Is the last version of pimame is compatible with the RPI2 ? or have we to used a raspbian + install.sh (https://github.com/ssilverm/pimame_installer) ?

Thanks

So how do we upgrade to the new board without losing all our settings and config?

Thanks gamerdad09.

I've already ordered one, but I'm fine waiting until the bugs are worked out.

This is very exciting. Also, it will run Windows 10, which may make some emulators available for windows now function on this too...
I think this will open up a whole new world of possibilities for gaming on this thing and I am very excited about it!

They had windows CE for small devices years ago, so I suspect it'll be the same concept. Windows 10 in name only, but a scaled down version.

Windows 10 is supposed to be released for computers, tablets, phones, the xbox, and more. Also they mentioned that you can use your windows 10 device to stream xbox content to so you can play your xbox games using your tablet as a screen, so we may get similar functionality on the raspberry pi.
These are all guesses for now. I would love if win 10 turns out to be an extremely efficient operating system that doesn't require as much power to run it.

So, I'm still waiting on my Pi2. From what I've read, ARMv7 is backwards compatible with ARMv6, and current Raspbian images will boot on the Pi2. If you have a current SD card image, you should be able to do an apt-get upgrade and then everything should just work out of the box, but I can't confirm that yet.

Here is a youtube video of adafruit playing my PCSX binary on a Pi2:

i've asked some people who already have a pi2 to do that.

Well I've got my Pi2 but no idea how to get it working with PiPlay. my old raspi is a model B (standard sd card, not micro).

I've tried using win3d disk imager to put the piplay image on a micro sd card for it, but I just get the multicoloured screen when I try and boot the Pi up, it never moves from that.

Same with any other disk image I've tried using the same process.

The only success I've had so far is instead to use sdformatter to format the disk, then physically copy all of the files over to it like from the noob install. This complains the card is corrupt but does at least boot up and lets me select an instance like raspian to install.

Unfortunately when I try and do the same with piplay, I can't find a way of accessing all the files in the img to copy them across? (If I try and right click on the file and mount it, it states it's not a valid format).

I was really hoping I could use the Pi2 to speed up my arcade machine build.

Does anyone have any suggestions? Does it need to be recompiled for the arm 8 before it will work or something? Or should I install raspian or something first, then download the image onto the pi directly?

Apologies I'm pretty much a noob with the Pi, I've had one from the start but other than running xbmc on it, then piplay, I've not done much under the hood stuff.

So I installed the new released raspbian on my pi2 and then did the pimame install.

Got everything working now, just running galaga here, which on my standard non-overclocked model 2 run crap, is running now super fine. and just using 50% of one core.

so pimame works fine on the raspberry pi 2 :-)

Thanks for the help gamerdad, I'll give it a go today.

Well, definitely got further. gamerdad's instructions got me so I've now got a working version of raspian running on the pi 2. I then followed the instructions here: https://github.com/ssilverm/pimame_installer

to install pimame. All seemed to run ok. Unfortunately when I reboot, instead of it booting into piplay as I would expect, I either get an error which forces an immediate reboot, or an error about missing files for pimame and I just end up back at the $ prompt.

Seems like someone else has the same: http://pimame.org/forum/discussion/967/install-from-github/p1

is there maybe a different install I should be using?

plan B a bust too lol. Sigh.

Last ditch attempt, I'm creating a brand new piplay install using the latest image and win32diskimage. I'll put that in my old Pi, do the updates, then see if it works with the new one. Failing that I'll wait a while and hopefully someone can tell me how exactly they got it working. If only I had the B+ It would probably be OK, I just can't seem to get the version I have on my standard sd card from my model B onto a micro sd for the Pi2.

Quick updates. On the PiMAME installer repo, thats old and outdated.

I got my Pi2 in today and have been testing it with the emulators. Advmame works so well now.

I am currently uploading video to youtube.

your steps in
http://pimame.org/forum/discussion/comment/3939#Comment_3939
helped me to install the image on Raspi2 from scratch. This is great.

Regarding SCUMM I see the following effect:

When I start SCUMM from within the PiPLAY Menu the screen gets blank, I can exit with STRG+Q.

Same from command line typing scummvm

From the Raspian Desktop SCUMM starts in a Window, I can switch to fullscreen with ALT+Enter but that does not change the size, it only shows a black border.

The Installation created the following values in /boot/config.txt

# NOOBS Auto-generated Settings:
hdmi_force_hotplug=1
config_hdmi_boost=4
overscan_left=24
overscan_right=24
overscan_top=16
overscan_bottom=16
disable_overscan=0
core_freq=250
sdram_freq=450
over_voltage=6
gpu_mem=256

Is there a way to start scummvm from the PiPLAY Menu or from the desktop e.g. to 1920x1080 in fullscreen?

Thanks
Leo

yes, I tried your instructions for 0.8 too. frankly at this point I think I must have run every install out there! :D

A lot of the issues I was having turned out to be the 32gb micro sd card I was using.

I bought a 16gb yesterday and have gotten further with that. I skipped doing anything on my old pi, just did a clean noobs, downloaded raspian etc all on the pi2, then did all the updates etc as per your other thread.

Still falls over for me though, despite being a bit further on. Running pimame update falls over, saying it's missing folder roms/zxspectrum. I created the folder and that worked around that issue. not sure why the folder would be missing though. I then run the mame install, seems to run OK, goes back into piplay and mame is still missing, but the install mame is there on the second page. It's probably giving an error but it boots back into piplay so quick I don't see what it is.

So basically I've got piplay and no mame arcade emulators.

@mholgatem yes tried that, had no chance from console to get it to work. However as a workaround configuring 2x at the SCUMM application settings and hiding the window borders and activating fullscreen lets the game exactly appear on the screen. So this is a valid workaround for Monkey Island 3.

@ReedyHudds I did a clean noobs lite install on a 16 GB microSD so for a fresh install this worked fine for me with the procedure of @betatester. (success)

Try 2 was a download of the PiPlay 0.8 that I wrote with diskwriter32 on a 16gb microssd. I used a raspi1 and executed sudo-apt-get update and sudo apt-get upgrade. After that step the ssd was readable on Raspi2 where I did the rest of the commands.

Try 3 was to convert my existing configured ssd image based on a 0.7.10 version. I used the procedure from https://kofler.info/raspberry-pi-2-alte-sd-karte-weiterverwenden/#comments

sudo -s
apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade
apt-get install rpi-update
rpi-update

as described I was able to see the new kernel7 file in /boot

I did this procedure on a raspi1, when I switched to raspi2 however it did not boot, only the colorful screen but no text.

Solution was to copy in the /boot/config.txt from the PyPlay8 image and overwrite the /boot/config.txt on the 0.7.10 image with this version.

With that raspi2 bootet succesfully and I can use my existing image without having to reconfigure anything.

The only difference is that after the apt-get dist-upgrade SCUMM did not work any more from commandline so I have to use the workaround with startx running scummvm via start menu and configure x2 fullscreen and hide menu at application level in SCUMM.

I now have a clean 0.8 a clean 0.7.10 and a 0.7.10 image I used on raspi1 which now runs also on raspi2. Here I tested vice from the old pimame menu and SCUMM from raspian desktop.

If the blank screen issue is fixed in the future I hope that SCUMM then can be executed from command line, same for Atari 2600 which does not start.

Dupe

Not yet but it's on my list. Two of my favorite arcade games (after Marvel Vs. Capcom)

oh man you rock... i literally expected the worst from reading all the difficulties everywhere, and everything is working basically perfectly except for a lack of sound in a game or two. Even the Ultrastik's are perfect, no config necessary.

One thing i had to fix was permissions on the roms folder. Could not upload anything, ftp or http. i just hacked it up by chmod 777 the roms directory (mame4all).

Tested street fighter 2 just now, sound is working, joysticks are working and gfx are silky smooth.

Will there be a release of piplay that is completely compatible with the pi2 anytime soon? I'm talking about the complete image that we can write to the SD and just throw it in the pi2 and have it work.

Running PiPlay Beta 7 on a Raspbian install and it's working nice with the older games. However some games that I expected to work on Pi2 do run, but they run slower and with stuttering music. Games like Outrun, MK2, Galaga '88 are all from the late '80s and still Pi2 can't run em in a playable way. Is this because Pi2 is still not fast enough or is this because my PiPlay isn't optimized for the new Pi2 yet? Will Beta 8 solve this problem? I would love to run everything from the '80s at least.

If anyone is looking for a Pi 2 and is buying under/for a business, MCM has them in stock. Limit of 3 per order. http://www.mcmelectronics.com/product/83-16530

@Paladin - That is definitely the top of our wishlist. Both @SSilver2k2 and I love the 64. So we'll see!

there is one here: http://blog.sheasilverman.com/pimame-raspberry-pi-os-download/

works fine on p2