very sick, hope you post pictures of the new machine once you got it.
Ordered it last night, company said they're 4-5 weeks out on delivery. The primary appeal is that it's going to be a wider machine with a deeper control panel so much more room for 4-player playing but also the trackball will be further away from the screen so I won't have to worry about my friends punching it but even if they do there's a plexiglass covering in front of the tv. The trackball is also light up LED.
My friend is building a PC for me that's going to power the arcade as well as run a second HDMI to my TV so I can play modern PC games on that as well, I just have to get a decent graphics card which is going to be a hunt. With the specs we're going for I'll be able to play modern games like Halo Infinite as well as emulate much newer consoles than I could on the Raspberry Pi unit. Also will be able to play new games on the arcade itself with the joystick controls like Cuphead and that kind of stuff. Will also be much easier to set up wireless controllers, light guns and all kinds of peripheral attachments, even shit like Guitar Hero guitars.
I have a friend of a friend who's a really sick artist coming up with some custom artwork. As far as the cabinet features I went with all the bells and whistles. It's got an LED screen for the marquee and the graphic changes to match whatever game you're playing. All buttons and joysticks are clear with an RGB light inside and they're all programmable so I can change them to whatever color on the fly and also do custom light up patterns, same with the led lights that are mounted under and behind the cabinet. I didn't get the light guns because the ones he offers are just like the ones I had before which use a sensor bar and are very finicky, there's a company called Sinden who's guns actually have a camera inside so they're much more accurate and I plan on ordering a set of those. Spending silly money on it but fuck it; I live alone, my mortgage is cheap and I made great money this year and it's something I'll use nearly daily.