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Not sure what to call this. The icon on my desktop says one thing while the Discord page says another! Either way I can tell you it's AWESOME! This is a virtual arcade you can explore (and play!) in VR all powered by Unreal Engine 4 and MAME.

The attention to detail is amazing with some very detailed arcade cabinets to view up close and personal. Oh and of course you can play them too! This is all using MAME in the background to emulate these games and can be played with most X-input controllers (I'm using an 8-bitdo SN30 Pro BT here)

This should work with most PC VR headsets (I'm using an Oculus Rift S) that support OpenVR (or SteamVR?) and while it will require a decent mid-range GPU it shouldn't need anything too crazy by the looks of it. It's running just fine on my Radeon RX 6750 XT 12GB. I believe they did say it requires 32GB of RAM though. I have 32GB of RAM myself but if anyone has run this with less let me know.

Installation is simple. Just download the ~8GB Zip file and Unzip that wherever you want. You'll have an EXE file along with some sub folders including a ROM folder. Running the EXE file will put you right into the action with all the arcade machines attract modes running away but if you want to actually play a game you'll need to provide the corresponding ROM files in the ROM folder. Just make sure you read the manual (again found in the Discord page) to follow the exact naming of each game. To play a game "grab" the coin box with your middle finger on your VR controller. This will start the ROM in MAME for that game. My 8-bitdo SN30 Pro in X-input mode worked right out of the box without any setup. Select to insert credits and start to... well, start! I'm guessing any X-input controller should work. Obviously some kind of arcade stick would be ideal.

What an awesome idea and it's amazing how much work has gone into this. The arcade cabinets are modelled very well with different shapes to each game with all the correct side art, bezel art, marquees and control panels all being perfectly captured. I was amazed how well this just runs. It loads up surprisingly fast and just seems to work right out of the box with any setup!

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I can launch the program from a shortcut on my desktop and put on my VR headset and it USUALLY works. But sometimes I found if I did this there would be nothing in the headset despite seeing the 3D world being rendered on my monitor complete with tracking! If I loaded into my Oculus hub first, select my Monitor 1 to view my desktop and then launch the RetroVRArcade shortcut from there it would work everytime. Trying to launch from the Oculus previously played window would fail to launch. This is also true with EmuVR so that is perhaps more an issue with the Oculus hub thingy more than anything. It seems only "official" games with launch from that list. Anyway, again just launching from desktop and then putting my VR headset on would work most of the time. But if you find you can't see anything in the headset try launching the program from within your VR headset using your virtual desktop and VR controller as a mouse pointer to double click the shortcut.