Some questions about start-up videos.

[Chris2]

1. Can GameEx display custom video start-up sequences?
2. If so, would anyone be willing to make one for me? I can PM the details if interested.

[HairyDVD]

Don't know if it does, mala can though.

What type of startup video are you after.  I made one for thatitalian for his marvel cab and he seemed pleased with it, although my skills are fairly limited. 

http://www.mediafire.com/?edg2y1y1pyt

Give me an overview of what you want and I'll let you know if I am up to it ( I am quite good at slideshow / music type )

[Chris2]

My cabinet is sort of a "time warp" theme, so I wanted to make it time travel-related. It starts by zooming in on a clock, (white face, black hands, black hour markers, and black frame) counting off seconds. Then, the clock stops, and begins to slowly turn it's hands backwards. While this is occurring, a low hum starts. The hum grows higher pitched and faster as the clock hands continually spin faster and faster around until the clock is just a blur. Finally, the clock face warps open into a swirly wormhole, and after being visible for about a second, the camera zooms into the wormhole, and the screen is surrounded by a white swirly tube (as if you were traveling through the wormhole and back in time). Then, the camera comes out of the wormhole to inky blackness. A second later, the chorus to "The Power of Love" by Huey Louis would start playing (starting with Huey saying "It's the power of love." then the music) and as he says "love," gameplay footage of various arcade games would start playing. (Preferred order: Pac-Man, Space Invaders, Donkey Kong, Defender, Street Fighter II, possibly other games in between those titles) Each would be visible for about a second. After Street Fighter II finished playing, the screen would fade to white, then the white would shrink into a single point in an inky black background (as if you zoomed very quickly out of the wormhole), and then it would expand equally quickly to show a stylized version of the logo for my machine marquee (likely "Time Warp" written in retro 80's bubble letters or something to that variety.) At this point, the music would cease playing (I'd have to analyze the song more to tell you exactly what point it should stop at and how to end it.) Finally, after seeing the marquee logo for about a second, the camera would zoom past the letters, and the main menu would appear.

I realize that this is a lot, and that it's probably pretty complicated, so if you're wary about this one, that's alright. If you need any further details, I can provide them.

[Chris2]

Watched your video, and I have to say that I'm impressed. If you could do something like that with the ideas I've written down, I'd me downright thankful.

[HairyDVD]

You seem to be very sure of what you want.  Let me think about it a bit as I have access to limited software.