Hey - I saw this over on Reddit. Amazing job. Looks like you know your way around the shop and your attention to detail is top notch. Some questions:
What happens when you boot up your cabinet? Does it go straight to a game or game list?
Is the video just attract mode or is that how you scroll through games?
When you "Exit" a game back to the list is there a "Retropie" menu or is it games only? That's the one thing I cannot get past because inevitably one of my wiener kids will screw up the settings.
What do the 3 buttons under the control panel do?
I'd love to see another video of the cabinet in action from boot up to selecting a game to exiting back out to the list etc.
Thanks guys!! Let me try and answer those questions.
Yeah, so the video is the cabinet booting up. It goes straight to the arcade gamelist. Yep, I am scrolling through the games off screen with a controller. I wasn't going to have an actual gamelist, but when I got to 40 games, I decided it would be helpful. The game list is in the instructions card on the right overtop of the bezel that you can see stays when I am scrolling through the games list in the video, if that makes sense.
When you exit, you get thrown back to the arcade gamelist, right where you were. You can set retropie to boot into a specific systems gamelist in the settings. I know what you mean, my kids were into the retropie settings like 2 seconds after I booted it up the first time. Locking everything down is actually the next item on my list of to dos. I did turn off the press any button to change emulator settings as they would mash buttons while a rom was loading and that menu would pop up.
The three buttons are just the admin buttons. Something like, from left to right, 1p coin, pause, 2p coin. Maybe for adding favorites or removing them in ES. I was hoping to use the middle button as a hot key. Hold down middle press left button to exit game. Something along those lines.
Here is the video you asked for: