Game Room Solutions (GRS) PreBuilt MVP Review Pre Built and Shipped.

The Good:
Arrived VERY quickly (2 wks) after customer support reached out for artwork adjustments.

Arrived VERY well packed, on a nice pallet with tie downs.

If you're buying one of these make sure you have an actual dolly, I tried using a floor cart and it was horrible, an appliance dolly made it so easy to move around.

The vinyl wrap came preinstalled and was essentially perfect, minus a slight decrease in saturation when compared to the model in their MVP pre built Video.

Lots of holes in the back of the cabinet for cables routing in/out and venting heat from your machine if you want to upgrade to an actual PC.

They use a raspberry pi which I immediately disconnected and swapped to a Windows Machine.

Bigbox immediately saw the active marquee so the controller board they are using is great!

The marquee lcd worked fine out of the box with my windows PC.

They give you all sorts of plugs inside the cab and it leads to a single switched cord on the outside, this is super nice.

Price for the full shipped, assembled package was great!

As someone who built a Dynamo Showcase from scratch 10 years ago I can say it's worth every penny of 2200$ if you don't have woodworking skills or tools.

As Expected:
Fit and finish is fine, there are defects around some of the edges but nothing serious.

Build is Solid, tolerances are fine, there are few things that are too tight and a few that are not snug enough, expect to tinker with some stuff while you set it up (Acrylic fitment as an example, requires a percussive maintenance every time I lift the control panel ).

Lit marquee (not the active) was somewhat dim so I added a gooseneck clamp usb light to the interior that shines up at it, solved the problem for less than 12$, as an added bonus it gives you light when you are working inside the cab.

Speakers are fine, I had an old 20W creative labs 2.1 system I added with a splitter to the inside of the cab and it sounds great now, you will want to do this.

It came with a sj@jx cy-1121 control interface, which is fine, but you may want to use an xinput wrapper to make the controls show up as an Xbone controller if you're going to play a bunch of windows games. I used Xoutput and it works a treat once you set it up.

I had to setup the TV position inside the cabinet, they put it in the lowest slot for shipping, it takes a few seconds once you're in the the back of the cab, super easy.

Bummers:
I was a little bummed that the one in the pre built video was a 8 button + 2 layout and the one I got was 6+2.

I had to drill and add 2 buttons to the front of the machine (for closing the active window in launchbox), luckily I scratch built a Dynamo Showcase 10 years ago and was comfortable doing that. You will want to make sure you ask for the 8 FACE buttons, 6 is NOT enough.

The Marquee art was printed (top and bottom) on the vinyl wrap, this means you can never change the games shown in the marquee, not a problem for me in this case, but something you might want to keep in mind if you're not a Neo Geo Fanboy like me.

I had to extend the Joysticks (they are 4 way gates) to make them useable, I bought these extensions and used some superglue to prevent them from unscrewing. I also replaced the black ball tops with some red ones I had lying around from a prior project.

The Bad:
Nothing really worth bitching about other than no remote for the included TV, I will update this section PRN as time goes on.

TL;DR:
If you can afford this and dont mind a little bit of tinkering AND tell them you want more buttons the GRS MVP Prebuilt is a winner in my book.

You are paying for the cabinet shell, assembly, fitment, LCD marquee, buttons/sticks and interfaces and freight shipping when you pull the trigger.

It's a super easy way to get setup with a pro looking cab and start playing and has a TON of potential for upgrades and hot rodding.
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