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Glen has brought out a lot of great upgrades for our arcade controls. This project is also very cool, but I think it would be more usable as a 3/4 scale cabinet with easily swappable control panels. Having the right control for the game is crucial to enjoying playing the game. It's ridiculous that we have to upgrade the controls in the Arcade 1ups to get a decent arcade experience. A cabinet with several panels with GRS quality controls, add your own PC or raspberry pi. That's something I would invest in.
We are making external models for the controllers so to use them won't require swaps and this is an evolving product to stay tuned we plan many enhancements going. Forward :)
@Madlittlepixel this is what I've been looking for all along! This is soooooo cool!!! I am the kinda guy who like to play around arcade hardware stuff more than playing the games themselves and this is the perfect item to scretch that itch in a small size! The question I have is, do they have the thing like the egret II that you can rotate the screen for horizontal game? It doesnt need to be neat like the egret where you just push and pop, it can be involving screws and rotate, but if they have that that's the cherry on top of the cake!! Do you know whether the screen can rotate?
This is really amazing, and while I love the concept, at 1/6 scale, it's just to small to use in a meaningful way. I'm a HUGE collector of the New Wave Toys Replicades, and Numskull Quarter Arcades, and while I buy both, only the Numskull at 1/4 scale is actually usable. Don't get me wrong, the 1/6 scale is more than useable, just not very ideal. For me to buy something like this and to have use for the different modules, I would really want to use it, and at 1/6, that's not very likely. Hopefully this does well enough as is, to maybe have Glen see his way forward with a 1/4 scale kit, as that would be near perfect. As I've had no issues using any of my Quarter Arcade units as 1/4 is still much smaller than the arcade, but still very much the same experience.
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The main selling point of the GRS build a cade is that is a modable little unit. I'm sure people will make just that for their screen. Of course it's a vertical screen for vertical games, but already the communities are making lots of modification ideas to the machines and soon we'll be released. The machine is only been out in the market for about a week and a half now so people are just starting to get started with how they want to mod to make it their own. Thank you very much for the comments
@SciFiDude79 They were 4:3 screens but mounted at 90 degrees (so 3:4 I suppose, if you want to get that picky). This uses a 16:9 so it looks wrong and has borders on every game, was the point.
Yes, the stock control panel has a total of three buttons on the control panel player, one player two and fire. Of course, if you only using one player you can make player to a secondary button. But we have interchangeable control panels. We have a joystick that will give you right now. Three action buttons plus player one player. 2. We're also working on a fighter stick with six buttons so the whole point of this is we will continually make new controllers and different styles of controls for people. Also, with that being said, we're making enclosures so you can now connect the control panels externally so you don't have to disassemble your machine. If you don't want to, of course me personally being who I am I would buy four machines lol. I have one controller dedicated to each machine
Thank you very much. The cool thing is you can use the HDMI out for display on the internal screen as well as an external screen like a large HD TV monitor and it supports Bluetooth and USB controllers so you can still load or your games that are really nice display piece and play the games on a full-size screen. Just an option. Thanks for the comment and watch your mad little pixels video
As of right now a raspberry Pi 1A plus will work a raspberry Pi 2B. A. Raspberry Pi 3A or B and Raspberry Pi 4 will work. Right now. A raspberry Pi 0 or 0W won't work because they do not have a DSi port for the display. We are working on a solution for this, however, as well as support for other SPCs and we have a working build of batocera
Its too small and far too expensive (especially as you dont get a raspberry pi included). I can see kids having fun building it but that price is ridiculous and after its built its pretty much a doorstop as I cant imagine squinting at that screen whilst cramping your hands trying to play the thing being very enjoyable. The 2 player control panel looks almost impossible to use with simultaneous 2 players, how do you even fit all the fingers in there comfortably? Yeah you could hook up external controllers and put it through a tv, but then you might as well buy a cheap enclosure for your raspberry pi instead. I paid £18 for a lovely snes case for one of my pis and its far more practical than this bit of landfill tbh.
@@Madlittlepixel ahh, fair enough, still too small for my sausage fingers though. It does look nice as something that could sit on a shelf as an ornament. Not for that price though.
I think some people are viewing this item from 2 different angles. If you look at this like something that could be used to seriously game on, you will probably be disappointed for many obvious reasons. But as a little build project, or someone who like little working knick-knacks this IS pretty interesting. I have a model kit of a Sega Astro Cade, imported from Japan for $60 and its just a model with no working components at all, and its interesting on it's own.
@@adams213 i built my own arcade. That's a good project. It's useful, good conversation piece and it was an awesome project. And people don't need to squint their eyes to see the full details of my arcade. Obviously he's being paid in order to show this. It's sad when good yourtubers sell out just for views.
@@souocesar Yup thats fine. I also build arcade cabs, thats how I first learned about GRS. He offers a great USB Spinner made by the same company that makes this. It's in 2 of my builds. Doesnt take away the coolness of this little cabinet it's really 2 different things.
On the included control deck, technically there are one fire button, the coin slots or your insert coins. Then you play one and play or two select. You can always remap the player to select to give you two action buttons. Outside of that, we have other controlled decks you can purchase or to give you more control buttons and controller options
Right now the main unit and the only thing you need to purchase if you don't already have a Raspberry Pi is a raspberry pie. The main kit is $99. Extra control panels are about $22 a piece or you can buy the complete set of extra controllers, which is a spinner with a steering wheel, trackball, three action button joystick and dual joysticks for games like Robotron or crazy climber for about $ $75
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I think it’s pretty damn sweet, I have Pi 3 laying around not being used. Cool little project.
Thank you 😊 we will be making many enhancements for the GRS Build-A-Cade
Glen has brought out a lot of great upgrades for our arcade controls. This project is also very cool, but I think it would be more usable as a 3/4 scale cabinet with easily swappable control panels. Having the right control for the game is crucial to enjoying playing the game. It's ridiculous that we have to upgrade the controls in the Arcade 1ups to get a decent arcade experience. A cabinet with several panels with GRS quality controls, add your own PC or raspberry pi. That's something I would invest in.
We have many more projects planned and thank you for the kind words 🙂
At $100 this should have been at least comparable to an arcade1up countertop's scale. That is just way too tiny.
The target where I live still sells the my arcade street fighter 2 baby cabinet for 50 dollars still and no one has bought it lol.
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Even if installing the different control panels is such a hassle, I would have loved seeing them in operation. Are they any good? 🤔
We are making external models for the controllers so to use them won't require swaps and this is an evolving product to stay tuned we plan many enhancements going. Forward :)
that looks really cool. I'd love a six button panel, but I'm sure it'd start getting cramped quickly...
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GRS is so great I love this
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Looks really cool.
Thank you very much 🙂
@Madlittlepixel this is what I've been looking for all along! This is soooooo cool!!! I am the kinda guy who like to play around arcade hardware stuff more than playing the games themselves and this is the perfect item to scretch that itch in a small size! The question I have is, do they have the thing like the egret II that you can rotate the screen for horizontal game? It doesnt need to be neat like the egret where you just push and pop, it can be involving screws and rotate, but if they have that that's the cherry on top of the cake!! Do you know whether the screen can rotate?
*WHAT IS THIS!?? AN ARCADE FOR ANTS!?!?!!*
@@NinjaPhooka Hahahah!😆
If I had this, I would throw outrun, donkey Kong, WWF Wrestlefest, ninja turtles, final fight, frogger and more.
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This is really amazing, and while I love the concept, at 1/6 scale, it's just to small to use in a meaningful way. I'm a HUGE collector of the New Wave Toys Replicades, and Numskull Quarter Arcades, and while I buy both, only the Numskull at 1/4 scale is actually usable. Don't get me wrong, the 1/6 scale is more than useable, just not very ideal. For me to buy something like this and to have use for the different modules, I would really want to use it, and at 1/6, that's not very likely. Hopefully this does well enough as is, to maybe have Glen see his way forward with a 1/4 scale kit, as that would be near perfect. As I've had no issues using any of my Quarter Arcade units as 1/4 is still much smaller than the arcade, but still very much the same experience.
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With that screen orientation, I wouldn't want to use this with anything but vertical shooters.
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My next project is to put a psp into a My Arcade's Street Fighter II Champion Edition replica
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Using the Playchoice 10 version of Super Mario Bros would be cool on that. Mame can run it.
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They could done a bezel to make it look like a 4:3 screen.
The main selling point of the GRS build a cade is that is a modable little unit. I'm sure people will make just that for their screen. Of course it's a vertical screen for vertical games, but already the communities are making lots of modification ideas to the machines and soon we'll be released. The machine is only been out in the market for about a week and a half now so people are just starting to get started with how they want to mod to make it their own. Thank you very much for the comments
@SciFiDude79 They were 4:3 screens but mounted at 90 degrees (so 3:4 I suppose, if you want to get that picky). This uses a 16:9 so it looks wrong and has borders on every game, was the point.
So this has one fire button? That really limits your arcade games. Unless you use the 1 player or 2 player start buttons as fire buttons.
Yes, the stock control panel has a total of three buttons on the control panel player, one player two and fire. Of course, if you only using one player you can make player to a secondary button. But we have interchangeable control panels. We have a joystick that will give you right now. Three action buttons plus player one player. 2. We're also working on a fighter stick with six buttons so the whole point of this is we will continually make new controllers and different styles of controls for people. Also, with that being said, we're making enclosures so you can now connect the control panels externally so you don't have to disassemble your machine. If you don't want to, of course me personally being who I am I would buy four machines lol. I have one controller dedicated to each machine
@@GlensRetroShow any approx time frame for that fight stick i would buy them in a heart beat
Im to old and to blind for that, but cool non the less.
Thank you very much. The cool thing is you can use the HDMI out for display on the internal screen as well as an external screen like a large HD TV monitor and it supports Bluetooth and USB controllers so you can still load or your games that are really nice display piece and play the games on a full-size screen. Just an option. Thanks for the comment and watch your mad little pixels video
Can a raspberry pi zero /w run on this?
Not out of the box, id imagine its possible but would require a lot of work and modifications to be made.
As of right now a raspberry Pi 1A plus will work a raspberry Pi 2B. A. Raspberry Pi 3A or B and Raspberry Pi 4 will work. Right now. A raspberry Pi 0 or 0W won't work because they do not have a DSi port for the display. We are working on a solution for this, however, as well as support for other SPCs and we have a working build of batocera
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Its too small and far too expensive (especially as you dont get a raspberry pi included). I can see kids having fun building it but that price is ridiculous and after its built its pretty much a doorstop as I cant imagine squinting at that screen whilst cramping your hands trying to play the thing being very enjoyable. The 2 player control panel looks almost impossible to use with simultaneous 2 players, how do you even fit all the fingers in there comfortably? Yeah you could hook up external controllers and put it through a tv, but then you might as well buy a cheap enclosure for your raspberry pi instead. I paid £18 for a lovely snes case for one of my pis and its far more practical than this bit of landfill tbh.
I feel ya, but also to note there is no 2 player panel, the one with 2 sticks is for dual stick games.
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@@Madlittlepixel ahh, fair enough, still too small for my sausage fingers though. It does look nice as something that could sit on a shelf as an ornament. Not for that price though.
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Lol 🤣🤣 that's ok, this is a Glen's Retro Show Product GRS
interesting? how can this be useful\interesting? It's small, hard to play.. AND VERY LIMITED. Are you getting paid to review this?
I think some people are viewing this item from 2 different angles. If you look at this like something that could be used to seriously game on, you will probably be disappointed for many obvious reasons. But as a little build project, or someone who like little working knick-knacks this IS pretty interesting. I have a model kit of a Sega Astro Cade, imported from Japan for $60 and its just a model with no working components at all, and its interesting on it's own.
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@@adams213 i built my own arcade. That's a good project. It's useful, good conversation piece and it was an awesome project. And people don't need to squint their eyes to see the full details of my arcade. Obviously he's being paid in order to show this. It's sad when good yourtubers sell out just for views.
@@souocesar Yup thats fine. I also build arcade cabs, thats how I first learned about GRS. He offers a great USB Spinner made by the same company that makes this. It's in 2 of my builds. Doesnt take away the coolness of this little cabinet it's really 2 different things.
Way too complicated for me
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these things are a waste of money and resources
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Crappy size for that price
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Where are the buttons on there I only see player one player too where are the buttons that you push to play the game 😒🕹🎮😀👍🏾
On the included control deck, technically there are one fire button, the coin slots or your insert coins. Then you play one and play or two select. You can always remap the player to select to give you two action buttons. Outside of that, we have other controlled decks you can purchase or to give you more control buttons and controller options
HoW much??
Right now the main unit and the only thing you need to purchase if you don't already have a Raspberry Pi is a raspberry pie. The main kit is $99. Extra control panels are about $22 a piece or you can buy the complete set of extra controllers, which is a spinner with a steering wheel, trackball, three action button joystick and dual joysticks for games like Robotron or crazy climber for about $ $75
Looks interesting and fun.. (update ) after watching the video this looks too complicated for me to understand 🥲
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