Well, it's official - the cabinet construction is complete! I have moved it from the garage into the front bedroom that is our library. The only thing left to do is troubleshoot the spinner (loose wire most likely), cull the rom directory for games I don't want/need, and finish the OS configuration. I plan to try to build a ramdisk and copy the program files and roms into it at system boot to speed up execution and get rid of hard drive noise when games load. I think that all the video modes are working well - I love the D9200! I have loaded some pics of the cabinet with different games running, and I have taken some other pictures with Paula's Minolta, and when they have been developed I will scan and post them.
Now comes the task of putting all of my notes together and trying to massage them into some sort of order. I hope to have that done by the end of the week as well. I have learned much during the last 5 weeks, and I want to share what I have learned with the community. Much of it is in the logs below, but there is more that I haven't had time to put down. This has been fun, and draining at the same time; it will be a while before I try to build another cabinet :) Now I can reap the rewards of my labor, and enjoy the experience of the arcade again!
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