We’re pretty fond of home-built arcade cabinets, especially when those cabinets feature a giant HaD logo on the front. We teased you with a picture of two predators playing it at Maker Faire Kansas City, and we thought you might like to see what makes it tick.
[Dustin and Nick] have dubbed this the Dustin and Nick Arcade [DNA]. They built the cabinet from the ground up out of 5/8″ MDF, primed it, and painted it with exterior paint to ward off moisture damage. At the heart of this build is the bottom half of a laptop that suffered from a broken screen. The plexiglass overlay lets players view the guts of the thing, which we think is a nice touch that literally exemplifies Open Design.
So, what happens when you drop your proverbial coin? [Dustin and Nick] used an C# NES/SNES emulator that runs from the command line using a WPF interface. [Nick]’s software selects the appropriate emulator for the approximately 700 available games. You’ll find [Nick]’s code and a ton of build pics at [Dustin]’s site. No wonder they won a Maker of Merit ribbon!
Don’t have the space to build a full-scale cabinet? You could make a mini Ms. Pac-Man cabinet, but then you’d only have Ms. Pac-Man to play with. And we’re pretty sure she’s spoken for.
I see what appears to be part of an xBox 360, the ROL actually. Could someone enlighten me as to what it does for this build?
probably part of the joystick input
That’s the radio that talks to xbox 360 wireless controllers. If you supply them with 3.3v, they act as a USB wireless controller receiver.
Everyone is correct. It’s the board from a broken xbox 360. A few diodes and a modified driver and you can use it as a wireless receiver for your xbox remote. Details and how-to can be found here:
http://dilisilib.wordpress.com/2011/03/07/wireless-xbox360-controller-on-a-pc-without-the-commercial-dongle/
More information can be found on the wireless 360 receiver module from the xbox here : http://forums.xbox-experts.com/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=4029 In the zip file contains a .txt with all the possible commands that the module can receive. Sadly the module cannot tell you if controllers are connected.
Here is my version of converting a module for pc use :
http://imgur.com/m6A18Qb
It uses an atmega32u2 , with 2 switches one to trigger the sync , and another that will turn off all connected controllers. Both boards are soldered together, then glued to a 5 1/4″ faceplate, a molex connector connects it to the onboard USB of my pc.
http://imgur.com/RHcysV3
But the original reason for my post was, even though NES and SNES are old , isn’t carrying 700 games , especially to a public meeting, breaking copyrights? With the HaD logo just below.
Its not that I am against this, because I will admit I have those 700 nes / snes games on my own pc, but isn’t it a bit of a touchy matter?
Open Design is a clear case now?
Huh, well, that’s easy enough.
I guess no case is even more open!
Yeah, this should make my Hackaday Prize entry much easier.
That’s cool!!!!!!!!!