I'M BACK!!!
Some of you may remember me from my 2025 BitBuilt Summer Building Contest project, the Sega Genesis 4. Just a few weeks ago, myself and many other members of the BitBuilt and Benheck.com communities exhibited our work at the Midwest Gaming Classic in Milwaukee, which was an...
I was browsing Xianyu, a Chinese secondhand shopping platform, in late March and happened upon some very odd-looking GameCube motherboards after searching for "Nintendo factory board":
After some digging, it appears they are graphics processing cards from Japan-exclusive arcade pachinko slot...
EDIT: Now a contest entry!!
Yo! Figured you might be interested in following my progress on a project I started in the weeks following MGC this year!
No one here will remember me from it, but I was an original member of the Benheck.com forums from probably 2007 until activity died down. I've...
Just a few pics of a build I did as a gift for someone a few years back, this was a really fun project and I'd love to do a full size cabinet with a mini pc one day.
The build consisted of:
Stereo amp and speakers
Raspberry pi 3, running retropie, with roms on an old portable hard drive
USB...
A couple of years ago, I bought a miniature handheld arcade machine featuring the game Q*bert. Recently, I saw it in my closet, and thought, "hey, you know what, that thing isn't very comfortable to play, why don't I redesign it!" So that's what I'm going to do. In total, I'm going to:
Design...
(There is a TL;DR at the bottom.)
I have come up with a cheap, quick, and easy portable that I would like to "make". I say "make" because it actually is already made, I am simply modifying it. I found a Q*bert mini arcade game at a thrift store for a couple bucks, and I played around with it for...
I recently had gone to my arcade and just kind of randomly asked them if they had any Arcade shells just laying around that I could have and Sure Enough, Hidden in the back alley was this beauty.
A 4 person Arcade Cabinet!!! Which I was super excited for! I was going to original turn it...
I have a game I have been working on for a while, It is cross compiled to HTML5/JS so it should be easily embeddable to your "Arcade" page. It doesn't have a score but it is still fun to play. It is a simple 2D adventure game with multiple levels, the goal is to reach the end, enter... Life of...