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javeryh's Woodgrain Cabaret Copy
javeryh:
--- Quote from: morton on February 18, 2020, 07:00:59 pm ---Excuse my ignorance, but is the pregnant guppie belly a result of the marquee, or was it found on an actual cabinet OG? I really like the look of it, as it adds interest to what normally seems somewhat tame.
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The profile is basically ripped straight from markc74's design. I think it is a bit more interesting than just the straight front panel like you'd find on a standard Atari cabaret. Plus, breaking the front panel into two separate pieces is appealing to me for some reason.
--- Quote from: leapinlew on February 18, 2020, 07:35:52 pm ---Cool. I always enjoy watching your cabinets. I expect lots of agonizing and sweating over the smallest details! :)
I finished my Gorf cabinet recently and I never had a cabaret cabinet. I never wanted one that size, but I'm really digging it. I'm going to convert my bartop Defender into a cabaret too.
Good luck dude. I don't think a Pandoras box is for you, but I think spending a few minutes confirming the latest version doesn't scratch the itch for you is worth it. I love having a non-PC run my machines. Powering on/off without any worry of corrupting the OS is nicer than I thought.
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If you want agonizing and sweating over small details you've come to the right place! I'm already pulling my hair out over a few relatively minor things as I'm sure Arroyo can attest to...
I've never really thought about Pandora's Box but I'll take a look. For this build I think I only want about 30-50 games available. Mostly early-mid 80s stuff.
morton:
--- Quote from: Mike A on February 18, 2020, 07:44:15 pm ---I don't get why anyone worries about OS corruption ever. That is also a common worry people have with the Pi shutdown. Just clone the drive. If it ever does happen just swap the drives. Keep a cloud backup too.
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Yeah... Knock on wood, but I've never had an OS corruption issue on my Pi3.
Mike A:
And if you clone the drive a corruption will take 30 seconds out of your day.
leapinlew:
I assume most folks know about imaging the drive. It’s a good practice. It’s what I do, but getting to my drives is more of an issue than anything. Besides, building your system to be resilient is a good thing.
firedance:
--- Quote from: javeryh on February 18, 2020, 03:39:52 pm ---
Cabinet construction should be fairly straightforward (famous last words) but the software configuration will be where the challenge is for me. The brains of this thing will be an old PC running MAME and one of the newer front ends like Attract Mode, HyperSpin or BigBox so that I can take advantage of the dynamic marquee options. This will be my first time using a "modern" front end (I'm usually a MaLa guy) so I'll need to read up. Ideally, the cabinet will have a one button power on/off and boot straight to ONE game list (completely hiding Windows 10) and somehow send a picture to the second monitor to display the proper game marquee as you scroll through the game list.
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It is quite easy to hide most of windows 10 stuff, also very easy to boot into any frontend if you have the "pro" version of windows 7 or 10, think there's even a guide in these very forums :D
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