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I am now up to four ARpiCADE units. I have a Pi3B and three Pi3B+'s...

The Pi3B unit runs my dedicated vertical 4-way/trackball cabinet. The cabinet was a Centipede at one point, but by the time I got it it was converted and JAMMAtized... I converted it back to a Centipede (Multipede) and put together a custom control panel overlay for it. It runs only 4-way, 2-way, trackball and a few spinner games that work well with a trackball.

My first Pi3B+ went in to my Capcom Anthologies cabinet. The Capcom Anthologies cabinet already has a Darksoft multi-CPS2 in it, but I wanted something that I could play CPS1 and CPS3 games on... so I added a switcher and there you go...

My second Pi3B+ replaced my horizontal MAME PC when it died. I realized that 99% of the games I play work fine on the Pi, and rather than dick around with a PC MAME setup, I dropped an ARpiCADE in... it runs two 8-way sticks, a trackball and spinner...

My last Pi3B+ runs in my 8-way vertical setup that is primarily a shooter cabinet... it was originally a Pacmania cabinet that had been converted to a Two Crude by the time I got to it.

I have a bartop Neo-Geo cabinet (repro) that I've not put together. When I finally DO decide to tackle that project I'll likely end up dropping yet another ARpiCADE in and run all the Neo-Geo titles on it.

Often these days I'm just using my test rig as my cabs are out in the shed but I have 3 cabs running ARpiCADE (and the option of a 4th too).

1 is a completely scratch built upright, 2 player 6 buttons each, horizontal 27inch CRT - I may add my trackball to this cab if I can squeeze it between players without making it too hard to use. This is my oldest (as in the one I've had longest, in actual age it's probably younger than the rest) cab. I may also try to work my Aimtraks into this cab eventually.

2 is a Yachiyo Space Stranger 2 cocktail I don't have the original boards for so made a JAMMA adaptor for the cab. The panels had been hacked to within an inch of life by a previous owner so I cleaned them up best I could and settled on having 2 buttons per player.

3 is a Universal Cosmic Guerilla upright that again, no original boards for, hacked up by previous owners. Currently has a dead chassis and wrong control panel.

I also have a JNX Big Red for putting a RaspberryJAMMA in my MVS if there's something I want on play on it I don't have the cart for. Normally it runs a four slotter. (similarly I sometimes use a Pi with my Naomi to netboot but normally it runs a cart)

Last year I also built a 4 player rig which is just an old 4 player control panel, without cab. Each player has a 8way stick, 3 action buttons and a credit button. Also squeezed into the control box is a (stripped back to just the control bits) RaspberryJAMMA, RPi3 and RJ 4player adaptor. Sound and video both use the HDMI out of the Pi to be plugged into the TV in the lounge room.

Great question for the forum!

My first is in an original Ms. Pac-Man cab. G07 monitor (that I need to rebuild this summer). Bought it with dead boards, which I will fix eventually. Running the Rasberry Jamma with Arpicade, just vertical games with the original 4-way joystick. Bought a Ms. Pac to Jamma adapter (I think from Arcadeshop). Use the 1st and 2-player buttons for 1 and 2 button games (I increased the return to menu time limit to 10 seconds to prevent popping back out on accident).

I'm about to buy a second one with the 4-player adapter for my NBA Jam machine. I have original boards but want more out of this cabinet. K7400 monitor which I rebuilt. Going to overclock and run fans on the 3B+ so I'll likely post my setup.

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I overclock all 4 of mine. My original Pi3 runs at 1450mhz (original clock speed is 1300 I believe). My initial Pi3B+ is at 1500mhz. My 2nd Pi3B+ is at 1525mhz. My latest Pi3B+ is at 1550mhz... though I've not tried higher. The Pi3 has heatsinks (use actual thermal paste... that sticky crap sucks)... the first two Pi3B+'s have heatsinks and 40mm fans. The latest Pi3B+ only has heatsinks... and even at 1550 it doesn't really get "hot"... not sure if the fans are even necessary.

That said, it's been pretty cool in the garagecade.

Thanks for continuing the thought Frizz. I resurrected the overclocking thread to post my questions there and am really curious to hear your thoughts on the matter. I live in Florida and it's always hot so I need active cooling.

I currently have 3 of them, I don't have a lot of room in my game room so I am limited in the amount of games I can fit and after doing some research I decided to go with the Arpicade and have been very happy.

The first one went into a cut-corner dynamo cab that I had, I ended up getting the artwork and turned it into a 1943 and have about 30 or so vertical shooters on it.

Next, I scratch built a Ms Pac Man using all original parts except for the cabinet and put one in there with a couple of dozen appropriate games.

I just recently picked up a 3rd to put into a street fighter 2 cab, still working on building the game list for that one.

All of them boot into the appropriate game for the cab and I customized the loading/splash images for each cab, I am going to look into overclocking at least the one in the SF2 in the future.