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What blows about this hobby
Gray_Area:
--- Quote from: drventure on June 06, 2011, 07:40:32 am ---Firing up the cabinet only to find that, for whatever reason, all the usb devices got remapped again, so you're sitting there with people wanting to play while your frantically trying to remap enough keycodes to make at least a few things playable.
and you hear whispers of "My xbox is a lot easier than this".... :-[
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This would get a very dim look from me.
--- Quote from: Bender on June 06, 2011, 09:34:53 am ---M$ pisses me off I'm running XP64 and the clone won't run, cause of some BS protection they have in there and I'm running a legit copy
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That's probably *why* it's being difficult....
--- Quote from: DarthMarino on June 06, 2011, 09:47:35 am --- I still can't believe that windows doesn't have a way to manually assign the ID's for these things.
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I think the software/games being used handle this end of things, especially as lots of people/kids are constantly pulling and plugging.
--- Quote from: Malenko on June 06, 2011, 12:35:41 pm ---Windows has stupid crazy protection because people steal it. Bender, try windows loader?
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Which doesn't seem to work. I think of Reznor's words on DMA....
--- Quote from: ChadTower on June 06, 2011, 02:44:50 pm ---
That would be a great way to ensure my wife and kids have friends. :laugh2:
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You mean, you don't have any.
tommyinajar:
Finding the "Ultimate Cab" to restore or Mame at an unbelievable price, and then realizing you have no where to put it-
Unless you get rid of one of your six other ultimate project cabs... :cry:
scofthe7seas:
Anybody having trouble with MS and windows keys transferring to new PCs or new setup/hard drive; All you have to do is call MS. You will be automated to enter a long code that you get when failing to active. Then you will get a polite Indian person (not being racist, seriously, every time.) that will ask if you've installed it on others computers. You tell them your situation (reinstall, hard drive crash, new motherboard) and they will give you another long code. You put it in, voila.
Corbo:
--- Quote from: scofthe7seas on June 09, 2011, 02:51:02 am ---Anybody having trouble with MS and windows keys transferring to new PCs or new setup/hard drive; All you have to do is call MS. You will be automated to enter a long code that you get when failing to active. Then you will get a polite Indian person (not being racist, seriously, every time.) that will ask if you've installed it on others computers. You tell them your situation (reinstall, hard drive crash, new motherboard) and they will give you another long code. You put it in, voila.
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Good advice. Sometimes you don't even get through to a person as they now automate this part as well. "Please key in how many PC's you have installed this copy of Windows on". If you key in anything other than "1", then you should probably pop your PC back in the box and find a new hobby. :P
Veeb0rg:
How about when you are in the middle of upgrading your mame pc, and the psu explodes. *fire, smoke, bits of pcb everywhere*
That gets your attention. Thankfully it didn't roast any of the new hardware.