 How can we set it up so we can play three or four players on this arcade? Welcome to filmsbychrist.com. I've been talking about my new arcade system and the modifications I've made to it in previous videos. Today I'm going to continue talking about a few of the modifications I made since the last video and then we're going to talk about player three and four controllers. We're going to have some fun adding those to a big screen. You'll see what I mean a little bit but first the changes I made since the last video. Last video I talked about how I pulled out all the insides and set it up so I can hook up any computer right now. I have a Raspberry Pi hooked up and I had to get a board that allowed me to hook it to the screen of the controller of the arcade and that controller board has a headphone output so I have HDMI going in and the audio coming out the head foot and it didn't really have enough power to power the speakers that came with the arcade system. Since then I have found out that the board does have a speaker output but to use it I would have had to splice some wires and then as far as volume control I would have only been able to change the volume in software because it would have just been there would have been no knob so what I ended up doing was just going the route of buying an amplifier for under $20 that had eighth inch jacks and now I have that hanging from the back of the arcade. I can reach back there and turn the knob to adjust the volume. I may at some point in the future run that so it's right underneath the controller so I can reach it while I'm sitting there but for now it's just hanging out the back. Another thing I did was I just added an LED strip to the back of the arcade. I used an ESP8266 to power that with WLED which is an open source project that allows you to control your LEDs and give it a bunch of different patterns all from your phone, mobile device or desktop computer right in the web browser and the great thing about this is not only does it give you a lot of control over it but if I was to set up other LEDs in my house which I do have extra LEDs from the strip and I always have extra ESP8266s lying around I can hook up more around this room and they can synchronize through my wi-fi so that's what I'm doing right now with that one thing I haven't done yet is yeah I need to set up power to the marquee I could buy an adapter but I have a whole bin of power adapters out in my garage as far as I can tell reading online this is a 12 volt light so hopefully I'll be able to splice some wires hook up some barrel jacks and not have to spend 15 or 20 bucks on a new power adapter because I already have one so I haven't done that yet but now the fun part my arcade has two controllers for player one player two but some of the games I like to play Ninja Turtles or X-Men as example are four player games and there's some that are three player games like rampage how can we set it up so we can play three or four players on this arcade I already bought an HDMI splitter for $15 off Amazon which allows to send the video and audio signal to two devices the arcade and my big screen TV here this is going to be great because sometimes I throw street fighter tournaments and so while two people could be playing two other people or whoever else is at the party could be watching the game but if I take another controller now I can have people playing two at the arcade and two watching on the TV so not everyone has to be crowded around the same arcade so my original idea was to build a pedestal to put this arcade controller on but since then I bought a new couch which has this nice ottoman here so the plan is to gut these controllers put in my own controllers with the usb cable coming out they can go to the arcade and then all I have to do is bring this over drop it down here and two people could sit on the couch and play it's not something that's going to happen every day but again there's certain situations where I might want four players now why don't I just use these controllers as this is the original controller from my original arcade and instead of building a controller like I do nowadays I bought this from x arcade which still exists even though I bought this almost 20 years ago it's very heavy duty great device again I bought it almost 20 years ago so the way it came is it has a serial port on the back and a ps2 port on the back and what would happen is you would plug this into your computer and it would act as a keyboard and you can program these in different ways for different emulators the problem is even though this is heavy duty my old arcade the reason I had to get rid of it was because I let it let it sit outside for almost 10 years and the humidity here in florida got to it and buttons became unresponsive in fact this one's stuck down so what I'm going to do is again open it up gut all these I already have light up keyboard or buttons and joysticks so I'm just going to replace that I'm going to then pull out the controls here and just run the usb out of this and then anytime I want all I have to do is pull this controller out and plot it down wherever I want and people can play now I'm going to be using the same usb game controller boards that I've been using in all my devices but while I was looking at they actually found very similar devices that did have wireless capabilities that sounds like it could cause issues whenever I can go wired I do so it's not going to be a big deal I'll have a usb cable running over here but again it's only going to be out when we need three or four players so it's not going to be all the time but I think usb is going to be more reliable so let's go ahead hopefully I'll be able to open this thing up real easy the only screw holes I'm seeing are on the feet looks like there's I think six of them I'm hoping to pop that out and just pull out all that just stuff in there and just replace it with the light up buttons I got multiple colors so I'm probably going to do red and blue because this is my favorite but then some of the alternate buttons on the sides and back I might use yellow or green let's go ahead and hop right into that so far so good one little catch though the area that's cut away for the old joy sticks my new joysticks are a little bit taller and thinner not too worried about where the screws are but I need to cut away a little bit of this wood like maybe a quarter of an inch to fit the new joystick in so let's go do that well after some horrible failed attempts to cut out that extra area I decided I don't need to cut that out I just got some scrap wood cut a hole in it and now I just glue that in there and the joystick will fit in and screw into that just hopefully I secure enough so I'll just use some wood glue that's the route I'm going so something I find important when it comes to these joystick controllers is putting them in the proper way you can always remap it if you put it in the wrong way but then you have to remap it for every game and the paperwork it comes with doesn't tell you which way is up left right and down so I put this in I plug into my computer and I tested it and I wrote where up is so I don't get confused but if you get one of these at least if you get the same ones as me when you're facing the controller this way the plug is on the right side so this it goes long way up and down and then the plug for the ribbon cable is on the right when you're facing it but remember when you when you're inside putting it in it's on the left it get confusing so yeah that is noted and let's continue hey okay I got the joysticks in they're a bit of more of a pain of but than I thought they were going to be um so someone as somebody who has made a number of game controllers in the past I can tell you right now even though these joysticks are not pressure sensitive they're just like pressing a button and you can tell people that that hitting it harder doesn't affect the gameplay because it's just a button click people will still whack these things as hard as they can when they're playing it's like their life depends on hitting this thing as hard as they can and I have had where I put in little screws and those have popped out so in the past since then what I do is I put bolts all the way through or and then nut them down and that was my goal with this so I figured doing two big bolts on each one we better than four little screws well I just I drilled the holes I put the bolts through and then I went to put on the wing nuts and I didn't have room to get them on there because of the way the controllers designed so I left those in there otherwise there'd just be holes in the controller they also helped me though line up the joysticks as I put screws in four corners and you know what they they will still they're still pressing against the side so I think I'd get a little bit support I'm not a hundred percent confident with the little screws I put in here I may have to come back here in the future and strap these down somehow but I've come up here I've whacked these things around and they seem to be holding in so fingers crossed but the thing about doing stuff like this yourself is if something goes wrong you can fix it in the future because you know how it works well let's get the buttons put in okay we've got our controller with all the buttons installed I will they're put in I still need to wire it up to the controller board but real quick I want to explain there are some extra buttons on this because of how the arcade or the um x arcade controller is set up again I bought this 20 years ago and originally okay so I think I said this wrong earlier in the video it had a ps2 as in a you know a keyboard connection not like a PlayStation 2 connection so you hook a keyboard into it and then it had a serial out if I remember correctly which then could have an adapter to plug into the keyboard of your computer and what would happen is there's a button on the back you would press and then you press a button here and then you press the key on your keyboard and it would program that button to that key and then it had a switch for five different settings so you could save five different things it was really cool for at the time and then eventually we got to a point where computers didn't have those old keyboard ports anymore and so I had to get a uh an adapter to uh connected to USB but I am going to utilize those holes it also has buttons on the side which on my arcade cabinet I couldn't access because of the way I designed the cabinet but they were meant if you're playing a pinball game you can you know play pinball like this so I did blue for player one or three and red for player uh two or four depending on whether I'm looking to sub to your arcade or not uh then I put a button on the back here just because there was a spot uh if I didn't already have buttons set up for save state on the arcade I could set this up to save state and then of course I got the buttons on sign in case I ever do play a digital pinball game uh but I just wanted to point out that's why we have those extra buttons I'm using uh the green and the yellow so I have all these different colors it's going to look great at night let me go ahead and wire up the controller board and we're all wired up and uh yeah it's pretty simple I've gone over in previous videos depending on the set you get it may vary but for the most part if you get these light up uh joysticks and not light up joysticks but the light up buttons they do make light up joysticks too though uh each button has three wires coming from it if you get one that doesn't light up then it's usually all I'm going to have two uh and on the board they're labeled uh uh k1 k2 for key one key two they have l and r1 and two and start and select the joysticks have five pin wire it's the only five pin wire on the board so that's pretty easy to get now as far as putting the buttons in the proper order is that important depends on what you're doing I try to at least first I start off with uh button one two three four five and six just so I don't have to remap those for fighting games uh but you know there's a good chance you have to remap anyway and again if you're using an emulator you can remap them to anything and depending on how it detects the controllers in what order it detects them it might recognize player two as player one and player one as player two uh of course you can change that in your system settings but if you're going to use this on a system uh for an example I don't have any console systems but I believe things like xboxes you can plug in regular game controllers so if you can plug in a usb game controller into an xbox you could use this and in that case you want to make sure you wire up your start button to the start pin and your select button to the select pins but it's labeled right on the board so just read what the board says you're going to have extra pins uh I'm assuming these for extra buttons if you have the two pin one so if you have other buttons that aren't light up you can probably plug into there and you got three five volts on there to power other devices which I do have a game controller I made my daughter years ago that also had an ESP chip into it that displayed stuff on a little display and I powered that off the five volts that come out of this board so I didn't have to do an extra power supply I'm all set the wires are just coming out of the hole in the back here I have no star so the only thing I have to really be careful of is that I don't pull these wires out but the boards I just velcroed them down so if I did do that it would just pop them off and they'd be hanging in there uh before I put the back back on I'm going to test all the buttons and make sure that I have everything hooked up right and then it's just a matter of putting on the back plug it into the arcade so let's do that now if I have two players playing on a four player game and someone comes along and wants to play I just hand them this controller and they can walk right over here to the couch sit down and I can have two more players playing on the big screen tv but playing the same game that's it now I used an old x arcade controller to put these parts in but you just need some wood and some tools and you can make this yourself and anything but also remember if you have an arcade cabinet and you've modded it to run any machine you plug in any game controllers so even though I have player one player two I could grab any game controller that's usb like this one here and I can set this up as player three or four so two people can be on either outside and they can all use the cabinet what's nice about this with the hdmi splitter and this extra controller is that we're not all crammed around the same cabinet that's it thank you for watching filmsbychris.com that's chris the k there's a link in the description also check out my patreon page links description to that as well as well as links on my website filmsbychris.com that's chris the k again link in the description thank you for watching as always and I hope that you have a wonderful day