This repo collects a few things that are helpful for modding an Arcade1Up. If you're nostalgic and have played with emulation for a while, this is a great project. It's practically all just plug and play.

Customization

• Splash Screens
• Images

Resources

• ETAPrime's amazing tutorial modding an Arcade1Up with a Raspberry Pi and RetroPie
• Arcade1Up Subreddit
• Retropie
• Raspberry Pi Power Button Tutorial
• Raspberry Pi Volume Knob Tutorial
• sselph scraper - fastest scraper to fetch metadata for your roms.

Parts

• Raspberry Pi B+ & Power Adapter
• 32GB SD Card
• LCD Controller Board
• Audio Amp
• USB Replacement Buttons and Joystick - Swap out your buttons easily.
• Competition Style Joystick Topper - SF2 style sticks.
• Rotary Encoder - Use this for adding a volume knob to your cabinet.
• Step bit - Use this to drill new holes in your cabinet for more buttons.
• Master/Slave Power strip - Plug your pi into Master and when it powers down, everything else powers down.

Advanced RetroPie/Raspberry Pi Customizations

Here's some tricks of the trade to make your Arcade1Up mod look more official.

Hide console output on boot

Edit /boot/cmdline.text and set console=tty3

Hide Raspbery Pi Logo on boot

Edit /boot/cmdline.text and add logo.nologo

Hide EmulationStation Splash screen

This disables EmulationStation's splash screen so that your custom splash screen shows until everything is completely booted up.

Edit /opt/retropie/configs/all/autostart.sh to be

emulationstation --no-splash #auto