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javeryh's Woodgrain Cabaret Copy
javeryh:
Yes! I am currently connected to the "Power Switch (-)" and "9" pins so that's not right haha. I'll change to "Power Switch (-)" and "Power Switch (+)" and report back...
EDIT: It works! Amazing...
I'm still configuring the other PC to swap it out. I just think it could use something a little more modern.
firedance:
--- Quote from: javeryh on October 08, 2025, 04:16:57 pm ---It was the power supply! The new one arrived yesterday and I swapped it out and it's working again. What a relief! It still runs slow as hell though.
In the meantime, I started setting up a separate PC that I'm probably going to swap in if I can figure out how to power it on with an external button. It's a SFF HP Elitedesk that doesn't have any motherboard pins, which is super annoying. So I think I need to solder 2 wires to the board where the current power button is located? Does that sound correct? This is what the power button looks like inside the Elitedesk:
The two thick posts in the first image are what I think need to be shorted to power on the PC. I used my multimeter set to continuity and got a beep when I connected them. You can see underneath the motherboard where the solder points are. I think I'll be OK because it's a bit of a mess so I just need to heat up what's there and connect a wire to each contact point. Does that seem correct?
Also, I forgot what a huge pain it is to set up a PC for this cabinet with Hyperspin and RocketLauncher and Hypermarquee. I would use something easier instead of Hyperspin but I can't figure out how to precisely locate the marquee window on the marquee monitor. Launchbox and Attract Mode just center the marquee image on the second screen and I need a window I can drag to the correct location. I would also need to figure out how to map the Pause button to also work for "Exit to Gamelist" if you hold it down for 3 seconds. RocketLauncher has a setting for this.
So... anyone got any suggestions? :cheers:
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Can't see the pictures "content not viewable in your region" :o
You should be able to splice in some wires, done it many times on dell/hp boards, on the thin client client i used on one build i just soldered to the motherboard like you have suggested , should be able to find a pinout guide when you search for the motherboard model number :)
javeryh:
--- Quote from: firedance on October 12, 2025, 02:31:44 am ---Can't see the pictures "content not viewable in your region" :o
You should be able to splice in some wires, done it many times on dell/hp boards, on the thin client client i used on one build i just soldered to the motherboard like you have suggested , should be able to find a pinout guide when you search for the motherboard model number :)
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Oh man - the pics are showing for me. They are just imgur links...
I am still trying to set up the PC. It's like the chicken and the egg with Hyperspin, RocketLauncher, Hypermarquee and MAME. I don't know where to start!
firedance:
Weird the pictures not showing, all the others you have posted show.
Know what you mean about hyperspin and it's associated programs, spend years wrestling with it, glad I made the move to Launchbox so much easier for me but that still has a learning curve but getting much better, don't know if Launchbox/Bigbox can use an external marquee program, maybe worth an ask on their forum explaining what you want to do ?
javeryh:
--- Quote from: firedance on October 14, 2025, 12:35:32 am ---Weird the pictures not showing, all the others you have posted show.
Know what you mean about hyperspin and it's associated programs, spend years wrestling with it, glad I made the move to Launchbox so much easier for me but that still has a learning curve but getting much better, don't know if Launchbox/Bigbox can use an external marquee program, maybe worth an ask on their forum explaining what you want to do ?
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I tried shrinking them - usually when I post I cut the dimensions to 384x512 but I didn't. Maybe that is the reason?
Launchbox can display images on a second screen but not in a window that can be dragged and resized, which is what I need. It displays the image centered from left to right and top to bottom on some sort of grid system. Last time I looked into it, which was years ago, you had to modify the code to change the grid and how the image would display and I just couldn't get it precisely where I wanted. Maybe they have changed things since then? In theory it's doable though and maybe it will just be easier to go down that route than try and get unsupported software to work.
I spent 2 full days with Hyperspin/RocketLauncher and just can't get it to do anything I want. It seems like since the program was abandoned, there are a lot of little errors that come up. People on the forums have solutions but it's like whack-a-mole and very frustrating. I unzipped Hyperspin and RocketLauncher and put MAME in the Emulators folder inside of Hyperspin but can't figure out how to get everything to talk to each other. I launch Hyperspin and just get a generic wheel with no games.
I do have a copy of the folders on this cabinet that I am going to try and set up on the new PC. In theory, it should just work but there are broken links to the folders and exe files in the various programs that all need to be fixed. There are also things outside of the arcade set up that I have to figure out like Auto Hot Key and some other stuff. I think I got dumber over the last few years because I used to be able to figure stuff out.
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