Jack Sparrow

Here is mine (Originally known as "The Alan Parsons Project" and based heavily on the dimensions of the original Atari Asteroids cabinet. Made of 3/4" MDF throughout, it's modular so it can be disassembled and flatpacked for when it needs to be moved out. PC is nothing special. Its an AMD 64 2800 single core, using onboard video and sound, 17" TFT (yes I know it needs to be 19" before anyone starts). Altec Lansing 5 channel sound, so its got a sub woofer in the base for those really THUMPING pinball replays A pair of Sanwa 8 way bat tops and Happ pushbuttons, Artwork by Mame Marquees, EmdKay and sideart by the monkey sticker shop. False Coinslot robbed from an local arcades dustbin (its handy for an extended USB connector) and of course in the bowels of it, the usual mini-pac board. Running Gameex as its front end, with Mame, Daphne & VisPinball She has of course got flipper buttons on the side, a plunger simulator button on the front right, the small mounting clamps are for a flight stick, should I feel the need to run Flightsim X on it, and just clips on and off as required. Yes, she could do with a bigger PC, but she's more than capable of playing 'most' mame emulations, nearly all visual pinball tables and every daphne image ive got. The only thing she does struggle with is Atari Firefox, but then again, my core duo 4600 occasionally dislikes that one too. To see my duo running Firefox, see below. Gameex was the first cabinet front end I tried and couldnt see the need to try another. Did exactly what I needed it to do, and did it brilliantly.

Tried with both xvid on its own and the recommended ffdshow and it does exactly the same... just goes black screen for a moment then returns to menu..

It simply wont play them, they play happily in WMP but Gameex will not launch them at all, Just returns straight back to the menu.. Running latest version, with FFDshow under Windows 2000SP4... Any suggestions anyone?

WORK IN PROGRESS.... First attempt at a cabinet, using the Asteroids style heavy cabinet plans. An as yet unnamed Mame Cab, built using 3/4" MDF, Celeron 2.8, 1gig RAM, 160Gig HDD, 17" TFT and using Altec Lansing 5.1 remote speakers buried within. Its taken about a month all up so far, on and off, its currently awaiting its side, bezel, control panel and marquee art and of course its joysticks, buttons and IPAC board.. Its functional though and runs as sweet as a nut The control panel is modular and can be removed for wiring, everything is held together with turnbutton fasteners, so it could be stripped for transport in a matter of about 45 minutes Its of course running Gameex as its front end, because it does everything you could possibly need Ignore the current marquee, its only in there to test the lighting, its going to be replaced with a Tron Themed one soon