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Why are arcade cabinets so expensive? (beehaw.org)

submitted 5 months ago by sleepybisexual@beehaw.org to c/gaming@beehaw.org

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The tech strore has a capcom arcade cabinet, its one of those multi game ones

Seems to be this model

https://arcade1up.com/collections/trending-now/products/mvc2-arcade-game

The marvel vs capcom2 one

Why are cabinets so expensive?

I get they are bulky and licences exist but how do like 15 games make a 200 euro price increase

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[–] terminhell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The cabinet and it's own electronics.

[–] sleepybisexual@beehaw.org 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

They have custom boards?

I thought they emulated nowadays

[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yeah. You're both right.

The board is a usually a cheap single board computer (usually running Android, and an emulator or two).

The board is custom to the extent that the operating system has been optimized to know that it's running inside an arcade cabinet.

[–] terminhell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 months ago

I guess what I meant a bit more specifically are things like buttons, the screen, cables, any daughter boards needed for like special lights, speakers etc. stuff beyond, as you mentioned.