The box said it was 94 pounds, but I was able to pretty easily take it down the stairs to the basement by myself. No hand truck needed, just used the packaging handles.
Yeah you do.
Everything Pulls Out pretty easily. I was impressed with the packaging, kept everything rock solid. You have 3 main parts: screen, control deck, and base. You only have to put together the base.
The base uses standard cam locks, simple to put together. It took me about 20 minutes by myself. It's not great quality, the front/back panels are thin 1/4" sheets versus the 3/4" side panels, but they're not meant to hold up to arcade level abuse.
Here's the panel and screen sitting on the base. I haven't screwed it in yet because I need a final location, and it'll be easier to move in separate pieces. One thing I've found is it's definitely top heavy, and rocks forward a bit when pressing the joystick down. I'll be using the included zip-tie brackets to secure this once everything's settled. If this was on tile or concrete it wouldn't be as much of an issue, but even the minimal carpet and padding we have in the basement was rocking a bit, and I wouldn't trust my kids to play nice with it.
The height's about 5 and a half feet, so it's a little uncomfortable for me as a 6 foot tall adult to use. I'm going to do some measuring and get some adjustable bar stools.
The buttons and stick are decent quality. My only reference is a Hori RAP4 Kai PS4 stick, and I'd say they're probably not as good as that, but worked for the little bit I used it. The buttons are concave, which I prefer vs my Hori's convex ones. The stick has an octagonal gate, and has a mold ridge around the horizontal circumference which is a little annoying. The spinners and trackball were all fine in the couple games I tested.
Scanlines feature in Rastan
No scanlines
My build of CoinOpsX took one additional step to work. I set it up like YouTube told me, with an unformatted partition for the OS and a second one for the roms. It wouldn't work until I unplugged and reinserted the USB drive. Works fine after that, a little slow going through all the titles but usable.
It doesn't quite know what to do with 3-screen Darius. This is the Pixel Perfect mode.
And this is Fill Mode. There's no option to Stretch while keeping aspect ratio.
As far as processing power goes, I didn't notice any slowdown with anything I tried. I loaded up Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3, and after changing some dipswitch settings to fix a volume bug it worked great. I need to figure out changing the button assignments though, they were all wrong.
So far I'm impressed with it! Going to test running my MiSTer and RPI4 another day. If anyone has any questions on it, let me know!