Supergun.

[Tupin]

You know arcade machines, those things that used to be in huge arcades but are now relegated to a pizza parlor or bar? There is a large population of people who collect them. Unfortunately for me, I have no room for one, as they are bigger than they look.

Fortunately, arcade machines are mostly empty, just a bunch of wires, controls, a game board, and a cabinet. All arcade games made from 1986 to the present applies to the "JAMMA" standard of arcade machines. I can plug a game into any machine and it will work. Now, what I'm getting at, a device that allows you to play an arcade game on a home TV or monitor, a Supergun.

That's actually a consolized MVS, kind of the arcade version of a Neo-Geo. JAMMA and Neo-Geo are slightly different, though.

As that video showed, most Superguns are made by hand, which is actually pretty easy. You need a cluster of wires, a standard PC power supply, some method of control, a method of display, and a game board. A good intro to Superguns is here:
http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/28/how-to-consolize-an-arcade-game/

The hardest part is the video encoding. TV monitors cannot take the video arcade games output, so you need to change it. I am personally going to use an RGB monitor from the 80's, but there are various albeit expensive pre-built encoders out there.

As for the controllers, I am wiring up a port to plug in a Neo-Geo controller, to which I will be plugging a PS2 adapter into, because real Neo-Geo controllers are like $40 each.

But yeah, tl;dr, I'm building a machine that allows me to play arcade games at home for free.

[Zero]

Impressive.

There are times where I wish I had the resources to do things like this.

[Silverhawk79]

Awesome. If I weren't positive I'd break everything in the process, I'd totally make one.

[Tupin]

Awesome. If I weren't positive I'd break everything in the process, I'd totally make one.

The wiring can get pretty confusing, but since there are diagrams everywhere, the hardest part is finding the correct parts. The only things I have left to get are the adapter and a game. Probably a new soldering iron too.

[Tupin]

Got a Konami game called The Main Event and the wiring harness in the mail yesterday. I'll get it wire up today and hopefully in an enclosure this weekend.

[Silverhawk79]

Got a Konami game called The Main Event and the wiring harness in the mail yesterday. I'll get it wire up today and hopefully in an enclosure this weekend.

Take pics. I'm interested in seeing how this turns out.

[Tupin]

Hooked up the player 1 and player 2 controls, power, audio, and am outputting video to an old Apple II monitor I have. All that's left is something to mount the wiring in.