Can't seem to be able to disable overscan. I keep getting a black frame.

Bug: dgen binary is missing.
When trying to start MegaDrive Emulator following message appears: "/home/pi/pimame/emulators/dgen-sdl-1.32/dgen: No such file or directory"
I looked into that directory, it's really not there. I tried the image from the mirror, it's the same, the binary is not included.

I tried again to fix the overscan problem, The frame still shows up on my TV. Also, I'm having many issues uploading NES roms. I'm using WinSCP. I keep getting errors on some roms while uploading an the ones that do upload don't show up. It seems that NES primary rom folder is recognized, but not the second one.

Cavestory keeps crashing :( I'll post the actual error when I get home.

@Pristopher

The reason why the NES roms that are being uploaded are not showing up is due to this:

BUG: From the app.py file in the web front end folder, the extension 'nes' is not included in the list of allowed file extensions.
WORKAROUND: Add the extension and you'll be all good. However, please note that the file extensions are case sensitive. I have some files that have the extension in all caps, and they were excluded until I renamed them all with lower case extensions. If at all possible, modify the ALLOWED_EXTENSIONS check to be case insensitive.

if file and allowed_file(file.filename): <------------- case insensitive?<br />
ALLOWED_EXTENSIONS = ['txt', 'pdf', 'png', 'jpg', 'jpeg', 'gif', 'zip', 'smc', 'n64', 'gen', 'v64', 'bin', 'smd', 'nes'] <------ add the file extension here<br />
BUG: Second NES folder, already addressed

BUG: In the config.yaml file, if I select True for 'hide_items_without_roms: False', it removes all menu items including the tools. This should be updated to ONLY remove emulators from the menu that do not have ROMs, not everything.
WORKAROUND: Edit the 'visible' property for each emulator individually.

BUG: On the ROM upload tool, the file /static/upload.js has a case statement that permits only 10 files to be uploaded at a time. This check is not working as I uploaded 20-50 ROMs at a time. The upload completed successfully, but there was no warning for exceeding 10 files at a time.

dropbox.filedrop({
paramname: 'file',
maxfiles: 10, <-------------------------- max set to 10<br /> maxfilesize: 50,
url: path,
uploadFinished:function(i,file,response){
$.data(file).addClass('done');
},

case 'TooManyFiles': <------------------------------ case not being detected/thrown<br /> alert('Too many files! Please select ' + this.maxfiles + ' at most!');
break;

Are these errors normal when entering an SSH session?

-- [ ERROR ] ------------------------------------------------------
Error couldn't claim the USB interface: LIBUSB_ERROR_BUSY
Try to run 'rmmod xpad' and then xboxdrv again or start xboxdrv with the option --detach-kernel-driver.

* Running on http://0.0.0.0:80/
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/pi/pimame/pimame-web-frontend/app.py", line 129, in
app.run(host="0.0.0.0", port=80)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/flask/app.py", line 772, in run
run_simple(host, port, self, **options)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/werkzeug/serving.py", line 706, in run_simple
test_socket.bind((hostname, port))
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/socket.py", line 224, in meth
return getattr(self._sock,name)(*args)
socket.error: [Errno 98] Address already in use
cant load image: themes/default/
cant load image: themes/default/
cant load image: themes/default/
cant load image: themes/default/
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "launchmenu.py", line 35, in
main()
File "launchmenu.py", line 13, in main
cfg = PMCfg()
File "/home/pi/pimame/pimame-menu/pmmenu/pmconfig.py", line 37, in __init__
self.screen = self.init_screen(self.options.resolution, self.options.fullscreen)
File "/home/pi/pimame/pimame-menu/pmmenu/pmconfig.py", line 63, in init_screen
pygame.display.init()
pygame.error: Unable to open a console terminal

Okay so got 2 bugs today.
During the install of Mame I got this:

And when I used the rom scraper (for everything)

ok, new to the raspberry, was hugely dissapointed with retro pi, so spent HOURS downloading and flashing the image to disk.. everything works (if thats what you call it) ive tried so far.. loading roms is a nightmare, could you set an auto network/shared folder in the file system? or put some way of actually EXITING TO TERMINAL? or any way of actually throwing a command at this thing? for the gui its running VERRY slow. no idea why, might just be the os.. everything else ive tried on another stick works amazingly well for such a lil processor... also the control setup. when you first start, you set the navi controls... wich then make ZERO sense.. using a playstation controller, ran config, works fine, x now brings up a menu, triangle is select, god knows what most of the other buttons do as its 10 SECONDS to respond to any button pressed, even the menu button, keyboard isnt working correctly, and theres ZERO mouse imput? i get what the worlds trying to do with the whole "hey the worlds full of idiots, lets make the front end as stupidly simple as possible" thing.. but this is a tiny linux machine. do you REALLY think anyone who bought one needs such a simple/useless/slow interface? not nocking the hard work, and want to continue using piplay as it is still better than retro pi... im just wondering if it would be easier for me to compile all the emu's in raspian, remove the unused software, create a skin with NOTRHING inside and use some icons for game launches? is the use of the controller to navigate why this gui is so SLOW and unresponsive?

whats stable? works? as betta releases seem to be a total waste of time with the pi... asif somebody makes a few changes, then just sticks it up for upload... like the workrounds in known bugs.. remove the image and replace it with one with the bug fix's already fixed? or a lil update file? i mean, everyones having problems galore with even basic stuff in the newest release.. like, genesis binary missing. thats pretty esential on an "emulation os" also what version of mame is this actually compatible with? as theres a whole host of people that belive a certian version and year is the benchmark, and thats plain nonsense.. so whats the supported engine version in this? as i run 3 diff versions to play ALL the games i have :S

This comment may or may not be relevant for 0.8b4, since the piplay version running is actually a git snapshot somewhere between 0.8b3 & 0.8b4.

Have a look at this shot : http://www.lateo.net/dl/screenshots/divers/piplay_shot-2014-07-20.jpg
("ccc" is a script to easily (re)start launchmenu.py from the Picade buttons, don't pay attention to it)

Two things do bother me here :
- ~100% CPU while doing nothing (main menu screen). Far worse than 0.8b3…
- one more launchmenu.py each time i launch a game. Can't keep it forever, so completely exiting from Piplay is needed once in a while to free some RAM (this already was a problem with 0.8b3 as far as i can remember).

Other than that,
- Screen load/change is ridiculously slow.
- Personnal opinion : fade effect s**ks and adds to the slooow feeling.
- Hacker grumbling : had to remove transparency stuff in mainscene.py so that my volume management tweak does not look like garbage.

@lateo -
- I found the problem with the memory leak. It has been fixed and the update is being put through to the main repo right now. If you want to fix it yourself, you just need to edit pmutil.py

from os import system, remove, close, execl


	@staticmethod
	def run_command_and_continue(command):
		pygame.quit()
		time.sleep(1)
		system(command + " && export LD_LIBRARY_PATH= ")
		
		#restart piplay
		python = sys.executable
		execl(python, python, * sys.argv)

@lateo - thanks for reporting that issue with launchmenu staying in memory.

Whenever I try to click one of the buttons like update, shutdown, restart, install mame on the web frontend, it comes up with this https://gist.github.com/anonymous/5fb0296b0a880a36bf81

@mholgatem @SSilver2k2
just pulled pimame-menu from git ; it is indeed much better ^^

I just tried a game in advance mame and now I am getting a key map error and it is resetting.

I just went to update from the PiPlay menu, and now my Pi won't boot :( I am going to tinker with it a little, but will probably end up just doing a clean install of b4 so I can get all the awesome new stuff :)

Oh yeah, every time you exit a game it loads the home menu instead of the emulator menu.

About the rom scraper. Under the pifba rom directory I have sfiii.zip. I don't see it show up after scrapping. Other zips do show up.

Also, if it is a clone of something, then you may have to change "Show Clones:" to yes in the scraper config. I had that issue with Street Fighter II Turbo not showing up in my MAME list, because it is a clone of SF2.

@harusp3x - yeah, we really need to have the mame installer automatically create a symbolic link to the correct directory. She is the one that deals with the installer, so I'm making notes for him. He's on vacation right now.

Could someone give me a bump in the right direction toward contributing? i.e how the various repo's work together, and which branches to look at?

I had a bit of a look at the repo's pimame_installer, PiMAME, and pimame-8. It looks like pimame-8 is the one to go to, and is brought down by pimame_installer branch '8'. So that gives me a good start... anything else I should know? A contributors FAQ/quickstart would be great, so I'll hopefully take what I learn and start a thread of that sort.

Yup cool, thanks Conno123009 I've just run through and run an install off a fork of pimame-8 and am getting stuck into it, including the menu. I have previously been running v7, so a few things have obviously changed here.

I'm starting just with Genesis and MAME

- I've had to add type: FRONTEND to get DEGN to start - I'm not even clear on what this config tag is supposed to be doing.
- Scraper doesn't work due to an error installing python-Levenshtein, which is proving to be a pita to get installed.
- I also had to 'sudo pip install requests' - I can't actually remember where I saw the issue now but requests was not available after install and reboot.
- It seems that advmenu isn't being used anymore? How does one select ROMs? DGEN just sits on the logo with No Cartridge installed. I presume this is handled by the scraper - once I get that I'll be sure to know.
- Some other small bugs - genesis roms dir etc, I will make pull requests later tonight

Is there a dev mailing list, IRC, or some other sort of communication platform or is this the best place?

And now testing mame4all I find my ROMs not working, where they were working in PiMAME v7.

'ERROR: The required files are missing, the game cannot be run'

EDIT: I've just got these running by doing the following:
cd /home/pi/pimame/roms/
mv mame4all mame4all-old
ln -s /home/pi/pimame/emulators/mame4all-pi/roms /home/pi/pimame/roms/mame4all
mv mame4all-old/* mame4all/
rmdir mame4all-old

I have a Beta 5 issue... GBA emulator keeps sending me back to the main screen when trying to load a rom. I already have a BIOS in the emulator directory.