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Cool, thanks for the feedback on the blade, It's reassuring to know I'm not alone . That's a good idea with the multi-purposing use, plus you can leave it in attract mode while entertaining, which will have everyone wanting to play pac-man or the like!

"Give a lazy man a job, and he'll find the easiest way to get it done", seemingly is very fitting here. In this case, perhaps nothing could be easier that creating an account at EmuMovies, entering your information in the GameEx config, and sit back and let it do all this for you. If you have a free account, you will be limited in how much you can pull down per day. I found the cost of admission to be a great value for the work Circo and the contributors there provide, but only you can decide what works best in your particular situation. It sure makes this process a simple one though!

You are for certain not one to shy away from a challenge stiggy! Not running these, so I'm afraid I can't offer much in the way any assistance with your poll, but I'm pulling for ya!

I've always got it at Lowes, but HD probably has it too. I bought the edge trimming tool as well, and it is much more accurate than free handing with a razor knife. The results are quite pleasing, almost looks like a solid wood board when it's done, depending on how close you get the grain to match. Be sure to keep that in mind, especially with red oak, as some of it tends to be darker with a much looser grain, while others the grain is much tighter, and the wood lighter in color. They must take this into consideration, because I've been able to find either, just go through them until you find one that is the best match for the veneer your plywood has. Sort of irrelevant here, but FWIW, the birch seems to always be a little on the light side, but still produces excellent results. The thing is applying the edge banding can get time consuming, depending on how picky you are. It's nearly pushed me to going with solid wood, that is until I priced it. That plus the plywood tends to be more dimensionally stable, and usually lighter. Due to this, after exchanging numerous ideas with Draco, I've decided to try T-molding on my controller stand. The black edging on natural finished birch should fit nicely with other elements in my room anyway. I like your idea of the mahogany slats, would you be staining them in a reddish finish, as in that mock-up? I've considered doing some contrasting stain on the rear supports, also in a reddish color. Just curious, what type of saw and blade did you use? The one bad thing I've noticed with the veneered plywood is the tendency to tear out, on the cross grain cuts especially so. A 10" 80 tooth finish blade goes a long way to solving this, but not completely. I tried the "reverse" slide score technique, but did it without hooking up the sled. Needless to say I created a wood Frisbee and took a nice hit just below the ribs. I do not recommend this BTW!

BTW, that looks like some excellent cutting!

Draco is spot on with the tempered suggestion, it is much more resiliant to pressure, and of course if it does break, it will be lots of tiny pieces, not sharp shards! It will cost a bit more, and you may need a pattern, but in the end you'll be much better off with it for numerous other reasons as well. Find yourself a good local glass shop and they should be able to get anything you need, but you will need to order it, so be sure to allocate time for delivery. That looks like cabinet grade red oak plywood to me, something I've used many times over the years. One thing that I know looks great is Band-It edging, but it takes patience to work with. I've used both birch and red oak variants with great (IMO) success. I can post pics if you like, but it's really pretty much just a glue on veneer, and it's real stuff that has a heavy glue bed that saturates the plywood edge it is being applied to. Another optioin is to grab some T-Molding in the color of your choice and the appropriate router bits to cut the groves needed to adhere the T-mold. This is really only a good option if you have access to the tools to do this, unless you just want a router anyway that is. I'm planning to do this on my pedestal build, and once I get past some health hurdles I'm going through, I can report back with how it went. You'll probably be done by then though As far as finishing, I'm a big fan of satin clear finish coatings, and have done numerous projects with Minwax and Cabot's poly's with great results. Problem is, they are a real pain to clean up and prep between finishes, and breathing the VOC's sucks. Due to this I'd strongly suggest Formby's or Minwax Tongue oil finishes or the like, I just happen to have the most experience with these two products. Note that these are really wiping varnishes, tongue oil is really a loose refrence here as to what the outcome appearenace is, as pure tongue oil takes forever to set up, and doesn't have the resiliancy of varnish based variants. If your going for a multi-sided piece, take your time and do one side at a time, but if everything is glued, screwed and assembled, don't worry so much, you can do it all at once as long as you don't let things set up before wiping off the excess. Wipe it on, let it stand for several minutes, and wipe it off. After drying, buff with extra fine (00000) steel wool, clean with a shop vac, followed with a tack cloth cleaning, and repeat. Usually a minimum of three coats is what I'd recommend. This sounds like a lot of work, but compared to poly-urethane, the results are very similar, and brush strokes/bubbles are something you will not be concerned with. If you glue at all, Tiebond III is my all around favorite. Be certain to wipe off any that gets onto a surface you wish to finish, and do so multple times with a clean wet sponge. (disclaimer, you likely know much or all of this already )

Nah, it's just a bit more than a little different with that side scroller action, at least to me. Disclaimer, I just re-watched beetlejuice last night, so in addition to everything else, I'm seeing sandworms (wait, that's not good, is it?)

I'll be the first to admit, I'm not an experienced shmupper, but that End Effector has a somewhat unique twist, to which I'm "not" accustomed to relating this genre too. <first speeling, now I miss werds, 8)>

The screensaver working is a head scratcher for sure, and one that got me to doing a bit more searching. Check this post by thurmansevoltuion , he has a knack for work arounds for odd issues such this, so might want to try some of the suggested settings changes. I'm not sure if it will help in your particular situation or not, but it seemed worthy of a post just in case. Oddly enough, I've experienced the issue he is describing a couple times, always after an extended break away from my rig while it was running, and going into attract. Based on that thread, neither of us are experiencing issues with system resources, we should be good to go. I haven't seen the problem I had since upgrading my 9800GT to a 750 Ti.

At 800 x 600, you may want to consider just trying a different theme, but if it was previously working that shouldn't be an issue. Has the PC been running GameEx with no problem prior to an update? If so, and you just noticed this after an update you may want to back up your settings and try just reinstalling the latest full version. Should just reinstall over your current setup without effecting your settings (but it's always a good idea to have a current up saved, just in case ).

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Had a little luck browsing for these this morning. Here's one in particluar I remember. I gotta tell you, some of these really had me reconsidiering the pedestal idea at one point! Then from the originality side of things. Some cool stuff here too! ....and check these more here.... .....you could go all out, and have a cocktail while playing on your custom cocktail bar The one I mentioned that was sort of end the bar still eludes me. If I find it, I'll post a link.

my 0.2 run the uninstaller, then clean up with ccleaner. Back up your registry when prompted, and save in a safe place. I've never had to use this, but better safe than sorry!

He mentioned that he downloaded he latest version, sat everything back up, and it ran fine. Next morning "poof" all gone again, weird! Did you reconfigure everything manually? Sounds like you did, just checking.

No I haven't, but honestly I've never seen GameEx lose all it's configuration settings like this either. As I mentioned, if all else fails. Browsing your setup you've got a fair amount going on. Have you tried testing with a basic MAME and MAME extra config? <edit> only suggesting that so you don't loose everything over and over upon power cycles. Nothing jumps out at me, but some of the guru's here could easily see something I don't, so give them a chance to respond.

If all else fails you may want to consider running a full virus scan, as well as a complete malware scan. Malwarebytes still works fine for me, just do custom and select the drives. If your behind a residential router and getting a DHCP private address your a bit safer, but any browsing could subject you lots of nasty thigs regardless. While it's unlikely you have a public IP, it goes without say that your exposure increases exponentially so if you do. Just a thought, but out of the blue problems like this make me suspicious with XP.

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Has the machine been online at all with an exposed interface on the external side?

I'm late to the party on this topic, but read about it yesterday. They released a second trailer for it this past February. Did anyone buy the DVD? It looks like it would be interesting.

I've seen some really interesting cocktail tables without a doubt. Granted no plans, but you may pick up some ideas just from browsing photos and videos. Some of the coolest ideas have been the three sided variants, some even multifunction as a single player, where the third side becomes a primary single player setup. Naturally I can't find these on short notice, but I ran across them many times in my search for pedestal ideas. One of my favs was a fellow that had a basement bar setup, with sort of bartop cocktail on one end. Definitely do some youtube and image searching, you'll probably find some creative ideas from those that took it to the next level. If you're gonna build, aim high right? Keep us posted with your progress in the "Rigs" section!

Yep, that about sums up my odds as well