Dave

Using I-PAC VE
I don't know if you guys know this (I didn't) but there is a US seller of the I-PAC, J-PAC, and other stuff from Untimarc. I found out AFTER I ordered my J-PAC from them. It would have been a few dollars less and I wouldn't have had t…

Comment by Dave December 2014 permalink
I Need your help!
Next time I'm in the used game store here I'll look and see what they have. At one time the owner did have a few original NES boxes for some games. He might let me take some high res pics.

Comment by Dave December 2014 permalink
No DHCP offers received
I had a similar problem with the generic wifi dongle I used on my B+ and Piplay. The easiest way I found to fix it was to boot up the system, exit out of Piplay, and then startx. Once the shell is loaded configure the wifi with the Raspbian wifi GUI…

Comment by Dave December 2014 permalink
No sound on any ROM [PI B+]
I had the same issue. Turned out the volume was turned all the way down. Try going into the config menu by pushing the TAB key at the Piplay home screen and adjusting the system volume there.

Comment by Dave December 2014 permalink
Single player cabinet, used for The Simpsons
Like mholgatem said look for the two player version of The Simpsons. I had the same issue with my two player cabinet. You will need to go to the configure menu while at the Piplay home screen (hit the TAB button) and set "Scan for clones" …

Comment by Dave December 2014 permalink
Button Mapping Advice
My arcade cabinet is about 99% done and I still use a keyboard for a few things. Sometimes it's just easier than trying to remember what button does what on a joystick console. Either use the mini keyboard or do like I did and set up a hidden U…

Comment by Dave December 2014 permalink
Controlling Power
@ian57 That is impressive. When I was looking at rebuilding my MAME system around the Pi I looked for a way to use the GPIO pins like what you have done. At the time there weren't enough GPIOs and i had no idea how to go about it, so i used the…

Comment by Dave December 2014 permalink
Configuring FCEUX
Got another question. That works, but some of the keys do things like start and stop movie recording and select save states originally. Now that I have my keys mapped correctly they do both things. Like when I hit the A button on controller 2 it bri…

Comment by Dave December 2014 permalink
Configuring FCEUX
Oh good grief I can't believe I never saw that option under the tab menu. Yeah that worked. *facepalm*

Comment by Dave December 2014 permalink
Controlling Power
I use the ATXRaspi add on board and then a main power switch to turn everything else off. The cool thing about the ATXRaspi is it have a header for a status LED. I wired that to a set of LEDs that are under the track ball on my cabinet. Looks pretty…

Comment by Dave December 2014 permalink
Hiding unused Emulators: HOW do I edit config.yaml?
I copied the files over to my windows PC via FTP and edited them with wordpad, NOT notepad. Worked perfectly.

Comment by Dave December 2014 permalink
Hiding Unused Emulators?
AWESOME! THANK YOU! That did the trick. Now I just need to figure out how to move the settings items to a second menu away from the emulators. Anyone?

Comment by Dave December 2014 permalink
Rename Roms in MAME4ALL
OK found my answers. For anyone else if you go into the settings (push TAB key on the PiPlay front end) change "scrape clones" from false to true. I only have one game missing artwork now.

Comment by Dave October 2014 permalink
Rename Roms in MAME4ALL
I may have found a way, how do I set the scraper to look for clones of roms? Right now it defaults to not looking for them.

Comment by Dave October 2014 permalink
Feature Requests: What do you want to see in PiPlay?
+1 for the MP3 player!

Comment by Dave October 2014 permalink
Hiding unused emulators/options?
Thank you. I've been reading up on it. Like I said I'm coming from Windows and DOS so it's kinda like being able to speak Spanish and then learning Portuguese. Similar languages, but not the same. I played with Vi today and was able t…

Comment by Dave August 2013 permalink
Hiding unused emulators/options?
Ok I looked at menu.py on my PC using notepad just to see what the structure looked like. I'm guessing that I need to edit it with a different program. After Googleing what a *.py file is it says I need to edit it in python? I thought python is…

Comment by Dave August 2013 permalink

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