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a few months ago we built our very own arcade machine but a lot of you chimed

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in to tell us that throwing together something with off-the-shelf parts from

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well-known sources like ultimark and north coast custom arcades wasn't diy

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enough okay well

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what if i told you that this

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was handmade a truly

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diy creation well it is

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okay so even though it looks the part the carry 42 isn't really diy so much as

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it is someone else's diy project that

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turned into a product that he sent to us and that

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someone is love hulton a swedish artist

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who's hand made a huge selection of limited production retro gear

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some of this stuff is incredible and he's even made pc cases

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so the carry 42 though is right up there with his most exciting and beautiful

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ideas it's short for carrier for two and

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ours which was graciously loaned to us by mr holton himself features a

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mother-of-pearl inlay of miz and mr pac-man on the outer casing that's

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completely flush with the wood it's entirely hand crafted from american

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walnut with a vintage retro aesthetic and the craftsmanship on it is

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outstanding everything fits together with a level of

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precision rarely seen in wood for a commercial product anymore and certainly

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with a higher level of precision than we ended up with in our own cabinet thanks

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to our amateur level assembly and having to move it around multiple

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times during construction speaking of which the size comparison is absolutely

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staggering let's go for a tour of it so even the control deck of our full-sized

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arcade machine dwarfs the carry 42 but

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it includes all of the following a 12-inch 1024 by 768 display twin 10 watt

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speakers a humble raspberry pi running

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retropie with some pre-loaded customizations a diminutive 16 gig usb

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flash drive that contains a handful of

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games of dubious legality and a usb port

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to plug it into allowing you then to add your own less dubious rom files should

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you please while we're back here you might notice that there are no fewer

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than two HDMI ports and six and a half

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millimeter headphone jacks well essentially

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these ones are outputs these ones are inputs and then inside

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the box are small patch cables that connect them for use with the included

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screen and speakers so in theory you could connect this up

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to an external display and a pair of headphones or even a tv and receiver for

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a much bigger picture and sound experience

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though in practice not everything is as it seems more on that later something

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you might have noticed missing back here is an obvious way to keep the lid

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upright while you're playing and that's remedied with this here twisty pulley

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thing just grab it pull it out twist it and it's locked in place there are three

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separate angles you can prop it up at i think the only thing that could make

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this thing more swedish is a yellow and blue color scheme i love it

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but it isn't purely a piece of art right

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how about the gaming experience well we got off to a pretty good start

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the buttons and sticks are sharp and responsive the speakers can get pretty

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loud though they are clearer and sound better in general at lower volumes

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thanks to the box acting as kind of a wooden reverb chamber

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but as for the screen well for starters it's a tn screen with

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pretty terrible viewing angles meaning that the two-player experience is best

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enjoyed with a very close friend or romantic partner and there's also some

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pretty severe motion blur that while it's something you can get used to

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it's far from ideal especially in shoot-em-ups and this is all before we

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get to what was our biggest out-of-the-box issue the input latency

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now thankfully that was something that can be controlled to a small degree by

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entering the underlying emulator and making some configuration changes

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however these changes really should have been the default settings while we're in

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here though something else retro gamers might not appreciate is the blurry

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linear filtering effect enabled by default it makes sense here since the screen

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isn't super high res and the stock effect is to curve the screen to match

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the bezel and it might have even masked some of the ghosting a bit but we

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personally preferred our approach where some clever shader work can make for a

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far cleaner more appealing image that more closely resembles an old crt

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so once again this problem was mostly solved

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bringing us to the one that we couldn't fix the speakers

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remember that six and a half millimeter headphone jack well that's not for the

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speakers it's actually power for the lcd

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and the power led which we only discovered when we went to try plugging

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headphones in and got a loud buzzing and a blank screen oops

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the speakers ended up being driven by HDMI which would be fine except that

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they were rewired for mono now some games notably arcade games and

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16-bit games do actually run in stereo

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and so does retropie by default resulting in actually missing sound

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effects

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after an also config tweak our games at least had all of the sounds instead of

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just the left channel but this is again something we felt could have been done

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better

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with all of that said though these are problems that are probably only going to

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bother purists bringing us back to the real reason the carry 42 exists to be an

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artistic piece for retro gaming enthusiasts

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and collectors and if we look at it through that lens even though it's not

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perfect it does work out of the box and

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casual gamers likely wouldn't notice anything was wrong

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now that doesn't translate into a recommendation that you go out and buy

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one of these especially considering that it's powered by a pie and the asking

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price for a base unit without the inlay is

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2599 euro plus vat

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but if you're the kind of person who just straight up doesn't give a crap

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about money and i know you guys are out there there are only 50 of them in the

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world and mr hilton's craftsmanship is something that cannot be denied here and

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that beauty and scarcity is what you're really paying for here not the hardware

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and software which by the way we would love to be consulted on next time

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