Added a new very fun game to the cab that I've wanted to have available for some time: EveryExtend with the help of this wonderful (not to mention free) utility: AutoHotKey.
EveryExtend works alright in a cabinet (escape to quit, playable (menus and all) with a joystick and one button), but has a couple of problems:

1. There's a dialog box that pops up every time it's opened asking whether you want to play fullscreen or not and
2. the controls aren't remappable.

Solution:
Download and install EveryExtend, download and install AutoHotKey (doesn't need to be installed in the cabinet, see below), and create a new script like the one in the sidebar.
Edit: code no longer inline
Next convert your script to an exe (which will let the script run on a machine that doesn't have autohotkey installed) with AutoHotKey's included "Convert .ahk to .exe" utility, and point your frontend to that instead of the actual PC app.

Spent a bit of time tweaking some software stuff I hadn't gotten around to/had been putting off, mostly windows-hiding stuff.
Finally re-setup a one pixel cursor in windows.
Download: 1 pixel cursor | Invisible cursor

Created a few bootscreens using BootXP,and set them to randomize. Windows once again well hidden.


Added a couple more games, specifically Lego star wars and Gish. Both play very well with arcade controls, but Gish requires a modified exe (which they said they'll make available soon) to make the GUI system work without a full keyboard or mouse. Also, on screen pointer for this game is stored in Gish/textures/mouse00.tga. Making its alpha channel black makes it invisible.


Lastly, replacing instances of 'desktop' with 'mamewah' in the Hamsterball.exe with a text editor had this nice effect:


Still can't believe how long these take before they're really done.