UPDATE Local streaming is now available using a proprietary ATGames streaming app from Windows so it felt like I had to edit the video and re-upload because I really feel like At-Games is actually trying with this one and I'm personally enjoying this Cab. Join the official AtGames fan page, When they reach 10,000 uses they will be giving away Ultimate Legend unit: facebook.com/groups/457437778352096/
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Spinners!! This is the first mainstream consumer product I've seen in modern times that have them. I'm working on a game with spinner controls (even built a controller specifically for it) and was afraid no one would ever get to use them! They really went out of their way to give people a good out of the box experience.
This cab is a no brainer. Atgames keeps taking community feedback and adding new free features. Possibilities are endless. Don't have to mod anything to accomplish whatever you want. My 1ups have been rendered obsolete
Too bad it's taking them over 10 years for AtGames to actually take community feedback, their reputation is already long gone. The damage has been done and sadly there's absolutely no way they're regaining any credibility whatsoever.
@EMagnificent Not really, they just took a step in the wrong direction with a few things like having the cabinet be a mini kids size cabinet and only one speaker instead of two stereo speakers. They've listened more completely as they've added better buttons and better screen for the V2 and V3 ones. (I'm unlucky, I've only got one of the V1 ones - street fighter one)
I wish this product will come to Europe soon. Its a great all in one Cab, ready to go. If i want to buy a diy wood kit here, I have to spend already 300€ for the cheapest. Vinyl costs 150€, then the controllers/Spinners/Trackball 150€+, Monitor 100€, Retropi 50€.... Sound Speakers and amp, usb/hdmi wires plugs, T-mold... the list goes on. Your time and work not included. So for the price is a great product.
I can't help but wonder if this is an instance of too little too late though. Most are going to see the brand in combination with the price and see it as a gamble.
@SUBZEROUK yes, I agree their genesis/MD products were bad. The arcade machine is alot better than those products though. Which it should be for a 500 dollar price tag
They forgot the coin slots/coin mechs. This is the defining experience of an arcade machine, fumbling for quarters and sticking them in before the continue timer runs out.
I'd love to see a review of how the Nvidia Shield functions as the brains for an arcade machine. I'm working on building an arcade cabinet right now and my plan is to use a shield to power it, since I'll be able to emulate, run Android games, use Nvidia GeForce NOW and Steam streaming as well.
I still use my version 1 of the Shield console today(wish I would have kept the legacy tablet and fliptop models I had) and it can pretty much handle most of what I throw at it, including some of the harder to emulate games. That tegra GPU really makes a huge difference, especially when you get to the 3d stuff. Using a Sheild seems like an interesting idea for an arcade box. Good luck!
I have a vewlix and had a shield inside for a while. It was pretty good however I replaced it with a cheap ryzen pc to handle some pc games. I never got good performance trying to stream games from my pc to shield over WiFi.
subbed and liked, cool features mame game roms add-on, hdmi/usb inputs and connected to wifi to stream steam games is awesome! i think they redeemed themselves with this gem.
I've been looking at getting a home arcade. How ever I'm divided on a home built or commercial machine. Reviews like this do help to narrow the selection.
Every time I watch your video I always ask my... Who in the heck is giving your videos a thumbs down? I mean really are they just hitting the wrong icon ?
I'd heard a lot of good things about this unit! especially the ability to add your own ROMs to play whatever you want! Seems pretty cool may have to look into getting one one of these days!
For those curious, Retro Ralph has been extensively covering all developments and updates AtGames has made to the software, so if you're still unsure of this, go check out his videos - he's even managed to mod in a Raspberry Pi withOUT making the existing hardware unusable. They've had some missteps with this thing along the way, but it really seems like AtGames is trying to apologize for their past quesitonable products. This entire system seems to be built expressly to create a product meant to appeal to everybody who doesn't like Arcade1up, but doesn't want to build their own cab, either. Every aspect of this cab addresses a complaint against Arcade1up. You pay a lot more to get that, but you still pay much less than it would cost to buy a full-size custom cab.
Between Cooltoy, The Tech Buzz, Retro Ralph, PDubs Arcade Loft there is so much awesome positive content out there for this Legends Ultimate Machine - it is an amazing multicade that keeps getting better and better! :)
@@PDubsArcadeLoft I've been plotting to get a GRS Level Up 3/4 cab for a while now due to considering it to be sufficient(I've always felt full-size cabs are a little crazy unless you're a very social person who has a lot of friends over a lot and needs a true game room with multiple cabs :P ), but this is making me reconsider. A Level Up specced out with a good computer will cost around the same as AtGames cab.
This seems like quite the solid unit, especially given its price is only a couple hundred more than the typical Arcade1UP unit. Probably the better buy for people that don't mind having a full size cabinet in their homes. AtGames does not have a very good track record with me, but I am liking what I am seeing here.
This is probably the best arcade machine (pre-made) that I've seen so far. I was majorly into building my own stuff... I'd never buy this. But it looks pretty decent for $500. The dual spinners looks a bit iffy.... how many games use dual spinners? Might be a handful but not worth crowding the panel for them. People complaining about the UI... but for a unit like this where people just want to play games it suffices. The hours I've spent tweaking my cabinets to get them perfect in the display UI department. OMG! That's my choice though and most people wouldn't be arsed.
I want more direct comparisons between Legends and arcade1up. Both seek to replicate the arcade experience. Yes, there are differences in size and (vast) differences in numbers of games. But a similar overriding question ties the two together: which does better in recreating the arcade experience? Arcade1up 12-in-1 includes Tempest, Centipede, Missile Command. So does Legends. A performance comparison is absolutely central to what I (and many others) want to buy. If Legends has a crappy trackball/spinner/controller relative to 1up, who cares if it has a bigger monitor and 350 games? You can put a Defender rom on Legends, but will it be nevertheless unplayable, owing to the button scheme, as is the case with 1up? What about the small screen size of Legends’ vertical games? Direct measured size comparison for Galaga? Again, more feedback on such questions would be greatly appreciated.
I have had this for about 2 weeks it is really a good machine I was on the fence to. I bought mine at Sam’s and I added about another 100 games thru usb so far. I had to research and a lot of fail and try again with the mames and Roms but they do work well when you find ones that work. I still haven’t figured out how to add Sega,nes, and snes games yet!
wow, atgames actually bringing something tempting. good effort. Does it have warlords? those spinners are actually hard to find in any normal controller form and I sorely miss them for warlords and tempest. hell even 500 for the hardware alone then just throw a pc in there is worth it.
@@bland9876 absolutely. I tried to find usb paddles so we could have a warlords tournament at home and couldn't actually find any that didn't involve tracking down old Atari ones and then hoping genesis - usb adapters would work.
Very similar to what i built 20 years ago, was around $3,000, My spinner's placement is above the joystick's, and mine has side buttons and a slide out keyboard, I really hope they sell them in Australia, as i need a updated near full size, All i do now is make Mini's and Bartop's, & V-Pinball for family and friends
@@user-yv2cz8oj1k That's not a bad idea if you have the space and woodworking knowledge. I don't think me and my lone jigsaw can pull off anything looking this nice, though.
ATGames made this cab so it would be good enough for you to make a video on it and they could get a face reveal off the ultra reflective plastic panel over the screen... if you know what I mean...
It towers those stupid arcade 1ups. I love it. I've spend under 2 k already on these arcade 1ups and I'm sick of them already. Plus the crappy roms, defects, glitches, and screens. Arcade 1up better release some impressive stuff next year lol. I will get this just for burgertime, pong, and the super nintendo and sega games. 350 games? Spinner, two joysticks,, two speakers, full size cab. Nice art. Plus the menu features and ability to stream. I wish!!!!!
Sounds great but then it's always great with you guys. My machine worked all of 2 days right out the bloody box. How great is that? And now i have to wait until the second coming for replacement parts. Fantastic company great quality yes.... Make a video about what really happens to blokes who spend their hard earned money and get NOTHING but a bloody 90 pound paper weight.
I saw one of these on my last trip to Sams not too long ago. Looked interesting but I can't justify spending that amount of money, even for something in a full cabinet. However, for those with that kind of disposable income it looks like a good solution!
I’ve found that a direct Ethernet cable works best overall for this Cab. The WiFi (for me) doesn’t work well at all. I had to sign in every time I booted and couldn’t use arcade net at all. I spent 2 days feeling I wasted my money.
I've been dying to find out what CPU/GPU this thing is running and how dreamcast emulation on this sucker is. Excellent work as usually my house is full of Arcade1Ups, but wish I waited for something like this oh well.
Just wanted to point out that you do a great job of giving honest reviews without trying to peddle your own product around. I am a BigBox license holder and you didn't mention launchbox/bigbox during this video at all (with the very evident comparisons you could make with their UI). Either way, stay honest and stay awesome!
Really interesting video! One thing I'm super curious about is the HDMI in. I wanna know how it works and how useful it could be. I've seen others connect a Pi to the HDMI in and use the new Bluetooth connectivity to connect the control panel to it. Would that work with, say, a gaming laptop or PC running Big Box? That seems far more sustainable and doable than local game streaming.
Hello there. Great review. 2 quick Questions. I love Tempest. It needs a good spinner. You said the spinner was great. Did you by any chance try it with tempest ? Last question - I have Mame Roms in an old laptop. If I understand correctly can I put those games on a USB device and play them on this platform? Not sure how that works as with the laptop I had to run Mame in order to see the games within the app. Sorry for pedestrian question. Would love to make it work
About time! Lol. You are the explainer in chief. These other guys talk too fast. Can't wait for you to hook up a raspberry pi onto it. I hooked mines up like retro Ralph, by linking up the cable without having to disconnect anything that came with it.
Are you going to do a modding video adapting this one to a raspberry pi? I think that you're actually able to put one of those inside and add two light guns to the formula could be one of the best arcade emulator all in one machines out there, thanks for your videos!
Does the control panel have plexiglas overlay on top of it? I noticed from at least the first round of 1-UP cabinets that the graphics would wear off from play.
Any suggestions on getting the arcade version of Zaxxon to play sound? When I use the AddOn Tool, the .UCE file created does play the game, but there is no sound. I am using a MAME 2003 plus full non-merged rom file.
I was going to bitch about the price until you zoomed in on the controls. Decent layout...the trackball and rotary controls...the nice usb hub built in...the etc...its actually pretty decent looking. Decent display...full size-ish cabinet unlike the mini crap...etc...its def not outlandish. I mean..if you are a hobbiest...you can easily build this cheaper yourself....some mdf wood from home depot...some old optiplex pcs, and displays from Goodwill...a good deal on some controls from ebay ...old pc speakers ..etc...but you also have to consider all the time and effort which does in the end equate to a monitary value as well.
weird question but do you have an XArcade option you can plug into this and see if it will work? I have a tankstick and this would interest me if I could plug my Tankstick in with those 2 USB slots for 4-player games like simpsons and turtles
SO want to get my first arcade cab, have wanted one for a few years but never pulled the trigger. It probably either this or like an arcade1up golden tee cab, which do you think? This worth the time? I'm also kind of tall and when I saw the 1up cab at costco it felt very short to me on the riser. Also, think you could get Golden tee running on this? Thanks man, love the channel.
How to play Marble Madness with 2 players? BW, USB Ports are very bad located. If you play fighting games, it could be easy to hit USB dongle with our hand. I must be replaced at the center of the panel or below the control panel.