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You can use a card as small as 8GB for minimalist installs, but if you are interested in both arcade and console games, I would recommend a 64GB or larger card.

A Micro SD card for the Raspberry Pi to use as its boot drive and ROM storage.

I like this one because it has a power switch button on the cord for easy powering on/off.

Raspberry Pi compatible 5v 2.5mAmp micro USB power adapter.

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The Raspberry Pi 4 is available now, but the community has not yet optimized the RetroPie software to run on it, so I would avoid it for now. For those more modern games you need the power of a PC. The 3b+ can play most games made to the mid 90s comfortably, but not games with 3D polygons. You can use a Raspberry Pi 3, but the processor is slower and it will struggle with newer games. You can also buy a kit with a case and power adapter included. They are made by many vendors so shop around for the best price because they can fluctuate. No case is necessary since it will be mounted in your cabinet anyway). Raspberry Pi 3 B+ (This includes WiFi, Bluetooth, and is the fastest Pi that currently supports RetroPie.In order to convert your Arcade1up to a Raspberry Pi machine you will need: Vertical cabinets would look nice for vertical games such as Pac Man, Centipede, Donkey Kong, Frogger, and Q-Bert, but any landscape games would be fairly small, and of course the lack of buttons on the vertical cabs can be limiting.Įven with a SF2/MK2/Marvel machine, you will likely need at least two additional buttons for the coin buttons, but those could be added on the front panel without risking damage to the plexiglass cover. In addition, if you don't want to buy or build a completely custom control deck and drill your own holes, potentially messing up the original artwork and plexiglass, you will want either the Street Fighter 2, Mortal Kombat II, or Marvel cabinet which all contain a joystick and 6 buttons each for 2 players. In most cases you would want to use a landscape cabinet so that you can maximize the screen space.

There are two different screen orientations, portrait and landscape.

Not all Arcade1Up machines are ideal for all mods. I am also coving some topics for adjusting the software settings that ETA Prime does not cover in this video which I needed to tweak, and some gotchas that I ran into Use this guide to help you understand the steps needed. Most of the information for modifying the hardware is in YouTube, posted by ETA Prime. However for this article, I will cover using Raspberry Pi and RetroPie.

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If you do go the PC route, I recommend taking a look at the Hyperspin or LaunchBox/BigBox front end for MAME.

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Arcade machines.Have you purchased an Arcade1Up and wished you could play more games than the 2-4 games that came on it? You can, by replacing most of the electronics with a Raspberry Pi! You could also use an old PC that you might already have sitting around gathering dust which actually performs better and can emulate more systems, but a Raspberry Pi running RetroPie is a simple low power solution, and you can rely on the experiences of others that have already figured out how to set this up to be extremely user friendly.

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