This repo collects a few things that are helpful for modding an Arcade1Up. If you're nostalgic and have played with emulation for a while, this is a great project. It's practically all just plug and play.
- ETAPrime's amazing tutorial modding an Arcade1Up with a Raspberry Pi and RetroPie
- Arcade1Up Subreddit
- Retropie
- Raspberry Pi Power Button Tutorial
- Raspberry Pi Volume Knob Tutorial
- sselph scraper - fastest scraper to fetch metadata for your roms.
- Raspberry Pi B+ & Power Adapter
- 32GB SD Card
- LCD Controller Board
- Audio Amp
- USB Replacement Buttons and Joystick - Swap out your buttons easily.
- Competition Style Joystick Topper - SF2 style sticks.
- Rotary Encoder - Use this for adding a volume knob to your cabinet.
- Step bit - Use this to drill new holes in your cabinet for more buttons.
- Master/Slave Power strip - Plug your pi into
Masterand when it powers down, everything else powers down.
Here's some tricks of the trade to make your Arcade1Up mod look more official.
Edit /boot/cmdline.text and set console=tty3
Edit /boot/cmdline.text and add logo.nologo
This disables EmulationStation's splash screen so that your custom splash screen shows until everything is completely booted up.
Edit /opt/retropie/configs/all/autostart.sh to be
emulationstation --no-splash #auto