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[BUILD] MAME4ALL DTV box
I tricked the cubieboard into loading pimame with the script, but there are issues Firstly, cubian needs to have unzip installed, a user named pi created and given sudo rights, and also the framebuffer device needs the right permissions:- $ sudo n…

Comment by nayphee September 2013 permalink
[BUILD] MAME4ALL DTV box
I managed to do a standalone build on a cubieboard2 based on "Cubian", and I had AdvanceMENU work, but for some reason when I try to start a game from the menu and run AdvanceMAME, the TV I'm using for HDMI loses connection and I can&…

Comment by nayphee September 2013 permalink
[BUILD] MAME4ALL DTV box
Only real failure of this unit is the GPIO wiring to the joystick and buttons. For some reason it feels "slow", and a dedicated USB to controller wiring board, such as the xin-mo or I-pac2 would have been a better fit. I hope to improve o…

Comment by nayphee September 2013 permalink
MAME4All black screen
Depending on your TV, I have noticed blacking out issues depending on how much the Pi gets under the pump trying to play games. For this reason I stuck to MAME4ALL on the pi, because advanceMAME display kept cutting out on me.

Comment by nayphee August 2013 permalink
Hiding unused emulators/options?
a .py file is a program written in python. executed manually in linux with "python menu.py", editable in "vi" using the command "vi menu.py". May help to learn linux a bit, and learn how to use vi, and read python.

Comment by nayphee August 2013 permalink
List of MAME ROMs that work with PIMAME
I found that most of them work at a decent clip (900Mhz overclock), and you're more likely to find games that were just broken at that version rather than ones that run slow. Remembering that this version is from the year 2000 and 2Ghz CPUs wer…

Comment by nayphee July 2013 permalink
List of MAME ROMs that work with PIMAME
Here's a ROM list pertaining to .037b5 (which mame4all supports) Very useful http://mamerominfo.retrogames.com/lists/romv37b5.zip

Comment by nayphee July 2013 permalink
PIMAME Questions
Just FYI, NeoGeo games supported by MAME4ALL work in that emulator.

Comment by nayphee July 2013 permalink
mame4all works CPS2 games?
CPS2 games were decrypted later in MAME's life, but at 0.37b5 they were still a way off from getting CPS2 to work correctly.

Comment by nayphee July 2013 permalink
List of MAME ROMs that work with PIMAME
Yep, there are a few issues with MAME4ALL-PI roms (.37b5). I believe that "FireTrap" and "Popeye" don't work at all on mame4all (well, they never worked for me). At least I had issues with those two. Maybe there are more. T…

Comment by nayphee July 2013 permalink
USB joystick for primary input device
if the menu could be activated with CTRL instead of return, that would also help a lot. I suppose we could just recode the menu ourselves....

Comment by nayphee July 2013 permalink
new to mame...
if you want to skip the menu and go straight to mame4all, edit /home/pi/.profile at the end of that script you can see that it launches menu.py All you do is comment that out, and then insert a path straight to mame4all. (IIRC /home/pi/emulators/ma…

Comment by nayphee June 2013 permalink
USB joystick for primary input device
Check this out for wiring your joysticks and buttons to the GPIO pins. http://learn.adafruit.com/retro-gaming-with-raspberry-pi/buttons What I did was to get a cobbler breakout board from adafruit and solder all my connections to that. It's n…

Comment by nayphee June 2013 permalink
USB joystick for primary input device
Rather than use a USB joystick, I rewired some arcade parts to GPIO (used a breakout cobbler board from adafruit) and then went and compiled their retrogame code to map the GPIO pins to keyboard presses. It was fairly trivial to get the buttons I wa…

Comment by nayphee June 2013 permalink
Can't get certain ROMs to work or no sound!!!!
Can't tell him where the roms are, but the samples we can http://dl.openhandhelds.org/cgi-bin/gp2x.cgi?0,0,0,0,5,2511 This is the link on the MAME4ALL-pi webpage. They should be a good fit for that emu

Comment by nayphee June 2013 permalink
Plans for 0.8 Release EDIT: 0.7.5
Any timeframe on when I can fire up the update.sh script ? By the way, will mame4all get updated too? :)

Comment by nayphee June 2013 permalink
MAME4All doesn't see any roms?
yep, it's at /home/pi/emulators/mame4all-pi/roms Don't forget that you will need to change ownership of the /nvram, /cfg, and /hi to the "pi" user otherwise no game data gets saved. (and having to let Joust restore it's fa…

Comment by nayphee June 2013 permalink
Getting AdvMenu background sound working
I'm not even sure if they have HDMI working on the FreeBSD build. I tried it the other day only to get a blank TV screen. I believe it may work only via console.

Comment by nayphee June 2013 permalink
Plans for 0.8 Release EDIT: 0.7.5
wiht gpiokeys, would this mean that we could wire a button to one of the GPIO pins and have it work like a key on the keyboard? (I'm thinking that the escape button would be a strong candidate, because I want my box to be keyboard-free). Addit…

Comment by nayphee June 2013 permalink
Snes not working via HDMI
Damn I'm still getting lots of flicker and sound cut outs on my TV. I even updated the TV firmware and that doesn't fix it. Tried playing with the /boot/config to tweak the hdmi settings to no avail. It only seems to cut out when SDL is r…

Comment by nayphee June 2013 permalink
Snes not working via HDMI
I had it set to 4.... but I'll try 7 later on. Why didn't they make 10 stronger, and set 10 as the top number, and make that a little stronger? ;)

Comment by nayphee June 2013 permalink
Getting AdvMenu background sound working
That sucks. I'm almost tempted to try compiling advancemame on FreeBSD/pi just for fun to see if it's any better! (doubting it, but could be a fun experiment)

Comment by nayphee June 2013 permalink
Getting AdvMenu background sound working
I've noticed that mame4all works a lot better. I couldn't get Asteroids Deluxe to display in Advancemame, but it worked OK in Mame4all. I think there are a few other games I couldn't get working in Advancemenu that are OK in Mame4all.…

Comment by nayphee June 2013 permalink
Getting AdvMenu background sound working
I noticed this:- http://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2013/02/10/fixing-poppingclicking-audio-on-raspberry-pi/ Although the audio I'm hearing sounds more grating... as if it's being sampled by a Commodore 64 tape deck :D I'm using pi…

Comment by nayphee June 2013 permalink
Getting AdvMenu background sound working
I tried reducing the sample rate in advmenu, but this didn't help either. I guess I can keep playing with twiddles, or maybe reconvert the music to a WAV, or maybe drop the MP3 to a lower bit rate. Additionally, I thought it could be the volu…

Comment by nayphee June 2013 permalink
Snes not working via HDMI
I have an LG 47" LCD running at full HD I've even tried mucking about with /boot/config.txt to boost the HDMI signal, but it's all in vain. Strangely the MAME4ALL menu seems to hold up better as well as the GNGEO menu, although I�…

Comment by nayphee June 2013 permalink
Snes not working via HDMI
I've been experiencing a similar problem with my Pi's HDMI connection to my TV. As soon as I select an emulator from the menu (doesn't matter which), it will load up but the picture and the sound randomly seems to be dropping out, rec…

Comment by nayphee June 2013 permalink

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