Slot machine - Bartop arcade
Good morning!
With this year's lovely winter underway, I decided to create a Bartop slot machine. My main goal was the enclosure itself. It was intended to be as aesthetically pleasing on the inside as it was on the outside. Ultimately, the whole thing is supposed to be fun and evoke the nostalgia of my teenage years, when I was faced with the difficult choice of going for an Italian ice cream on a hot day or squeezing out the seventh sweat in an arcade. I'm sure the atmosphere of the 90s arcade skirmishes won't be 100% evoked, but a substitute and a momentary return to the past is enough for me, where the only duty was to take out the rubbish and do homework. The rest of the time was up to me to manage.
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Before I started, I looked around at other people's work. After making an initial selection, I set about building a template for the sides and then a cardboard model to test the ergonomics of the finished case.
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I made all the connections with M5 screws and repair screws, threaded so that it can be easily disassembled if necessary.
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- I made the case using 18 mm thick plywood.
- I ordered the set of buttons from AliExpress.
- The stickers were also ordered from a dealer in the middle state.
- I painted the whole thing with matt acrylic paints, white as a primer, followed by two coats each of RAL 1013 'beige' paint and black. At the very end a layer of matt varnish. This is my unlikeliest part of the work, but very important as it gives the final finish.
- The monitor I used was an old one, lying in the basement and getting dusty, the computer was given to me by a friend on the condition that we drank a couple of beers each while playing the slot machine. USB powered speakers mounted on the back of the case.
- The whole thing runs on "Batocera" software.
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Currently I have no way to push myself to the hardware and play quietly, it is occupied by the other household members. I spent about a month on the project, in the evenings for about 3 h/5 days a week. It was a lot of fun and also taught me a lot.
Greetings, Yonada resident
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With this year's lovely winter underway, I decided to create a Bartop slot machine. My main goal was the enclosure itself. It was intended to be as aesthetically pleasing on the inside as it was on the outside. Ultimately, the whole thing is supposed to be fun and evoke the nostalgia of my teenage years, when I was faced with the difficult choice of going for an Italian ice cream on a hot day or squeezing out the seventh sweat in an arcade. I'm sure the atmosphere of the 90s arcade skirmishes won't be 100% evoked, but a substitute and a momentary return to the past is enough for me, where the only duty was to take out the rubbish and do homework. The rest of the time was up to me to manage.
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Before I started, I looked around at other people's work. After making an initial selection, I set about building a template for the sides and then a cardboard model to test the ergonomics of the finished case.
.
.
I made all the connections with M5 screws and repair screws, threaded so that it can be easily disassembled if necessary.
.
.
.
.
- I made the case using 18 mm thick plywood.
- I ordered the set of buttons from AliExpress.
- The stickers were also ordered from a dealer in the middle state.
- I painted the whole thing with matt acrylic paints, white as a primer, followed by two coats each of RAL 1013 'beige' paint and black. At the very end a layer of matt varnish. This is my unlikeliest part of the work, but very important as it gives the final finish.
- The monitor I used was an old one, lying in the basement and getting dusty, the computer was given to me by a friend on the condition that we drank a couple of beers each while playing the slot machine. USB powered speakers mounted on the back of the case.
- The whole thing runs on "Batocera" software.
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Currently I have no way to push myself to the hardware and play quietly, it is occupied by the other household members. I spent about a month on the project, in the evenings for about 3 h/5 days a week. It was a lot of fun and also taught me a lot.
Greetings, Yonada resident
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Super! A dream! They already sell off-the-shelf solutions and retro controllers on aliexpress, but in my opinion they are of questionable quality. I see you used an HP terminal ? How does it work for... [Read more]
. - I bought the controllers as a set in which there was a set of buttons, joystick and module with USB. Plugging the whole thing in sees it as a normal gamepad, such a plug and play. https://pl.aliexpress.com/item/1005006881834466.html?spm=a2g0o.order_list.order_list_main.59.421f1c24wFiI4h&gatewayAdapt=glo2pol -... [Read more]
Nice, but you won't fire up Centipede or Tempest - no trackball or shift encoder. [Read more]
. I'm not that much of a retro fan. I grew up on the Amiga 500 and C64 plus arcade brawlers and this hardware satisfies that 100% [Read more]
Can you write something more about the Batocera software? What is it like - do you install it on a terminal like Windows or Linux? Does it run on any system already? I have a spare terminal and monitor... [Read more]
Beautiful work. Graffiti on the panel hand-painted, or a kind of sticker? [Read more]
. Batocera is a "front end" system based on Linux. It can be installed directly on the hard disk or run from a flash drive (without interfering with the system you already have on your PC. There are plenty... [Read more]
You cut out such a fiddly format for mounting the monitor. Didn't you think about using the VESA holes? [Read more]
Yes, I thought about it, but in the end I made a mount for the monitor bezel to avoid drilling holes in the side walls, just because I had the most work to do with them and didn't want to cripple it :-)... [Read more]
Cool project. I have a now vintage DELL FX160, 8GB RAM , 128GB SSD. Will it work, anyone tried anything on a similar HW? Ubuntu won't boot due to a specific SIS graphics chip. [EDIT] It did boot, just... [Read more]
If you have a PlayStation or X-box controller of some kind, that will work too. [Read more]
I have one from the Xbox 360, I just need to buy a USB receiver. [Read more]
I am still waiting for mine. I ordered on AliExpress: https://pl.aliexpress.com/item/1005007219779803.html?spm=a2g0o.order_list.order_list_main.11.2b2b1c24KUERh2&gatewayAdapt=glo2pol [Read more]
. So you still have to make a hole with a "Drop a coin" sign 😀 . Cool design, I like it, you get a plus from me. I only ever thought of buying myself some damaged automatic, restoring it and putting... [Read more]
. In the process of making one I had this fiendish idea to fit a coin drop. That way I would take away from the youngsters the pocket money they get ;-) . As for restoration it's a rather unprofitable... [Read more]
. Possibly, however, you have to take into account that: - the body is armoured, - it has transport wheels, - there is a CRT monitor inside, not an LED monitor, - it has a coin slot, - it smells... [Read more]
You're right, everyone appreciates something different about such equipment and there's no arguing with that. I simulate the CRT monitor through SHADERS and it works sensationally :-) , for me it's enough,... [Read more]
Young people today convenient, which means instead of a coin changer you would have to think about a payment terminal ;-) . I was thinking more of something like the one pictured https://obrazki.elektroda.pl/6711420400_1739189388_thumb.jpg... [Read more]
. Among gamers, wired still dominates - while mice are being abandoned in favour of wireless mice, keyboards are no easy matter, and in order to exploit the advantage of a mechanical keyboard, it has... [Read more]