There's not much to say about this. Its inception is a direct result of everyone asking/emailing me for a 2 player kit. I tried many designs but I opted to stay in the "mini arcade" realm as it's what I do best. Take the JAMMArCADE 1 Player design and widen the front until you can fit a second player control set. So that's what I did. In order to keep the width of front as small as possible, you MUST use Sanwa joysticks with this design. Happ joysticks will not fit. 

.You can use a Raspberry Pi, but you may exhaust all avaialble GPIOs if you go nuts with button inputs. A keyboard encoder is encouraged, but not required. Here are some details regarding 2-player controls wired to the Pi's GPIO. 

If you stick with the Pi's GPIOs and the RetroPie image hosted on this site, you may want to custom configure your setup if you dabble into 6-button arcade fighting games.

Wood Kit Includes:

• Precision Laser Cut Cabinet: overall size/footprint: 14.3 x 15.75 x 12.5 inches (HxWxD)

 Want more options for customization?  Plastic cover for the control panel? Go to the Arcade Parts page.
 

Watch and read the Porta Pi Arcade assembly video and manual first. Now you have that knowledge in mind I highly suggest you assemble the cabinet in the following steps. In between each step let the glue set-up before continuing. Once the cabinet is assembled, follow the Porta Pi 10" manual.  More tips here at the bottom of the page, which derrive from the original JAMMArCADE design. As always, DRY FIT first.

Example Build (aka motivation). Here's an example what you can accomplish with this kit. Lots of time was spend in the last 10% of the build, which is sanding, priming, painting and designing graphics. 

Legal Stuff. (because reasons)

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