Arcade1up MOD - NBA JAM - The Build Process - Part 2 of 2

RetroRalph·video·13m 24s·analyzed·Jun 27, 2019

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TL;DR

RetroRalph completes Hollywood Marquis Arcade1up NBA JAM mod kit build with detailed assembly walkthrough.

Summary

RetroRalph documents the complete build process for the Hollywood Marquis NBA JAM Arcade1up modification kit in part 2, covering monitor removal, mount installation, artwork application, marquee installation, and final assembly. The video demonstrates detailed step-by-step instructions provided by Emilio (Hollywood Marquis), with one notable issue: an unexpectedly white front panel requiring spray painting to match the standard black finish.

Key Claims

The Hollywood Marquis kit is currently available for purchase
high confidence · Jon states multiple times 'the kit is available right now' and references links in the video description for ordering
Some Arcade1up NBA JAM cabinets ship with white front panels instead of black, requiring modification
high confidence · Jon discovered his cabinet had a white front panel and had to spray paint it black; he states this is not typical for other kits he's built
The Hollywood Marquis kit instructions are comprehensive and well-designed
high confidence · Jon repeatedly praises Emilio's instruction quality: 'Emilio did a great job putting that all together' and 'The instructions, like I said, continue to be awesome'
The graphics in the monitor mount are interchangeable and not permanently fixed
medium confidence · Jon explains 'The graphics are free-flowing, which is awesome, so that they can be interchanged later'
Modifying arcade equipment while hungry increases the risk of mistakes or damage
low confidence · Jon shares personal anecdote: 'do not mod on an empty stomach. You will screw something up. I've done it many, many times'

Notable Quotes

“do not mod on an empty stomach. You will screw something up. I've done it many, many times.”
Jon (RetroRalph)@ 4:41 — Practical modding advice based on personal experience; reflects the hands-on technical nature of arcade modification
“Emilio did a great job putting that all together.”
Jon (RetroRalph)@ 5:47 — Endorsement of the Hollywood Marquis kit designer's quality and attention to detail
“The graphics are free-flowing, which is awesome, so that they can be interchanged later”
Jon (RetroRalph)@ 5:27 — Highlights a key feature of the kit design: flexibility and modularity for future customization
“It has nothing to do with Emilio's kit. It has to do with Arcade 1-Up”
Jon (RetroRalph)@ 7:50 — Distinguishes between kit quality and manufacturing inconsistency from the base cabinet manufacturer

Entities

Jon (RetroRalph)personEmiliopersonMatt Scott EvanspersonHollywood MarquiscompanyArcade1upcompanyRetroRalphorganizationNBA JAMgameHollywood Marquis Big Upgrade Kitproduct

Signals

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community_signal: Positive community response to Hollywood Marquis kit reflected in availability and content creator coverage; multiple video series documenting installation process
medium · Jon states 'The response has been really great' and references this as part 2 of a two-part build series available on RetroRalph channel
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product_strategy: Hollywood Marquis Big Upgrade Kit provides comprehensive modifications to Arcade1up NBA JAM including new monitor mount, interchangeable graphics, and lit marquee installation system
high · Detailed documentation of kit components including pre-drilled mounting holes, pre-mounted clips, protective graphics layers, and custom-grooved monitor board designed to fit stock mounting brackets
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product_concern: Arcade1up manufacturing inconsistency: some NBA JAM cabinets ship with white front panels instead of the standard black, requiring end-user correction
high · Jon explicitly encountered white panel on his unit and required spray painting to match; he notes 'Not sure why this one was, but it is what it is' and confirms 'none of these panels end up being white' in other kits he's built
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technology_signal: Aftermarket upgrade ecosystem for Arcade1up cabinets enables modular component replacement and customization beyond original specifications
high · Hollywood Marquis kit demonstrates drop-in replacement of monitor mount, artwork, and marquee with interchangeable graphics and pre-engineered compatibility with stock Arcade1up mounting brackets

Transcript

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Hey guys, so I'm just going to get right to it. This is the second part of the build process, so let's just not waste any time. But if you are here right now watching this right now at this very moment, then the kit is available right now. So you can go to the link in the description to check it out. But if you're interested to see the rest of the build process, then just continue watching, my friends. All right, guys, before we officially get started with the second half of the build, I forgot to take off the feet of the cabinet. So I'm going to do that really quick. It's a simple and easy process, and it was in the instructions, but I got excited, man. and when you get excited, sometimes you forget things. So it's real simple. I'll show you how to take it off right here in a minute. Okay, I know you guys are just going to be so riveted by this part of the video. So basically, you take a pair of pliers, and you connect them to that little plastic foot, and you pull. That's pretty much it. So, wow. All right, exciting. But you should do that before putting the cabin on the riser. That was my fault. So let's get back to the real action and get to the next steps. Let's see what Retro Ralph's up to.

1:24

Ah, my foot. okay that's that's going in okay that hurt all right as part of this process we are gonna have to move the marquee and the monitor so I'm gonna start with the marquee it's easy to take out this is not the stock marquee this is a marquee from from Scott Evans that I've showcased tons of times and even did a review on I'll put a link to it right here not on my hat but up there and let's unscrew the other side and get this thing out of here okay so this step will be a lot easier if you're using a stock system it's just that I already had a marquee that was a modded marquee so just got to unscrew this pull it off and the thing is I forgot there's a switch to turn the marquee on and off so I got to get the switch out of there you wouldn't have to do this step but it's what I had to do because it was an aftermarket marquee okay guys I got the switch out and so we'll be on to the next step which is gonna be removing the monitor it's gonna be a little bit more tedious for me because this isn't a stock one-up if it was stock one-up I'd have less to take apart but I actually put the controller board and everything and mounted it to the back panel so it's It's gonna be a little bit harder for me, but we'll get it done. Okay guys, this part's gonna look a little more complicated here than on yours because unless you're using the arcade printed circuit boards, you probably have a lot more room to work here, but it's fairly straightforward. So what you're gonna do is you're gonna remove the stock monitor. I'm gonna have to remove all this stuff, but I'm not gonna put that on camera, but obviously I gotta remove this stuff because I'm gonna reuse it on the new mount that's provided. But you're removing the mount and you're just removing the screws that hold it on in all four corners, but you're leaving the mounts mounted to the cabinet itself, okay? That's important. Do not remove the brackets, just remove these screws that hold the monitor on, and then we will wiggle that out. Now, there is suggestions that you loosen the L bracket, which I believe is this one right here, to make sure there some flex in the cabinet because we don wanna have to take the whole cabinet apart So if you worked with these before you notice that if you can loosen the sides a bit it gives you a little bit more flex and you should be able to get the monitor out without you know taking the cabinet apart Alright guys so we back I removed the screws that hold the monitor mount onto these brackets over here those white brackets that came with the arcade one up and at this point I'm ready to shimmy that monitor out. What I'm gonna do is I'm gonna loosen these up real quick which is what Emilio instructed to do. It gives the cabinet a lot of flex though so be careful there you know don't don't like remove it completely but it should give the cabinet enough flex for me to pop that monitor out without really really any trouble okay so I'm gonna flip the cabinet around and we're gonna pop that monitor out really carefully and we should be good actually I'm not even to flip it around I'm gonna just do it this Ooh, that top piece didn't come off. Okay, cool. So, we're good.

4:13

Monitor, mount, out. And now we're on to figuring out how to get all this stuff onto Emilio's or Hollywood Marquis' mount. So, let's continue the process, guys. I haven't eaten anything. I'm kind of getting hungry. I think this is a good, like, I think this is a good stopping point to have some food. I'm not going to film that. I don't know what I'm going to eat, but I'm really hungry right now. I can see, you know, so a little modding tip. Do not mod on an empty stomach. You will screw something up. I've done it many, many times. I'm like, I'm going to push through. I'm good. And I break something. Don't mod on an empty stomach. All right, the next step is to prepare our old monitor mount for the new monitor mount. So I got to take off the controller board because this was an already modded system. and I got to take off the plexiglass cover because we got to get access to the original one-up monitor. Just take off these four screws on each side of the monitor and it will just pop right out of the old monitor mount. Now we are not going to use that monitor mount at all. We're 100% going to roll with the monitor mount from Hollywood Marquise. So keep in mind you have the plexiglass cover on top which will take the protective coating off later and underneath you'll see the graphics. So the graphics are free flowing, which is awesome, so that they can be interchanged later, like I mentioned in the second video, maybe. I can't remember. So we're going to screw the monitor down with the screws provided, and after we do that, we will be ready to assemble the rest of it, and it's pretty simple and straightforward. The instructions, like I said, continue to be awesome. Emilio did a great job putting that all together. So we're almost done securing the monitor down and we'll go on to the next step. Okay so before I install the artwork I just want to make sure there's no dust under the screen because once I put the artwork in the plexi there's kind of no going back. I mean there is I just got to take it all apart after so it's just good best practice to get this thing nice and clean. So I got this terry cloth that I'm using just to make sure or microfiber cloth just to make sure that everything looks good and it's all clean and ready to go. So as soon as I do that you're going to see me apply the graphics. There were two little tabs on the top that just provide a sticky surface so that this can be placed on really well but what happens is you just you just kind of stick those two top parts on make sure you don't have any grease on your hands by the way when you do this because the grease will get on those graphics you don't want that so basically I'm just trying to I don't know what I'm doing there I don't know I just I blowing on it I not sure why but I forgot why I did that so just assume that might have been dust I don know or I just doing something weird which I do from time to time Okay time to get the plexi on. Okay these next two steps are pretty simple. So you're just removing all the protective coating from the plexiglass cover for the monitor mount. So just be careful doing this. It's going to take a little bit of time. You know it's on there pretty good but I'd rather it be protected well than be damaged and shipment. So I'm just lining it up to make sure I have everything right but now at this point you just continue to take the both sides off front and back you may want to clean it after because you know once you apply it like I said you're not going to want to take it off you could but I just figured why not just make it really clean so you'll see me kind of briefly go over that with with that microfiber cloth again and then that's pretty much it I just make sure it's good and then you're going to lay it on top of the graphics so that the graphics sandwich in between that and the monitor mount then there's four screws in each corner you're going to put in and there's already pre-drilled holes that Emilio has there. So I'm just trying to make sure it's lined up well but this is super simple. I didn't film myself putting the screws in but you just put those four screws in and you're done. All right guys so we are getting closer to the finish line. There is a problem that I end up facing here and has nothing to do with Emilio's kit. It has to do with arcade one-up but you'll see what that is in a minute. But anyways let's get back to what we're doing here. So we're going to mount that monitor right there in the front and the cool thing is is the way Emilio has that board grooved it fits perfectly it's actually grooved perfectly to fit right inside the stock mounting sort of side brackets I don't even know what you really call that but it's it's trimmed to fit exactly the way the old one does except it butts all the way up to the top of that front panel now you'll notice there's a little something different about that front panel that front panel is actually white and every other kit I've built, that front panel is black. So that's a problem because it's going to look really funny if that front panel is white. So I do fix it here in a minute, but anyways, I got the mount in. I'm getting everything all snugged up and tightened up, and then we're going to adjust or get the mounts in on the backside as well. Okay, so this is an ad hoc video. The audio is going to suck, but I was kind of frustrated because the back panel of my Arcade 1-Up was white, and it's not supposed to be white. so I had to spray paint it because otherwise this mod isn't going to work.

8:59

So it has nothing to do with Hollywood Marquise. 1UP just decided, I guess, that some panels should be black and some panels should be white. Cool. So I removed the white panel and then I went and spray painted it as you saw and now I'm just reconnecting everything. So now I have my newly spray painted black panel. This was a little bit of a pain in the butt. But you wouldn't have to do this in any other kit I've had because none of these panels end up being white. Not sure why this one was, but it is what it is. And I improvised. I happen to have some black spray paint, so I was able to do it, and it looks great. So no worries. Sometimes you've got to improvise and roll with the punches, and that's exactly what we did. So good to go. All right, we're in the home stretch here where we're putting on the lit marquee. So I'm just kind of lining things up, and then I'll show you how you screw it on. There's two screws in the front and two screws in the back, and Amelia's got these clips that are already pre-mounted, so it makes it super simple and easy. Alright so once these things are lined up you just gonna do one on the left side and one on the right side and this is just for the front and then there are actually two additional screws on the back just to make sure it super secure it not going anywhere I probably don't even need the other two but it it's good to just have it as snug as possible so I'm gonna do those right now all right now for the two screws on the back side one on each side just like the front and if you look there is a power wire for the marquee I just ran it over the top I'll show you what that looks like but you could tuck it behind too it's just whatever you want to do with it. Alright guys we're totally in the final stretch right here we're pretty much done but you know Emilio didn't leave any stone unturned here and he put these little stickers in the kit what these are for is to block off these little holes because when you take off the stock marquee there's holes there now because we're not using those mounts at all so you just put these stickers on there and they make it look all nice so I'll show you how to do that really quick and then we're pretty much done guys alright guys well it's not really much to say here these are just peel and stick but I'm really glad that Emilio included these in the kit just because it just gives it that finished look it looks really great and I love the end result so that's it guys we'll just wrap it up and give you some final thoughts all right take 1,556 no seriously it probably has been that many takes but I'm so excited cuz we finished We finished the Hollywood Ar-Arquide-de-do-do-do-da-ba-ba-de-do-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba! We finished the Hollywood Marquis Big Up Upgrade Kit! Yeah!