# I am making a two player arcade game **URL:** \ **Category:** Picade\ **Created:** [October 15, 2020, 8:25pm UTC](https://forums.pimoroni.com/t/i-am-making-a-two-player-arcade-game/15144 "2020-10-15T20:25:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![nigelsan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/53a042/32.png) [@nigelsan](https://forums.pimoroni.com/u/nigelsan)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2020, 8:25pm UTC](https://forums.pimoroni.com/t/i-am-making-a-two-player-arcade-game/15144/1 "2020-10-15T20:25:30Z")
Is it possible to stack 2 picade hats via a 40 pin splitter or attach one normally to the PI GPIO and power the other with USB from the Pi? ---
**Author:** ![Matt](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forums.pimoroni.com/matt/32/1006_2.png) [@Matt](https://forums.pimoroni.com/u/Matt)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2020, 6:59am UTC](https://forums.pimoroni.com/t/i-am-making-a-two-player-arcade-game/15144/2 "2020-10-16T06:59:02Z")
You could use something like a black hat hack3r: [https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/mini-black-hat-hack3r?variant=19448025991](https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/mini-black-hat-hack3r?variant=19448025991) or a pHAT stack: [https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/phat-stack?variant=658973392906](https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/phat-stack?variant=658973392906) to attach multiple HATs or pHATs to your Pi, but you’ll need to make sure there are no pin conflicts. You can find pinouts for most hats at [https://pinout.xyz/boards](https://pinout.xyz/boards) and there’s also [https://pinout.xyz/phatstack](https://pinout.xyz/phatstack) to test directly, though some are missing from the lists on there. There are some HATs that allow for stacking directly on top of one another, but they’re not in a majority. If you let us know which HATs you’re wanting to stack, or what it is you’re wanting to do, I’ll try and help further? ---
**Author:** ![alphanumeric](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forums.pimoroni.com/alphanumeric/32/2729_2.png) [@alphanumeric](https://forums.pimoroni.com/u/alphanumeric)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2020, 9:22am UTC](https://forums.pimoroni.com/t/i-am-making-a-two-player-arcade-game/15144/3 "2020-10-16T09:22:22Z")
You can’t stack two Picade Hats, they will both be trying to use the same pins for the same functions. This might work though for the second set of controls. > **[Player X USB Games Controller PCB – Pimoroni](https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/player-x-usb-games-controller-pcb)** > > Player X has entered the game! Add some arcade buttons (up to twelve) and a joystick and you've got your own homebrew USB games controller. BAZINGA! Swap it in place of the Picade Hat in this, then plug it in via a USB cable to your other Picade cabinate. > **[Picade Console – Pimoroni](https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/picade-console)** > > Power-up your TV with Picade Console! It's a compact, Raspberry Pi-powered retro games machine with authentic arcade controls that plugs right into your TV, monitor, or other HDMI display. You will end up with a Picade Hat you won’t use, but the console gets you the second joystick and all the buttons in a premade case. You just have to figure out how to mount the Player X board in place of the Picade Hat. Have a look see anyway. ---
**Author:** ![SMQ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b9bd4f/32.png) [@SMQ](https://forums.pimoroni.com/u/SMQ)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2020, 5:53pm UTC](https://forums.pimoroni.com/t/i-am-making-a-two-player-arcade-game/15144/4 "2020-10-18T17:53:27Z")
Just jumping in here to say I did exactly what was described here and it does work perfectly. No difficulties mounting the Player X. ---
**Author:** ![alphanumeric](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forums.pimoroni.com/alphanumeric/32/2729_2.png) [@alphanumeric](https://forums.pimoroni.com/u/alphanumeric)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2020, 6:40pm UTC](https://forums.pimoroni.com/t/i-am-making-a-two-player-arcade-game/15144/5 "2020-10-18T18:40:56Z")
I was hoping somebody would say that. I’ve suggested this approach at least one other time, just couldn’t find the thread to see if it 100% worked. I don’t own a Picade, its on my I want one list, just haven’t pulled the trigger on one. ---
**Author:** ![alphanumeric](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forums.pimoroni.com/alphanumeric/32/2729_2.png) [@alphanumeric](https://forums.pimoroni.com/u/alphanumeric)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2020, 6:48pm UTC](https://forums.pimoroni.com/t/i-am-making-a-two-player-arcade-game/15144/6 "2020-10-18T18:48:54Z")
If I was going to do this I think it would be two Picade Consoles. And a big monitor or TV front and center. You both get the same view of the monitor that way.