Add Your Own Games to AtGames Legends Ultimate Arcade Cabinet 

To anyone who sees this in the comments, have a wonderful day & remember you are Awesome😊. Thanks for the video Steve!

The most versatile multicade on the market! If your friends have arcade 1 ups don't show them the Legends Ultimate... you'll make them feel bad 😁

3+ years later this video is still accurate on the machine I just purchased from AtGames. Thank you very much for posting this!

Just as you said, I had watched several videos on adding mame roms to your Legends Arcade. Same programs, same setups, but I had no idea how to add the correct rom file, as the videos I watched did not have the games in zip files. Your video walked me straight through how to do it after finding what rom I wanted. THANK YOU SO MUCH! GOT THIS ALL SETUP ON CHRISTMAS BECAUSE OF YOU! I have subscribed and thank you again! Most helpful video about this subject thus far.

Thanks man, only tutorial that has every link needed in the description. Subbed.

This was perfect! I was able to load my old mame files thanks to your tutorial. Sure do appreciate it.

Thanks for the video, lots of info not available elsewhere. I had been debating on whether or not to buy this, Walmart just got some more back in stock. After reading the comments and seeing all of the problems people are reporting, I decided instead to go with the Recroommasters cabinet with the emulator pro controller hooked up to a raspberry pi. Great build, easy to set up, as many games as I want (I'll never get the "low system storage" error), I can fully customize it, and zero problems since day one. Yes, it's definitely more expensive but it's also 100% frustration free which, to me, is worth the extra money. I also got one of their virtual pinball cabinets which is AWESOME. Anyway, love your videos, keep up the great work.

This is the machine I've been waiting for. An arcade cabinet for Mame at a good price. And I don't even have to work with wires or anything. Simply plug a damn USB into it with my chosen games. I just pre-ordered atgames for Jan 31st shipment. Damn excited.

I was unable to get this yesterday from Sam’s club ( sold out:(. Oh well I’ll get it eventually- so for now I’ll have to enjoy Golden Tee 1 up arcade machine. Great video.

Definitely making note of this one, in case I'm ever able to get the Legends Ultimate. Thanks. :)

Just picked up mine Friday from Walmart that I pre-ordered and I have been messing around with it since adding my own MAME roms. I'm not sure if this was covered but I have found out the following: 01) You can title your game rom whatever you want in the game title field in the Add-On Tool, but make sure you do not put certain special characters in the UCE file name. It will prompt you if you try to use a colon ( : ), but not a punctuation mark ( ' ). If you use the punctuation mark like in titles such as: Rush 'n Attack or King of Fighters '95, etc., the rom will NOT load. Also, if you use a ( & ) symbol in the game title field instead of the word ( and ), it will show as a question mark ( ? ) in the game title field on the menu, but will not affect game play. 02) You can now add over 100 roms to your flash drive and they will all display in multiple pages on the Legends Ultimate. I have 195 currently. (With current firmware 4.0+ I believe) 03) Some games run into slow-down such as: Hard Drivin' & Arabian Fight. Some are still playable, but the music slows and some of the action may too. 04) Some games that use split screens/duel screens can still be played if you config them in the options such as: Punch-Out!! and Warrior Blade. 05) Some games have their screens slipped to the side and can be config in the options too to flip them the correct way to play. That's it for now. Love this system! BTW- Has anyone found a Donkey Kong rom that works yet on MAME 2010 core? I have tried two and both load, but then lock up.

A great video and very helpful! Thanks so much for the review! :)

You did a very thorough task of showing us how to add our own MAME games, thank you. But this comment/opinion is not aimed at you, but at ATGames. What a ridiculously long and convoluted process to add a simple game to the system. I mean it took about 5-7 minutes for a knowledgeable person (Restalgia) to add one game and had to jump thru hoops to find and load one game's art, create properly named folders etc. I have about 300 of my own games to add. So 300 games at 5 minutes per game = about 1500 minutes. 1500 minutes is 25 hours! What? Why can't the software in the machine go out to the web and search on its own and simply let you add a rom into a 'Rom' folder on your USB disk and voila, done? The machine's software should build everything it needs and put it where it needs to go based on the name of the Rom. If we as customers accept this process, it may just get worse down the road. Please note I completely understand how to add a game, but young people or newbies are gonna have trouble. Oh well, nice video though Restalgia, much appreciated.

Awesome job with the video. It's nice having a in depth how to guide to reference. My legends arcade will be here by December 31st ... hopefully 😊

Wow, thank you! I should be able to try this tomorrow.

What a wonderful Tutorial - thank you for this!

Thank you for this! Super easy to follow!

HOLY COW THIS VIDEO IS A GODSEND. SUB'd

thanks for making a walkthrough you are my number one jit for this

Im new to this. Can anyone please point me in the right direction as to where to actually get the Roms? Thanks!

Can't say that I'm a fan of golf though...thanks for the tutorial and the links, some AWESOME emulator cores there! The link for the thumbnail packages is dead though...got an alternate link?

Did I miss something? I can't seem to find the bezel artwork :(

doesnt work for me anymore anyone else have this problem cause i installed the game on multiple drives and i redownloaded the software and used different cores and different games but it still just says that its done andit doesnt make the file! anyone else?

Thanks for the working cores!!!

The thumbnail link does not work and neither do any of the files that i downloaded

Anyone else have the low system storage issue? Mine isn’t reading my usb drive anymore.

I got an atgames legends mini on the way, gamestop had them for 50 bucks! so I was curious about modding solutions cus I know the stock unit only comes with like 100 games... so might have to install this on it!

Great Video except the thumbnail pkg link does not work!!

I know this is old but anyone have a link to the Thumbnail cache the link in the description is broken.

I followed step by step.Downloaded winrar, and i cant export anything. Can someone please help?

thumbnail pack is not there anymore 404 Not Found

There are no zips with the thumbnails anymore, the link to thumbnails ends with 404 error

If I ever finish filming my unboxing review for mine I will def give you a shout out!

Tried adding the newly created NBA Jam T.E. rom (with Jordan and Shaq in the game), but no such luck. Anyone else tried this one?

Hello just a heads up the Thumbnail Packages link does not seem to be working...

Great tutorial video, I have firmware 5.61 but no mame rom plays. Including the Golden Tee. I followed everything to the dot but always fails. Any help please?

Thumbnail Packages link doesn't work. Is there somewhere I could find the thumbnail pack?

Thanks for all the help!

Great post and thank you for all the info! One question I have is knowing which core is best for which game. Is there some where I can find that information or someway to know based on the game ROM?

The thumbnail link is showing "page not found" can you upload a new one?

could I add games to my ALU via mac without having to code on terminal to support the microsoft file?

Has anyone else run into the issue with local system storage being full and you not being able to run your USB drive?

Anyone know what firmware version hes using? I'm on 5.70.0 and I cannot get a single game working no matter what core I use :(

I tried to get the thumbnail link but it said 404 not found

This tutorial was a good send for a newb like me thank you! Which emulator core would you select for scummvm games like monkey island etc?

Just jumping in to Legends Ultimate Arcade and love it. Started the exercise of adding my own games beginning with Donkey Kong. Used mame2003 core, looks good but doesn't have all the sounds .. when I used mame2016 core, I get the sounds but it's laggy and crackling sound. Is there some type of index on which cores to use for various games. I'm hoping to not take hours getting all my favorite games added.

Where do you get ROMS from please? I am stuck

When I put in the usb device, I dont get the add on option on the left menu.

can u do updated version for 5.68 version of the atgames legends cabinet

I get a flashing usb stick icon on the top right of the screen. I did format FAT32, but I do have like 200 games on it.

Sadly, the new firmware 5.70 broke this feature and USB's I made using your method no longer work :(

Great video!!! Does this method also work for the standard gaming board as well?

Great video! And thanks. Where are people getting the cores? I see you link to one in a GitHub repo and I've seen others in dropbox. Are they being pulled from the machines themselves?

"runs on its own file system" that translates in my head as.... HOOK UP RASPBERRY PI

None of the files worked. When i go to the add on tool. boxart, and core, etc doenst show up

i will be attempting to add mario party to this wish me luck

I'm not to good with this kinda stuff, but I got to the point where I'm supposed to enter the game ROM into the addOn tool. Where are, or how do I get the actual game ROMs? I've followed this video step by step, and there's no mention of, or link to, where the actual games are.

where dp u get game roms? Are we missing something?

Did anyone end up creating a resource (downloadable zip directory) that contains all the properly sized Bezel Arts? Or for that matter, some premade (known working) UCE files? I am struggling with my tests. My thumbdrive shows up under the BYOG menu, not the normal game menu, and when I click on the game (box art) it attempts to load, but nothing happens.

If only I could find a good place to get UCE's....🤪

hi bro, very good video just one question, i did everything you said but in the field that i most select the core it says that " selected emulation core is not an arm aarch 64 compatible library file" and that happend with absolutely all cores i downloaded, i downloaded i think all but still the same, can you help me?

The thumbnail packages dont download. it stops and doenst say why

Has anyone figured out how to access saved game data in an UCE? It's kind of a non-issue for arcade games, but it would be nice for GBA and SNES games. The save state function on the ALU works fine and saving properly in-game seems to work, but I don't know how to access the folder where the actual .sav files are kept. If I could get in there, I could import my saves dumped from a cartridge or export my saves made on the ALU to be used in another emulator.

Great video, thanks for walking through all this. I’ll be getting the ALU Mini 3/4 cab and very excited for it. I know this is a dumb question, but is there anyway to do this process with a MacBook Air instead of PC? I assume there isn’t but figured I’d ask...

Thank you

Great video, thanks but only at a 50% success rate in making arcade games work on the ATGames cabinet (via MAME). Tried different cores, but really hit and miss. Anyone know how to get sound effects to work in Galaga? I have the sound files zipped up. Can't get Ms. Pac-Man or Tapper to work, tried different cores and I know the ROMs are good. Wish it wasn't this difficult. Any suggestions?

Great tutorial and thank you! i just have one problem. What to i do wrong becouse when i put the usb stick there is no addon showing on menu? My coinops and everything works well but i cant add my another games.

April 15 2021 I just got my new Legends Ultimate arcade. but i am having a problem with the downLoads shown here. I want to load my old CD games to USB. mostly Pinballs games. why don't I see the downloads that are shown in the great video.

I have a new ALU and I uploaded 5.68 firmware. I load games exactly as shown by the Cabinet owners, I use exactly the same programs, but my games are only seen by ALU, but they cannot load, do you know where the problem could be?

there is a problem with the Core lin in Dropbox for the working cores.... I need them to finish the adding the games/roms to my atgames legends ultimate

Hi, when I load up the rom on the machine it loads and then exits

I'm not sure what I am doing wrong I guess I am just too new at this. I can get even save the thumbnails. I would have to do them one at a time for each indiv artwork. I'm just looking for typical games like Super Mario Bros, Contra, Donkey Kong you know games like that. I am having the hardest time with this process can anyone help. I can even pay a fee.

Can you do a video on how to add NES, Atari, and Sega? I am having trouble with maybe the "Core" that I am using or the way my file is set up. I would like to expand beyond MAME games! Thanks!

Is this old school one by one the only solution out there yet? Isn’t there a zip like pi has to get an all in one solution out there ?

What would keep the games from showing up on the screen when the USB drive is plugged in ?

trying to add bezels, ive resized but coming up with error and wont let me add, any links for bezels that work please

can you add roms with CHD files? for example, Road Blasters? Gauntlet Legends?

Everything works except for the cores I can't get the roms to appear? I know I'm a year late but any help would be appreciated.

Would you be able to sell a flash drive preloaded? I would buy one if it saves all that time. Let me know if your willing to sell a preloaded flash drive. Thanks

The file for the Thumbnails seems to be missing and the mame-2010 files are missing. Can you update these?

I'm late to the party but can someone mod it to play for instance, SegaSonic the Hedgehog?

I can see there is a model with two hdmi which model it is. I only have one hdmi. 1.1?

I am new to this and I think I may have missed something. Where do I get the ROMS from? Is that a separate website like coolroms?

Ive downloaded about 5 mame games and they just keep crashing on bootup. Ive tried both cores and they still crash. Other basic roms work just fine but mame games just keep crashing. Anyone have any advice?

First off thanks for the tutorial. Just what my Ultimate Legends needed. Now, what about the best emulator/core for a N64 game...Golden Eye was so much fun. Thanks?

I just purchased the AtGames Legends Gamer Mini Console do you and your own games the same way?

Have not gotten Sega 32x or sega cd roms to run

Is it usually supposed to take a while to load? I keep pressing on my game (Mappy) and it just says "Loading..."

Where do you get the game rom

I can only get the art cover to show up on the Ultimate Legends. Will not play game and can not find Bezel artwork? Please help

My usb slot doesn’t read the usb stick? Also when I switched to another usb stick, it locks up the control deck and the buttons and controls are stuck until I remove the usb stick? Any thoughts or help would be appreciated.

Are the ROMs you are using the same as coin-ops? I have a problem with coin-ops not saving high scores on 99% of the games which to me is the main replayability Factor. The graphics also seen better quality than coin-ops is there any difference? Thanks

Thank you. The thumbnail packages link doesnt work anymore?

Thanks for the tutorial Restalgia! I've been able to get my gba stuff to work, but I can't seem to get Mame games to work properly. When I boot up a game it shows some fuzzy snow, then a black screen saying factory default. So far tried robotron and joust with the two different Mame cores you suggested. Do I need to unzip the rom files or is there another Mame core you would suggest? Thanks

Any update on this? I love the video.

Should I use CHD or Rom files? Having a tough time getting NFL Blitz 2000 to work...

So its possible to add vertical shmups? And play in tate mode

Anyone know how to get Atari console games to work on ATGames legends Ultimate?

please help. I tried to follow steps and the game will not play. Just show the game art

Hello, thank you so much for share all these useful info. May I ask how to add and play neog geo games like kof 97 and metal slug? I have tried all Final Burn alpha and mame cores, but they are not working.