Donkey Kong Modded Arcade1up!

EJ bought way too many arcade1up machines and had leftover parts to make a Donkey Kong cabinet.
Inspired by this Reddit post:
/ meet_my_arcade1up_donk...
Button Masher pi3 image:
drive.google.com/file/d/1lNUv...
Button Masher pi4 image:
drive.google.com/file/d/1YMua...
All the equipment I used (All Amazon links earn me commission):
Logitech Speakers: amzn.to/3oj7twq
Extension cord: amzn.to/3djUjZM
Power switch: amzn.to/31s0TL8
Usb extension cable: amzn.to/31oyxlm
Pi 3b+ case: amzn.to/3EnswUk
Raspberry Pi 3b+ Kit: www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07...
Red dance floor tape: amzn.to/3diSFry
Joystick and Button kit: amzn.to/3Gbolv9
LED Trackball Mouse: amzn.to/3xSdUtz
Trackball USB converter: amzn.to/3lzhuDX
LCD driver for 4:3 arcade1up monitor: amzn.to/3DxRIq5
Blue paint: www.homedepot.com/p/BEHR-PREM...
Primer: www.homedepot.com/p/KILZ-2-AL...
DK Arcade Sticker: www.ebay.com/itm/Donkey-Kong-...
Custom Control Panel from:
www.diyretroarcade.com/
Vinyl bezel from:
arcadegraphix.com/
Custom DK Marquee from:
www.etsy.com/shop/RETRO530
For more information on arcade1up:
arcade1up.com
Great site for mod kits:
upgradearcade.com
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[@ericvonbergen7223]

Building a Donkey Kong cabinet is on my To-do list as I'm sure Arcade1up won't get the license. Great job constructing all of that.

[@modty]

Truly impressive work! The level of customization, I didn't even know was available!

[@DrunkenMonk]

I could never do this considering the amount of anxiety I get from putting on a $10 screen protector on my phone, doing all that cutting, decals, and vinyl .... I would need a triple bypass from the resulting heart stoppage.

[@a-law]

This was an amazing video, just found this channel recently and I was hoping from more gaming content from EJ, great stuff

[@rocket5557]

Wow! Too cool! No way I could ever put something like that together. Amazing work

[@BO0STfreak]

Great video and build! Anyway you can share the splash screen and loading screen! I would love to run this on my DK build!

[@CA-tk8yn]

Great job. I'd buy a Donkey Kong machine and keep hoping Nintendo realizes this is a profitable market to be in and put out their titles with their own machines. I think there are too many mods needed with Arcade1ups to make them decent.

[@daerth4423]

I've been thinking about doing the same thing for a while now. Thanks for the ideas. You know we'll never get one unless Nintendo itself makes it and then it'll probably cost as much as an original one lol.

[@dcents5458]

I would recommend changing out your joystick with a magstik plus which switches between 4 way and 8 way directions on the fly. It will let you have waayyy more games to add for your vertical screen games and let you switch between 4 and 8 way quickly.

[@atranfanatic]

I just recently scored on a bare Simpsons Arcade1up cabinet that I am turning into a custom TMNT 4 player modded with a Dell SFF PC. Oh great job on the Donkey Kong mod man, it looks fantastic!

[@thekrustyknuckles810]

We need to purchase that arcade 1up.

[@retronaut8864]

I recall using a raspberry pi config trick to rotate the screen on the Button Masher image instead, which on the 3b+ didn't give me any option for which direction, so it was upside down. I just re-installed the screen upside down and that did the trick. I have since moved on to using PC's in my cabinets.

[@mrbransformer4184]

This is sweet! But that 60 & 1 board reminds me of doing laundry.

[@ericyoung3003]

This really looks fantastic. Excellent job! You should build and sell these.

[@benwhite1546]

Great and informative video. Keep up the great work EJ!

[@limitedtime5471]

What an amazing effort, the result is so cool!

[@C64KonsolenChris]

Someone loved the RLM-style. „Free Gift“ 😄

[@benjackson3974]

This is almost more awesome than bbq ribs... That might just be the pig ghost voices in my head though...

[@GamingwithTai]

I keep coming back to this video. It's very satisfying.

[@soggykid5580]

Well done! Such a thorough video

[@DannyWelch]

Great looking cabinet!

[@FreshWest555]

Truly amazing and a ton of work

[@SuperBobHoskinsBros]

Great video! Very satisfying to watch

[@tripyramidpictures9224]

I cut out my coin door, then added some hinges and a lock, so its a REAL DOOR.

[@ien2023]

Nostalgia is all about the proper shape of the cab. a company do make 3/4 replica shape Nintendo cab.

[@cre8iveone699]

Great informative video thank you. The only thing I would have done differently would be to mount the monitor further/deeper into the cabinet while leaving the marquee in it's stock position. I really like how original Donky Kong cabinets have so much depth distance between the marquee and monitor.

[@CL-os5cz]

That's what I said, I kinda want to do it but like most people don't know how to do it properly.

[@cre8iveone699]

I said marquee but I should have said Bezel instead.

[@christ6345]

This is awesome

[@TMK-we9bs]

That is awesome bro

[@TboneTenEighties]

Awesome cab creation. I really like it. It's great that you know all the tech how to. I can do the physical part of the build but dabbled in emulation in the past and now can't be bothered. Btw Yes the Donkey Kong cab indeed needs a sub woofer lol gotta hear my man D.Kong stomp on girders and pound his chest! 👍

[@weskarcher483]

I didn't like the small size of 1 ups so i had a full sized Tron custom built. It only cost me $800 and has 6000 various game systems loaded on it including coin operated arcade games.

[@AdventuresofaGeek]

Great mod!

[@BShocked]

Looks amazing! Tempest is my go-to trackball game!

[@nusilver]

Tempest with a trackball?!

[@TboneTenEighties]

Tempest = spinner

[@seanpgardner7374]

You Sir did an outstanding job! Lol

[@superevilnine9]

Looks cool, thx😈

[@frankstrasser6108]

Cool mod man! Ya just got my first cab myself a street fighter 2 gen 1 gonna mod it up with a computer and mame and new panel and speakers and lit marquee can’t wait

[@caja8468]

I've seen a lot of Arcade1Up mods videos and this is as good as it gets (nice job). When you have a chance, please create the video with more details about how to rotate the screen with a Raspberry Pi 3/3b without the performance hit (for all of the games).

[@chrisdryer]

That's awesome dude. Yeah I can never put any vinyl on. Everything I touch wrinkles. Maybe I could do this with the method you used. Oh yeah I hate delay or lag. Ok... ok... I've always wanted to get into video game modding... My friend and I have been talking about how cool it would be to mod Pokemon Puzzle League but replace all the Pokemon characters with 80s TV show characters and use clips of Mr. T, maybe Michael Landon from Highway to Heaven... maybe Mr. Belvedere... Mr. Rogers... hell throw in Gordon Ramsay as a Boss character... even the dad from Wonder Years could be a good boss character... and like the quotes change as the combos go up. Ugh... I wish I had more time in life... I have been watching some home-brew youtubers... maybe eventually... ugh. ...they are making a Donkey Kong movie? I hope they explain how he got all those barrels.

[@MystLgnd]

Yayyy, so so cool 🥰

[@pac-fan1996]

3:58 that pac-man and inky design is a mistake

[@Lamtitude]

I have a Rampage Arcade1UP cabinet that I modded to play pretty much everything up to the N64. I also had make a new control deck so I could add extra buttons. It turned out great and plays MUCH better than the stock controls. I probably spent $140 on top of the $250 I spent on the arcade. My only complaint is that the Arcade1Up cabinet had flaws when I opened it new. I contacted customer support to get the damaged parts replaced, but it took almost a YEAR before I actually got all of my parts. Luckily it was only superficial damage. I probably emailed them 10 times back and forth. They seemed like they really wanted to make things right, but they didn’t seem to have the manpower to fulfill orders.

[@jovichau-gandelmanbaseball3828]

Very good video I have a Star Wars cab that I pulled the bezel forward n stick it in place with some heavy duty double sided tape and it gives you that original nintendo arcade 3d look You have a little space left on the sides but it doesn’t bother me

[@obiiieeee]

looking suave as fuck with that haircut

[@vilhelmstein2091]

Hey how do you get your trackball to work with centipede?

[@robkrasinski6217]

I got the NES deck and a Donkey Kong cartridge to mod my old turtles since I got the newer turtles. And it has a DK overlay for the deck with it and other ones. I might cover the turtles graphics with DK graphics.

[@wuhanspaceprogram]

I can't believe you haven't cooked ribs on it. What's the point!?

[@RedCowEntertainment]

I’m sorry. I have failed you. (Throws Donkey Kong machine in the trash)

[@nusilver]

So glad to see my build inspired you, and congrats on being the first person to post a DK modded out of an Arcade1UP cabaret cab. I've done a few things to my cab since that initial build I posted in Reddit which you kindly linked to here; the main things are the light-up marquee, coin decal, and orange buttons (the yellow had to go.) You can sort of see its final form in this video from a few months ago: kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z4LZYmSiYr96qrM If you ever feel like swapping out your bezel, get in touch with Escape Pod Online. They'll ship you a whole bezel with the art professionally cut and printed in reverse so you can't damage it from the front of the screen. Also: I found a company that offers an Arcade1UP-sized DK cabinet, but they want something like $300 for the MDF alone, and I don't think I can pour any more into this cab, even though it's still the most-played of my six cabs. I sometimes regret the Multi Kong side art, so who knows... maybe one day I'll go for that more authentic shape. Bravo! Your cab looks awesome.

[@thekrustyknuckles810]

We need a Dr. Mario modded Arcade1up

[@720erik2]

Really should have went the extra mile set it that screen back with plexi in front

[@TheNeonTheater]

I have a 1UP golden axe machine. Im putting in a Raspberry Pi. Can I use the controls that came with the machine? It doesnt have usb connectors so can I buy an adapter?

[@xbitsam]

Amazing build. Would you share the control deck graph used ?

[@RedCowEntertainment]

Sure! I’ll upload it soon and put it in the description

[@davidlinderman5532]

@@RedCowEntertainment Curious if the Control Deck art would be posted? Or where you got it atleast?

[@douglasanger3036]

Good evening. As a red cow fan. I saw your vid was new. And mite I say, of the cast. You're my fav. The thing's you do with dead beast and yeast. I'm a fan. That said, I'm 65. So what I just watçhed. Made no damn sense to me. But, carry on future boy. Drink one for the old ones ,I know I am!

[@RedCowEntertainment]

Don’t worry! Got some meat videos coming!

[@Ruzkig]

Great video. What are the specs of the monitor? Size, resolution, aspect ratio?

[@hotnspicyproductions226]

Love this channel. Had my own arcade one up modded. Now the lcd screen is dead. -_-

[@TheNynjspider]

Enjoy the videos guys

[@troymatos]

Anyone have updated links for the Button Masher Vertical image? These links are no longer working.

[@jareza]

The button masher image for the rpi4 is not available could you direct me to the correct link please?

[@CarForCause]

Could you post the splash screen and startup video?

[@CarForCause]

Since I didn’t hear back, I used free software (google KZbin to download) to download this video to a mp4 and cut it to just that startup video. I also took a screenshot of the loading screen. This video shows how to load them on the pi.

[@latoyanodrama1042]

How much was the total cost of everything

[@Hexus13th]

And here I am wasting my money on fuzz pedals. I already hurt my back using oversized anamorphic adapters, so I cant do that anymore.

[@KeithAlumbaugh]

I want to buy a pi4 and install this, but it said the image doesn't exist.

[@l1ntkingofska]

How much did all the parts cost in total?

[@halo25halo]

The RP image Shows as not available anymore

[@mjsatx13]

So how long did it take you to do this?

[@mickey533]

Nice video. More pork based content pls...

[@astateato]

Why mod these great games? You can build a jamma unit pretty easy.

[@bobcinematics]

I’ll do a infinity war reference Nintendo looks at arcade 1up👆 arcade 1up 2 years later the fan yay donkey kong

[@Audiojunkabus]

BUH;EN .. is that like button?

[@Gatorade69]

Sanding the sides definitely would be too much work, I recommend liquid sandpaper. Makes it a lot easier. 4:36 Never buy the cheapest paint. You end up using more. I used to paint houses for a living. I worked for this asshole once and he only wanted the cheapest paint (white) and expected it to cover purple... Yeah, I hate that guy. You did a good job on the decals, better than anything I could do.

[@RedCowEntertainment]

I definitely learned my lesson with this build. Next room I paint I’ll splurge for some higher quality paint.

[@GenZod80]

Hey so I am looking to do similar but with a counter cade. Regarding the paint color, I am at my Home Depot now and I can not find the color liquid blue at all? Would you happen to know the color that would best go with this cab now in a similar sheen that liquid blue was? Let me know. Thanks.

[@Superdimensional]

This was done pretty half assed, but it matches your personality

[@beararms6945]

Lol communities huh , my real arcade's are easy to move around, ya just can't be lazy they require getting of the sofa. Them arcade 1 ups are trash

[@jorisbonson386]

lol what a massive waste of time 😂

[@NickArcade84]

Hi there, I saw the link to classicgaming.cc for the hi-res artwork. However their selection isnt very large.. Do you know of any other sites for hi-res artwork or places you can recommend? I'd prefer to do my own designs for my cabinets but am having trouble tracking down the hi-res artwork. Thanks in advance!

[@davidlinderman5532]

Thank you this is amazing!! Technically their stuff is THE highest resolution because it is Illustrator EPS files (vector) as opposed to an image file which is limited by resolution and file size. But you have to have Illustrator to open.

[@ThePbrook1967]

Soooo were all the roms included? Or how did you do all that?