THANK GOD for people like you! This is what I love about the RU-vid community, people that spend hours and hours to figure out all this stuff, and share it with people like me who don't have the knowledge or experience to do it ourselves. Thank you again!
You're welcome, this stuff is too cool to not share with people. This is the coolest part of my arcade cabinet for sure! Are you building one? Thanks for the watch!
@@wayofthewrench I’m going to start on my third one soon. This one will be for a friend. He gifted me a Raspberry Pi, and to return the favor I’m building him a cabinet. They’re just too much fun!
Followed all instructions to the letter and worked perfectly on my arcade machine setup I have here. Thank you many RU-vid tutorial videos especially tech related ones often miss steps out or assumes the viewer knows basic steps and therefore leaves the viewer is left frustrated and confused but you covered absolutely everything perfectly. Thanks
This might be the first time I've commented on a RU-vid video in 15 years, but this is rad. I had a random urge to build my own arcade setup and this playlist of videos has given me the kick in the ass to take the plunge. SUPER great videos, thanks for all of this!
I'm stoked I was able to break your RU-vid vow of silence. Hopefully I have inspired you to make your own arcade cabinet. If you have any questions along the way, just put it in the comments and I'll try to help ya out. I would love to see it when your done! If you enjoyed the video series, I would really appreciate a share out on your social media. It would make my day, Cheers!
Right? It would be cool to even have another pi and another screen for extras like you said.... fatalities for MK, special moves for Stret Fighter, etc. Thanks for the watch!
@@wayofthewrench Works great, been playing with it for a few hours today. 1 quick question: When it boots into a splash screen and out of one to go back to the default, does your screen show a quick text screen?
@@wayofthewrench Awesome guide - thank you. I had the issue with the image going to text (the command line) and not the default. Fixed it by removing the mp4 file - I'm assuiming the Omxplayer not installing means the video fails to play and doesn't default to the png.
I'm sure you could do it, you just have to learn as you go. I made it look easy but it was a bunch of work. However, I enjoy making things so half of the enjoyment of playing this arcade cabinet is looking at it and remembering the build and feeling proud of the job I did. Thanks for the watch!
Thanks Paul! Yeah I'm a pretty big fan of my cabinet too. That's pretty cool you watched them all in one night. Are you going to build one? It's a very rewarding project and super fun to play when your done. I'm actually thinking about doing some mods to my cabinet and making a couple more videos. Plus I'm in the middle of research and gathering parts for a future build. If you enjoyed the videos, I could really use a share out on your social media (my channel is like finding a needle in a haystack of videos out there). Much appreciated, Cheers!
That's awesome! Yeah the digital marquee is such an amazing addition to the arcade cabinet....doubles the coolness for sure. I would love to see your setup, could you send me some pics on my instagram? Link in the description. Cheers!
Thanks dude! It was a lot of work and I stressed over the details to make sure it turned out nice but in the end it was a lot of fun and looks great. Lots of nights playing all the classics and a bunch of games I never played in the arcades. How did I miss Crystal Castles?
Your videos are awesome and I am finally building the arcade I had planned to do since 2019 when I started getting parts. I got the same marquee monitor (open box special) and set it all up last night with my prototype board. Besides a stupid typo that took me a while to find, your instruction for the marquee were great. Why talk when you can just show the commands was perfect. One note, since you made this they have changed the OS so there are slight differences - one I noted was omxplayer seemed to be missing in the new lite version. I may go see if I can install it and get videos going - I was only planning on static, but it would be nice to have video just in case. Thanks again - your content is very well done and inspiring!
That's awesome, you'll have to dm me some pics or a video of your cabinet when your done! That marquee monitor is an amazing monitor, I use a second one of those for my editing too. Too bad about the new lite version of the OS, I wonder if there is a non lite version that still is there to download? I would imagine that omxplayer can be installed separately so it works. As this video gets older, there will most likely be better ways to accomplish this, like using a rpi4 with dual outputs or I have already used Bigbox on a pc to make an upgraded version of this which is actually pretty awesome. I need to make a video for this as I was thinking of doing some upgrades to the cabinet like adding a pc, Bigbox, 2 spinners, Sindel light guns, adding pinball, tempered glass, etc. The mods are never ending. Yeah those syntax errors in code are insane to find sometimes, like when you use a o instead of a 0 or a missing . or a second .. Thanks for the watch!
@@wayofthewrench I fought VLC for awhile and decided to flash an older version of the OS and redo it. It went much faster having already done it before. All is working fine. No I just need to get the talking over a wire since I have a pi3 for the marquee. Cabinet build in progress.
Yeah in the video it is set up for using wifi but I know there has to be a way to just connect them both with an ethernet cable. I just never looked into it and spent my time learning how to do the same thing with Big Box on a pc upgrade. One of these days I'll show this too. I'd love to see if running when you are all done! Cheers!
@@wayofthewrench I did it last night. Since I am using a pi 4 and 3b I have ethernet ports. I gave the eth0 interface each static IPs in the same subnet and without having to do anything else, I connected them and it worked. I can enable wifi on the retropie and access it via ssh. From there, I can ssh into the marquee pi. I certainly PM you pictures when I get it going. Hey one question I have, why did you mount the marquee monitor upside down in the cabinet? I have the same monitor as you.
Yeah Brian I'd love to see your write up to get the 2 pis talking without wifi and a direct ethernet cable. Just send me a dm when you get a chance on Instagram. I mounted it upside down because when I took my measurement I didn't notice that the top monitor bezel was almost nothing but the bottom was like 3/4". So I had to flip it so I could center the monitor screen in the cabinet cutout. I was actually a very easy fix, just had to rotate the display on the pi.
Just a thought for your IP address. Set up the end devices, in this case your Raspberry pi to use DHCP, then in your router, or whatever you are using as a DHCP server, set up IP address reservation. You can essentially bind the MAC address of the Raspberry pi, to your desired IP. Then, regardless of how many times you restart the Raspberry pi, it wont change the IP. address This will also help prevent IP address conflicts. If you are setting up a static IP on a device, and the IP that you set, is within the range of the IP's that your DHCP server issues, then you could end up with a DHCP conflict as your DHCP server would be unaware that another device might be using a particular IP.
You're exactly right! The ip address of your router will change unless you have a dhcp reservation to reserve the ip address you set your pi to. There is a link on how I did mine in the video description. Good info, thanks for sharing!
Had a couple subscribers send me pics of their cabinets today. If ya wanted to check them out, they are on instagram, link in decription. Hope your cabinet is coming along.
This tutorial was amazing! Got it to work finally. Have you gotten an image to work if you are just on a menu? I would like to get a marquee image for the system I am currently looking through.
Awesome, glad it still works! No I haven't touched it since I released that video. If I wanted what you are saying, Bigbox on a PC is exactly what you want. Thanks for the watch!
Yeah I'm a bit behind in the raspberry pi advancements (bought the raspberry pi 3 last year) but a raspberry pi 4 is on my list of future upgrades and or next project. I don't know if it's just me but I'm a little weirded out about downloading prepackaged images because I don't know what is built in to the image. Not that I think anyone is out to purposefully cause havoc on my network but I have dealt with viruses before and they are not fun. Thanks for the suggestion and for watching the videos!
@@wayofthewrench Arcade Punks is pretty reputable. Haven't heard of any problems but I understand the apprehension. My biggest problem with the pre built images is that some are out of date and can't be updated, and the ones that are new enough contain a ton of ROMs that just don't work or are super slow (even using a Pi 4 with heatsinks and a fan though I haven't done any overclocking). So I download a nice full pre-built then remove all the computer based ROMs and pretty much all but US titles. Makes things easier than downloading and sorting through a ton of no intro rom packs. Just built my first bartop arcade for my son and it turned out way better than I expected. You definitely helped in my research.
Super cool project.. nice series too... lots of great info.. curious about one thing tho... why did you mask all your internal ip's? nobody can get to them anyway.. just wondering...
Thanks bruh! Glad you enjoyed the series, I'm doing a digital pinball cabinet now you might like too. Yeah I probably didn't need to cover my ip address but man who know what some MacGyver out there can do....lol. Cheers and thanks for the watch!
I first succeeded in making my marquee from your instructions and it was really amazing. I have now gotten the same thing working on a pair of diy rgb led panel using the same Rpi zero. What is stumping me is getting the program to run at start up. I know what to type in to putty to make it start manually but haven’t had any luck getting it to do it on its own. Any advice?
Just so you also know, you can set your home Wi-Fi router to hand out static IP addresses to the raspberries based on their MAC addresses. The reason it stopped working was your Wi-Fi router hands out the first available IP's to connecting devices around your house, breaking the connection between the PI's
Yeah I had my IP addresses change on me the first time I ran this but after I set static ups and showed how to do that in the video do people wouldn't have them change on them. Mines has been solid since the video was published and works great. Thanks for the info and watch!
So cool! Could this work using some kind of direct connection between your Raspberry 3 and zero? Like an ethernet? I have a bartop arcade and sometimes I want to be able to take it to events and have it work there, without messing with there router.
Yes you should be able to hook them up and change the script to get them communicating with each other. I haven't looked into this as I intend on upgrading the cabinet with a PC and Bigbox which has digital animated marquees. Thanks for the watch and welcome to the channel!
As a computer systems technician, I always find it hilarious when people on youtube block their private IP address. These addresses are not routable over the internet, and MILLIONS of other people have that exact same address, no need to block it.
Yeah I'm not a computer tech, just a man.....a man who likes to constantly learn new skills. I just wanted to protect myself in case there was something I didn't know. Thanks for the tip! You making a digital marquee?
@@wayofthewrench I am actually thinking of using this type of tech to load the poster art of the currently playing movie in my home theatre onto a digital poster.
@@wayofthewrench Great series by the way. I built a MAME arcade years ago with an old computer and never got around to building the cabinet. also, I didn't mean to sound smug, I just personally find it funny, because I know it is not harmful to expose that information.
That would be super cool! That would go good with a huge movie collection. I can't remember what program (XBMC?) it was but my buddy has his set up to play movie trailers from whatever era the movie is from before the movie starts.
no worries, I would find it funny too! Dude....you have to build my cabinet with the digital marquee! Either that or start a virtual pinball cabinet which you would totally be into with your background....waaaay more computer tech involved.
Fantastic guide. Could this be done using a pc and a Raspberry Pi? I have a virtual pinball cabinet which is already running three screens. I'd like to either have a proper topper using a Raspberry Pi and possible a Nexus 7 2013 as a screen, or use a projector to project a poster next to the table - on demand arcade backgound imagery. Sending date from the launch script in Popper over the network to the Rpi.
Ya know I'm sure this would work if you ran Linux on the pc but if you're running popper and have the pc already, I'd just run a forth topper screen as it's already built in to popper. The only issue might be not having enough outputs on your gpu. If you need more, maybe it's time for an upgrade....maybe SLI dual gpus and a new motherboard?
@@wayofthewrench its a relatively new laptop with a 3080 - not upgrading yet just to display a static image :) I'll find a way :) For now I have giant 4 foot by 3 foot flyers being projected next to my Retropie cabinet - will share an image at some point :)
I see there may be a few digital marquees that use the second HDMI port of a single raspberry pi. Videos by kiodiekin and ETAprime being the main ones I found. Do you think there is a benefit to the two pi method? If I had the cab at a venue with no wireless internet, is it possible to run the two pi method using network cable instead of wireless
Yeah when I made those videos, raspberry pi 4 came out so I just continued with my plan. Honestly if I made another I would just use an old pc and use Bigbox. I've actually been meaning to do an upgrade video and do that to my cab. Yes, you should be able connect them with an Ethernet cable and change the ports to whatever those would be. I never looked into that but like I said, I would do it now with a pc and big box instead. Cheers!
I just completed this with a pi 5 and a pi zero 2 and i got it working! I am just curious where you found the actual marquee .png files? I've been scouring the internet and i cant find a good source. Love your arcade and pinball videos, once my arcade is up and running im going to tackle a pinball machine!
Sweet! Good to know it can be done with newer rasp boards. Ya know, I don't remember where I got them from but I know that I had to find certain ones from certain sites. Atari I used box art, nes has some really cool themed ones, etc. I'm sure if you search for it, you'll find them. Yeah you should totally make a vpin....I think it's actually a cooler machine to build/have. Thanks for the watch!
Hey I love your videos and I just subscribed however I have a couple questions. One does this lcd Is work with more than just the arcade such as can you make marquise for the gameboy deep knis inboy the nintendo etcetera And to how would I find those marquis for those and how would I place them in the retro pie and how would I enable the pienable depise 0 to find them
Yes it totally does and all of other systems have this worked out. There are some really great nes, snes, sega genesis marquees out there too. I had to use Atari box art for most of the atari games but a few have the classic paintings that were on the box in full size, they look great. You just have to have the same format as the arcade folders. Have a system folder for the pngs named the same as the rom folder, the marquee png files have to be exactly the same file name too or it won't work. If you send me a dm, Ill try and get some marquee pics to show you. Thanks for the watch!
The way it is setup now, yes they both need wifi. I haven't played with a direct Ethernet connection and changing the ips yet. Currently building a free gaming pc build to upgrade the cabinet. Videos coming ....
Thank for the excellent video. Followed the instructions and it worked first time 🙂 I have one issue though, when my marquee changes images, it briefly jumps into the console before displaying the next image. It does this every time image changes. I don't have to type anything, its just a display issue. I notice this doesn't happen on yours and wondered if you knew why this might be happening? Thanks.
Perfect! Not sure about your digital marquee issue though. Do you have a default pic or mp4? It might be the type of mp4 video you have or the type of pic. Are they named default? Might be one thing off from the setup. Good luck!
@@wayofthewrench Thanks. All the images are PNG (not used any MP4 videos yet) and all the images display fine, just that the console information is displayed during the actual transition. Once the image is loaded it displays OK. This is both when moving between the default image to a game image and back again.
When you say console information, do you mean the grey emulator loading screen? Is this popping up on the main screen or the digital marquee? Or do you see the raspberry pi script running screen? I do see that on my very first game load but after that I do not see it.
@@wayofthewrench I have uploaded a short video showing the issue which I think will explain it a lot better than I did above. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-cPfhu0dKajw.html
It's kinda how mine is except it only happens once. Try using an mp4 video as the marquee when selecting games. It's possible that once the video is up, it stays up and hides that transition while a png doesn't.
Instead of a png file, can I have an mp4 file play when a rom is selected? If i understand correctly, it is possible for the default to be an mp4 but was just curious if I can have an mp4 play when a rom is selected?
You know I'm not sure but it is worth a try. Just remove the png and drop in a .mp4 that is named exactly like the game and see. I just wanted the original marquee art to pop so I'm not sure. If it works, maybe you could use game snaps instead like Bigbox uses. Thanks for the idea.
@@wayofthewrench I am awaiting my lcd marquee as we speak so I wont be able to test until it arrives. I will comment once I have tried. The static images are great, I am just curious if it is possible to add video loops. It just gives more options for customizations. Thanks again for the vids and your response.
Would you be able to tell me the model number of the 29 inch LG monitor you used, i am having trouble finding one that may fit, i havent hit the place order button yet because i dont want to have to return the screen if it doesnt fit lol
It is a LG brand 29" ultrawide monitor that is under $299 CAN. Don't buy anything more expensive as you don't need the gaming monitor version and don't buy the curved monitor version. It is a 29wl500 monitor.
superb video !! i bought some p4 led in order to make a RPI2DMD project , do you think it's possible to adapt the program to this kind of project or do i need a lcd monitor ? I bought 5000 gifs with it can i display gif instead of videos ?
Thanks Ben. That's cool! I haven't messed too much with that yet but I've seen some cool marquees with them. If you can display .png files then I don't see why this wouldn't work. I would give it a try before you install the dmd set up though just in case it doesn't work. I'd love to see you dmd marquee when you get it going because I am setting up a visual pinball cabinet and there is a dmd to set up which might be cooler if it was a real dmd display. Cheers!
All systems. You find the marquee art and that's what pops up. I have cool original box art for my Atari and found awesome nes marquees. Thanks for the watch!
If you can install all the required programs then I don't see why not. Funny, because I'm switching to Launchbox on a PC. Videos to come but you can do a digital marquee with this as well. Cheers!
You mentioned a PC and Hyperspin early in the video, but seemed pretty apprehensive about it. Do you prefer Retropie/Raspberry Pi over Hyperspin/PC? If so, why? Just curious, no judgements here.
When I started this project I actually thought that I would have to use Hyperspin to get the digital marquee working which would be fine but would require a pc. Since I was pitching a raspberry pi arcade build and that it was portable, I didn't really want to switch to a pc mid build so I was really happy that I was able to keep it raspberry pi. Eventually I will switch the cabinet to a gaming pc and then I'll look into using Hyperspin because it is quite nice and I love how quick the digital marquee art changes.
@@wayofthewrench thanks for your response. I appreciate it. The reason I was asking is because I've heard numerous things with the PC versus Pi debate. Honestly, I'm wondering if Pi is the best way to go even though there is less content as far as games that is available.
I think the pi is great because for a really low price point you can reliably play ten thousand games already. Maybe some n64 games and some graphic intensive games like killer instinct don't work but there are a LOT of games that work great. Plus for a little more money I got the digital marquee going so I am happy (coolest thing ever). However, if you can afford a nice gaming rig, the sky is the limit for what you can play. Plus if you want multi displays and programs like Hyperspin, then you are ready to go. I chose to start cheaper and easier and decided to do upgrades later. So I might do a pc later or right now I am seriously researching what I need to start a virtual pinball build, which might be built the same way I did my pi arcade cab, start cheap and easy and then upgrade to full gaming rig and 4k displays etc. At the end of the day there is no wrong way, you could even just buy a $100 pi kit and controllers and play with just that, which I did all last Summer before I built the cab. Cheers.
Is there any way of getting to the terminal command so I can get to raspberry pi config to change my WiFi, I entered the wrong password to the WiFi and now I can’t get back into the pi zero running the marquee with SSH, stupid mistake…help! Other than that everything worked awesome until I changed my WiFi service. Really cool project thanks for the videos!!
You should be able to redo the rpi zero section of the video and redo the wifi credentials to update the change. There might be a faster way but I'm not sure at this moment. Good luck!
Who did you get your marquee from and how much was it. I’ve thinking about getting one from Pixelcade but the prices are a bit high. Thanks and awesome vids on the arcade build!
Thanks for the comment. I didn't want to pay $600 to $1,000 for a marquee monitor so I looked around and came across the ultrawide LG monitors. You can buy a 29" ultrawide LG monitor for $249 CAN and sometimes even cheaper if it's on sale. I actually really like my choice as it displays traditional marquess great and also shows taller marquees like 720, Toobin, Super Off Road in their original size without distorting the png image. Plus it is a really nice monitor and opens up options for custom setups like having the top monitor play movie clips up top while you play the game below, custom 4 player games where 2 play on the main and 2 play on the top, etc.
@@wayofthewrench Thanks for the reply! That's a great idea. I just looked and those LG monitors are 1/3rd the price of the other products out there. I've got some thinking/redesign to do.
Yeah they are way more affordable and like I said, it is a really nice monitor. I would definitely recommend this monitor for your build. Cheers! Send me some pics when you get your cabinet finished, I'd love to see it!
You can but the PC would need to have Linux. Or a better way is to use a PC and install Bigbox on it because it has digital marquees. Thanks for the watch and welcome to the channel!
I skipped the step where you made the ip address static in th dhcpcd.config file. the update file and fbi files then downloaded for me and installed correctly. So if my ip address changes , it will probably stop working.
Yes, it will change on you and will not work. The first time I did this, it worked for 2 or 3 weeks and then didn't. I had to research how to make static ip for the pi and dhcp reservations for my router. There is a link in the description for the router dhcp reservation. Glad fbi worked for ya, I found that these commands and instructions have to be followed exactly how it is or it doesn't work. Cheers!
Probably but I had a rpi3b+. Rather than use a rpi4, Id get a cheap pc and use Launchbox. You'd get a way better performance for the same cost. Thanks for the watch!
You're very welcome! Not sure what it could be but this type of coding is really case and syntax sensitive. So maybe really double check spelling and spacing or no spacing really well. Good luck!
That was it. I had one extra space in the config file. Thank you again your videos are great and my builds keep getting more ambitious because of them lol
Awesome glad I was able to help you out and get it going. It's also good to know this still works. If you enjoyed this project, just wait till you do the virtual pinball cabinet....its sooo cool. Cheers!
@@wayofthewrench actually I building mine with you lol I’ve followed you since you started the pinball project and I’ve Got all the internals done, designed my cabinet and should have it assembled soon. Big inspiration for me. Keep up the great videos they help so much. The ALED stuff really saved me a lot of headaches.
I’m attempting to alter the setup from this video to run a DIY 32x128 rgb led matrix with an adafruit bonnet kind of like a led pixelcade. We shall see if it works next weekend.
i think best way is downloading a full stock like a 256 or 512 gb image file and i don't think you need 2 raspberry pi to get marguee working most raspberry pi haves 2 HDMI ports . I'm not 100% sure on this
Yeah I am always leery of downloading 500 GB of stuff.....lots of room for a virus in there but I have heard those inage are good. Yeah the new pi 4 has 2 hdmi but everything else doesn't. They came out with the pi 4 after I already bought my 3b plus so I used it. I plan on upgrading my cabinet anyways with a pc and BigBox soon.
@@wayofthewrench i don't know i download a lot of stuff i never got a virus as long you have a internet virus program you should be good. and only thing you have to be is smart where you download from . and if you do get a virus it not hard to remove it
@@wayofthewrench yeah i have launchbox/bigbox on my PC. i pretty much use it all CoinsOps,BigBox,Hyperspin and Coins ops next2 . my CoinsOps Next2 have almost 1 TB of games
@@wayofthewrench and there web sits you can buy plug and play hard drives with BigBox/hyper Spin/CoinsOps next 2 on them... with a 8TB or 16TB hard drive but it not cheap. i think Hyper spin web site sales plug and play hard drives already to go
Ya know I could but it would be pretty much the same thing except you would have to source an appropriate size monitor to fit your cabinet. Some of them are crazy expensive though. As for working directly with your system, you might have to use a raspberry pi or a pc running something like Bigbox. Thanks for the watch!
Yeah this is just a cool way to use older lower powered pis. Really an even better option is rebuild a cheap/free pc and install Launchbox and upgrade it to Bigbox so you can do the marquees. I've already done this to an old gaming pc and it works awesome. It's on my list to do some upgrade videos for the arcade cabinet along with adding guns and spinners. Thanks for the watch!
Usually the issue is a typo with this kinda stuff. A missing period, an extra space, a zero instead of an O, or a lowercase/uppercase letter switched, etc. I suggest you take a look at your code and go through it character by character. Good luck!
I would go through the code and see where there is an error, it could be literally one little extra space or something missing. Inactive (dead) usually means in wasn't enabled, so maybe look around there first. Good luck!
Glad it's still working! Yeah its just usually a typing error, these lines of code are very picky. I'd love to see your cabinet up and running! Just dm me on Instagram. Cheers!
I can not get FBI to download while following along in this video. I think it is no longer available. I can't get past this point. Is there a different download to use in place of FBI?
I had someone comment that this worked only a few days ago so as far as I know fbi still is downloadable and works. A couple suggestions to help ya out because finding a problem through messages can be tough. Really really check that the command lines for getting the update and getting fbi are exactly typed right. One character off and it won't work. Also ensure you have a good connection to the internet while doing updates. Also anytime I have had any issues with raspberri pi installs, it has always been with a bad sd card. Also do the recommended restarts when I do them rather than wait to do a restart after everything is installed. Maybe try a fresh install from scratch if these don't work. Cheers!
