Letting a PiPlay arcade into the wild

mcjordan

So I have been playing around with PiPlay and I want to set it up to be placed in the "wild". Meaning I want to place it somewhere for anyone to play. I've played around and created a custom splash screen, made a custom skin, ordered a cabinet. But there are a couple things I can't figure out. I was hoping someone could point me in the right direction.

1) Is there somewhere in the code I can change the keystroke to exit back to the command line? I want people to be able to exit the roms but not back to the command line with the same button.

2) Is there a way to set up a timeout so if a ROM is left unattended it will reboot or return to the menu? This is probably something I would have to edit in the ROM?

3)Is there a way to activate the screensaver?

krayzielilsmoki

number one is actually a setting in the menu.
There is nothing for #2 and 3 that I know of.

mcjordan

Thank you @krayzielilsmoki. Feels like I needed to look just a little harder. I thought I would have to change a couple lines of code somewhere. The answer is usually right under your nose.

mholgatem

@mcjordan, advmame has a timeout feature, but as far as I know, none of the other emulators do. I'm sure that you could find/write a small script that watches for keyboard/controller input, then after a certain amount of inactivity, it will send a 'key_esc' signal

mcjordan

@mholgatem thank you. I haven't ventured too far outside the NES and SNES emulators yet I will definitely look into that thanks so much!

mholgatem

yeah, no problem. I'm thinking that it would probably be really easy to modify the retrogame code (by Adafruit) They already have all of the code in there to send keypresses and a timer for debounce issues. You could just get rid of the bits that relate to the gpio and call it a day.

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