Creating the BEAST Part 2: Building the World's MOST Expensive 50" Arcade Machine - 60min FULL BUILD

[@DavidGarcia-qf7gc]

This is not a build. This is a labour of love. Great work Daniel.

[@cyrus3055]

I really don't mind the length of the video. I think it's great that you explain everything. I am simply amazed by your skills.

[@flamtaps316]

You created another masterpiece!!!! Well done! It's an amazing arcade!!! I would personally love some "mini-video's" on the Brook Fighting Card configuration in Hyperspin and the PC Relay wiring!!!!

[@cda3715]

Wow. Daniel you really do such nice work. It’s fun watching you and you give off such a nice fun personality. It for sure is real since we have been good friends with you now for 3 years. Our experience working with you during our build was very nice. And your fun and kind disposition matched what we saw in your videos during our own experience during the many hours we spent in video chats during our build. And the years after our build you have continued to be a great friend and help us through the bumps that come with the fun and exciting life of arcades. You truly are an example for others learn from. What do we mean? Its how sincerely kind you are and patient with those you work with. You probably would say oh this is fine. But we wish you had a larger work space since you for sure deserve it. You even make the mistakes look fun. lol. We wish we could do a build all over again with you, since we would be able to make better choices with the things we have learned as well as the new things that are happening in gaming, but it’s tough considering the cost. We know who ever is getting this cabinet will absolutely love it. Your friends Carlo & Maria

[@TheDanielSpies_Arcades]

Thanks Carlo, this means a lot to me 🙏🏼 update: and yes I will need a 5x bigger workshop indeed 🤣

[@paulonatali5614]

Amazing work. Thought I was the only one wiring hundreds of wires to make my Ultimate IO, GPWiz, Rotary sticks, spinners, joys, trackballs, LEDs working all together. Good to know there are others doing great piece of art in arcade cabinets. Impressive tooling you have in your office.

[@Piglet6256]

wow 60 minutes of building, I love it! :D. 13:45 Holy, the thing is huge! 29:43 sort of organized spaghetti! 38:37 getting complicated!!! 44:29 not sure im following anymore haha 45:22 ahhh i get it and yes excellent choice with the 4 buttons :D ! More wiring 😅😅🤯🤯. 45:22 Ah yes, not that complicated at all 🤣, I wonder how many viewers completely got it???? Anyways this again just next next level Daniel!! It's just amazing and HUGE 🥰im on to the next vid 🥳

[@tatemtremayne]

Excellent work as usual. I was actually getting a little impatient, waiting to see the progress. I love seeing your builds and how you keep evolving with each build. Whenever you start selling templates for your control panel, you have a customer in me. I'm still gathering parts for my build... Thanks for all the hard work.

[@rabidlama]

I love the way you switch between consoles and PC! ingenious! i may have to try this on the one im making. thank you Daniel your videos are amazing😀👍👍😀

[@gerardohara959]

Thank you for showing us your amazing work you are an artist sir.

[@bambergurbuz1415]

This is truly awesome stuff!😮You are an arcade building genius. And the work you do,the ideas and work you put into your builds is inspirational. If I were to have an arcade built I would want you to do it. Can't wait to see the next steps in the following video. The arcades back in the day were an integral part of my life as a kid. And all the fond memories that went with it. To see someone keeping it alive and doing it to another level is amazing! Greetings from London Cheers!

[@Polyvinci]

This is absolutely amazing. What a really refined, premium quality arcade machine. Spectacular! Thanks for the information about the shop tools, too. It will really help me with my own builds. Building machines such as these site beats trying to keep original Arcade Cabs working or repaired. This is the future of Arcade Preservation. Can't wait for part 3!

[@sahajjoshi33]

Incredible craftsmanship as always!! You are one of the most amazing arcade craftsman and person that I worked with. It’s always a pleasure to watch you build some of the finest arcade cabinets ever!! Cheers🙌🏼🥂

[@charlescoglizersr.3984]

Wow!!!! Great video, you have great skills.

[@markderidder]

Thank you for making these videos. You are an absolute pro and it’s a joy to watch you work. Totally inspiring. I know this all must take a hell of a lot of your time but it is greatly appreciated.

[@TheDanielSpies_Arcades]

Thanks Mark!

[@kapp74]

Amazing build and video Daniel - truly impressive and inspirational! The video may have been long but it really didn't feel long, I enjoyed every minute. Currently preparing to build my machine, and I am sooooo jealous of the amazing tools and workshop you have! Great job on the build - looking forward to Part 3!

[@The_RetroKing]

Love your work Daniel!! Thank you for sharing your knowledge as well.

[@taekwonrooij]

Respect my friend!! Sick work!

[@Piglet6256]

ow btw, I loved the music in this video! Don't know who deserves the credits? But i liked it.

[@Egofileo1]

What a job and what huge craftmanship excellence, in wood working as well as in the electronic part. You are really a Maestro ! Well done, this video provide us with a small part of your knowledge and it's almost overwelming for most part of us (at least I speak for myself). Great great great work. Many compliments.

[@Ryan-P2121]

Awesome job your next level for sure. It's been a pleasure working with you on my control deck. Hopefully my build will make you proud.

[@jeffharkleroad3290]

Love what you do. I can watch all day and over again. I am a contractor. I advise you use a Sawstop table saw. You will save your fingers. I see you are in a kinda tight place for work shop.

[@TheDanielSpies_Arcades]

Hi, the TKS80 has a saw stop indeed, love it. This is how I got familiar with Festool, they are the only supplier with the SawStop tech.

[@galadrhim1]

Top notch work as usual. Although I could definitely do a build like this, and have wanted to for a long time, I have too many things ahead of it in my queue.

[@wickedarcadegamer]

Yeah what a crazy build !

[@KiwiKoNZ]

I have been patiently waiting for this video! … This is AMAZING man, AWESOME job!! 👌🤩👍✨

[@TheThigoron]

24:00 you don't need to say sorry for dressing like an arcade prophet. Seems appropriate to me. 😄

[@chriscmb]

This video is amazing. You come up with way to make the arcade cabinets even better and come up with the ways make it work that way. Also you have given me an answer to a problem I have been having with my cabinet. I have 2 ultimate I/O Boards and I cannot stand that there are no RGB lights for the xinput. Now I think I wil end up getting an Ipac4 to usae as my controller inputs (having it as xinput for everything makes it easier.) and using my ultimate I/O boards to control the menu buttons and the pinball buttons. Now I can have the RGB buttons on all my games. I cannot wait for part 3. Love your Channel.

[@TheDanielSpies_Arcades]

Great solution 👍🏼

[@TheDanielSpies_Arcades]

Thanks everyone for the wonderful comments 🙌🏻 - part 3 (end result) will be uploaded next week, so no more waiting 👍🏼👍🏼🎉🎉 PS: Thank you for subscribing (!)

[@JJiG]

I know when I asked you to show wiring in the previous video I wasn't sure if you'd go that in depth, and boy did you deliver. That really helps answer some questions I've had in the past that I never could figure out. thank you so much for taking the time to explain the process. You're amazing all those wires makes for one hell of a rats nest!

[@GiacomBono]

Maestro😎

[@ericmedina4002]

Are you currently taking orders to ship to usa.

[@TheDanielSpies_Arcades]

@@ericmedina4002yes, you can get in touch with me by email: thedanielspies at gmail.com - thanks!

[@loko5626]

Absolutely Amazing Video!!!!! Perfect explanation and informational. Love how you take the time to show everything exactly how to get it wired and put together. If more videos did this when doing tutorials or just providing enough information for the viewer to replicate, it would be fantastic. I know it took a long time to do that, and the video was long. But Wow! Well worth it. Keep up the amazing work!

[@ejtaylor73]

This is an excellent video, with so many tips to help others, and as always the cabinet looks amazing. As you were talking about the router, I thought maybe it's time they upgrade the design and add some type of clip on it for the top and bottom of the wood to help keep it stable. When it comes to all that wiring, you must have the patience of a saint, I don't think I could do it. I was wondering if you thought about something like bartops cabinets using mini PC's? Now that integrated graphics have gotten so much better and can play consoles up to PS2 (Some PS3)/XBox360/Wii, and the mini PC's have gotten really small, I think they would work great for a retro arcade bartop quite well.

[@alexrobles7744]

You are giving me PTSD bending and pulling those wires. Classy build as always and thanks for letting us know the tools you use.

[@JJ2c]

Just learned soemthing new that I want to incorporate. Thank you so much!!

[@leewickert9523]

Thank you for going into some of the less sexy details such as wiring. I really learned alot

[@sk4rr]

TY youtube for recommending this channel

[@tommycaldwell6953]

This is awesome!!

[@WickedGamerCollector]

48:56 OMG ultimate cable management 💖 Another crazy build .. should look into the Namco Gun4ir .. you don't want to back when you have played with those 😄

[@TheDanielSpies_Arcades]

Haha thanks 🙏🏼

[@RetroWK]

Great job and great video. As a viewer und can feel the passion and love to detail you put into this.

[@joachimbrandenburg]

Amazing content! I was so curious how you were going to switch the consoles! Amazing build and next level SH*T ! ! ! Thank you for all the inspiration and sharing the knowledge

[@brianmurphy8017]

Awesome work. Where did you pick up these plans, or did you design everything (cabinet and wiring) yourself? Would you make the plans available? Great videos.

[@TheDanielSpies_Arcades]

Hi, it is fully designed (from scratch) by me incl the electronics. Plans will not likely become available as this is a very / too complex build. Standard (or custom) plans I can always help with

[@r4dius]

This is not an arcade board, it's a dream

[@marciooliveira4233]

Wonderfull work man you just made a masterpiece hope some day i have enough money to ask you to build me one of those 😁🙏

[@piknikguy]

This is just on another level. I have watched your older videos and those inspired me to build my own arcade machine. Thank you for sharing everything! I have a question: How do these brook boards work in terms of having their player position setup? E.g. How does player1 stay as player1 all the time? If I understood your video properly, you're using a hub where it has 4 usb3 inputs and switches to different usb/hdmi outputs. Are the player positions set up in the brook boards or the hub does that automatically?

[@TheDanielSpies_Arcades]

That is a good question: this tip is given by Richard from @rpegelectronics: when using an USB hub (in my case a usb and hdmi switcher) the order of the boards remains stable 👍🏼

[@piknikguy]

@@TheDanielSpies_Arcades thanks for the response! Appreciate it!!

[@LunchBoxArcades]

Amazing.

[@quantumfx2677]

Awesome that you are showing these tools! I live in the US so im not sure we have the same tools here! I would like to stay with battery except for the router. Looking at a somewhat expensive cnc machine and starting full time in November building arcade cabinets of all kinds! Lightgun with 55 inch led arcade hero and jukebox is on the list!

[@TheDanielSpies_Arcades]

Yes, everything I show is available in the USA. You will love the tools!

[@TheNickybocker]

wow! a lot going on here ) Head spinning still :) One gold PC PSU could probably replace the cabinet PSU units you are using. I started replacing all the switching PSU units in my arcade machines with PC power supplys because they last longer, Then you might not need the relays as well, you could wire both the PC and the cabinet PSU switches together.. Just a thought. Thanks for sharing your work. It looks great!.. Did you ever see Super Off Road Arcade? the marquee is as big as a flat screen TV monitor. That gives me an idea to use a second display as a marquee and information display maybe it could display the information that those little display boards you have on the control panel as well. Something to ponder in a design. Thanks for all you do :)

[@danw3735]

Awesome, your first build was my inspiration, but I got stuck on the software side of things especially configuring all the emulators, it was too time consuming, so It's on hold heh.

[@GiacomBono]

Amazing work, form Italy Brother your a real King!....i want one for me, I will contact you soon, amazing skills

[@international806yachting]

Wow, that is truly a massive project. I love the great tools you are using. May I inquire why you did not use your Origin Shaper for the transparent acrylic cover? Instead you are using an external CNC company two hours away. Why is that?

[@TheDanielSpies_Arcades]

Valid question! I of course made that decision for a reason. First, I did not have a h u g e piece of acrylic in stock. Remember, the panel is 130cm in width or so. Second: it would take a few hours to cut it with a shaper Third: the risk of making a small mistake with all the engraving would out-way the trouble to let a specialist do it for me 2 hours away 😅. Thanks D

[@barebum20]

I love these build videos. So detailed and very helpful if someone wanted to have a go at doing this themselves. Thank you so much for sharing. One question, what amplifier are you using?

[@TheDanielSpies_Arcades]

A panel mount 12v amp. Need to search for a link-

[@barebum20]

@@TheDanielSpies_Arcades Thank you. Based on your description I have found it on AliExpress.

[@couzin2000]

Are there any USB cables from the control panel that cannot go to a USB hub? From what I understand, Sinden lightguns do not like to be connected on a USB hub AND have some flightsticks together? I'm using a Sabrent USB hub like you, and both my Sindens work great on the same hub. Can I also connect the IPacs to the same hub? Beautiful video, this is your best yet!!!! An Absolute BEAST of a machine!

[@NLDXBOX]

Hi Daniel, Amazing work mega cool to see it all come alive. Did disabling the collision detection for the desk work? Cheers, Roy from Worktrainer

[@TheDanielSpies_Arcades]

Hi Roy, it wasn't needed after all ! But you were of great help. Many thanks for this. Your height adjustable desks are of amazing quality and sorry for using an angle grinder on it :P haha Kind regards, Daniel

[@mike6889]

Your work is always truly amazing! Quick question. On RGB Servosticks, how do you keep the top ball from coming loose? Mine seem to always come loose after play. It's difficult to get a grip on the ball at joystick since the stick spins freely. Hoping you have some trick that works to tighten it down :)

[@TheDanielSpies_Arcades]

You can use plumber tape (hope I spell this correctly) to ensure any threaded connection. But the heads should be very tight even without.

[@tekkamanblade2244]

Beautiful machine. Sad that such a monster has a small screen marquee

[@solkimarcade2315]

Amazing build ! Can you please share the brand and model of the main monitor?

[@TheDanielSpies_Arcades]

Sony, will check the exact type of

[@TheRealJPhillips]

😮🔥💯

[@hineshpatel8903]

Wow.

[@RyanRedMountain]

How did you cut out the drawer foam for the controllers/light guns? What was that cool machine used?

[@TheDanielSpies_Arcades]

Shaper Origin! My favorite tool 😍

[@TruestMusic]

Amazing work bro. Where can I message you to make me a controll panel?

[@TheDanielSpies_Arcades]

Thedanielspies at gmail 👍🏼

[@mark6302]

holy crap :0

[@mike6889]

Also, on the Ultimarc SpinTrak spinner, is it normal for the spinner to be fairly tight at first and then loosen up to freely spin afterwards? Seems to always be tight at the start. Not sure if I installed incorrectly or if that is normal.

[@TheDanielSpies_Arcades]

Yes this is normal. The momentum will help move the ball.

[@MrEriknash]

Good video, nice and clear. What I notice is that some components (control panel) are recessed into the wood. What is the reason for you to do that?

[@TheDanielSpies_Arcades]

Ah yes. This is not needed but: it is the most professional way. This has todo with Joystick shaft length, trackball 🖲️ placement etc

[@MB-hl3mq]

How do you lay the control panel artwork and have it all line up 100% with each button? Thats gotta be extremely difficult to do. Is there a trick?

[@TheDanielSpies_Arcades]

Practice and: I use a small light underneath the panel. It is in one of my Arcade shorts also 👍🏼

[@Arcade-r3i]

Hey friend, what was the HDMI extender used for, I don't see it in this video but you had it in your first one.

[@TheDanielSpies_Arcades]

Yes, I bought the wrong one first. I needed an HDMI and USB switcher. The one in the first video was just a HDMI switcher :-)

[@everyoneisgosu]

Do you have any recommendation for a Speakers/Subwoofer/AMP to go with something like this?

[@TheDanielSpies_Arcades]

Any famous brand will do!

[@nikolazgeo]

All those are good but what about lag? Too many switches, converters, adapters etc.

[@atanner4]

@thedanielspies_arcades How do you get the tv to turn on automatically when the pc is powered on? Is it only specific TVs that do this? I can only get computer monitors to do that, not my tv

[@TheDanielSpies_Arcades]

Yes, this specific tv does power on when it receives power. In my case it is connected to the relay board. Monitors do not have this problem indeed. Some tv’s also have features that let them turn on when receiving signal

[@atanner4]

@@TheDanielSpies_Arcades what brand tv is it?

[@rimboeglitch590]

Volgens mij wordt je gesponsord 😂 en zoek je nog personeel voor de arcade jammer dat het zo langzaam gaat ik niet wachten tot de arcade machine klaar is

[@TheDanielSpies_Arcades]

Festool word vooral door mij gesponsord ;-) gr D

[@kokkeonglee8005]

Other people's videos teach you how to make an arcade cabinet in a more economical way. Your tutorial is how to make an arcade cabinet in a more expensive way。

[@TheDanielSpies_Arcades]

True

[@sriotstarter]

Amazon work

[@TheDanielSpies_Arcades]

Yes, many pieces came from Amazing. com -I mean Amazon ;-))

[@sriotstarter]

@@TheDanielSpies_Arcades 😂

[@jasoncoleman1704]

Do you know your playlist is reversed? It goes 3 2 1 making it too annoying to watch. I'll just move on to someone else's videos.

[@TheDanielSpies_Arcades]

A playlist will go from oldest to latest, so yes 3 is the first one on the list. Thanks for watching!

[@jasoncoleman1704]

@@TheDanielSpies_Arcades But its not going oldest to latest, its going latest to oldest. It plays the last video first then the middle then the first video.

[@TheDanielSpies_Arcades]

@@jasoncoleman1704can I change this somewhere? Is it a playlist or is KZbin automatically playing the videos? How are you watching them? 🙌🏻

[@jasoncoleman1704]

@@TheDanielSpies_Arcades I clicked the Arcade_Builds playlist button. I am watching on the youtube website using firefox. My understanding is that the account holder can change these playlists but watchers can't without special plugins. Thank you for looking into this btw.

[@andyhello23]

Can i ask you what wood are you using, it looks like some sort of painted plywood Can i ask what is the name of that wood? I assume its lighter then mdf

[@TheDanielSpies_Arcades]

This is concrete - black - plywood

[@derrickstrohm1148]

@@TheDanielSpies_Arcades is this TigerFORM? Or a different brand of concrete forming plywood?

[@TheDanielSpies_Arcades]

@@derrickstrohm1148 Nameless brand :) but TIGER fOrm sounds impressive!! ;-)

[@derrickstrohm1148]

@@TheDanielSpies_Arcades It sure does. It's the only brand that I have seen in the US that advertises a similar product. Thanks!