Creating Custom RGB Animation Files

If you are using RetroPie, Ultimarc's Ultimate I/O encoder with RGBCommander and would like to look at a way to build your own animation (.rgba) files for attract mode or for each individual emulator, take a look at the following post:

RGBCommander and Custom Animations

Thanks to Gijs, author of RGBCommander, for his help in understanding how the animation files work with his code.

The Arcade Build is Complete!

After four months of planning, building, programming, configuring and testing, my Journey to a Home Arcade is finally complete!  What started as a Christmas gift of a Raspberry Pi from my wonderful co-workers has now become this:

You can see the final parts of the build and how it came together in Arcade Build - Part III. But if you just want to see an abridged photo version with some videos of the arcade in action, see the page:
Complete Arcade Build - Abridged Version in Photos + videos!

Again, a huge thanks to those that have gone before, and shared their own journey on YouTube, web sites and via forums and bulletin boards.  I hope my own journey here might help someone starting down this road on their first home retro-arcade.

The Arcade Build Begins (Finally!)

After months of designing, planning and gathering of parts, the actual arcade cabinet build finally begins!  Part one will cover the basic cabinet construction and be updated in the corresponding page after each day's work is completed.  This, along with all the other planning, designing and other background information can be found in the listed pages.

Here we go....

The Arcade Build - Part 1: Cabinet Construction
The Arcade Build - Part 2: Priming, Painting and Plexiglass
The Arcade Build - Part 3: Internal Wiring and Control Panel

One man's journey to building a retro-arcade

This is my personal journey, with help from a lot of other smarter folks, to building a home, retro-arcade machine.  It's also my first attempt at blogging.  

The actual build of the cabinet will commence in mid-March and I'll do my best to update this site on a routine basis.  Until then, the pages listed shows all the planning and testing up to this point.

I do not claim to be an expert at anything posted here (including writing), and there is a lot of additional information out there on the web.  But maybe someone contemplating tackling a project like this will find a tidbit or two of helpful information.