 So I've been doing videos on my arcade one-up machine and how it runs Android and a few things on how you can modify it And there's a lot you can do with it And there's a big community around modding the software, but now it's time to get serious on modding the hardware I'm yanking out the Android board. I'm gonna yank out all the controls put in some nice light up controls And also just plug it into a in this case a Raspberry Pi But set it up with a driver board that I can plug any computer into that device So in the future, I can grab any laptop or upgrade the machine just by plugging in the the controller through USB and HDMI to the board so at any time I can upgrade the machine and at this point I can get you know Retro pi running on there with all my games. So I've actually already did this the other day And now this is the video on the process. So enjoy Until I went to unscrew the joysticks here and although I have all the screws out as far as I can tell Think they're glued on so let's try to pry them off. Let's give it a try So as you can see there was a little bit of glue on there came off pretty easy I'll show you how I did it on the second one here So I have this little scraper here that I use for modding walls And I just kind of put it under the corner here gently And this one did no damage the other one a little bit damaged, but it's on the inside of the board So not a big deal So here's what's left of my old arcade just the controller board With the wires these buttons are nice. They unscrew unlike the other ones. They're cheap and just kind of pop in and out so Yeah, I'm just gonna unscrew these from here put them in there. I'm assuming they're the same size holes I hope they are And they got the new boards that just recognize it to whatever computer I plug it in to as a default game controller. Here we go drop it in there Put the little screw on there Now I'm gonna have light up buttons much better than what came with the cabinet Okay, so I got the buttons in I gave away my player two player button a while ago So I just put a coin button in there and for the live button. I added a green button I can use that to maybe exit out of games So again, I have plenty of these buttons in different colors that light up which is great with my Original arcade cabinet. I spent a lot of money on a heavy duty controller people would just whack that thing like crazy I was always worried they're gonna break it with these. I don't have to worry if I got extra parts I know how to fix it. I know how to wire it up. And that's a great thing about doing things yourself So yeah, I need to put the joysticks in now The important thing with the joysticks is to put them in the proper way not sideways or upside down again in the games You're probably going to remap everything, but it's just nice to have them put in the proper way So that up is up even though you can remap it for most systems So yeah, and then there's the on-off switches here and the volume switches I might try to spice those wires into the controller board of this to control certain things I mean, I've always drill them out and put buttons there, but Then I have to drill out the acrylic and I don't want to do that I might add some extra buttons for saving state under the controller. We'll we'll have a look at that in a minute Okay, I got the buttons in joysticks in what's wired all up on Amazon for this arcade unit This particular model I'll link to in the description and should work for most of these cabinets But there are a few different options to do the research if you have one of these arcade one up cabinets Make sure you're getting the right one So after I'm hooking the computer that came inside the arcade, which is a small single board Android device They monitor that is built into the arcade has two wires that are coming out of it one for power and another ribbon cable That will hook into this board well both the power and the ribbon cable hook into this after that you have options of VGA HDMI and DVI to hook into this and it'll display on the screen there This is a board that comes off it for things like Rotating the screen and bringing up a menu just like you would have buttons on a TV There's also an audio in and an audio out so I can plug the audio in if I'm using analog audio Although it also accepts audio in from the HDMI and then has an output that should be able to go to the speakers of this Hopefully it puts out enough power that it sounds decent And then there's also a power plug that came with it to power this device which also powers the monitor So I'm going to put this in hook it up and see if everything works So for right now I ran the USB cables and the HDMI cable out of the unit And I have the Raspberry Pi behind the arcade just because I know I'm going to be messing with it a lot at first But eventually it will go inside and let's see it running. Well, we're up. We're running So two things I need to get a power supply for the marquee because the driver board didn't have power out for that But I'm sure it's as simple as I might even have a power plug in my garage that works Also, the volume coming out of the speakers is very low even though I have the volume up all the way So I might just replace those speakers or gain amplifier for them But as far as the games go it took me a few minutes to configure the controllers But now I can go in and I can play something like Final Fight. So we can get in I can play any game that I want I haven't set up since there's no Free game mode. I just set the start buttons to also be the coin button So anytime you hit player one or player two it automatically puts in a coin for you And I still need to configure the buttons underneath so that there'll be a save state and load state and they're under there So it'll be easy for my kids when I call them for lunch or to do something that they can quickly just hit a button to save and then later on they come back and Load up their games from where they work So yeah, I have nicer joysticks the light up buttons now All I have to do is power the marquee and Also get the speaker volume up a little bit, but yeah simple mod I did use a raspberry pi for this but only because I already had a raspberry pi I lots of people use raspberry pies for projects like this I highly recommend Going a different route especially right now with the price of raspberry pi shooting up if I didn't already have a raspberry pi You can get real nice thinkpads. There's a couple years old for like between a hundred and a hundred fifty bucks They're way more powerful than a raspberry pi. They have the HDMI out. They have batteries built-in So you they have battery backups basically built into them and yeah They're just be much more powerful than a raspberry pi but I went with a raspberry pi since I had one laying here from my old arcade cabinet and As I work on this I will let you know if any updates. Thanks for watching visit films by Chris comm that's Chris decay There's a link in the description as always have a great day