https://wiki.pcbs.com.au/api.php?action=feedcontributions&feedformat=atom&user=BradPCB's Wiki - User contributions [en]2026-04-24T04:46:06ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.44.2https://wiki.pcbs.com.au/index.php?title=Jukebox_Software&diff=2881Jukebox Software2017-09-13T21:30:02Z<p>Brad: </p>
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| Albumplayer || Commercial || Albums || Yes || Music, Video || Active || http://www.albumplayer.com/ ||<br />
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| Arcade Jukebox || Free || Singles || No || Music || Discontinued || http://www.arcadejukebox.net/ ||<br />
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| DW Jukebox || Free || Singles || No || Music || Discontinued || http://dwjukebox.com/ ||<br />
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| E-Touch || Commercial || Albums || Yes || Music, Video, Karaoke, Streaming || Active || http://www.freeboxjukebox.com/ ||<br />
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| Jukebox Jockey || Commercial || Albums || Yes || Music, Video, Karaoke || Active || http://www.jukeboxjockey.com/ ||<br />
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| Jukecade || Free || Albums || No || Music, Video || Discontinued || https://www.mediafire.com/?n2g454f0gz2ni ||<br />
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| SK Jukebox || Free || Albums || Yes || Music, Video || Discontinued || http://www.spacefractal.com/SkJukebox/ ||<br />
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| SKG Jukebox || Free || Albums || Yes || Music, Video || Discontinued || http://skgsoft.net/ ||<br />
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| TouchJams || Commercial || Albums || Yes || Music, Video, Karaoke || Active || http://www.touchjams.com/ ||<br />
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| Ultimate Jukebox || Commercial || Albums || Yes || Music, Video || Active || http://ultimatejukebox.murphnet.net/ ||<br />
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| Virtual Music Jukebox || Commercial || Albums || Yes || Music, Video || Active || http://www.mameroom.com/vmj/ ||<br />
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| ZenPoint Music Center || Commercial || Albums || Yes || Music, Video, Karaoke || Active || http://www.zenpoint.org/ ||<br />
|}</div>Bradhttps://wiki.pcbs.com.au/index.php?title=Jukebox_Software&diff=2880Jukebox Software2017-09-13T21:29:37Z<p>Brad: </p>
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| Albumplayer || Commercial || Albums || Yes || Music, Video || Active || http://www.albumplayer.com/ |<br />
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| Arcade Jukebox || Free || Singles || No || Music || Discontinued || http://www.arcadejukebox.net/ |<br />
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| DW Jukebox || Free || Singles || No || Music || Discontinued || http://dwjukebox.com/ |<br />
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| E-Touch || Commercial || Albums || Yes || Music, Video, Karaoke, Streaming || Active || http://www.freeboxjukebox.com/ |<br />
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| Jukebox Jockey || Commercial || Albums || Yes || Music, Video, Karaoke || Active || http://www.jukeboxjockey.com/ |<br />
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| Jukecade || Free || Albums || No || Music, Video || Discontinued || https://www.mediafire.com/?n2g454f0gz2ni |<br />
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| SK Jukebox || Free || Albums || Yes || Music, Video || Discontinued || http://www.spacefractal.com/SkJukebox/ |<br />
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| SKG Jukebox || Free || Albums || Yes || Music, Video || Discontinued || http://skgsoft.net/ |<br />
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| TouchJams || Commercial || Albums || Yes || Music, Video, Karaoke || Active || http://www.touchjams.com/ |<br />
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| Ultimate Jukebox || Commercial || Albums || Yes || Music, Video || Active || http://ultimatejukebox.murphnet.net/ |<br />
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| Virtual Music Jukebox || Commercial || Albums || Yes || Music, Video || Active || http://www.mameroom.com/vmj/ |<br />
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| ZenPoint Music Center || Commercial || Albums || Yes || Music, Video, Karaoke || Active || http://www.zenpoint.org/ |<br />
|}</div>Bradhttps://wiki.pcbs.com.au/index.php?title=Jukebox_Software&diff=2879Jukebox Software2017-08-21T02:47:33Z<p>Brad: </p>
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| Albumplayer || Commercial || Albums || Yes || Music, Video || Active || http://www.albumplayer.com/ ||<br />
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| Arcade Jukebox || Free || Singles || No || Music || Discontinued || http://www.arcadejukebox.net/ ||<br />
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| DW Jukebox || Free || Singles || No || Music || Discontinued || http://dwjukebox.com/ ||<br />
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| E-Touch || Commercial || Albums || Yes || Music, Video, Karaoke, Streaming || Active || http://www.freeboxjukebox.com/ ||<br />
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| Jukebox Jockey || Commercial || Albums || Yes || Music, Video, Karaoke || Active || http://www.jukeboxjockey.com/ ||<br />
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| Jukecade || Free || Albums || No || Music, Video || Discontinued || https://www.mediafire.com/?n2g454f0gz2ni ||<br />
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| SK Jukebox || Free || Albums || Yes || Music, Video || Discontinued || http://www.spacefractal.com/SkJukebox/ ||<br />
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| SKG Jukebox || Free || Albums || Yes || Music, Video || Discontinued || http://skgsoft.net/ ||<br />
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| TouchJams || Commercial || Albums || Yes || Music, Video, Karaoke || Active || http://www.touchjams.com/ ||<br />
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| Ultimate Jukebox || Commercial || Albums || Yes || Music, Video || Active || http://ultimatejukebox.murphnet.net/ ||<br />
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| Virtual Music Jukebox || Commercial || Albums || Yes || Music, Video || Active || http://www.mameroom.com/vmj/ ||<br />
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| ZenPoint Music Center || Commercial || Albums || Yes || Music, Video, Karaoke || Active || http://www.zenpoint.org/ ||<br />
|}</div>Bradhttps://wiki.pcbs.com.au/index.php?title=Jukebox_Software&diff=2878Jukebox Software2017-08-21T02:37:15Z<p>Brad: </p>
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| DW Jukebox || Free || Singles || No || Music || Discontinued || http://dwjukebox.com/ ||<br />
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<p>Well I've installed the wiki, now I just need to familiarise myself <br />
with it's structure and function then look at opening it up for content <br />
contribution. <br />
</p><br />
<p>Please be patient whilst I grapple with that. In the meantime <br />
suggestions for content and content submission itself would be greatly <br />
appreciated. If you would like to help out please PM me a preferred <br />
Username (Forum ID), password and email address.<br />
</p><br />
<p>Cheers,<br><br />
Brad<br />
</p><br />
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<p><br />
== [[Arcade Machines]] ==<br />
</p>This section is devoted to all things arcade game whether it be old electro-mechanical in nature, video, redemption or even your mamed and multiboard units. <br />
<p><br />
==== Arcade Machine Restoration ====<br />
</p><br />
<ul><br />
<li>[[Arcade_Machine_Restoration_Basics|Basics]]</li><br />
<ul><li>[[Arcade_Machine_Restoration_Primer|Primer]]</li></ul><br />
<li>[[Arcade_Machine_Restoration_Artwork|Artwork]]</li><br />
<li>[[Arcade_Machine_Restoration_Cabinet|Cabinet]] </li><br />
<li>[[Arcade_Machine_Restoration_Monitors|Monitors]] </li><br />
<ul><li>[[Arcade_Machine_Restoration_Discharge_A_Monitor|Discharging A Monitor]]</li></ul><br />
<li>[[Arcade_Machine_Restoration_Controls|Controls]] </li><br />
<li>[[Arcade_Machine_Restoration_Wiring|Wiring]] </li><br />
<li>[[Arcade_Machine_Restoration_Woodwork|Woodwork]] </li><br />
<li>[[Arcade_Machine_Restoration_Painting|Painting]] </li><br />
<li>[[Arcade_Machine_Restoration_EM_Machines|EM Machines]]</li><br />
<li>[[Arcade_Machine_Restoration_PCB_Repair|PCB Repair]]</li><br />
<ul><li>[[Arcade_Machine_Restoration_PCB_Pinouts|PCB Pinouts]]</li></ul><br />
</ul><br />
<p><br />
<br />
==== Mame Conversion ====<br />
</p><br />
<ul><br />
<li>Cabinet </li><br />
<li>Woodwork </li><br />
<li>[[Mame_Conversion_Plans|Plans]] </li><br />
<li>[[Mame_Conversion_Monitors|Monitors]] </li><br />
<li>[[Mame_Conversion_Controls|Controls]] </li><br />
<li>Wiring </li><br />
<li>Painting </li><br />
<li>[[Mame_Conversion_PC|PC]] </li><br />
<li>[[Mame_Conversion_Software|Software]] </li><br />
<li>[[Mame_Conversion_Multiboards|Multiboards]]</li><br />
</ul><br />
<p><span class="mw-headline" id="Consoles"><br />
<br />
== Consoles == <br />
</span></p><br />
<ul><br />
<li>[[Console_Repairs|Repairs]]</li><br />
<li>[[Console_Mods|Mods]]</li><br />
<li>[[Console_How To's|How To's]]</li><br />
<li>[[Console_Imports|Imports]]</li><br />
</ul><br />
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<p><br />
<br />
== Pinball Machines ==<br />
</p>Devoted to all things related to the silver ball.<br />
<p><br />
==== EM Machines ====<br />
</p><br />
<ul><br />
<li>Restoration</li><br />
<li>Artwork</li><br />
<li>Wiring</li><br />
<li>Repair</li><br />
<li>Maintenance</li><br />
</ul><br />
<p><br />
==== SS Machines ====<br />
</p><br />
<ul><br />
<li>Restoration</li><br />
<li>Artwork</li><br />
<li>Wiring</li><br />
<li>Repair</li><br />
<li>Maintenance</li><br />
</ul><br />
<p><br />
==== DMD Machines ====<br />
</p><br />
<ul><br />
<li>Restoration</li><br />
<li>Artwork</li><br />
<li>Wiring</li><br />
<li>Repair</li><br />
<li>Maintenance</li><br />
</ul><br />
<p><br />
==== Pin2000 Machines ====<br />
</p><br />
<ul><br />
<li>Restoration</li><br />
<li>Artwork</li><br />
<li>Wiring</li><br />
<li>Repair</li><br />
<li>Maintenance</li><br />
</ul><br />
<p><br />
== Jukeboxes ==<br />
</p><br />
<ul><br />
<li>[[Jukebox_Software|Jukebox Software]]</li><br />
<li>[[Jukebox_Repairs|Jukebox Repairs]]</li><br />
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<div style="background-color:rgb(fff,fff,fff); margin-bottom:5px; padding:0px; border-width:0px; border-color:rgb(170,170,170); border-style:solid;"><br />
<p>Well I've installed the wiki, now I just need to familiarise myself <br />
with it's structure and function then look at opening it up for content <br />
contribution. <br />
</p><br />
<p>Please be patient whilst I grapple with that. In the meantime <br />
suggestions for content and content submission itself would be greatly <br />
appreciated. If you would like to help out please PM me a preferred <br />
Username (Forum ID), password and email address.<br />
</p><br />
<p>Cheers,<br><br />
Brad<br />
</p><br />
<table width="100%" cellpadding="10" style="background:#ffffff"><br />
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<tr><br />
<td valign="top" style="width:50%"><br />
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<p><br />
== [[Arcade Machines]] ==<br />
</p>This section is devoted to all things arcade game whether it be old electro-mechanical in nature, video, redemption or even your mamed and multiboard units. <br />
<p><br />
==== Arcade Machine Restoration ====<br />
</p><br />
<ul><br />
<li>[[Arcade_Machine_Restoration_Basics|Basics]]</li><br />
<ul><li>[[Arcade_Machine_Restoration_Primer|Primer]]</li></ul><br />
<li>[[Arcade_Machine_Restoration_Artwork|Artwork]]</li><br />
<li>[[Arcade_Machine_Restoration_Cabinet|Cabinet]] </li><br />
<li>[[Arcade_Machine_Restoration_Monitors|Monitors]] </li><br />
<ul><li>[[Arcade_Machine_Restoration_Discharge_A_Monitor|Discharging A Monitor]]</li></ul><br />
<li>[[Arcade_Machine_Restoration_Controls|Controls]] </li><br />
<li>[[Arcade_Machine_Restoration_Wiring|Wiring]] </li><br />
<li>[[Arcade_Machine_Restoration_Woodwork|Woodwork]] </li><br />
<li>[[Arcade_Machine_Restoration_Painting|Painting]] </li><br />
<li>[[Arcade_Machine_Restoration_EM_Machines|EM Machines]]</li><br />
<li>[[Arcade_Machine_Restoration_PCB_Repair|PCB Repair]]</li><br />
<ul><li>[[Arcade_Machine_Restoration_PCB_Pinouts|PCB Pinouts]]</li></ul><br />
</ul><br />
<p><br />
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==== Mame Conversion ====<br />
</p><br />
<ul><br />
<li>Cabinet </li><br />
<li>Woodwork </li><br />
<li>[[Mame_Conversion_Plans|Plans]] </li><br />
<li>[[Mame_Conversion_Monitors|Monitors]] </li><br />
<li>[[Mame_Conversion_Controls|Controls]] </li><br />
<li>Wiring </li><br />
<li>Painting </li><br />
<li>[[Mame_Conversion_PC|PC]] </li><br />
<li>[[Mame_Conversion_Software|Software]] </li><br />
<li>[[Mame_Conversion_Multiboards|Multiboards]]</li><br />
</ul><br />
<p><span class="mw-headline" id="Consoles"><br />
<br />
== Consoles == <br />
</span></p><br />
<ul><br />
<li>[[Console_Repairs|Repairs]]</li><br />
<li>[[Console_Mods|Mods]]</li><br />
<li>[[Console_How To's|How To's]]</li><br />
<li>[[Console_Imports|Imports]]</li><br />
</ul><br />
<td valign="top" style="width:50%"><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<br />
== Pinball Machines ==<br />
</p>Devoted to all things related to the silver ball.<br />
<p><br />
==== EM Machines ====<br />
</p><br />
<ul><br />
<li>Restoration</li><br />
<li>Artwork</li><br />
<li>Wiring</li><br />
<li>Repair</li><br />
<li>Maintenance</li><br />
</ul><br />
<p><br />
==== SS Machines ====<br />
</p><br />
<ul><br />
<li>Restoration</li><br />
<li>Artwork</li><br />
<li>Wiring</li><br />
<li>Repair</li><br />
<li>Maintenance</li><br />
</ul><br />
<p><br />
==== DMD Machines ====<br />
</p><br />
<ul><br />
<li>Restoration</li><br />
<li>Artwork</li><br />
<li>Wiring</li><br />
<li>Repair</li><br />
<li>Maintenance</li><br />
</ul><br />
<p><br />
==== Pin2000 Machines ====<br />
</p><br />
<ul><br />
<li>Restoration</li><br />
<li>Artwork</li><br />
<li>Wiring</li><br />
<li>Repair</li><br />
<li>Maintenance</li><br />
</ul><br />
<p><br />
== Jukeboxes ==<br />
</p><br />
<ul><br />
<li>Jukebox Software</li><br />
<li>Jukebox Repair</li><br />
<br />
</ul><br />
</tr><br />
<br />
</table><br />
</div></div>Bradhttps://wiki.pcbs.com.au/index.php?title=Main_Page&diff=2866Main Page2017-08-21T01:23:33Z<p>Brad: </p>
<hr />
<div>__NOTOC__<br />
<div style="background-color:rgb(fff,fff,fff); margin-bottom:5px; padding:0px; border-width:0px; border-color:rgb(170,170,170); border-style:solid;"><br />
<p>Well I've installed the wiki, now I just need to familiarise myself <br />
with it's structure and function then look at opening it up for content <br />
contribution. <br />
</p><br />
<p>Please be patient whilst I grapple with that. In the meantime <br />
suggestions for content and content submission itself would be greatly <br />
appreciated. If you would like to help out please PM me a preferred <br />
Username (Forum ID), password and email address.<br />
</p><br />
<p>Cheers,<br><br />
Brad<br />
</p><br />
<table width="100%" cellpadding="10" style="background:#ffffff"><br />
<br />
<tr><br />
<td valign="top" style="width:50%"><br />
<br />
<p><br />
== [[Arcade Machines]] ==<br />
</p>This section is devoted to all things arcade game whether it be old electro-mechanical in nature, video, redemption or even your mamed and multiboard units. <br />
<p><br />
==== Arcade Machine Restoration ====<br />
</p><br />
<ul><br />
<li>[[Arcade_Machine_Restoration_Basics|Basics]]</li><br />
<ul><li>[[Arcade_Machine_Restoration_Primer|Primer]]</li></ul><br />
<li>[[Arcade_Machine_Restoration_Artwork|Artwork]]</li><br />
<li>[[Arcade_Machine_Restoration_Cabinet|Cabinet]] </li><br />
<li>[[Arcade_Machine_Restoration_Monitors|Monitors]] </li><br />
<ul><li>[[Arcade_Machine_Restoration_Discharge_A_Monitor|Discharging A Monitor]]</li></ul><br />
<li>[[Arcade_Machine_Restoration_Controls|Controls]] </li><br />
<li>[[Arcade_Machine_Restoration_Wiring|Wiring]] </li><br />
<li>[[Arcade_Machine_Restoration_Woodwork|Woodwork]] </li><br />
<li>[[Arcade_Machine_Restoration_Painting|Painting]] </li><br />
<li>[[Arcade_Machine_Restoration_EM_Machines|EM Machines]]</li><br />
<li>[[Arcade_Machine_Restoration_PCB_Repair|PCB Repair]]</li><br />
<ul><li>[[Arcade_Machine_Restoration_PCB_Pinouts|PCB Pinouts]]</li></ul><br />
</ul><br />
<p><br />
<br />
==== Mame Conversion ====<br />
</p><br />
<ul><br />
<li>Cabinet </li><br />
<li>Woodwork </li><br />
<li>[[Mame_Conversion_Plans|Plans]] </li><br />
<li>[[Mame_Conversion_Monitors|Monitors]] </li><br />
<li>[[Mame_Conversion_Controls|Controls]] </li><br />
<li>Wiring </li><br />
<li>Painting </li><br />
<li>[[Mame_Conversion_PC|PC]] </li><br />
<li>[[Mame_Conversion_Software|Software]] </li><br />
<li>[[Mame_Conversion_Multiboards|Multiboards]]</li><br />
</ul><br />
<p><span class="mw-headline" id="Consoles"><br />
<br />
== Consoles == <br />
</span></p><br />
<ul><br />
<li>[[Console_Repairs|Repairs]]</li><br />
<li>[[Console_Mods|Mods]]</li><br />
<li>[[Console_How To's|How To's]]</li><br />
<li>[[Console_Imports|Imports]]</li><br />
</ul><br />
<td valign="top" style="width:50%"><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<br />
== Pinball Machines ==<br />
</p>Devoted to all things related to the silver ball.<br />
<p><br />
==== EM Machines ====<br />
</p><br />
<ul><br />
<li>Restoration</li><br />
<li>Artwork</li><br />
<li>Wiring</li><br />
<li>Repair</li><br />
<li>Maintenance</li><br />
</ul><br />
<p><br />
==== SS Machines ====<br />
</p><br />
<ul><br />
<li>Restoration</li><br />
<li>Artwork</li><br />
<li>Wiring</li><br />
<li>Repair</li><br />
<li>Maintenance</li><br />
</ul><br />
<p><br />
==== DMD Machines ====<br />
</p><br />
<ul><br />
<li>Restoration</li><br />
<li>Artwork</li><br />
<li>Wiring</li><br />
<li>Repair</li><br />
<li>Maintenance</li><br />
</ul><br />
<p><br />
==== Pin2000 Machines ====<br />
</p><br />
<ul><br />
<li>Restoration</li><br />
<li>Artwork</li><br />
<li>Wiring</li><br />
<li>Repair</li><br />
<li>Maintenance</li><br />
</ul><br />
<p><br />
== Jukeboxes ==<br />
</p>Devoted to all things related to Jukebox Machines.<br />
</tr><br />
<br />
</table><br />
</div></div>Bradhttps://wiki.pcbs.com.au/index.php?title=Main_Page&diff=2865Main Page2017-08-21T01:22:28Z<p>Brad: </p>
<hr />
<div>__NOTOC__<br />
<div style="background-color:rgb(fff,fff,fff); margin-bottom:5px; padding:0px; border-width:0px; border-color:rgb(170,170,170); border-style:solid;"><br />
<p>Well I've installed the wiki, now I just need to familiarise myself <br />
with it's structure and function then look at opening it up for content <br />
contribution. <br />
</p><br />
<p>Please be patient whilst I grapple with that. In the meantime <br />
suggestions for content and content submission itself would be greatly <br />
appreciated. If you would like to help out please PM me a preferred <br />
Username (Forum ID), password and email address.<br />
</p><br />
<p>Cheers,<br><br />
Brad<br />
</p><br />
<table width="100%" cellpadding="10" style="background:#ffffff"><br />
<br />
<tr><br />
<td valign="top" style="width:50%"><br />
<br />
<p><br />
== [[Arcade Machines]] ==<br />
</p>This section is devoted to all things arcade game whether it be old electro-mechanical in nature, video, redemption or even your mamed and multiboard units. <br />
<p><br />
==== Arcade Machine Restoration ====<br />
</p><br />
<ul><br />
<li>[[Arcade_Machine_Restoration_Basics|Basics]]</li><br />
<ul><li>[[Arcade_Machine_Restoration_Primer|Primer]]</li></ul><br />
<li>[[Arcade_Machine_Restoration_Artwork|Artwork]]</li><br />
<li>[[Arcade_Machine_Restoration_Cabinet|Cabinet]] </li><br />
<li>[[Arcade_Machine_Restoration_Monitors|Monitors]] </li><br />
<ul><li>[[Arcade_Machine_Restoration_Discharge_A_Monitor|Discharging A Monitor]]</li></ul><br />
<li>[[Arcade_Machine_Restoration_Controls|Controls]] </li><br />
<li>[[Arcade_Machine_Restoration_Wiring|Wiring]] </li><br />
<li>[[Arcade_Machine_Restoration_Woodwork|Woodwork]] </li><br />
<li>[[Arcade_Machine_Restoration_Painting|Painting]] </li><br />
<li>[[Arcade_Machine_Restoration_EM_Machines|EM Machines]]</li><br />
<li>[[Arcade_Machine_Restoration_PCB_Repair|PCB Repair]]</li><br />
<ul><li>[[Arcade_Machine_Restoration_PCB_Pinouts|PCB Pinouts]]</li></ul><br />
</ul><br />
<p><br />
<br />
==== Mame Conversion ====<br />
</p><br />
<ul><br />
<li>Cabinet </li><br />
<li>Woodwork </li><br />
<li>[[Mame_Conversion_Plans|Plans]] </li><br />
<li>[[Mame_Conversion_Monitors|Monitors]] </li><br />
<li>[[Mame_Conversion_Controls|Controls]] </li><br />
<li>Wiring </li><br />
<li>Painting </li><br />
<li>[[Mame_Conversion_PC|PC]] </li><br />
<li>[[Mame_Conversion_Software|Software]] </li><br />
<li>[[Mame_Conversion_Multiboards|Multiboards]]</li><br />
</ul><br />
<p><span class="mw-headline" id="Consoles"><br />
<br />
== Consoles == <br />
</span></p><br />
<ul><br />
<li>[[Console_Repairs|Repairs]]</li><br />
<li>[[Console_Mods|Mods]]</li><br />
<li>[[Console_How To's|How To's]]</li><br />
<li>[[Console_Imports|Imports]]</li><br />
</ul><br />
<td valign="top" style="width:50%"><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<br />
== Pinball Machines ==<br />
</p>Devoted to all things related to the silver ball.<br />
<p><br />
==== EM Machines ====<br />
</p><br />
<ul><br />
<li>Restoration</li><br />
<li>Artwork</li><br />
<li>Wiring</li><br />
<li>Repair</li><br />
<li>Maintenance</li><br />
</ul><br />
<p><br />
==== SS Machines ====<br />
</p><br />
<ul><br />
<li>Restoration</li><br />
<li>Artwork</li><br />
<li>Wiring</li><br />
<li>Repair</li><br />
<li>Maintenance</li><br />
</ul><br />
<p><br />
==== DMD Machines ====<br />
</p><br />
<ul><br />
<li>Restoration</li><br />
<li>Artwork</li><br />
<li>Wiring</li><br />
<li>Repair</li><br />
<li>Maintenance</li><br />
</ul><br />
<p><br />
==== Pin2000 Machines ====<br />
</p><br />
<ul><br />
<li>Restoration</li><br />
<li>Artwork</li><br />
<li>Wiring</li><br />
<li>Repair</li><br />
<li>Maintenance</li><br />
</ul><br />
== Jukeboxes ==<br />
</p>Devoted to all things related to Jukebox Machines.<br />
</tr><br />
<br />
</table><br />
</div></div>Bradhttps://wiki.pcbs.com.au/index.php?title=Hiding_Windows&diff=2859Hiding Windows2015-02-06T06:17:10Z<p>Brad: </p>
<hr />
<div>Removing Windows Screens from Boot (MAME) and other handy tips.<br />
<br />
Quoted from BYOAC<br />
<br />
There have been alot of threads on here posted by some very knowledgeable people about how to best hide XP from the boot up screens, and how to auto login, etc. but there doesn't seem to be a single start-to-finish post on the subject. Much of what we want done to XP can be sorted by a single application by Tom Spiers [http://www.example.com HERE]<br />
<br />
# Changing/removing the boot screen<br />
# Removing the Welcome screen<br />
# Removing the "Loading settings" and other startup messages<br />
# Change the login background color<br />
# Turn-off popup balloons<br />
# Loading straight to Mamewah (and exiting to Explorer)<br />
# Don't want ESCAPE to leave Mamewah<br />
# Mamewah preview movies don't show<br />
# Optimising which System services to use.<br />
# Speeding up XP in general<br />
# Bootvis<br />
<br />
<br />
'''1. Changing the boot screen'''<br />
<br />
You can either remove the bootscreen from XP via the NOGUIBOOT option in msconfig, or for Mame/Mamewah users you can replace the bootscreen with an animated MAME boot menu (my preference)<br />
<br />
:a) Removing boot screen altogether<br />
<br />
::i) In XP, click START -> RUN and enter msconfig<br />
::ii) select BOOT.ini tab<br />
::iii) click /NOGUIBOOT then OK<br />
<br />
:b) Changing boot screen to animated Mame screen<br />
<br />
::i) Download and install Stardocks Bootskin program [http://www.killerjobs.com/mame/bootskin_free.exe HERE]<br />
::ii) Download the MAME bootskin by Apocalpse_67 from [http://www.killerjobs.com/mame/mame.bootskin.zip HERE]<br />
::iii) Remove the .zip suffix from the filename once downloaded.<br />
::iv) Run Bootskin and select File->Import and point to your mame.bootskin file.<br />
<br />
<br />
'''2. Getting rid of the Welcome screen'''<br />
<br />
::i) Start Menu -> Control Panel + select User Accounts.<br />
::ii) Select "Change the way users log on or off"<br />
::iii) Un-tick the "Use the Welcome screen" + apply options. Close the User Accounts window.<br />
::iv) Start Menu -> Run and enter control userpasswords2<br />
::v) Un-tick the "User must enter a username and password to use this computer"<br />
::vi) Enter the password for the person you want to login as.<br />
<br />
<br />
'''3. Getting rid of the "Loading settings" screens'''<br />
<br />
::i) Start Menu -> Run and enter regedit<br />
::ii) Navigate to entry: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE>Software>Microsoft>Windows>Curr entVersion>Policies>System<br />
::iii) If there is an entry for "DisableStatusMessages" set it to 1<br />
<br />
If there is no entry, right-mouse click the "System" word, and select New->DWORD value, and enter "DisableStatusMessages", right-mouse to edit the value of it, and enter 1<br />
<br />
<br />
'''4. Changing the login background color'''<br />
<br />
::i) Start Menu -> Run and enter regedit<br />
::ii) Navigate to entry: HKEY_USERS>.DEFAULT>Control Panel>Colors<br />
::iii) Right-mouse click the "Background" item, and select modify<br />
::iv) Enter 3 RGB (Red Green Blue) numbers in the range 0-255 each. Black is 0 0 0 White is 255 255 255.<br />
<br />
<br />
'''5. Turn off Pop Up balloons'''<br />
<br />
If your cab is running in 640x480 or you have XP Security Center running you'll often get those annoying pop up balloons in the bottom right of your screen (great when you're in the middle of a great game of Galaxians..), to turn them off:<br />
<br />
::i) Start Menu -> Run and enter regedit<br />
::ii) Navigate to entry: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Explorer\Advanced<br />
::iii) If there is an entry for "EnableBalloonTips" set it to the decimal 0 (the digit zero)<br />
<br />
If there is no entry, right-mouse click the "Advanced" word, and select New->DWORD value, and enter "EnableBalloonTips", right-mouse to edit the value of it, and enter the decimal 0 (the digit zero).<br />
<br />
<br />
'''6. Loading straight into frontend of your choice'''<br />
<br />
You can either boot into Explorer and have your front-end load as one of your "Startup" items or you can tell Windows to not bother loading Explorer and go straight to your front end. This is sometimes known as "shelling" Mamewah. The second method is quicker to load, and won't show a desktop briefly before loading your front-end, however it is more involved and riskier (if you goof up). For the purpose of this exercise we'll assume we're using Mamewah as our front end.<br />
<br />
:a) Adding Mamewah to your startup items<br />
<br />
::i) Start Menu->All Programs->StartUp and right-mouse click the Startup word and select Explore<br />
::ii) In another window find where your Mamewah executable is, and click right-mouse and select Copy.<br />
::iii) In your "Startup" window, right mouse click and select Paste Shortcut<br />
<br />
:b) Putting Mamewah in windows shell<br />
<br />
Because we're running Mamewah as the shell and not explorer, if we quit Mamewah we want it to startup explorer for us, otherwise we'll just have a blank screen and not (easily) be able to do anything.<br />
<br />
::i) Go to your Mamewah folder and edit your mamewah.ini file<br />
::ii) Near the bottom of the list of options is app_to_run_on_exit enter explorer.exe next to it and save the file.<br />
::iii) Start Menu->Run and enter regedit<br />
::iv) Navigate to the item HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\IniFileMapping\system.ini\boot<br />
::v) If there is an item in there called Shell right-mouse click and select modify<br />
::vi) Change the first three letters from SYS to USR<br />
::vii) Navigate to the item HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon<br />
::viii) Right-mouse click "Winlogon" and select New->String Value<br />
::ix) Name it Shell then right mouse click Shell and select modify and enter the full path to your Mamewah executeable eg. c:\emu\mamewah\mamewah.exe<br />
<br />
'''7. Don't want ESCAPE to leave Mamewah'''<br />
<br />
<br />
By default the ESCAPE button is the quit button on most cabinets, and is ideal for leaving your current MAME game.. but if you want a turnkey solution for your cabinet, you don't want the users to quit Mamewah by mistake, because you're without a keyboard and firing up Mamewah will probably need a reboot. So..<br />
<br />
::i) Go to your Mamewah folder and find the ctrlr sub-folder.<br />
:ii) Edit the default.ini file and navigate to the EXIT_TO_WINDOWS item<br />
:iii) Change the entry to "DIK_TAB & DIK_ESCAPE"<br />
<br />
This way you can use "tab + escape" if want to quit Mamewah quickly via VNC if you're controlling it remotely.<br />
<br />
'''8. Mamewah preview movies don't show'''<br />
<br />
:a) To get game previews to work in Mamewah, first make sure you've told Mamewah about them<br />
<br />
::i) Go to your Mamewah folder, and enter the ini sub-folder<br />
::ii) Edit the ini file relating to the emulator you want previews for (mostly mame.ini or 01mame.ini for Mame)<br />
::iii) Find the movie_preview_path value and enter the path to the movies.<br />
<br />
:b) Make sure you have the right movie codec<br />
<br />
::i) Most preview movies out there require the Xvid codec, which can be found [http://www.xvidmovies.com/codec/ HERE]<br />
::ii) If you're not sure which codec you need, install the codec utility Gspot which can be found [http://www.headbands.com/gspot/ HERE]<br />
<br />
:c) Try this: Start Menu -> Run and type regsvr32 mpg4dmod.dll<br />
<br />
<br />
'''9. Optimising which services to user'''<br />
<br />
To access your list of services:<br />
<br />
::i) Start Menu->Control Panel<br />
::ii) Select Administrative Tools and then Services<br />
<br />
This topic is very subjective, so I'm not going to cover it personally, but give links to resources I found useful on the subject:<br />
<br />
[http://web.archive.org/web/20050401044922/www.blackviper.com/WinXP/servicecfg.htm Black Vipers Service Configurations]<br />
<br />
[http://qwertymaniac.wordpress.com/2006/03/22/disabling-useless-services-and-sppeding-up-your-computer/ Qwerty Maniac]<br />
<br />
NOTE: If you're going to use Bootvis (below) to optimise your startup further, then do NOT deactivate the Task Scheduler service, as it's required by Bootvis.<br />
<br />
<br />
'''10. Speeding up XP in general'''<br />
<br />
If you're configuring XP to work in your cabinet you don't need any of the fancy features that XP automatically loads on startup like smooth fonts, fading menu items or visual styles.<br />
<br />
:a)Get to System Properties.<br />
::i) If you have the "My Computer" icon on your desktop right mouse click it and select Properties, if not<br />
::ii) Start Menu->Run and enter sysdm.cpl<br />
:b) Click the Advanced tab and then under the Performance heading, click Settings<br />
:c) Click Adjust for best performance<br />
<br />
Many people say that System Restore adds a fair overhead too, you can deactivate that also in the same System Properties box and select the System Restore tab and tick "Turn off System Restore on all drives"<br />
<br />
<br />
'''11. Bootvis'''<br />
<br />
OK, so you've deactivated all the services you don't want, you've got the cabinet booting to how you want, you've done a defrag but it's just taking a bit longer to boot than you would like.<br />
<br />
Bootvis, designed by Microsoft, analyses your boot processes and with the aid of graphs, shows you what processes / drivers are in your startup, but also how long they're taking and what your disk / CPU usage is.<br />
<br />
::i) Get Bootvis [http://www.killerjobs.com/mame/bootvis.msi HERE]and install + run it<br />
::ii) Choose File->New>Next Boot+Drivers Trace<br />
::iii) Enter number of repetitions 2 and select OK<br />
::iv) Wait for BootVis to reboot your machine twice<br />
::v) When it's rebooted the second time and finished analysing your boot process run Bootvis again<br />
::vi) Choose File->Open and open the TRACE_BOOT+DRIVERS_1_1.BIN file (in your Bootvis folder)<br />
::vii) See how long it takes to boot the first time, then open TRACE_BOOT+DRIVERS_1_2.BIN file.<br />
::viii) The second boot should be quicker.<br />
::ix) Selecting the Trace->optimize option will reboot your machine and then defrag your boot items to make them load faster. (you will need to wait a few minutes while it does this)<br />
::x) Repeat steps ii) to vi) to see how long it takes to boot now. ( Change initial number starting to 3 to not overwrite the first boot logs)<br />
<br />
<br />
NOTE: If your system is dual boot you may see errors relating to "0 drives found"<br />
<br />
<br />
I take zero credit for this post. Thanks go to all the peeps that have contributed to it.</div>Bradhttps://wiki.pcbs.com.au/index.php?title=Hiding_Windows&diff=2858Hiding Windows2015-02-06T06:14:33Z<p>Brad: </p>
<hr />
<div>Removing Windows Screens from Boot (MAME) and other handy tips.<br />
<br />
Quoted from BYOAC<br />
<br />
There have been alot of threads on here posted by some very knowledgeable people about how to best hide XP from the boot up screens, and how to auto login, etc. but there doesn't seem to be a single start-to-finish post on the subject. Much of what we want done to XP can be sorted by a single application by Tom Spiers [http://www.example.com HERE]<br />
<br />
# Changing/removing the boot screen<br />
# Removing the Welcome screen<br />
# Removing the "Loading settings" and other startup messages<br />
# Change the login background color<br />
# Turn-off popup balloons<br />
# Loading straight to Mamewah (and exiting to Explorer)<br />
# Don't want ESCAPE to leave Mamewah<br />
# Mamewah preview movies don't show<br />
# Optimising which System services to use.<br />
# Speeding up XP in general<br />
# Bootvis<br />
<br />
<br />
'''1. Changing the boot screen'''<br />
<br />
You can either remove the bootscreen from XP via the NOGUIBOOT option in msconfig, or for Mame/Mamewah users you can replace the bootscreen with an animated MAME boot menu (my preference)<br />
<br />
:a) Removing boot screen altogether<br />
<br />
::i) In XP, click START -> RUN and enter msconfig<br />
::ii) select BOOT.ini tab<br />
::iii) click /NOGUIBOOT then OK<br />
<br />
:b) Changing boot screen to animated Mame screen<br />
<br />
::i) Download and install Stardocks Bootskin program. HERE<br />
::ii) Download the MAME bootskin by Apocalpse_67 from HERE<br />
::iii) Remove the .zip suffix from the filename once downloaded.<br />
::iv) Run Bootskin and select File->Import and point to your mame.bootskin file.<br />
<br />
<br />
'''2. Getting rid of the Welcome screen'''<br />
<br />
::i) Start Menu -> Control Panel + select User Accounts.<br />
::ii) Select "Change the way users log on or off"<br />
::iii) Un-tick the "Use the Welcome screen" + apply options. Close the User Accounts window.<br />
::iv) Start Menu -> Run and enter control userpasswords2<br />
::v) Un-tick the "User must enter a username and password to use this computer"<br />
::vi) Enter the password for the person you want to login as.<br />
<br />
<br />
'''3. Getting rid of the "Loading settings" screens'''<br />
<br />
::i) Start Menu -> Run and enter regedit<br />
::ii) Navigate to entry: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE>Software>Microsoft>Windows>Curr entVersion>Policies>System<br />
::iii) If there is an entry for "DisableStatusMessages" set it to 1<br />
<br />
If there is no entry, right-mouse click the "System" word, and select New->DWORD value, and enter "DisableStatusMessages", right-mouse to edit the value of it, and enter 1<br />
<br />
<br />
'''4. Changing the login background color'''<br />
<br />
::i) Start Menu -> Run and enter regedit<br />
::ii) Navigate to entry: HKEY_USERS>.DEFAULT>Control Panel>Colors<br />
::iii) Right-mouse click the "Background" item, and select modify<br />
::iv) Enter 3 RGB (Red Green Blue) numbers in the range 0-255 each. Black is 0 0 0 White is 255 255 255.<br />
<br />
<br />
'''5. Turn off Pop Up balloons'''<br />
<br />
If your cab is running in 640x480 or you have XP Security Center running you'll often get those annoying pop up balloons in the bottom right of your screen (great when you're in the middle of a great game of Galaxians..), to turn them off:<br />
<br />
::i) Start Menu -> Run and enter regedit<br />
::ii) Navigate to entry: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Explorer\Advanced<br />
::iii) If there is an entry for "EnableBalloonTips" set it to the decimal 0 (the digit zero)<br />
<br />
If there is no entry, right-mouse click the "Advanced" word, and select New->DWORD value, and enter "EnableBalloonTips", right-mouse to edit the value of it, and enter the decimal 0 (the digit zero).<br />
<br />
<br />
'''6. Loading straight into frontend of your choice'''<br />
<br />
You can either boot into Explorer and have your front-end load as one of your "Startup" items or you can tell Windows to not bother loading Explorer and go straight to your front end. This is sometimes known as "shelling" Mamewah. The second method is quicker to load, and won't show a desktop briefly before loading your front-end, however it is more involved and riskier (if you goof up). For the purpose of this exercise we'll assume we're using Mamewah as our front end.<br />
<br />
:a) Adding Mamewah to your startup items<br />
<br />
::i) Start Menu->All Programs->StartUp and right-mouse click the Startup word and select Explore<br />
::ii) In another window find where your Mamewah executable is, and click right-mouse and select Copy.<br />
::iii) In your "Startup" window, right mouse click and select Paste Shortcut<br />
<br />
:b) Putting Mamewah in windows shell<br />
<br />
Because we're running Mamewah as the shell and not explorer, if we quit Mamewah we want it to startup explorer for us, otherwise we'll just have a blank screen and not (easily) be able to do anything.<br />
<br />
::i) Go to your Mamewah folder and edit your mamewah.ini file<br />
::ii) Near the bottom of the list of options is app_to_run_on_exit enter explorer.exe next to it and save the file.<br />
::iii) Start Menu->Run and enter regedit<br />
::iv) Navigate to the item HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\IniFileMapping\system.ini\boot<br />
::v) If there is an item in there called Shell right-mouse click and select modify<br />
::vi) Change the first three letters from SYS to USR<br />
::vii) Navigate to the item HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon<br />
::viii) Right-mouse click "Winlogon" and select New->String Value<br />
::ix) Name it Shell then right mouse click Shell and select modify and enter the full path to your Mamewah executeable eg. c:\emu\mamewah\mamewah.exe<br />
<br />
'''7. Don't want ESCAPE to leave Mamewah'''<br />
<br />
<br />
By default the ESCAPE button is the quit button on most cabinets, and is ideal for leaving your current MAME game.. but if you want a turnkey solution for your cabinet, you don't want the users to quit Mamewah by mistake, because you're without a keyboard and firing up Mamewah will probably need a reboot. So..<br />
<br />
::i) Go to your Mamewah folder and find the ctrlr sub-folder.<br />
:ii) Edit the default.ini file and navigate to the EXIT_TO_WINDOWS item<br />
:iii) Change the entry to "DIK_TAB & DIK_ESCAPE"<br />
<br />
This way you can use "tab + escape" if want to quit Mamewah quickly via VNC if you're controlling it remotely.<br />
<br />
'''8. Mamewah preview movies don't show'''<br />
<br />
:a) To get game previews to work in Mamewah, first make sure you've told Mamewah about them<br />
<br />
::i) Go to your Mamewah folder, and enter the ini sub-folder<br />
::ii) Edit the ini file relating to the emulator you want previews for (mostly mame.ini or 01mame.ini for Mame)<br />
::iii) Find the movie_preview_path value and enter the path to the movies.<br />
<br />
:b) Make sure you have the right movie codec<br />
<br />
::i) Most preview movies out there require the Xvid codec, which can be found HERE<br />
::ii) If you're not sure which codec you need, install the codec utility Gspot which can be found HERE<br />
<br />
:c) Try this: Start Menu -> Run and type regsvr32 mpg4dmod.dll<br />
<br />
<br />
'''9. Optimising which services to user'''<br />
<br />
To access your list of services:<br />
<br />
::i) Start Menu->Control Panel<br />
::ii) Select Administrative Tools and then Services<br />
<br />
This topic is very subjective, so I'm not going to cover it personally, but give links to resources I found useful on the subject:<br />
<br />
[http://web.archive.org/web/20050401044922/www.blackviper.com/WinXP/servicecfg.htm Black Vipers Service Configurations]<br />
<br />
[http://qwertymaniac.wordpress.com/2006/03/22/disabling-useless-services-and-sppeding-up-your-computer/ Qwerty Maniac]<br />
<br />
NOTE: If you're going to use Bootvis (below) to optimise your startup further, then do NOT deactivate the Task Scheduler service, as it's required by Bootvis.<br />
<br />
<br />
'''10. Speeding up XP in general'''<br />
<br />
If you're configuring XP to work in your cabinet you don't need any of the fancy features that XP automatically loads on startup like smooth fonts, fading menu items or visual styles.<br />
<br />
:a)Get to System Properties.<br />
::i) If you have the "My Computer" icon on your desktop right mouse click it and select Properties, if not<br />
::ii) Start Menu->Run and enter sysdm.cpl<br />
:b) Click the Advanced tab and then under the Performance heading, click Settings<br />
:c) Click Adjust for best performance<br />
<br />
Many people say that System Restore adds a fair overhead too, you can deactivate that also in the same System Properties box and select the System Restore tab and tick "Turn off System Restore on all drives"<br />
<br />
<br />
'''11. Bootvis'''<br />
<br />
OK, so you've deactivated all the services you don't want, you've got the cabinet booting to how you want, you've done a defrag but it's just taking a bit longer to boot than you would like.<br />
<br />
Bootvis, designed by Microsoft, analyses your boot processes and with the aid of graphs, shows you what processes / drivers are in your startup, but also how long they're taking and what your disk / CPU usage is.<br />
<br />
::i) Get Bootvis [http://www.killerjobs.com/mame/bootvis.msi HERE]and install + run it<br />
::ii) Choose File->New>Next Boot+Drivers Trace<br />
::iii) Enter number of repetitions 2 and select OK<br />
::iv) Wait for BootVis to reboot your machine twice<br />
::v) When it's rebooted the second time and finished analysing your boot process run Bootvis again<br />
::vi) Choose File->Open and open the TRACE_BOOT+DRIVERS_1_1.BIN file (in your Bootvis folder)<br />
::vii) See how long it takes to boot the first time, then open TRACE_BOOT+DRIVERS_1_2.BIN file.<br />
::viii) The second boot should be quicker.<br />
::ix) Selecting the Trace->optimize option will reboot your machine and then defrag your boot items to make them load faster. (you will need to wait a few minutes while it does this)<br />
::x) Repeat steps ii) to vi) to see how long it takes to boot now. ( Change initial number starting to 3 to not overwrite the first boot logs)<br />
<br />
<br />
NOTE: If your system is dual boot you may see errors relating to "0 drives found"<br />
<br />
<br />
I take zero credit for this post. Thanks go to all the peeps that have contributed to it.</div>Bradhttps://wiki.pcbs.com.au/index.php?title=Hiding_Windows&diff=2857Hiding Windows2015-02-06T06:12:11Z<p>Brad: </p>
<hr />
<div>Removing Windows Screens from Boot (MAME) and other handy tips.<br />
<br />
Quoted from BYOAC<br />
<br />
There have been alot of threads on here posted by some very knowledgeable people about how to best hide XP from the boot up screens, and how to auto login, etc. but there doesn't seem to be a single start-to-finish post on the subject. Much of what we want done to XP can be sorted by a single application by Tom Spiers [http://www.example.com HERE]<br />
<br />
# Changing/removing the boot screen<br />
# Removing the Welcome screen<br />
# Removing the "Loading settings" and other startup messages<br />
# Change the login background color<br />
# Turn-off popup balloons<br />
# Loading straight to Mamewah (and exiting to Explorer)<br />
# Don't want ESCAPE to leave Mamewah<br />
# Mamewah preview movies don't show<br />
# Optimising which System services to use.<br />
# Speeding up XP in general<br />
# Bootvis<br />
<br />
<br />
'''1. Changing the boot screen'''<br />
<br />
You can either remove the bootscreen from XP via the NOGUIBOOT option in msconfig, or for Mame/Mamewah users you can replace the bootscreen with an animated MAME boot menu (my preference)<br />
<br />
:a) Removing boot screen altogether<br />
<br />
::i) In XP, click START -> RUN and enter msconfig<br />
::ii) select BOOT.ini tab<br />
::iii) click /NOGUIBOOT then OK<br />
<br />
:b) Changing boot screen to animated Mame screen<br />
<br />
::i) Download and install Stardocks Bootskin program. HERE<br />
::ii) Download the MAME bootskin by Apocalpse_67 from HERE<br />
::iii) Remove the .zip suffix from the filename once downloaded.<br />
::iv) Run Bootskin and select File->Import and point to your mame.bootskin file.<br />
<br />
<br />
'''2. Getting rid of the Welcome screen'''<br />
<br />
::i) Start Menu -> Control Panel + select User Accounts.<br />
::ii) Select "Change the way users log on or off"<br />
::iii) Un-tick the "Use the Welcome screen" + apply options. Close the User Accounts window.<br />
::iv) Start Menu -> Run and enter control userpasswords2<br />
::v) Un-tick the "User must enter a username and password to use this computer"<br />
::vi) Enter the password for the person you want to login as.<br />
<br />
<br />
'''3. Getting rid of the "Loading settings" screens'''<br />
<br />
::i) Start Menu -> Run and enter regedit<br />
::ii) Navigate to entry: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE>Software>Microsoft>Windows>Curr entVersion>Policies>System<br />
::iii) If there is an entry for "DisableStatusMessages" set it to 1<br />
<br />
If there is no entry, right-mouse click the "System" word, and select New->DWORD value, and enter "DisableStatusMessages", right-mouse to edit the value of it, and enter 1<br />
<br />
<br />
'''4. Changing the login background color'''<br />
<br />
::i) Start Menu -> Run and enter regedit<br />
::ii) Navigate to entry: HKEY_USERS>.DEFAULT>Control Panel>Colors<br />
::iii) Right-mouse click the "Background" item, and select modify<br />
::iv) Enter 3 RGB (Red Green Blue) numbers in the range 0-255 each. Black is 0 0 0 White is 255 255 255.<br />
<br />
<br />
'''5. Turn off Pop Up balloons'''<br />
<br />
If your cab is running in 640x480 or you have XP Security Center running you'll often get those annoying pop up balloons in the bottom right of your screen (great when you're in the middle of a great game of Galaxians..), to turn them off:<br />
<br />
::i) Start Menu -> Run and enter regedit<br />
::ii) Navigate to entry: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Explorer\Advanced<br />
::iii) If there is an entry for "EnableBalloonTips" set it to the decimal 0 (the digit zero)<br />
<br />
If there is no entry, right-mouse click the "Advanced" word, and select New->DWORD value, and enter "EnableBalloonTips", right-mouse to edit the value of it, and enter the decimal 0 (the digit zero).<br />
<br />
<br />
'''6. Loading straight into frontend of your choice'''<br />
<br />
You can either boot into Explorer and have your front-end load as one of your "Startup" items or you can tell Windows to not bother loading Explorer and go straight to your front end. This is sometimes known as "shelling" Mamewah. The second method is quicker to load, and won't show a desktop briefly before loading your front-end, however it is more involved and riskier (if you goof up). For the purpose of this exercise we'll assume we're using Mamewah as our front end.<br />
<br />
:a) Adding Mamewah to your startup items<br />
<br />
::i) Start Menu->All Programs->StartUp and right-mouse click the Startup word and select Explore<br />
::ii) In another window find where your Mamewah executable is, and click right-mouse and select Copy.<br />
::iii) In your "Startup" window, right mouse click and select Paste Shortcut<br />
<br />
:b) Putting Mamewah in windows shell<br />
<br />
Because we're running Mamewah as the shell and not explorer, if we quit Mamewah we want it to startup explorer for us, otherwise we'll just have a blank screen and not (easily) be able to do anything.<br />
<br />
::i) Go to your Mamewah folder and edit your mamewah.ini file<br />
::ii) Near the bottom of the list of options is app_to_run_on_exit enter explorer.exe next to it and save the file.<br />
::iii) Start Menu->Run and enter regedit<br />
::iv) Navigate to the item HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\IniFileMapping\system.ini\boot<br />
::v) If there is an item in there called Shell right-mouse click and select modify<br />
::vi) Change the first three letters from SYS to USR<br />
::vii) Navigate to the item HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon<br />
::viii) Right-mouse click "Winlogon" and select New->String Value<br />
::ix) Name it Shell then right mouse click Shell and select modify and enter the full path to your Mamewah executeable eg. c:\emu\mamewah\mamewah.exe<br />
<br />
'''7. Don't want ESCAPE to leave Mamewah'''<br />
<br />
<br />
By default the ESCAPE button is the quit button on most cabinets, and is ideal for leaving your current MAME game.. but if you want a turnkey solution for your cabinet, you don't want the users to quit Mamewah by mistake, because you're without a keyboard and firing up Mamewah will probably need a reboot. So..<br />
<br />
::i) Go to your Mamewah folder and find the ctrlr sub-folder.<br />
:ii) Edit the default.ini file and navigate to the EXIT_TO_WINDOWS item<br />
:iii) Change the entry to "DIK_TAB & DIK_ESCAPE"<br />
<br />
This way you can use "tab + escape" if want to quit Mamewah quickly via VNC if you're controlling it remotely.<br />
<br />
'''8. Mamewah preview movies don't show'''<br />
<br />
:a) To get game previews to work in Mamewah, first make sure you've told Mamewah about them<br />
<br />
::i) Go to your Mamewah folder, and enter the ini sub-folder<br />
::ii) Edit the ini file relating to the emulator you want previews for (mostly mame.ini or 01mame.ini for Mame)<br />
::iii) Find the movie_preview_path value and enter the path to the movies.<br />
<br />
:b) Make sure you have the right movie codec<br />
<br />
::i) Most preview movies out there require the Xvid codec, which can be found HERE<br />
::ii) If you're not sure which codec you need, install the codec utility Gspot which can be found HERE<br />
<br />
:c) Try this: Start Menu -> Run and type regsvr32 mpg4dmod.dll<br />
<br />
<br />
'''9. Optimising which services to user'''<br />
<br />
To access your list of services:<br />
<br />
::i) Start Menu->Control Panel<br />
::ii) Select Administrative Tools and then Services<br />
<br />
This topic is very subjective, so I'm not going to cover it personally, but give links to resources I found useful on the subject:<br />
<br />
[http://web.archive.org/web/20050401044922/www.blackviper.com/WinXP/servicecfg.htm Black Vipers Service Configurations]<br />
[http://qwertymaniac.wordpress.com/2006/03/22/disabling-useless-services-and-sppeding-up-your-computer/ Qwerty Maniac]<br />
<br />
NOTE: If you're going to use Bootvis (below) to optimise your startup further, then do NOT deactivate the Task Scheduler service, as it's required by Bootvis.<br />
<br />
<br />
'''10. Speeding up XP in general'''<br />
<br />
If you're configuring XP to work in your cabinet you don't need any of the fancy features that XP automatically loads on startup like smooth fonts, fading menu items or visual styles.<br />
<br />
:a)Get to System Properties.<br />
::i) If you have the "My Computer" icon on your desktop right mouse click it and select Properties, if not<br />
::ii) Start Menu->Run and enter sysdm.cpl<br />
:b) Click the Advanced tab and then under the Performance heading, click Settings<br />
:c) Click Adjust for best performance<br />
<br />
Many people say that System Restore adds a fair overhead too, you can deactivate that also in the same System Properties box and select the System Restore tab and tick "Turn off System Restore on all drives"<br />
<br />
<br />
'''11. Bootvis'''<br />
<br />
OK, so you've deactivated all the services you don't want, you've got the cabinet booting to how you want, you've done a defrag but it's just taking a bit longer to boot than you would like.<br />
<br />
Bootvis, designed by Microsoft, analyses your boot processes and with the aid of graphs, shows you what processes / drivers are in your startup, but also how long they're taking and what your disk / CPU usage is.<br />
<br />
::i) Get Bootvis HERE and install + run it<br />
::ii) Choose File->New>Next Boot+Drivers Trace<br />
::iii) Enter number of repetitions 2 and select OK<br />
::iv) Wait for BootVis to reboot your machine twice<br />
::v) When it's rebooted the second time and finished analysing your boot process run Bootvis again<br />
::vi) Choose File->Open and open the TRACE_BOOT+DRIVERS_1_1.BIN file (in your Bootvis folder)<br />
::vii) See how long it takes to boot the first time, then open TRACE_BOOT+DRIVERS_1_2.BIN file.<br />
::viii) The second boot should be quicker.<br />
::ix) Selecting the Trace->optimize option will reboot your machine and then defrag your boot items to make them load faster. (you will need to wait a few minutes while it does this)<br />
::x) Repeat steps ii) to vi) to see how long it takes to boot now. ( Change initial number starting to 3 to not overwrite the first boot logs)<br />
<br />
<br />
NOTE: If your system is dual boot you may see errors relating to "0 drives found"<br />
<br />
<br />
I take zero credit for this post. Thanks go to all the peeps that have contributed to it.</div>Bradhttps://wiki.pcbs.com.au/index.php?title=Hiding_Windows&diff=2856Hiding Windows2015-02-06T06:05:11Z<p>Brad: </p>
<hr />
<div>Removing Windows Screens from Boot (MAME) and other handy tips.<br />
<br />
Quoted from BYOAC<br />
<br />
There have been alot of threads on here posted by some very knowledgeable people about how to best hide XP from the boot up screens, and how to auto login, etc. but there doesn't seem to be a single start-to-finish post on the subject. Much of what we want done to XP can be sorted by a single application by Tom Spiers [http://www.example.com HERE]<br />
<br />
# Changing/removing the boot screen<br />
# Removing the Welcome screen<br />
# Removing the "Loading settings" and other startup messages<br />
# Change the login background color<br />
# Turn-off popup balloons<br />
# Loading straight to Mamewah (and exiting to Explorer)<br />
# Don't want ESCAPE to leave Mamewah<br />
# Mamewah preview movies don't show<br />
# Optimising which System services to use.<br />
# Speeding up XP in general<br />
# Bootvis<br />
<br />
<br />
'''1. Changing the boot screen'''<br />
<br />
You can either remove the bootscreen from XP via the NOGUIBOOT option in msconfig, or for Mame/Mamewah users you can replace the bootscreen with an animated MAME boot menu (my preference)<br />
<br />
:a) Removing boot screen altogether<br />
<br />
::i) In XP, click START -> RUN and enter msconfig<br />
::ii) select BOOT.ini tab<br />
::iii) click /NOGUIBOOT then OK<br />
<br />
:b) Changing boot screen to animated Mame screen<br />
<br />
::i) Download and install Stardocks Bootskin program. HERE<br />
::ii) Download the MAME bootskin by Apocalpse_67 from HERE<br />
::iii) Remove the .zip suffix from the filename once downloaded.<br />
::iv) Run Bootskin and select File->Import and point to your mame.bootskin file.<br />
<br />
<br />
'''2. Getting rid of the Welcome screen'''<br />
<br />
::i) Start Menu -> Control Panel + select User Accounts.<br />
::ii) Select "Change the way users log on or off"<br />
::iii) Un-tick the "Use the Welcome screen" + apply options. Close the User Accounts window.<br />
::iv) Start Menu -> Run and enter control userpasswords2<br />
::v) Un-tick the "User must enter a username and password to use this computer"<br />
::vi) Enter the password for the person you want to login as.<br />
<br />
<br />
'''3. Getting rid of the "Loading settings" screens'''<br />
<br />
::i) Start Menu -> Run and enter regedit<br />
::ii) Navigate to entry: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE>Software>Microsoft>Windows>Curr entVersion>Policies>System<br />
::iii) If there is an entry for "DisableStatusMessages" set it to 1<br />
<br />
If there is no entry, right-mouse click the "System" word, and select New->DWORD value, and enter "DisableStatusMessages", right-mouse to edit the value of it, and enter 1<br />
<br />
<br />
'''4. Changing the login background color'''<br />
<br />
::i) Start Menu -> Run and enter regedit<br />
::ii) Navigate to entry: HKEY_USERS>.DEFAULT>Control Panel>Colors<br />
::iii) Right-mouse click the "Background" item, and select modify<br />
::iv) Enter 3 RGB (Red Green Blue) numbers in the range 0-255 each. Black is 0 0 0 White is 255 255 255.<br />
<br />
<br />
'''5. Turn off Pop Up balloons'''<br />
<br />
If your cab is running in 640x480 or you have XP Security Center running you'll often get those annoying pop up balloons in the bottom right of your screen (great when you're in the middle of a great game of Galaxians..), to turn them off:<br />
<br />
::i) Start Menu -> Run and enter regedit<br />
::ii) Navigate to entry: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Explorer\Advanced<br />
::iii) If there is an entry for "EnableBalloonTips" set it to the decimal 0 (the digit zero)<br />
<br />
If there is no entry, right-mouse click the "Advanced" word, and select New->DWORD value, and enter "EnableBalloonTips", right-mouse to edit the value of it, and enter the decimal 0 (the digit zero).<br />
<br />
<br />
'''6. Loading straight into frontend of your choice'''<br />
<br />
You can either boot into Explorer and have your front-end load as one of your "Startup" items or you can tell Windows to not bother loading Explorer and go straight to your front end. This is sometimes known as "shelling" Mamewah. The second method is quicker to load, and won't show a desktop briefly before loading your front-end, however it is more involved and riskier (if you goof up). For the purpose of this exercise we'll assume we're using Mamewah as our front end.<br />
<br />
:a) Adding Mamewah to your startup items<br />
<br />
::i) Start Menu->All Programs->StartUp and right-mouse click the Startup word and select Explore<br />
::ii) In another window find where your Mamewah executable is, and click right-mouse and select Copy.<br />
::iii) In your "Startup" window, right mouse click and select Paste Shortcut<br />
<br />
:b) Putting Mamewah in windows shell<br />
<br />
Because we're running Mamewah as the shell and not explorer, if we quit Mamewah we want it to startup explorer for us, otherwise we'll just have a blank screen and not (easily) be able to do anything.<br />
<br />
::i) Go to your Mamewah folder and edit your mamewah.ini file<br />
::ii) Near the bottom of the list of options is app_to_run_on_exit enter explorer.exe next to it and save the file.<br />
::iii) Start Menu->Run and enter regedit<br />
::iv) Navigate to the item HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\IniFileMapping\system.ini\boot<br />
::v) If there is an item in there called Shell right-mouse click and select modify<br />
::vi) Change the first three letters from SYS to USR<br />
::vii) Navigate to the item HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon<br />
::viii) Right-mouse click "Winlogon" and select New->String Value<br />
::ix) Name it Shell then right mouse click Shell and select modify and enter the full path to your Mamewah executeable eg. c:\emu\mamewah\mamewah.exe<br />
<br />
'''7. Don't want ESCAPE to leave Mamewah'''<br />
<br />
<br />
By default the ESCAPE button is the quit button on most cabinets, and is ideal for leaving your current MAME game.. but if you want a turnkey solution for your cabinet, you don't want the users to quit Mamewah by mistake, because you're without a keyboard and firing up Mamewah will probably need a reboot. So..<br />
<br />
::i) Go to your Mamewah folder and find the ctrlr sub-folder.<br />
:ii) Edit the default.ini file and navigate to the EXIT_TO_WINDOWS item<br />
:iii) Change the entry to "DIK_TAB & DIK_ESCAPE"<br />
<br />
This way you can use "tab + escape" if want to quit Mamewah quickly via VNC if you're controlling it remotely.<br />
<br />
'''8. Mamewah preview movies don't show'''<br />
<br />
:a) To get game previews to work in Mamewah, first make sure you've told Mamewah about them<br />
<br />
::i) Go to your Mamewah folder, and enter the ini sub-folder<br />
::ii) Edit the ini file relating to the emulator you want previews for (mostly mame.ini or 01mame.ini for Mame)<br />
::iii) Find the movie_preview_path value and enter the path to the movies.<br />
<br />
:b) Make sure you have the right movie codec<br />
<br />
::i) Most preview movies out there require the Xvid codec, which can be found HERE<br />
::ii) If you're not sure which codec you need, install the codec utility Gspot which can be found HERE<br />
<br />
:c) Try this: Start Menu -> Run and type regsvr32 mpg4dmod.dll<br />
<br />
<br />
'''9. Optimising which services to user'''<br />
<br />
To access your list of services:<br />
<br />
::i) Start Menu->Control Panel<br />
::ii) Select Administrative Tools and then Services<br />
<br />
This topic is very subjective, so I'm not going to cover it personally, but give links to resources I found useful on the subject:<br />
<br />
Black Vipers Service Configurations<br />
Qwerty Maniac<br />
<br />
NOTE: If you're going to use Bootvis (below) to optimise your startup further, then do NOT deactivate the Task Scheduler service, as it's required by Bootvis.<br />
<br />
<br />
'''10. Speeding up XP in general'''<br />
<br />
If you're configuring XP to work in your cabinet you don't need any of the fancy features that XP automatically loads on startup like smooth fonts, fading menu items or visual styles.<br />
<br />
:a)Get to System Properties.<br />
::i) If you have the "My Computer" icon on your desktop right mouse click it and select Properties, if not<br />
::ii) Start Menu->Run and enter sysdm.cpl<br />
:b) Click the Advanced tab and then under the Performance heading, click Settings<br />
:c) Click Adjust for best performance<br />
<br />
Many people say that System Restore adds a fair overhead too, you can deactivate that also in the same System Properties box and select the System Restore tab and tick "Turn off System Restore on all drives"<br />
<br />
<br />
'''11. Bootvis'''<br />
<br />
OK, so you've deactivated all the services you don't want, you've got the cabinet booting to how you want, you've done a defrag but it's just taking a bit longer to boot than you would like.<br />
<br />
Bootvis, designed by Microsoft, analyses your boot processes and with the aid of graphs, shows you what processes / drivers are in your startup, but also how long they're taking and what your disk / CPU usage is.<br />
<br />
::i) Get Bootvis HERE and install + run it<br />
::ii) Choose File->New>Next Boot+Drivers Trace<br />
::iii) Enter number of repetitions 2 and select OK<br />
::iv) Wait for BootVis to reboot your machine twice<br />
::v) When it's rebooted the second time and finished analysing your boot process run Bootvis again<br />
::vi) Choose File->Open and open the TRACE_BOOT+DRIVERS_1_1.BIN file (in your Bootvis folder)<br />
::vii) See how long it takes to boot the first time, then open TRACE_BOOT+DRIVERS_1_2.BIN file.<br />
::viii) The second boot should be quicker.<br />
::ix) Selecting the Trace->optimize option will reboot your machine and then defrag your boot items to make them load faster. (you will need to wait a few minutes while it does this)<br />
::x) Repeat steps ii) to vi) to see how long it takes to boot now. ( Change initial number starting to 3 to not overwrite the first boot logs)<br />
<br />
NOTE: If your system is dual boot you may see errors relating to "0 drives found"<br />
<br />
I take zero credit for this post. Thanks go to all the peeps that have contributed to it.</div>Bradhttps://wiki.pcbs.com.au/index.php?title=Hiding_Windows&diff=2855Hiding Windows2015-02-06T05:58:51Z<p>Brad: </p>
<hr />
<div>Removing Windows Screens from Boot (MAME) and other handy tips.<br />
<br />
Quoted from BYOAC<br />
<br />
There have been alot of threads on here posted by some very knowledgeable people about how to best hide XP from the boot up screens, and how to auto login, etc. but there doesn't seem to be a single start-to-finish post on the subject. Much of what we want done to XP can be sorted by a single application by Tom Spiers [http://www.example.com HERE]<br />
<br />
# Changing/removing the boot screen<br />
# Removing the Welcome screen<br />
# Removing the "Loading settings" and other startup messages<br />
# Change the login background color<br />
# Turn-off popup balloons<br />
# Loading straight to Mamewah (and exiting to Explorer)<br />
# Don't want ESCAPE to leave Mamewah<br />
# Mamewah preview movies don't show<br />
# Optimising which System services to use.<br />
# Speeding up XP in general<br />
# Bootvis<br />
<br />
<br />
'''1. Changing the boot screen'''<br />
<br />
You can either remove the bootscreen from XP via the NOGUIBOOT option in msconfig, or for Mame/Mamewah users you can replace the bootscreen with an animated MAME boot menu (my preference)<br />
<br />
:a) Removing boot screen altogether<br />
<br />
::i) In XP, click START -> RUN and enter msconfig<br />
::ii) select BOOT.ini tab<br />
::iii) click /NOGUIBOOT then OK<br />
<br />
:b) Changing boot screen to animated Mame screen<br />
<br />
::i) Download and install Stardocks Bootskin program. HERE<br />
::ii) Download the MAME bootskin by Apocalpse_67 from HERE<br />
::iii) Remove the .zip suffix from the filename once downloaded.<br />
::iv) Run Bootskin and select File->Import and point to your mame.bootskin file.<br />
<br />
<br />
'''2. Getting rid of the Welcome screen'''<br />
<br />
:i) Start Menu -> Control Panel + select User Accounts.<br />
:ii) Select "Change the way users log on or off"<br />
:iii) Un-tick the "Use the Welcome screen" + apply options. Close the User Accounts window.<br />
:iv) Start Menu -> Run and enter control userpasswords2<br />
:v) Un-tick the "User must enter a username and password to use this computer"<br />
:vi) Enter the password for the person you want to login as.<br />
<br />
<br />
'''3. Getting rid of the "Loading settings" screens'''<br />
<br />
:i) Start Menu -> Run and enter regedit<br />
:ii) Navigate to entry: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE>Software>Microsoft>Windows>Curr entVersion>Policies>System<br />
:iii) If there is an entry for "DisableStatusMessages" set it to 1<br />
<br />
If there is no entry, right-mouse click the "System" word, and select New->DWORD value, and enter "DisableStatusMessages", right-mouse to edit the value of it, and enter 1<br />
<br />
<br />
'''4. Changing the login background color'''<br />
<br />
:i) Start Menu -> Run and enter regedit<br />
:ii) Navigate to entry: HKEY_USERS>.DEFAULT>Control Panel>Colors<br />
:iii) Right-mouse click the "Background" item, and select modify<br />
:iv) Enter 3 RGB (Red Green Blue) numbers in the range 0-255 each. Black is 0 0 0 White is 255 255 255.<br />
<br />
<br />
'''5. Turn off Pop Up balloons'''<br />
<br />
If your cab is running in 640x480 or you have XP Security Center running you'll often get those annoying pop up balloons in the bottom right of your screen (great when you're in the middle of a great game of Galaxians..), to turn them off:<br />
<br />
:i) Start Menu -> Run and enter regedit<br />
:ii) Navigate to entry: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Explorer\Advanced<br />
:iii) If there is an entry for "EnableBalloonTips" set it to the decimal 0 (the digit zero)<br />
<br />
If there is no entry, right-mouse click the "Advanced" word, and select New->DWORD value, and enter "EnableBalloonTips", right-mouse to edit the value of it, and enter the decimal 0 (the digit zero).<br />
<br />
<br />
'''6. Loading straight into frontend of your choice'''<br />
<br />
You can either boot into Explorer and have your front-end load as one of your "Startup" items or you can tell Windows to not bother loading Explorer and go straight to your front end. This is sometimes known as "shelling" Mamewah. The second method is quicker to load, and won't show a desktop briefly before loading your front-end, however it is more involved and riskier (if you goof up). For the purpose of this exercise we'll assume we're using Mamewah as our front end.<br />
<br />
:a) Adding Mamewah to your startup items<br />
<br />
::i) Start Menu->All Programs->StartUp and right-mouse click the Startup word and select Explore<br />
::ii) In another window find where your Mamewah executable is, and click right-mouse and select Copy.<br />
::iii) In your "Startup" window, right mouse click and select Paste Shortcut<br />
<br />
:b) Putting Mamewah in windows shell<br />
<br />
Because we're running Mamewah as the shell and not explorer, if we quit Mamewah we want it to startup explorer for us, otherwise we'll just have a blank screen and not (easily) be able to do anything.<br />
<br />
:i) Go to your Mamewah folder and edit your mamewah.ini file<br />
:ii) Near the bottom of the list of options is app_to_run_on_exit enter explorer.exe next to it and save the file.<br />
:i) Start Menu->Run and enter regedit<br />
ii) Navigate to the item HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\IniFileMapping\system.ini\boot<br />
iii) If there is an item in there called Shell right-mouse click and select modify<br />
iv) Change the first three letters from SYS to USR<br />
v) Navigate to the item HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon<br />
vi) Right-mouse click "Winlogon" and select New->String Value<br />
v) Name it Shell then right mouse click Shell and select modify and enter the full path to your Mamewah executeable eg. c:\emu\mamewah\mamewah.exe<br />
<br />
7. Don't want ESCAPE to leave Mamewah<br />
<br />
By default the ESCAPE button is the quit button on most cabinets, and is ideal for leaving your current MAME game.. but if you want a turnkey solution for your cabinet, you don't want the users to quit Mamewah by mistake, because you're without a keyboard and firing up Mamewah will probably need a reboot. So..<br />
<br />
i) Go to your Mamewah folder and find the ctrlr sub-folder.<br />
ii) Edit the default.ini file and navigate to the EXIT_TO_WINDOWS item<br />
iii) Change the entry to "DIK_TAB & DIK_ESCAPE"<br />
<br />
This way you can use "tab + escape" if want to quit Mamewah quickly via VNC if you're controlling it remotely.<br />
<br />
8. Mamewah preview movies don't show<br />
<br />
a) To get game previews to work in Mamewah, first make sure you've told Mamewah about them<br />
<br />
i) Go to your Mamewah folder, and enter the ini sub-folder<br />
ii) Edit the ini file relating to the emulator you want previews for (mostly mame.ini or 01mame.ini for Mame)<br />
iii) Find the movie_preview_path value and enter the path to the movies.<br />
<br />
b) Make sure you have the right movie codec<br />
<br />
i) Most preview movies out there require the Xvid codec, which can be found HERE<br />
ii) If you're not sure which codec you need, install the codec utility Gspot which can be found HERE<br />
<br />
c) Try this: Start Menu -> Run and type regsvr32 mpg4dmod.dll<br />
<br />
<br />
9. Optimising which services to user<br />
<br />
To access your list of services:<br />
<br />
i) Start Menu->Control Panel<br />
ii) Select Administrative Tools and then Services<br />
<br />
This topic is very subjective, so I'm not going to cover it personally, but give links to resources I found useful on the subject:<br />
<br />
Black Vipers Service Configurations<br />
<br />
Qwerty Maniac<br />
<br />
NOTE: If you're going to use Bootvis (below) to optimise your startup further, then do NOT deactivate the Task Scheduler service, as it's required by Bootvis.<br />
<br />
<br />
10. Speeding up XP in general<br />
<br />
If you're configuring XP to work in your cabinet you don't need any of the fancy features that XP automatically loads on startup like smooth fonts, fading menu items or visual styles.<br />
<br />
i) Get to System Properties.<br />
a) If you have the "My Computer" icon on your desktop right mouse click it and select Properties, if not<br />
b) Start Menu->Run and enter sysdm.cpl<br />
<br />
ii) Click the Advanced tab and then under the Performance heading, click Settings<br />
iii) Click Adjust for best performance<br />
<br />
Many people say that System Restore adds a fair overhead too, you can deactivate that also in the same System Properties box and select the System Restore tab and tick "Turn off System Restore on all drives"<br />
<br />
<br />
11. Bootvis<br />
<br />
OK, so you've deactivated all the services you don't want, you've got the cabinet booting to how you want, you've done a defrag but it's just taking a bit longer to boot than you would like.<br />
<br />
Bootvis, designed by Microsoft, analyses your boot processes and with the aid of graphs, shows you what processes / drivers are in your startup, but also how long they're taking and what your disk / CPU usage is.<br />
<br />
i) Get Bootvis HERE and install + run it<br />
ii) Choose File->New>Next Boot+Drivers Trace<br />
ii) Enter number of repetitions 2 and select OK<br />
iii) Wait for BootVis to reboot your machine twice<br />
iv) When it's rebooted the second time and finished analysing your boot process run Bootvis again<br />
v) Choose File->Open and open the TRACE_BOOT+DRIVERS_1_1.BIN file (in your Bootvis folder)<br />
vi) See how long it takes to boot the first time, then open TRACE_BOOT+DRIVERS_1_2.BIN file.<br />
vii) The second boot should be quicker.<br />
iix) Selecting the Trace->optimize option will reboot your machine and then defrag your boot items to make them load faster. (you will need to wait a few minutes while it does this)<br />
ix) Repeat steps ii) to vi) to see how long it takes to boot now. ( Change initial number starting to 3 to not overwrite the first boot logs)<br />
<br />
NOTE: If your system is dual boot you may see errors relating to "0 drives found"<br />
<br />
I take zero credit for this post. Thanks go to all the peeps that have contributed to it.</div>Bradhttps://wiki.pcbs.com.au/index.php?title=Hiding_Windows&diff=2854Hiding Windows2015-02-06T05:56:51Z<p>Brad: </p>
<hr />
<div>Removing Windows Screens from Boot (MAME) and other handy tips.<br />
<br />
Quoted from BYOAC<br />
<br />
There have been alot of threads on here posted by some very knowledgeable people about how to best hide XP from the boot up screens, and how to auto login, etc. but there doesn't seem to be a single start-to-finish post on the subject. Much of what we want done to XP can be sorted by a single application by Tom Spiers [http://www.example.com HERE]<br />
<br />
# Changing/removing the boot screen<br />
# Removing the Welcome screen<br />
# Removing the "Loading settings" and other startup messages<br />
# Change the login background color<br />
# Turn-off popup balloons<br />
# Loading straight to Mamewah (and exiting to Explorer)<br />
# Don't want ESCAPE to leave Mamewah<br />
# Mamewah preview movies don't show<br />
# Optimising which System services to use.<br />
# Speeding up XP in general<br />
# Bootvis<br />
<br />
<br />
'''1. Changing the boot screen'''<br />
<br />
You can either remove the bootscreen from XP via the NOGUIBOOT option in msconfig, or for Mame/Mamewah users you can replace the bootscreen with an animated MAME boot menu (my preference)<br />
<br />
:a) Removing boot screen altogether<br />
<br />
::i) In XP, click START -> RUN and enter msconfig<br />
::ii) select BOOT.ini tab<br />
::iii) click /NOGUIBOOT then OK<br />
<br />
:b) Changing boot screen to animated Mame screen<br />
<br />
::i) Download and install Stardocks Bootskin program. HERE<br />
::ii) Download the MAME bootskin by Apocalpse_67 from HERE<br />
::iii) Remove the .zip suffix from the filename once downloaded.<br />
::iv) Run Bootskin and select File->Import and point to your mame.bootskin file.<br />
<br />
'''2. Getting rid of the Welcome screen'''<br />
<br />
:i) Start Menu -> Control Panel + select User Accounts.<br />
:ii) Select "Change the way users log on or off"<br />
:iii) Un-tick the "Use the Welcome screen" + apply options. Close the User Accounts window.<br />
:iv) Start Menu -> Run and enter control userpasswords2<br />
:v) Un-tick the "User must enter a username and password to use this computer"<br />
:vi) Enter the password for the person you want to login as.<br />
<br />
'''3. Getting rid of the "Loading settings" screens'''<br />
<br />
:i) Start Menu -> Run and enter regedit<br />
:ii) Navigate to entry: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE>Software>Microsoft>Windows>Curr entVersion>Policies>System<br />
:iii) If there is an entry for "DisableStatusMessages" set it to 1<br />
<br />
If there is no entry, right-mouse click the "System" word, and select New->DWORD value, and enter "DisableStatusMessages", right-mouse to edit the value of it, and enter 1<br />
<br />
'''4. Changing the login background color'''<br />
<br />
i) Start Menu -> Run and enter regedit<br />
ii) Navigate to entry: HKEY_USERS>.DEFAULT>Control Panel>Colors<br />
iii) Right-mouse click the "Background" item, and select modify<br />
iv) Enter 3 RGB (Red Green Blue) numbers in the range 0-255 each. Black is 0 0 0 White is 255 255 255.<br />
<br />
5. Turn off Pop Up balloons<br />
<br />
If your cab is running in 640x480 or you have XP Security Center running you'll often get those annoying pop up balloons in the bottom right of your screen (great when you're in the middle of a great game of Galaxians..), to turn them off:<br />
<br />
i) Start Menu -> Run and enter regedit<br />
ii) Navigate to entry: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Explorer\Advanced<br />
iii) If there is an entry for "EnableBalloonTips" set it to the decimal 0 (the digit zero)<br />
<br />
If there is no entry, right-mouse click the "Advanced" word, and select New->DWORD value, and enter "EnableBalloonTips", right-mouse to edit the value of it, and enter the decimal 0 (the digit zero).<br />
<br />
<br />
6. Loading straight into frontend of your choice<br />
<br />
You can either boot into Explorer and have your front-end load as one of your "Startup" items or you can tell Windows to not bother loading Explorer and go straight to your front end. This is sometimes known as "shelling" Mamewah. The second method is quicker to load, and won't show a desktop briefly before loading your front-end, however it is more involved and riskier (if you goof up). For the purpose of this exercise we'll assume we're using Mamewah as our front end.<br />
<br />
a) Adding Mamewah to your startup items<br />
<br />
i) Start Menu->All Programs->StartUp and right-mouse click the Startup word and select Explore<br />
ii) In another window find where your Mamewah executable is, and click right-mouse and select Copy.<br />
iii) In your "Startup" window, right mouse click and select Paste Shortcut<br />
<br />
b) Putting Mamewah in windows shell<br />
<br />
Because we're running Mamewah as the shell and not explorer, if we quit Mamewah we want it to startup explorer for us, otherwise we'll just have a blank screen and not (easily) be able to do anything.<br />
<br />
i) Go to your Mamewah folder and edit your mamewah.ini file<br />
ii) Near the bottom of the list of options is app_to_run_on_exit enter explorer.exe next to it and save the file.<br />
i) Start Menu->Run and enter regedit<br />
ii) Navigate to the item HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\IniFileMapping\system.ini\boot<br />
iii) If there is an item in there called Shell right-mouse click and select modify<br />
iv) Change the first three letters from SYS to USR<br />
v) Navigate to the item HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon<br />
vi) Right-mouse click "Winlogon" and select New->String Value<br />
v) Name it Shell then right mouse click Shell and select modify and enter the full path to your Mamewah executeable eg. c:\emu\mamewah\mamewah.exe<br />
<br />
7. Don't want ESCAPE to leave Mamewah<br />
<br />
By default the ESCAPE button is the quit button on most cabinets, and is ideal for leaving your current MAME game.. but if you want a turnkey solution for your cabinet, you don't want the users to quit Mamewah by mistake, because you're without a keyboard and firing up Mamewah will probably need a reboot. So..<br />
<br />
i) Go to your Mamewah folder and find the ctrlr sub-folder.<br />
ii) Edit the default.ini file and navigate to the EXIT_TO_WINDOWS item<br />
iii) Change the entry to "DIK_TAB & DIK_ESCAPE"<br />
<br />
This way you can use "tab + escape" if want to quit Mamewah quickly via VNC if you're controlling it remotely.<br />
<br />
8. Mamewah preview movies don't show<br />
<br />
a) To get game previews to work in Mamewah, first make sure you've told Mamewah about them<br />
<br />
i) Go to your Mamewah folder, and enter the ini sub-folder<br />
ii) Edit the ini file relating to the emulator you want previews for (mostly mame.ini or 01mame.ini for Mame)<br />
iii) Find the movie_preview_path value and enter the path to the movies.<br />
<br />
b) Make sure you have the right movie codec<br />
<br />
i) Most preview movies out there require the Xvid codec, which can be found HERE<br />
ii) If you're not sure which codec you need, install the codec utility Gspot which can be found HERE<br />
<br />
c) Try this: Start Menu -> Run and type regsvr32 mpg4dmod.dll<br />
<br />
<br />
9. Optimising which services to user<br />
<br />
To access your list of services:<br />
<br />
i) Start Menu->Control Panel<br />
ii) Select Administrative Tools and then Services<br />
<br />
This topic is very subjective, so I'm not going to cover it personally, but give links to resources I found useful on the subject:<br />
<br />
Black Vipers Service Configurations<br />
<br />
Qwerty Maniac<br />
<br />
NOTE: If you're going to use Bootvis (below) to optimise your startup further, then do NOT deactivate the Task Scheduler service, as it's required by Bootvis.<br />
<br />
<br />
10. Speeding up XP in general<br />
<br />
If you're configuring XP to work in your cabinet you don't need any of the fancy features that XP automatically loads on startup like smooth fonts, fading menu items or visual styles.<br />
<br />
i) Get to System Properties.<br />
a) If you have the "My Computer" icon on your desktop right mouse click it and select Properties, if not<br />
b) Start Menu->Run and enter sysdm.cpl<br />
<br />
ii) Click the Advanced tab and then under the Performance heading, click Settings<br />
iii) Click Adjust for best performance<br />
<br />
Many people say that System Restore adds a fair overhead too, you can deactivate that also in the same System Properties box and select the System Restore tab and tick "Turn off System Restore on all drives"<br />
<br />
<br />
11. Bootvis<br />
<br />
OK, so you've deactivated all the services you don't want, you've got the cabinet booting to how you want, you've done a defrag but it's just taking a bit longer to boot than you would like.<br />
<br />
Bootvis, designed by Microsoft, analyses your boot processes and with the aid of graphs, shows you what processes / drivers are in your startup, but also how long they're taking and what your disk / CPU usage is.<br />
<br />
i) Get Bootvis HERE and install + run it<br />
ii) Choose File->New>Next Boot+Drivers Trace<br />
ii) Enter number of repetitions 2 and select OK<br />
iii) Wait for BootVis to reboot your machine twice<br />
iv) When it's rebooted the second time and finished analysing your boot process run Bootvis again<br />
v) Choose File->Open and open the TRACE_BOOT+DRIVERS_1_1.BIN file (in your Bootvis folder)<br />
vi) See how long it takes to boot the first time, then open TRACE_BOOT+DRIVERS_1_2.BIN file.<br />
vii) The second boot should be quicker.<br />
iix) Selecting the Trace->optimize option will reboot your machine and then defrag your boot items to make them load faster. (you will need to wait a few minutes while it does this)<br />
ix) Repeat steps ii) to vi) to see how long it takes to boot now. ( Change initial number starting to 3 to not overwrite the first boot logs)<br />
<br />
NOTE: If your system is dual boot you may see errors relating to "0 drives found"<br />
<br />
I take zero credit for this post. Thanks go to all the peeps that have contributed to it.</div>Bradhttps://wiki.pcbs.com.au/index.php?title=Hiding_Windows&diff=2853Hiding Windows2015-02-06T05:54:51Z<p>Brad: </p>
<hr />
<div>Removing Windows Screens from Boot (MAME) and other handy tips.<br />
<br />
Quoted from BYOAC<br />
<br />
There have been alot of threads on here posted by some very knowledgeable people about how to best hide XP from the boot up screens, and how to auto login, etc. but there doesn't seem to be a single start-to-finish post on the subject. Much of what we want done to XP can be sorted by a single application by Tom Spiers [http://www.example.com HERE]<br />
<br />
# Changing/removing the boot screen<br />
# Removing the Welcome screen<br />
# Removing the "Loading settings" and other startup messages<br />
# Change the login background color<br />
# Turn-off popup balloons<br />
# Loading straight to Mamewah (and exiting to Explorer)<br />
# Don't want ESCAPE to leave Mamewah<br />
# Mamewah preview movies don't show<br />
# Optimising which System services to use.<br />
# Speeding up XP in general<br />
# Bootvis<br />
<br />
1. Changing the boot screen<br />
<br />
You can either remove the bootscreen from XP via the NOGUIBOOT option in msconfig, or for Mame/Mamewah users you can replace the bootscreen with an animated MAME boot menu (my preference)<br />
<br />
:a) Removing boot screen altogether<br />
<br />
::i) In XP, click START -> RUN and enter msconfig<br />
ii) select BOOT.ini tab<br />
iii) click /NOGUIBOOT then OK<br />
<br />
b) Changing boot screen to animated Mame screen<br />
<br />
(click to enlarge)<br />
<br />
i) Download and install Stardocks Bootskin program. HERE<br />
ii) Download the MAME bootskin by Apocalpse_67 from HERE<br />
iii) Remove the .zip suffix from the filename once downloaded.<br />
iv) Run Bootskin and select File->Import and point to your mame.bootskin file.<br />
<br />
<br />
2. Getting rid of the Welcome screen<br />
<br />
i) Start Menu -> Control Panel + select User Accounts.<br />
ii) Select "Change the way users log on or off"<br />
iii) Un-tick the "Use the Welcome screen" + apply options. Close the User Accounts window.<br />
iv) Start Menu -> Run and enter control userpasswords2<br />
v) Un-tick the "User must enter a username and password to use this computer"<br />
vi) Enter the password for the person you want to login as.<br />
<br />
<br />
3. Getting rid of the "Loading settings" screens<br />
<br />
i) Start Menu -> Run and enter regedit<br />
ii) Navigate to entry: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE>Software>Microsoft>Windows>Curr entVersion>Policies>System<br />
iii) If there is an entry for "DisableStatusMessages" set it to 1<br />
<br />
If there is no entry, right-mouse click the "System" word, and select New->DWORD value, and enter "DisableStatusMessages", right-mouse to edit the value of it, and enter 1<br />
<br />
4. Changing the login background color<br />
<br />
i) Start Menu -> Run and enter regedit<br />
ii) Navigate to entry: HKEY_USERS>.DEFAULT>Control Panel>Colors<br />
iii) Right-mouse click the "Background" item, and select modify<br />
iv) Enter 3 RGB (Red Green Blue) numbers in the range 0-255 each. Black is 0 0 0 White is 255 255 255.<br />
<br />
5. Turn off Pop Up balloons<br />
<br />
If your cab is running in 640x480 or you have XP Security Center running you'll often get those annoying pop up balloons in the bottom right of your screen (great when you're in the middle of a great game of Galaxians..), to turn them off:<br />
<br />
i) Start Menu -> Run and enter regedit<br />
ii) Navigate to entry: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Explorer\Advanced<br />
iii) If there is an entry for "EnableBalloonTips" set it to the decimal 0 (the digit zero)<br />
<br />
If there is no entry, right-mouse click the "Advanced" word, and select New->DWORD value, and enter "EnableBalloonTips", right-mouse to edit the value of it, and enter the decimal 0 (the digit zero).<br />
<br />
<br />
6. Loading straight into frontend of your choice<br />
<br />
You can either boot into Explorer and have your front-end load as one of your "Startup" items or you can tell Windows to not bother loading Explorer and go straight to your front end. This is sometimes known as "shelling" Mamewah. The second method is quicker to load, and won't show a desktop briefly before loading your front-end, however it is more involved and riskier (if you goof up). For the purpose of this exercise we'll assume we're using Mamewah as our front end.<br />
<br />
a) Adding Mamewah to your startup items<br />
<br />
i) Start Menu->All Programs->StartUp and right-mouse click the Startup word and select Explore<br />
ii) In another window find where your Mamewah executable is, and click right-mouse and select Copy.<br />
iii) In your "Startup" window, right mouse click and select Paste Shortcut<br />
<br />
b) Putting Mamewah in windows shell<br />
<br />
Because we're running Mamewah as the shell and not explorer, if we quit Mamewah we want it to startup explorer for us, otherwise we'll just have a blank screen and not (easily) be able to do anything.<br />
<br />
i) Go to your Mamewah folder and edit your mamewah.ini file<br />
ii) Near the bottom of the list of options is app_to_run_on_exit enter explorer.exe next to it and save the file.<br />
i) Start Menu->Run and enter regedit<br />
ii) Navigate to the item HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\IniFileMapping\system.ini\boot<br />
iii) If there is an item in there called Shell right-mouse click and select modify<br />
iv) Change the first three letters from SYS to USR<br />
v) Navigate to the item HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon<br />
vi) Right-mouse click "Winlogon" and select New->String Value<br />
v) Name it Shell then right mouse click Shell and select modify and enter the full path to your Mamewah executeable eg. c:\emu\mamewah\mamewah.exe<br />
<br />
7. Don't want ESCAPE to leave Mamewah<br />
<br />
By default the ESCAPE button is the quit button on most cabinets, and is ideal for leaving your current MAME game.. but if you want a turnkey solution for your cabinet, you don't want the users to quit Mamewah by mistake, because you're without a keyboard and firing up Mamewah will probably need a reboot. So..<br />
<br />
i) Go to your Mamewah folder and find the ctrlr sub-folder.<br />
ii) Edit the default.ini file and navigate to the EXIT_TO_WINDOWS item<br />
iii) Change the entry to "DIK_TAB & DIK_ESCAPE"<br />
<br />
This way you can use "tab + escape" if want to quit Mamewah quickly via VNC if you're controlling it remotely.<br />
<br />
8. Mamewah preview movies don't show<br />
<br />
a) To get game previews to work in Mamewah, first make sure you've told Mamewah about them<br />
<br />
i) Go to your Mamewah folder, and enter the ini sub-folder<br />
ii) Edit the ini file relating to the emulator you want previews for (mostly mame.ini or 01mame.ini for Mame)<br />
iii) Find the movie_preview_path value and enter the path to the movies.<br />
<br />
b) Make sure you have the right movie codec<br />
<br />
i) Most preview movies out there require the Xvid codec, which can be found HERE<br />
ii) If you're not sure which codec you need, install the codec utility Gspot which can be found HERE<br />
<br />
c) Try this: Start Menu -> Run and type regsvr32 mpg4dmod.dll<br />
<br />
<br />
9. Optimising which services to user<br />
<br />
To access your list of services:<br />
<br />
i) Start Menu->Control Panel<br />
ii) Select Administrative Tools and then Services<br />
<br />
This topic is very subjective, so I'm not going to cover it personally, but give links to resources I found useful on the subject:<br />
<br />
Black Vipers Service Configurations<br />
<br />
Qwerty Maniac<br />
<br />
NOTE: If you're going to use Bootvis (below) to optimise your startup further, then do NOT deactivate the Task Scheduler service, as it's required by Bootvis.<br />
<br />
<br />
10. Speeding up XP in general<br />
<br />
If you're configuring XP to work in your cabinet you don't need any of the fancy features that XP automatically loads on startup like smooth fonts, fading menu items or visual styles.<br />
<br />
i) Get to System Properties.<br />
a) If you have the "My Computer" icon on your desktop right mouse click it and select Properties, if not<br />
b) Start Menu->Run and enter sysdm.cpl<br />
<br />
ii) Click the Advanced tab and then under the Performance heading, click Settings<br />
iii) Click Adjust for best performance<br />
<br />
Many people say that System Restore adds a fair overhead too, you can deactivate that also in the same System Properties box and select the System Restore tab and tick "Turn off System Restore on all drives"<br />
<br />
<br />
11. Bootvis<br />
<br />
OK, so you've deactivated all the services you don't want, you've got the cabinet booting to how you want, you've done a defrag but it's just taking a bit longer to boot than you would like.<br />
<br />
Bootvis, designed by Microsoft, analyses your boot processes and with the aid of graphs, shows you what processes / drivers are in your startup, but also how long they're taking and what your disk / CPU usage is.<br />
<br />
i) Get Bootvis HERE and install + run it<br />
ii) Choose File->New>Next Boot+Drivers Trace<br />
ii) Enter number of repetitions 2 and select OK<br />
iii) Wait for BootVis to reboot your machine twice<br />
iv) When it's rebooted the second time and finished analysing your boot process run Bootvis again<br />
v) Choose File->Open and open the TRACE_BOOT+DRIVERS_1_1.BIN file (in your Bootvis folder)<br />
vi) See how long it takes to boot the first time, then open TRACE_BOOT+DRIVERS_1_2.BIN file.<br />
vii) The second boot should be quicker.<br />
iix) Selecting the Trace->optimize option will reboot your machine and then defrag your boot items to make them load faster. (you will need to wait a few minutes while it does this)<br />
ix) Repeat steps ii) to vi) to see how long it takes to boot now. ( Change initial number starting to 3 to not overwrite the first boot logs)<br />
<br />
NOTE: If your system is dual boot you may see errors relating to "0 drives found"<br />
<br />
I take zero credit for this post. Thanks go to all the peeps that have contributed to it.</div>Bradhttps://wiki.pcbs.com.au/index.php?title=Hiding_Windows&diff=2852Hiding Windows2015-02-06T05:53:30Z<p>Brad: </p>
<hr />
<div>Removing Windows Screens from Boot (MAME) and other handy tips.<br />
<br />
Quoted from BYOAC<br />
<br />
There have been alot of threads on here posted by some very knowledgeable people about how to best hide XP from the boot up screens, and how to auto login, etc. but there doesn't seem to be a single start-to-finish post on the subject. Much of what we want done to XP can be sorted by a single application by Tom Spiers [http://www.example.com HERE]<br />
<br />
==== Changing/removing the boot screen ====<br />
==== Removing the Welcome screen ====<br />
# Removing the "Loading settings" and other startup messages<br />
# Change the login background color<br />
# Turn-off popup balloons<br />
# Loading straight to Mamewah (and exiting to Explorer)<br />
# Don't want ESCAPE to leave Mamewah<br />
# Mamewah preview movies don't show<br />
# Optimising which System services to use.<br />
# Speeding up XP in general<br />
# Bootvis<br />
<br />
1. Changing the boot screen<br />
<br />
You can either remove the bootscreen from XP via the NOGUIBOOT option in msconfig, or for Mame/Mamewah users you can replace the bootscreen with an animated MAME boot menu (my preference)<br />
<br />
a) Removing boot screen altogether<br />
<br />
i) In XP, click START -> RUN and enter msconfig<br />
ii) select BOOT.ini tab<br />
iii) click /NOGUIBOOT then OK<br />
<br />
b) Changing boot screen to animated Mame screen<br />
<br />
(click to enlarge)<br />
<br />
i) Download and install Stardocks Bootskin program. HERE<br />
ii) Download the MAME bootskin by Apocalpse_67 from HERE<br />
iii) Remove the .zip suffix from the filename once downloaded.<br />
iv) Run Bootskin and select File->Import and point to your mame.bootskin file.<br />
<br />
<br />
2. Getting rid of the Welcome screen<br />
<br />
i) Start Menu -> Control Panel + select User Accounts.<br />
ii) Select "Change the way users log on or off"<br />
iii) Un-tick the "Use the Welcome screen" + apply options. Close the User Accounts window.<br />
iv) Start Menu -> Run and enter control userpasswords2<br />
v) Un-tick the "User must enter a username and password to use this computer"<br />
vi) Enter the password for the person you want to login as.<br />
<br />
<br />
3. Getting rid of the "Loading settings" screens<br />
<br />
i) Start Menu -> Run and enter regedit<br />
ii) Navigate to entry: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE>Software>Microsoft>Windows>Curr entVersion>Policies>System<br />
iii) If there is an entry for "DisableStatusMessages" set it to 1<br />
<br />
If there is no entry, right-mouse click the "System" word, and select New->DWORD value, and enter "DisableStatusMessages", right-mouse to edit the value of it, and enter 1<br />
<br />
4. Changing the login background color<br />
<br />
i) Start Menu -> Run and enter regedit<br />
ii) Navigate to entry: HKEY_USERS>.DEFAULT>Control Panel>Colors<br />
iii) Right-mouse click the "Background" item, and select modify<br />
iv) Enter 3 RGB (Red Green Blue) numbers in the range 0-255 each. Black is 0 0 0 White is 255 255 255.<br />
<br />
5. Turn off Pop Up balloons<br />
<br />
If your cab is running in 640x480 or you have XP Security Center running you'll often get those annoying pop up balloons in the bottom right of your screen (great when you're in the middle of a great game of Galaxians..), to turn them off:<br />
<br />
i) Start Menu -> Run and enter regedit<br />
ii) Navigate to entry: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Explorer\Advanced<br />
iii) If there is an entry for "EnableBalloonTips" set it to the decimal 0 (the digit zero)<br />
<br />
If there is no entry, right-mouse click the "Advanced" word, and select New->DWORD value, and enter "EnableBalloonTips", right-mouse to edit the value of it, and enter the decimal 0 (the digit zero).<br />
<br />
<br />
6. Loading straight into frontend of your choice<br />
<br />
You can either boot into Explorer and have your front-end load as one of your "Startup" items or you can tell Windows to not bother loading Explorer and go straight to your front end. This is sometimes known as "shelling" Mamewah. The second method is quicker to load, and won't show a desktop briefly before loading your front-end, however it is more involved and riskier (if you goof up). For the purpose of this exercise we'll assume we're using Mamewah as our front end.<br />
<br />
a) Adding Mamewah to your startup items<br />
<br />
i) Start Menu->All Programs->StartUp and right-mouse click the Startup word and select Explore<br />
ii) In another window find where your Mamewah executable is, and click right-mouse and select Copy.<br />
iii) In your "Startup" window, right mouse click and select Paste Shortcut<br />
<br />
b) Putting Mamewah in windows shell<br />
<br />
Because we're running Mamewah as the shell and not explorer, if we quit Mamewah we want it to startup explorer for us, otherwise we'll just have a blank screen and not (easily) be able to do anything.<br />
<br />
i) Go to your Mamewah folder and edit your mamewah.ini file<br />
ii) Near the bottom of the list of options is app_to_run_on_exit enter explorer.exe next to it and save the file.<br />
i) Start Menu->Run and enter regedit<br />
ii) Navigate to the item HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\IniFileMapping\system.ini\boot<br />
iii) If there is an item in there called Shell right-mouse click and select modify<br />
iv) Change the first three letters from SYS to USR<br />
v) Navigate to the item HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon<br />
vi) Right-mouse click "Winlogon" and select New->String Value<br />
v) Name it Shell then right mouse click Shell and select modify and enter the full path to your Mamewah executeable eg. c:\emu\mamewah\mamewah.exe<br />
<br />
7. Don't want ESCAPE to leave Mamewah<br />
<br />
By default the ESCAPE button is the quit button on most cabinets, and is ideal for leaving your current MAME game.. but if you want a turnkey solution for your cabinet, you don't want the users to quit Mamewah by mistake, because you're without a keyboard and firing up Mamewah will probably need a reboot. So..<br />
<br />
i) Go to your Mamewah folder and find the ctrlr sub-folder.<br />
ii) Edit the default.ini file and navigate to the EXIT_TO_WINDOWS item<br />
iii) Change the entry to "DIK_TAB & DIK_ESCAPE"<br />
<br />
This way you can use "tab + escape" if want to quit Mamewah quickly via VNC if you're controlling it remotely.<br />
<br />
8. Mamewah preview movies don't show<br />
<br />
a) To get game previews to work in Mamewah, first make sure you've told Mamewah about them<br />
<br />
i) Go to your Mamewah folder, and enter the ini sub-folder<br />
ii) Edit the ini file relating to the emulator you want previews for (mostly mame.ini or 01mame.ini for Mame)<br />
iii) Find the movie_preview_path value and enter the path to the movies.<br />
<br />
b) Make sure you have the right movie codec<br />
<br />
i) Most preview movies out there require the Xvid codec, which can be found HERE<br />
ii) If you're not sure which codec you need, install the codec utility Gspot which can be found HERE<br />
<br />
c) Try this: Start Menu -> Run and type regsvr32 mpg4dmod.dll<br />
<br />
<br />
9. Optimising which services to user<br />
<br />
To access your list of services:<br />
<br />
i) Start Menu->Control Panel<br />
ii) Select Administrative Tools and then Services<br />
<br />
This topic is very subjective, so I'm not going to cover it personally, but give links to resources I found useful on the subject:<br />
<br />
Black Vipers Service Configurations<br />
<br />
Qwerty Maniac<br />
<br />
NOTE: If you're going to use Bootvis (below) to optimise your startup further, then do NOT deactivate the Task Scheduler service, as it's required by Bootvis.<br />
<br />
<br />
10. Speeding up XP in general<br />
<br />
If you're configuring XP to work in your cabinet you don't need any of the fancy features that XP automatically loads on startup like smooth fonts, fading menu items or visual styles.<br />
<br />
i) Get to System Properties.<br />
a) If you have the "My Computer" icon on your desktop right mouse click it and select Properties, if not<br />
b) Start Menu->Run and enter sysdm.cpl<br />
<br />
ii) Click the Advanced tab and then under the Performance heading, click Settings<br />
iii) Click Adjust for best performance<br />
<br />
Many people say that System Restore adds a fair overhead too, you can deactivate that also in the same System Properties box and select the System Restore tab and tick "Turn off System Restore on all drives"<br />
<br />
<br />
11. Bootvis<br />
<br />
OK, so you've deactivated all the services you don't want, you've got the cabinet booting to how you want, you've done a defrag but it's just taking a bit longer to boot than you would like.<br />
<br />
Bootvis, designed by Microsoft, analyses your boot processes and with the aid of graphs, shows you what processes / drivers are in your startup, but also how long they're taking and what your disk / CPU usage is.<br />
<br />
i) Get Bootvis HERE and install + run it<br />
ii) Choose File->New>Next Boot+Drivers Trace<br />
ii) Enter number of repetitions 2 and select OK<br />
iii) Wait for BootVis to reboot your machine twice<br />
iv) When it's rebooted the second time and finished analysing your boot process run Bootvis again<br />
v) Choose File->Open and open the TRACE_BOOT+DRIVERS_1_1.BIN file (in your Bootvis folder)<br />
vi) See how long it takes to boot the first time, then open TRACE_BOOT+DRIVERS_1_2.BIN file.<br />
vii) The second boot should be quicker.<br />
iix) Selecting the Trace->optimize option will reboot your machine and then defrag your boot items to make them load faster. (you will need to wait a few minutes while it does this)<br />
ix) Repeat steps ii) to vi) to see how long it takes to boot now. ( Change initial number starting to 3 to not overwrite the first boot logs)<br />
<br />
NOTE: If your system is dual boot you may see errors relating to "0 drives found"<br />
<br />
I take zero credit for this post. Thanks go to all the peeps that have contributed to it.</div>Bradhttps://wiki.pcbs.com.au/index.php?title=Hiding_Windows&diff=2851Hiding Windows2015-02-06T05:53:04Z<p>Brad: </p>
<hr />
<div>Removing Windows Screens from Boot (MAME) and other handy tips.<br />
<br />
Quoted from BYOAC<br />
<br />
There have been alot of threads on here posted by some very knowledgeable people about how to best hide XP from the boot up screens, and how to auto login, etc. but there doesn't seem to be a single start-to-finish post on the subject. Much of what we want done to XP can be sorted by a single application by Tom Spiers [http://www.example.com HERE]<br />
<br />
==== # Changing/removing the boot screen ====<br />
==== # Removing the Welcome screen ====<br />
# Removing the "Loading settings" and other startup messages<br />
# Change the login background color<br />
# Turn-off popup balloons<br />
# Loading straight to Mamewah (and exiting to Explorer)<br />
# Don't want ESCAPE to leave Mamewah<br />
# Mamewah preview movies don't show<br />
# Optimising which System services to use.<br />
# Speeding up XP in general<br />
# Bootvis<br />
<br />
1. Changing the boot screen<br />
<br />
You can either remove the bootscreen from XP via the NOGUIBOOT option in msconfig, or for Mame/Mamewah users you can replace the bootscreen with an animated MAME boot menu (my preference)<br />
<br />
a) Removing boot screen altogether<br />
<br />
i) In XP, click START -> RUN and enter msconfig<br />
ii) select BOOT.ini tab<br />
iii) click /NOGUIBOOT then OK<br />
<br />
b) Changing boot screen to animated Mame screen<br />
<br />
(click to enlarge)<br />
<br />
i) Download and install Stardocks Bootskin program. HERE<br />
ii) Download the MAME bootskin by Apocalpse_67 from HERE<br />
iii) Remove the .zip suffix from the filename once downloaded.<br />
iv) Run Bootskin and select File->Import and point to your mame.bootskin file.<br />
<br />
<br />
2. Getting rid of the Welcome screen<br />
<br />
i) Start Menu -> Control Panel + select User Accounts.<br />
ii) Select "Change the way users log on or off"<br />
iii) Un-tick the "Use the Welcome screen" + apply options. Close the User Accounts window.<br />
iv) Start Menu -> Run and enter control userpasswords2<br />
v) Un-tick the "User must enter a username and password to use this computer"<br />
vi) Enter the password for the person you want to login as.<br />
<br />
<br />
3. Getting rid of the "Loading settings" screens<br />
<br />
i) Start Menu -> Run and enter regedit<br />
ii) Navigate to entry: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE>Software>Microsoft>Windows>Curr entVersion>Policies>System<br />
iii) If there is an entry for "DisableStatusMessages" set it to 1<br />
<br />
If there is no entry, right-mouse click the "System" word, and select New->DWORD value, and enter "DisableStatusMessages", right-mouse to edit the value of it, and enter 1<br />
<br />
4. Changing the login background color<br />
<br />
i) Start Menu -> Run and enter regedit<br />
ii) Navigate to entry: HKEY_USERS>.DEFAULT>Control Panel>Colors<br />
iii) Right-mouse click the "Background" item, and select modify<br />
iv) Enter 3 RGB (Red Green Blue) numbers in the range 0-255 each. Black is 0 0 0 White is 255 255 255.<br />
<br />
5. Turn off Pop Up balloons<br />
<br />
If your cab is running in 640x480 or you have XP Security Center running you'll often get those annoying pop up balloons in the bottom right of your screen (great when you're in the middle of a great game of Galaxians..), to turn them off:<br />
<br />
i) Start Menu -> Run and enter regedit<br />
ii) Navigate to entry: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Explorer\Advanced<br />
iii) If there is an entry for "EnableBalloonTips" set it to the decimal 0 (the digit zero)<br />
<br />
If there is no entry, right-mouse click the "Advanced" word, and select New->DWORD value, and enter "EnableBalloonTips", right-mouse to edit the value of it, and enter the decimal 0 (the digit zero).<br />
<br />
<br />
6. Loading straight into frontend of your choice<br />
<br />
You can either boot into Explorer and have your front-end load as one of your "Startup" items or you can tell Windows to not bother loading Explorer and go straight to your front end. This is sometimes known as "shelling" Mamewah. The second method is quicker to load, and won't show a desktop briefly before loading your front-end, however it is more involved and riskier (if you goof up). For the purpose of this exercise we'll assume we're using Mamewah as our front end.<br />
<br />
a) Adding Mamewah to your startup items<br />
<br />
i) Start Menu->All Programs->StartUp and right-mouse click the Startup word and select Explore<br />
ii) In another window find where your Mamewah executable is, and click right-mouse and select Copy.<br />
iii) In your "Startup" window, right mouse click and select Paste Shortcut<br />
<br />
b) Putting Mamewah in windows shell<br />
<br />
Because we're running Mamewah as the shell and not explorer, if we quit Mamewah we want it to startup explorer for us, otherwise we'll just have a blank screen and not (easily) be able to do anything.<br />
<br />
i) Go to your Mamewah folder and edit your mamewah.ini file<br />
ii) Near the bottom of the list of options is app_to_run_on_exit enter explorer.exe next to it and save the file.<br />
i) Start Menu->Run and enter regedit<br />
ii) Navigate to the item HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\IniFileMapping\system.ini\boot<br />
iii) If there is an item in there called Shell right-mouse click and select modify<br />
iv) Change the first three letters from SYS to USR<br />
v) Navigate to the item HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon<br />
vi) Right-mouse click "Winlogon" and select New->String Value<br />
v) Name it Shell then right mouse click Shell and select modify and enter the full path to your Mamewah executeable eg. c:\emu\mamewah\mamewah.exe<br />
<br />
7. Don't want ESCAPE to leave Mamewah<br />
<br />
By default the ESCAPE button is the quit button on most cabinets, and is ideal for leaving your current MAME game.. but if you want a turnkey solution for your cabinet, you don't want the users to quit Mamewah by mistake, because you're without a keyboard and firing up Mamewah will probably need a reboot. So..<br />
<br />
i) Go to your Mamewah folder and find the ctrlr sub-folder.<br />
ii) Edit the default.ini file and navigate to the EXIT_TO_WINDOWS item<br />
iii) Change the entry to "DIK_TAB & DIK_ESCAPE"<br />
<br />
This way you can use "tab + escape" if want to quit Mamewah quickly via VNC if you're controlling it remotely.<br />
<br />
8. Mamewah preview movies don't show<br />
<br />
a) To get game previews to work in Mamewah, first make sure you've told Mamewah about them<br />
<br />
i) Go to your Mamewah folder, and enter the ini sub-folder<br />
ii) Edit the ini file relating to the emulator you want previews for (mostly mame.ini or 01mame.ini for Mame)<br />
iii) Find the movie_preview_path value and enter the path to the movies.<br />
<br />
b) Make sure you have the right movie codec<br />
<br />
i) Most preview movies out there require the Xvid codec, which can be found HERE<br />
ii) If you're not sure which codec you need, install the codec utility Gspot which can be found HERE<br />
<br />
c) Try this: Start Menu -> Run and type regsvr32 mpg4dmod.dll<br />
<br />
<br />
9. Optimising which services to user<br />
<br />
To access your list of services:<br />
<br />
i) Start Menu->Control Panel<br />
ii) Select Administrative Tools and then Services<br />
<br />
This topic is very subjective, so I'm not going to cover it personally, but give links to resources I found useful on the subject:<br />
<br />
Black Vipers Service Configurations<br />
<br />
Qwerty Maniac<br />
<br />
NOTE: If you're going to use Bootvis (below) to optimise your startup further, then do NOT deactivate the Task Scheduler service, as it's required by Bootvis.<br />
<br />
<br />
10. Speeding up XP in general<br />
<br />
If you're configuring XP to work in your cabinet you don't need any of the fancy features that XP automatically loads on startup like smooth fonts, fading menu items or visual styles.<br />
<br />
i) Get to System Properties.<br />
a) If you have the "My Computer" icon on your desktop right mouse click it and select Properties, if not<br />
b) Start Menu->Run and enter sysdm.cpl<br />
<br />
ii) Click the Advanced tab and then under the Performance heading, click Settings<br />
iii) Click Adjust for best performance<br />
<br />
Many people say that System Restore adds a fair overhead too, you can deactivate that also in the same System Properties box and select the System Restore tab and tick "Turn off System Restore on all drives"<br />
<br />
<br />
11. Bootvis<br />
<br />
OK, so you've deactivated all the services you don't want, you've got the cabinet booting to how you want, you've done a defrag but it's just taking a bit longer to boot than you would like.<br />
<br />
Bootvis, designed by Microsoft, analyses your boot processes and with the aid of graphs, shows you what processes / drivers are in your startup, but also how long they're taking and what your disk / CPU usage is.<br />
<br />
i) Get Bootvis HERE and install + run it<br />
ii) Choose File->New>Next Boot+Drivers Trace<br />
ii) Enter number of repetitions 2 and select OK<br />
iii) Wait for BootVis to reboot your machine twice<br />
iv) When it's rebooted the second time and finished analysing your boot process run Bootvis again<br />
v) Choose File->Open and open the TRACE_BOOT+DRIVERS_1_1.BIN file (in your Bootvis folder)<br />
vi) See how long it takes to boot the first time, then open TRACE_BOOT+DRIVERS_1_2.BIN file.<br />
vii) The second boot should be quicker.<br />
iix) Selecting the Trace->optimize option will reboot your machine and then defrag your boot items to make them load faster. (you will need to wait a few minutes while it does this)<br />
ix) Repeat steps ii) to vi) to see how long it takes to boot now. ( Change initial number starting to 3 to not overwrite the first boot logs)<br />
<br />
NOTE: If your system is dual boot you may see errors relating to "0 drives found"<br />
<br />
I take zero credit for this post. Thanks go to all the peeps that have contributed to it.</div>Bradhttps://wiki.pcbs.com.au/index.php?title=Hiding_Windows&diff=2850Hiding Windows2015-02-06T05:52:29Z<p>Brad: </p>
<hr />
<div>Removing Windows Screens from Boot (MAME) and other handy tips.<br />
<br />
Quoted from BYOAC<br />
<br />
There have been alot of threads on here posted by some very knowledgeable people about how to best hide XP from the boot up screens, and how to auto login, etc. but there doesn't seem to be a single start-to-finish post on the subject. Much of what we want done to XP can be sorted by a single application by Tom Spiers [http://www.example.com HERE]<br />
<br />
# ==== Changing/removing the boot screen ====<br />
# ==== Removing the Welcome screen ====<br />
# Removing the "Loading settings" and other startup messages<br />
# Change the login background color<br />
# Turn-off popup balloons<br />
# Loading straight to Mamewah (and exiting to Explorer)<br />
# Don't want ESCAPE to leave Mamewah<br />
# Mamewah preview movies don't show<br />
# Optimising which System services to use.<br />
# Speeding up XP in general<br />
# Bootvis<br />
<br />
1. Changing the boot screen<br />
<br />
You can either remove the bootscreen from XP via the NOGUIBOOT option in msconfig, or for Mame/Mamewah users you can replace the bootscreen with an animated MAME boot menu (my preference)<br />
<br />
a) Removing boot screen altogether<br />
<br />
i) In XP, click START -> RUN and enter msconfig<br />
ii) select BOOT.ini tab<br />
iii) click /NOGUIBOOT then OK<br />
<br />
b) Changing boot screen to animated Mame screen<br />
<br />
(click to enlarge)<br />
<br />
i) Download and install Stardocks Bootskin program. HERE<br />
ii) Download the MAME bootskin by Apocalpse_67 from HERE<br />
iii) Remove the .zip suffix from the filename once downloaded.<br />
iv) Run Bootskin and select File->Import and point to your mame.bootskin file.<br />
<br />
<br />
2. Getting rid of the Welcome screen<br />
<br />
i) Start Menu -> Control Panel + select User Accounts.<br />
ii) Select "Change the way users log on or off"<br />
iii) Un-tick the "Use the Welcome screen" + apply options. Close the User Accounts window.<br />
iv) Start Menu -> Run and enter control userpasswords2<br />
v) Un-tick the "User must enter a username and password to use this computer"<br />
vi) Enter the password for the person you want to login as.<br />
<br />
<br />
3. Getting rid of the "Loading settings" screens<br />
<br />
i) Start Menu -> Run and enter regedit<br />
ii) Navigate to entry: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE>Software>Microsoft>Windows>Curr entVersion>Policies>System<br />
iii) If there is an entry for "DisableStatusMessages" set it to 1<br />
<br />
If there is no entry, right-mouse click the "System" word, and select New->DWORD value, and enter "DisableStatusMessages", right-mouse to edit the value of it, and enter 1<br />
<br />
4. Changing the login background color<br />
<br />
i) Start Menu -> Run and enter regedit<br />
ii) Navigate to entry: HKEY_USERS>.DEFAULT>Control Panel>Colors<br />
iii) Right-mouse click the "Background" item, and select modify<br />
iv) Enter 3 RGB (Red Green Blue) numbers in the range 0-255 each. Black is 0 0 0 White is 255 255 255.<br />
<br />
5. Turn off Pop Up balloons<br />
<br />
If your cab is running in 640x480 or you have XP Security Center running you'll often get those annoying pop up balloons in the bottom right of your screen (great when you're in the middle of a great game of Galaxians..), to turn them off:<br />
<br />
i) Start Menu -> Run and enter regedit<br />
ii) Navigate to entry: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Explorer\Advanced<br />
iii) If there is an entry for "EnableBalloonTips" set it to the decimal 0 (the digit zero)<br />
<br />
If there is no entry, right-mouse click the "Advanced" word, and select New->DWORD value, and enter "EnableBalloonTips", right-mouse to edit the value of it, and enter the decimal 0 (the digit zero).<br />
<br />
<br />
6. Loading straight into frontend of your choice<br />
<br />
You can either boot into Explorer and have your front-end load as one of your "Startup" items or you can tell Windows to not bother loading Explorer and go straight to your front end. This is sometimes known as "shelling" Mamewah. The second method is quicker to load, and won't show a desktop briefly before loading your front-end, however it is more involved and riskier (if you goof up). For the purpose of this exercise we'll assume we're using Mamewah as our front end.<br />
<br />
a) Adding Mamewah to your startup items<br />
<br />
i) Start Menu->All Programs->StartUp and right-mouse click the Startup word and select Explore<br />
ii) In another window find where your Mamewah executable is, and click right-mouse and select Copy.<br />
iii) In your "Startup" window, right mouse click and select Paste Shortcut<br />
<br />
b) Putting Mamewah in windows shell<br />
<br />
Because we're running Mamewah as the shell and not explorer, if we quit Mamewah we want it to startup explorer for us, otherwise we'll just have a blank screen and not (easily) be able to do anything.<br />
<br />
i) Go to your Mamewah folder and edit your mamewah.ini file<br />
ii) Near the bottom of the list of options is app_to_run_on_exit enter explorer.exe next to it and save the file.<br />
i) Start Menu->Run and enter regedit<br />
ii) Navigate to the item HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\IniFileMapping\system.ini\boot<br />
iii) If there is an item in there called Shell right-mouse click and select modify<br />
iv) Change the first three letters from SYS to USR<br />
v) Navigate to the item HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon<br />
vi) Right-mouse click "Winlogon" and select New->String Value<br />
v) Name it Shell then right mouse click Shell and select modify and enter the full path to your Mamewah executeable eg. c:\emu\mamewah\mamewah.exe<br />
<br />
7. Don't want ESCAPE to leave Mamewah<br />
<br />
By default the ESCAPE button is the quit button on most cabinets, and is ideal for leaving your current MAME game.. but if you want a turnkey solution for your cabinet, you don't want the users to quit Mamewah by mistake, because you're without a keyboard and firing up Mamewah will probably need a reboot. So..<br />
<br />
i) Go to your Mamewah folder and find the ctrlr sub-folder.<br />
ii) Edit the default.ini file and navigate to the EXIT_TO_WINDOWS item<br />
iii) Change the entry to "DIK_TAB & DIK_ESCAPE"<br />
<br />
This way you can use "tab + escape" if want to quit Mamewah quickly via VNC if you're controlling it remotely.<br />
<br />
8. Mamewah preview movies don't show<br />
<br />
a) To get game previews to work in Mamewah, first make sure you've told Mamewah about them<br />
<br />
i) Go to your Mamewah folder, and enter the ini sub-folder<br />
ii) Edit the ini file relating to the emulator you want previews for (mostly mame.ini or 01mame.ini for Mame)<br />
iii) Find the movie_preview_path value and enter the path to the movies.<br />
<br />
b) Make sure you have the right movie codec<br />
<br />
i) Most preview movies out there require the Xvid codec, which can be found HERE<br />
ii) If you're not sure which codec you need, install the codec utility Gspot which can be found HERE<br />
<br />
c) Try this: Start Menu -> Run and type regsvr32 mpg4dmod.dll<br />
<br />
<br />
9. Optimising which services to user<br />
<br />
To access your list of services:<br />
<br />
i) Start Menu->Control Panel<br />
ii) Select Administrative Tools and then Services<br />
<br />
This topic is very subjective, so I'm not going to cover it personally, but give links to resources I found useful on the subject:<br />
<br />
Black Vipers Service Configurations<br />
<br />
Qwerty Maniac<br />
<br />
NOTE: If you're going to use Bootvis (below) to optimise your startup further, then do NOT deactivate the Task Scheduler service, as it's required by Bootvis.<br />
<br />
<br />
10. Speeding up XP in general<br />
<br />
If you're configuring XP to work in your cabinet you don't need any of the fancy features that XP automatically loads on startup like smooth fonts, fading menu items or visual styles.<br />
<br />
i) Get to System Properties.<br />
a) If you have the "My Computer" icon on your desktop right mouse click it and select Properties, if not<br />
b) Start Menu->Run and enter sysdm.cpl<br />
<br />
ii) Click the Advanced tab and then under the Performance heading, click Settings<br />
iii) Click Adjust for best performance<br />
<br />
Many people say that System Restore adds a fair overhead too, you can deactivate that also in the same System Properties box and select the System Restore tab and tick "Turn off System Restore on all drives"<br />
<br />
<br />
11. Bootvis<br />
<br />
OK, so you've deactivated all the services you don't want, you've got the cabinet booting to how you want, you've done a defrag but it's just taking a bit longer to boot than you would like.<br />
<br />
Bootvis, designed by Microsoft, analyses your boot processes and with the aid of graphs, shows you what processes / drivers are in your startup, but also how long they're taking and what your disk / CPU usage is.<br />
<br />
i) Get Bootvis HERE and install + run it<br />
ii) Choose File->New>Next Boot+Drivers Trace<br />
ii) Enter number of repetitions 2 and select OK<br />
iii) Wait for BootVis to reboot your machine twice<br />
iv) When it's rebooted the second time and finished analysing your boot process run Bootvis again<br />
v) Choose File->Open and open the TRACE_BOOT+DRIVERS_1_1.BIN file (in your Bootvis folder)<br />
vi) See how long it takes to boot the first time, then open TRACE_BOOT+DRIVERS_1_2.BIN file.<br />
vii) The second boot should be quicker.<br />
iix) Selecting the Trace->optimize option will reboot your machine and then defrag your boot items to make them load faster. (you will need to wait a few minutes while it does this)<br />
ix) Repeat steps ii) to vi) to see how long it takes to boot now. ( Change initial number starting to 3 to not overwrite the first boot logs)<br />
<br />
NOTE: If your system is dual boot you may see errors relating to "0 drives found"<br />
<br />
I take zero credit for this post. Thanks go to all the peeps that have contributed to it.</div>Bradhttps://wiki.pcbs.com.au/index.php?title=Hiding_Windows&diff=2849Hiding Windows2015-02-06T05:51:31Z<p>Brad: </p>
<hr />
<div>Removing Windows Screens from Boot (MAME) and other handy tips.<br />
<br />
Quoted from BYOAC<br />
<br />
There have been alot of threads on here posted by some very knowledgeable people about how to best hide XP from the boot up screens, and how to auto login, etc. but there doesn't seem to be a single start-to-finish post on the subject. Much of what we want done to XP can be sorted by a single application by Tom Spiers [http://www.example.com HERE]<br />
<br />
# Changing/removing the boot screen<br />
# Removing the Welcome screen<br />
# Removing the "Loading settings" and other startup messages<br />
# Change the login background color<br />
# Turn-off popup balloons<br />
# Loading straight to Mamewah (and exiting to Explorer)<br />
# Don't want ESCAPE to leave Mamewah<br />
# Mamewah preview movies don't show<br />
# Optimising which System services to use.<br />
# Speeding up XP in general<br />
# Bootvis<br />
<br />
1. Changing the boot screen<br />
<br />
You can either remove the bootscreen from XP via the NOGUIBOOT option in msconfig, or for Mame/Mamewah users you can replace the bootscreen with an animated MAME boot menu (my preference)<br />
<br />
a) Removing boot screen altogether<br />
<br />
i) In XP, click START -> RUN and enter msconfig<br />
ii) select BOOT.ini tab<br />
iii) click /NOGUIBOOT then OK<br />
<br />
b) Changing boot screen to animated Mame screen<br />
<br />
(click to enlarge)<br />
<br />
i) Download and install Stardocks Bootskin program. HERE<br />
ii) Download the MAME bootskin by Apocalpse_67 from HERE<br />
iii) Remove the .zip suffix from the filename once downloaded.<br />
iv) Run Bootskin and select File->Import and point to your mame.bootskin file.<br />
<br />
<br />
2. Getting rid of the Welcome screen<br />
<br />
i) Start Menu -> Control Panel + select User Accounts.<br />
ii) Select "Change the way users log on or off"<br />
iii) Un-tick the "Use the Welcome screen" + apply options. Close the User Accounts window.<br />
iv) Start Menu -> Run and enter control userpasswords2<br />
v) Un-tick the "User must enter a username and password to use this computer"<br />
vi) Enter the password for the person you want to login as.<br />
<br />
<br />
3. Getting rid of the "Loading settings" screens<br />
<br />
i) Start Menu -> Run and enter regedit<br />
ii) Navigate to entry: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE>Software>Microsoft>Windows>Curr entVersion>Policies>System<br />
iii) If there is an entry for "DisableStatusMessages" set it to 1<br />
<br />
If there is no entry, right-mouse click the "System" word, and select New->DWORD value, and enter "DisableStatusMessages", right-mouse to edit the value of it, and enter 1<br />
<br />
4. Changing the login background color<br />
<br />
i) Start Menu -> Run and enter regedit<br />
ii) Navigate to entry: HKEY_USERS>.DEFAULT>Control Panel>Colors<br />
iii) Right-mouse click the "Background" item, and select modify<br />
iv) Enter 3 RGB (Red Green Blue) numbers in the range 0-255 each. Black is 0 0 0 White is 255 255 255.<br />
<br />
5. Turn off Pop Up balloons<br />
<br />
If your cab is running in 640x480 or you have XP Security Center running you'll often get those annoying pop up balloons in the bottom right of your screen (great when you're in the middle of a great game of Galaxians..), to turn them off:<br />
<br />
i) Start Menu -> Run and enter regedit<br />
ii) Navigate to entry: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Explorer\Advanced<br />
iii) If there is an entry for "EnableBalloonTips" set it to the decimal 0 (the digit zero)<br />
<br />
If there is no entry, right-mouse click the "Advanced" word, and select New->DWORD value, and enter "EnableBalloonTips", right-mouse to edit the value of it, and enter the decimal 0 (the digit zero).<br />
<br />
<br />
6. Loading straight into frontend of your choice<br />
<br />
You can either boot into Explorer and have your front-end load as one of your "Startup" items or you can tell Windows to not bother loading Explorer and go straight to your front end. This is sometimes known as "shelling" Mamewah. The second method is quicker to load, and won't show a desktop briefly before loading your front-end, however it is more involved and riskier (if you goof up). For the purpose of this exercise we'll assume we're using Mamewah as our front end.<br />
<br />
a) Adding Mamewah to your startup items<br />
<br />
i) Start Menu->All Programs->StartUp and right-mouse click the Startup word and select Explore<br />
ii) In another window find where your Mamewah executable is, and click right-mouse and select Copy.<br />
iii) In your "Startup" window, right mouse click and select Paste Shortcut<br />
<br />
b) Putting Mamewah in windows shell<br />
<br />
Because we're running Mamewah as the shell and not explorer, if we quit Mamewah we want it to startup explorer for us, otherwise we'll just have a blank screen and not (easily) be able to do anything.<br />
<br />
i) Go to your Mamewah folder and edit your mamewah.ini file<br />
ii) Near the bottom of the list of options is app_to_run_on_exit enter explorer.exe next to it and save the file.<br />
i) Start Menu->Run and enter regedit<br />
ii) Navigate to the item HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\IniFileMapping\system.ini\boot<br />
iii) If there is an item in there called Shell right-mouse click and select modify<br />
iv) Change the first three letters from SYS to USR<br />
v) Navigate to the item HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon<br />
vi) Right-mouse click "Winlogon" and select New->String Value<br />
v) Name it Shell then right mouse click Shell and select modify and enter the full path to your Mamewah executeable eg. c:\emu\mamewah\mamewah.exe<br />
<br />
7. Don't want ESCAPE to leave Mamewah<br />
<br />
By default the ESCAPE button is the quit button on most cabinets, and is ideal for leaving your current MAME game.. but if you want a turnkey solution for your cabinet, you don't want the users to quit Mamewah by mistake, because you're without a keyboard and firing up Mamewah will probably need a reboot. So..<br />
<br />
i) Go to your Mamewah folder and find the ctrlr sub-folder.<br />
ii) Edit the default.ini file and navigate to the EXIT_TO_WINDOWS item<br />
iii) Change the entry to "DIK_TAB & DIK_ESCAPE"<br />
<br />
This way you can use "tab + escape" if want to quit Mamewah quickly via VNC if you're controlling it remotely.<br />
<br />
8. Mamewah preview movies don't show<br />
<br />
a) To get game previews to work in Mamewah, first make sure you've told Mamewah about them<br />
<br />
i) Go to your Mamewah folder, and enter the ini sub-folder<br />
ii) Edit the ini file relating to the emulator you want previews for (mostly mame.ini or 01mame.ini for Mame)<br />
iii) Find the movie_preview_path value and enter the path to the movies.<br />
<br />
b) Make sure you have the right movie codec<br />
<br />
i) Most preview movies out there require the Xvid codec, which can be found HERE<br />
ii) If you're not sure which codec you need, install the codec utility Gspot which can be found HERE<br />
<br />
c) Try this: Start Menu -> Run and type regsvr32 mpg4dmod.dll<br />
<br />
<br />
9. Optimising which services to user<br />
<br />
To access your list of services:<br />
<br />
i) Start Menu->Control Panel<br />
ii) Select Administrative Tools and then Services<br />
<br />
This topic is very subjective, so I'm not going to cover it personally, but give links to resources I found useful on the subject:<br />
<br />
Black Vipers Service Configurations<br />
<br />
Qwerty Maniac<br />
<br />
NOTE: If you're going to use Bootvis (below) to optimise your startup further, then do NOT deactivate the Task Scheduler service, as it's required by Bootvis.<br />
<br />
<br />
10. Speeding up XP in general<br />
<br />
If you're configuring XP to work in your cabinet you don't need any of the fancy features that XP automatically loads on startup like smooth fonts, fading menu items or visual styles.<br />
<br />
i) Get to System Properties.<br />
a) If you have the "My Computer" icon on your desktop right mouse click it and select Properties, if not<br />
b) Start Menu->Run and enter sysdm.cpl<br />
<br />
ii) Click the Advanced tab and then under the Performance heading, click Settings<br />
iii) Click Adjust for best performance<br />
<br />
Many people say that System Restore adds a fair overhead too, you can deactivate that also in the same System Properties box and select the System Restore tab and tick "Turn off System Restore on all drives"<br />
<br />
<br />
11. Bootvis<br />
<br />
OK, so you've deactivated all the services you don't want, you've got the cabinet booting to how you want, you've done a defrag but it's just taking a bit longer to boot than you would like.<br />
<br />
Bootvis, designed by Microsoft, analyses your boot processes and with the aid of graphs, shows you what processes / drivers are in your startup, but also how long they're taking and what your disk / CPU usage is.<br />
<br />
i) Get Bootvis HERE and install + run it<br />
ii) Choose File->New>Next Boot+Drivers Trace<br />
ii) Enter number of repetitions 2 and select OK<br />
iii) Wait for BootVis to reboot your machine twice<br />
iv) When it's rebooted the second time and finished analysing your boot process run Bootvis again<br />
v) Choose File->Open and open the TRACE_BOOT+DRIVERS_1_1.BIN file (in your Bootvis folder)<br />
vi) See how long it takes to boot the first time, then open TRACE_BOOT+DRIVERS_1_2.BIN file.<br />
vii) The second boot should be quicker.<br />
iix) Selecting the Trace->optimize option will reboot your machine and then defrag your boot items to make them load faster. (you will need to wait a few minutes while it does this)<br />
ix) Repeat steps ii) to vi) to see how long it takes to boot now. ( Change initial number starting to 3 to not overwrite the first boot logs)<br />
<br />
NOTE: If your system is dual boot you may see errors relating to "0 drives found"<br />
<br />
I take zero credit for this post. Thanks go to all the peeps that have contributed to it.</div>Bradhttps://wiki.pcbs.com.au/index.php?title=Hiding_Windows&diff=2848Hiding Windows2015-02-06T05:49:24Z<p>Brad: </p>
<hr />
<div>Removing Windows Screens from Boot (MAME) and other handy tips.<br />
<br />
Quoted from BYOAC<br />
<br />
There have been alot of threads on here posted by some very knowledgeable people about how to best hide XP from the boot up screens, and how to auto login, etc. but there doesn't seem to be a single start-to-finish post on the subject. Much of what we want done to XP can be sorted by a single application by Tom Spiers [http://www.example.com HERE]<br />
<br />
# Changing/removing the boot screen<br />
<br />
# Removing the Welcome screen<br />
<br />
# Removing the "Loading settings" and other startup messages<br />
<br />
# Change the login background color<br />
<br />
# Turn-off popup balloons<br />
<br />
# Loading straight to Mamewah (and exiting to Explorer)<br />
<br />
# Don't want ESCAPE to leave Mamewah<br />
<br />
# Mamewah preview movies don't show<br />
<br />
# Optimising which System services to use.<br />
<br />
# Speeding up XP in general<br />
<br />
# Bootvis<br />
<br />
<br />
1. Changing the boot screen<br />
<br />
You can either remove the bootscreen from XP via the NOGUIBOOT option in msconfig, or for Mame/Mamewah users you can replace the bootscreen with an animated MAME boot menu (my preference)<br />
<br />
a) Removing boot screen altogether<br />
<br />
i) In XP, click START -> RUN and enter msconfig<br />
ii) select BOOT.ini tab<br />
iii) click /NOGUIBOOT then OK<br />
<br />
b) Changing boot screen to animated Mame screen<br />
<br />
(click to enlarge)<br />
<br />
i) Download and install Stardocks Bootskin program. HERE<br />
ii) Download the MAME bootskin by Apocalpse_67 from HERE<br />
iii) Remove the .zip suffix from the filename once downloaded.<br />
iv) Run Bootskin and select File->Import and point to your mame.bootskin file.<br />
<br />
<br />
2. Getting rid of the Welcome screen<br />
<br />
i) Start Menu -> Control Panel + select User Accounts.<br />
ii) Select "Change the way users log on or off"<br />
iii) Un-tick the "Use the Welcome screen" + apply options. Close the User Accounts window.<br />
iv) Start Menu -> Run and enter control userpasswords2<br />
v) Un-tick the "User must enter a username and password to use this computer"<br />
vi) Enter the password for the person you want to login as.<br />
<br />
<br />
3. Getting rid of the "Loading settings" screens<br />
<br />
i) Start Menu -> Run and enter regedit<br />
ii) Navigate to entry: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE>Software>Microsoft>Windows>Curr entVersion>Policies>System<br />
iii) If there is an entry for "DisableStatusMessages" set it to 1<br />
<br />
If there is no entry, right-mouse click the "System" word, and select New->DWORD value, and enter "DisableStatusMessages", right-mouse to edit the value of it, and enter 1<br />
<br />
4. Changing the login background color<br />
<br />
i) Start Menu -> Run and enter regedit<br />
ii) Navigate to entry: HKEY_USERS>.DEFAULT>Control Panel>Colors<br />
iii) Right-mouse click the "Background" item, and select modify<br />
iv) Enter 3 RGB (Red Green Blue) numbers in the range 0-255 each. Black is 0 0 0 White is 255 255 255.<br />
<br />
5. Turn off Pop Up balloons<br />
<br />
If your cab is running in 640x480 or you have XP Security Center running you'll often get those annoying pop up balloons in the bottom right of your screen (great when you're in the middle of a great game of Galaxians..), to turn them off:<br />
<br />
i) Start Menu -> Run and enter regedit<br />
ii) Navigate to entry: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Explorer\Advanced<br />
iii) If there is an entry for "EnableBalloonTips" set it to the decimal 0 (the digit zero)<br />
<br />
If there is no entry, right-mouse click the "Advanced" word, and select New->DWORD value, and enter "EnableBalloonTips", right-mouse to edit the value of it, and enter the decimal 0 (the digit zero).<br />
<br />
<br />
6. Loading straight into frontend of your choice<br />
<br />
You can either boot into Explorer and have your front-end load as one of your "Startup" items or you can tell Windows to not bother loading Explorer and go straight to your front end. This is sometimes known as "shelling" Mamewah. The second method is quicker to load, and won't show a desktop briefly before loading your front-end, however it is more involved and riskier (if you goof up). For the purpose of this exercise we'll assume we're using Mamewah as our front end.<br />
<br />
a) Adding Mamewah to your startup items<br />
<br />
i) Start Menu->All Programs->StartUp and right-mouse click the Startup word and select Explore<br />
ii) In another window find where your Mamewah executable is, and click right-mouse and select Copy.<br />
iii) In your "Startup" window, right mouse click and select Paste Shortcut<br />
<br />
b) Putting Mamewah in windows shell<br />
<br />
Because we're running Mamewah as the shell and not explorer, if we quit Mamewah we want it to startup explorer for us, otherwise we'll just have a blank screen and not (easily) be able to do anything.<br />
<br />
i) Go to your Mamewah folder and edit your mamewah.ini file<br />
ii) Near the bottom of the list of options is app_to_run_on_exit enter explorer.exe next to it and save the file.<br />
i) Start Menu->Run and enter regedit<br />
ii) Navigate to the item HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\IniFileMapping\system.ini\boot<br />
iii) If there is an item in there called Shell right-mouse click and select modify<br />
iv) Change the first three letters from SYS to USR<br />
v) Navigate to the item HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon<br />
vi) Right-mouse click "Winlogon" and select New->String Value<br />
v) Name it Shell then right mouse click Shell and select modify and enter the full path to your Mamewah executeable eg. c:\emu\mamewah\mamewah.exe<br />
<br />
7. Don't want ESCAPE to leave Mamewah<br />
<br />
By default the ESCAPE button is the quit button on most cabinets, and is ideal for leaving your current MAME game.. but if you want a turnkey solution for your cabinet, you don't want the users to quit Mamewah by mistake, because you're without a keyboard and firing up Mamewah will probably need a reboot. So..<br />
<br />
i) Go to your Mamewah folder and find the ctrlr sub-folder.<br />
ii) Edit the default.ini file and navigate to the EXIT_TO_WINDOWS item<br />
iii) Change the entry to "DIK_TAB & DIK_ESCAPE"<br />
<br />
This way you can use "tab + escape" if want to quit Mamewah quickly via VNC if you're controlling it remotely.<br />
<br />
8. Mamewah preview movies don't show<br />
<br />
a) To get game previews to work in Mamewah, first make sure you've told Mamewah about them<br />
<br />
i) Go to your Mamewah folder, and enter the ini sub-folder<br />
ii) Edit the ini file relating to the emulator you want previews for (mostly mame.ini or 01mame.ini for Mame)<br />
iii) Find the movie_preview_path value and enter the path to the movies.<br />
<br />
b) Make sure you have the right movie codec<br />
<br />
i) Most preview movies out there require the Xvid codec, which can be found HERE<br />
ii) If you're not sure which codec you need, install the codec utility Gspot which can be found HERE<br />
<br />
c) Try this: Start Menu -> Run and type regsvr32 mpg4dmod.dll<br />
<br />
<br />
9. Optimising which services to user<br />
<br />
To access your list of services:<br />
<br />
i) Start Menu->Control Panel<br />
ii) Select Administrative Tools and then Services<br />
<br />
This topic is very subjective, so I'm not going to cover it personally, but give links to resources I found useful on the subject:<br />
<br />
Black Vipers Service Configurations<br />
<br />
Qwerty Maniac<br />
<br />
NOTE: If you're going to use Bootvis (below) to optimise your startup further, then do NOT deactivate the Task Scheduler service, as it's required by Bootvis.<br />
<br />
<br />
10. Speeding up XP in general<br />
<br />
If you're configuring XP to work in your cabinet you don't need any of the fancy features that XP automatically loads on startup like smooth fonts, fading menu items or visual styles.<br />
<br />
i) Get to System Properties.<br />
a) If you have the "My Computer" icon on your desktop right mouse click it and select Properties, if not<br />
b) Start Menu->Run and enter sysdm.cpl<br />
<br />
ii) Click the Advanced tab and then under the Performance heading, click Settings<br />
iii) Click Adjust for best performance<br />
<br />
Many people say that System Restore adds a fair overhead too, you can deactivate that also in the same System Properties box and select the System Restore tab and tick "Turn off System Restore on all drives"<br />
<br />
<br />
11. Bootvis<br />
<br />
OK, so you've deactivated all the services you don't want, you've got the cabinet booting to how you want, you've done a defrag but it's just taking a bit longer to boot than you would like.<br />
<br />
Bootvis, designed by Microsoft, analyses your boot processes and with the aid of graphs, shows you what processes / drivers are in your startup, but also how long they're taking and what your disk / CPU usage is.<br />
<br />
i) Get Bootvis HERE and install + run it<br />
ii) Choose File->New>Next Boot+Drivers Trace<br />
ii) Enter number of repetitions 2 and select OK<br />
iii) Wait for BootVis to reboot your machine twice<br />
iv) When it's rebooted the second time and finished analysing your boot process run Bootvis again<br />
v) Choose File->Open and open the TRACE_BOOT+DRIVERS_1_1.BIN file (in your Bootvis folder)<br />
vi) See how long it takes to boot the first time, then open TRACE_BOOT+DRIVERS_1_2.BIN file.<br />
vii) The second boot should be quicker.<br />
iix) Selecting the Trace->optimize option will reboot your machine and then defrag your boot items to make them load faster. (you will need to wait a few minutes while it does this)<br />
ix) Repeat steps ii) to vi) to see how long it takes to boot now. ( Change initial number starting to 3 to not overwrite the first boot logs)<br />
<br />
NOTE: If your system is dual boot you may see errors relating to "0 drives found"<br />
<br />
I take zero credit for this post. Thanks go to all the peeps that have contributed to it.</div>Bradhttps://wiki.pcbs.com.au/index.php?title=Hiding_Windows&diff=2847Hiding Windows2015-02-06T05:48:17Z<p>Brad: Created page with "Removing Windows Screens from Boot (MAME) and other handy tips. Quoted from BYOAC There have been alot of threads on here posted by some very knowledgeable people about how ..."</p>
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<div>Removing Windows Screens from Boot (MAME) and other handy tips.<br />
<br />
Quoted from BYOAC<br />
<br />
There have been alot of threads on here posted by some very knowledgeable people about how to best hide XP from the boot up screens, and how to auto login, etc. but there doesn't seem to be a single start-to-finish post on the subject. Much of what we want done to XP can be sorted by a single application by Tom Spiers HERE<br />
<br />
# Changing/removing the boot screen<br />
<br />
# Removing the Welcome screen<br />
<br />
# Removing the "Loading settings" and other startup messages<br />
<br />
# Change the login background color<br />
<br />
# Turn-off popup balloons<br />
<br />
# Loading straight to Mamewah (and exiting to Explorer)<br />
<br />
# Don't want ESCAPE to leave Mamewah<br />
<br />
# Mamewah preview movies don't show<br />
<br />
# Optimising which System services to use.<br />
<br />
# Speeding up XP in general<br />
<br />
# Bootvis<br />
<br />
<br />
1. Changing the boot screen<br />
<br />
You can either remove the bootscreen from XP via the NOGUIBOOT option in msconfig, or for Mame/Mamewah users you can replace the bootscreen with an animated MAME boot menu (my preference)<br />
<br />
a) Removing boot screen altogether<br />
<br />
i) In XP, click START -> RUN and enter msconfig<br />
ii) select BOOT.ini tab<br />
iii) click /NOGUIBOOT then OK<br />
<br />
b) Changing boot screen to animated Mame screen<br />
<br />
(click to enlarge)<br />
<br />
i) Download and install Stardocks Bootskin program. HERE<br />
ii) Download the MAME bootskin by Apocalpse_67 from HERE<br />
iii) Remove the .zip suffix from the filename once downloaded.<br />
iv) Run Bootskin and select File->Import and point to your mame.bootskin file.<br />
<br />
<br />
2. Getting rid of the Welcome screen<br />
<br />
i) Start Menu -> Control Panel + select User Accounts.<br />
ii) Select "Change the way users log on or off"<br />
iii) Un-tick the "Use the Welcome screen" + apply options. Close the User Accounts window.<br />
iv) Start Menu -> Run and enter control userpasswords2<br />
v) Un-tick the "User must enter a username and password to use this computer"<br />
vi) Enter the password for the person you want to login as.<br />
<br />
<br />
3. Getting rid of the "Loading settings" screens<br />
<br />
i) Start Menu -> Run and enter regedit<br />
ii) Navigate to entry: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE>Software>Microsoft>Windows>Curr entVersion>Policies>System<br />
iii) If there is an entry for "DisableStatusMessages" set it to 1<br />
<br />
If there is no entry, right-mouse click the "System" word, and select New->DWORD value, and enter "DisableStatusMessages", right-mouse to edit the value of it, and enter 1<br />
<br />
4. Changing the login background color<br />
<br />
i) Start Menu -> Run and enter regedit<br />
ii) Navigate to entry: HKEY_USERS>.DEFAULT>Control Panel>Colors<br />
iii) Right-mouse click the "Background" item, and select modify<br />
iv) Enter 3 RGB (Red Green Blue) numbers in the range 0-255 each. Black is 0 0 0 White is 255 255 255.<br />
<br />
5. Turn off Pop Up balloons<br />
<br />
If your cab is running in 640x480 or you have XP Security Center running you'll often get those annoying pop up balloons in the bottom right of your screen (great when you're in the middle of a great game of Galaxians..), to turn them off:<br />
<br />
i) Start Menu -> Run and enter regedit<br />
ii) Navigate to entry: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Explorer\Advanced<br />
iii) If there is an entry for "EnableBalloonTips" set it to the decimal 0 (the digit zero)<br />
<br />
If there is no entry, right-mouse click the "Advanced" word, and select New->DWORD value, and enter "EnableBalloonTips", right-mouse to edit the value of it, and enter the decimal 0 (the digit zero).<br />
<br />
<br />
6. Loading straight into frontend of your choice<br />
<br />
You can either boot into Explorer and have your front-end load as one of your "Startup" items or you can tell Windows to not bother loading Explorer and go straight to your front end. This is sometimes known as "shelling" Mamewah. The second method is quicker to load, and won't show a desktop briefly before loading your front-end, however it is more involved and riskier (if you goof up). For the purpose of this exercise we'll assume we're using Mamewah as our front end.<br />
<br />
a) Adding Mamewah to your startup items<br />
<br />
i) Start Menu->All Programs->StartUp and right-mouse click the Startup word and select Explore<br />
ii) In another window find where your Mamewah executable is, and click right-mouse and select Copy.<br />
iii) In your "Startup" window, right mouse click and select Paste Shortcut<br />
<br />
b) Putting Mamewah in windows shell<br />
<br />
Because we're running Mamewah as the shell and not explorer, if we quit Mamewah we want it to startup explorer for us, otherwise we'll just have a blank screen and not (easily) be able to do anything.<br />
<br />
i) Go to your Mamewah folder and edit your mamewah.ini file<br />
ii) Near the bottom of the list of options is app_to_run_on_exit enter explorer.exe next to it and save the file.<br />
i) Start Menu->Run and enter regedit<br />
ii) Navigate to the item HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\IniFileMapping\system.ini\boot<br />
iii) If there is an item in there called Shell right-mouse click and select modify<br />
iv) Change the first three letters from SYS to USR<br />
v) Navigate to the item HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon<br />
vi) Right-mouse click "Winlogon" and select New->String Value<br />
v) Name it Shell then right mouse click Shell and select modify and enter the full path to your Mamewah executeable eg. c:\emu\mamewah\mamewah.exe<br />
<br />
7. Don't want ESCAPE to leave Mamewah<br />
<br />
By default the ESCAPE button is the quit button on most cabinets, and is ideal for leaving your current MAME game.. but if you want a turnkey solution for your cabinet, you don't want the users to quit Mamewah by mistake, because you're without a keyboard and firing up Mamewah will probably need a reboot. So..<br />
<br />
i) Go to your Mamewah folder and find the ctrlr sub-folder.<br />
ii) Edit the default.ini file and navigate to the EXIT_TO_WINDOWS item<br />
iii) Change the entry to "DIK_TAB & DIK_ESCAPE"<br />
<br />
This way you can use "tab + escape" if want to quit Mamewah quickly via VNC if you're controlling it remotely.<br />
<br />
8. Mamewah preview movies don't show<br />
<br />
a) To get game previews to work in Mamewah, first make sure you've told Mamewah about them<br />
<br />
i) Go to your Mamewah folder, and enter the ini sub-folder<br />
ii) Edit the ini file relating to the emulator you want previews for (mostly mame.ini or 01mame.ini for Mame)<br />
iii) Find the movie_preview_path value and enter the path to the movies.<br />
<br />
b) Make sure you have the right movie codec<br />
<br />
i) Most preview movies out there require the Xvid codec, which can be found HERE<br />
ii) If you're not sure which codec you need, install the codec utility Gspot which can be found HERE<br />
<br />
c) Try this: Start Menu -> Run and type regsvr32 mpg4dmod.dll<br />
<br />
<br />
9. Optimising which services to user<br />
<br />
To access your list of services:<br />
<br />
i) Start Menu->Control Panel<br />
ii) Select Administrative Tools and then Services<br />
<br />
This topic is very subjective, so I'm not going to cover it personally, but give links to resources I found useful on the subject:<br />
<br />
Black Vipers Service Configurations<br />
<br />
Qwerty Maniac<br />
<br />
NOTE: If you're going to use Bootvis (below) to optimise your startup further, then do NOT deactivate the Task Scheduler service, as it's required by Bootvis.<br />
<br />
<br />
10. Speeding up XP in general<br />
<br />
If you're configuring XP to work in your cabinet you don't need any of the fancy features that XP automatically loads on startup like smooth fonts, fading menu items or visual styles.<br />
<br />
i) Get to System Properties.<br />
a) If you have the "My Computer" icon on your desktop right mouse click it and select Properties, if not<br />
b) Start Menu->Run and enter sysdm.cpl<br />
<br />
ii) Click the Advanced tab and then under the Performance heading, click Settings<br />
iii) Click Adjust for best performance<br />
<br />
Many people say that System Restore adds a fair overhead too, you can deactivate that also in the same System Properties box and select the System Restore tab and tick "Turn off System Restore on all drives"<br />
<br />
<br />
11. Bootvis<br />
<br />
OK, so you've deactivated all the services you don't want, you've got the cabinet booting to how you want, you've done a defrag but it's just taking a bit longer to boot than you would like.<br />
<br />
Bootvis, designed by Microsoft, analyses your boot processes and with the aid of graphs, shows you what processes / drivers are in your startup, but also how long they're taking and what your disk / CPU usage is.<br />
<br />
i) Get Bootvis HERE and install + run it<br />
ii) Choose File->New>Next Boot+Drivers Trace<br />
ii) Enter number of repetitions 2 and select OK<br />
iii) Wait for BootVis to reboot your machine twice<br />
iv) When it's rebooted the second time and finished analysing your boot process run Bootvis again<br />
v) Choose File->Open and open the TRACE_BOOT+DRIVERS_1_1.BIN file (in your Bootvis folder)<br />
vi) See how long it takes to boot the first time, then open TRACE_BOOT+DRIVERS_1_2.BIN file.<br />
vii) The second boot should be quicker.<br />
iix) Selecting the Trace->optimize option will reboot your machine and then defrag your boot items to make them load faster. (you will need to wait a few minutes while it does this)<br />
ix) Repeat steps ii) to vi) to see how long it takes to boot now. ( Change initial number starting to 3 to not overwrite the first boot logs)<br />
<br />
NOTE: If your system is dual boot you may see errors relating to "0 drives found"<br />
<br />
I take zero credit for this post. Thanks go to all the peeps that have contributed to it.</div>Bradhttps://wiki.pcbs.com.au/index.php?title=Mame_Conversion_Software&diff=2846Mame Conversion Software2015-02-06T05:45:05Z<p>Brad: </p>
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<div>__NOTOC__<br />
Creating a mamed machine effectively means that you change your single game machine running a PCB over to a machine that can run anything from one game to thousands all powered by a standard PC. Mame is an emulator started by Nicola Salmoria and first released back in February 1997. Since then it has become extremely well known and even spawned many pirate multi-board PCBs with a jamma interface.<br />
<br />
Once people discovered mame and started replaying their youth on home computers the rest was inevitable. Along came custom arcade controllers followed quickly by complete cabinets either retrofitted or build from scratch.<br />
<br />
However none of this would be possible without the software and the library of emulators, front-ends and utilties has grown considerably.<br />
<br />
== Emulators ==<br />
<br />
* [[Arcade Emulators]]<br />
* [[Console Emulators]]<br />
* [[Handheld Game Emulators]]<br />
* [[Computer Emulators]]<br />
* [[Pinball Emulators & Simulators]]<br />
<br />
== Front Ends ==<br />
<br />
* Windows<br />
* Dos<br />
* Macintosh<br />
* Linux<br />
<br />
== Extras ==<br />
<br />
== Utilities ==<br />
<br />
* Rom Managers<br />
* Game List Management<br />
* Wrappers<br />
<br />
== PC Configuration ==<br />
<br />
* [[Hiding Windows]]</div>Bradhttps://wiki.pcbs.com.au/index.php?title=Arcade_Machine_Restoration_Primer&diff=2845Arcade Machine Restoration Primer2013-02-22T04:31:11Z<p>Brad: </p>
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<div>== Arcade Machine Primer ==<br />
<br><br />
'''Author:''' [http://www.aussiearcade.com.au/member.php/2548-knight76 knight76]<br><br />
'''Forum Thread:''' [http://www.aussiearcade.com.au/showthread.php/57063-Arcade-Machine-Primer Arcade Machine Primer]<br><br />
<br><br />
I thought it would be good to have something for people new to the arcade hobby to read and help them get a jump on the learning curve that you face when starting out. One of the hardest things is understanding the terms used, and how each part relates to each other within an arcade machine. I remember before I got in to the hobby my imagination ran wild with what was on the inside of a cabinet, all sorts of wonderful things. To my surprise when I investigated with a bit more seriosity (my word, I patented it) inside the cabinet was just a bunch of wires and dusty old, electronic components that looked like they would electrify me at my first touch.<br><br />
<br><br />
The reality of course is they are fairly simple machines that have a few components that work together to play those awesome games we love. So to hopefully help some people new to the hobby I put this together.<br><br />
<br><br />
This primer is not going to cover every variation of a possible scenario but will provide the basics of how an average arcade machine works. There is some jargon that is thrown around and below are the most common words to be aware of.<br><br />
<br />
=== Common Terms ===<br />
<br />
* '''Cab''' - Arcade cabinet, not a taxi lol. Cocktail = Tabletop, Upright = Larger 6' in size, Lowboy = medium height around 4-5' in height.<br />
* '''Control Panel''' - Just the section of the arcade machine that holds the joysticks, buttons or other controls.<br />
* '''Arcade Screen (Monitor or Tube)''' - Just the TV tube in the cabinet. They come in several types and brands. Most arcade games work on 15khz monitors, some work on 24khz and others work on 32khz. But 15khz is by far the most common. Requires a Chassis to be of any use.<br />
* '''Monitor Chassis''' - This is a PCB that is normally affixed to the side of the machine. Cables then run from this up to the monitor. This takes the video output from the game board, and allows it to be displayed on the Arcade Monitor.<br />
* '''Switching Power Supply (PSU)''' - This is the power supply that provides +5v, -5V and +12+ to arcade PCB's.<br />
* '''Step Down Transformer''' - Most arcade Chassis run on 110V. The power out of the wall in Australia is 240v. So the step down transformer takes this 240V and transforms it in to the 110v the arcade Chassis requires. Also called an Isolation Transformer.<br />
* '''Arcade PCB's''' - Just the game boards that you plug in to an edge connector to allow the game to run in the cab.<br />
* '''Arcade Harness''' - This is the collection of wires that run from the game board to the different components within the machine. Jamma is the most common harness used.<br />
* '''Edge Connector''' - This is the physical interface between the game board and the jamma harness. The Game Board plugs in to this.<br />
* '''Jamma''' - This refers to the pinout that a game board uses to connect to the rest of the arcade machine. A Jamma game board will have 28 gold looking pins on the top and bottom side of the game board. Each side has it's own pins and functionality and plugging the game board in upside down will likely do big damage to the game board. More on this below<br />
* '''Ground''' - This is the earth for all the metal parts of the cabinet as well as allowing all of the switches to work correctly. On the PSU there is a ground connector labeled "FG", this ground wire runs back out of your cab and to the wall socket and is used to ensure all of your metal components are grounded. The coin door, control panel, power supply and step down transformer will all likely be connected to this ground circuit. There is also a Ground on the arcade harness and this connects to the power supply connector labeled "GND". This is the ground used by all of the switches and electonic components for your cabinet through the arcade harness.<br />
<br><br />
These are the main basic terms to be aware of and cover the most common components of an arcade machine.<br><br />
<br />
=== So, how does an arcade machine work? ===<br />
<br />
1) Out of the wall socket comes the 240v power and this enters the machine and generally goes through a switch. It also generally goes through a fuse also. It is important to remember that any time you are working on a machine it should be switched off and unplugged, unless of course you are adjusting the monitor picture.<br><br />
<br><br />
2) From here the power cables often run's to a distribution box that distributes the power to various parts of the cabinet. A common looking distribution box is below:<br><br />
<br><br />
[[File:Arcade restoration cabinet distribution box 01.jpg]]<br />
<br><br />
<br><br />
Notice there is a fuse and a switch. Often the power enters the cab and goes straight to the distribution box. Note the multiple white plugs at the back of the distribution box. These are the outputs that send the power to the other components in the cab. Also note the metal braid wire that is coming from the left of the distribution box, often cabinets use these as a ground wire throughout the cab. Typically components are screwed down on to the braiding to ensure they are grounded.<br />
<br><br />
From the distribution box the power typically runs to a step down transformer and switching power supply.<br />
<br><br />
3) Step Down Transformer - As mentioned above this converts the 240v from the wall outlet to 110v that the monitor chassis uses. The stereotypical step down transformer is pictured below:<br />
<br><br />
<br><br />
[[File:Arcade restoration cabinet stepdown transformer 01.jpg]]<br />
<br><br />
<br><br />
There are sometimes additional fuses on the cables carrying power as in this picture, to the left. The power coming out of this step down transformer will run directly to the monitor chassis.<br />
<br><br />
4) Switching Power Supply (PSU) - These take the higher voltage power and convert it in to low voltage power the game board, and other parts of the cabinet require. Typical power voltages are +5v, -5v and 12v. A picture of a typical looking power supply is below:<br />
<br><br />
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[[File:Arcade restoration cabinet switching power supply 01.jpg]]<br />
<br><br />
<br><br />
Each cable is usually connected to the out/inputs via a connector. Sometimes you will see them soldered directly to the out/inputs. The PSU will have writing next to each connector to explain what it does. The bottom three are usually 240vac, and the Ground. The rest are usually outputs for the +5v, -5v and +12v cables that run to the jamma harness edge connector to power the game board.<br />
<br><br />
There is usually a way to adjust the voltage on the 5v output, this one is via the red knob that can be turned to adjust the voltage up or down.<br />
<br><br />
5) Arcade Harness + Edge Connector - The power cables run from the PSU to the edge connector, power the game board and the game board then sends the sound and video signals out to the speakers and arcade monitor chassis. A pic of an arcade Harness is below:<br />
<br><br />
<br><br />
[[File:Arcade restoration cabinet arcade harness 01.jpg]]<br />
<br><br />
<br><br />
[[File:Arcade restoration cabinet arcade harness 02.jpg]]<br />
<br><br />
<br><br />
The cables leading from the edge connector will be quite long, they have to go to all parts of the cabinet. Often the edge connector will be labeled for what each pin does.<br />
<br><br />
6) Arcade Monitor Chassis - The Arcade Harness will send the video signals to this chassis, which in turn sends them on to the arcade monitor for display. A pic of the chassis in my Neo Geo machine is here. This one was sourced from our forum monitor guru Jomac, you can find him in the sponsor section here.<br />
<br><br />
<br><br />
[[File:Arcade restoration cabinet chassis 01.jpg]]<br />
<br><br />
<br><br />
The Chassis will have 2 main adjustor knobs. One with "Screen" on it, and the other "focus" Screen adjusts the brightness of the display and focus is self explanatory. There may also be additional adjustments able to be performed on the chassis. These are usually done via small knobs that can be adjusted with a small screwdriver.<br />
<br><br />
7) Game PCB - The game board that plugs in to the arcade harness. Sometimes these are cartridges like with the Neo Geo, in these cases they plug in to a motherboard, which in turn plugs in to the arcade harness. The game boards use gold colored pins that push in to the edge connector, these pins each perform an action. The game board will use a certain "pinout" and the arcade harness needs to be wired correctly for that pinout.<br />
<br><br />
Jamma is the most common pinout used but many variations exist, even unique pinouts to one or only a handful of games. Often a non-jamma game board will come with a Jamma adaptor to allow it to run in jamma wired cabinets.<br />
<br><br />
<br><br />
[[File:Arcade restoration cabinet pcb 01.png]]<br />
<br><br />
<br><br />
This is a Game Board plugged in to a Jamma Harness. Remember, be careful to make sure you plug the game board in the correct way. Normally the side containing all the components is called the parts side, and the solder side is called the er, solder side. It's a good idea to mark or label the edge connector of the arcade harness with what side it is for.<br />
<br><br />
Pinout - As mentioned above, the different arcade boards have different pinouts. Jamma being the most common. Here is a pic of the pinout of a jamma harness.<br />
<br><br />
<br><br />
[[File:Arcade restoration cabinet jamma pinout 01.gif]]<br />
<br><br />
<br><br />
Each of these entries needs to correspond to the pin on the arcade board.<br />
<br><br />
Remember - Any time you are working on an arcade machine, turn it off and unplug it. These arcade machines in certain areas can carry lethal voltages, better to be safe than sorry.<br />
<br><br />
Anode Cap - I thought I would include this also. The Anode Cap is the rubber suction cup looking thing attached to the outside of your arcade monitor. There will be a thick cable running from this to the chassis area, specifically the fly back transformer.<br />
<br><br />
It looks like the following item:<br />
<br><br />
<br><br />
[[File:Arcade restoration cabinet anode cap 01.jpg]]<br />
<br><br />
<br><br />
When the arcade machine is on, you do not want to be touching this area. Always have the arcade machine turned off and unplugged whilst working on the machine. If you have to remove this cap for any reason, do a lot of reading on [[Arcade_Machine_Restoration_Discharge_A_Monitor|Discharging A Monitor]] before doing anything. It is not difficult, just a few things to be careful of is all.<br />
<br><br />
<br><br />
'''Addendum:'''<br />
<br><br />
<br><br />
[[File:Arcade restoration cabinet monitor 01.jpg]]<br />
<br><br />
<br></div>Bradhttps://wiki.pcbs.com.au/index.php?title=Arcade_Machine_Restoration_Primer&diff=2844Arcade Machine Restoration Primer2013-02-22T04:28:38Z<p>Brad: </p>
<hr />
<div>== Arcade Machine Primer ==<br />
<br><br />
'''Author:''' [http://www.aussiearcade.com.au/member.php/2548-knight76 knight76]<br><br />
'''Forum Thread:''' [http://www.aussiearcade.com.au/showthread.php/57063-Arcade-Machine-Primer Arcade Machine Primer]<br><br />
<br><br />
I thought it would be good to have something for people new to the arcade hobby to read and help them get a jump on the learning curve that you face when starting out. One of the hardest things is understanding the terms used, and how each part relates to each other within an arcade machine. I remember before I got in to the hobby my imagination ran wild with what was on the inside of a cabinet, all sorts of wonderful things. To my surprise when I investigated with a bit more seriosity (my word, I patented it) inside the cabinet was just a bunch of wires and dusty old, electronic components that looked like they would electrify me at my first touch.<br><br />
<br><br />
The reality of course is they are fairly simple machines that have a few components that work together to play those awesome games we love. So to hopefully help some people new to the hobby I put this together.<br><br />
<br><br />
This primer is not going to cover every variation of a possible scenario but will provide the basics of how an average arcade machine works. There is some jargon that is thrown around and below are the most common words to be aware of.<br><br />
<br />
=== Common Terms ===<br />
<br />
* '''Cab''' - Arcade cabinet, not a taxi lol. Cocktail = Tabletop, Upright = Larger 6' in size, Lowboy = medium height around 4-5' in height.<br />
* '''Control Panel''' - Just the section of the arcade machine that holds the joysticks, buttons or other controls.<br />
* '''Arcade Screen (Monitor or Tube)''' - Just the TV tube in the cabinet. They come in several types and brands. Most arcade games work on 15khz monitors, some work on 24khz and others work on 32khz. But 15khz is by far the most common. Requires a Chassis to be of any use.<br />
* '''Monitor Chassis''' - This is a PCB that is normally affixed to the side of the machine. Cables then run from this up to the monitor. This takes the video output from the game board, and allows it to be displayed on the Arcade Monitor.<br />
* '''Switching Power Supply (PSU)''' - This is the power supply that provides +5v, -5V and +12+ to arcade PCB's.<br />
* '''Step Down Transformer''' - Most arcade Chassis run on 110V. The power out of the wall in Australia is 240v. So the step down transformer takes this 240V and transforms it in to the 110v the arcade Chassis requires. Also called an Isolation Transformer.<br />
* '''Arcade PCB's''' - Just the game boards that you plug in to an edge connector to allow the game to run in the cab.<br />
* '''Arcade Harness''' - This is the collection of wires that run from the game board to the different components within the machine. Jamma is the most common harness used.<br />
* '''Edge Connector''' - This is the physical interface between the game board and the jamma harness. The Game Board plugs in to this.<br />
* '''Jamma''' - This refers to the pinout that a game board uses to connect to the rest of the arcade machine. A Jamma game board will have 28 gold looking pins on the top and bottom side of the game board. Each side has it's own pins and functionality and plugging the game board in upside down will likely do big damage to the game board. More on this below<br />
* '''Ground''' - This is the earth for all the metal parts of the cabinet as well as allowing all of the switches to work correctly. On the PSU there is a ground connector labeled "FG", this ground wire runs back out of your cab and to the wall socket and is used to ensure all of your metal components are grounded. The coin door, control panel, power supply and step down transformer will all likely be connected to this ground circuit. There is also a Ground on the arcade harness and this connects to the power supply connector labeled "GND". This is the ground used by all of the switches and electonic components for your cabinet through the arcade harness.<br />
<br><br />
These are the main basic terms to be aware of and cover the most common components of an arcade machine.<br><br />
<br />
=== So, how does an arcade machine work? ===<br />
<br />
1) Out of the wall socket comes the 240v power and this enters the machine and generally goes through a switch. It also generally goes through a fuse also. It is important to remember that any time you are working on a machine it should be switched off and unplugged, unless of course you are adjusting the monitor picture.<br><br />
<br><br />
2) From here the power cables often run's to a distribution box that distributes the power to various parts of the cabinet. A common looking distribution box is below:<br><br />
<br><br />
[[File:Arcade restoration cabinet distribution box 01.jpg]]<br />
<br><br />
<br><br />
Notice there is a fuse and a switch. Often the power enters the cab and goes straight to the distribution box. Note the multiple white plugs at the back of the distribution box. These are the outputs that send the power to the other components in the cab. Also note the metal braid wire that is coming from the left of the distribution box, often cabinets use these as a ground wire throughout the cab. Typically components are screwed down on to the braiding to ensure they are grounded.<br />
<br><br />
From the distribution box the power typically runs to a step down transformer and switching power supply.<br />
<br><br />
3) Step Down Transformer - As mentioned above this converts the 240v from the wall outlet to 110v that the monitor chassis uses. The stereotypical step down transformer is pictured below:<br />
<br><br />
<br><br />
[[File:Arcade restoration cabinet stepdown transformer 01.jpg]]<br />
<br><br />
<br><br />
There are sometimes additional fuses on the cables carrying power as in this picture, to the left. The power coming out of this step down transformer will run directly to the monitor chassis.<br />
<br><br />
4) Switching Power Supply (PSU) - These take the higher voltage power and convert it in to low voltage power the game board, and other parts of the cabinet require. Typical power voltages are +5v, -5v and 12v. A picture of a typical looking power supply is below:<br />
<br><br />
<br><br />
[[File:Arcade restoration cabinet switching power supply 01.jpg]]<br />
<br><br />
<br><br />
Each cable is usually connected to the out/inputs via a connector. Sometimes you will see them soldered directly to the out/inputs. The PSU will have writing next to each connector to explain what it does. The bottom three are usually 240vac, and the Ground. The rest are usually outputs for the +5v, -5v and +12v cables that run to the jamma harness edge connector to power the game board.<br />
<br><br />
There is usually a way to adjust the voltage on the 5v output, this one is via the red knob that can be turned to adjust the voltage up or down.<br />
<br><br />
5) Arcade Harness + Edge Connector - The power cables run from the PSU to the edge connector, power the game board and the game board then sends the sound and video signals out to the speakers and arcade monitor chassis. A pic of an arcade Harness is below:<br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br><br />
[[File:Arcade restoration cabinet arcade harness 01.jpg]]<br />
<br><br />
<br><br />
[[File:Arcade restoration cabinet arcade harness 02.jpg]]<br />
<br><br />
<br><br />
The cables leading from the edge connector will be quite long, they have to go to all parts of the cabinet. Often the edge connector will be labeled for what each pin does.<br />
<br><br />
6) Arcade Monitor Chassis - The Arcade Harness will send the video signals to this chassis, which in turn sends them on to the arcade monitor for display. A pic of the chassis in my Neo Geo machine is here. This one was sourced from our forum monitor guru Jomac, you can find him in the sponsor section here.<br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br><br />
[[File:Arcade restoration cabinet chassis 01.jpg]]<br />
<br><br />
<br><br />
The Chassis will have 2 main adjustor knobs. One with "Screen" on it, and the other "focus" Screen adjusts the brightness of the display and focus is self explanatory. There may also be additional adjustments able to be performed on the chassis. These are usually done via small knobs that can be adjusted with a small screwdriver.<br />
<br><br />
7) Game PCB - The game board that plugs in to the arcade harness. Sometimes these are cartridges like with the Neo Geo, in these cases they plug in to a motherboard, which in turn plugs in to the arcade harness. The game boards use gold colored pins that push in to the edge connector, these pins each perform an action. The game board will use a certain "pinout" and the arcade harness needs to be wired correctly for that pinout.<br />
<br><br />
Jamma is the most common pinout used but many variations exist, even unique pinouts to one or only a handful of games. Often a non-jamma game board will come with a Jamma adaptor to allow it to run in jamma wired cabinets.<br />
<br><br />
<br><br />
[[File:Arcade restoration cabinet pcb 01.png]]<br />
<br><br />
<br><br />
This is a Game Board plugged in to a Jamma Harness. Remember, be careful to make sure you plug the game board in the correct way. Normally the side containing all the components is called the parts side, and the solder side is called the er, solder side. It's a good idea to mark or label the edge connector of the arcade harness with what side it is for.<br />
<br><br />
Pinout - As mentioned above, the different arcade boards have different pinouts. Jamma being the most common. Here is a pic of the pinout of a jamma harness.<br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br><br />
[[File:Arcade restoration cabinet jamma pinout 01.gif]]<br />
<br><br />
<br><br />
Each of these entries needs to correspond to the pin on the arcade board.<br />
<br><br />
Remember - Any time you are working on an arcade machine, turn it off and unplug it. These arcade machines in certain areas can carry lethal voltages, better to be safe than sorry.<br />
<br><br />
Anode Cap - I thought I would include this also. The Anode Cap is the rubber suction cup looking thing attached to the outside of your arcade monitor. There will be a thick cable running from this to the chassis area, specifically the fly back transformer.<br />
<br><br />
It looks like the following item:<br />
<br><br />
<br><br />
[[File:Arcade restoration cabinet anode cap 01.jpg]]<br />
<br><br />
<br><br />
When the arcade machine is on, you do not want to be touching this area. Always have the arcade machine turned off and unplugged whilst working on the machine. If you have to remove this cap for any reason, do a lot of reading on [[Arcade_Machine_Restoration_Discharge_A_Monitor|Discharging A Monitor]] before doing anything. It is not difficult, just a few things to be careful of is all.<br />
<br><br />
<br><br />
'''Addendum:'''<br />
<br><br />
<br><br />
[[File:Arcade restoration cabinet monitor 01.jpg]]<br />
<br><br />
<br></div>Bradhttps://wiki.pcbs.com.au/index.php?title=Arcade_Machine_Restoration_Primer&diff=2843Arcade Machine Restoration Primer2013-02-22T04:27:54Z<p>Brad: </p>
<hr />
<div>== Arcade Machine Primer ==<br />
<br><br />
'''Author:''' [http://www.aussiearcade.com.au/member.php/2548-knight76 knight76]<br><br />
'''Forum Thread:''' [http://www.aussiearcade.com.au/showthread.php/57063-Arcade-Machine-Primer Arcade Machine Primer]<br><br />
<br><br />
I thought it would be good to have something for people new to the arcade hobby to read and help them get a jump on the learning curve that you face when starting out. One of the hardest things is understanding the terms used, and how each part relates to each other within an arcade machine. I remember before I got in to the hobby my imagination ran wild with what was on the inside of a cabinet, all sorts of wonderful things. To my surprise when I investigated with a bit more seriosity (my word, I patented it) inside the cabinet was just a bunch of wires and dusty old, electronic components that looked like they would electrify me at my first touch.<br><br />
<br><br />
The reality of course is they are fairly simple machines that have a few components that work together to play those awesome games we love. So to hopefully help some people new to the hobby I put this together.<br><br />
<br><br />
This primer is not going to cover every variation of a possible scenario but will provide the basics of how an average arcade machine works. There is some jargon that is thrown around and below are the most common words to be aware of.<br><br />
<br />
=== Common Terms ===<br />
<br />
* '''Cab''' - Arcade cabinet, not a taxi lol. Cocktail = Tabletop, Upright = Larger 6' in size, Lowboy = medium height around 4-5' in height.<br />
* '''Control Panel''' - Just the section of the arcade machine that holds the joysticks, buttons or other controls.<br />
* '''Arcade Screen (Monitor or Tube)''' - Just the TV tube in the cabinet. They come in several types and brands. Most arcade games work on 15khz monitors, some work on 24khz and others work on 32khz. But 15khz is by far the most common. Requires a Chassis to be of any use.<br />
* '''Monitor Chassis''' - This is a PCB that is normally affixed to the side of the machine. Cables then run from this up to the monitor. This takes the video output from the game board, and allows it to be displayed on the Arcade Monitor.<br />
* '''Switching Power Supply (PSU)''' - This is the power supply that provides +5v, -5V and +12+ to arcade PCB's.<br />
* '''Step Down Transformer''' - Most arcade Chassis run on 110V. The power out of the wall in Australia is 240v. So the step down transformer takes this 240V and transforms it in to the 110v the arcade Chassis requires. Also called an Isolation Transformer.<br />
* '''Arcade PCB's''' - Just the game boards that you plug in to an edge connector to allow the game to run in the cab.<br />
* '''Arcade Harness''' - This is the collection of wires that run from the game board to the different components within the machine. Jamma is the most common harness used.<br />
* '''Edge Connector''' - This is the physical interface between the game board and the jamma harness. The Game Board plugs in to this.<br />
* '''Jamma''' - This refers to the pinout that a game board uses to connect to the rest of the arcade machine. A Jamma game board will have 28 gold looking pins on the top and bottom side of the game board. Each side has it's own pins and functionality and plugging the game board in upside down will likely do big damage to the game board. More on this below<br />
* '''Ground''' - This is the earth for all the metal parts of the cabinet as well as allowing all of the switches to work correctly. On the PSU there is a ground connector labeled "FG", this ground wire runs back out of your cab and to the wall socket and is used to ensure all of your metal components are grounded. The coin door, control panel, power supply and step down transformer will all likely be connected to this ground circuit. There is also a Ground on the arcade harness and this connects to the power supply connector labeled "GND". This is the ground used by all of the switches and electonic components for your cabinet through the arcade harness.<br />
<br><br />
These are the main basic terms to be aware of and cover the most common components of an arcade machine.<br><br />
<br />
=== So, how does an arcade machine work? ===<br />
<br />
1) Out of the wall socket comes the 240v power and this enters the machine and generally goes through a switch. It also generally goes through a fuse also. It is important to remember that any time you are working on a machine it should be switched off and unplugged, unless of course you are adjusting the monitor picture.<br><br />
<br><br />
2) From here the power cables often run's to a distribution box that distributes the power to various parts of the cabinet. A common looking distribution box is below:<br><br />
<br><br />
[[File:Arcade restoration cabinet distribution box 01.jpg]]<br />
<br><br />
<br><br />
Notice there is a fuse and a switch. Often the power enters the cab and goes straight to the distribution box. Note the multiple white plugs at the back of the distribution box. These are the outputs that send the power to the other components in the cab. Also note the metal braid wire that is coming from the left of the distribution box, often cabinets use these as a ground wire throughout the cab. Typically components are screwed down on to the braiding to ensure they are grounded.<br />
<br><br />
From the distribution box the power typically runs to a step down transformer and switching power supply.<br />
<br><br />
3) Step Down Transformer - As mentioned above this converts the 240v from the wall outlet to 110v that the monitor chassis uses. The stereotypical step down transformer is pictured below:<br />
<br><br />
<br><br />
[[File:Arcade restoration cabinet stepdown transformer 01.jpg]]<br />
<br><br />
<br><br />
There are sometimes additional fuses on the cables carrying power as in this picture, to the left. The power coming out of this step down transformer will run directly to the monitor chassis.<br />
<br><br />
4) Switching Power Supply (PSU) - These take the higher voltage power and convert it in to low voltage power the game board, and other parts of the cabinet require. Typical power voltages are +5v, -5v and 12v. A picture of a typical looking power supply is below:<br />
<br><br />
<br><br />
[[File:Arcade restoration cabinet switching power supply 01.jpg]]<br />
<br><br />
<br><br />
Each cable is usually connected to the out/inputs via a connector. Sometimes you will see them soldered directly to the out/inputs. The PSU will have writing next to each connector to explain what it does. The bottom three are usually 240vac, and the Ground. The rest are usually outputs for the +5v, -5v and +12v cables that run to the jamma harness edge connector to power the game board.<br />
<br><br />
There is usually a way to adjust the voltage on the 5v output, this one is via the red knob that can be turned to adjust the voltage up or down.<br />
<br><br />
5) Arcade Harness + Edge Connector - The power cables run from the PSU to the edge connector, power the game board and the game board then sends the sound and video signals out to the speakers and arcade monitor chassis. A pic of an arcade Harness is below:<br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br><br />
[[File:Arcade restoration cabinet arcade harness 01.jpg]]<br />
<br><br />
<br><br />
[[File:Arcade restoration cabinet arcade harness 02.jpg]]<br />
<br><br />
<br><br />
The cables leading from the edge connector will be quite long, they have to go to all parts of the cabinet. Often the edge connector will be labeled for what each pin does.<br />
<br><br />
6) Arcade Monitor Chassis - The Arcade Harness will send the video signals to this chassis, which in turn sends them on to the arcade monitor for display. A pic of the chassis in my Neo Geo machine is here. This one was sourced from our forum monitor guru Jomac, you can find him in the sponsor section here.<br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br><br />
[[File:Arcade restoration cabinet chassis 01.jpg]]<br />
<br><br />
<br><br />
The Chassis will have 2 main adjustor knobs. One with "Screen" on it, and the other "focus" Screen adjusts the brightness of the display and focus is self explanatory. There may also be additional adjustments able to be performed on the chassis. These are usually done via small knobs that can be adjusted with a small screwdriver.<br />
<br><br />
7) Game PCB - The game board that plugs in to the arcade harness. Sometimes these are cartridges like with the Neo Geo, in these cases they plug in to a motherboard, which in turn plugs in to the arcade harness. The game boards use gold colored pins that push in to the edge connector, these pins each perform an action. The game board will use a certain "pinout" and the arcade harness needs to be wired correctly for that pinout.<br />
<br><br />
Jamma is the most common pinout used but many variations exist, even unique pinouts to one or only a handful of games. Often a non-jamma game board will come with a Jamma adaptor to allow it to run in jamma wired cabinets.<br />
<br><br />
<br><br />
[[File:Arcade restoration cabinet pcb 01.png]]<br />
<br><br />
<br><br />
This is a Game Board plugged in to a Jamma Harness. Remember, be careful to make sure you plug the game board in the correct way. Normally the side containing all the components is called the parts side, and the solder side is called the er, solder side. It's a good idea to mark or label the edge connector of the arcade harness with what side it is for.<br />
<br><br />
Pinout - As mentioned above, the different arcade boards have different pinouts. Jamma being the most common. Here is a pic of the pinout of a jamma harness.<br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br><br />
[[File:Arcade restoration cabinet jamma pinout 01.gif]]<br />
<br><br />
<br><br />
Each of these entries needs to correspond to the pin on the arcade board.<br />
<br><br />
Remember - Any time you are working on an arcade machine, turn it off and unplug it. These arcade machines in certain areas can carry lethal voltages, better to be safe than sorry.<br />
<br><br />
Anode Cap - I thought I would include this also. The Anode Cap is the rubber suction cup looking thing attached to the outside of your arcade monitor. There will be a thick cable running from this to the chassis area, specifically the fly back transformer.<br />
<br><br />
It looks like the following item:<br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br><br />
[[File:Arcade restoration cabinet anode cap 01.jpg]]<br />
<br><br />
<br><br />
When the arcade machine is on, you do not want to be touching this area. Always have the arcade machine turned off and unplugged whilst working on the machine. If you have to remove this cap for any reason, do a lot of reading on [[Arcade_Machine_Restoration_Discharge_A_Monitor|Discharging A Monitor]] before doing anything. It is not difficult, just a few things to be careful of is all.<br />
<br><br />
<br><br />
'''Addendum:'''<br />
<br><br />
<br><br />
[[File:Arcade restoration cabinet monitor 01.jpg]]<br />
<br><br />
<br></div>Bradhttps://wiki.pcbs.com.au/index.php?title=Main_Page&diff=2842Main Page2013-02-22T04:26:56Z<p>Brad: </p>
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<p>Well I've installed the wiki, now I just need to familiarise myself <br />
with it's structure and function then look at opening it up for content <br />
contribution. <br />
</p><br />
<p>Please be patient whilst I grapple with that. In the meantime <br />
suggestions for content and content submission itself would be greatly <br />
appreciated. If you would like to help out please PM me a preferred <br />
Username (Forum ID), password and email address.<br />
</p><br />
<p>Cheers,<br><br />
Brad<br />
</p><br />
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<p><br />
== [[Arcade Machines]] ==<br />
</p>This section is devoted to all things arcade game whether it be old electro-mechanical in nature, video, redemption or even your mamed and multiboard units. <br />
<p><br />
==== Arcade Machine Restoration ====<br />
</p><br />
<ul><br />
<li>[[Arcade_Machine_Restoration_Basics|Basics]]</li><br />
<ul><li>[[Arcade_Machine_Restoration_Primer|Primer]]</li></ul><br />
<li>[[Arcade_Machine_Restoration_Artwork|Artwork]]</li><br />
<li>[[Arcade_Machine_Restoration_Cabinet|Cabinet]] </li><br />
<li>[[Arcade_Machine_Restoration_Monitors|Monitors]] </li><br />
<ul><li>[[Arcade_Machine_Restoration_Discharge_A_Monitor|Discharging A Monitor]]</li></ul><br />
<li>[[Arcade_Machine_Restoration_Controls|Controls]] </li><br />
<li>[[Arcade_Machine_Restoration_Wiring|Wiring]] </li><br />
<li>[[Arcade_Machine_Restoration_Woodwork|Woodwork]] </li><br />
<li>[[Arcade_Machine_Restoration_Painting|Painting]] </li><br />
<li>[[Arcade_Machine_Restoration_EM_Machines|EM Machines]]</li><br />
<li>[[Arcade_Machine_Restoration_PCB_Repair|PCB Repair]]</li><br />
<ul><li>[[Arcade_Machine_Restoration_PCB_Pinouts|PCB Pinouts]]</li></ul><br />
</ul><br />
<p><br />
<br />
==== Mame Conversion ====<br />
</p><br />
<ul><br />
<li>Cabinet </li><br />
<li>Woodwork </li><br />
<li>[[Mame_Conversion_Plans|Plans]] </li><br />
<li>[[Mame_Conversion_Monitors|Monitors]] </li><br />
<li>[[Mame_Conversion_Controls|Controls]] </li><br />
<li>Wiring </li><br />
<li>Painting </li><br />
<li>[[Mame_Conversion_PC|PC]] </li><br />
<li>[[Mame_Conversion_Software|Software]] </li><br />
<li>[[Mame_Conversion_Multiboards|Multiboards]]</li><br />
</ul><br />
<p><span class="mw-headline" id="Consoles"><br />
<br />
== Consoles == <br />
</span></p><br />
<ul><br />
<li>[[Console_Repairs|Repairs]]</li><br />
<li>[[Console_Mods|Mods]]</li><br />
<li>[[Console_How To's|How To's]]</li><br />
<li>[[Console_Imports|Imports]]</li><br />
</ul><br />
<td valign="top" style="width:50%"><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<br />
== Pinball Machines ==<br />
</p>Devoted to all things related to the silver ball.<br />
<p><br />
==== EM Machines ====<br />
</p><br />
<ul><br />
<li>Restoration</li><br />
<li>Artwork</li><br />
<li>Wiring</li><br />
<li>Repair</li><br />
<li>Maintenance</li><br />
</ul><br />
<p><br />
==== SS Machines ====<br />
</p><br />
<ul><br />
<li>Restoration</li><br />
<li>Artwork</li><br />
<li>Wiring</li><br />
<li>Repair</li><br />
<li>Maintenance</li><br />
</ul><br />
<p><br />
==== DMD Machines ====<br />
</p><br />
<ul><br />
<li>Restoration</li><br />
<li>Artwork</li><br />
<li>Wiring</li><br />
<li>Repair</li><br />
<li>Maintenance</li><br />
</ul><br />
<p><br />
==== Pin2000 Machines ====<br />
</p><br />
<ul><br />
<li>Restoration</li><br />
<li>Artwork</li><br />
<li>Wiring</li><br />
<li>Repair</li><br />
<li>Maintenance</li><br />
</ul><br />
</tr><br />
<br />
</table><br />
</div></div>Bradhttps://wiki.pcbs.com.au/index.php?title=Arcade_Machine_Restoration_Primer&diff=2841Arcade Machine Restoration Primer2013-02-22T04:23:27Z<p>Brad: </p>
<hr />
<div>== Arcade Machine Primer ==<br />
<br><br />
'''Author:''' [http://www.aussiearcade.com.au/member.php/2548-knight76 knight76]<br><br />
'''Forum Thread:''' [http://www.aussiearcade.com.au/showthread.php/57063-Arcade-Machine-Primer Arcade Machine Primer]<br><br />
<br><br />
I thought it would be good to have something for people new to the arcade hobby to read and help them get a jump on the learning curve that you face when starting out. One of the hardest things is understanding the terms used, and how each part relates to each other within an arcade machine. I remember before I got in to the hobby my imagination ran wild with what was on the inside of a cabinet, all sorts of wonderful things. To my surprise when I investigated with a bit more seriosity (my word, I patented it) inside the cabinet was just a bunch of wires and dusty old, electronic components that looked like they would electrify me at my first touch.<br><br />
<br><br />
The reality of course is they are fairly simple machines that have a few components that work together to play those awesome games we love. So to hopefully help some people new to the hobby I put this together.<br><br />
<br><br />
This primer is not going to cover every variation of a possible scenario but will provide the basics of how an average arcade machine works. There is some jargon that is thrown around and below are the most common words to be aware of.<br><br />
<br />
=== Common Terms ===<br />
<br />
* '''Cab''' - Arcade cabinet, not a taxi lol. Cocktail = Tabletop, Upright = Larger 6' in size, Lowboy = medium height around 4-5' in height.<br />
* '''Control Panel''' - Just the section of the arcade machine that holds the joysticks, buttons or other controls.<br />
* '''Arcade Screen (Monitor or Tube)''' - Just the TV tube in the cabinet. They come in several types and brands. Most arcade games work on 15khz monitors, some work on 24khz and others work on 32khz. But 15khz is by far the most common. Requires a Chassis to be of any use.<br />
* '''Monitor Chassis''' - This is a PCB that is normally affixed to the side of the machine. Cables then run from this up to the monitor. This takes the video output from the game board, and allows it to be displayed on the Arcade Monitor.<br />
* '''Switching Power Supply (PSU)''' - This is the power supply that provides +5v, -5V and +12+ to arcade PCB's.<br />
* '''Step Down Transformer''' - Most arcade Chassis run on 110V. The power out of the wall in Australia is 240v. So the step down transformer takes this 240V and transforms it in to the 110v the arcade Chassis requires. Also called an Isolation Transformer.<br />
* '''Arcade PCB's''' - Just the game boards that you plug in to an edge connector to allow the game to run in the cab.<br />
* '''Arcade Harness''' - This is the collection of wires that run from the game board to the different components within the machine. Jamma is the most common harness used.<br />
* '''Edge Connector''' - This is the physical interface between the game board and the jamma harness. The Game Board plugs in to this.<br />
* '''Jamma''' - This refers to the pinout that a game board uses to connect to the rest of the arcade machine. A Jamma game board will have 28 gold looking pins on the top and bottom side of the game board. Each side has it's own pins and functionality and plugging the game board in upside down will likely do big damage to the game board. More on this below<br />
* '''Ground''' - This is the earth for all the metal parts of the cabinet as well as allowing all of the switches to work correctly. On the PSU there is a ground connector labeled "FG", this ground wire runs back out of your cab and to the wall socket and is used to ensure all of your metal components are grounded. The coin door, control panel, power supply and step down transformer will all likely be connected to this ground circuit. There is also a Ground on the arcade harness and this connects to the power supply connector labeled "GND". This is the ground used by all of the switches and electonic components for your cabinet through the arcade harness.<br />
<br><br />
These are the main basic terms to be aware of and cover the most common components of an arcade machine.<br><br />
<br />
=== So, how does an arcade machine work? ===<br />
<br />
1) Out of the wall socket comes the 240v power and this enters the machine and generally goes through a switch. It also generally goes through a fuse also. It is important to remember that any time you are working on a machine it should be switched off and unplugged, unless of course you are adjusting the monitor picture.<br><br />
<br><br />
2) From here the power cables often run's to a distribution box that distributes the power to various parts of the cabinet. A common looking distribution box is below:<br><br />
<br><br />
[[File:Arcade restoration cabinet distribution box 01.jpg]]<br />
<br><br />
<br><br />
Notice there is a fuse and a switch. Often the power enters the cab and goes straight to the distribution box. Note the multiple white plugs at the back of the distribution box. These are the outputs that send the power to the other components in the cab. Also note the metal braid wire that is coming from the left of the distribution box, often cabinets use these as a ground wire throughout the cab. Typically components are screwed down on to the braiding to ensure they are grounded.<br />
<br><br />
From the distribution box the power typically runs to a step down transformer and switching power supply.<br />
<br><br />
3) Step Down Transformer - As mentioned above this converts the 240v from the wall outlet to 110v that the monitor chassis uses. The stereotypical step down transformer is pictured below:<br />
<br><br />
<br><br />
[[File:Arcade restoration cabinet stepdown transformer 01.jpg]]<br />
<br><br />
<br><br />
There are sometimes additional fuses on the cables carrying power as in this picture, to the left. The power coming out of this step down transformer will run directly to the monitor chassis.<br />
<br><br />
4) Switching Power Supply (PSU) - These take the higher voltage power and convert it in to low voltage power the game board, and other parts of the cabinet require. Typical power voltages are +5v, -5v and 12v. A picture of a typical looking power supply is below:<br />
<br><br />
<br><br />
[[File:Arcade restoration cabinet switching power supply 01.jpg]]<br />
<br><br />
<br><br />
Each cable is usually connected to the out/inputs via a connector. Sometimes you will see them soldered directly to the out/inputs. The PSU will have writing next to each connector to explain what it does. The bottom three are usually 240vac, and the Ground. The rest are usually outputs for the +5v, -5v and +12v cables that run to the jamma harness edge connector to power the game board.<br />
<br><br />
There is usually a way to adjust the voltage on the 5v output, this one is via the red knob that can be turned to adjust the voltage up or down.<br />
<br><br />
5) Arcade Harness + Edge Connector - The power cables run from the PSU to the edge connector, power the game board and the game board then sends the sound and video signals out to the speakers and arcade monitor chassis. A pic of an arcade Harness is below:<br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br><br />
[[File:Arcade restoration cabinet arcade harness 01.jpg]]<br />
<br><br />
<br><br />
[[File:Arcade restoration cabinet arcade harness 02.jpg]]<br />
<br><br />
<br><br />
The cables leading from the edge connector will be quite long, they have to go to all parts of the cabinet. Often the edge connector will be labeled for what each pin does.<br />
<br><br />
6) Arcade Monitor Chassis - The Arcade Harness will send the video signals to this chassis, which in turn sends them on to the arcade monitor for display. A pic of the chassis in my Neo Geo machine is here. This one was sourced from our forum monitor guru Jomac, you can find him in the sponsor section here.<br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br><br />
[[File:Arcade restoration cabinet chassis 01.jpg]]<br />
<br><br />
<br><br />
The Chassis will have 2 main adjustor knobs. One with "Screen" on it, and the other "focus" Screen adjusts the brightness of the display and focus is self explanatory. There may also be additional adjustments able to be performed on the chassis. These are usually done via small knobs that can be adjusted with a small screwdriver.<br />
<br><br />
7) Game PCB - The game board that plugs in to the arcade harness. Sometimes these are cartridges like with the Neo Geo, in these cases they plug in to a motherboard, which in turn plugs in to the arcade harness. The game boards use gold colored pins that push in to the edge connector, these pins each perform an action. The game board will use a certain "pinout" and the arcade harness needs to be wired correctly for that pinout.<br />
<br><br />
Jamma is the most common pinout used but many variations exist, even unique pinouts to one or only a handful of games. Often a non-jamma game board will come with a Jamma adaptor to allow it to run in jamma wired cabinets.<br />
<br><br />
<br><br />
[[File:Arcade restoration cabinet pcb 01.png]]<br />
<br><br />
<br><br />
This is a Game Board plugged in to a Jamma Harness. Remember, be careful to make sure you plug the game board in the correct way. Normally the side containing all the components is called the parts side, and the solder side is called the er, solder side. It's a good idea to mark or label the edge connector of the arcade harness with what side it is for.<br />
<br><br />
Pinout - As mentioned above, the different arcade boards have different pinouts. Jamma being the most common. Here is a pic of the pinout of a jamma harness.<br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br><br />
[[File:Arcade restoration cabinet jamma pinout 01.gif]]<br />
<br><br />
<br><br />
Each of these entries needs to correspond to the pin on the arcade board.<br />
<br><br />
Remember - Any time you are working on an arcade machine, turn it off and unplug it. These arcade machines in certain areas can carry lethal voltages, better to be safe than sorry.<br />
<br><br />
Anode Cap - I thought I would include this also. The Anode Cap is the rubber suction cup looking thing attached to the outside of your arcade monitor. There will be a thick cable running from this to the chassis area, specifically the fly back transformer.<br />
<br><br />
It looks like the following item:<br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br><br />
[[File:Arcade restoration cabinet anode cap 01.jpg]]<br />
<br><br />
<br><br />
When the arcade machine is on, you do not want to be touching this area. Always have the arcade machine turned off and unplugged whilst working on the machine. If you have to remove this cap for any reason, do a lot of reading on "Discharging an Arcade Monitor" before doing anything. It is not difficult, just a few things to be careful of is all.<br />
<br><br />
<br><br />
'''Addendum:'''<br />
<br><br />
<br><br />
[[File:Arcade restoration cabinet monitor 01.jpg]]<br />
<br><br />
<br></div>Bradhttps://wiki.pcbs.com.au/index.php?title=File:Arcade_restoration_cabinet_monitor_01.jpg&diff=2840File:Arcade restoration cabinet monitor 01.jpg2013-02-22T04:22:38Z<p>Brad: </p>
<hr />
<div></div>Bradhttps://wiki.pcbs.com.au/index.php?title=Arcade_Machine_Restoration_Primer&diff=2839Arcade Machine Restoration Primer2013-02-22T04:21:46Z<p>Brad: </p>
<hr />
<div>== Arcade Machine Primer ==<br />
<br><br />
'''Author:''' [http://www.aussiearcade.com.au/member.php/2548-knight76 knight76]<br><br />
'''Forum Thread:''' [http://www.aussiearcade.com.au/showthread.php/57063-Arcade-Machine-Primer Arcade Machine Primer]<br><br />
<br><br />
I thought it would be good to have something for people new to the arcade hobby to read and help them get a jump on the learning curve that you face when starting out. One of the hardest things is understanding the terms used, and how each part relates to each other within an arcade machine. I remember before I got in to the hobby my imagination ran wild with what was on the inside of a cabinet, all sorts of wonderful things. To my surprise when I investigated with a bit more seriosity (my word, I patented it) inside the cabinet was just a bunch of wires and dusty old, electronic components that looked like they would electrify me at my first touch.<br><br />
<br><br />
The reality of course is they are fairly simple machines that have a few components that work together to play those awesome games we love. So to hopefully help some people new to the hobby I put this together.<br><br />
<br><br />
This primer is not going to cover every variation of a possible scenario but will provide the basics of how an average arcade machine works. There is some jargon that is thrown around and below are the most common words to be aware of.<br><br />
<br />
=== Common Terms ===<br />
<br />
* '''Cab''' - Arcade cabinet, not a taxi lol. Cocktail = Tabletop, Upright = Larger 6' in size, Lowboy = medium height around 4-5' in height.<br />
* '''Control Panel''' - Just the section of the arcade machine that holds the joysticks, buttons or other controls.<br />
* '''Arcade Screen (Monitor or Tube)''' - Just the TV tube in the cabinet. They come in several types and brands. Most arcade games work on 15khz monitors, some work on 24khz and others work on 32khz. But 15khz is by far the most common. Requires a Chassis to be of any use.<br />
* '''Monitor Chassis''' - This is a PCB that is normally affixed to the side of the machine. Cables then run from this up to the monitor. This takes the video output from the game board, and allows it to be displayed on the Arcade Monitor.<br />
* '''Switching Power Supply (PSU)''' - This is the power supply that provides +5v, -5V and +12+ to arcade PCB's.<br />
* '''Step Down Transformer''' - Most arcade Chassis run on 110V. The power out of the wall in Australia is 240v. So the step down transformer takes this 240V and transforms it in to the 110v the arcade Chassis requires. Also called an Isolation Transformer.<br />
* '''Arcade PCB's''' - Just the game boards that you plug in to an edge connector to allow the game to run in the cab.<br />
* '''Arcade Harness''' - This is the collection of wires that run from the game board to the different components within the machine. Jamma is the most common harness used.<br />
* '''Edge Connector''' - This is the physical interface between the game board and the jamma harness. The Game Board plugs in to this.<br />
* '''Jamma''' - This refers to the pinout that a game board uses to connect to the rest of the arcade machine. A Jamma game board will have 28 gold looking pins on the top and bottom side of the game board. Each side has it's own pins and functionality and plugging the game board in upside down will likely do big damage to the game board. More on this below<br />
* '''Ground''' - This is the earth for all the metal parts of the cabinet as well as allowing all of the switches to work correctly. On the PSU there is a ground connector labeled "FG", this ground wire runs back out of your cab and to the wall socket and is used to ensure all of your metal components are grounded. The coin door, control panel, power supply and step down transformer will all likely be connected to this ground circuit. There is also a Ground on the arcade harness and this connects to the power supply connector labeled "GND". This is the ground used by all of the switches and electonic components for your cabinet through the arcade harness.<br />
<br><br />
These are the main basic terms to be aware of and cover the most common components of an arcade machine.<br><br />
<br />
=== So, how does an arcade machine work? ===<br />
<br />
1) Out of the wall socket comes the 240v power and this enters the machine and generally goes through a switch. It also generally goes through a fuse also. It is important to remember that any time you are working on a machine it should be switched off and unplugged, unless of course you are adjusting the monitor picture.<br><br />
<br><br />
2) From here the power cables often run's to a distribution box that distributes the power to various parts of the cabinet. A common looking distribution box is below:<br><br />
<br><br />
[[File:Arcade restoration cabinet distribution box 01.jpg]]<br />
<br><br />
<br><br />
Notice there is a fuse and a switch. Often the power enters the cab and goes straight to the distribution box. Note the multiple white plugs at the back of the distribution box. These are the outputs that send the power to the other components in the cab. Also note the metal braid wire that is coming from the left of the distribution box, often cabinets use these as a ground wire throughout the cab. Typically components are screwed down on to the braiding to ensure they are grounded.<br />
<br><br />
From the distribution box the power typically runs to a step down transformer and switching power supply.<br />
<br><br />
3) Step Down Transformer - As mentioned above this converts the 240v from the wall outlet to 110v that the monitor chassis uses. The stereotypical step down transformer is pictured below:<br />
<br><br />
<br><br />
[[File:Arcade restoration cabinet stepdown transformer 01.jpg]]<br />
<br><br />
<br><br />
There are sometimes additional fuses on the cables carrying power as in this picture, to the left. The power coming out of this step down transformer will run directly to the monitor chassis.<br />
<br><br />
4) Switching Power Supply (PSU) - These take the higher voltage power and convert it in to low voltage power the game board, and other parts of the cabinet require. Typical power voltages are +5v, -5v and 12v. A picture of a typical looking power supply is below:<br />
<br><br />
<br><br />
[[File:Arcade restoration cabinet switching power supply 01.jpg]]<br />
<br><br />
<br><br />
Each cable is usually connected to the out/inputs via a connector. Sometimes you will see them soldered directly to the out/inputs. The PSU will have writing next to each connector to explain what it does. The bottom three are usually 240vac, and the Ground. The rest are usually outputs for the +5v, -5v and +12v cables that run to the jamma harness edge connector to power the game board.<br />
<br><br />
There is usually a way to adjust the voltage on the 5v output, this one is via the red knob that can be turned to adjust the voltage up or down.<br />
<br><br />
5) Arcade Harness + Edge Connector - The power cables run from the PSU to the edge connector, power the game board and the game board then sends the sound and video signals out to the speakers and arcade monitor chassis. A pic of an arcade Harness is below:<br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br><br />
[[File:Arcade restoration cabinet arcade harness 01.jpg]]<br />
<br><br />
<br><br />
[[File:Arcade restoration cabinet arcade harness 02.jpg]]<br />
<br><br />
<br><br />
The cables leading from the edge connector will be quite long, they have to go to all parts of the cabinet. Often the edge connector will be labeled for what each pin does.<br />
<br><br />
6) Arcade Monitor Chassis - The Arcade Harness will send the video signals to this chassis, which in turn sends them on to the arcade monitor for display. A pic of the chassis in my Neo Geo machine is here. This one was sourced from our forum monitor guru Jomac, you can find him in the sponsor section here.<br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br><br />
[[File:Arcade restoration cabinet chassis 01.jpg]]<br />
<br><br />
<br><br />
The Chassis will have 2 main adjustor knobs. One with "Screen" on it, and the other "focus" Screen adjusts the brightness of the display and focus is self explanatory. There may also be additional adjustments able to be performed on the chassis. These are usually done via small knobs that can be adjusted with a small screwdriver.<br />
<br><br />
7) Game PCB - The game board that plugs in to the arcade harness. Sometimes these are cartridges like with the Neo Geo, in these cases they plug in to a motherboard, which in turn plugs in to the arcade harness. The game boards use gold colored pins that push in to the edge connector, these pins each perform an action. The game board will use a certain "pinout" and the arcade harness needs to be wired correctly for that pinout.<br />
<br><br />
Jamma is the most common pinout used but many variations exist, even unique pinouts to one or only a handful of games. Often a non-jamma game board will come with a Jamma adaptor to allow it to run in jamma wired cabinets.<br />
<br><br />
<br><br />
[[File:Arcade restoration cabinet pcb 01.png]]<br />
<br><br />
<br><br />
This is a Game Board plugged in to a Jamma Harness. Remember, be careful to make sure you plug the game board in the correct way. Normally the side containing all the components is called the parts side, and the solder side is called the er, solder side. It's a good idea to mark or label the edge connector of the arcade harness with what side it is for.<br />
<br><br />
Pinout - As mentioned above, the different arcade boards have different pinouts. Jamma being the most common. Here is a pic of the pinout of a jamma harness.<br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br><br />
[[File:Arcade restoration cabinet jamma pinout 01.gif]]<br />
<br><br />
<br><br />
Each of these entries needs to correspond to the pin on the arcade board.<br />
<br><br />
Remember - Any time you are working on an arcade machine, turn it off and unplug it. These arcade machines in certain areas can carry lethal voltages, better to be safe than sorry.<br />
<br><br />
Anode Cap - I thought I would include this also. The Anode Cap is the rubber suction cup looking thing attached to the outside of your arcade monitor. There will be a thick cable running from this to the chassis area, specifically the fly back transformer.<br />
<br><br />
It looks like the following item:<br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br><br />
[[File:Arcade restoration cabinet anode cap 01.jpg]]<br />
<br><br />
<br><br />
When the arcade machine is on, you do not want to be touching this area. Always have the arcade machine turned off and unplugged whilst working on the machine. If you have to remove this cap for any reason, do a lot of reading on "Discharging an Arcade Monitor" before doing anything. It is not difficult, just a few things to be careful of is all.<br />
<br><br />
<br></div>Bradhttps://wiki.pcbs.com.au/index.php?title=Arcade_Machine_Restoration_Primer&diff=2838Arcade Machine Restoration Primer2013-02-22T04:21:36Z<p>Brad: </p>
<hr />
<div>== Arcade Machine Primer ==<br />
<br><br />
'''Author:''' [http://www.aussiearcade.com.au/member.php/2548-knight76 knight76]<br><br />
'''Forum Thread:''' [http://www.aussiearcade.com.au/showthread.php/57063-Arcade-Machine-Primer Arcade Machine Primer]<br><br />
<br><br />
<br><br />
I thought it would be good to have something for people new to the arcade hobby to read and help them get a jump on the learning curve that you face when starting out. One of the hardest things is understanding the terms used, and how each part relates to each other within an arcade machine. I remember before I got in to the hobby my imagination ran wild with what was on the inside of a cabinet, all sorts of wonderful things. To my surprise when I investigated with a bit more seriosity (my word, I patented it) inside the cabinet was just a bunch of wires and dusty old, electronic components that looked like they would electrify me at my first touch.<br><br />
<br><br />
The reality of course is they are fairly simple machines that have a few components that work together to play those awesome games we love. So to hopefully help some people new to the hobby I put this together.<br><br />
<br><br />
This primer is not going to cover every variation of a possible scenario but will provide the basics of how an average arcade machine works. There is some jargon that is thrown around and below are the most common words to be aware of.<br><br />
<br />
=== Common Terms ===<br />
<br />
* '''Cab''' - Arcade cabinet, not a taxi lol. Cocktail = Tabletop, Upright = Larger 6' in size, Lowboy = medium height around 4-5' in height.<br />
* '''Control Panel''' - Just the section of the arcade machine that holds the joysticks, buttons or other controls.<br />
* '''Arcade Screen (Monitor or Tube)''' - Just the TV tube in the cabinet. They come in several types and brands. Most arcade games work on 15khz monitors, some work on 24khz and others work on 32khz. But 15khz is by far the most common. Requires a Chassis to be of any use.<br />
* '''Monitor Chassis''' - This is a PCB that is normally affixed to the side of the machine. Cables then run from this up to the monitor. This takes the video output from the game board, and allows it to be displayed on the Arcade Monitor.<br />
* '''Switching Power Supply (PSU)''' - This is the power supply that provides +5v, -5V and +12+ to arcade PCB's.<br />
* '''Step Down Transformer''' - Most arcade Chassis run on 110V. The power out of the wall in Australia is 240v. So the step down transformer takes this 240V and transforms it in to the 110v the arcade Chassis requires. Also called an Isolation Transformer.<br />
* '''Arcade PCB's''' - Just the game boards that you plug in to an edge connector to allow the game to run in the cab.<br />
* '''Arcade Harness''' - This is the collection of wires that run from the game board to the different components within the machine. Jamma is the most common harness used.<br />
* '''Edge Connector''' - This is the physical interface between the game board and the jamma harness. The Game Board plugs in to this.<br />
* '''Jamma''' - This refers to the pinout that a game board uses to connect to the rest of the arcade machine. A Jamma game board will have 28 gold looking pins on the top and bottom side of the game board. Each side has it's own pins and functionality and plugging the game board in upside down will likely do big damage to the game board. More on this below<br />
* '''Ground''' - This is the earth for all the metal parts of the cabinet as well as allowing all of the switches to work correctly. On the PSU there is a ground connector labeled "FG", this ground wire runs back out of your cab and to the wall socket and is used to ensure all of your metal components are grounded. The coin door, control panel, power supply and step down transformer will all likely be connected to this ground circuit. There is also a Ground on the arcade harness and this connects to the power supply connector labeled "GND". This is the ground used by all of the switches and electonic components for your cabinet through the arcade harness.<br />
<br><br />
These are the main basic terms to be aware of and cover the most common components of an arcade machine.<br><br />
<br />
=== So, how does an arcade machine work? ===<br />
<br />
1) Out of the wall socket comes the 240v power and this enters the machine and generally goes through a switch. It also generally goes through a fuse also. It is important to remember that any time you are working on a machine it should be switched off and unplugged, unless of course you are adjusting the monitor picture.<br><br />
<br><br />
2) From here the power cables often run's to a distribution box that distributes the power to various parts of the cabinet. A common looking distribution box is below:<br><br />
<br><br />
[[File:Arcade restoration cabinet distribution box 01.jpg]]<br />
<br><br />
<br><br />
Notice there is a fuse and a switch. Often the power enters the cab and goes straight to the distribution box. Note the multiple white plugs at the back of the distribution box. These are the outputs that send the power to the other components in the cab. Also note the metal braid wire that is coming from the left of the distribution box, often cabinets use these as a ground wire throughout the cab. Typically components are screwed down on to the braiding to ensure they are grounded.<br />
<br><br />
From the distribution box the power typically runs to a step down transformer and switching power supply.<br />
<br><br />
3) Step Down Transformer - As mentioned above this converts the 240v from the wall outlet to 110v that the monitor chassis uses. The stereotypical step down transformer is pictured below:<br />
<br><br />
<br><br />
[[File:Arcade restoration cabinet stepdown transformer 01.jpg]]<br />
<br><br />
<br><br />
There are sometimes additional fuses on the cables carrying power as in this picture, to the left. The power coming out of this step down transformer will run directly to the monitor chassis.<br />
<br><br />
4) Switching Power Supply (PSU) - These take the higher voltage power and convert it in to low voltage power the game board, and other parts of the cabinet require. Typical power voltages are +5v, -5v and 12v. A picture of a typical looking power supply is below:<br />
<br><br />
<br><br />
[[File:Arcade restoration cabinet switching power supply 01.jpg]]<br />
<br><br />
<br><br />
Each cable is usually connected to the out/inputs via a connector. Sometimes you will see them soldered directly to the out/inputs. The PSU will have writing next to each connector to explain what it does. The bottom three are usually 240vac, and the Ground. The rest are usually outputs for the +5v, -5v and +12v cables that run to the jamma harness edge connector to power the game board.<br />
<br><br />
There is usually a way to adjust the voltage on the 5v output, this one is via the red knob that can be turned to adjust the voltage up or down.<br />
<br><br />
5) Arcade Harness + Edge Connector - The power cables run from the PSU to the edge connector, power the game board and the game board then sends the sound and video signals out to the speakers and arcade monitor chassis. A pic of an arcade Harness is below:<br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br><br />
[[File:Arcade restoration cabinet arcade harness 01.jpg]]<br />
<br><br />
<br><br />
[[File:Arcade restoration cabinet arcade harness 02.jpg]]<br />
<br><br />
<br><br />
The cables leading from the edge connector will be quite long, they have to go to all parts of the cabinet. Often the edge connector will be labeled for what each pin does.<br />
<br><br />
6) Arcade Monitor Chassis - The Arcade Harness will send the video signals to this chassis, which in turn sends them on to the arcade monitor for display. A pic of the chassis in my Neo Geo machine is here. This one was sourced from our forum monitor guru Jomac, you can find him in the sponsor section here.<br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br><br />
[[File:Arcade restoration cabinet chassis 01.jpg]]<br />
<br><br />
<br><br />
The Chassis will have 2 main adjustor knobs. One with "Screen" on it, and the other "focus" Screen adjusts the brightness of the display and focus is self explanatory. There may also be additional adjustments able to be performed on the chassis. These are usually done via small knobs that can be adjusted with a small screwdriver.<br />
<br><br />
7) Game PCB - The game board that plugs in to the arcade harness. Sometimes these are cartridges like with the Neo Geo, in these cases they plug in to a motherboard, which in turn plugs in to the arcade harness. The game boards use gold colored pins that push in to the edge connector, these pins each perform an action. The game board will use a certain "pinout" and the arcade harness needs to be wired correctly for that pinout.<br />
<br><br />
Jamma is the most common pinout used but many variations exist, even unique pinouts to one or only a handful of games. Often a non-jamma game board will come with a Jamma adaptor to allow it to run in jamma wired cabinets.<br />
<br><br />
<br><br />
[[File:Arcade restoration cabinet pcb 01.png]]<br />
<br><br />
<br><br />
This is a Game Board plugged in to a Jamma Harness. Remember, be careful to make sure you plug the game board in the correct way. Normally the side containing all the components is called the parts side, and the solder side is called the er, solder side. It's a good idea to mark or label the edge connector of the arcade harness with what side it is for.<br />
<br><br />
Pinout - As mentioned above, the different arcade boards have different pinouts. Jamma being the most common. Here is a pic of the pinout of a jamma harness.<br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br><br />
[[File:Arcade restoration cabinet jamma pinout 01.gif]]<br />
<br><br />
<br><br />
Each of these entries needs to correspond to the pin on the arcade board.<br />
<br><br />
Remember - Any time you are working on an arcade machine, turn it off and unplug it. These arcade machines in certain areas can carry lethal voltages, better to be safe than sorry.<br />
<br><br />
Anode Cap - I thought I would include this also. The Anode Cap is the rubber suction cup looking thing attached to the outside of your arcade monitor. There will be a thick cable running from this to the chassis area, specifically the fly back transformer.<br />
<br><br />
It looks like the following item:<br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br><br />
[[File:Arcade restoration cabinet anode cap 01.jpg]]<br />
<br><br />
<br><br />
When the arcade machine is on, you do not want to be touching this area. Always have the arcade machine turned off and unplugged whilst working on the machine. If you have to remove this cap for any reason, do a lot of reading on "Discharging an Arcade Monitor" before doing anything. It is not difficult, just a few things to be careful of is all.<br />
<br><br />
<br></div>Bradhttps://wiki.pcbs.com.au/index.php?title=Arcade_Machine_Restoration_Primer&diff=2837Arcade Machine Restoration Primer2013-02-22T04:20:00Z<p>Brad: Created page with "== Arcade Machine Primer == <br> I thought it would be good to have something for people new to the arcade hobby to read and help them get a jump on the learning curve that yo..."</p>
<hr />
<div>== Arcade Machine Primer ==<br />
<br><br />
I thought it would be good to have something for people new to the arcade hobby to read and help them get a jump on the learning curve that you face when starting out. One of the hardest things is understanding the terms used, and how each part relates to each other within an arcade machine. I remember before I got in to the hobby my imagination ran wild with what was on the inside of a cabinet, all sorts of wonderful things. To my surprise when I investigated with a bit more seriosity (my word, I patented it) inside the cabinet was just a bunch of wires and dusty old, electronic components that looked like they would electrify me at my first touch.<br><br />
<br><br />
The reality of course is they are fairly simple machines that have a few components that work together to play those awesome games we love. So to hopefully help some people new to the hobby I put this together.<br><br />
<br><br />
This primer is not going to cover every variation of a possible scenario but will provide the basics of how an average arcade machine works. There is some jargon that is thrown around and below are the most common words to be aware of.<br><br />
<br />
=== Common Terms ===<br />
<br />
* '''Cab''' - Arcade cabinet, not a taxi lol. Cocktail = Tabletop, Upright = Larger 6' in size, Lowboy = medium height around 4-5' in height.<br />
* '''Control Panel''' - Just the section of the arcade machine that holds the joysticks, buttons or other controls.<br />
* '''Arcade Screen (Monitor or Tube)''' - Just the TV tube in the cabinet. They come in several types and brands. Most arcade games work on 15khz monitors, some work on 24khz and others work on 32khz. But 15khz is by far the most common. Requires a Chassis to be of any use.<br />
* '''Monitor Chassis''' - This is a PCB that is normally affixed to the side of the machine. Cables then run from this up to the monitor. This takes the video output from the game board, and allows it to be displayed on the Arcade Monitor.<br />
* '''Switching Power Supply (PSU)''' - This is the power supply that provides +5v, -5V and +12+ to arcade PCB's.<br />
* '''Step Down Transformer''' - Most arcade Chassis run on 110V. The power out of the wall in Australia is 240v. So the step down transformer takes this 240V and transforms it in to the 110v the arcade Chassis requires. Also called an Isolation Transformer.<br />
* '''Arcade PCB's''' - Just the game boards that you plug in to an edge connector to allow the game to run in the cab.<br />
* '''Arcade Harness''' - This is the collection of wires that run from the game board to the different components within the machine. Jamma is the most common harness used.<br />
* '''Edge Connector''' - This is the physical interface between the game board and the jamma harness. The Game Board plugs in to this.<br />
* '''Jamma''' - This refers to the pinout that a game board uses to connect to the rest of the arcade machine. A Jamma game board will have 28 gold looking pins on the top and bottom side of the game board. Each side has it's own pins and functionality and plugging the game board in upside down will likely do big damage to the game board. More on this below<br />
* '''Ground''' - This is the earth for all the metal parts of the cabinet as well as allowing all of the switches to work correctly. On the PSU there is a ground connector labeled "FG", this ground wire runs back out of your cab and to the wall socket and is used to ensure all of your metal components are grounded. The coin door, control panel, power supply and step down transformer will all likely be connected to this ground circuit. There is also a Ground on the arcade harness and this connects to the power supply connector labeled "GND". This is the ground used by all of the switches and electonic components for your cabinet through the arcade harness.<br />
<br><br />
These are the main basic terms to be aware of and cover the most common components of an arcade machine.<br><br />
<br />
=== So, how does an arcade machine work? ===<br />
<br />
1) Out of the wall socket comes the 240v power and this enters the machine and generally goes through a switch. It also generally goes through a fuse also. It is important to remember that any time you are working on a machine it should be switched off and unplugged, unless of course you are adjusting the monitor picture.<br><br />
<br><br />
2) From here the power cables often run's to a distribution box that distributes the power to various parts of the cabinet. A common looking distribution box is below:<br><br />
<br><br />
[[File:Arcade restoration cabinet distribution box 01.jpg]]<br />
<br><br />
<br><br />
Notice there is a fuse and a switch. Often the power enters the cab and goes straight to the distribution box. Note the multiple white plugs at the back of the distribution box. These are the outputs that send the power to the other components in the cab. Also note the metal braid wire that is coming from the left of the distribution box, often cabinets use these as a ground wire throughout the cab. Typically components are screwed down on to the braiding to ensure they are grounded.<br />
<br><br />
From the distribution box the power typically runs to a step down transformer and switching power supply.<br />
<br><br />
3) Step Down Transformer - As mentioned above this converts the 240v from the wall outlet to 110v that the monitor chassis uses. The stereotypical step down transformer is pictured below:<br />
<br><br />
<br><br />
[[File:Arcade restoration cabinet stepdown transformer 01.jpg]]<br />
<br><br />
<br><br />
There are sometimes additional fuses on the cables carrying power as in this picture, to the left. The power coming out of this step down transformer will run directly to the monitor chassis.<br />
<br><br />
4) Switching Power Supply (PSU) - These take the higher voltage power and convert it in to low voltage power the game board, and other parts of the cabinet require. Typical power voltages are +5v, -5v and 12v. A picture of a typical looking power supply is below:<br />
<br><br />
<br><br />
[[File:Arcade restoration cabinet switching power supply 01.jpg]]<br />
<br><br />
<br><br />
Each cable is usually connected to the out/inputs via a connector. Sometimes you will see them soldered directly to the out/inputs. The PSU will have writing next to each connector to explain what it does. The bottom three are usually 240vac, and the Ground. The rest are usually outputs for the +5v, -5v and +12v cables that run to the jamma harness edge connector to power the game board.<br />
<br><br />
There is usually a way to adjust the voltage on the 5v output, this one is via the red knob that can be turned to adjust the voltage up or down.<br />
<br><br />
5) Arcade Harness + Edge Connector - The power cables run from the PSU to the edge connector, power the game board and the game board then sends the sound and video signals out to the speakers and arcade monitor chassis. A pic of an arcade Harness is below:<br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br><br />
[[File:Arcade restoration cabinet arcade harness 01.jpg]]<br />
<br><br />
<br><br />
[[File:Arcade restoration cabinet arcade harness 02.jpg]]<br />
<br><br />
<br><br />
The cables leading from the edge connector will be quite long, they have to go to all parts of the cabinet. Often the edge connector will be labeled for what each pin does.<br />
<br><br />
6) Arcade Monitor Chassis - The Arcade Harness will send the video signals to this chassis, which in turn sends them on to the arcade monitor for display. A pic of the chassis in my Neo Geo machine is here. This one was sourced from our forum monitor guru Jomac, you can find him in the sponsor section here.<br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br><br />
[[File:Arcade restoration cabinet chassis 01.jpg]]<br />
<br><br />
<br><br />
The Chassis will have 2 main adjustor knobs. One with "Screen" on it, and the other "focus" Screen adjusts the brightness of the display and focus is self explanatory. There may also be additional adjustments able to be performed on the chassis. These are usually done via small knobs that can be adjusted with a small screwdriver.<br />
<br><br />
7) Game PCB - The game board that plugs in to the arcade harness. Sometimes these are cartridges like with the Neo Geo, in these cases they plug in to a motherboard, which in turn plugs in to the arcade harness. The game boards use gold colored pins that push in to the edge connector, these pins each perform an action. The game board will use a certain "pinout" and the arcade harness needs to be wired correctly for that pinout.<br />
<br><br />
Jamma is the most common pinout used but many variations exist, even unique pinouts to one or only a handful of games. Often a non-jamma game board will come with a Jamma adaptor to allow it to run in jamma wired cabinets.<br />
<br><br />
<br><br />
[[File:Arcade restoration cabinet pcb 01.png]]<br />
<br><br />
<br><br />
This is a Game Board plugged in to a Jamma Harness. Remember, be careful to make sure you plug the game board in the correct way. Normally the side containing all the components is called the parts side, and the solder side is called the er, solder side. It's a good idea to mark or label the edge connector of the arcade harness with what side it is for.<br />
<br><br />
Pinout - As mentioned above, the different arcade boards have different pinouts. Jamma being the most common. Here is a pic of the pinout of a jamma harness.<br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br><br />
[[File:Arcade restoration cabinet jamma pinout 01.gif]]<br />
<br><br />
<br><br />
Each of these entries needs to correspond to the pin on the arcade board.<br />
<br><br />
Remember - Any time you are working on an arcade machine, turn it off and unplug it. These arcade machines in certain areas can carry lethal voltages, better to be safe than sorry.<br />
<br><br />
Anode Cap - I thought I would include this also. The Anode Cap is the rubber suction cup looking thing attached to the outside of your arcade monitor. There will be a thick cable running from this to the chassis area, specifically the fly back transformer.<br />
<br><br />
It looks like the following item:<br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br><br />
[[File:Arcade restoration cabinet anode cap 01.jpg]]<br />
<br><br />
<br><br />
When the arcade machine is on, you do not want to be touching this area. Always have the arcade machine turned off and unplugged whilst working on the machine. If you have to remove this cap for any reason, do a lot of reading on "Discharging an Arcade Monitor" before doing anything. It is not difficult, just a few things to be careful of is all.<br />
<br><br />
<br></div>Bradhttps://wiki.pcbs.com.au/index.php?title=Arcade_Machine_Restoration_Cabinet&diff=2836Arcade Machine Restoration Cabinet2013-02-22T04:19:46Z<p>Brad: </p>
<hr />
<div><br />
SPOTTERS GUIDE - What is that cab ?<br />
Cabinet Structure<br />
Mains Electrical<br />
- Safety Considerations<br />
- Earthing<br />
- Fusing<br />
- Harnesses<br />
DC and Game Harnesses<br />
Cabling types and capacities<br />
Connectors - manufacturers, series, suppliers, tooling<br />
<br />
Feel free to edit<br />
'''PACMAN, MS PACMAN COCKTAIL CABINET PLANS''', by dezbaz<br />
Dedicated cocktail machines and Kyle Linstrom's plans were great, but the monitor was attached to the hinging top, which was attached to one side.<br />
A new version was devised and added to [aussie arcade] in Metric format<br />
The plans have been released here<br />
pics are available with cut lists<br />
Woodgrain versions are also available so the grains all run the right way<br />
Hinged control panels are used to allow for switching to 8 way games easily, as the dedicated control panels were fixed down.<br />
<br />
Tools needed to build a cabinet are<br />
1. xx<br />
2. xx<br />
3. xx<br />
4. xx<br />
5. xx<br />
<br />
a tutorial is available to make 8 x cabinet glass top clips</div>Bradhttps://wiki.pcbs.com.au/index.php?title=Main_Page&diff=2835Main Page2013-02-22T04:18:33Z<p>Brad: </p>
<hr />
<div>__NOTOC__<br />
<div style="background-color:rgb(fff,fff,fff); margin-bottom:5px; padding:0px; border-width:0px; border-color:rgb(170,170,170); border-style:solid;"><br />
<p>Well I've installed the wiki, now I just need to familiarise myself <br />
with it's structure and function then look at opening it up for content <br />
contribution. <br />
</p><br />
<p>Please be patient whilst I grapple with that. In the meantime <br />
suggestions for content and content submission itself would be greatly <br />
appreciated. If you would like to help out please PM me a preferred <br />
Username (Forum ID), password and email address.<br />
</p><br />
<p>Cheers,<br><br />
Brad<br />
</p><br />
<table width="100%" cellpadding="10" style="background:#ffffff"><br />
<br />
<tr><br />
<td valign="top" style="width:50%"><br />
<br />
<p><br />
== [[Arcade Machines]] ==<br />
</p>This section is devoted to all things arcade game whether it be old electro-mechanical in nature, video, redemption or even your mamed and multiboard units. <br />
<p><br />
==== Arcade Machine Restoration ====<br />
</p><br />
<ul><br />
<li>[[Arcade_Machine_Restoration_Basics|Basics]]</li><br />
<ul><li>[[Arcade_Machine_Restoration_Primer|Primer]]</li></ul><br />
<li>[[Arcade_Machine_Restoration_Artwork|Artwork]]</li><br />
<li>[[Arcade_Machine_Restoration_Cabinet|Cabinet]] </li><br />
<li>[[Arcade_Machine_Restoration_Monitors|Monitors]] </li><br />
<li>[[Arcade_Machine_Restoration_Controls|Controls]] </li><br />
<li>[[Arcade_Machine_Restoration_Wiring|Wiring]] </li><br />
<li>[[Arcade_Machine_Restoration_Woodwork|Woodwork]] </li><br />
<li>[[Arcade_Machine_Restoration_Painting|Painting]] </li><br />
<li>[[Arcade_Machine_Restoration_EM_Machines|EM Machines]]</li><br />
<li>[[Arcade_Machine_Restoration_PCB_Repair|PCB Repair]]</li><br />
<ul><li>[[Arcade_Machine_Restoration_PCB_Pinouts|PCB Pinouts]]</li></ul><br />
</ul><br />
<p><br />
<br />
==== Mame Conversion ====<br />
</p><br />
<ul><br />
<li>Cabinet </li><br />
<li>Woodwork </li><br />
<li>[[Mame_Conversion_Plans|Plans]] </li><br />
<li>[[Mame_Conversion_Monitors|Monitors]] </li><br />
<li>[[Mame_Conversion_Controls|Controls]] </li><br />
<li>Wiring </li><br />
<li>Painting </li><br />
<li>[[Mame_Conversion_PC|PC]] </li><br />
<li>[[Mame_Conversion_Software|Software]] </li><br />
<li>[[Mame_Conversion_Multiboards|Multiboards]]</li><br />
</ul><br />
<p><span class="mw-headline" id="Consoles"><br />
<br />
== Consoles == <br />
</span></p><br />
<ul><br />
<li>[[Console_Repairs|Repairs]]</li><br />
<li>[[Console_Mods|Mods]]</li><br />
<li>[[Console_How To's|How To's]]</li><br />
<li>[[Console_Imports|Imports]]</li><br />
</ul><br />
<td valign="top" style="width:50%"><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<br />
== Pinball Machines ==<br />
</p>Devoted to all things related to the silver ball.<br />
<p><br />
==== EM Machines ====<br />
</p><br />
<ul><br />
<li>Restoration</li><br />
<li>Artwork</li><br />
<li>Wiring</li><br />
<li>Repair</li><br />
<li>Maintenance</li><br />
</ul><br />
<p><br />
==== SS Machines ====<br />
</p><br />
<ul><br />
<li>Restoration</li><br />
<li>Artwork</li><br />
<li>Wiring</li><br />
<li>Repair</li><br />
<li>Maintenance</li><br />
</ul><br />
<p><br />
==== DMD Machines ====<br />
</p><br />
<ul><br />
<li>Restoration</li><br />
<li>Artwork</li><br />
<li>Wiring</li><br />
<li>Repair</li><br />
<li>Maintenance</li><br />
</ul><br />
<p><br />
==== Pin2000 Machines ====<br />
</p><br />
<ul><br />
<li>Restoration</li><br />
<li>Artwork</li><br />
<li>Wiring</li><br />
<li>Repair</li><br />
<li>Maintenance</li><br />
</ul><br />
</tr><br />
<br />
</table><br />
</div></div>Bradhttps://wiki.pcbs.com.au/index.php?title=Main_Page&diff=2834Main Page2013-02-22T04:17:15Z<p>Brad: </p>
<hr />
<div>__NOTOC__<br />
<div style="background-color:rgb(fff,fff,fff); margin-bottom:5px; padding:0px; border-width:0px; border-color:rgb(170,170,170); border-style:solid;"><br />
<p>Well I've installed the wiki, now I just need to familiarise myself <br />
with it's structure and function then look at opening it up for content <br />
contribution. <br />
</p><br />
<p>Please be patient whilst I grapple with that. In the meantime <br />
suggestions for content and content submission itself would be greatly <br />
appreciated. If you would like to help out please PM me a preferred <br />
Username (Forum ID), password and email address.<br />
</p><br />
<p>Cheers,<br><br />
Brad<br />
</p><br />
<table width="100%" cellpadding="10" style="background:#ffffff"><br />
<br />
<tr><br />
<td valign="top" style="width:50%"><br />
<br />
<p><br />
== [[Arcade Machines]] ==<br />
</p>This section is devoted to all things arcade game whether it be old electro-mechanical in nature, video, redemption or even your mamed and multiboard units. <br />
<p><br />
==== Arcade Machine Restoration ====<br />
</p><br />
<ul><br />
<li>[[Arcade_Machine_Restoration_Primer|Primer]]</li><br />
<li>[[Arcade_Machine_Restoration_Artwork|Artwork]]</li><br />
<li>[[Arcade_Machine_Restoration_Cabinet|Cabinet]] </li><br />
<li>[[Arcade_Machine_Restoration_Monitors|Monitors]] </li><br />
<li>[[Arcade_Machine_Restoration_Controls|Controls]] </li><br />
<li>[[Arcade_Machine_Restoration_Wiring|Wiring]] </li><br />
<li>[[Arcade_Machine_Restoration_Woodwork|Woodwork]] </li><br />
<li>[[Arcade_Machine_Restoration_Painting|Painting]] </li><br />
<li>[[Arcade_Machine_Restoration_EM_Machines|EM Machines]]</li><br />
<li>[[Arcade_Machine_Restoration_PCB_Repair|PCB Repair]]</li><br />
<ul><li>[[Arcade_Machine_Restoration_PCB_Pinouts|PCB Pinouts]]</li></ul><br />
</ul><br />
<p><br />
<br />
==== Mame Conversion ====<br />
</p><br />
<ul><br />
<li>Cabinet </li><br />
<li>Woodwork </li><br />
<li>[[Mame_Conversion_Plans|Plans]] </li><br />
<li>[[Mame_Conversion_Monitors|Monitors]] </li><br />
<li>[[Mame_Conversion_Controls|Controls]] </li><br />
<li>Wiring </li><br />
<li>Painting </li><br />
<li>[[Mame_Conversion_PC|PC]] </li><br />
<li>[[Mame_Conversion_Software|Software]] </li><br />
<li>[[Mame_Conversion_Multiboards|Multiboards]]</li><br />
</ul><br />
<p><span class="mw-headline" id="Consoles"><br />
<br />
== Consoles == <br />
</span></p><br />
<ul><br />
<li>[[Console_Repairs|Repairs]]</li><br />
<li>[[Console_Mods|Mods]]</li><br />
<li>[[Console_How To's|How To's]]</li><br />
<li>[[Console_Imports|Imports]]</li><br />
</ul><br />
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== Pinball Machines ==<br />
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==== EM Machines ====<br />
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<li>Restoration</li><br />
<li>Artwork</li><br />
<li>Wiring</li><br />
<li>Repair</li><br />
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==== SS Machines ====<br />
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<li>Restoration</li><br />
<li>Artwork</li><br />
<li>Wiring</li><br />
<li>Repair</li><br />
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==== DMD Machines ====<br />
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<li>Restoration</li><br />
<li>Artwork</li><br />
<li>Wiring</li><br />
<li>Repair</li><br />
<li>Maintenance</li><br />
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==== Pin2000 Machines ====<br />
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<li>Restoration</li><br />
<li>Artwork</li><br />
<li>Wiring</li><br />
<li>Repair</li><br />
<li>Maintenance</li><br />
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<div>== Arcade Machine Primer ==<br />
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I thought it would be good to have something for people new to the arcade hobby to read and help them get a jump on the learning curve that you face when starting out. One of the hardest things is understanding the terms used, and how each part relates to each other within an arcade machine. I remember before I got in to the hobby my imagination ran wild with what was on the inside of a cabinet, all sorts of wonderful things. To my surprise when I investigated with a bit more seriosity (my word, I patented it) inside the cabinet was just a bunch of wires and dusty old, electronic components that looked like they would electrify me at my first touch.<br><br />
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The reality of course is they are fairly simple machines that have a few components that work together to play those awesome games we love. So to hopefully help some people new to the hobby I put this together.<br><br />
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This primer is not going to cover every variation of a possible scenario but will provide the basics of how an average arcade machine works. There is some jargon that is thrown around and below are the most common words to be aware of.<br><br />
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=== Common Terms ===<br />
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* '''Cab''' - Arcade cabinet, not a taxi lol. Cocktail = Tabletop, Upright = Larger 6' in size, Lowboy = medium height around 4-5' in height.<br />
* '''Control Panel''' - Just the section of the arcade machine that holds the joysticks, buttons or other controls.<br />
* '''Arcade Screen (Monitor or Tube)''' - Just the TV tube in the cabinet. They come in several types and brands. Most arcade games work on 15khz monitors, some work on 24khz and others work on 32khz. But 15khz is by far the most common. Requires a Chassis to be of any use.<br />
* '''Monitor Chassis''' - This is a PCB that is normally affixed to the side of the machine. Cables then run from this up to the monitor. This takes the video output from the game board, and allows it to be displayed on the Arcade Monitor.<br />
* '''Switching Power Supply (PSU)''' - This is the power supply that provides +5v, -5V and +12+ to arcade PCB's.<br />
* '''Step Down Transformer''' - Most arcade Chassis run on 110V. The power out of the wall in Australia is 240v. So the step down transformer takes this 240V and transforms it in to the 110v the arcade Chassis requires. Also called an Isolation Transformer.<br />
* '''Arcade PCB's''' - Just the game boards that you plug in to an edge connector to allow the game to run in the cab.<br />
* '''Arcade Harness''' - This is the collection of wires that run from the game board to the different components within the machine. Jamma is the most common harness used.<br />
* '''Edge Connector''' - This is the physical interface between the game board and the jamma harness. The Game Board plugs in to this.<br />
* '''Jamma''' - This refers to the pinout that a game board uses to connect to the rest of the arcade machine. A Jamma game board will have 28 gold looking pins on the top and bottom side of the game board. Each side has it's own pins and functionality and plugging the game board in upside down will likely do big damage to the game board. More on this below<br />
* '''Ground''' - This is the earth for all the metal parts of the cabinet as well as allowing all of the switches to work correctly. On the PSU there is a ground connector labeled "FG", this ground wire runs back out of your cab and to the wall socket and is used to ensure all of your metal components are grounded. The coin door, control panel, power supply and step down transformer will all likely be connected to this ground circuit. There is also a Ground on the arcade harness and this connects to the power supply connector labeled "GND". This is the ground used by all of the switches and electonic components for your cabinet through the arcade harness.<br />
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These are the main basic terms to be aware of and cover the most common components of an arcade machine.<br><br />
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=== So, how does an arcade machine work? ===<br />
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1) Out of the wall socket comes the 240v power and this enters the machine and generally goes through a switch. It also generally goes through a fuse also. It is important to remember that any time you are working on a machine it should be switched off and unplugged, unless of course you are adjusting the monitor picture.<br><br />
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2) From here the power cables often run's to a distribution box that distributes the power to various parts of the cabinet. A common looking distribution box is below:<br><br />
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[[File:Arcade restoration cabinet distribution box 01.jpg]]<br />
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Notice there is a fuse and a switch. Often the power enters the cab and goes straight to the distribution box. Note the multiple white plugs at the back of the distribution box. These are the outputs that send the power to the other components in the cab. Also note the metal braid wire that is coming from the left of the distribution box, often cabinets use these as a ground wire throughout the cab. Typically components are screwed down on to the braiding to ensure they are grounded.<br />
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From the distribution box the power typically runs to a step down transformer and switching power supply.<br />
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3) Step Down Transformer - As mentioned above this converts the 240v from the wall outlet to 110v that the monitor chassis uses. The stereotypical step down transformer is pictured below:<br />
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[[File:Arcade restoration cabinet stepdown transformer 01.jpg]]<br />
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There are sometimes additional fuses on the cables carrying power as in this picture, to the left. The power coming out of this step down transformer will run directly to the monitor chassis.<br />
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4) Switching Power Supply (PSU) - These take the higher voltage power and convert it in to low voltage power the game board, and other parts of the cabinet require. Typical power voltages are +5v, -5v and 12v. A picture of a typical looking power supply is below:<br />
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[[File:Arcade restoration cabinet switching power supply 01.jpg]]<br />
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Each cable is usually connected to the out/inputs via a connector. Sometimes you will see them soldered directly to the out/inputs. The PSU will have writing next to each connector to explain what it does. The bottom three are usually 240vac, and the Ground. The rest are usually outputs for the +5v, -5v and +12v cables that run to the jamma harness edge connector to power the game board.<br />
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There is usually a way to adjust the voltage on the 5v output, this one is via the red knob that can be turned to adjust the voltage up or down.<br />
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5) Arcade Harness + Edge Connector - The power cables run from the PSU to the edge connector, power the game board and the game board then sends the sound and video signals out to the speakers and arcade monitor chassis. A pic of an arcade Harness is below:<br />
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[[File:Arcade restoration cabinet arcade harness 01.jpg]]<br />
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[[File:Arcade restoration cabinet arcade harness 02.jpg]]<br />
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The cables leading from the edge connector will be quite long, they have to go to all parts of the cabinet. Often the edge connector will be labeled for what each pin does.<br />
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6) Arcade Monitor Chassis - The Arcade Harness will send the video signals to this chassis, which in turn sends them on to the arcade monitor for display. A pic of the chassis in my Neo Geo machine is here. This one was sourced from our forum monitor guru Jomac, you can find him in the sponsor section here.<br />
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[[File:Arcade restoration cabinet chassis 01.jpg]]<br />
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The Chassis will have 2 main adjustor knobs. One with "Screen" on it, and the other "focus" Screen adjusts the brightness of the display and focus is self explanatory. There may also be additional adjustments able to be performed on the chassis. These are usually done via small knobs that can be adjusted with a small screwdriver.<br />
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7) Game PCB - The game board that plugs in to the arcade harness. Sometimes these are cartridges like with the Neo Geo, in these cases they plug in to a motherboard, which in turn plugs in to the arcade harness. The game boards use gold colored pins that push in to the edge connector, these pins each perform an action. The game board will use a certain "pinout" and the arcade harness needs to be wired correctly for that pinout.<br />
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Jamma is the most common pinout used but many variations exist, even unique pinouts to one or only a handful of games. Often a non-jamma game board will come with a Jamma adaptor to allow it to run in jamma wired cabinets.<br />
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[[File:Arcade restoration cabinet pcb 01.png]]<br />
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This is a Game Board plugged in to a Jamma Harness. Remember, be careful to make sure you plug the game board in the correct way. Normally the side containing all the components is called the parts side, and the solder side is called the er, solder side. It's a good idea to mark or label the edge connector of the arcade harness with what side it is for.<br />
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Pinout - As mentioned above, the different arcade boards have different pinouts. Jamma being the most common. Here is a pic of the pinout of a jamma harness.<br />
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[[File:Arcade restoration cabinet jamma pinout 01.gif]]<br />
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Each of these entries needs to correspond to the pin on the arcade board.<br />
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Remember - Any time you are working on an arcade machine, turn it off and unplug it. These arcade machines in certain areas can carry lethal voltages, better to be safe than sorry.<br />
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Anode Cap - I thought I would include this also. The Anode Cap is the rubber suction cup looking thing attached to the outside of your arcade monitor. There will be a thick cable running from this to the chassis area, specifically the fly back transformer.<br />
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It looks like the following item:<br />
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[[File:Arcade restoration cabinet anode cap 01.jpg]]<br />
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When the arcade machine is on, you do not want to be touching this area. Always have the arcade machine turned off and unplugged whilst working on the machine. If you have to remove this cap for any reason, do a lot of reading on "Discharging an Arcade Monitor" before doing anything. It is not difficult, just a few things to be careful of is all.<br />
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SPOTTERS GUIDE - What is that cab ?<br />
Cabinet Structure<br />
Mains Electrical<br />
- Safety Considerations<br />
- Earthing<br />
- Fusing<br />
- Harnesses<br />
DC and Game Harnesses<br />
Cabling types and capacities<br />
Connectors - manufacturers, series, suppliers, tooling<br />
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'''PACMAN, MS PACMAN COCKTAIL CABINET PLANS''', by dezbaz<br />
Dedicated cocktail machines and Kyle Linstrom's plans were great, but the monitor was attached to the hinging top, which was attached to one side.<br />
A new version was devised and added to [aussie arcade] in Metric format<br />
The plans have been released here<br />
pics are available with cut lists<br />
Woodgrain versions are also available so the grains all run the right way<br />
Hinged control panels are used to allow for switching to 8 way games easily, as the dedicated control panels were fixed down.<br />
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Tools needed to build a cabinet are<br />
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2. xx<br />
3. xx<br />
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