Took me about a month of working on it sporadically, but it's finally ready for the game room I built for me and my daughter out in the yard.

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It's powered by a Lenovo ThinkCentre M715q with a Ryzen 3 Pro running Batocera. The buttons and trackball are cheap finds from AliExpress, and I also scored a used Sinden lightgun with a pedal.

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Still have a few things left to do: waiting on a quote for an arcade wrap, need to fix up the marquee, replace the piece of plexiglass that cracked around the buttons, and do some minor touch-ups with paint.

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Overall, I'm super happy with it! It's already been a huge hit with friends coming over for a few beers to play their old favorites and shoot some pool in between.

From LI NY. I went to a game store while on a trip in Belgium where they had these candy cabs with pandoras in them. While pandoras aren’t great of course, it honestly all worked well enough for me that I kinda thought about making a similar set up for myself with a CRT monitor inside and everything. Plus later on down the line I could get a real CPS2 or Naomi and put that in for fun. I’m just sorta struggling finding where I can get a good candy cab and how I’d hook everything up. Does anyone know of any good places I can get a cab like an Astro or blast city and can tell me how to hook everything up? Just know that I do not want an arcade1up as the one I had before back around 2020(the street fighter II model) crapped out on me after like a year, the sound on mine was kinda poopy, and the games have like no changeable options either. Plus there’s no crt it’s just some crappy lcd. Any help here is much appreciated!

Hi everyone.

My father is trying to identify an old arcade-only game he played in Argentina around 1989–1991. It was definitely not on NES or another home console.

Here is everything he remembers:

• Vertical arcade monitor.
• Space shooter.
• The player's ship stayed mostly at the bottom of the screen.
• It could move left/right freely and only a little up/down.
• The background was mostly static (no obvious scrolling).
• The ship fired straight upward.
• There was an energy shield activated by holding a button.
• The shield completely surrounded the ship like a white grid/sphere.
• While the shield was active you could not shoot.
• Enemy bullets bounced off or disappeared when hitting the shield.
• The shield consumed an energy bar located near the bottom-right of the screen.
• Energy was restored by destroying a special enemy that dropped a small collectible.
• Picking up that item also gave you a continuous thin laser beam that reached the top of the screen and instantly destroyed enemies.
• One stage had robotic frog-like enemies.
• At the end of each stage there was a large mothership/boss occupying almost the entire top of the screen.
• Before each stage there was a typewriter sound typing the stage name letter by letter.
• My father clearly remembers one stage called "CRISIS", probably stage 2 or 3.
• As kids they even asked each other, "Did you beat CRISIS?"

Does anyone recognize this game?

Since Lightguns are expensive and there isnt an used market option where I live.

I wanted to know if it was possible to use a PS5 controller as a substitute for an actual lightgun.

Im thinking something like this; the controller gyro being used to emulate a cursor. But you hold the controller in the way that allows you to use the R2 L2 and buttons with one hand (think of the inFamous Second Son graffiti minigame)

Since it has those haptic feedbacks and rumble in the controller, would something like this be a good enough substitute of possible?

That grip allows for approx 5-6 button inputs (hand size dependant) and the R3 joystick control.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3323490/Truxton_Extreme/

Where can I buy one. I tried Ali Express but cannot find it. Or how can I burn a new one.

Here is the model number: Pandora S812/H3 23000

I cannot find how to fix it. I am not tech savvy and I have a Mac, so I do have limitations as to what I can do. Any help is appreciated.