hey, that's pretty awesome. I imagine that it probably will. Thanks for the heads up on this one. I'll pass it along to Shea.

@SteveJ - yep. Just shoot him an email :D

haha, yeah. We might implement something like that in the future. I'm not exactly sure what it would take.

It would be nice to have an icon that's linked to Pandora. That way you could listen to some music while the PiPlay is idle on the menu...

- MSX Emulator
- WiiMote easy install option

I use my wiimote sometimes, for convenience.

@djwink, you can do that, just check the forums.

So, I am new here and maybe I have overlooked something, but I would like to see Atari 8 bit emulation. A system like the 65 XE, 800 XL, or similar. I would also like to see ps3 dual shock controller support. I am loving piplay. Keep up the great work.

I'd like the option of being able to add PicoDrive for Genesis since it supports 32x and SegaCD.

Also it would be neat if there was a way to map a save state or emulator/bios menu button to a extra controller button.

As a noob to piplay, the main issue I have is that I have no idea which roms will and won't work, and there are just so many clones etc. I therefore find a game I want and then copy the all the clones and roms I can find for that game and try each one till I get one that works. I then want to delete the others. Being able to delete within the mame list would be awesome, but failing that, at least being able to see the darned file name would help! Once it's scraped, there is no way I can see where I can actually see which file names match which description, and therefore I can't tell what to keep and what to delete. The only way I can do this is to copy the roms one at a time, test, delete, copy the next one etc. It takes so long! Might be my noobness and possibly there is another way to do this so please let me know. A list of good working roms for each emulator would be good too, then maybe I wouldn't need to do this process anyway?

I'm just setting up my Pi2 for this but to be honest after a few days spent just getting a couple of dozen working games set up I'm starting to think wiring a PC into the cabinet would be a lot easier, as the emulators seem to run a lot better (loads of games that don't work on the Pi seem to work OK using mame32 or 64 for example).

PiPlay is a great system though, and has loads of different emulators, so I'd like to try and stick with it if I can find a way of working a bit quicker finding working roms.

Does anyone have a recommended list for example that are tried and tested on advmame or mame4all?

Thanks so much, sounds perfect. I've also started using the ftp client instead which is much better, means I can add and delete files using the PC, whereas before I was copying the file using the web rom uploader, testing on the pi, then coming out of piplay and going into the rom folder and deleting, then exiting back into piplay again etc. And for now I just tell it NOT to scrape the folder, that way I just see the file names as a list.

I'll definitely take a look at the app you mention, I can't tell from the roms which are which so that will be very helpful.

Thanks for your reply @mholgatem.

My request is to add a facility to this website that holds and promotes the download/creation of templates to be used with PiPlay. Also a good tutorial on how to make a template would be really cool...

@visy My understanding (please correct me if I'm wrong) is that there is some tweaking to the code of the included emulators, but they are all not of them self completely written from scratch by @mholgatem or @ssilver2k2 . The Pi is older hardware that was limited in part by it's dated architecture, hence the older MAME versions with older rom support.

You can bet because of the Pi 2, with it's much faster processor and extra memory, that more emulator development will start or resume. They're barely scratching the surface of what it can handle. I recently stumbled upon a thread where someone got a decrypted rom set for Street Fighter 3, a CPS3 game, running on the Pi 2. That is incredible!

Hey guys
Your doing a great Job, i love your work.
It would be cool if it would be possible to install a coin Counter.
I`m building a Cocktail table and would like to use it as a piggy bank :-)
Greetings from Switzerland

@gamerdad09 thaks for your input, odered a electric coin couter at aliex....com for 20 Dollars.. Lets see if i can make it work ;)

Would be nice if you can get SDL / framebuffer and the PiTFT to play nicely together (vs having to use fbcopy).

I would like to have the Atari 2600 emulator back and a Nintendo 64 emulator.
cheers! Love pi play.

A one click/toggle method to get from pimame menu to x and then back to pimame menu would be convenient

I am New to Pi stuff and piplay and a bit presumptuous at times.

But I'd like to see something in the guy for display management. Rotation and ratio that not only configs the Pi but also the games. I have a display that rotates and would be nice to be able to make the most of it. Also controlling the upscale if we can. I'l rather clean square pixels over blurry ones.

AlsoUser theming could be interesting.

love to see the following in it
ms-dos (dosbox)
pc engine/TurboGrafx 16 (Mednafen)
dreamcast (not sure if any emulator really works)
master system (OsmOse)
Game Gear (OsmOse)
minecraft (Minecraft: Pi Edition)
apple 2 (LinApple)
nintendo 64 (mugen64plus)
Doom (PrBoom)
Duke Nukem 3D (eDuke)
gameboy color

Customizable keyboard presses for input. I would like to change the buttons associated with save states for the i-pac board for the NES emulator.

Another +1 for XBMC on PiPlay (or PiPlay from XBMC)

Here are my suggestions for PiPlay:

- When playing a game, set cursor back on it when quitting, instead of going back to 1st game in list

- Game image display of too slow when navigating in gamelist.
I'd like to see the image of each game I select, immediately, for fast seeking. Just like MAME UI on Windows, to give an example.
I guess there is a timer to display image only if cursor don't move for a moment, but I'd prefer no delay, since we have right-click to do fast-paged movements

Maybe asking a bit much but here's my suggestions if at all possible: (With a Pi 2)

Any type of Killer instinct that is the nearest quality to arcade versions:

* Killer instinct 1 and 2 - Ultra 64 or method of running standalone / had one once that would run standalone outside of mame and did not rely upon using Mame of any type. (PC format)

* Killer Instinct 1 & 2 (via mame emu not sure which would work but needs rom and chd - not sure if PI does CHD's?)

* PSP (PPSSPP? - pi not up to it?)
* M.U.G.E.N (pc only? Wine only?)
* Daphne (seems too much for pi2 or am i wrong?)- free to use or play!
* Actonmax (same as daphne? too heavy?- free to use or play!
* Neoraine/Raine? (Surely this maybe doable?)

At a stretch:

* Terrordrome (although a pc only game - opensource kindof!- hxxp://terrordrome-thegame.com/)

* UK Pub Fruit Machines were the best, like Andy Capp and Roadhog (unlikely as Shea is from US. (Hardly likely) - hxxp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gGp4MDgtUc

* Future Pinball and Virtual Pinball would be great although not sure if possible!:*

Other PI2 Pipe Dreams include:

* Section on main menu that maybe read only but shows set Generic Control(s) or Controller Instructions Image Page or image for basic install (which you can set or change at basic level or just user discretion - i.e pulling info from an sql or similar database to show in a text or read only text box that has the current value of whatever controller graphic that you click on or have already saved and selected/or shows that info in a side box)

* An editable page that fills the screen that shows pics of controllers and the controls you currently have set for them to help with working out which button or joystick angle does what! (Even better show which buttons you have chosen as a consequence of selecting those buttons in a separate menu from what is currently set. (Maybe upload a pic of your controller to PI-Mame and have a section at the side which shows what keys are set to which button etc.

* Additional Museum section (or on which supposed rom's work with each particular emulator for PI2 especially. (i.e romset info and what roms will work if you own the rom or cartridge etc for each and every console or arcade platform.)

Just a thought!

Just need my arcade controls to arrive in the post and im away!

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MY PI-PLAY ARCADE SPEC SO FAR - Not built yet - need more wood!
* Raspberry Pi 2
* PiPlay - Version 0.8 beta 9 (or latest latest - http://blog.sheasilverman.com/
* US8 Encoders x 2

Not delivered yet but cheap if i get them:
Probably clicky buton and joystick although apparently 8 way plus cheap buttons (1st Arcade build effort)
* 2O Butt0n & 2 Joyst1cks - bidding on!

* 2 x working images - Micro SD cards
----- ARCADE ONLY:------------------------------------------------------:
1 x Verbatim Class 10 32gb Card = 29.50 gb'ish image - Using SLIDE Theme
----- CONSOLES & NEOGEO Spectrum-PSX------C64--Atari --ETC---------------:
1 x San-disk Ultra Class 10 - 32gb Card = 29.70 gb'ish image - Using PIWORLD Theme
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I have a few questions if your able to help:

* Does anyone know if it is better to run PiPlay via a PI2 AND A SMALL Micro Sd card and a use a usb drive to mount the image like i used to with RA5BMC or should I do what i have done recently and strictly use a a Sandisk 32 ultra £12 and 32gb Verbatim Micros SD card £8, which i thought were the best cards on the market for the Pi2?

* Is this possible? If so so can anyone give me a link to easiest form of similar instructions? (PI2)

* What is the best card to use to make full advantage of PiMame using a RASPBERRY PI2 if different to above? especially to get the extra 10% out of NEOGEO games which seem to only be running at 85-90% spped of the original at the moment?

* Can you use videos for each emu to show up in each emu category as it seems you can only do it only on boot screen?!?

Maybe i need a a few separate post and a new thread? Let me know.

Thanks again for everyone involved in making PIMAME what it is so far!