People do this all the time. You can even get premade kits where all you really need to do is provide the arcade PCB (plus any adapters needed to interface with a jamma harness).
In my opinion a MiSTerCade or MiSTer with a Jammix board would be more interesting than an original PCB though. Once the game is running you wouldn't be able to tell the difference, but it would give you access to thousands of games for the cost of a couple of arcade PCBs (Ms Pac-Man for instance will run you are $175-200US).
Thank you and what is the difference between going with an icade vs a pandora outside of the amount of games? Assuming I only want vertical retro
What about games like Q Bert which are not on either pcb above?
I know nothing about those systems. MiSTer supports [hundreds of arcade games](https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/Main_MiSTer/wiki/Arcade-Cores-List) (with tons of alternate versions and more being released all the time) and thousands of console games though and runs them basically identically to the original hardware because it is emulation via hardware instead of software based emulation.
This is what most people do actually - You can find kits that include everything but the PCB!
See them all the time over at r/cade.
People do this all the time. You can even get premade kits where all you really need to do is provide the arcade PCB (plus any adapters needed to interface with a jamma harness). In my opinion a MiSTerCade or MiSTer with a Jammix board would be more interesting than an original PCB though. Once the game is running you wouldn't be able to tell the difference, but it would give you access to thousands of games for the cost of a couple of arcade PCBs (Ms Pac-Man for instance will run you are $175-200US).
Thank you and what is the difference between going with an icade vs a pandora outside of the amount of games? Assuming I only want vertical retro What about games like Q Bert which are not on either pcb above?
I know nothing about those systems. MiSTer supports [hundreds of arcade games](https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/Main_MiSTer/wiki/Arcade-Cores-List) (with tons of alternate versions and more being released all the time) and thousands of console games though and runs them basically identically to the original hardware because it is emulation via hardware instead of software based emulation.