Restoring Classic Arcade Games in Mini Cabinets!
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- Опубликовано: 18 окт 2024
- Matt Sengbusch builds unique arcade cabinets using components recovered and restored from classic arcade games. We visit his workshop to learn how he fixes game boards and designs these half-scale arcade cabinets to fit original parts like CRT monitors, coin slots, and full-sized controls.
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Hopefully he replaces the capacitors on those boards and in the CRT in those monitors, rather with good temperature tolerance
than just enough, as defectice capacitors often is the cause of old electronics not working.
Perhaps put in a silent fan or two to nudge longevity upwards.
Not sure if it is possible or easy to add a "screensaver" functionality in those CRTs, so they turn off the
beam if the game stands unused for a long time. Sure they will get just harder and harder to replace,
and the used old CRTs he uses have had many hours of use already,
Also, making it easy for the end user (owner of the cabinet) to turn down the brightness of the CRT
just a little, if light conditions are favorable where the game is going to be used, also will extend
the lifetime.
One thing I really love about Tested is that they sit back and let the various experts/makers geek out and really go in depth about their work/passion. It's really great to see.
This Guy is Amazing brings back the ole days
This guy is a LEGEND!! No in fact he's a GOD!! At 47 yrs old I grew up in arcades and these are the best retro original machines I have seen!!
That is certainly the beard of a god
Very impressive work, great act of preservation / re-invention.
Awesome to see these 30 year old games get a new lease on life! Also, pretty amazing that they are often in such good working order!
Always like seeing this. I miss arcades and any chance I get to go to one that is still open, I go.
Well Matt, I’ve now watched this video more times than any other on RUclips. I love it. Ben
That's amazing! I need to learn making the cabinets definitely!
9:05
"All by hand"
"NO LASERS?!"
:)
This is up there with the coolest vids I have ever watched.
My heart almost stopped when Norm starting fucking around near the flyback controller
WHOA WHOA Whoa :) I thought Norm was going to get a Electro Pixie surprise around 3:39 , phew
Yeah I was holding my breath ^^.
Congratulations, a clever job well done, these mini cabinets are too beautiful.
Lovely, nothing better than old school arcades :D
Very entertaining and fun to watch. Thanks for posting this.
Love that they talk about input lag.
Love this video. And love the builders dedication to accuracy
Cool. I love the lava lamp!
I played one of these at the arcade show. I was very impressed
Looks like he does amazing high quality work. As long as the boards and monitors are not coming out of fixable original cabinets and such then it seems alright. It's sad seeing people mod functional historic hardware that can be completely refurbished, but again, buying bare damaged boards and fixing them is great!
The monitors couldn't possibly be from old ones.
I pick CRT TV's every time I see one just for retro gaming reasons! I have helped many of friends out by grabbing something that works out of the trash. Anyone who is having a harder time for finding older things should look in the midwest because you can pick up all kinds of antiques and stuff.
I LOVE Classic Arcade!!
i am surprised with such a resurgence in nostalgia no ones started up a company to build tube monitors.
Long live arcades and crts!!!
I like that this video had less editing and was more naturalistic, keeping the conversation authentic and not eroding away the detail that a lot of us nerdgeeks enjoy. Good job, editor!
This is so cool! I can’t believe it took RUclips so long to recommend this to me.
This turned me on a little. This is great to see someone saving these machines. The emulators are fine and all, but the real deal is so much more satisfying. Could you sell plans for these somehow? I'd love to build a Mortal Kombat machine.
I totally agree with you. This guy is awesome.
With a bit of googling, there's all kinds of free plans online that you can base your design on, including smaller cabs. This guy's just building it as small as he can still fit a monitor. That said, I'm kind of interested myself, still have a vs. super mario bros. arcade board that I pulled out of a broken german cab.
Heh it really isn't. Once you have a good GroovyMAME setup the notion of having to fumble around with multiple boards feels laughably archaic and limited.
I enjoy doing this kind of work as well more as a hobby for me fixing old NES games
Started out with a Commodore Plus/4 as a small kid playing Pac-man and a few others, and a little later moved on to Commodore 64 to play Giana sisters, Park Patrol, Arkanoid or whatever. Back when games were hard and orginal. Good times that are long gone.
He really should make a Tron, a QIX, a Scramble and a Mach3.
Remember the small Vectrex console?
Yes! I was to do some vector games and the Vectrex monitor would work perfectly and it's the correct size. I've been looking for a broken Vectrex with working monitor. If anyone has one, let me know!
So cool to hear that you can use an arcade chassis with a consumer tube!
I miss the maker stuff like this. With Adam so busy the channel gets too focused on stuff I'm not that much into like collectables, video games and VR. There's nothing wrong with that stuff--it's just not my bag.
I would love to see Tested visit a pinball machine restoration and custom pinball machine makers
In SF Bay Area we have several arcades and "arcade muesums". Just be sure to warm up those wrists first!
beautiful machines Adam!
Awesome "Job" / Hobby. Those look nice.
I remember the originals coming out when i was a kid and first seeing them at the arcade.
CRTs having no input delay or less input delay than the fastest monitors is a myth. A 60hz CRT has 8.3ms of lag at the center of the screen (CRTs draw from top to bottom).
That's true, but it still means that any analog CRT will always hit that same amount of input delay whereas LCDs can, and will, vary due to differences in LCD panel quality, image processors, or video scalers. Every CRT can hit that baseline, and the amount of delay only decreases as you jack up the refresh rate - up to 210Hz, in some cases (PC monitors and projectors only though).
Regular monitors (non gamer oriented) normally have 30+ms of delay input.
Not to mention that you could use an emulator with runahead and still output to a CRT effectively having less lag than real hardware.
This is true, modern gaming lcd is faster then a crt. But these old games don't look right without the scan lines, if you use a emulator you can enable scan lines and notice how much better it looks. If your not using a emulator you can't easily add those artificial scan lines to a lcd and modern computers have more lag then they have ever had so a emulator will never have as fast of a reaction. I know it sounds backwards but its true, they are optimized for processing power not reaction time.
I seen one test where someone wrote a program to test the reaction time by lighting up led and measuring the time it took to push a button, they used a solenoid and a photocell to make hardware to press the button when it detected the light. They tested the rig by using a oscilloscope to measure the time between the light being powered and the button being pressed, it worked in under 1ms. Then using the PC and tested with many different usb keyboards and game controllers it had between 30-60ms delay. This delay is without any monitor, that would be added on to it.
While you are right, I think you took what was said out of context. I've 32 years of arcade experience and that poor chap was trying to cram it all into a 15 minute video without bamboozling non arcade people so give him some slack
thats some great work
Awesome want all of these... ☺
really cool machines.
ok, this is epic
So Awesome!
Fascinating, thank you!
Super AWESOME!!!
Outstanding work! *****
Am I the only one bothered that Donkey Kong Jr. is running with the display showing upside down.
DK Jr is still in progress! I just put the monitor in, and I have to fabricate the frame to fit, and also flip the image. Nintendo boards put out a slightly different video signal than other arcade games. The colors need to be inverted and the image needs to be flipped. There are 2 wires on the yoke that can be swapped to flip the image.
No, lol, It bothered me as well.
If I'm not mistaken, original machines mounted the CRT "in the guts" and bounced the image off a mirror, which I'm surprised he didn't do since that may have mitigated the need to modify the mounting bracket.
Its also why machines had that traditionally sloped back as that's what the mirror was mounted to.
I'm unsure if the mirror or acrylic screen had any magnification properties.
@@SmallChangeArcade
Do you do fullsize restorations?
@@GJToken While some games did operate like this, Nintendo cabinets do not use the mirror strategy. The monitors are mounted similarly to how they are in my machines. Some notable games that do use mirrors include a lot of the mounted gun games, like Jurassic Park and Terminator, and the 6-player X-men.
@@Clay3613 Yes! happy to, particularly if it's a niche game with hard to find components or graphics
This is awesome.
Great interview!
Need that MK cab!!
Amazing!
I used to have one of those little 13" TVs with VHS in my room when I was a kid :)
I wish I had a purpose like that in life.
Yeah it's a noble profession.
I wonder how much longer these kind of original board games and crts will continue to function with the IC’s and CRTs slowly but surely degrading and disappearing with replacements no longer manufactured and avail. Great job preserving these though. Well done.
Everybody wonders about that with valve guitar amps etc. If the demand is high enough they might start to manufacture them again. It'd probably only be one factory somewhere and the price would be high but it might happen! :)
In other countries, you can get CRT's for the cheap...
Very Cool!
Hope this guy expands starts another small factory on the east side of USA. I love it but $5k is very steep a full size goes for less shipping included unless you want to make it very top notch. I think maybe he can go for $2k I'll buy it a Ms Pacman and Joust. I'll check his company out.
I'm so glad he mentioned input latency as a priority. I'm pretty sensitive to input lag and it's a deal breaker in a lot of emulation situations. It's one of the reasons I've moved away from RetroPie, even though I love it. I'll probably switch over to PC for my future MAME cabinet with hardwired controls. That is, if I ever get around to actually building it.
Look into the Mister project, I build Pies and love them but I getting a Mister setup because of this.
@@cajungoat Thanks for the heads up. I'll look into that. Does it require a lot of effort to get running? I'm pretty experienced with Linux/command line, just curious about what I'd be getting into with that.
Wow. would have liked to be involved in something like this. If I'm ever on the States ill need to give you a visit
Very cool
Would love to buy a Primal Rage machine like this. You think you’d ever try downsizing a four player X-Men, TMNT, or Simpsons cabinet? Any of those would be high on my list.
Would be nice to be able to buy one of them. Just rentals ? Good luck
Hey Matt do you carry a light gun or phaser? I'm wondering because your badge is not showing.
Love that he’s doing this! Is he getting permission from the original companies for the cabinet art?
If you buy it you own it bud
billy bass sighted 14:15 on top of the yellow level.
SHUT UP AND TAKE MY $2,000 FOR THE TETRIS CABINET!!!
A mini Neo Geo would be really neat
I love the Goofy Foot test controller! Sofa King Cool Matt! \m/ You rule!
Input lag depends on the LCD panel you use, some panels have no input lag...
I'm not aware of an LCD with no input lag. I'm not sure how that's possible for any display. The further complication is that in order to use an LCD with an analogue input signal (like an arcade board) it necessarily needs to be converted to a digital signal. This introduces additional lag.
Finally someone made a size thats playable and not just a paper weight. Too bad its only for rental and not buy.
Those EPROMS need a sticker on the window to protect them from being erased by UV light :)
Such as in the Linndrum precambrian drum machine 'console'. To avoid the expense of stickers, they used nearly bullet proof casing metal and timber casing that weighs as much as a microwave oven.
Bows to the master...
I spotted Matt's flat cap. I have the same one in black. #ItsaGoorin
Goorin4life! I have so many hats from them. I finally filled up my punch card and got a free one! :-)
I can understand making them narrow to save space, but making them shorter? Did he have low ceilings too or was it just cheaper? They are clearly not attached to the stands upon which they rest. There are modernized mass-market versions of these mini games and they are unplayable because they are too short and were not designed to be played while seated.
My games have a threaded insert on the bottom. I make custom stands, like the ones in the video, and the games attach to the stands with a giant wingnut/bolt that goes through the stand. The games and stands are designed to put them at the proper height when playing. It's very important to me to not pervert the design of the original cabinets, so changing just one dimension is out of the question as it would make them look weird.
awesome
You should restore one of the gun games, that would be a challenge to miniaturize
In that case I don't think it would be much fun to play in such a small screen
This is how 1up arcade should have done these but at the same time I wouldn't mind something in between the size of a original dedicated cab & the 1up...
Super!!!!
The Donkey Kong Jr. Monitor is Upside-Down!
I need that DKong and Kong Jr more than I need water & oxygen.
Or you could make the boards vertical. At an angle, even.
So he's using RGB? Sweet!
is Norm's $10 haircut part of his brand or something?
Part of the DIY culture I thought. Or maybe the IDGAF culture possibly.
Originals were formica ? For durability . These painted panels ?
Yea formica not painted and Japanese size plywood. Hard to match exactly
Really cool but not $4-8k cool especially with the Arcade 1ups for $200.If they were around $2k I would be interested but Mrs. Pacman for $8k is crazy.
They aren't for sale anyway, hes basically an artist that rents his work out to local businesses. He could build them cheaper, but that's not his prerogative.
@@iamtheflu On his website he lists them for sale most are 4k,mrs. Pacman was 8k....They are really cool just too expensive to buy is all.
Oh, I see now, I didn't look at the services page cause I assumed it would just be about the rentals and refurb service. He must spend stupid money on those monitors saying materials alone cost 1k. I know some boards can be expensive, but he says he buys them broken and I see most "untested" boards go for under 2 hundred.
You didn't account all the time he spends refurbing all these arcades
@@iamtheflu I do mostly just rent them and operate them in the local arcades. I occasionally do commissions. There just really isn't a way to bring the price down unless I start sacrificing materials and features, in which case, just get an arcade1up. I'm not going to compete with them, and I really don't want to. Each of my games takes several hundred hours of work, at least, not even counting design/art on the computer. I make about 5 games max per year.
Oh god yes. Yes indeed. No prices on the web site?
very cool, but get a vinyl cutter
Matt is gorgeous and he's a gamer. 🎶
Cool
Original Star Wars, please!
Hey Adam, I dare you to build the EMU Nasa Spacesuit.
I want one...
that dk junior with uncovered erase windows on the eproms
not that big of a deal but still yike
I like the mk2
Or you could get an arcade1up machine that is either the same size as these or bigger with an lcd
These probably don’t even have rizers
Interesting video. I have an old SEGA Quartet arcade game that I will be working on in the future. I have issues with the contact pins on one header board connection. It will give me a direction to go for replacement parts. Thanks J K
Hopefully he replaces the capacitors on those boards and the CRT in those monitors, rather with good temperature tolerance
than just enough, as defective capacitors often is the cause of old electronics not working.
Perhaps put in a silent fan or two to nudge longevity upwards.
Not sure if it is possible or easy to add a "screensaver" functionality in those CRTs, so they turn off the
beam if the game stands unused for a long time. Sure they will get just harder and harder to replace,
and the used old CRTs he uses have had many hours of use already,
Also, making it easy for the end user (owner of the cabinet) to turn down the brightness of the CRT
just a little, if light conditions are favorable where the game is going to be used, also will extend
the lifetime.
I have some Arcade1ups and other products because I don't do woodworking and I don't have the ability to do CRT's which need an RGB signal and arcade boards working are crazy expensive on ebay. And some arcade1ups like The Simpsons can be softmodded to run other emulators and games. Simpsons is a 2 game cabinet, but it can be made into a 20 game cabinet for nothing. The softmod uses the original stock PCB and a mouse and keyboard to access the Android menu. Why did real arcade games use an RGB signal and a sync signal? But home game systems used an RF switch or a red, white, yellow cable for the video and stereo audio. Was the picture on arcade games better than the picture from home systems on a regular CRT TV then? There was a product called Super Gun or Super Nova that could play arcade games on a standard TV and it had the correct outputs for a home TV. I had one that I got on ebay in 2022 for $800 but I sold it because all I had was a pink pandora cart with games on it and they were emulated and they didn't demo for some reason, they just went to the title screens. Arcade boards are crazy expensive on ebay and some of them don't work, they sell them broken for somebody to fix. I don't have the tools or knowledge to fix them.
Too bad these are only Rental - He really needs to sell the systems or make massive retail kits like what Arcade1up is doing.
When will Jamie star in a video?
Unfortunately, Adam and Jamie don't get along so I highly doubt he'd appear in a video. They were great together in Mythbusters because of their crafting skills, but they had too different of personalities to become actual friends. I can't remember where I learned it, but I think they said in all the years together in Mythbusters, they never hung out unless they were filming or doing stuff for the show.
*facepalm* Norm, quit referring to ARCADE GAMES as "ARCADES." Arcades are the physical locations where people go to play arcade games.