Welcome to my channel : ) I have a passion when it comes to gaming, arcades, and general tech.
Here you will find a myriad of videos showcasing; - Arcade Builds. - Game-play associated with the Raspberry PI + Aimtrak Lightgun + PC . - Various Product reviews.
My aim is to provide some content to ease the time and hopefully help some people along the way.
Couldn't get GPIOnext to detect the joystick and buttons, was using a preloaded old image of retropie 4.4.3. Ended up installing mkarcadejoystick within retropie and then the joystick and buttons got detected when configuring the joystick.
I also found issues when utilizing pre loaded images however when using clean images from scratch configuration worked with ease. Glad you got it working : )
@@mannyjoseph4520 just search ali express- the ones on this link should work just fine; www.aliexpress.com/item/1005006104888481.html?spm=a2g0o.productlist.main.13.4a57kv98kv98XC&algo_pvid=68ef2501-661b-4037-a83d-0422432a8d25&algo_exp_id=68ef2501-661b-4037-a83d-0422432a8d25-6&pdp_npi=4%40dis%21AUD%219.51%218.92%21%21%2145.03%2142.23%21%402101c71a17172392594537406e1442%2112000035766242561%21sea%21AU%21143731637%21&curPageLogUid=2Rxg8DCZrLo7&utparam-url=scene%3Asearch%7Cquery_from%3A www.aliexpress.com/item/1005006461513048.html?spm=a2g0o.productlist.main.19.7e3f66d09ecjEZ&algo_pvid=9b739279-41c9-4db0-8f74-a06454040ced&algo_exp_id=9b739279-41c9-4db0-8f74-a06454040ced-9&pdp_npi=4%40dis%21AUD%218.96%218.96%21%21%2142.41%2142.41%21%402101c80017172394408723757e38a9%2112000037281213857%21sea%21AU%21143731637%21&curPageLogUid=HKGv9W5QBjFW&utparam-url=scene%3Asearch%7Cquery_from%3A
Great video, I just purchased this from jaycar and I have a raspberry pi 3b which I have overclocked and have emulationstation. Is the joystick and buttons just plug and play using that pin connector, and connecting the power and hdmi? Where did you get the aftermarket buttons and joysticks from? Are they easy to replace in this cabinet?
Hey mate, to set up the joysticks and buttons you have to run a script when first fire up emulationstation. There should be instructions that simply guide you through the scripts. Otherwise jaycar website has the guide on their website. As far as the buttons, they are your generic sanwa Chinese arcade joystick and buttons that you can buy through wish / ebay / aliexpress. Just disconnect and reconnect new ones. There should be links in my video to the above and comments section has some further guides 👍🏻
hey bro I've been trying to play some fighting games as street fighter vs x man, the king of fighters, etc and the controller doesn't respond properly. very hard to make the moves, combos, etc Is it normal or has some way to improve it? thanks bro
Hey mate I think it comes down to the type of arcade stick and buttons you have. It comes stock with an 8 way stick. I replaced the stock ones with another 8 way stick and some clear buttons from ali express however made no difference with gameplay. The stock controls and the ones I replaced them with are cheap. I found I could pull of moves however takes a little bit of practice. I would say if you can find higher quality 8 way joysticks and buttons and swap them out then you would have improved gameplay.
@arlosarcades got it bro. The controller I have is the one who cokes in the original jaycar 10" screen, for hack slash it's ok, but for fighting games...my God.. very poor. I have a Chinese snes controller who works 10x better then the jaycar arcade controller for fighting games
@ruriabrandao yeah man, I usually stick to shmups, side scrollers and other basic games on this device. Street fighter 3 Max alpha on PSP allows 1 button special moves configs so that is good on this device. More of a display, talking piece and something to have in a man cave or just somewhere convenient to have a quick play. I personally use controllers as well and plug them into the Pi/ pc for fighting games.
Just bought the light guns on your latest video great review keep up the good work. You have comments turned of so I couldn't put the comment on that video.
Almost purchased this today until the the guy told me I need all the other stuff which he said he doesn't have them anymore there's a shortage on chips lucky I didn't buy it I'm going to go the chewlix arcade way and do it up for sf6 tekken 8 and mortal knomat 12 that's coming out
trying it on a PI400 right now, flashed a 16gb fat32 formatted sandisk micro SD and can't get past the screen where it says recall box in the middle with the 4 ghosts in the bottom right. It just hangs there indefinitely. There also isn't any sound when booting, so perhaps I need to swap the HDMI port or is there something else going on? Trying to get further I tried a bunch of keyboard combinations and am now in some kind of login prompt where I can input a login name and password, do I need them, if so what are they?
@@plugexpert Hey mate, sorry not sure as I have not tried it. Image should work with Pi4 regardless. Have not played or tinkered around with it for a while and have moved towards PC as of late.
Thanks for the reply. Yea it works on a few games, but for a lot it says Press Start & I cannot. Even tried connecting a ps4 controller with Bluetooth in hopes of using that then switching back to the Wiimote. No luck.
@@Fruitdinosoffical You may have to go into the retroarch and designate the start button. Honestly it is a bit tricky and mucks up a bit. There are quite a few tutorials on you tube that can assist.
Hi All :).. thought i would provide an update of my ordeal and provide a warning to anyone buying this cabinet and using a pi 4.. First off, a huge thanks to Arloss for that walkthru, even tho basically it is how the so called manual says to do it, his walkthru is great ! Now! within minutes i was getting the gpio stick sorted, to the point i can do it with my eyes closed, lol :).. but little Did i know i was about to get sucked into a rabbit hole that i really didnt want to go down :(.. this is what happened :).. i started to look for an image (and with this machine, it HAS to be a retropie image, not recal box, batercera etc..) having a pi 4, there not as a big selection out there. Any way i found a couple of images i wanted to try and find the one i was going to keep in the machine, when EVERY image i downloaded had sound problems (ie NONE! ) i was starting to get a little haggard, as downloading a couple of 128gig images only to find the sound didn't work was stressful to say the least. Obviously i had to sort it, and i had over 60 tabs on my browser open at one stage, trying to figure this out, it wasn't gonna beat me! So.. after nearly 2 weeks of dead ends i came across a page that mentioned a couple of little gems i didnt know about my new(to me) pi 4..one! around 2020 they changed something with the audio. added another mixer or something and Retro pie hasn't really addressed it fully yet.. OK! remember at the start i said i got a Warning tip about the pi 4 ? BECAUSE OF THE @@#$ audio changes a couple of years back, YOU MUST USE THE HDMI PORT CLOSEST TO THE POWER PORT, or hello sound problems.. now comes the sad part :) after i learned that, i thought to myself, surely the guy i bought this off plugged the bloody hdmi cable in the right place?? ( excuse me while i have a stiff drink here.. ) So i look at the pi AND SURE ENOUGH! my reason for a fortnights worth of pain was revealed! :(,,, Hope this may help anyone out in future if they come across it.. cheers guys :)
Glad you got it working in the end mate! There is always something with these devices hey lol. Yeah I found it easiest to build my own image and rip roms from pre built images when using this device in particular. Again glad you got yours working, happy gaming : )
just the person i need to talk to...i need help badly, i just cant get the joystick and buttons going on this thing, its driving me nuts, im using downloaded images and ive tried reropie, recalbox and batocera, in batercera it detects them, but 2 of the buttons on gpio controller 1 map themselves as gpio controller 2 .. please , any advice most appreciated :)
Hey mate trust me is is a nightmare at first. Not an expert with this kind of stuff however out of like 20 pre made images I downloaded the script would only work on like 5. It is best to start from scratch, build your own image and go from there. I have not used it with recalbox or batocera however it works great on retripie images. Follow these steps if you have not done so already (the steps in between the +++++++++++++++ is where I think you may be finding issues; - Ensure you have your wifi set up on your image (again start from fresh). - Press F4 or ctrl + alt then F4 on a keyboard plugged into the PI whilst in the generic retropie menu where you toggle games / systems etc. - Enter the following script exactly as is, line by line, letting the appropriate loads take place; sudo apt update sudo apt install git python3-dev -y git clone github.com/mholgatem/GPIOnext.git cd GPIOnext sudo chmod +x * sudo ./install.sh I recall that you will then be asked if you want to allocate controller or something like that, enter y for yes and enter. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ It will then ask you how many control sticks or or something similar, select 1 and press enter. On the next screen there should be a list of buttons include start and select from memory. As there are 8 buttons on this particular arcade, you need to press the space bar which will log and x next to the first button, press down, press space bar to log another x and so on and so forth. You need to have and x selected next to 8 buttons, it does not matter what buttons, just ensure you have placed and x next to 8 buttons succinctly in order. Press enter and from memory it will take you to the page where you need to input the buttons. First it will tell you to input the joystick, hold up on the joystick when it says up, hold the joystick down when it says down, right then left. It will then list the buttons with start and select then list another 6 buttons. It does not matter what order you press the buttons however when it prompts you hold the button down until it registers and prompts you for another button. I generally press the to smaller buttons at the top when it asks for start and select in any case. once this is done I think you just save and exit when it prompts you. When you are back in the command prompt, input emulationstation to take you back to the retropie menu. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ This is where you will need a generic controller of some sort that you can generally use with a PI. I use a third party PS3 controller I bought from Big w, wired xbox 360 controllers from eb games work well too. I am sure you can use a keyboard as well however at time of writing can't recall the button, maybe enter. You now simply have to go to the emulationstation menu you access by pressing start, the menu where you can input the buttons for a controller, the one in the below link; core-electronics.com.au/guides/how-to-pair-and-map-8bitdo-sf30-pro-controller/ Select configure input- you should now see another gamepad detected, that is the arcade buttons and joystick. Hold down one of the buttons to take you to the next screen. When you are prompted to set up the controller / buttons / joystick the arcade joystick and buttons will now work. I input start and select as the two small buttons at the top, allocate the bottom 3 (a,b,x) and the top left button on the top as y. I skip from 'left shoulder' right until the hotkey. To skip button inputs, hold down a button already selected. When it asks you for a hot key I select top right button (3rd on top from the left) Now you should be good to go. This setup generally works well for the majority of systems. Holding down the hotkey and then start will exit games etc. There is a list on google for the shortcut keys in retropie. Hope this helps mate, let me know if any further issues.
@@arlosarcades oh, my lord :).. what a fantastic walkthru :)... i will try this tomorrow, and report back :).. oh, yeah, i m using a 4 gig pi 4 .. i,ll be back, hopefully with a smile on the dial..oh! can the monitor of the machine be changed to english menus? (im not game to play with it in case i cant revert back, lol ) cheers! :)
@@anton69ize No issues mate, I am sure it will work. If not I will look at doing a video tutorial for you. Yes you can change the language to English. On the top of the arcade press the menu button + press volume down 4 times until you get to the OSD menu + press menu twice + select english and done. Let me know how you go, good luck!
@@arlosarcades mate thank you! Jb hifi have had mega loads of these returned because of trying to get the joystick going on the gpio. you would think they would include a tutorial..i think most people who returned them were most likely using old images and was just messing up trying to add those gpio drivers :(.. i tell you what, i was getting so wild, i almost contemplated buying a $10 usb encoder of ebay and running the joystick that way, i reckon that would be easier to learn, lol :)
@@anton69ize Yeah the instructions that are provided are only for the scripts to be installed, no other context around what else needs to be done. It is not geared towards the average arcade enthusiast as you need a very small degree of knowledge when it comes to the PI and coding etc. Again if no luck I will do a video tutorial and load it on my page.
having a few issues with the joystick config. In street fighter games, its pretty hard to pull off moves. have briefly messed with input settings in retroarch but still not feeling right. any advice? I have set up the input in retropie as digital up, down, left right on the stick.
I wonder if the pi 400 fits in that cabinet? It's got the 40 pin connector and already excellent heat management built in. Anyone test to see if it fits?
@@arlosarcades so the default joystick is really bad with this cabinet. Almost impossible to pull off moves in street fighter. Can you send me link to joystick and buttons you purchased?
@@berva I can't recall how receptive the stock joystick was when I bought it however the ones I am using now works perfectly with a whole heap of fighting games etc; www.aliexpress.com/item/4001162695420.html?spm=a2g0o.order_list.0.0.21ef1802e06Jov The store is good, think it may actually be the same kind of stick though. Maybe you have a dodgy joystick, I know some of the earlier arcade I bought had dodgy components until I swapped them out. Let me know if you end up swapping it out and if the new one is better. Good luck.
@@jesusjimenez-tv5ho No problems; bit.ly/3sbJ6SY Download this link and copy files over and replace in the root folder. In the game press F1 and setup up the guns. Make sure to select cooperative mode and you can now play 2 player. Of note you can only use the handgun. Enjoy
