Family Project - Arcade Cabinet - requesting information
Hi everyone, sorry for the long post, please take it as a challenge.
Scope of the Project: I want to build an arcade cabinet complete with everything for 4 player controls and 2 player light guns, to play with my wife and the kids (currently 5&3 yo). I have doing research for a month now, but the abundance of information is overwhelming and can't decide which is the best course of action.
As I am a diy fan, I am not looking for a complete cabinet to buy and want to build my own with everything purchased in Europe.
Resources available:
Regular tools, CNC machine, 3D printer, a PS3 with controllers(not used for more than 5 years but functional), 1 guitar and drums from guitar hero, 1 guitar from hero live. Additional resources will be purchased as needed.
Type of games and platforms: Basically anything and everything, not looking to play GTA5 on the cabinet but mainly multiplayer games on the same screen.
Goal: This is meant to be a multi-year project broken down in the following steps.
- Build the ecosystem, could be more than one, easy interface for the kids after setup.
- Build the controls and use them on my gaming laptop (Vector 17 HX with 4090 GFX)
- Read sanwa are the best. Please provide links with instructions or parts list.
- Buy or build the light guns, looking for good accuracy with no lag to be used with above mentioned laptop.
- Can't decide between RetroShooter, Gun4IR, OpenFire. Any recommendation is appreciated.
- Recommendations for best screen and it's dimensions to integrate in the cabinet for 4 players.
- In 2-3 years move everything into a cabinet and buy a dedicated PC or use the PS3.
I know this looks like a huge project, how would you do it based on the above information.
I appreciate everyone's support.