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[Sebastian Mihai] is a prolific programmer and hacker with a particular focus on retrocomputing and period games, and this latest hack, adding new gameplay elements to Capcom’s Street Fighter II …read more Continue reading Seven New Street Fighter 2 Arcade Rom Hacks
These days, controls in games are fairly standardized by genre. Most RTSs, FPSs, and RPGs all control more or less the same way. But one type of controller that has …read more Continue reading Build A DIY Spinner To Get Your Tempest Game Going
Believe it or not, there was a time when the only way for many of us to play video games was to grab a roll of quarters and head to …read more Continue reading Portable, Full-Size Arcade Cabinets
When fully-3D video games started arriving in the early 90s, some companies were more prepared for the change than others. Indeed, it would take nearly a decade of experimentation before …read more Continue reading Reverse-Engineering Forgotten Konami Arcade Hardware
If you’ve been reading Hackaday long enough, you’ve probably come across a few hacks where someone made simple animations or even video games on an analog oscilloscope screen. Those hacks …read more Continue reading Color Vector Display Controller Brings Arcade Classics Back to Life
Gauntlet is a well-known arcade game from 1985 with many sequels and ports to more modern architectures such as Xbox and GameCube. Thanks to its popularity and relative age, the original arcade cabinet is well documented with the schematics available online. It was regarded as the most complex and ambitious …read more
We’re used to games consoles in which the same hardware plays a variety of different games, but if we were to peer inside arcade cabinets of an older vintage we’d find custom boards unique to every game. Some boards from the same manufacturers shared common hardware traits even if they …read more
Continue reading Brain Transplant Makes One Arcade Machine Play Games From Another
It’s a common sight in our community for a life-expired arcade cabinet to be repurposed as a MAME cabinet with an up-to-date screen and other internals. Many of us have had some fun pursuing high scores in a hackerspace somewhere, and even if they don’t have the screen burn and …read more
Continue reading Barcaderator is Coin-Op Arcade up Top and Kegerator Down Below
[MelkorsGreatestHits] had an extra USB MAME board burning a hole in his parts bin, so he turned it into fuel for this far-out Kerbal Space Program controller. Cool your jets — no fully-functioning TI-99/4As were harmed in the making of this baby. Besides, this is a KAL 9000 from Kexas …read more
Continue reading TI-99/4A KSP Controller Has a Handle on Vintage NASA Styling
In this day and age of cheap and easy emulation, it’s more tempting than ever to undertake a home arcade cabinet build. If you want to show off, it’s got to have a light show to really pull the crowds in. To make that easier, [Guillermo] put together a software …read more
Continue reading LEDSpicer Is An Open Source Light Controller For Your Arcade Machine