Rotation

Wooodyii2

Ok, so I read how to rotate my game screen for vertical games but how do I rotate the splash screen and menu? I'm sorry to keep bugging everyone but if there is some type of manual I would gladly comb through it, I'm not lazy like that

mholgatem

Wooodyii2

Is it possible to do this from the gui? I am learning here remember.lol
Currently I am in the gui, went to file manager, found /boot. Then opened that folder and found config.txt. And thats as far as I can get. How do I open it? If I dbl click it asks me if I want to execute. I do but nothing seems to happen.

SSilver2k2

from the gui, double click on lxterminal. then run the command sudo nano /boot/config.txt

Find the line you need to edit with the arrow keys. When you are done, press ctrl-x, then press Y to exit and save.

Wooodyii2

Whoo Hooo...Got It!!!!!!!!! Thank you once again!!!!!!!!!

Wooodyii2

Whats funny is these small accomplishments seem super huge to me. lol I feel like having a party..lol

Wooodyii2

I swear...once I have this all set up, I will put a youtube video on my channel with a step by step of what I did with all your help. And more help to come.lol

Thanks again

Conno123009

@Wooodyii2
That would make a good tutorial to go on the 'Tutorials' page at the PiPlay website :D
Thanks

sadeter

This worked great for me. It should probably be put in the FAQ, since the FAQ only gives info on rotating some of the front ends and not the new menu like this does.

TonkaTuff

Hi,

When I set display_rotate=3 the fps for MAME4ALL ROMs drops from 60 to 15!! ANyone else got this problem or a solution please?

Thanks,
TT

mholgatem

Conno123009

@sadeter @mholgatem I've updated the FAQ to make it easier to read and added this rotation to it. Thanks :D

TonkaTuff

Hi,

Thanks for the recommendation. I upped the GPU Mem to 256 last night and still only got 15-20 fps.

Conno: Which FAQ topic did you update please?

Cheers,
TT

mholgatem

@TonkaTuff - Are you running piplay inside of the X window system? or from command line?

Conno123009

@TonkaTuff
Just the general one here:
http://pimame.org/forum/discussion/79/faq#Item_8

TonkaTuff

Thanks for the help.
I've got a RPi B+
Running PiPlay 8 Beta 7 from image
I've tried setting overclocking to max and GPU_Mem to 448MB
448 makes the RPi unusable, so went back to 384. Still no joy with FPS. Got 20 max out of it.
Any other suggestions?

mholgatem

it may just be too much. My only other suggestion would be for you to try to edit the mame.cfg file (/home/pi/pimame/emulators/mame4all-pi/mame.cfg).

try setting:
antialias=no
translucency=no
display_smooth_stretch=no

TonkaTuff

Thanks, will give it a go.

clocey

Is it possible to use one of the GPIO to execute these commands to rotate on command?

mholgatem

ian57

Rotating during runtime can only bee done using Xorg and the xrand program -> but it uses resources and the emulation will not be as quick as standard mode.

atv223

I'm working on a vertical cocktail project and also needing to rotate the screen. Things were really running poorly when I rotated, but then I increased the GPU Mem to 256 and overclocked it to 900. Seemed to run better.
How can you tell what your actual frame rate is?

ian57

See here with mame4all : http://youtu.be/QhclxTZ7nfk

I think its 60fps. Everything is fluid...

mholgatem

@atv223 - I would overclock to 'Turbo' using raspi-config (1000 Mhz). Also make sure that you are running piplay on startup, not from a terminal window.

atv223

Yep, running PiPlay on startup and I used the config.txt file to rotate the screen. I'll try bumping the overclock up, just didn't want to burn out my Pi!

Is there a way to actually determine what frame rate the system is running at?

mholgatem

I believe that mame4all has a way to display framerate (somewhere in settings) but I could be wrong. it's been a long time since I messed with it. Make sure you use raspi-config to set your overclock settings and you should be fine. If you do it through your boot/config.txt file, you run the chance of putting the wrong setting in and burning something up. (also, the raspi-config overclock settings won't set the sticky-bit and void your warranty)

shockwave1000

I am also having the same issues as TonkaTuff. I have tried what has already been suggested with absolutely no luck. Is this a hardware limitation? I have finished my build of my cabinet and was happy as larry and then BOOM! super dissapointed. Any more suggestions as to how this can be possibly resolved?? I did NOT however try Xorg and xrand program. I am using the piplay settup and running my games through mame4all.

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