Super Street Fighter 4 in your Arcade1up - Part 2

RetroRalph·video·15m 49s·analyzed·Jan 5, 2019

Analysis

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TL;DR

Street Fighter 4 Arcade1Up mod progress: custom graphics, coin door, remote volume control

Summary

Retro Ralph presents a progress update on his Street Fighter 4 Arcade1Up modification project, demonstrating custom marquee graphics, control panel upgrades with swapped joysticks and buttons, a fully functional coin door mechanism, speaker placement and amplification solutions, and remote-controlled volume management via an LCD controller board. The cabinet remains a work in progress with planned improvements including monitor replacement, side graphic decals, speaker upgrades, and internal cable management.

Key Claims

Custom vinyl marquee decals should be applied over sanded-down original graphics to prevent old designs showing through
high confidence · Ralph demonstrates and explains the marquee application process, showing the backside where old graphics are visible due to lack of sanding
Coin door mechanisms operate on normally-closed position (opposite of standard push buttons) and trigger when a coin passes through
high confidence · Ralph explains the technical difference between coin door wiring and push button wiring while showing the internal mechanism
The LCD controller board allows remote control of volume without drilling additional holes in the cabinet
high confidence · Ralph demonstrates using a remote to control volume and explains this solves the problem of adding controls to the front panel
Street Fighter arcade board passes audio over HDMI, allowing the LCD controller board to manage audio output to an amplifier
high confidence · Ralph explains the audio signal path from the arcade board through HDMI to the controller board to the amplifier
The original Arcade1Up circuit board was repurposed as a coin catch mechanism inside the coin door
high confidence · Ralph describes removing the printed circuit board from behind the monitor and securing it with double-sided tape to catch coins and provide authentic arcade sound

Notable Quotes

“So you sand down the original graphics before you put that on because these are really meant to go over a lit-up marquee... So you would see the old graphics through it if you didn't sand this down first.”
Retro Ralph@ 1:22 — Technical advice for marquee installation that demonstrates attention to detail in arcade cabinet modification
“These are a little bit different. So this is actually the only thing in here that you're gonna wire to... So this is gonna be normally closed until a coin passes through it, and then it will register as a coin press.”
Retro Ralph@ 3:39 — Explains the key technical difference in wiring coin door mechanisms versus standard button inputs
“I was trying to figure out what could catch the coins, and I decided to take an arcade 1Up—the arcade 1Up printed circuit board out of the back of this because that is an original piece from the Street Fighter 2. I just took the printed circuit board off from behind the monitor and used it as a means to catch the coins.”
Retro Ralph@ 5:28 — Creative repurposing of original hardware component that also serves practical function and provides authentic arcade sound
“So what I've always been trying to achieve with these is: is there a way I can control the volume of the game without like drilling another hole in the front or running a control knob?”
Retro Ralph@ 7:09 — Articulates the design problem that led to the remote control solution using the LCD controller board
“To invest this kind of money in a cabinet like this and not have it sound great is kind of a shame.”
Retro Ralph@ 6:36 — Justifies investment in quality speaker upgrades and wall-mounted speaker placement for improved audio experience

Entities

Retro RalphpersonStreet Fighter 4 Arcade1UpproductETA PrimepersonDetroit LovepersonAmazoncompanyGooglecompanyTP-Linkcompany

Topics

Arcade cabinet modification and customizationprimaryCoin door installation and wiringprimaryControl panel upgrades (joysticks and buttons)primaryAudio system enhancement and speaker placementprimaryRemote control volume managementsecondaryDIY arcade electronics and wiringsecondaryArcade1Up cabinet modificationsprimaryCustom marquee graphics and vinyl decalssecondary

Sentiment

positive(0.85)— Ralph expresses enthusiasm and satisfaction with the project progress, showing pride in the modifications and creative solutions. He acknowledges the work-in-progress nature but maintains optimistic tone about improvements. Minor frustration with unfinished aesthetics ('not great right now', messy wiring) but frames it as temporary.

Transcript

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hey guys retro Ralph here thanks again for joining so in today's episode we're gonna tackle part 2 of the Street Fighter 4 arcane 1up modification now I will truly admit that this thing is still a work in progress but I felt like right now is a good time to at least check in and give you guys a quick progress report of how this thing is going so sit back relax and enjoy okay here it is guys I'm ready to do the street fighter for overview okay so I'm gonna start from the top and go down so the top I have a custom marquee and I got the graphics printed for that so I'll have links in the description of where I got that from but all that really is is a vinyl decal over the stock marquee now what I would suggest if you do this to your one-up and you could do this to any arcade one up just to kind of customize it is you sand down the original graphics before you put that on because these are really meant to pass light so they're really meant to be in a lit up marquee so they're a little bit thinner than a normal sticker decal so you would see the old graphics through it if you didn't sand this down first the backside of this actually you can kind of see I haven't done that yet so you can see the old Street Fighter logo there so I was this is kind of a prototype I was just trying to see how it looked so I'll be fixing that at some point you'll also notice as we kind of back away from it a little bit you'll notice that the side graphics are still the same I'm waiting on some vinyl decals for the side that match the marquee and the control panel as you step into the front here you'll see I haven't replaced the stock monitor yet if you guys have any suggestions there I've done a 19 inch modification that I'm gonna film a video on that's actually for my Neo Geo I don't know that I want to do that for this one I kind of want to see if I can squeeze in a larger display so we'll see where that goes but I'd be open to hearing what you guys think and what comments you might have because obviously that's an unfinished part of the modification so far so as you go down you'll see there's on the control panel with custom graphics on that I only have two screws in it right now you'll notice that because I've been working on it and opening it up so I didn't want to put all four in I put I put different joysticks so I swapped out the stock joysticks obviously I also put different buttons in micro switches in there you will notice the player one is up down right now and that's because one of my ground wires this is long enough so I had to put it upside down so you'll see that right there so it's kind of funny but we'll we'll fix that soon enough so there you can kind of see the control panel so you're probably wondering what these two buttons are below the control panel so these two buttons are actually four coins so I put those in for coin 1 coin 2 on player 1 and player 2 okay so getting to the coin door this is a fully functional coin door so I'm gonna open this up so you guys can see what this looks like from the inside and I could talk about how to wire this so when you're wiring a coin door it's actually the opposite of of a push button so these push buttons are in the normally open position and then when you push it it goes normally closed so that will register as a button press in the game these are a little bit different so this is actually the only thing in here that you're gonna wire to this other pole right here and that's the normally closed position so this is gonna be normally closed until see if I can get a coin until a coin passes through it and then it will register as as a coin press so I'm gonna I'm gonna show you this working in a minute but I just want to kind of show you what the mechanism looks like and then if you look here and keep in mind you may not want to do a coin door if you want they sell fake coin doors that that look exactly like this it's and they even have light up to UM light up buttons here usually but they don't actually have this mechanism and as a matter of fact you could take this mechanism off if you really wanted to I'm sorry it's all dusty it's because I was cutting this and I didn't really clean it up before I shot the video so so basically how I have this wired is I only have this wired to the player one button so a button press or a coin will register as as a credit I have a little thing I'm working on where I'm gonna wire it to both buttons so that when you actually put in a quarter it registers as a credit for player 1 and player 2 I really didn't want to have two coins to coin slots I just it takes up a lot of room in these little cabinets actually because if you look if you look from the side look how far that sticks out that does stick out quite have quite a bit so anyways really excited that this is fully working and yeah that's the coin door if you notice in there people are asking me well where are the coins going if you notice you that mate little box may look familiar I was trying to figure out what could catch the coins and I decided to take an arcade one up the arcade one up printed circuit board out of the back of this cuz so that is an original piece from the Street Fighter 2 I just took the printed circuit board off from behind the monitor and used it as a as a means to catch the coins and I uh I used double-sided tape just to stick this thing down but it's good because it gives you that traditional arcade sound when the coin drops so it's a kind of nice everyone loves that sound but anyway so that's that's the coin door and well we're gonna have I'm gonna turn it all on so you can hear it functioning so let's swing around the back you'll see around the back it's not pretty right now I just want you to know that we'll start from the top I'm gonna redo this I was trying something out here and I'm not a big fan so speakers do sound good here by the way because the sound will reflect off your wall if your cabinet is up against a wall so if you're looking for a place to put your speaker's that maybe isn't front-facing or on the control panel this works well as the sound reflects off the wall the only problem I'm not liking about it is I don't like the way it came out it was gets kind of sloppy so I'm gonna actually repaint this and go over it and I'm actually thinking about putting I'm gonna take a hole saw and put larger five and a half inch speakers here I mean to invest this kind of money in a cabinet like this and not have it sound great is kind of a shame so keep I will be doing a part three actually of this series where I will go into how I plan to do that and probably film it to so you guys can see see what I'm doing there alright so as we go down this is nothing new however I use a different remove these speaker wires out of the way like I said I haven't cleaned it up yet I use a different LCD controller board than the one that ETA prime recommends and I'll tell you why so the reason why I like this is that you can run a remote control so what I've always been trying to achieve with these is is there a way I can control the volume of the game without like drilling another hole in the front or running a control knob now the remote connection is right there I don't like it there I just haven't figured out where I'm gonna put it yet I'm probably gonna tuck it in somewhere in the front because it has to have line of sight to the remote but if you look before we continue I'll show you how you can control the volume so right now you don't hear anything and if I press the volume up I kind of think that's a cool way to control the volume so you could potentially shut the whole cabinet off with this too with the power button I don't have it wired that way I do have other systems that are wired that way though so this is a cool idea if someone's looking for a solution around that alright so we'll move down a little bit so that's the controller board I have links to all of this stuff in the description so you'll see I haven't cleaned this up yet so my coin door that was the genius idea I came up with at two o'clock in the morning is I have these these sort of wooden blocks that they're for hobbies and projects and stuff and I actually put them on either side of those sort of mount mount screws to hold the coin door in place I'll have links in the description of how you cut out the coin door in the front I think there was a another youtuber Detroit love who did a video this is pretty detailed so you could always go and follow that to figure out how to put the coin door and I think several others have also done this modification so apologize for all the wires like I said I haven't cleaned any of this up yet I'm gonna make it look pretty as soon as I'm done but I wanted to kind of get you guys a basic level progress report here so okay so that's that as we move down you'll see if I can get away from the wires you'll see the amplifier for the speakers I just have it sitting on top of the arcade board right now I'll probably end up moving that at some point or mounting it and then if you move down you'll see you know the arcade board that I did a video on before and then the arcade power supply tucked right in this so obviously I'm not gonna keep it exactly like this I'm gonna modify it but you're probably wondering well how does all this stuff turn on and off so everything is wired to this power strip right here and then if you look I know this isn't clean either I have these tp-link I have these tp-link devices these are controlled by Amazon or Google so I like these because I can just voice control it on and off I know there's debates back and forth on whether you want to do this or a switch I really like those so that's what I'm going with another little thing that I kind of noticed I don't know from to keep it like this or not is when I wire when I get wire ties and get this all tight and nice the riser box actually becomes kind of an interesting place to store excess wire I don't know if that's what I'm gonna do long term I may just shorten the wires and do something else with it but I kind of like the way that I kind of like the way you can tuck away the wires like that and I did want to mention I'm gonna do a video on how to wire an arcade power supply because I think a lot of the modifications people are using things like raspberry PI's so you may not wanna you may not know how to mess with those so I want to make sure I make a tutorial that you can know the basic information to wire one and then you know as you know as you use them more you may want to you know learn more about the electrical aspects of it but I'll give you enough to be dangerous so anyways as you take a closer look at the at the the box here you can see tucked behind the wires there's some there's some dip switches there in the manual that this thing came with there's dip switches to set specific settings like how much a coin like is basically how many credits one point is how many credits in the game things like that the hardness level of the game and stuff like that so there's some dip switch settings if you want and and yeah that's kind of it from the backside I think the other thing that that I will show you really quick and I'll do a deeper dive video on it is well how I'm getting the controller board to control the audio is that this streetfighter board passes audio over HDMI so when you go HDMI into your controller board there's an audio out so basically when you go into this board you now it now has control over the audio and all I'm doing is just taking the audio and passing it to the amplifier so you set the amplifier to like maybe mid level you know it set this knob to maybe mid level and then then you could just use the remote control like I said to control the audio so I think it's kind of a cool solution you guys may want to do this another thing that you could do and I'll do a video on this at some point too is if you made the controller board your master in a master controlled power strip you could effectively turn on and off your whole entire cabinet from this so because what would happen is is when you turn the power on here it would then tell the power strip to power on any of the other controlled outlets so that is a good way to maybe have your cabinet powered up all by one button so I know there's various different solutions there but I think that's a good one as well okay so let's swing around front one more time what I'll do is I'll put the volume up here a little bit so give me one second so I want to show you guys the coin door operating so if you look it says zero credits right now I'm gonna hopefully hold the camera up as I put a coin in so if you look there's the coin going in and there you go so fully functional coin door but also if you press the button over here if you press the button you get credits that way too so I'm pretty happy with the way this is turning out so forth so far guys I really wanted as a couple of parts that are coming the monitor is coming even though I said I didn't have a solution for it I filmed this in two parts I actually have a monitor coming so that's gonna be new to me to try to fit a much larger monitor in one of these but I'll see what I can do there all right so I'm gonna show you guys some gameplay real quick and then we'll wrap this video up [Music] which one of these two will walk away the answer lies yeah well I must be doing well for the camera it's typically that's not how I roll hey guys that about wraps up the Street Fighter 4 part 2 I hope you guys enjoyed that I really haven't had fun with this modification so I hope you guys gained a little bit of insight from it and if you have any questions as always leave them in the comments section below and I will absolutely try to answer each and every one so if you enjoyed the content of this video please subscribe to the channel please like the video and hit that notification bell so you can be informed of future videos as they're released and if that's a wrap then Alexa shut off Street Fighter see you guys next time