Differences Between Japanese and US Arcade Controls.

A whole week can’t contain all the Wall Candy goodness! Here in this overflow post I take a look at some of the hardware that made it all possible. Tips and tricks abound, you’ll also learn about the differences between East and West arcade cabinets in this video. If you’d like to support this blog

Freebie Fridays! Recalbox MAME Frontend.

My MAME cabinet uses Recalbox. It’s lacking in certain areas but possesses one killer feature that makes it ideal for the Wall Candy Cab: native support for Raspberry Pi 2’s GPIO pins! Typically you’d have to use an I-PAC or some such similar hardware controller in order to interface an arcade stick with a computer

Throwback Thursdays! Capcom Mini-Cute!

Here’s the inspiration for the Wall Candy Cab: the Capcom Mini-Cute! I bought this years ago and still haven’t finished its restoration. While it certainly has the mod contours it is only slightly less obtrusive than Western arcade cabinets. It’s also about 3x as heavy given that it’s made of steel. Steel is a lot

Wall Candy! Real-time development retrospective.

In yesterday’s post I described the 9 step process by which I created the Wall Candy MAME arcade cabinet. It is only an 9 step process in retrospect however. It was originally far lengthier, requiring engineering, exasperation, experimentation: in short, iteration. In this post I’m linking to its development blog, a thread in the arcadecontrols.com