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crummy:
Thanks a lot for all the input - I raised the control panel and marquee slightly, and today cut the sides. My god that's lot of MDF dust everywhere...
My next issue is that my television does not turn back on after a power outage. Is there an easy solution to this?
Edit: I see from the wiki this is not an unusual issue. I really hope I haven't made a bad mistake here, the TV is pretty nice and I'd be sad to lose it.
Edit2: Oh, awesome. I've been able to achieve auto-power-on functionality by jamming a bit of paper in the power button. I'll hot glue it for a more permanent solution later.
DaOld Man:
--- Quote from: crummy on November 04, 2007, 10:22:30 pm ---Thanks a lot for all the input - I raised the control panel and marquee slightly, and today cut the sides. My god that's lot of MDF dust everywhere...
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Ahhhhhhh.........
Another one bites the dust!
crummy:
Construction has started, and is progressing (slowly). I have some additional questions, though.
I purchased two U360's, and will have eight buttons wired to each (6 + start + coin). I'd like a pause/admin button as well, so I figured I'd wire that to middle-mouse button on the trackball I have.
This will work fine for MAME, as I can configure start1+start2 to exit (or anything else I'd like) - but for other emulators I don't have that much configuration.
On the previous cabinet I built I used the shift functionality of the ipac, though I'm not using one now. Essentially I'd like an equivalent solution (software?) to save me from buyin another ipac. Does anyone know of one?
Kaytrim:
IIRC the U360s have shift capability look into the documentation on them.
TTFN
Kaytrim
crummy:
--- Quote from: Kaytrim on November 12, 2007, 04:56:57 pm ---IIRC the U360s have shift capability look into the documentation on them.
TTFN
Kaytrim
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That's absolutely perfect, I upgraded my firmware and it looks like that's what I'll go for.
I've ordered my control panel artwork, but soon I'll be looking at side art. Probably something along these lines:
The art I'd order from mamemarquees.com would likely fill from left to right but only as high up and down as it needs to - the rest of the side would be painted black. Am I going to have an issue with the edge of the artwork? Will it be obvious? Can I print a transparent colour?