Honestly I can't thank you, TechnicallyTNT, and the development community enough. Not only does your work jailbreak these pricey 1up cabs, its also helping me get out of the doghouse with my wife for buying it in the first place.
It's awesome man. Easy peasy! I didn't have room for Bubble Pop though. That thing is huge. Maybe if I move stuff to a USB I'll be able to, but for now I'm good. Just going to try and located part 2 of this and configure Dig/RetroArch.
So, I did the Dawson Mystery Experience before doing this. Added all the apks, they're working...but none of my controls are recognized except in the factory game (simpsons). Found there's another MDE fix for after the fact. Even still, the controls aren't working for me on all the games. Suspect I need to add them to the MDE list somehow... Question: Part 2?
I have The Simpsons cab and I want to do this so badly :) maybe this weekend. Thank you for making and sharing these types of videos. Can you use SD Slot to store these games?
Yes, the emulation route will be covered in part 2. You can put SD to internal storage. However, the units became buggy in our test. USB drive is better.
Well, followed the whole thing to the letter. Everything loaded, just none of the controls worked making all of the games unplayable. I factory reset my cab, put it all back to stock and have zero problems running it stock. Modding worked, just no inputs from the control deck at all. Yes, I did the control deck "fix" and everything else too.
@@TheSchneidj well then you didn’t follow everything to the letter then. The controller fix kills the apk controls unless you edit the whitelist for it. Also you don’t need the control fix for the apks, just for retroark
@@aValexV Well, you're a god amongst men! Worked like a hot damn WITHOUT the controller fix! Just have to fidget with the icon placement now for the bottom row. For whatever reason it's not quite aligning on a 5x9 grid. Again, thanks so much for this mate!
Everything came out great however for the music using your Macrodroid trigger, how do I get it play random tracks in that folder rather than it playing the first track every time?
@@aValexV thanks, I’m sure there’s a way but I just couldn’t figure it out. There’s just so many options to choose from, I didn’t want to mess anything up. I tried googling it but no luck. Also I noticed that when I turn on the machine, it boots up Nova fine however it boots up the A1UP vid logo first, goes black, boots up the vid again then goes into your custom wallpaper. Say something about USB reconnected. Yet I installed an sd card with plenty of memory for internal storage and there’s no usb in the machine. Thoughts why that’s happening?
@@unknown183 which unit do you have? So far the double boot up happens with sd card set as internal. I started using usb drive and haven’t noticed that being an issue anymore
Quick question, what's a good desktop grid setting for the yellow grid wallpaper you have on your site? You have the 8 columns on the left and I don't see what ratio to use. Thoughts?
Great tutorial, it took me a few hours to go through and replay a few parts. I was able to setup a very "simple" build using your wallpaper with one that does not include retroarch. For some reason the macro is not keeping my music playing but I only wanted 1 song to be on repeat so maybe that has something to do with it?
I can't get my Blitz to get into the OS screen. When I press Win+n, it starts the chosen game on the screen. I can't get it to go into the settings screen. Help.
Do im down to trying to download button mapper. It downlaoded to my sd card but will not move over to the pcb. Tried 2 different kinds. Idk what to do.
Thanks for sharing and all the hard work you put in for the community. I have 28 Arcade 1Up’s and buying a TNMT tomorrow. I’ve never modded anything yet and have the Simpsons already. I’m not the best with computers and was wondering if you offer this service for a fee? I would love to ship my pcb board and pay a fee for this. I’m worried if I do it I might mess it up
Thank you for this!!! Worked great. I am having trouble with the multiple picture wallpaper. When moving the joystick it scrolls all the way to the end. I also tried to download it again and the link is not working. Thank you again for this great step by step.
Do any of those 150+ games require more than two buttons? Because my Simpsons cabinet only has two regular buttons and an "insert coin" button for each joystick.
Followed the instructions, thank you! I did do a factory reset first which wiped out Simpsons Bowling. Now when I launch The Simpsons it doesn't prompt to connect to Wi-Fi so it can't run the update. I do have the TMNT apks installed and don't see Bowling as part of that. Any other way to get Bowling or factory reset again and do the update before starting?
Some of these APKs in your archive have 2 or 3 versions. Do I just use the latest one for each? Also, I'm doing it on Simpsons. Do any of those APKs have extra games besides the main two?
Thanks so much for the video. Very helpful. Only issue I've had is DroidCade doesn't seem to patch "Progear" and "Puzzli 2" from the Ghouls APK. I've done two full factory resets and followed all the steps but still get the same issue. Not a big deal but just wondering if you'd have any insight. Thanks again.
I ran into the same problem. So I installed the older version of the droidcade patch and retested. That fixed all but 2 of the games. Then I loaded the new version and only applied it to the 2 broken games. All fixed!!
Which version of MacroDroid? There are four options on that site, now. Googled it but couldn't find any information on if the Simpsons is ARM32/64 or X86-32bit/64bit.
hi , and thank you for the great videos! I was wondering where we can get those mp3 files you used. I would love to use the tmnt dubstep one. Also is it already included with the macrodroid app?
Hi buddy, do you know if this can be done to the NBA Jam shaq edition? They seem to have similar cabs , fingers crossed this mod can be done to the Shaq 😮
I installed all the APKs from the archive. However I have not been able to play any of the games. All the games load, but I am unable to select a player and start playing. Anything I am missing? I did do a clean install. I had the team encode fix installed already. and installed these games on top of it.
Yes you missed what I said about the team encoder fix. If kills the controls on the apks shown here. You have to edit it and add these apks to be ignored.
Is it possible to drill holes and add a 4th button to each player? I want to try this, but I want to add D&D Shadow Over Mystara. Is that game even compatible in the frst place?
You would have to cut the holes, solder the terminals for the new buttons, install the Mystery Dawson controller fix, and use Retroarch or another emulator to play 3+button games on it.
Please help. Any advice on how to get puzzle bobble to work? I'm unable to open any of the games from the menu. I've re watched, and reinstalled multiple times with no luck. I'm thinking it could be a bad droidcade installer. Not sure if there was anything else I could do. Thank you
@@aValexV Thanks for the response. It worked with the other installer. Thank you. Now I have to reconfigure the controller fix since none of my controllers work except for the Simpsons. Thanks for your help. Also any update on part two?
Anyone else have an issue with the Contra apk? The colors are messed up on contra itself but other games seem fine. Also when you exit a game the menu pops up sideways. I’ve tried uninstalling a few times to see if it makes a difference and same thing happens. Everything else works great. Thank you.
Formatted the sd card on the arcade, took it out and plugged it into my windows laptop and it says i have to format it before using. Is it because of fat32 and ntfs?
I did the basic set up with no multi screen and music. Everything works as it should except the controls do not work in any of the games. All load up good. but only the 1up simpsons apk is working with the control deck. I did do the mystery Dawson controller fix prior to this install. Should I have not done that?
@@aValexV Thank you for the reply. Should I reset cab to stock and start over not doing the Mystery Dawson fix? Or do the whitelisting? I can not find a how to to whitelist yet.
@@aValexV huh, thats not what I am experiencing. The controls do not work on any of the APKs (TMNT, Mercs, PB, Gouls, ect.) just with original 1up Simpsons. Should I factory reset and start over?
@@nijazilla you only need the controller fix (te’s mystery Dawson fix) for emulator apps. If you are not using retroarch, mame4droid, or another emulator you do not need that fix.
I got it working but 2 of the droid patches didn’t work and then the next day a bunch of the apks wouldn’t load. Am I missing something? Loading is timing out.
Droid installer 1.04 didn't work for me with Puzzle Bobble. I had to use 1.01 to activate all those games, then uninstalled 1.01, re-installed 1.04 and ran all of those patches. It's the only way I could get it to work.
No, you can install the tmnt apk only but not all the games have been unlocked to 4 players. They made be an update whenever they figure it out in the future
Honestly I can't thank you, TechnicallyTNT, and the development community enough. Not only does your work jailbreak these pricey 1up cabs, its also helping me get out of the doghouse with my wife for buying it in the first place.
That's great lol.
Thank you SO much for this guide! Part 2?
It's awesome man. Easy peasy! I didn't have room for Bubble Pop though. That thing is huge. Maybe if I move stuff to a USB I'll be able to, but for now I'm good. Just going to try and located part 2 of this and configure Dig/RetroArch.
just got my tmnt cab Thanks for the video
Nice! Can't wait for part 2
So, I did the Dawson Mystery Experience before doing this. Added all the apks, they're working...but none of my controls are recognized except in the factory game (simpsons). Found there's another MDE fix for after the fact. Even still, the controls aren't working for me on all the games. Suspect I need to add them to the MDE list somehow...
Question: Part 2?
Did you ever get this fixed? I am same issue.
Great Video Yo.
thanks
Awesome video, but quick question, on the APK link, there is a folder named "T" with other APKs. Are these newer ones?
Where's part 2? Can't find on your page.
I have The Simpsons cab and I want to do this so badly :) maybe this weekend. Thank you for making and sharing these types of videos. Can you use SD Slot to store these games?
Yes, the emulation route will be covered in part 2. You can put SD to internal storage. However, the units became buggy in our test. USB drive is better.
@@aValexV Awesome, yeah I'll USB drive its more stable 😁
Awesome
No part 2 for this??
Well, followed the whole thing to the letter. Everything loaded, just none of the controls worked making all of the games unplayable. I factory reset my cab, put it all back to stock and have zero problems running it stock. Modding worked, just no inputs from the control deck at all. Yes, I did the control deck "fix" and everything else too.
@@TheSchneidj well then you didn’t follow everything to the letter then. The controller fix kills the apk controls unless you edit the whitelist for it. Also you don’t need the control fix for the apks, just for retroark
@aValexV THAT'S where I went wrong then I suppose! Cheers mate, will try again later!
@@aValexV Well, you're a god amongst men! Worked like a hot damn WITHOUT the controller fix! Just have to fidget with the icon placement now for the bottom row. For whatever reason it's not quite aligning on a 5x9 grid. Again, thanks so much for this mate!
@ the very bottom is the dock, need to adjust there
Trying to download files. Button mapper and multiple picture apk links are not working.
Everything came out great however for the music using your Macrodroid trigger, how do I get it play random tracks in that folder rather than it playing the first track every time?
I believe it only plays in the order of the playlist, but I haven’t tried to get it to do random either
@@aValexV thanks, I’m sure there’s a way but I just couldn’t figure it out. There’s just so many options to choose from, I didn’t want to mess anything up. I tried googling it but no luck. Also I noticed that when I turn on the machine, it boots up Nova fine however it boots up the A1UP vid logo first, goes black, boots up the vid again then goes into your custom wallpaper. Say something about USB reconnected. Yet I installed an sd card with plenty of memory for internal storage and there’s no usb in the machine. Thoughts why that’s happening?
@@unknown183 which unit do you have? So far the double boot up happens with sd card set as internal. I started using usb drive and haven’t noticed that being an issue anymore
Yes I have the SD set as an internal drive for additional storage. Do you prefer I use an USB flash drive as an internal storage instead?@@aValexV
I would give that a try@@unknown183
Quick question, what's a good desktop grid setting for the yellow grid wallpaper you have on your site? You have the 8 columns on the left and I don't see what ratio to use. Thoughts?
Sorry I don’t have my cabinet at the moment to test it. 8 or 9 columns, with padding. Maybe 7 rows?
Thanks bud. I'll do that. Also is it still safe to use log in and use Wifi Live with these APKs?@@aValexV
Will this mod also work on the TMNT and X-Men cabinets? Or only Simpsons?
Turtles in time version of TMNT, no for X-men
Do you know of any other games that will be compatible with the Simpson's cabinet coming out any time soon?
Not at this time
The link doesn’t work for the apks
its back!!!
Awesome video! Question, how do I update the APKs? I installed a lower version of Puzzle Bobble and would like to update. Thank you.
Great tutorial, it took me a few hours to go through and replay a few parts. I was able to setup a very "simple" build using your wallpaper with one that does not include retroarch.
For some reason the macro is not keeping my music playing but I only wanted 1 song to be on repeat so maybe that has something to do with it?
I had it working with one song the first time I set it up, it should be possible
@@aValexV I just added a single really long song
I can't get my Blitz to get into the OS screen. When I press Win+n, it starts the chosen game on the screen. I can't get it to go into the settings screen. Help.
@@JB-ci4fh blitz isn’t android, this doesn’t work for it
Do im down to trying to download button mapper. It downlaoded to my sd card but will not move over to the pcb. Tried 2 different kinds. Idk what to do.
Thanks for sharing and all the hard work you put in for the community. I have 28 Arcade 1Up’s and buying a TNMT tomorrow. I’ve never modded anything yet and have the Simpsons already. I’m not the best with computers and was wondering if you offer this service for a fee? I would love to ship my pcb board and pay a fee for this. I’m worried if I do it I might mess it up
Email avalexv@gmail.com so I can give you shipping info
how do you add the simpson update to get bowling too?
Thank you for this!!! Worked great. I am having trouble with the multiple picture wallpaper. When moving the joystick it scrolls all the way to the end. I also tried to download it again and the link is not working. Thank you again for this great step by step.
JUST started the process...wish me luck!
Do any of those 150+ games require more than two buttons? Because my Simpsons cabinet only has two regular buttons and an "insert coin" button for each joystick.
All these games are only 2 button games
Followed the instructions, thank you! I did do a factory reset first which wiped out Simpsons Bowling. Now when I launch The Simpsons it doesn't prompt to connect to Wi-Fi so it can't run the update. I do have the TMNT apks installed and don't see Bowling as part of that. Any other way to get Bowling or factory reset again and do the update before starting?
Some of these APKs in your archive have 2 or 3 versions. Do I just use the latest one for each? Also, I'm doing it on Simpsons. Do any of those APKs have extra games besides the main two?
yes grab the latest one. and yes they have more games than just tmnt and tmnt II
Thanks so much for the video. Very helpful. Only issue I've had is DroidCade doesn't seem to patch "Progear" and "Puzzli 2" from the Ghouls APK. I've done two full factory resets and followed all the steps but still get the same issue. Not a big deal but just wondering if you'd have any insight. Thanks again.
Did you run the pgm installer too?
Yeah, went through each installer in the droidcade apk.
I ran into the same problem. So I installed the older version of the droidcade patch and retested. That fixed all but 2 of the games. Then I loaded the new version and only applied it to the 2 broken games. All fixed!!
It's there any hardware limitations for running certain games and can you use any size usb?
Great video. Wish there was a way to get the punisher on there without using retroarch. Is there?
Yes, it’s part of ghouls pack
Yes! You da man. Subbed. Thank you!@@aValexV
Also I won't be using Retroarch, just the APKS. That's more than enough games for the cab. I wanna keep it clean.@@aValexV
Which version of MacroDroid? There are four options on that site, now. Googled it but couldn't find any information on if the Simpsons is ARM32/64 or X86-32bit/64bit.
Hi you find it out?
@@ChronikCarlos
Negative, unfortunately.
I think it's the first option "armeabi-v7a" because the other is 64 bit processors or windows. @@FoxFireUnlimited
hi , and thank you for the great videos! I was wondering where we can get those mp3 files you used. I would love to use the tmnt dubstep one. Also is it already included with the macrodroid app?
Search soundcloud
You have to pay to download any of these SC files though, am I right?@@aValexV
Hi buddy, do you know if this can be done to the NBA Jam shaq edition? They seem to have similar cabs , fingers crossed this mod can be done to the Shaq 😮
Different pcb, this only works on Simpsons and TMNT Turtles in Time.
How can I get Simpsons Bowling to work on my TMNT cabinet?
It’s not as fun to play by joystick vs trackball. You would have to find a modded Simpsons apk with bowling for turtles and install those two packs
Silly noob question. where can i get the music that you are using?
RUclips/soundcloud
I keep gettting app not installed when I try to install Macrodroid. Any thoughts?
Did you open and play any of the other APKs? 1 reason is not enough room, another would be wrong version.
Can this be done on the MvsC2 cab?
Not these games but yes. I think the process is a bit different, if this process doesn’t work you have to do ADB method
Anyone get retroarch running? I got the program, did the updates, but can't get cores downloaded.
I'm on the tmnt cabinet by the way
@@xsavagementality Did you figure this out? I'm having the same problem
@caimakale I was able to upload retroarch to my iiRcade unit so I stopped worrying about this one.
I installed all the APKs from the archive. However I have not been able to play any of the games. All the games load, but I am unable to select a player and start playing. Anything I am missing? I did do a clean install. I had the team encode fix installed already. and installed these games on top of it.
Yes you missed what I said about the team encoder fix. If kills the controls on the apks shown here. You have to edit it and add these apks to be ignored.
@@aValexV Thank you very much. I removed the team encoder fix and reinstalled the above and it works now
Is it possible to drill holes and add a 4th button to each player? I want to try this, but I want to add D&D Shadow Over Mystara. Is that game even compatible in the frst place?
You would have to cut the holes, solder the terminals for the new buttons, install the Mystery Dawson controller fix, and use Retroarch or another emulator to play 3+button games on it.
@@aValexV yeah yeah I know about most of that. I just wanted to make sure it's compatible. Thank you!
Hi, i would like to do this mod to my 1up arcade yoga flame edition. Is there a way of doing this?
You would have to rotate your joysticks as the directions are wrong, but then you will not be able to play yoga flame stock games.
If you check my other videos, I have one for Yoga Flame that had SNES and other fighter games. These are for Simpsons/Turtles in Time only.
@@aValexV thank you for your reply and information!
Please help. Any advice on how to get puzzle bobble to work? I'm unable to open any of the games from the menu. I've re watched, and reinstalled multiple times with no luck. I'm thinking it could be a bad droidcade installer. Not sure if there was anything else I could do. Thank you
I think I read someone else said they used the other installer and it worked then. Not sure if there is two in the folder.
@@aValexV Thanks for the response. It worked with the other installer. Thank you. Now I have to reconfigure the controller fix since none of my controllers work except for the Simpsons. Thanks for your help. Also any update on part two?
Looks good if I can get the time I really want to do this.
It's easy to do, just takes time.
Is there anywhere I can look to find the game list in each APK?
Yep, the wallpapers I made for them
@@aValexV thanks Alex. I sorted it all out and installed it the other day
Worked a treat. Great video. Much appreciated
Anyone else have an issue with the Contra apk? The colors are messed up on contra itself but other games seem fine. Also when you exit a game the menu pops up sideways. I’ve tried uninstalling a few times to see if it makes a difference and same thing happens. Everything else works great. Thank you.
same - anyone know of a fix?
how big an SD card or USB drive do you need?
It really depends on how many games you plan to do in the emulation route, which will be covered in part 2. For this setup, 4gb+ would be fine.
Formatted the sd card on the arcade, took it out and plugged it into my windows laptop and it says i have to format it before using. Is it because of fat32 and ntfs?
I didn't have that issue, try reformatting it again.
@@aValexV it was a bad sd card. thanks
Do you have a dd image that we can flash with all these steps completed?
No
He is referencing external storage so that would not work.
I did the basic set up with no multi screen and music. Everything works as it should except the controls do not work in any of the games. All load up good. but only the 1up simpsons apk is working with the control deck. I did do the mystery Dawson controller fix prior to this install. Should I have not done that?
You missed a step that was mentioned if you did the mystery Dawson fix, it kills the controls unless you edit the whitelist file.
@@aValexV Thank you for the reply. Should I reset cab to stock and start over not doing the Mystery Dawson fix? Or do the whitelisting? I can not find a how to to whitelist yet.
@@nijazilla you only need the fix if you are doing retroarch, mame4droid, or another emulator
@@aValexV huh, thats not what I am experiencing. The controls do not work on any of the APKs (TMNT, Mercs, PB, Gouls, ect.) just with original 1up Simpsons. Should I factory reset and start over?
@@nijazilla you only need the controller fix (te’s mystery Dawson fix) for emulator apps. If you are not using retroarch, mame4droid, or another emulator you do not need that fix.
any way to add scanlines to the games from apks? They all look so blocky.
Not in these
I got it working but 2 of the droid patches didn’t work and then the next day a bunch of the apks wouldn’t load. Am I missing something? Loading is timing out.
Internal or external storage used?
@@aValexV internal storage. But I deleted some stuff and it still didn’t work.
@@hudson2441 I suggest doing a factory reset and trying again. Not sure what happened but you are the only person so far with this issue.
@@aValexV Do I only install the files labeled V1.0.4 ? What are the other required files besides DroidCade, Nova Launcher, and Button mapper?
It all depends on what you want to do, each step is shown in the video. @@hudson2441
Wait what! Does this work on all cabs?
Just the 2 that are listed
Thank you for this. I still can't get any of the Puzzle Bobble APK games to work. But thats ok.
You missed a step in the video. Need to run the droid installer.
Droid installer 1.04 didn't work for me with Puzzle Bobble. I had to use 1.01 to activate all those games, then uninstalled 1.01, re-installed 1.04 and ran all of those patches. It's the only way I could get it to work.
Apk link?
Is therea way to set it to only have 4 player games?
No, you can install the tmnt apk only but not all the games have been unlocked to 4 players. They made be an update whenever they figure it out in the future
🤣y’all shoulda just bought an MVSX if this is what all you diehards where gonna do with your a1ups 😂.