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Just run the upgrade as per above. I have a PI2 and its a fresh install as of yesterday. So my system wasnt 100% working prior to the upgrade.

However so far it upgraded and booted as per normal and all of the roms are there.

I'm also getting continuous "waiting for dbus address to appear"
I'm sure I've seen this on the forum already, so going to investigate.

;) Cheers. I followed most of that, and it worked.

Just need to work out why my Xbox controller doesn't work now!
Wireless, with the official wireless dongle.

xboxdrv gives : Error
USBController::()USBController: libusb_open() failed: LIBUSB_ERROR_ACCESS

If I sudo it, I get :

Error
Couldn't claim the USB Interface: LIBUSB_ERROR_BUSY

Run rmmod xpad, and it says command not found
Sudo killall xboxdrv gives xboxdrv:no process found.


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I'm a filthy n00b. Never Mind.

@mholgatem , Yes I am.

Guys, have updated my install from the icon on the menu, and almost everything seems to be ok, except that i don't have any ROMs in any of the Emuls, and also, some of the emus are gone as well as some custom configs for launching some of them.
Checked the config.yaml file and it's the way i left it. I've read somewhere this new version is moving the configs to SQL.
The question is, how do i reconfigure the system now to reproduce my settings in the SQL database? My ROMs are not in the SD card, but in a 250GB external HD!
I tried the remote web interface, but there's no new admin features available, like in the preview on the main page of the blog. Should i update again on the console?

Thanks!

@mugo - you are correct. config.yaml is gone. Everything is stored in sqlite databases. They are now located at /home/pi/pimame/pimame-menu/database/config.db

The new web frontend should be available to you right now if you upgraded to .8b8

@hinchhinch - snes probably isn't working because you need to manually set the xin-mo flag in the config file. I'm working on the other problem. it sounds like a debounce (basically same key is being set twice).

Guys, thank you very much for the replies.

I executed the update script again, this time from the console, but as root. Now i have, what seems to be a known issue, with the omxplayer at startup. I've found some workarounds on other forums, that consist to delay the execution of omxplayer, whats not exactly what i want as a lot of the boot process log is shown on screen, but seems to work for now. Of course, this is not a problem with the PiPlay script, it's my fault.

PiPlay was still not working after this time because the pi user files where not updated.

Ran it a second time as user pi, and now everything is working very well! Thanks a lot for this update! Lots of very usefull features!

I just wish there was some documentation explaining things like how to add new systems emulators to the menu, with their icons, scraping IDs, etc.

Lots of the games in my collection seems to be correctly identified by the scrapper, as their descriptions are present, but most of them have no picture. I don't know why. Most of them already have the pics files in the same folder that was being used before, by the old scrapper (i'm not really sure if the scrapper has changed that much, if at all).

Anyway, now, it seems to take a little longer to open the frontend so i can choose the system, and seems to take the same amout of time when i quit a game and get back to the menu, than it took before, in the b7. But the new features are well worth it!

And as i said, i have a pretty big ROMs collection, of about 8000 - 9000 games.

Thanks again! If there is any other test i can do to help, please let me know.

I can say the new web interface work as a charm, as i have configured retroarch to be the emulator in various systems, and also my ROMs folder is in an external HD running NTFS. Everything is working, except for the extra systems. I get an error from launchmenu.py (and other scripts called by the previous) that i suspect is because these systems don't have correct IDs for the images in menu. I setted them not visible and the menu is working again.

@mugo- the documentation will come when we officially roll this new version out. As for not being able to add menu items, that was a bug. so thanks. I've already fixed it and will be pushing it to the repo soon.

The new scraper has changed quite a bit. See this post

As for images not showing, if the image is .jpg or .png and named exactly the same as the rom file (ex- 'super mario world.zip' and 'super mario world.jpg') it should show up. Alternatively, you can download the supported images (links in the post mentioned above) and unzip them to your images folder, then run the scraper again. you will probably want to run the scraper from the command line like this:

python /home/pi/pimame/pimame-menu/scraper/scrape_script.py --clean_slate True

That will re-scrape all of your games, not just the unmatched/new ones

I've just installed this beta update on my Raspberry Pi2. It works fine. I've just one issue. 2 controllers both on one player (Keyboard and Xbox 360 controller-wired)

I have no problem with the ROM uploader on my RPi B (not +). All the features of the new Web Interface work very well.

Now, as i'm writting here again, the field where the descriptions appear in this new interface version is static, and various descriptions are way bigger than this field, so they get cut at the bottom of the screen.

Is this the expected behaviour so far?

By the way, the new search/favourite feature is AMAZING!

Thanks!

@mugo. yes, as of right now, some of the descriptions will be longer. If you find that the text is too large, you can edit the font size in each individual theme by editing /home/pi/pimame/pimame-menu/themes/theme_name/theme.yaml
find 'info_font_size:' and change it to a smaller size. Eventually we will implement scrolling text, but for now, I just wanted to focus on functionality.

@Pristopher - did you run the updater from inside piplay or did you use this method:
wget pimame.org/update_beta.sh
bash update_beta.sh

if you used the latter, you should also be able to go into the web frontend and set mame4all and advmame to visible.

This update will work for both a pi and a pi2

@mholgatem I did it using wget and bash. I'm trying to access some areas on the web frontend, but I get 505 errors...

@Pristopher - it sounds like yours didn't update correctly. the config.yaml shouldn't do anything anymore. it should be converted to the databases now (They are located in /home/pi/pimame/pimame-menu/database/)

I'm not sure. That'd be a question for @SSilver2k2. Maybe he has an idea

@mugo I'm pretty sure it was as pi.

So I ran the update from the piplay menu and it updated, not sure if you meant that to happen. Anyway, how do I modify the databases so I can flip the visibility of the different emulators?

Thanks

So what's the proper install order for all this?

I'm using Pi 2 so the images are not an option.

I installed Raspbian and everything boots fine.

I checked out the pimame-installer, ran it, and restarted.

Downloaded update_beta.sh and found it was looking for a ~/pimame directory that's not there. The 7.10 installer didn't put anything there.

What am I missing in this whole process?

Ok I took a fresh copy of noobs installed rasperian os and then updated and command line downloaded PiPlay and then updated to the beta. Works great. Fast as well. Only problem is that when I try to configure my joysticks (xin-mo I push to the left and it flashes through the up and on to the right without any more input). Any help on how to resove the problem would be great. Running on pi2.

@mholgatem - I am attempting to change the files but cannot get WinSCP to connect to my pi - tells me access denied. what the best way to update the files. sorry to be a pain.

ok I am getting closer! I have installed Filezilla and can log into the pi. I can navigate to the directory and can get to the files on your repo. How do I move the file from your repo to the pi via (Filezila) windows? or is there a easier way? sorry this all a little bit new to me!

@fluxb0x - you will need to manually configure your snes9x.cfg file. Edit lines 20-31 for your keyboard configuration (use this file to get the key codes)

so if you want spacebar to be the player 2 'A' button, line 20 should look like this:
A_2 = 32

Burned a clean new image, upgraded, ran and... I love it! Specially the "slide" theme. I'm going to load my roms and try it out in a while and maybe customize the theme a little bit. I'm also going to add a StartX Menu Item.

So, I loaded my roms and scraped them. The description show up fine, but not the images. Also, when I'm browsing through the rom lists it crashes. For some reason, I forced audio through HDMI and it didn't seem to work. I think I'll wait a little for the image launch.