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Build Your Own Arcade Kit

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the its-good-old-fashioned-fun dept.

Shawn Walters writes "Xgaming, Inc., has announced availability of the new X-Arcade BYO Arcade KIT, a $60 solution designed to allow users to create an authentic arcade machine in their home powered by any PC, Mac or game console, no advanced technical skills required." Heck of a lot easier than building your own.

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  1. Slashdot: Advertising by sokk · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I'm getting tired of these advertisements disguised as "news". The story was even submitted by an employee of the business in focus...

    Slow news day or what?

    1. Re:Slashdot: Advertising by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

      there are boobs accusing the editors of accepting paid advertisement.

      Then why don't the editors have the sack to come out and post an official Slashdot guideline on such posts? This story's submitter represents the freakin' site! If there is any sort of agreement with this site's staff and a linked site via a story submission then it should be mentioned in the write-up. It's basic "journalistic" ethics.

  2. This does not belong here... by Anubis333 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    First of this is not a cabinet kit, this doesn't even include buttons or a stick! You would have to buy them from Happ Control. And this is nothing new, Ultimarc has been making these boards for years, they have some really great plug and play PCBs. Ultimarc's 28 input PCB is only $40, for years X-Arcade has been known for ripping off people that just didn't know better, nothing has changed. They didn't really used to hurt companies like Ultimarc, though now they will be edging into the PCB-only market, not to mention getting a sh1tload of hits from posts like this.

    A while ago I built a pretty cheap JAMMA/Xbox/PS1/PS2/Dreamcast [link]. It was pretty cheap, but not $60.

  3. Re:mnb Re:Easier than building? by Gojira+Shipi-Taro · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I believe they discount deeper than Happ. I got a couple of their sticks and buttons for a machine I'm building (around an IPAC, similar circuit board to this). They are identical in quality to the OEM sticks that came in the cabinet I'm converting. Same stuff that goes into the XArcade unit.

    I have one of the original X-arcades. Great piece of equipment. I imagine the difference in price would account for "assembly, testing, etc" in addition to the nice logo.

    As to the weight of the solo unit, MDF is pretty heavy stuff, even at that size. 11 pounds sounds about right for the single player unit.

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  4. The game matters by Uukrul · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I can't understand why a lot of people loved this Arcade cabinet stuff.
    I began playing old & "free" N.E.S. games. May be some real-like arcade machines may be funny. But I never liked to pay for a noisy and expensive machine.

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  5. Nice to relive the nostalgic moments... by albn · · Score: 2, Interesting

    ...only to discover your back hurts after standing for hours on end.

    I remember as a kid getting an old "Depthcharge" cabinet with all of the parts sitting on the bottom. They lug the thing to my house I start modding the thing to work with my NES so it will feel a little more like the "arcade version" (and to impress my friends...wait I did not have any friends).

    After three days of working on the thing with no technical knowledge, I wound up with a broken NES and a broken heart. The cabinet wound up outside with all the other junk.

    Moral of the story? Do not make your own. Buy an X-Arcade!

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