Star Wars Arcade Cockpit Build - Finished
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 มี.ค. 2023
- This is a Star Wars Arcade Cockpit I built from 4 pieces of plywood. Inside is an i5-8500 pc with a GTX 1060 and 16GB RAM, 1TB hd and 512GB SSD. Play monitor is a 24” Dell, backbox marquee is a 22” Dell.
Cockpit plans from several places.
- Initial inspiration from Perifractic at RetroRecipes (scroll down under Recipe Ingredients):
www.perifractic.com/retrogami...
- To-Scale full DXF and vCarve files from Classic Arcade Cabinets
www.classicarcadecabinets.com...
Artwork downloaded from Arcade Artwork and printed at a local vinyl shop:
www.arcadeartwork.org/index.p...
Most of the tools and items purchased for this project:
docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...
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That is an upcoming project of mine! Wow! Nice upgrades and customization! I'm definitely stealing the ideas!
Go for it! I love to see other projects and get ideas.
You sir are my inspiration for my next build , a thing of beauty. Great for all flight games also.
Wow that looks amazing.
Lovely!!! Recognize that awesome playlist :)😊
It is a great list Bee. Thank you! I’m attempting to add a couple more groups for Spinner games and Trackball games. I know it’s not common for people that use your StarCade, but I added GRS Spinner and Trackball to play Tron, Arkanoid, Centipede, etc.
@Angelo Russo love it! It's more than open for folks to make it more their own. Great build
The dream build! Looks great 😁👍
Thank you!
that is one sweet cockpit! Very much appreciate you sharing this. ;)
Great work that’s such an awesome setup.
Super awesome setup, I really like the size of the screen, fits quite well in there, good game selection. Impressive.
This video was just recommended, and I just wanted to say what an amazing job you did on this. This legitimately inspired me to make a Star Trek arcade cockpit.
Thank you! A Star Trek Captain's Chair would be great to have! I couldn't find any plans with a quick search, but there are plenty of pictures out there and you can probably ask around at the Arcade Museum forums for people who own one to take measurements. You may even find one near you to look at if needed (I didn't have anyone near me with a SW cockpit). Good luck and please let me know if you build it.
Hats off to you sir, utterly brilliant!
Absolutely awesome job. It looks incredible. 👍
We’ll done!
Very cool! Nice job
Lovely build! Very impressive, and I hope you have a lot of fun with it!
Nice build! Turned out great!
Legit incredible... would be the highlight point of any arcade. Super jealous!
Wow!
Awesome Setup Sir!!! Cheers!!
This is fantastic.
This is sooo dope. I wish more local arcades would do this. I think conversion kits are a thing for older arcade machines, something like that for newer machines would be amazing.
While some places are bringing back "Barcades", this is more of a personal collector thing to do at this point. I would enjoy seeing these on location somewhere though. Many have never seen one in person.
This is amazing!!!!
Thank You.
Looks good
you built the dream dude thats awesome
Thank you. Wait until you see what I add to the game room next!
I need this in my life!
nice ! something like this with a HOTAS or HOSOS would be awesome !
At 3:37 the flight stick and throttle (I accidentally said rudder in the video) are the Thrustmaster HOTAS4 set. I wanted it for games like After Burner, TRON, and SW Trilogy. The Thrustmaster T3PM pedals are connected to it as well.
@@angelorusso3219 i would play star wars squadrons 24/7 in that thing to bad the multiplayer bases is only a few hundred at peak.
Really great! I finished my first Cabinet a few weeks ago. And working on the second right nor (one for vertical and one for horizontal games). But i am thinking about a custom cabinet just for Roadblaster. Great work man!
A RoadBlasters cockpit would look great in any collection. It's design is like a sleek low rider and looks like it wouldn't be too difficult to build. ClassicArcadeCabinets has the stand up plans.
@@angelorusso3219 I know and it´s more a hopeful wish at the Moment. But it was the first Arcade i played as a kid. And i really hope i can get it done. ^^
SIIIIIIICK! Good Job!
I'd love to have something like this built around a Obutto revolution simpit if I had the money,space, and of course the skills
The primary config would be for the X-Wing series
Would love to build this myself… have the yolk and just use on my atgames products
Hit that LIKE button people!
Wow man great work! I have some projects going on myself. lol I am converting my Ridge Racer Arcade1up into a sit down PC modded machine.
I love to see A1Up conversions and mods. People in the modding community are so creative. Hence the Perefractic mod of his SW A1Up into a cockpit which inspired this project!
@@angelorusso3219 Yeah me too man! So many creative people that come up with some killer ideas! I am also converting a bare Simpsons A1up into a 4 player TMNT PC modded cabinet! More on my channel if you are interested.
I learned to drive playing Ridge Racer @ 13, made actual driving seem easy when it came around LOL
bad ass
AAAAAMAZING DUDE I REMEBER AT THE ARCADES IN THE 90`S GETING IN THIS THING AND PLAYING IT OVER AND OVER THE ARCADE GUY WENT BUST AND SOLD ALL HIS MACHINES I HAD A CHOICE BUT THE STAR WARS MACHINE OR THE MORTAL KOMBAT 2 ARCADE LIVE ORIGINAL STAND SORRY WAS A BIGGER MK FAN LOL BUT YEAH AMAZING WORK MAN WOW LOOKS EXACTLY LIKE THE ORIGINALS ...NICE !!1
I'm thinking of doing this with wacky races arcade, why? Because it's no where to be found anywhere, I would be the only one out I believe to have one . Don't know what happened with this arcade because at the time people Loved it. Great job on the arcade !
And NO BABY YODA! All this gets Retrotech'r approval LOL
IV V VI only. No less no more.
Trying to think of all the games that would be fun to play with the old Arcade Atari Controller, STAR FOX is the first to come to mind.
Wow!!! What are you using for the GUI to select games??? That front end is dope!
It's Big Box with the LaunchBox purchased license. Launchbox has the option for second screen to show the marquee built-in. It is very customizable, but this particular set was made by Kong's R Us (www.youtube.com/@KongsRUs) and is called Starcade 2.0 specifically put together for utilizing the yoke with many genres of games.
@@angelorusso3219 thank you for your reply.. I’ll definitely have to look into it.. very dope machine… probably the best one I’ve seen yet… I have similar ideas.. but… it would take a lifetime to explain why I haven’t attempted one myself yet.. maybe one day… but definitely a work of art and a gamer’s dream come true!!!
Saw you on BKongs Next Level. This is an amazing build sir. Absolutely beautiful. Extremely well planned and executed.
I’ve been more of a EM arcade collector although I grew up in the golden age of arcades late 70’s early 80s.
Initially built a 60 in 1 so I could play golden age games in a gutted trash pile find of a Space Invaders.
At the beginning of December I bought several Arcade1Up cabs. Joust, Tempest, Tron, Dragons Lair, Golden Tee 3D, Ridge Racer. The one I could not get my hands on was Star Wars.
I laughed when you said you bought a lot of Glen’s components. I literally bought everything he had for sale to upgrade my A1Us.
Including the Star Wars yoke. Not sure why but I also bought the components without the A1U cabinet to build one off EBay.
So now I am at the point after watching BKongs for quite some time I’m going to build a cockpit. Your video has given me the confidence to do so.
Love what you are doing with the Trilogy built too. Thanks for sharing this with the arcade community!
Thank you! Sharing is caring, and as you said it builds confidence that anyone with the desire can build one yourself. Really, it takes motivation, time, and money - create that Venn diagram to show how we all have one or two, but not all three!
As I said in Bee's interview, I had already bought the A1Up Star Wars cab along with Glen's yoke and initially wanted to mod it in the customary A1Up fashion. Mod searching took me down the cockpit rabbit hole. I was inspired and amazed by many Star Wars cab/cockpit projects out there. I believe I found every restoration of an original as well as custom new builds on the internet. I bookmarked everything, saved hundreds of photos for reference during the build process, and then started to purchase tools and parts. It was just finding the time to build it in between my 8-5 job, my side job that pays for all my toys like this, my light show which I'm usually consumed with planning sequencing and building throughout the year, and not seem like I'm ignoring my wife to get this done. Thankfully, "free" time came at the right time and the cockpit came together quickly. It's actually taking longer to refurb the Trilogy cab than it did to build the cockpit as now my extra time is scarce.
Good luck on yours. Post pics and progress in the Starcade group (which will also keep you motivated).
Would you be willing to share your game lists?
Why didnt you show it while playimg something?
I was just showing it's features. Another video is coming with some gameplay, however as soon as I finished building this, another arcade project landed in my garage that will compliment this build and has been taking longer than expected.
@@angelorusso3219 Man.... this is awesome.
I cant wait to see it working properly
proably because it doesnt work it is just for show.
Can I pay you to mod my Star Wars cab?
I love building things and being creative, and if I could help you or anyone mod their cabs I would. Building this cabinet, even with most of the work done by Perefractic/Retro Recipes and and Classic Arcade Cabinets, I put in 2 months of research before I started cutting the first piece of wood and put a lot of thought into everything while piecing it together... then doing more research on ideas I kept coming up with and the best ways to implement them. If I recorded the build process, I would have to cut out so much of me standing there pondering "what if" or "how do I" or finding less expensive alternatives. If I had the time and resources to do this full time, I absolutely would. But that also makes it a job and honestly less fun because now I have customers to think about, make happy, and possibly support should things go wrong. I hope that I can at least bring inspiration, ideas, and show that anyone can do this themselves. Even if you have no technical background, you can follow build plans to make the cabinet, then just buy the guts with one of those off-the-shelf 10k games unit, or get a
The pondering what if parts you speak of is actually just you sipping a beer......we all been there....brain fart ya know
@@retropalooza If I drank beer, I'd probably agree with you :) But my mind starts to play chess with ideas trying to think 5 moves ahead... or backtrack an idea with what steps I need to take to make it happen!
@@angelorusso3219 I hear ya there. restoring a Famicom disc writer as we speak then onto a q 1973 Williams pin and a pachinko machine
I'm the same way. I got a minor in math and I always had a habit of counting everything from roof tiles to floor tiles. Got so bad they give me downers because it effects my life. Everything gotta be In sync, perfection, neat, and organized
Money/ time/ effort for a project on a Movie series THAT IS DEAD !!!!!!!!!!!!!
To each is own. I enjoy both Star Wars and Star Trek. I'm not a fanatic of either. I wanted an arcade machine for emulation and I was going to build one from scratch anyway. I saw RR converted his A1Up into a cockpit sandwich and brought me back to my days playing this in the arcade. I only had to add a bit of extra time and material to my original plans. For me, the challenge of building it was my motivation. It's a rare recreation of history (only 2,400 original Atari cockpits were made in 1983), a good conversation piece, and a fun/versatile emulated arcade machine. Should I ever sell it, there are many that would line up to buy it. I've already had a few offers to buy it or requests to have me build one for them - all appreciated but graciously turned down. To me, it represents by far the best of what SW offered through the original Trilogy. The movies since have their place... good or bad. Disney owns the IP and it will never be dead, but probably never be good again. If you stated "on a movie series THAT IS NOT GOOD ANYMORE" your opinion would be more respected. But that's the great thing... that we can have our opinions and debate them.
The empire did nothing wrong.
Total amateur, that looks nothing like Star Trek ;)
Retro Recipes wants to know your location.
They know it. I sent it to them when I submitted my creation. If Perefractic needs anything I'm sure he'll contact me.