaaaaaaawwwwwwrrrr!!
The amount of my youth I spent play narc at the arcades was crazy, was kinda ground breaking at the time and ninja turtles :P
You did an amazing job but with a giant screen arcade I do want to keep the proper screen ratio but I would love to have my old school arcade games much bigger on a bigger screen.
The shaders help print the size ratio into check when standing close. I need to experiment if I like it like that from the couch 8 feet away.
Even without shaders, be sure to use integer scaling to ensure you don't get that weird stretching. It may not fill your screen, but none of the old arcade games were 16:9 like today's TVs.
@@IntegrumRetro
I agree.
The correct aspect ratio is important.
Watching old films or games stretched out just looks wrong.
I prefer plain black borders though.
1. Anyway to make a karaoke 🎤 interface with the jukebox? Or a iTunes / Spotify plugin?
2. Are you running an IPac encoder? Is it configured as an xinput or keyboard encoder or how’d you get your led blinky configured?
3. Do you have 4/8 way Servo sticks for your joysticks?
4. You running mame what version or through retroarch?
It's a PC so you can put whatever you like on it. It's running an IPAC4 in keyboard mode. I run 8-way joysticks with RetroArch and the mame current core with all the 4 way controller games running with 4-way enforced turned on.
@@IntegrumRetro
1. so where you able to
Use the IPac plug and play with Bigbox or did you have to map buttons?
2. Have you tried a ps3 or ps4 controller?
3. Have you looked at led blinky and/or Servo sticke upgrades for your build?
4, your name is running through retroarch? No CHDs??
5. Have you tired the mame import on latest BB release , any help with HLSL or scan lines would be epic 😉
Dude, this is a work of art
This is sooo amazing!
This looks amazing, I have have been trying to get a good emulation setup on my PC but have had a lot of issues with controlers and bezels, every time I save settings in retroarch it seems to break something else or reset to default. looking forward to videos on how to setup the software so well. thanks.
I'm going to start part 1 on my RetroArch controls and inputs video and have it out this week.
Hey I noticed you have LED blinky is that correct? Any chance of sharing your colors.ini and LEDBlinkyControls.xml. If you have default colors setup per system/per game any more completeness helps!
@@drewjbx228 I haven't configured my setup yet, due to so many power outages I was losing my profiles. When I rebuild it again I'll share it. Still putting the finishing touches on the combability of the system, then I'll get into the eye candy. =)
@@IntegrumRetro Yep I understand, first this is first... and it is a never ending process. There will come a time we can actually just play and enjoy our arcade cabs!
I would like to see a step-by-step guide on how to do this from downloading and installing your appropriate software to obtaining and installing complete ROM sets which are clean and functional.
I can't cover obtaining the roms, but I can cover all the emualation software. There is going to be a long series of videos covering the needed topics to cover that request. I plan on doing retroarch and controller inputs for my next video.
Good golly. This is the first time I've set eyes on a Megacade and now I have yet another thing I didn't know I needed in my life, sigh...
The Megacade is a very nice cabinet. I upgraded the experience with this custom drive. :)
Epic build! Amazing! Compliments!
Thanks a ton!
Incredible Job! That screen size 🏆
Wow! That is amazing and I'm very jealous and in awe at the same time! 👏
Thank you! Some obessions go too far. Fortunately my wife supports my kind of crazy.
This is amazing. I've just installed Launchbox and am in the early stages of configuring it, so I'll be eagerly awaiting your how-to videos.
all this work is incredible, I could put the links, thanks
tyvm! Please subscribe, I have many more videos to make on the topic. =)
This is a masterpiece. Outstanding!
When I get more free time, I'll be producing more how to content. If you enjoy "how it's made" videos, there was a lot of discovery and research to configure all this.
You should do a movie library as well
Honestly, for years I just gave up on all my movies thinking streaming would always have what I wanted, but seeing the industry now, even movie preservation is necessary it seems as every month some service loses some of the greats.
Yes, exactly.
You’d think having A streaming service would be enough, but none guarantee that what you want will be there.
So many gems are nowhere to be found even w multiple streaming subscriptions.
Having a bottomless pit of digital movies/shows is essential imo.
p.s. had two other ideas I figured I’d run by you. Some light guns (I think they’re called?) for shooter games like house of the dead.
And and fire place setting.
Just having fun dreaming don’t mind me.
Good luck with your new channel.
Thank you. I have lots of content to make and little free time.
I used to run Launchbox / Bigbox many years ago but now use a front end called COINOPS. Much better imho for various reasons. There's been various vids about it. It's just an alternative if your viewers wanted some options. Saying that, just out of interest i'm looking forward to your video series.
I agree the visuals on the CoinOps releases are incredible. I've stuck with LB/BB because of the massive metadata database and media imports. The only way I found to get media imports is through CoinOps packs.
Is there a way though that I don't know of to auto update/scrape media with CoinOps?
I'd love to incorporate it into my build since it's based off of RetroFE which is what the jukebox is using.
Remember, coinops isn't a front end. RetroFe is the frontend CO uses. Coinops is a build, similar to the Pi images around. With that said, the artwork in CO is beautiful. For a user to put their own build together, launchbox is probably easiest. But for someone that doesn't want to put in the work, CO is nice (but not the only options.
@@MrEd20901 Well put. CoinOps gets so much press because of it's eye candy, few realize the real front end.
Are people manually getting all the artwork for RetroFe builds? I've been spoiled by the LB auto downloads, but I really like the flexibility and simplicity RetroFE brings to the table in customizing the visual experience.
@@IntegrumRetro yes, a lot of the CO art is created (especially can art) or old art, like marquees, has been cleaned up and upscaled. Pretty sure the vid snaps have been re-recorded in hi def to replace the standard ones floating around since hyperspin days.
@@MrEd20901 So this would be different marquee and bezel art than the bezel project, emu movies and the LB database of artwork?
Crazy Climber was a dual joystick game. I like a lot.
I configured my drive for the various versions of that game. It's so weird getting used to.
Jasen thank you for inviting us and myself on this journey I am hoping that when you hit the big 1 million or ten million subscribers you remember the little people like me who were here before the Thousand subscribers hahaha but I want to see I really am interested in how you did that and regardless of if I just use my computer or laptop hooked up to a television rather than having an arcade board I am really appreciative of what you have in store and how you set it up you have just read my mind completely and I just want to thank you from the beginning with my whole heart I've continued to support you in any way I can and I just want to say that I'm look forward to all of your videos in the future and you did an incredible job and I'm really proud of you and I honestly can really appreciate the hard work even if this was just one video
sorry for the long run on comments it's just that I'm busy and my hands are dirty so I'm using voice dictation😇👍🏼🤜🏽🤛🏽😎
Thank you very much for the support. The hardest part is which topic to cover next. I just wrapped up one of the more complicated topics on mapping controllers in RetroArch. What would you like to see next?
I'm joining the community with you guys.
Nice touch with the WarGames voice…..
Thanks, had to do some serious audio cleanup to get it that crisp, but such a nostalgic tune.
Brilliant setup. Can you package your setup into an image and share on arcade punks?
i think he's selling it??
Holy shit! Amazing work!!
Having done so myself on a smaller scale that's a crapload of work. You usually need the big drive for everything above ps1. I had a hard time filling up half a 150GB SD card for my Recalbox RPi3 build.
This is exactly what I`m looking for and presentation and the "look and feel" are all there.
. Can I buy this?
Yes. Just email me at jasen@integrumretro.com
So you've shown what you have, what you play, but what's on everyone's mind is are you going to hopefully put this on the market for us to purchase.
Email me at jasen@integrumretro.com and we can chat about that. :)
Maaaaan this is what I call real content!
Hi. Great video, though you haven’t made any more about the drives setup etc. is there any more info on it available. Cheers
There are plans to continue this when the new website goes live. I offer a retro consulting service and I've been slammed with consulting work so it's hard to balance what little free time, but I'm not abandoning the cause. I have a ton to share on how-to retro videos.
Another great video. I'd love to see how you configured Gameboy for bluetooth and the joystick in retroarch.
Amazing. Looking forward to the tutorials.
Please share any specific ones you'd like to see first. I plan on focusing on the deeper configs of RetroArch which makes most of this possible.
@@IntegrumRetro button and controller config in retroarch. It was challenging when i first did it. Also cover how you have the joystick and controller working simultaneously. Gamecube core never worked for me and I was obligated to use dolphin and it doesnt support bezels. Finally what I havent been able to figure out or find a good up to date tutorial on is how to use joysticks for pc games or xbox games. I use and ipac ultimate io. Check my channel.
@@tekkamanblade2244 Subbed to your channel. I can cover inputs after my comic video then. I am using the dolphin libretro core for Gamecube, so I could use that as an example.
I believe the IPAC Ultimate supports multi mode, so you can create an IPC file to cause the ipac to switch to xinput compatibility for xbox.
I prefer the IPAC multi mode and use the Xoutput software (sourceforge.net/projects/xoutput/)
when I need the joysticks to appear as Xbox Controllers.
@@IntegrumRetro that,
! That is what I believe we need a detailed up-to-date tutorial on, multimode xoutput. We will wait. Thanks for the sub.
loved cyberball and karate champ too. Want me some food fight
I am hoping I get the free time I want to show off all I've upgraded these last 6 months. But I love the surprise on people's faces when dual controllers just work out of the box. :)
Just discovered retro arcade cabinets like this. Love the idea. I have an 6 year old gaming PC I have decided to use for the hobby. Other than having downloaded Launchbox, I've done nothing. Not sure if your videos will be accessible to that level of noob but I'll subscribe with fingers crossed.
Oh absolutely! I'll be going through all the major emulators. I built 95% of my machine using Retroarch which relies on libretro cores (ported versions of all the major emulators including MAME). But I plan on making videos on each one.
I recently updated my arcade from a pi to a pc. But only because I needed the pi elsewhere. Have currently 50-60 arcade games on it. Have only games on it which I like and also play. Other systems I play also elsewhere and not on my cabinet.
Well done my Friend, we’ll done!
Only a matter of time until it really needs no more work.
Love those fighting sticks 💯
I love the bezel look but the warped screen drives me crazy. I don't understand why it's so popular, back in the day flat CRT's were the holy grail.
I actually use a flat CRT shader for the 32bit consoles. I tried to reflect the style of TV depending on the era it was most played on. So Nintendo64 for example defaults to a Sony Trinitron flat screen look by default.
@@IntegrumRetro ah the coveted Sony Trinitron 🍻
Great video… I like your setup, I am interested in following to upgrade my current arcade cab, I am a novice but good at following simple instructions 😊
Which would you like to see next? I was going to make a video next week on how to import digital comics and include things like how to extract the covers ect.
@@IntegrumRetro please get into the basics of big box, and mame with easy to understand educational information. A “how to” and demo of the best configuration with setting up the drive .. including a shopping list of parts .. and elude where to safely download? Old school arcade games are important to me … I spent time in the arcades growing up and look forward to that experience again in my home.. I love your cabinet with all the extras.. talk about your build also 😊
@@craigclukey3979 Lots of great suggestions, this will keep me busy for a few weeks at least. I think starting with the arcade emulation is a good start.
I use retroarch with MAME, but I'm thinking I should do a video on MAME by itself first, before talking about the various MAME cores on Retroarch.
I also have an Arcade shell from Monster Arcades so I'm hoping to show a full assembly of an arcade. I have all the parts ready to go.
Can I ask you question does this consul had Ps2 andps1 ?
Yes, full sets of both
The Comic book category look pretty cool but I think it would be cooler to have all Nintendo Power and classic video game magazines from the 80s and 90s
I didn't put that in the video, but I have all of those game magazines in my magazine category as well. I just posted a tutorial video on how I made my comic book category, but the same applies to all the magainzes I put on there as well.
Back in your day classic rock was just rock. You must feel old af. 😅
Today's classic rock was rock, I never liked our version of classic rock. I'm very curious as to what they will call classic rock in 2040.. then what will that make 70's classic rock? Ancient Rock? =)
This is amazing. Very inspiring!
Glad you think so!
How do you toggle the bezels for each game like that? I've never seen multiple bezels per game before
RetroArch has a hotkey to do that, but you also have to put the bezels in the various overlay directories so when you press the hotkey it cycles through the available shaders.
Hopefully I can make one like that to play with my kids!
😎👍
If anything, just plug it into a PC and use xbox compatible controllers. To make this work with joysticks vs xbox compatible controllers doesn't vary greatly.
I love the jukebox theme template so much. Would you like to share a download link? Thanks