mholgatem

Theming
Well thank you for your service to our country, Sir! Let me know if you need any help upgrading.

Comment by mholgatem May 2014 permalink
Advance MAME Menu
I am so jealous. Growing up, we had one of those galaga units at my church. I was awesome at it. wow, such nostalgia. much awesomeness.

Comment by mholgatem May 2014 permalink
Theming
@jhnwhite - I can only speak for myself, but the biggest help to me is when people help answer questions on the forums. @luisusmc - You need to update to PiMame .8 or above to get it working. There is a ton of stuff different between the two. vers…

Comment by mholgatem May 2014 permalink
Overclocking issues
are you running piplay in X or from command line? Also, in raspi-config, did you expand your filesystem and split your ram (I recommend at least 64 mb to gpu, I personally use 128 mb). Last thing, are your roms stored on a fast enough card? one thin…

Comment by mholgatem May 2014 permalink
Theming
you can add padding to the rom list by using a .png format image for rom_list_image & rom_list_selected_image. just make it the size that you want each rom title to take up, and give it a transparent background. right now, there are no options …

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PiPlay beta 3 not fully functional?
@Chad - best practice would be to keep all of the roms in a common area, so I would go into your emulator folder and remove the 'rom' folder, then create a symbolic link pointing to the pimame/roms/mame4all folder. Also, in the next vers…

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MAME4ALL ROMS Help!
make sure that they are in zip format. also make sure that they are version 0.37b5. Lastly, I believe that there are two folders that you may need to have roms in, or create a symbolic link in one pointing to the other. the normal roms folder, and …

Comment by mholgatem May 2014 permalink
PiPlay beta 3 not fully functional?
you should make a symbolic link that points one folder to the other. I don't have mine up right now, but I'm pretty sure that is what I did.

Comment by mholgatem May 2014 permalink
Theming
try taking a look at your cache files and make sure that they list the correct locations for your roms. Also, make sure you run the scraper AFTER any changes have been made to your config file, otherwise the cache file will not point to the right di…

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dip switch settings not saving
double check to make sure that they aren't getting changed further on down in your config file. That's a problem that I had when i first migrated to .8

Comment by mholgatem May 2014 permalink
N64 games.
different architecture. psx more closely resembles the pi. or so I've read anyway. :D

Comment by mholgatem May 2014 permalink
Theming
you need to install Levenshtein. Update the package index: # sudo apt-get update Install python-levenshtein deb package: # sudo apt-get install python-levenshtein

Comment by mholgatem May 2014 permalink
Theming
Eventually I plan to create a way to correlate images of your choosing to roms, but for now, this is all we have. If you wanted to manually correlate them, you could place your images into the folder, then edit the appropriate cache file, they are j…

Comment by mholgatem May 2014 permalink
Theming
The scraper places all of the images inside of that rom folder in a folder called images. right now piplay won't recognize the artwork without having run the scraper because the scraper builds the cache file that that correlates roms to images.

Comment by mholgatem May 2014 permalink
Theming
what do you mean set them yourself?

Comment by mholgatem May 2014 permalink
Theming
1) right now, that's not possible. everything will be the same style rom list. 2) also not possible, but we may be able to work that in.

Comment by mholgatem May 2014 permalink
Theming
right now, it's just from command line. you need just need to run: python ~/pimame/pimame-menu/scrape_script.py it will walk you through the rest. I would still say that it is in the alpha stages of development

Comment by mholgatem May 2014 permalink
N64 games.
good luck there. emulating the Nintendo 64 is pretty much pushing the raspberry pi to capacity. I'm not sure if anyone on these forums have gotten it running correctly. The architecture of the N64 makes it hard to emulate correctly. Don't …

Comment by mholgatem May 2014 permalink
Theming
You could probably create an icon for a fake emulator that doesn't have a command

Comment by mholgatem May 2014 permalink
Hide mouse cursor?
in pmconfig.py: where it reads:self.screen = self.init_screen(self.options.resolution, self.options.fullscreen)Add a line after that that reads:pygame.mouse.set_visible(False)

Comment by mholgatem May 2014 permalink
Theming
oh, that's because you got my .cache files as well. you need to go to pimame-menu/.cache/ and delete all of the files in that folder. That's a list of all of my games. to do that, you need to set 'num_items_per_row: 3', and �…

Comment by mholgatem May 2014 permalink
Theming
I'm not quite sure what you are asking. are you talking about showing just the emulators that you have roms for?

Comment by mholgatem May 2014 permalink
Hide mouse cursor?
ok, so I added code for the upcoming release to turn off the cursor.

Comment by mholgatem May 2014 permalink
Thanks you!
I'm guessing that this is a hotplug problem. Try this: sudo nano /boot/config.txt uncomment the line that reads: hdmi_force_hotplug=1Save, quit, restart pi to load changes. Hopefully this works for you!

Comment by mholgatem May 2014 permalink
Theming
@SSilver2k2 - Thanks Shea! @jhnwhite - yes, it should. But make a backup of yours first, just in case ;)

Comment by mholgatem May 2014 permalink
Theming
@Chad - Sort of. My arcade project was a Christmas present for my son, but I get kind of obsessed with making projects perfect. So I started modifying the code and just putting it out there in case anyone wanted it. Shea noticed my work and has loop…

Comment by mholgatem May 2014 permalink
Fancy Schmancy menu
Check out your other discussion. http://pimame.org/forum/discussion/1011/themeing I have posted on there. Right now, there isn't really much you can do, but hopefully in the next few days, the new version will be out and you will be able to c…

Comment by mholgatem May 2014 permalink
Theming
menu_items: - label: SNES #don't mess with the label icon_file: snes.png #unselected emulator icon icon_selected: snes-selected.png #selected emulator icon - label: MAME4All icon_file: mame4all.png icon_selected: mame4all-s…

Comment by mholgatem May 2014 permalink
Theming
options: theme_name: "Tron - by MholgateM" #not required, just handy header_height: 140 #the header is the space where the logo goes at the top header_color: "255,255,255,0" #can be in RGB or RGBa format. logo_image: &qu…

Comment by mholgatem May 2014 permalink
Theming
you should wait just a little bit longer (hopefully only a couple more days now). I have written code for easy theme customization and SSilver2k2 has merged it into the master code. If you want to get a jump on it, you can download my repository: ht…

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