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mame roms not appearing on piplay after I download to home/pi/roms
the installer doesn't work right now because the binaries moved. Check out this thread to get instructions on how to install mame4all: http://pimame.org/forum/discussion/1625/mame4all-binariescode-has-moved#Item_6

Comment by mholgatem March 2015 permalink
remove/add emulators to/from PiPlay
when you run the web frontend app, and then try it on your computer, if there is an error, it should output it on your raspberry pi. can you post any of the output?

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Joystick and buttons not mapping properly in games
it looks like you're configuring a combination of joystick/keyboard for player 1 (left bumper, right bumper, select, and start). The emulator can't handle that.

Comment by mholgatem March 2015 permalink
[SOLVED] AdvMame - Roms not found
a few suggestions: -did you run the scraper after changing the location? The scraper writes the location to the database, so if you changed it after a scraping, then you could get an error (I don't think that this is your problem though). -M…

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Dgenrc file being ignored
that usually means that there is an error and it's using default settings. can you post some of the lines that you have modified?

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Trouble connecting to PiPlay website. Anyone else?
yeah, I don't know what the deal is with it. it's really strange.

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Mame4All gamelist screen
yep. at some point, I plan to implement an easier way to edit those, but we have a lot of other problems that we need to get fixed first. :D

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Trouble connecting to PiPlay website. Anyone else?
good suggestion @Freddy. I'll add it to my list.

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Mame4All gamelist screen
right now, if you want to increase the image size, you need to edit the source code. It's /home/pi/pimame/pimame-menu/pmmenu/romlistscene.py lines 54, 55, and 56 self.boxart_area = pygame.Rect(0, self.info_container.top, self.info_container.w…

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Good bye, Google Code
yep. I just got the email for my projects. They are no longer taking new projects. Old projects can be updated until August.

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Trouble connecting to PiPlay website. Anyone else?
@Nitrogen_Widget - try using a different browser. I've had a couple of people report that they are having problems with using Firefox and sourceforge. I can verify that the zip file available on sourceforge is valid. I just finished downloading…

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Trouble connecting to PiPlay website. Anyone else?
@tomhubbard83 - If you pi is connected to your router (and you can see your ip address in the corner of piplay), then you may need to check to see if the web-front-end app is running. If you exit piplay to the command line, then type python ~/pimame…

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How to lauch Piplay main menu from desktop/ command line
That should work. does it give you an error? Have you tried logging out of the desktop and then trying it, or are you just running a console window inside of the desktop?

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Help with playing MAME Arcade ROMS ON PiPlay
@alintamer - ok, so first off, welcome to PiPlay! Next, The free use permissions granted by advmame and mame4all prohibit us from distributing piplay with those emulators already installed, hence the installer. Now, unfortunately, just as we got th…

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Add directories to FTP
depends on which ftp software that you use. filezilla: just click the site manager icon (upper left, picture of a computer), select the 'advanced' tab for your connection, then set 'default remote directory'

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Does PiPLAY set SD card to read only and has anyone had issues with SanDisk Ultra PLUS SD cards?
no idea, never tried it. For the most part, Piplay just reads, but there are certain writes that it does to the databases (changing settings/adding games to favorites) also it writes to the emulator config files when using controller config.

Comment by mholgatem March 2015 permalink
Does PiPLAY set SD card to read only and has anyone had issues with SanDisk Ultra PLUS SD cards?
@tdmame - well, we'll find out. I just ordered the exact same card yesterday. I should have it later today or tomorrow.

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Install joystick
The double input is normal. I get that on mine. I think it's because there is probably 2 instances of it running (one in the background, plus the one that you ran from command line). If you set any of your buttons to letters, go to the command …

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Install joystick
@dsrichard - it's all good. that's what the forums are for. The advmess.rc is deprecated. we used to use it for emulating nes, but have since moved to fceux. as for your advmame.rc, did you run through the controller config in piplay? (I t…

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Trouble connecting to PiPlay website. Anyone else?
yeah, it's been happening to me too. I'll talk to Shea about it. I think that it's the web host that he is with. We have doubled our page views in the last month (we are now at ~3,000 per day), so that probably has something to do wit…

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Rom folder in External Hard drive?
First you need to mount your hard drive (just google it, there are tons of tutorials). Next you need to move the roms folder to your hard drive mv ~/pimame/roms /path/to/external/hard/drive now you need to create a symbolic link where the roms fold…

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Booting up Not working...Need help!
It sounds like your pi is faulty, but it's just a guess at this point. Do you have anything plugged into your pi? I would try booting with a clean raspbian image. You may also try unplugging all usb devices before booting. sometimes they can be…

Comment by mholgatem March 2015 permalink
Install joystick
You need to make sure that you are running a program in the background that will capture the gpio events and turn them into key strokes. Retrogame from Adafruit is pretty much the default (scroll down to the area labeled 'one last piece...'…

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remove/add emulators to/from PiPlay
@markboston - on your pi (in command line), try this. python /home/pi/pimame/pimame-web-frontend/app.py leave that running and go to your computer to check if you can now log in.

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beta 8 web frontend
yeah, that is the problem that we are currently working on. once we get the debounce problem fixed, then all the control stuff should be good to go.

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0.8 issues with emulators crashing
@kurgen - we disabled the mouse for the time being, but it will get worked back in pretty soon.

Comment by mholgatem March 2015 permalink
PiMAME Menu Navigation with USB Joystick
If you are running version 8 beta 8, then there is a glitch, it's not you. we are working on the problem and should have it fixed shortly

Comment by mholgatem March 2015 permalink
beta 8 web frontend
oops, sorry, I forgot to add the links: pmcontrollerconfig.py pmcontrols.py

Comment by mholgatem March 2015 permalink
beta 8 web frontend
@fattphunt - Shea and I are actually working on the control issue right now. We've gotten quite a bit worked out, we should have something working by the end of this weekend (maybe even sooner). In the meantime, you can grab these 2 files and …

Comment by mholgatem March 2015 permalink
remove/add emulators to/from PiPlay
yeah, that's a really old post. For a while it was believed that the N64 would be able to emulated on the pi1 (they were able to get a few games to sort of run, but nothing really well.) Now that the pi2 is out, it can happen, but for good emul…

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