My Thoughts On The MEGACADE - Is It Worth The Money? 

For us overkill on games. It’s just a good conversation piece . I’m going for more working system and game that’ll be played over numbers in my build. There’s a lot of ps1-ps2-/ps3 that are useless and will ever be played but take up a lot of HD space

Wood = 200 art= $100 Controls= $400 50 inch tv=%500 PC for emulation= $700 Assembly and shipping $8000 Really not worth it !!! Personally for my desktop gaming system I find anything over 27 inches too large to enjoy. On larger screens I have to turn my head to see my health or other stats and enemies can be out of my IRL field of view. Couch gaming is ok on larger screens as you are sitting back from them but the locations of the arcade controls puts you too close to a large screen! Let me put this into perspective, a $259 Atgames Legends gamer pro and a 50 inch TV and you can do everything this can do! Granted the controls on the Atgames are not full arcade quality. The Atgames controls aren't full arcade quality but they are close enough that even though I have replaced the controls on every other arcade system I have used in the past ( usually with Ultimarc controls) I have not bothered to replace the Atgames controls.

@@mynameisprivate158 i agree, you can make this far cheaper at home given a little bit of elbow grease and know how. Still bad ass if you are uber rich but sadly most of us arent and dont have 10k to throw away.

I have a feeling that tens of thousands of the games would be trash anyway

@@mynameisprivate158 I was going to say pretty much this. And you get to have fun building it

It's definitely not for everyone lol

I built my own. For what they offer, it is slightly overpriced. As long as you take the time to do your research, it's not that difficult. If I can do it, anyone can.

Not sure it's an investment. It's a nice piece but none of it is historical or original, so I don't think it would ever appreciate. That's not saying it's not worth it, just that I don't think it's an investment. Cars in general aren't investments either, they usually depreciate. Special edition cars is what you want to buy as an investment.

even at $5k it's overpriced

@@FPChris I could only justify it if I was 12 yrs old again with 5k that no one knew about. I bought a super Nintendo mini and even though I jailbroke it the novelty wore off pretty quick, this would be the same at 20x the price.

So with 10K you still don’t get a steering wheel with pedals. I like driving games and that’s one thing none of these guys demo because it’s not practical. I can’t play Spy Hunter, RoadBlaster, Hard Drivin, Outrun! WTF

I can afford 10K for this, easily. But my dad taught me the value of money. So I'm not paying 10 grand to play Pac Man. I'd rather spend 85 cents on a good used Moby Dick. @@FPChris

10k ain't worth it there is companies selling do it urself for 1k

Yes it's very impressive, glad you're enjoying yours. Appreciate the comment.

How much did it run you I want one

You play Tempest and Stargate on yours?

Entire computergaming-history? I doubt it's anywhere close to comprehensive. Doesn't even have Vita or Switch games. Doubt there's text adventures, MUDs, discontinued MMOs. It has a lot of games but probably less than half of what has existed. Most games, when you consider the vast volume of shovelware, you wouldn't even want cluttering up the catalog.

Nah, get a custom cab from recroom masters when they set up shop again, just drop a PC in there and you can get just about everything you see here without coughing up 10k lol, this is a big dick purchase, not needed whatsoever to get that arcade feel.

10k is too steep. If it was 5-7k I feel that would be a value proposition. 10k is probably fair for everything you get but it's definitely not a "heck of a deal" or anything like that.

@@mariahanover9335 I think you're taking it too literally. MAME alone on the machine is an actual ongoing historical preservation project. So he is right.

Yup, just buy it... You only go around once. Can't take it with you. I'm buying one next year. :)

You'll be glad to spend 2 years paying off a loan... what is wrong with your head? The lady doth protest too much.

nothing is wrong with my head? have you never taken a loan for something expensive youd like to own? Thats how you build credit my guy@@thomgizziz

@@thomgizziz still incredibly happy with my purchase, 2 years for the grail of my game room is nothing when i spent 5 years paying off a car and am looking at 30+ on a house. I work hard to afford things i like, i dont have the time to be building a machine like this and honestly the community alone has made me stay satisfied with my purchase, all great people with similar interests and are very helpful whenever anybody has questions. You dont get anything nice in life without taking on debt!

No problem, thanks for the comment

Thanks glad you enjoyed it

Thanks Jenovi

@@show-me-retro This was a really good made video bro. I loved every minute of it.

LOL, yeah my buddy spent $5850 for the base 4 player model and now that's $6050 in less than 6 months

All that stimulus money meant automatic big inflation, doesn't help our current leader craves inflation creating bills.

I was a Diehard Gamefan guy LOL

Thanks brother

It is worth it

For me it's between getting the Megacade and the Beast from Extreme Gaming Machines. I'm leaning towards the latter but still on the fence.

Thank you 👍

"It is an amazing machine for true gamers!" Only rich people can be true gamers I guess.

Thanks brother 👍

Wow, that's unfortunate to hear. Have you contacted EHA? I called the number they give out and the owner answered on the second ring and game me some info on the pc.i would hope they would back up their product especially if it's software related?

Show-Me Retro, Yeah, I did back in the day. So many phone conversations and the re-seating trick was their biggest solution. Could this still be fixed? Maybe, but I lost confidence with so much back and forth troubleshooting that there just came a time where I had to cut my losses. Believe me, A LOT of phone conversations. Extreme Home Arcades was just not the solution for me. I just need something that works, and for $4,000+, I thought this would be it. Instead, I got something I have to continually troubleshoot (from day one out of the box). I'll tell you, I almost cry every I turn it on, which I rarely do now that I have other machines that work from other companies. I've spent more time fixing the Extreme Home Arcades machine than playing it. And others who have bought this product have had similar issues as I watched videos from people, even when the company was called Dream Home Arcades. Such a huge money mistake for me. And that's why I was wary when Arcade1up then came into the market. Thank goodness it was a lower risk financial investment, and thankfully Arcade1up eventually made some decent machines. I'm so glad we now have other companies like Arcade1up and iiRcade that make true plug n' play solutions and that work. I just want to game :) Thanks for your message (and video) and I hope continued working condition for your friend's machine :) vgv

I literally had the same experience with mine

@@videogamevegasYeOldeAccount You should have sent back the drives back and had them look at it. I know you can mail the drives back to them if you have issues. Why didn't you do that?

tom11zz884, Thank you for your interest. The mention of sending drives back did come up several times, but what I got back every time was, "let's see if this works, let's see if that works, we can always replace the drives if need be," and I was willing to send them back, and let them know I'd send them back, but they kept telling me, "we don't understand how could it be both drives, it must be something else." After months of back and forth, I just got to the point of frustration and couldn't personally deal with it any more. The head of the company was always professional, but it didn't seem like anyone knew a solution. I had to come to the realization that I got a bad one, which was an over $4,000 mistake. And even down to so many simpler things (and I won't list them all): - Like having duel spinners installed to play pong, letting them know that game specifically, only to have both spinners only work for player one and being told "here's how to make the change" going into make the change that didn't end up working and then being told, "I know there's a setting to change that somewhere and you just need to search around." - Or question if something could be set a certain way and hearing "I'm sure you can try something to make it work," - Or the coin buttons added to the front of the machine not working for each applicable emulator and being told, "yes they do, we made sure they work for all games." It's clear to me that Extreme Home Arcades are a hardware company, sans the PC parts, and know how to make a decent cabinet shell and control placement. However, from my long laundry list of troubleshooting, they don't understand the software side or the PC hardware side. It feels to me they got an incomplete Hyperspin build and tried to make it work, or tried to build something from scratch with a huge rom dump, and couldn't translate it to the controls. Because I spent so much money, I took the time, SO MUCH TIME, to work with them. But I think there's a breaking point in everyone, and I feel I fought tooth and nail to get everything to work and never got solutions to any issue that cropped up. I have toyed with the possibility of getting with a 3rd party who knows the software side of things to build me a decent Hyperspin build to put into this machine, but I'm afraid it's more than a drive problem, could be cabling, or even the motherboard itself, and not to mention the nightmare of configuring the so many controls I have on the thing, myself. I don't know if I want to spend more months troubleshooting the thing, when there are now companies out there that have figured it out and aren't charging a small fortune on a single machine; companies like Arcade1up, iiRcade, and Unico, make me feel like they have my back (at least more than Extreme Home Arcades) and are actual plug and play solutions. Thanks again for your query and I hope this helps. vgv

Very nice, thanks for the comment

Like I said in the video, it's not for everybody

I love hyperspin but it's such a pain to set up.

@@volvoguy804 use Retroarch as the default emulator, it literally covers the most popular retro consoles

Appreciate it Kenny, it's sweet but I couldn't fit this in my gameroom. I would need a 2 player machine that doesn't stick out so far. But my buddy loves it and has the space

Appreciate the comment 👍

You mean all the readily available free software on the machine.

I love this and really identify with being too tired to enjoy things like this as much as I want to, especially after getting an auto-immune disease. This is kind of my M.O. with high price nostalgia items. But it's hard to quantify the feeling that all these things continue to give me, even as I pass by them in my daily life. It's the ability, at any moment, to return to my childhood. It is life brightening, and is worth it to me even though, more often than not, it's just walking by and knowing, hey - maybe this weekend? There's a hopeful peace in that.

Glad you and your family decided to put in place a plan to finance something you barely look at these days. Manbabies need to stop playing with toys and wasting money on them.

i got a used arcade cabinet for free that needed some work. I probably spend more time working on the cabinet itself than actually playing the games. It's cool when I have guest over but I rarely have time to play it or just too tired from long hours of work.

@@ducdu4136 I’m assuming it was more fun restoring it than playing the games. I build arcade cabinets for fun and make a tiny profit.

@@wolffactor56 oh nice! You right i had more fun restoring it. Took out all the interior, replace it with a newer pc, new screen, new 4 players lights up button, better speakers and even repainted the whole arcade. It looks great now and I even have nice ddr setup for it. I’m looking forward to my nephew and nieces to grow up so they can experiences what we had growing up at the arcade.

100tb HDD and "Multiple SSDs". We know what you're keeping in them, and it ain't no games buddy. :)

@@schadenfreude6274 lol

@@schadenfreude6274 I will disagree. The nintendo switch library is easily 20 tb! That is just one system. Full mame 3tb. Ps3 another 10tb. Wii 7tb.

@@Pinseeker01 can do much better: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-GGL2n8PNynU.html 😜

@@Alpha-Trion7 correct, add to that full ps3, Xbox, Xbox 360, ps2, ps1 over 700 pc games and all the other consoles and you get an idea how massive things can get...

Lol, yeah those hi rez images were pretty sweet

Thanks Paul, yeah didn't expect that LOL

Lol, thanks Paul. I'm hoping to do a light gun video in the next couple weeks

@@show-me-retro definitely do it! ride this wave all the way!!

@@paulberres9878 i may have to address the haters at some point, some of the comments are getting out of hand

@@show-me-retro wait, are you talking about your channel specifically or our home arcade community in general?

Well said, one kick ass multicade is far superior ro 20 1ups in a makeshift arcade. There is no comparison and yes look at all the space you would have for a sweet pinball machine 😉

Cool that you built one yourself, good for you

I always wanted to mess around with electronics but always worried about wrecking things or getting shocked. Instead I got into welding and got shocked from that haha

You could have taken the control panel off the 50" inch Megacade and it will fit through pretty much any door sideways afaik.

@@Pinseeker01 it was taken off, still a tight fit hence the damage

Well, I obviously could not test everything since I was only there for an evening but my friend plays gamepaas on it, not sure what else to tell you. O mean, I was playing Super Mario Odyssey on it with no Switch attached so why is it hard to believe gamepass isn't possible?

​@@show-me-retro yes, my console plays Switch games just fine as well, that's extremely easy because the makers of programs like YUZU allow for Command-Line-Functionality (the frontend system sends a string of commands and the game directly opens after a fade without any popups or other windows needing to be opened) but the Gamepass app does NOT allow for command-line-functionality which is problematic as that's how BigBox and HyperSpin open games. Yes, you can open the Gamepass app on here just like any other PC can, but was the developer actually able to integrate the individual games directly into Bigbox? If so, what does it look like when they're opening? I've been working on adding the gamepass games to HyperSpin for months, and it was impossible to do it via the native app, the only way to use it was to open the app and quit the HyperSpin system entirely (at which point you're just using it like a PC and not a "select and play arcade"). However, I have been able to integrate the games successfully using the Browser version, but even then I still manually need to launch the game, as it won't just automatically open/start like every other system (including Switch Games). I'm still working on the autohotkey script in rocketlauncher so it will automatically launch the game once selected without opening other windows or requiring anymore user input, but even if I succeed, the browser versions of the games have issues (the largest being no rumble/feedback) while the app versions don't usually have those problems.

I love my switch, just did a video on it. I wouldn't spend 10k on it either but I don't judge my friend because he enjoy it

Agreed, I'm collecting physical copies for my ps3 at the moment.

​@steveaustin7846 I have physical copies and I love them but they are annoying and takes a lot of work to switch between system's and then controllers are not charged or things don't work. The mega seems soo much more convenient. I will never give up my physical stuff but I find I play the older stuff less and less.

Crazy huh? YT is so weird, you just don't know works and what doesn't

You added 2k plus since I posted this 6 hours 😆 wtf YT algorithm

@@paulberres9878 I'm filming some light gun games on it tomorrow morning. We'll see how that goes

Thanks BFG, i just wish I could work something this size in my gameroom 😒

I couldn't fit the MEGACADE in my gameroom in its current state but thinking of smaller options

I can use the $5000 for a place to live and pay my bills not an arcade machine. I cannot afford out right now. I am very poor. I am just trying to survive.

I rather buy me a nice sitdown candy cab like the sega astro city. Nice big crt screen.

@@MBkaido0101 I am to poor The only thing I want is just to pay my rent and bills that’s all I asked for. I don’t need our key machine for that.

@@partytime5528 huh?

Waste? I can hear your whinny tone...some people can't be happy for others, they just whine and complain and try( and fail )to mask their jealousy. Grow up.

"Must be nice" is such a dick thing to say. Go be jealous and bitter somewhere where somebody cares. Fugoff...

Don't be so jealous. Just work harder

It’s not being jealous it’s the truth. I was looking at one a few years back and it was half that price.

Well That Backfired! Lol At This Whole Hating Comment. #Hater

I’m literally watching reading& learning what I can. I stated with a pre configured hyperspin drive that was a waste of time trying to tailor it to my own needs. I’ve now gotten so involved with it RL and hyper sync are impulse moves. I could never get X padder or joy2 key to work like I wanted in HS like I wanted. So I punted to LB/BB yes it’s more PnP user for importers but I’m still configuring stuff . To the point I mihjt revisit a ground up HS build. And from a price point makes me wanna build and sell a few with the stretch marquees . I found 28” 1920x360 res for half the price I see people selling them for on arcade sites

You are very correct. Cecil did need some help from another friend setting up the controls and mapping but he's been very happy ever since. Thanks for the comment 👍

Yeah, lack of playability on a LOT of games and overall lack of support post purchase turned me off from buying one. I did find another company that made the same thing delivered for $7200 last year where EVERY game on it has been optimized, checked to work well etc and in the few times I've had a software hiccup, within minutes of contacting them, they can access the machine virtually and fix.

@@jefflapointe3351 Mind sharing the name of the company? I'm trying to choose a company to go with. Thanks.

@@Pinseeker01 Arcades R Fun out of NJ.

@@jefflapointe3351 Thanks Jeff, did you get the marquee that changes when you change games? If so how do you feel about the height of their marquee display? It seemed there was too much height compared to width to my eyes, did you feel the same way?

You can update through wifi but if you're unfamiliar with Big Box you can send it to them for changes or updated game packs... I should have clarified

@@show-me-retro Got ya that makes more sense.

The Lexus of custom cabs is the other manufactures. EHA is the Rolls Royce

Though for the price I would expect a higher end pc, something more capable of cutting edge games like an i9 couple with a 3060ti/3070

@@yellowblanka6058 good point

Like I said in the video it's not for everyone, myself included. There are people that literally spend millions on a car so yeah who are we to judge. A lot of people have taken offense to this video in the comments and I really don't get the hate, It was never intended to trigger people. My friend wanted me to check it out and I thought it might make a great topic for a video, nothing more.

Yeah, I doubt many are so financially secure that they could drop 10k for an arcade machine without a thought.

Great points made, appreciate the comment 👍

Thanks, well long story short I got the marquee at a game convention then had a local vinyl shop do the digital score graphics and myself and a friend built the box and I used leds to light it up. Here is a link about it if you're interested ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-5-M2IrQt1zE.html

@@show-me-retro Thanks alot I will check it out!! really cool!!

@@Quiturcryin thanks, much appreciated

It's MO which is the Show Me state but I'll def check your channel out

Stern is the shit. I have a good friend that bought a JP premium and it's pretty sick

Yes, they paying a lot of money for a piece of wood and a monitor, that's it. Those games are free, you can download them into your PC and make your own arcade machine on your PC. But yeah they are way overpriced. 1,000 to 1,500 might be a fair price for the cost of woods, monitor, labor work. But no way in hell it's worth 5,000 and up. They are crazy greedy people.

I think a 50” lg tv is more than 1000

Thanks, I'm sure you'll love it

Dyno, I was contemplating the exact same thing. 8k + the shipping is like 2k to the states, so works out about the same cost as Megacade after racing kit and Sinden guns. My worry was more about filling out all the correct customs paperwork. How did you go about that if you don't mind me asking?

@@Pinseeker01 i have not gotten to that point yet, unfortunately the waiting list is extremely long for xtreme gaming cabinets. I have heard it isn't too bad though.

@@Pinseeker01 subscribe to my channel and i promise you there will be videos on both their arcade machine/vpin in the future.

What is the "big box" you mentioned that's the lower cost option?

@@ultraspinalki11 It's been so long that I'm not completely sure, but I suspect I was talking about the launch box big box emulation. You buy the software for a couple of hundred dollars, then you build a cheaper arcade cabinet using different services. It runs on PC, so basically you have a pc running the games. Not sure if they provide the roms or not.

@@ultraspinalki11 Launchbox/Big Box is what's called a front end software. It merely allows you to organize your games and access the emulators in a clean single location. You need to install individual emulators to play the actual games. BigBox automates most of those emulator downloads. The roms (game files) you have to go find yourself. (Mostly super easy)