Home Made Arcade Machine

This is a video showing an Arcade Cabinet i built up from scratch, it works via a Hacked Nintendo Wii games Console. It has been sofware modded to enable the use of homebrew games and applications.

The application used in this video is MAME (Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator) it is and emulator which is capable of running many original acrade machine games as real they were in arcades across the world years ago.

The Machine is built from alot of MDF, and alot of wire fiddling. with no previous soldering experience me and a friend had a hard time doing it properly, but after just a few hours we had working controllers! It took just under a week to finish off.

As you will probably know, the Nintendo Wii can also use Gamecube Controllers the buttons on the Arcade Machine are connected to stripped down gamecube controllers but the gap between the button connections is made via the microswitches on the control panel. Easy!

There is a flourescent light tube in the top of the machine which lights to top sign up (although i dont think its on during this video haha) and a 22" LED TV screen as the display.

It is all powered through a single socket though inside the machine although inside it there is a multisocket which each unit is plugged into for ease!

This machine is not limited to one game, many different game files (or ROMs) can be downloaded and played, you just select them from a list. Also, ANY game can be played using the control panel which uses a gamecube controller, mario kart wii for example, very difficult but do-able!

It plays SNES, NES, Game Gear, Megadrive/ Gensis, Master System etc, pretty much any retro console out there :)

Hope you like it as basic as it is!

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[hayabusafmw]

man i really thought when you were rolling the joystick a musibox kinda song would have played :P

[MikeyTaylor1991]

@hayabusafmw

hahaha that would be sweet, need to find a way to do it ;)

[robster604]

awesome work dude, great idea to use a moded wii too! :-)

[MikeyTaylor1991]

@robster604

thanks, jsut woke up one day like, hey i'm a make an arcade machine out of a softmodded wii XD just coz it could play the old arcade games :)

[MikeyTaylor1991]

@GILakaGP3

Essentially yeah, the wii is what runs the emulator, the controls are modified gamecube controllers.

[MikeyTaylor1991]

@RetroGuia

thank alot! it's only a very basic one though, still needs all the side graphics and stuff to make it look any better... :(

[SwankeyMonkey]

Whoahhh, that cab is as pretty as your wallpaper! xD

[robster604]

@MikeyTaylor1991 ive just started using the emulator on the wii, so far the snes and megadrive work well ! but the wii64 sucks !! do you use the same wii in the car ? :-)

[GILakaGP3]

So it's a Wii arcade cab

[SCIONIZER]

Nice cab. Check out all mine.

[johnspimpin503]

nice bro check out mine