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Pixel Troll Arcade (COMPLETE!)
binarydump:
It is certainly an improvement, but perhaps stretch the characters and make them narrower at the bottom to give the impression they're being sucked in (or struggling free) of the trackball.
Also it may look better with fewer but larger characters to assist in exaggerating their pixelyness.
saurian333:
I agree, it looks better now. binarydump's suggestions sound cool too; of course that might not be what you're going for, but it's an interesting idea.
I do agree with the fewer characters part. Perhaps take out some of the smaller, less important/distinct ones and make the remaining ones a bit bigger. I keep thinking that as cool as it is, it's a bit busy-looking; this suggestion might help that a bit.
dekar24k:
Just a quick comment; if you want to have a full MAME romset (with CHDs), you will need a bigger hdd than 80gb. I know it sucks when you've set up the system and configured the front-end, only to find out that you have to replace the disk with a bigger one and install everything over again. :)
Best of luck with your project and welcome to the forum!
Gamester:
I agree with dekar24k on the hard drive size. Unless you plan to have a pretty minimalist setup, you'll be surprised how quickly the disk space gets eaten up. A fairly complete MAME ROM collection with no CHDs can easily consume 20-30GB. Preview videos for your FE... another 20-30GB. Then if you throw in any other emulators and their associated ROMs, the disk requirements can skyrocket.
Really just depends on what you're planning to do with it...
Dafu:
Thanks guys, I will get a new HDD, probably a seagate in 500gb-1tb range. I bought the system used, so the HDD is probably 5+yrs old. I don't trust it. I'd love to do RAID1 as well, but have to stop my spending somewhere:)