mholgatem

Questions about emulators
I use KEY_LEFT, KEY_RIGHT, KEY_UP, KEY_DOWN for joystick, then KEY_ENTER, KEY_U, KEY_H, KEY_B, KEY_K, KEY_L for the buttons

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Raspicade-Retrogame-2Player-Pi2 + Advance Mame = ...
retrogame's 'vulcan pinch' is just the same as the 'escape' key. The piplay controller config is based on the 'key_up' event. so you should be able to just assign the vulcan pinch to the 'exit_program'. I…

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Questions about emulators
@Sukerbole - I found the problem with the invalid resolution for surface error. The boxart area is just a function of screen_width - rom_list_width. I made changes in the code, so that boxart just won't display if there's not enough room. …

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Stuck in Cave Story! Noob, please help!
sorry. I didn't see the part about getting the error with the nes roms as well. What version piplay did you get? Also, how did you get it (sourceforge image, raspbian image + installer, older piplay image + updater)? It's weird to me that…

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Questions about emulators
I haven't had any problems with the genesis emulator and the adafruit gpio retrogame (that's my primary controller). I'll check into that invalid resolution for you though.

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Raspicade-Retrogame-2Player-Pi2 + Advance Mame = ...
like TheStrayMongrel said, nano /home/pi/.advance/advmame.rc change 'lctrl' to 'lcontrol'

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won't play my roms
Great! I'm glad that this worked for you. Based on the changes that you made, I would assume that the error stemmed from the resolution settings. Let me know if you run into any other problems!

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View output from gpio
let me know if you have any questions still.

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View output from gpio
@andrewpiplay - check out this tutorial over at adafruit: https://learn.adafruit.com/retro-gaming-with-raspberry-pi/buttons

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piplay not saving controller map Xbox 360 wireless
ok, I think what you need to do is something like this: if [ "$DISPLAY" == "" ] && { "$SSH_CLIENT" == "" ] && [ "$SSH_TTY" == "" ]; then cd /home/pi/pimame/pimame-web-front…

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Stuck in Cave Story! Noob, please help!
did you run the 'install mame' option in the main menu?

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40-pins GPIO and joysticks
If you use that winipac tool, then it reprograms your ipac to send different keyboard strokes. After that, you just need to press 'tab' and reconfigure the emulators.

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Questions about emulators
huh, that's weird. It probably has to do with the theme trying to resize menu options to fit the screen. If you want to post the full error, I can look into it.

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@ChrisW - yeah, I discovered the bug after we released this last version. I've already fixed it and we'll be putting out a small update soon-ish

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piplay not saving controller map Xbox 360 wireless
yep. glad to help. Sorry it took me so long to get to it.

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Raspicade-Retrogame-2Player-Pi2 + Advance Mame = ...
The problem is the formatter, not retrogame. pygame reports it as 'left ctrl', but advmame needs it to be reported as 'lcontrol'. I'll get it fixed.

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40-pins GPIO and joysticks
ahh. that's probably your problem. so, first off, you can reconfigure your ipac to send different keystrokes. You use the winipac config tool. (instructions here) What emulators are you trying to use? There may be an error in the formatter (ea…

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won't play my roms
so, I hooked my pi up to composite video and messed around with all of the settings (everything from default to trying to force an error) but I couldn't replicate this error. Shea comes back from PyCon on Monday, so I'll ask him about it t…

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Stuck in Cave Story! Noob, please help!
were you able to figure out what was going on?

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You guys are awesome
Hey thanks! it's nice to hear some positive feedback every once in a while!

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40-pins GPIO and joysticks
@KFJ1972 - Right, but do you mean that they don't work at all in piplay and the emulators?

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piplay not saving controller map Xbox 360 wireless
I think that your controller is not getting initialized properly. I just tested (initialized right/wrong). I was able to duplicate your problem, as well fix it with this solution: http://pimame.org/forum/discussion/1735/bugs-in-8-beta-9#Item_6

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Bugs in 8 beta 9
@candyman - I did some testing. I don't think that your xbox controller is getting activated. With the normal 'toggle controller', it add a line to your .profile that looks like this: sudo xboxdrv --silent --config /home/pi/pimame/con…

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40-pins GPIO and joysticks
are you saying that they don't work in the piplay main menu, or in the emulators?

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40-pins GPIO and joysticks
in the main piplay menu, press 'tab' then go to 'controller setup' to configure your keys for each emulator.

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40-pins GPIO and joysticks
check to make sure that your buttons are wired correctly, then make sure that the correct pins are mapped in your retrogame.c file (and that you have run 'make' if you made any changes to retrogame.c)

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Stuck in Cave Story! Noob, please help!
pressing escape twice should get you out of cavestory. but if you aren't getting any response, that probably won't work. you may have to just unplug your pi or ssh in and run a restart command

Comment by mholgatem April 2015 permalink
Bugs in 8 beta 9
-The wifi bug will get fixed in the next update. I'm not sure why it used to work but now it doesn't. -I fixed the error with the mouse (although right now the mouse isn't 100% usable, it doesn't work in popup menus yet) -I'…

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ShutDown Button With Interrupt Method
cool, thanks for this!

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Audio issue and my solution
try deleting /home/pi/pimame/config/piplay-sound.state then: sudo raspi-config select the following options: 8 advanced options A9 Audio 1 Force 3.5mm ('headphone') jack

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