Well, it's the last day of the year. Just in case you were wondering, this is what I've been banging away at for the last couple of months.
And what might this "this" be, you ask? I call it "Allcade." It's a homemade arcade cabinet that integrates with an Android tablet, allowing the user (that's me!) easy access to one of four hundred and fifty arcade games. It's pretty neat, and nearly complete... I just need to add LED lights behind the marquee and I'll be happy with it.
Did I say happy? Well, it doesn't run everything. I'm pretty sure performance in MAME4Droid would improve if I swapped the el cheapo 2019 Amazon Fire with something beefier, if I could even squeeze it into the cabinet. So I'm not totally happy with the results, but I'm mostly happy. It runs games way better than similar cabinets by My Arcade, and the vertically oriented screen means that Toaplan shooters and those really old arcade games (Donkey Kong, Time Pilot, Xevious, Pac-Man, etc.) fill the entire display, just as they should.
So like I said, I'm mostly happy. And on that note, I wish you all a mostly happy New Year!
