Patent ID: 8708798

Claim:
A gaming machine operable to configure resident hardware components by implementing hardware configuration data stored in the gaming machine, the gaming machine comprising: a cabinet; one or more hardware components including a transmissive LCD display device; one or more processors; one or more system memory devices storing executable instructions; and a cabinet memory device mounted on the cabinet or mounted on a first cabinet component mounted to the cabinet, the cabinet memory device coupled to at least one of the one or more processors via a cabinet memory interface, the cabinet memory device storing hardware configuration data for the one or more hardware components, the hardware configuration data including a facing angle for the transmissive LCD display device; wherein the stored executable instructions, when executed by at least one of the one or more processors, cause the gaming machine to: read the hardware configuration data from the cabinet memory device; configure at least one of the one or more hardware components according to the hardware configuration data read from the cabinet memory device, wherein configuring the one or more hardware components includes determining a parallax correction based on the facing angle; and display graphics, via the transmissive LCD display device, in accordance with the parallax correction.