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Capthowdy:

--- Quote from: Level42 on May 13, 2006, 04:40:23 am ---Yes, but generaly the idea is that Mamewah is configured to START explorer.exe upon exiting Mamewah. And that's not working.

Minwah where are you, we need your help !

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HA!! I've figured it out!!! It's 7:00AM and I've been up all friggin night!! But I got it to work!

mamewah_v161\ctrlr\default.ini

************
EXIT_WITH_CHOICE
EXIT_TO_WINDOWS         "DIK_ESCAPE"
EXIT_AND_RUN_APP
EXIT_AND_REBOOT
EXIT_AND_SHUTDOWN
************

guess where "DIK_ESCAPE" needs to be! That's right...make it look like this:

************
EXIT_WITH_CHOICE
EXIT_TO_WINDOWS
EXIT_AND_RUN_APP      "DIK_ESCAPE"
EXIT_AND_REBOOT
EXIT_AND_SHUTDOWN
************

TADA!!! I'm delirious! I'm going to bed!!! :dizzy:

M3talhead:

--- Quote from: Level42 on May 13, 2006, 04:40:23 am ---Yes, but generally the idea is that Mamewah is configured to START explorer.exe upon exiting Mamewah. And that's not working.

Minwah where are you, we need your help !

To M3talhead:
No game intro movies on your Mamewah screen ? Guests LOVE that (and me too, it tells you so much more than a still image).

Nice video, my startup is about the same now. The idea of putting a PCI card next to your AGP is not mine or new, but I've tried it in the past and works brilliantly.

M3talhead, I'm not into metal at all, but you incorporated the style perfectly on your cab. However, we do share a great taste in beer: Duvel !

Also, on the flickering of the screen: I haven't tried filming my cab, but since arcade monitors are running at 60Hz, and PAL cams are on 50Hz you can expect this flickering to happen. Are you in a PAL country ?

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I've been living in Belgium for the last 2 years (Limburg Province) and picked this old MK3 cab up back in Dec of '04 from a local amusement vendor. I thought about doing a startup video a while ago but could never find one I liked enough.

As for the scan lines from the camcorder, I bought it not long ago and am still figuring out how to work all the bells and whistles. I found out about the PCI tip years ago (I used it in my first cab) but have just been to lazy to grab one off ebay.

And you think the Duvel mirror is cool, check this out. I toured the brewery in May of '05 (followed by the Guinness brewery and Jameson distillery in Dublin).

clhug:

--- Quote from: M3talhead on May 12, 2006, 02:24:52 pm ---I shot a small video of my arcade's bootup this afternoon. I've had it setup this way since about June of last year. The only things left to take care of now is hide the mouse pointer during startup and to install a PCI video card.

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That's very cool! I love the War Games intro! You gave me the idea. Now I'm going to have to go pull the "Would you like to play a game?" line for my startup! :)

I'm a little confused on the sequence you show us though. Can you explain it a bit. It looks to me that you basically start up, shut back down, then start it up again. But there are differences between the two startup sequences that I don't understand. The first time there's "VERSUS" screen and I hear the "Greetings Professor Falken" line before the front end loads. Then you shut it down and start it back up again. This time there's no VERSUS screen, I see the regular Windows logo splash screen with the bar at the bottom for just a second, and I don't hear the Professor Falken sound. Why the difference in the two startup sequences?

Just curious.

Level42:
I think he's doing a Hybernate the 2nd time.

To Capthowdy:

:notworthy: :notworthy: :notworthy: :notworthy: :notworthy: :notworthy:
:applaud: :applaud: :applaud: :applaud: :applaud:

Man do I love this forum !!! It's threads like these that make it shine !!!!

I've tried it and it works YIHA !

To M3talhead:
Hey, you're "around the corner" for me. I live near Rotterdam in Holland :) !
Touring the Duvel brewery (or any other Belgian brewery actualy) is still on my wish list :)

Back on topic: I didn't actualy meant a intro video for your cab, but the "intro" video's for each game. (http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=45467.0)

M3talhead:
The first bootup was just to give an example on how creative you can get with your bootlogo and how long it takes to boot with the settings described in this thread.

The second bootup was to demonstrate how much time you can save by enabling hibernation in WinXP (v.s. cold booting every time). While you do miss out on the VersuS faux bios checker and "Greetings professor Falken" intro, you save a few seconds getting into your frontend. Usually when I have friends come over who have never seen it before, I dont start it coming out of hibernation. That way they get the whole effect.

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