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This is probably something along the lines of melamine. Tape will help, but you may be able to limit it even more with some different techniques. A high tooth count blade is an absolute must, the higher the better and a blade for fine wood cutting. This may limit it, but things will still be going against you. The reciprocating action of these type cutting tools combined with the "flex" the blade itself has makes this very difficult to do without some tear out. There is also no kerf on these saws to assist the blade staying perpendicular to the work surface, which makes them more prone to flexing. If I could make a suggestion it would be to test an area you're going to cut out anyway with the below ideas. Use a utility knife with a new blade and score the laminate where you intend to cut it. Extend or redo your current tape to include longer and finer drawn lines so that you can see it with a sacrificial board placed over it. Position this bruise board (any flat 1/4, 3/8.... pine/plywood etc. scrap wood you have and clamp the two together on at least the top surface or bottom if your cutting upside down) and use the extended lines you drew to strike out a line on the bruise board as a cutting guide. The bruise board will keep pressure a on top of the laminate surface, which will minimize flaking and tearing on the upstrokes of the blade, since it is being forced to stay down and has nowhere to move as a result of the blade action. Every other blade tooth is angled toward the laminate on the blade during the upstroke, which will create a "picking" effect in rapid succession, the above will limit that since the laminate itself is trapped between the two pieces of wood. These give some idea of what I'm trying to describe above.

There's not many games where i use them (originals etc) but i have to agree. (and now you've got me thinking about moving the pup pack content to my apron screens - so thanks for giving me more tweaking to try out )

Hi Mike, and thanks for your help. I already had Force exlusice Full screen on in VPX, but I didn't have Full Screen Exclusive Hack on in PinballX. Not sure what that does exactly. It didn't make any difference and with that on some tables (notably the latest VPW version of Tron Legacy) will not load causing PinballX to crash. So I have to have that OFF. It seems updating to the latest version of PinballX has done the trick and now ACDC loads fine. But it did before and I have no Win10 updates going on my cab at all, so dunno what happened there. Thank you anyway for your help

I've never been fully sold on the full dmd idea (i like the letterbox look!) That said though i do have a none standard dmd screen res (1280*500 - big enough to fit the larger 192*64 sega dmd's nicely but that's about it). Here's what i do which may give you some ideas.. I define the dmd screen in PinballX to use the full 1280*500 I then have a standard default 'no dmd' image which i replace in PinballX\Media\Images For the sega tables i use a larger dmd letterbox image which i add by table in database manager; And for tables with no dmd i just add a company logo in the middle and add as a table dmd image e.g. I leave the dmd media on for all games in Database Manager and where a dmd is used in game it is sized to use the letterbox and appears on top of the image. In PinballX i then use the stats plugin to display a flex dmd in the letterbox for game info in the otherwise vacant area. Note - you will need to delete the 'no dmd' video in PinballX\Media\Videos for this as well (and do so again after PinballX updates) There's lots of ways you can go about using the full dmd area, but i think creating a pup pack by table would be at the bottom of my list too! Edit - also note, if you have existing dmd media, changing the dmd area in PinballX will stretch them to fill the newly defined area. When i changed my settings as above i deleted all previously existing dmd videos / media.

Ok, i'll try explain the best i can to replicate what i did. So first I extract or install a game to a directory of choice. I use e:\game. Don't matter. Lets use Tearstone - Thieves of the Heart_CE as example. Step1: I then add a Start_Game.bat file into the directory. Some games already contain that file.I usualy overwrite it with my own.. The .bat file will contain the game name. After saving I usually run Start_Game.bat to see if it works. Works Ok.then step 2 Step 2. Your choice . but I use AnyToISO to create an iso. Now you should see your ISO. The Start_Game.bat must be inside. Important. Step3: Just to make sure, once created I execute the iso and I know by the number of drives I have, H drive will be my BD-Rom drive. Then i execute the bat file in the virtual drive to see if it works. Why i do this this is because for some reason a few ganes don't work in iso format. If all ok use DT to eject game and remove drive. Step4: Now I load setup Wizard. And this is where he waves his wand. Emulator setup now has all the links needed but not for executing the ISO Step5:Select Advanced Emulator Setup. Now there you see Daemon tools launch before and Launch after has another bat filled called Start_ISO.bat. link to this file can be anywhere. As you can see it links to the H drive to execute the Start_Game.bat which in turn runs the game. Thats why it's important to run the ISO first to see which drive it will use, Then change letter accordingly. So now as is should work, but i had no way to dismount the iso. So had to close GameEx and reload for next game. There had to be a better way. So I came across topic on QuickLaunch plugin by Adultery. Saved the day Step6: Downloaded the plugin and now had to create another bat called unmount.bat to remove game and drive so launching next game would be no problem.. This file can also be saved in any directory. I keep all three bat files in one folder.. I hope this will help does who want to work with isos. please feel free to ask if you encounter any problems Thanks

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Thank you so much. This looks like what I needed. I managed to find a link on this site to this browser. Just have to work on to use it but yes. Looks promising. Once again. thanks for not giving up on me. While on this subject, over time I managed to ISO all my games. I've never liked thousands of files are over the drive. I'm going to post a small video in case others are interested in doing the same thing. Daemon tools to mount the games and Quicklaunch plugin to dismount games,

Are you using vpx 10.7 or 10.6 ? If you use 10.7, can you try to set this table (with alternate exe) to vpx10.6 ? Also noticed that your pbx version is running 10 versions behind, maybe try to upgrade that as well EDIT : Just tested on my cab as well. it is launched within 10 of seconds and nice transition between loading videos and table. 06:34:04.07 7-6-2022: C:\Pinball\Visual pinball\VPinballX.exe -play "C:\Pinball\Visual pinball\Tables\VPX\AC-DC_Premium-1.5.vpx" -ExtMinimized 06:34:05.06 7-6-2022: C:\Pinball\PinballX\vpauto.exe 06:34:08.89 7-6-2022: VPX Full screen exclusive mode detected 06:34:08.89 7-6-2022: VPX Full screen exclusive focus hack set 06:34:14.11 7-6-2022: Found PinMAME ROM: acd_170hc 06:34:14.12 7-6-2022: Hiding PinMAME Window 06:34:14.12 7-6-2022: Setting DMD position 06:34:14.25 7-6-2022: Visual Pinball Player window foreground: 9 and to just to be sure :Do you have set Visual Pinball to use Full exclusive mode ? And set PinballX system full screen exclusive mode to Yes ?