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wboy:

Well, without excel, how else would you play Excel's flightsim on your arcade cabinet?  ???

EasterEgg in Excel 97:  Press F5, then type x:97 L:97 then press enter, followed by tab. hold down ctrl and shift, then click the graphs button on the toolbar (you might have to enable this beforehand).  press Escape a few times to exit.

taken from http://www.cheatplanet.com/pccheats/microsoft_excel_97.htm, don't blame me if its slightly wrong.  I tested it ages ago and it worked for me!  (not a an arcade cabinet mind you)

first person to config their IPAC to make it possible to enter the easter egg wins my respect!  and thats about all.

Alternatively, anyone up for writing a frontend that supports this?  Minwah?

 ;)

Bear Hugger:


--- Quote from: abrannan on June 23, 2004, 08:08:44 am ---
--- Quote from: danny_galaga on June 23, 2004, 07:13:57 am ---i personally dont think so. but then its up to the individual. some people have internet and everything on their cab and the full however many thousand games. others just have the one game to recreate a particular machine. im in between but closer to the one game philosphy. i have maybe 160 games but thats all. no internet, no word or excel. just any arcade game that suits a cocktail...
yeah, so to me my machine isnt an exact copy of a particular machine, rather it is an exacting machine that still recreates the feel of a dedicated machine.

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I'm not sure if this poll is referring to having an actual console in your cab, or just running console emulators side by side with MAME.  Either way, I say Yea.  The cab I have in progress now will be a Dreamcast Cabinet, and I'm pulling things together to add some of the classic NES and SNES games to my MAME system.  

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Its about running emulators of consoles with MAME, I dunno, its the whole dynamic of arcade vs. console. Arcade games are designed for short 3 minute games mostly, and console games are for hours upon hours of a single adventure. That and getting used to arcade controls for consoles, I think it would kind of ruin the atmosphere of a multigame coin-op

mcdo15:

the consoles that i'm installing are ps2/dc/saturn

dc/saturn have some of the sickest fightering games...mainily dc mavel vs capcom 2 (my theme)

i think it's ok...some games could work as an arcade but not all of them....

Donger:

Many console games are full-speed perfect arcade ports, and are well suited for cabinets.  NFL Blitz, NBA on NBC, Tekken, the SF games, Soulcalibur, and MK come to mind.

Plus, it's easy to obtain legal copies of the games!  ;D

Maumauproductions:

I'd say go for it. I think until I Get a decent PC controller Ill just shove a dual PSX joy on it and play Guilty gear and Street Fighter Alpha in my cab with conventional hookups to a TV its a lot easier but not as rewarding. its a Good temp. solution IMHO but im new.

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