We have heard of the latest attempt at an Xbox Arcade machine but until now, no one had seen it.
Thanks to The Stinger Report, we have a first look at the “T2” arcade machine, which houses an Xbox 360 inside, along with two connected controllers and a coin mech. As you can see, the cabinet itself looks like an old school cabinet and we assume that it also features an HD screen. Then again, this is an obvious mock-up, by taking a close look at the marquee you can tell that it was photoshopped in. But it’s better than nothing, right?
The only problem with it is that there is still no confirmation on the legality of this cabinet, which has caused similar ideas like FragIsle to quietly go away. Hopefully that can be clarified soon; I would assume that they know about troubles others have had in trying the same thing so they would try to avoid it.
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Dave_K.
There have been PS2, Dreamcast, Gamecube, and even Xbox (original) “timer pcb’s” available for some time now, the most popular being the “MGCD”. These pcb’s interface modern consoles to jamma cabs and controls. They are usually sourced from Hong Kong, where I guess the legality of these machines aren’t much in question. In the states, I could see it being an issue from a distributor point of view. I haven’t seen PS3 or XB360 versions of these pcbs yet, probably because of the HD and complicated analog controls which make it impossible to interface to Jamma or JVS spec cabinets.
The cab above simply looks like a console kiosk you’d normally find at a gamestop store, only with quarter/dollar slots and LED Timer in the marquee to display how many minutes you have left. Not very impressive. On the MGCD pcb, the timer is overlayed on the video screen (yuck).