Turning a My Arcade Pac Man Micro Player into a MULTI GAME machine hack mod
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
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NOTE!: Since posting this video, we've found only a few selections are modifiable!
MODIFIABLE: Pac Man, Galaxian, Galaga, Mappy, and Dig Dug. Even these may require removing epoxy off of the jumpers, which is a real pain! (Video on this coming soon!)
NOT MODIFIABLE: Karate Champ, Burger Time, Bad Dudes, Ms Pac Man
Please comment to add to the list of both Mod-able and NON Mod-able machines that you might come across.
In this video, we find out if a Pac Man mini arcade has other games installed on the mainboard and if so, we will mod the machine to make them all playable!
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Just so people know, if you hack the hackable ones to play the other 5 games, you don't have to shut it off to change games. Just flip the switch (it will continue playing the game you were on), hit the reset button and it will change to whatever game you selected. No power cycling necessary.
That is a great tip! Thanks for posting. No idea why we didn't think of that. My son will be excited to learn of this!
👾 can you make another one
Just wanted to say it's great that you're doing this stuff with your son. As a kid I always tagged along with my dad when he would do little projects around the house. I'd ask questions, offer my (admittedly limited) input, fetch tools for him, etc. and I've got a lot of great memories from that. Taught me to have an inquisitive mind and appreciate being able to take stuff apart and figure it out.
That is exactly how I grew up...following and watching my Dad and him encouraging me to do so. Unfortunately, this led to most of my mechanical and/or electronic toys being dismantled by me and on many occasions never getting put back together in working condition. :) Thank you so much for your great comment!
This was a great father and son project.
It absolutely was. It's hard these days to get kids interested in anything other than being on their devices.
I just picked up a couple of these at my local Walmart. They had Galaxian and Bad Dudes for $5 each. I've barely soldered anything, but this video inspired me to pick up a second Galaxian (they were out of Bad Dudes, which has 2 buttons). My soldering iron isn't exactly precise, so I'm not going to tackle the switch or adding a second button until I've gotten a nicer one, but I did manage to turn my Galaxian machine into a Galaga cabinet. Very cool stuff. I'm totally saving this video for reference when I'm ready to add the switch. Also, hitting subscribe... Now.
Nice score! Were those in the clearance aisle? I did pick up a burger time since it has two buttons, but found that there are no other roms on that machine. It is a higher color resolution, so is a game-specific machine. I'm going to bet Bad Dudes is going to be the same deal. We have not tried any other machines yet. Thanks for the sub!
@@AlsAutoandAppliance My store had a little clearance section in the electronics department. They were in there. Most of the others were still normal price. Just Galaxian and Bad Dudes were on clearance. Thanks for letting me know about Burger Time. If I get that, I'll do it because Burger Time is awesome. Same with anything with a nicer screen.
@@AlsAutoandAppliance I found more Bad Dudes and a Karate Champ at another nearby Walmart. Grabbed one of each and opened them, just for fun. That, and the Karate Champ had something on the other side of the screen that I wanted to clean out. I can confirm that your guess was correct. Neither seem to have other ROMs. Their boards are similar to each other, but different from the Galaxian board. Also, the individual parts inside aren't modular. You'd need to sever connections to disconnect the screen, etc.
@@baeleth That is too funny! We went out this morning and also picked up Bad Dudes and Karate Champ. Of course, we found the same thing you did. What this means, though, is that we can try to put the Bad Dudes or Karate Champ guts into one of the Pac Man machine. :)
Mine just had Karate Champ so I bought a few myself
I wanna say it’s so sweet that you involved your child with this! I had seen videos of this mod but way more cleaned up, it’s nice to see a longer/less edited process so thanks for sharing :-)
Thank you so much for commenting. It's always a blessing when the kids are interested in what we're doing. It becomes more rare in recent times with them becoming teenagers, though. Most of my videos are pretty long, but I'm driven by the thought of "what if it was me wanting to learn" with importance being put in the very fine details which helps ensure success at the end of the task. :)
Awesome father-son project! Well done.
Thank you! We are working on another project related to this that addresses lack of buttons and machines with jumpers that are difficult to access.
Thank you so much for this video. I have been excited to introduce my 6 year old son to electronics. He watched this video with me and we're both excited to do this hack together. ROCK ON!!
I just bought one earlier today. Figured it'd make a nice addition to my own collection. One thing I have noticed, however, is that the game rom is very much like the NES version, as opposed to the original arcade version.
it uses a NES on a chip
I did a similar mod to my Galaga, except I used a 4 switch dip switch. There's 7 different games accessible now.
Very nice! What is the 7th game?
@@AlsAutoandAppliance I did a mod to my Dig Dug machine and was only able to find the same 6 games.
Did this on a DigDug, works like a charm, thx for sharing ;-)
Awesome! Did yours have epoxy over the jumper locations or were they all accessible?
@@AlsAutoandAppliance I just did the mods to my DigDug , and worked perfect, and no, there was no epoxy over the solder connections on the board. 👍👍👌👌
@@42markk42 Great job! Glad you lucked out on getting one with exposed pads. :)
Gen X Adult did a video where the Arcade Classic game Joust has a bonus game inside called Defender. He had to take apart the game like you guys did here to make it work.
probably already mentioned earlier but just to let you know, with Mappy you jump automatically onto bouncing area...and will not jump off bouncing area until you press left or right. Also, you are temporarily unkillable while bouncing up and down....and you can just sit on the bouncing area for a while to decide which floor to get off (again, no jump button to get off, just left or right). Also when opening doors it can kill/stun enemies by knocking them back.
Did not know this but I bet my son did! Thanks for the tips!
Great work, prefect project for a father and son.
Thank you! It was a great bonding activity. :)
hi, I found 6 games under the modification in the video. I like it.
Awesome! Enjoy!
Very nicely put together video and very entertaining as well. Thanks for posting this.
Thank you for your nice comment. I think it was the most fun how-to I've done so far! :)
Super cool le taf de jeux😊
Thank you!
Thank you for this video. It gives me an idea of what to look for and how to experiment with the solder points to see what games are available. I will now open mine up and experiment.
Just take your time and be gentle!
How did it go?
Eric Hemingway I bought a mortal kombat mini arcade as the one on this vid and I just couldn’t find anything on it. It was a failure lol. I don’t know if those MK mini machines are different from these.
If anyone wants to try this with Bubble Bobble, DO NOT! There are no other games on my board (2020-Dec-30). There are currently only 2 games by Taito for the MyArcade series, Bubble Bobble and Elevator Action. One main reason why this works on this video is because these are all Namco games and sold individually. I did see a comment that now the MyArcade people only put one rom on chip.
That is to bad but Namco can get really anger I guess at those that hand out a few bonusgames . 😢
The MyArcade machines looked nice with added features but most had substandard controls. NES roms used as well.
I just bought both Mr and Mrs Pacman. it crazy at first when I installed battery it didnt turn on so I decided to turn it on with the Micro cable it turn on and when I added bac it started to work normal. I wonder what other gamed does Mrs. Pacman has.
As a kid we didnt have lot of money and no Compact gamed. we had to use quarter to play the real gamed. I bought a mag that show me the patter to Mr Pac man. after I ate and pass all the fruit than it give you Blue Key. I after 2 hours I ate 84 blue key before the owner kick me out for playing with 1 quarter so long cause other wanted to play. The patter that I memories of Pacman they could kill me and there a trick if you place your Pacman under what look like a T but he must be facing up you can literally stay there for 1 to 24 hours and the bad guy would just pass by you, You wont get kill. its' like they dont see you.. I ate me a cheesesteak w soda and didn't kill me.. like I said I reach 84 Blue Key in Pac-Man. It was a record in Philadelphia that wasn't ever beaten in the hood. also in Defender with 1 Quarter i was so dam good I could play for 24 hours. I usually just got tire and gave the gamed to a another kid. PACMAN AND DEFENDER I WAS UNBEATABLE.
Thank you for sharing your story! I was a kid in the 80's an knew of a lot of the tricks but never learned how to do them or was able to play long enough to discover them. Plus, the older kids would get impatient and kick me off the game. :(
Very awesome video! I just got done watching it. Great job! =-)
Thank you! I know it was long, but we wanted to be thorough. :)
Gotcha. I have the exact same mini arcade machine. One of my friends I think has Space Invaders.
Mappy is SUCH a fun game
I bought the mappy one (used to play it on my palm pilot). Hacking it right now!
Thanks for this - whilst there are similar guides online, it was really helpful to watch your video (especially to see how careful you have to be with the pads lifting off the board) - did mine today! Mappy is such a weird game though...
Glad to hear it helped! Yes, of all the arcade gaming I've done back in the old days, I don't ever remember playing or hearing of mappy.
Thanx for the vid! Got a Bad Dudes for Christmas and was planning on seeing if it had any other games... Nice to know it doesn't before I tried, but too bad... Did the same type of thing for my Tiny Arcade a bit ago...
They should have had a lit marquee sign atop them if they really wanted to mimic the real thing.
Would have been cool to integrate the game selector switch with a marquee that changes as well...hmmmmmmm
Best family hack I've seen all day.
Thank you for your comment! Trying real hard to get the kids involved in things other than just playing video games...by having them work on...video games. lol
Crazy that they had so many on there. I probably would have opted for a 3 position dip switch.
I have always wanted to mod one of these into a full-size cabinet for some reason. :)
That is a great one, lad. Even if I can find something like that, please do this to mine if I send you mine by mail doing this kind of mod hack.
We're actually working on a different way to do this. Not only would there be the six games, but also thinking about adding another switch to make the start and reset buttons into A and B buttons. :)
@@AlsAutoandAppliance Good, when I find something like that no matter what game it is besides Pac-Man, like Bad Dudes, Galaga or Galaxian as alternatives, I will send either one to you to that address.
@@kevinbarton9052 we haven't checked yet, but Bad Dudes might only have that game installed. We checked a Burger Time and there were no other games on-board. Looking to get one soon to find out! :)
@@AlsAutoandAppliance Well I guess I must choose the Pacman one. Do you think Galaga and Galaxian might have more than 1 game on those?
@@kevinbarton9052 I just picked up a Galaxian, and it looks like they have caught on to the modding, lol. There is a blob of epoxy covering the jumpers, so I'm currently researching the best way to remove it without damaging the traces. Stay tuned!
How big is the screen on these things? Looked to be about a 3.5-inch, but it's tough to tell clearly from the video. I've been considering grabbing one of these to make a novelty micro-Retropie cabinet, but I need to know the appropriate screen size to use.
As soon as I get home, I'll take some measurements and let you know. Sounds like a cool project.
@@AlsAutoandAppliance The idea is to use an 8bitdo Zero in place of the original control panel, rather than have to solder in custom controls. The hard part is going to be mounting everything since noting will work with existing screws.
@@FormulaFox The screen is 2.75" x 2.0". I just opened up a burger-time machine and it has a higher resolution display, but same dimensions and has A and B buttons. Unfortunately, no other games on that board. :(
@@AlsAutoandApplianceThen I'll grab a Burger Time unit for this project. I'll feel less bad about gutting something that only has one game - and that game being one I never particularly cared for.
2.75x2.0 plus the extra space around the screen might JUST fit one of the 3.5-inch(diagonal measurement) screens. I'd have to redo a lot more inside to make it fit, but if the interior from side to side is around 3.3 inches or wider it can be made to work. But WaveShare makes a 3.2-inch screen that should work if the 3.5 is indeed too big.
This is getting very intriguing. I guess I'll have to pick one up on my way in to work tonight and start messing with it myself tomorrow. Can't begin in earnest until I next get a chance to hit up Microcenter, but I can start measuring everything.
@@FormulaFox I just checked the burgertime machine and see there is a second opening that is 3" wide x 2.5" high by cutting away the walls for the smaller screen and extra screw bosses as well. If you cut away the 3" walls, the 3.2" might fit, but it would be close. Hit up ebay for the games. Cheaper than target or wally world. Microcenter rocks!
Just picked up a 'Bubble Bobble' one, but that was pricey so I'm not going to risk disassembling it just yet.
I got a Galaga one with the intention of fitting it with just a simple switch so it can also play Pac-Man, so thanks for the great video! Does Galaga have a resin cap, or is that just when there isn't a solder jumper?
I'd like to be able to play 'Rolling Thunder' but adding extra buttons is a bit far for my skills. I guess Pac-Man is a bad one to start with since it doesn't have any buttons! All the other games on that modifiable list only use one button though, don't they?
I can't believe you've never heard of 'Mappy'! It's a brilliant game, and on Amazon in the UK was the cheapest of the lot. You have to collect all the stolen goods, and avoid the cats. You can press the button when facing a door to open or slam it and knock the cats back. You can also get a bonus for grabbing an object if the big cat is hiding behind it, but it's risky. Also, if you jump too many times on a trampoline they change colour and break, though that's the only way you can progress through some of the bonus rounds (and deliberately bumping into the walls can speed up your way to breaking through a trampoline if you need to).
Mappy is one of the best games ever! I 1st discovered the game as an extra from Ms. Pacman Plug and Play.
Does anyone know if bubble bobble is hackable?
I just did this to the Heavy Barrel version, and the (only) additional game was Dig Dug. Two jumper combinations don't start any games, and the rest start Heavy Barrel. No resin to be found covering the pads.
That is an interesting find. We haven't tried a Heavy Barrel machine. Thanks for posting the results!
..how about the rolling thunder, does it also have the other 5 games?
Neat stuff!🎮👾🕹️😃
Anyone tried it with Ms. Pac-Man? Everything tells me it should work as well but I've seen somebody's comment that Ms. Pac-Man is a no-go
Ikr I'm trying to figure out the same thing. The Ms.Pac-Man board looks similar to the Pac-Man one but just slightly changed
Ms pacman is a no-go, unfortunately. :(
@AlsAutoandAppliance yea, forgot to update my comment. A couple of days ago, I decided to finally attempted to mod my Ms. Pac-Man, and indeed it seems like there are no other games there
Super cool taf de jeux😊
Can you please show us a website where it shows where to solder the wires on the PCB it's not very clear on the video
It is a little artistic that Fortnite was reflected off the Pac-Man screen, thanks for this video, I might try it, idk.
Very good catch! My son even mentions it in the video. Pretty cool! :) Thank you for commenting.
That 8 pin chip is probably the flash firmware. There are cheap flash reader for video card firmware flashing. You might be able to dump this firmware and replace the NES ROM files and change the games.
Yes. The 'glop top' is the one chip NES processor. They never contain the ROMS, it is on a separate flash. This looks to be an 8 pin ROM or EEPROM. Need the model number to be sure. The 14 pin chip is almost certainly the audio driver. If it's not an erasable EEPROM, the chip would need to be replaced or disabled to change the games. Soldering on a DIP socket to swap ROMS should not be too difficult. You can buy 8 pin 128K EEPROMS for about $1 each. The BIOS programmer and 8 pin clip can be found for under $20.
This is brilliant
Did you get around to doing the next video? I have the Galaxians one and want to know how you tackle the epoxy problem. Great tutorial btw, loved it.
Thank you for the compliment on the video! I have been working on the video to tackle the epoxy issue and just need to complete some editing. The process turned out to be more complicated than expected, but is definitely doable. I'm hoping to get something posted hopefully next week.
alsautoandappliance Any new video yet on the easiest expoxy removal strategy? Interested to know.
See I would test a ms pacman but I just can't tell which components he's soldering to. The first one is C2, something not sure if it's C22
MS pacman is a no-go, unfortunately. :(
Well I was going to do this I took my arcade completely apart and look for what you said there is no jumpers on the board know where so I decided to put it back together and to say hell with it maybe next time but thanks anyway nice try
Which game did you take apart? I'm working on a new video that covers converting a Galaxian machine and the jumpers are covered with epoxy. The epoxy has to be removed to access the jumpers. :(
Cool mod . Thanks for sharing
Thank you! It was a fun project for us. :)
It’s probably a nerdy question, but what sort of circuit board system do these mini arcades use?
To me, from the graphics, It looks like an NES. Probably either an ARM running an emulation but possibly an actual hardware version of the NES.
Have you tried this with the mortal kambat one yet?If there are multi games on it,I will get it fo sure.
See i want to make my own i want to add like TMNT, the Simpsons, golden axe, and most important Dragon's Lair. I just bought the remaining arcade games they had left at walmart for $5.00 each so im hoping to have these up and running within the next few weeks
Get a raspberry pi then. These arcade machines are literally just NOAC systems, and you can't put Golden Axe or Dragon's Lair on a Famiclone, son.
Caveman ninja is also modable
What games did you find on that one?
But it's a pretty poor conversion of the arcade game onto the NES!
I tried this with Burgertime. Yah it only has the one game.
There is no action buttons on this mini Arcade
Let's see how this pan out 👀🧐 !!! Yes I have this Pac-Man machine
🙏🏻☯️🥶‼
Man I wish I was that good at moding
Just watch lots of videos! We only decided to check into this one because of another video we saw. It was a fun project. :)
I opened up my Ms. Pacman and found out that it has the same PCB as Pacman and the same jumper pads ( IOB 1-2-3 ), after careful examination of the jumpers I noticed that the Ms. Pacman doesn't have any solder blobs between jumper pads, I tried to jumper between the 6 jumper pads and had no luck finding any other games on the Ms. Pacman unit.. So I'm guessing that since Ms. Pacman came out after Pacman did and this video of modding Pacman to play other games so MyArcade decided to just put one NES rom on a chip when they built Ms. Pacman...
Can I get a copy of the switch wiring diagram please?
Could I gut this and replace it with a raspberry running retropie?
I tried this with Elevator Action. The PCB looks exactly the same so I was hopeful, but no combination of jumpers had any effect. :(
I'm thinking they've caught on to aour little scheme and now only include one rom in each one. :(
..I recently purchased the Rolling Thunder version as I assumed it has all the other 6 games without adding button A as it already came with A and B..I tried modding it and sadly there's no other games here..the contacts doesn't even have the epoxy glue..
Can i do this with the pac man portable thing? The like pocket player
I bought one not long ago to check this and it does not appear to be possible, unfortunately. 😢
@@AlsAutoandAppliance rip. the portable pocket player is pretty comfortable and really a good handheld device so i wanted to play dif games
Even Element 14 should do this also in a My Arcade portable handheld version as an option.
Would be interesting to try!
@@AlsAutoandAppliance That is why Element 14 did that with a tiny keychain mini arcade on a 4 games in one handheld. Here is the video ruclips.net/video/OZZ0Tix5nuk/видео.html the other ruclips.net/video/xijc9gcgpTE/видео.html
Tried doing this myself, every single pad came off. Ended up smashing the damn thing.
Oh no! Sorry to hear that. If the pads break off, it is possible to follow that circuit toward the blob where the chip is and scrape the green mask off to expose the copper trace. You can make a connection there, but it is super thin and might require magnification to make the connection.
Hey , just got a Dig Dug machine - are you still going to do a follow up video on the mods with epoxy ?
Thanks
So sorry for the late reply. Yes, there is a planned follow-up, but some of the footage we took got corrupted, so hoping to re-shoot on a new unit soon.
@@AlsAutoandAppliance Still patiently waiting :)
Forger it, I only have 1 hand cause i lost my left at work. It look hard to do with 2 hands.. The company I bought the games send me 2 of each. I have 2 Pacman and 2 MS Pacman. if you do my Pacman you can keep MS Pacman new in box. see what game you can get out of her... plus I paid you for material and time.. if you said no, Im stuck with 2 Pac and MS. colleting dust..It up to you. I ask another...
I have the Bad Dudes one. Other than that, perhaps a MAME Pi Zero version of My Arcade playing all MAME arcades involving one or two buttons and a joystick only.
Pi Zero isn't really powerful enough to run the MAME. Try for a Pi 3 or Pi 4 instead.
@@djmips Pi Zero is plenty powerful enough for the older Arcade games. I run Retropie on a Zero, and older arcade games (PacMan, DigDug, etc) all run great.
@@desiv1170 I agree, however most people want to play some later games and you don't have to go that far in years to get into issues. It's not that much more to get a Pi 3 or 4 and the results are much more satisfying.
@@djmips Mostly agree. For me, if it can play arcade games up to Gauntlet era (which it can), then I am good. ;-) Also, the Pi0 is decently cheaper. My last Adafruit order was just under $20 shipped for a Pi 0 ($5) AND a Pi 0W ($10) shipped. The Pi 3 looks to be closer to $30 or so. But it is a lot more power for that. In Retropie with my Pi Zero, I do some of the golden era arcade game, NES, TG16, Genesis (I think it does all the Gen games fine, at least the ones that don't have in cart chips) and SNES (it does struggle on some of the fancier SNES games, but most of them are fine..) I didn't even try PSX, N64, etc on the Pi0. (Although I actually read it can do PSX better than SNES. Might try that someday.)
Karate camp I don't see it on there unless there's some black stuff looks like tape or something on the motherboard there's three or four of the jumpers could be under the black tape but I would have to pull it off to motherboard I don't want to damage my motherboard it doesn't really look like a jumper but it could be otherwise I really don't know I do know the motherboard I have looks totally different than the one in the video you have a screen that you can plug in my screen is already soldered to the board with a ribbon so yes they are totally two different motherboards they don't even really look the same much got the black thing in the middle I guess that maybe the chipset but like I said they don't even look like the same motherboard at all really
I'm going to create a list in the description that show which machines can (and can't) be modded for multiple games. Unfortunately, Karate Champ is one of them that can’t be modded. :(
@@AlsAutoandAppliance I really don't know if it can or can't really because I didn't see no jumper and this is my first time modifying my arcade mini consoles I've never don't have this one but I have modified a lot of different things but I know for a fact the motherboard looks totally different
Geez, that was hard to read, had to take one long breath, some grammar wouldn't hurt.
Darn, I bought one of these recently to do this and the circuit board had that black glob stuff on top of the jumpers :( I tried to remove the black glob with heat but the stuff didn't seem to be softening.
That bites. The black part can be carefully ground away with a dremel tool, but it's no fun.
Do you have a tutorial for putting a retropi in this?
Hello, I just bought a My Arcade - Burgertime at my local Walmart for $5 (listed for $24.99 on WM site). I remembered that you mentioned that Burgertime was not modifiable. Why is it? Does it not have the jumper area? Please advise and thank you in advance!
After investigating, there was no evidence of jumpers anywhere. I believe the ones that do ran off a common platform while the others that don't have jumpers have different requirements to run. Sorry about the bad news. :(
@@AlsAutoandAppliance Thank you for your response. I opened it and you are correct, there were no jumpers to be seen. Thank you!
Does anyone know how to use the screens in these things for other purposes?
I've seen a few going cheap, and I figure they'd be worth it just for the LCD panels if they used a standard interface...
If I think of it, I will check to see if there is a part number on the screen.
Put super Mario bros on it!
Ew I hate mario
Al: I have the My Arcade Rolling Thunder mini cabinet which isn't the original game and the My Arcade NAMCO Museum game cabinet which does have the original Rolling Thunder game. How would I transfer the original game on the NAMCO box to the other Rolling Thunder cabinet so I have the original game in a reproduction mini cabinet ?
That is a great question, and I will say with pretty high certainty that it's not an easily doable swap with just the two machines. The ROMs themselves are different and have different video display requirements. Swapping the guts won't work due to the screen size difference and overall dimensions. If it were me, I would duplicate the graphics for Rolling Thunder mini cabinet and have a sign shop create and print custom decals to fit onto the Namco Museum cabinet. Alternatively, there are folks that have arcade roms running on raspberry pi computers that could fit into the mini cabinet. The trick would be finding a display screen that fits in the opening. There is a commenter on here that is working on doing this but I have not heard any updates. I wish I had a good answer for you, and wish you the best on your project.
@@AlsAutoandApplianceThanks Mr. Wizard...lol. Very informative.
Are you seeling these, I'd like one please!!
Not at this time. We have a few more we are going to mod and might possibly try to sell. :)
I got galaga it has a and b
That is very interesting! I wonder if it was put in that cabinet by mistake. Is it a MY ARCADE unit?
Does it matter where you solder the wires on the switch?
Does the button terminals have space for.adding more.buttons? Lets.say i want to add 4 buttons?
There is space, but the circuit board its self only supports two more buttons. If you are building a raspberry pi arcade, shouldn't be an issue and the cabinet should work fine. Hope this helps!
Can you do this with the galaga one?
It’s honestly surprising that they had so much space to work with and chose to use 10 percent of it for an nes rom that’s such a ripoff
I agree. On the bright side, though, it leaves a lot of room to build a nice raspberry pi arcade system.
@@AlsAutoandAppliance that's actually exactly what I was just thinking of
The RUclips URL for this video has "Hak" in it, lol.
Lol! I never noticed that...what were the chances!
is this possible with a my arcade pocket\?
That is a very good question! I will check and see.
@@AlsAutoandAppliance thanks idk where to look for awnsers
How do u lay down and play that
I'm curious if it would be possible to mod in a new, larger screen and what would be needed if it is doable.
It might be possible. Would have to see how many conductors are in the ribbon cable and/or cross reference the specs to a similar but larger screen. Couldn't go much bigger than what's there, though.
@@AlsAutoandAppliance where would one begin looking for this info at?
Jojo Bob bubble Try Aliexpress or ebay... you need to find something with the same resolution but bigger screen (or at least that would probably be easiest)..of course same number of pins and ability to cross reference the pins on the existing and new screen too.
Is there a way to take out the nes rom and redump the arcade rom onto the board?
As far as I know, there is no way to do this. Not saying it can't be done, but if I had more time and energy, I might give it a try! There are a couple folks in the process of yanking the guts out of these machines and replacing them with raspberry pi computers loaded with game emulators and a tiny monitor. :)
The arcade ROM wouldn't work, as the processor, sound and graphics hardware is NES.
Se fosse você teria em piripaque
Hey, how do i know how much percent the batteries are if i'm charging on the USB?
I think the usb port is for powering without batteries only. If you have rechargeable batteries in it, it might charge them. It will be a good thing to experiment with! With that said, there is no indicators that would tell how much they are charged built into the machine.
@@AlsAutoandAppliance So, i need batteries to play on the machine when i wan't to go out with it?
@@rocketfuel7340 Yes, that is correct. Standard alkaline batteries actually last a long time in these machines. :)
How do you do that in the pac man Arcade.
Do you mean the full size arcade?
WHY ARE YOU CHANGING IT TO HACK MODE
Where did the action buttons come from that show up at 30:18? Did I miss something earlier in the video for adding them?
You skipped ahead and missed it.
That is an excellent observation! There was a time period between that point in the video and the part just prior. In that time, the buttons were added. This is explained shortly after the time you posted in the comment. The way it's edited, it does look like they magically appear, lol. Thank you for commenting!
i tryed today i cant get work on miss pacman
Great project! Is there any way to mod it so the high schools are saved even after its been turned off?
Unfortunately, there is no way other than to leave it powered on. :(
no, but you can just plug it into a micro usb wall plug and leave running... has a similar demo mode to the arcade.... seems to switch between battery power and wall plug seamlessly AFAIK
Can you do mine
Instead of all this work . Just by the myarcade portable players . They look like video game controllers wit a screen in the middle . Each come with 3 games
Ah, no. If you want easy, just install PC games. This involves doing something and being rewarded for it.
I've got all the arcade emulators I'm going to put into my arcade I've got the simpsons, TMNJ, and much much more. I'm going to make one with just Dragons Lair and Space Ace. I've don't created my stickers Dragon lair on one and the Ace on the other and it actually looks better than what they were using on the machine I bought the BEST quality you can buy it's going to be sweet and once I get it going I'll pop it on RUclips to make people drool when they see it. My walmart has almost all of their my arcade machines for $5.00 hey it's better then $25 hell target and game stop want $36 for their shit any I bought all of the ones that I could find for $5 and for now I can only put 2 original arcade games on them the simpsons one is going to be the seller I wish I could make it 2 players
Sounds awesome! Walmart is definitely the best price on these things, although eventually they will run out of them. I look forward to seeing how your project turns out!
Is there any way to replace the rom?
I don't think so. Everything is integrated onto an IC which is buried under epoxy. I would guess there would be a way to reverse-engineer it to load different roms, but probably not worth the effort.
@@AlsAutoandAppliance Maybe there is a connection to the memory via the main charging cable
i have this
How do u do that ???????
Can you do this with the galaga one?
I'm almost 100% sure it can be done, BUT some games have the jumper terminals covered with resin to prevent people from doing the mod. I'm working on a new video showing how to mod machines with the resin covering. It's kind of a pain, but very doable. Will be posting very soon!
The sad part is there are a bunch of FREE games on these systems but unfortunately either not knowing about the extra games inside the units or even if you did know most wouldn't be able to break about the machine and do the wirework necessary.
The galaga box that says packing designed in 2018 by dreamgear on the bottom doesnt have epoxy resin covering the jumpers..