I'm not entirely sure if this warrants a project thread, but it's been two years in the making and I've spent many hours on it so far, so I thought why not document it.
The ultimate aim - a simple, plug and play Capcom CPS1 and CPS2 setup with as little mess as possible. Must work with my CRT TV, must use proper arcade sticks (or "fight sticks" as some call them) and the games need to be reasonably easy to switch over. I don't have room for an arcade machine, as a bit of history I had one in my bedroom in the 90s, but now I have a family and 3 young kids, I can't justify having one in the house (yet, maybe one day!)
While this is blasphemy on here, I'll begin with where it all started - a small Retropie setup in 2022. I stumbled across the Sega Astro City Mini on Amazon, and then was blown away by the accompanying sticks. I bought one of each colour (green and pink) and after a little messing around with emulators on my computer, decided to try Retropie. My first crude setup was the Pi and stick hooked up to an old 4:3 monitor on the end of my desk. This was enough to give me the bug!

I already had a decent 25" Sony CRT with all my consoles setup on it, so the next thing I wanted was to hook the Retropie up to that. I found the RGB-Pi cable and a nice case, and ended up with this smart little setup connected to my CRT.

This was great for casual gaming, but while the emulation was pretty good for most games I found the input lag pretty noticeable in Street Fighter games, and while some of the runahead options fixed that, they also had unwanted side effects. So I decided I had to have the real thing - a Supergun and CPS1 & 2 boards.
The ultimate aim - a simple, plug and play Capcom CPS1 and CPS2 setup with as little mess as possible. Must work with my CRT TV, must use proper arcade sticks (or "fight sticks" as some call them) and the games need to be reasonably easy to switch over. I don't have room for an arcade machine, as a bit of history I had one in my bedroom in the 90s, but now I have a family and 3 young kids, I can't justify having one in the house (yet, maybe one day!)
While this is blasphemy on here, I'll begin with where it all started - a small Retropie setup in 2022. I stumbled across the Sega Astro City Mini on Amazon, and then was blown away by the accompanying sticks. I bought one of each colour (green and pink) and after a little messing around with emulators on my computer, decided to try Retropie. My first crude setup was the Pi and stick hooked up to an old 4:3 monitor on the end of my desk. This was enough to give me the bug!


I already had a decent 25" Sony CRT with all my consoles setup on it, so the next thing I wanted was to hook the Retropie up to that. I found the RGB-Pi cable and a nice case, and ended up with this smart little setup connected to my CRT.


This was great for casual gaming, but while the emulation was pretty good for most games I found the input lag pretty noticeable in Street Fighter games, and while some of the runahead options fixed that, they also had unwanted side effects. So I decided I had to have the real thing - a Supergun and CPS1 & 2 boards.