Quoted from Kerry_Richard:85vett... Thanks for your input! I've typed up brief instructions for game selection & play. I have not placed it at the vacation home yet.
Question; "If" someone just powers it down without properly exiting game... will that present problems?
That's debatable. It's no different than just shutting down a PC. I know some people say that causes harm to the PC and others say it's not an issue. One thing for sure is it will give you that error when you turn it on the next time.
Here is how I have mine set up -
- Switch to turn the whole system on (CPU and TV's). Switch is in the same location as a real machine
- Push button that turns the CPU on. Simple to do. Just have to connect to the board where the power switch goes.
- I put hyperpin in my start up process so when the PC turns on it starts hyperpin.
- At this point hyperpin is up and running so they have to select the table.
As for exiting. I have mine set up to pause with a quick press of the exit button and exit when the exit button is held for 3 seconds. If I put this somewhere I wouldn't be I would change this to exit at touch of button vs having to hold it down (limits confusion).
You will clearly need to explain how to turn it off. When you exit a table it will go back to the main "spin" screen. Hit exit again then click down to "shut down". This shuts the PC off at which point they can turn the CPU off.
It's not hard to figure out but if you have vacationers there make sure the instructions are very detailed and maybe even have pics of what things should look like othewise you are asking for calls.
A hyperpin is probably less risky then a real pin for this as real pins always have silly things pop up (ball getting stuck) which is a show stopper. With hyperpin if something goes wrong you just reboot. Still, neither is fool proof.
Hope this helps