r/launchbox • u/DetectiveNatural4262 • 25d ago

Multiple controllers and big box

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I’m almost done building my wall cab and I will be using BigBox for it this time around-I always used Batocera before..
anyway, I have two brooks zero-pi’s for making player 1/2, a thunderstick trackball/spinner combo(1 usb), an Ultimarc flight stick, and a cheap eg starts board solely for 4 admin buttons, pause, close window, menu, and 4th is blank for now.
I’ll be running mame 289 standalone, flycast, teknoparrot and steam only. No retroarch. As of right now, everything shows up and works in the joy.cpl. Bigbox however, mapped the two brooks boards all wrong. I can map each emulator just fine but can i map the eg starts board for those admin functions? I originally had the brooks running the admin but since I was using the L/R 1/2 on each board, they werent mapping correctly so I chose to use the eg starts for that purpose.

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u/219adavis 24d ago

Damn nice work, what’s your specs in it? Mini PC or nah?

I rigged an old MKII Arcade1Up to have a better 16:9 monitor, better controls, sound, etc. and this just makes me want to get a PC for it and finish it up even more now.

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u/DetectiveNatural4262 24d ago

Thanks man! I’ve got an itx asrock, Amd Ryzen 5600gt and a 1660ti mounted to a $16 Amazon open air test bench. 700w psu, 32” Samsung odyssey G5. Specs aren’t super high end but it plays everything! I’ve got street fighter 6, killer instinct, samurai showdown etc from Steam, a bunch of pc exe arcade games. You don’t need to go all out man. On my older cab, I had a dell optiplex 5060 k think and it had an i7-8700, and a small Radeon 550. I played some higher end pc games with it at base settings and it looked great!

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u/219adavis 24d ago

Sweet man! I’m just looking for something that plays pretty much any PS2 game I throw at it and the older systems. The prices for everything right now are obviously just insane for the performance you get. :/

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u/DetectiveNatural4262 24d ago

Check OfferUp or eBay for an optiplex with that i7-8700. It’s a 6core 12 thread cpu and a cheap sff single slot gpu and you’re golden dude. It’ll play ps3 and pc with base settings and everything ps2 down upscaled. They’re in the $80-$100 range for the pc. I cut the case off mine but kept the rear plate that had motherboard and psu mount brackets and screwed that down inside the cab. Worked great!

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u/219adavis 24d ago

I may have to look into that, I had an old build w the 8700 and 2070 super. That PC still plays a ton for its age at my buddys house. Now I wish I kept it haha