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This is probably the one you saw

https://pandoraplatinum.com/

They are a US company specialising in making emulation arcade controllers. The hardware running it is a bit like a Raspberry Pi...

This looks like a nice solution to use a RPi in a one player arcade cabinet build.

https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/picade-x-hat-usb-c?variant=29156918558803

And the next one, called...

That a really nice design.

Talking to some on other forums the instability and slow speed of imaging or cloning a large SD card is due to USB. And failure is due to USB buffer cache size issues. That's why when performing...

I've been asking on other forums about copying larger SD cards, and a lot suggest the DD commandline tool in Linux as it is the fastest by far. The only downside is it clones the whole drive, block...

A very quick Google and I think just a default setup bootable USB stick with Ubuntu is all that would be needed. Using the built in Disk Utility or
gnome-disks depending on OS version it has...

I never would have thought an SD card could have such issues. I've never encountered them getting hot or causing a complete system crash. Do you know what the exact system errors were?

It...

I had the idea of created themed images, with busy one genre of games across multiple emulated systems, so just fighting games or shmups f.ex. not sure anyone done that yet. Or even single games...

I was thinking it might be good to consider making SD card images we could store on the server for members to use. And also a good backup for ourselves.

I keep saying it, but with the state of...

That's good. That's a long time though. I suppose the number of small files would slow it down greatly.

OK. Cool.

Raspberry Pi OS has an SD Card Copier app.

That would be cool. PM me.

Obviously the issue with any preconfigured setup you buy from someone else is that they have set it up and not yourself. Even a 1TB drive cannot fit everything on it, especially if it includes...

The facebook group I commented about is called Retro Realm, where you can find good preconfigured setups.

One guy in the group called Kenny Shand sells 1GB USB drives that are plug and play PC...

Most of the preconfigured HDDs are a mess, that's true, but one guy with a Facebook group creates really nice custom RPi4 setups that are very well configured and organised.

Personally like you I...

If you didn't want to setup an emulation front-end then there are preconfigured setups available. Some romburners now sell preconfigured HDs, and I know of at least 2 people in the emulation scene...

I know what you mean, but there is something special about playing arcade games on a real cabinet. More so games from the 80s where a real joystick and buttons make the difference.

I used to have an arcade cabinet that I had converted from a real one into a MAME cabinet. But after moving house a couple of times it started to fall apart and when I had a good look it wasn't...

No, prebuilt and ready to go. They even find with the black riser to make them taller to play standing up.

A quick Google and find this link.

https://hackinformer.com/2018/12/26/how-to-upgrade-the-arcade1up-cabinet-to-a-full-on-arcade-system-with-1000s-of-games/

This guy took an Arcade 1UP and...

Have any of you seen these Arcade 1UP cabinets? They have been around for a couple of years
Now. They are about 2/3 real size arcade cabinets, using emulators and an LCD screen, with proper...