AtGames Legend Ultimate Arcade hands-on/review! 

@RETRO PHIL Heck, anything more than just a few generations old MUST be played on a CRT, say nothing about this classic stuff. I keep an old CRT tv on hand specifically for me to play my old consoles like Genesis, Nintendo 64, NES, and such on. Really only modern consoles of the last few generations look good on a wide screen LED TV.

What joysticks did you put in it, out of curiosity?

Does it not count against your time?

Modern Classic No. Local streaming with your own PC on your own network is free. It's separate from the AtGames service that uses the cloud gaming service and a virtual PC. That has a cost because you're using external server and network time. There are only two instances where you're charged, that and ArcadeNet gaming. However, ArcadeNet is free while in beta so there's only the one charge. Everything else you can do on there, and there's a lot, is completely free.

Already have mine reserved. But I don't see any official source saying this will be included in new ALU units. The page on AtGames' web site for the Bitpixel LED marquee says it's compatible with "all Legends Ultimate and Legends Gamer units", which implies that *no* version comes with it.

They're making an add-on called the Bitpixel Marquee that can do that.

This machine is different. Check out some of the other videos out there... they've learned a lot of lessons.

@@ModernClassic I would hope so for $600, as that's a fairly mid range AMD based gaming PC.

@@CommodoreFan64 ya but the most known company doing this stuff Arcade1up sells you an arcade for around $400 and all you can do is play a couple games on it. This arcade has no limit on how many games you play and offers a whole lot more with no mods necessary unlike arcade1up. The price to me is right on point, and it's unfair to compare this to a pc. Completely 2 different things here and your paying for the nostalgia of it all in a realistic type arcade cab.

@@CommodoreFan64 Also I own a pandoras box that cost $200 and thats just for the sticks and buttons built into a box and you plug n play onto a TV screen. So for just $400 more I get an entire full sized arcade cabinet btw, because arcade1up is 3/4 sized and I can play anything I want on it just with a quick download. Sounds good to me. The point is you have companies selling arcades half sized and with 3 games in it. I can buy this Atgames and play over 1,000 games without any MODS!! So whats really worth what here...... Do you see what I'm saying? Did I mention its also the only arcade cab that's fully connected. Meaning wifi internet for updates, adding games and most importantly in which Modern Classic did not mention is that this hooks directly up to your Steam account and you can play some current high graphic fighting games like the new mortal kombat for example... so yes I believe its well worth a 600 tag

They currently have them available on pre-order in France and Belgium for early June via a well known french chain so there's a good chance it will be available in the UK soon.🤞🤞🤞They are charging €899 though 🙁

Get a megacade. It's a multicade that currently has over 70,000 games. In usd it's roughly five and a half grand and whilst you could build one for cheaper. It won't be on par with the quality from that machine. Free upgrades once you've bought it as well if i'm correct. Customer service sounds spot on as well.

Some Random Guy that machine does look amazing but 70,000 games! I just want this machine here with like 1000

They're in the UK now, because I saw an advert for them!

Don't have to hack it. Adding games is officially supported.

Supposedly more will be in stock at the end of the month

They have really made an effort to do things right this time.

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-A06mnb6LD10.html&t=1391

How was it?

@Spawndude Spawndude If you intend to have physical bezel, with some sort of design, or vinyl graphic, you may be limited to the 27, at most, for a decent sized monitor. However, Given your visual situation, I'd go with the 32" monitor, in which you would not be able to use a bezel, but would enjoy a monitor that's easier for you to see, and actually be comparable to commercial arcade monitors.

Yes, I realize some games were like that.. it still looks better than no scanlines at all.

@@ModernClassic ;-)

Yes, most of the early 80s games need a 4-Way, when I built my cabinet, I found some good 4-Way to 8-Way convertable Joysticks, you just pull the joystick up, twist to one side and you are in 4 Way mode.

I had written another reply but I'm replacing it with this one. You are right that I messed up that section a little bit, but not quite in the way I think you're thinking. There are square and diamond 4 way gates. Older games with 4 way movement had dedicated diamond gates; this machine comes with a square gate by default. Square gates don't do anything for anybody; I don't honestly know why they exist, since they only give you physical feedback in the corners. Like the Sanwa gates, it looks like you can rotate the inner ring on this plate 45 degrees to get a diamond shape out of it. That would be a lot better for 4 way games that only have up, down, left and right. I honestly didn't try that; I'd never done that before so I didn't even realize I could. Now, that said, for playing a ton of different kinds of games, an 8 way plate is still better, and it *might* still be better even for 4 way games than a 4/8 way gate is. That's because the 4 way gate even in diamond configuration is still really rounded off, so you're not getting quite as much positive "click" into position when pressing one direction or another. 8 way gates aren't rounded off. So yeah, I would have done that part a little differently if I'd just known to turn the inner ring 45 degrees. I'd have at least tried using it that way for a little while. But it wouldn't work too well with other games, I don't think, so I'd probably have still swapped the 4 and 8 way plates.

​@@ModernClassic Your restrictor plates looks like Sanwa ones, so you should be able to convert them into diamond. I found a video that explains how to do it: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-jQLXRD-0GBg.html

Anything can be done by DIY. This is for people who don't want to bother with all that.

The 4 way plate I have can be rotated to be a diamond.

I talk about that in the video itself.

Just add them if it doesn't come with what you want. Takes 2 seconds.

A lot of arcade controllers look similar from afar.. that's why I opened it up to see what was in there. I don't know much about those Pandora's box things other than that with 3,188 games for $180, there's no way those games are all licensed. But who knows what kind of parts are even in there. Could be good, or maybe not. Maybe sometime I'll try one out, but I'm not going to pay even that much for one.

@@ModernClassic the one I have looks almost identical inside, even the board looks very similar. I think it's a low end arm thing and at a guess I would say about as powerful as a raspberry pi 3. It runs 99% of the games fine with the odd one that either the controls don't work or runs slow. I paid about £120 for mine which I think was worth it for a very nice duel joystick panel that can easily be upgraded with a more powerful single board computer and better parts. It's great as a USB duel fighting stick for PC as well.

Restrictor plate, or plate, for short. Always been that way. Some people call them "gates" but those people are heretics.

You can actually remap the controls however you want. You can use the P2 controls for P1, you can use the P2 joystick and P1 buttons, etc. I will say that this layout is pretty standard for how 2 player arcade games use to be laid out. But some may have been different; I didn't play everything back in the day.

The Galaga in this footage is just running on MAME (as the BYOG arcade games generally do). It should have the same amount of lag as an average MAME setup. I don't notice much lag, if any, in most games, although I do in some.

@@ModernClassic Thanks for the confirmation. Thinking about getting one, although the fact that the scan lines are in the wrong orientation in vertically oriented games like 1942 bugged me :-) so I'll probably turn off scan lines for vertical games until they fix it.

Trust me, you won't want to. It looks way more wrong with no scanlines than with horizontal scanlines.

Don't even know that channel.

There's another guy on RU-vid who did a video on using a MiSTer with this cabinet, but I don't know if he fit it inside. (I think he still wanted to use it with other devices.) The inside of the cabinet is literally just air, though, so there are tons of places you could mount one if you wanted to dedicate it to the Legends Ultimate. Then you would just need to split a cable or two going between the controller and monitor. The cabinet itself is basically just a stand for the controller and LCD screen, so you can do basically anything you want inside it. You could put a desktop PC running MAME in there if you wanted.

It comes with everything u seen. The controller deck, cabinet and monitor. And no you can't switch out the deck because if u watched the video (lol) u would see that everything is put on that controller deck including the chipset to make it operate.

Don't worry, they have seen this video :)