johnnygal

What about encoders?
Sorry for the late reply Tyde!! Yes, I use the Kade device with Piplay (actually an early version of pimame).

Comment by johnnygal August 2014 permalink
ANNOUNCEMENT: PiMAME is now PiPLAY (why inside)
Good to hear Shea. You'll have to get some PiPLAY stickers now ;-)

Comment by johnnygal April 2014 permalink
What about encoders?
I have used Kade on a minimus AVR I already had (open source code) http://kadevice.com/

Comment by johnnygal April 2014 permalink
Problem with advmenu MAME4ALL
Might be worth checking if that is the location that Mame4all is installed to i.e. /usr/local/bin/indiecity/InstalledApps/mame4all_pi/Full Also, in your listing above there is a space between / and usr/local/.... There shouldn't be a space. S…

Comment by johnnygal March 2014 permalink
Shutdown button using gpio pin
Sorry, I should have said it's the GPIO library for python that really needs installing.

Comment by johnnygal March 2014 permalink
Shutdown button using gpio pin
Hi adamrobots, "Is there a way off doing this first part if my pi is not hooked up to the net? can i download the file on my mac and then transfer it over with a usb stick and then install? " Yes, that will work. The wget is just to downlo…

Comment by johnnygal March 2014 permalink
[BUILD] PiMAME cocktail table
Thanks. I don't split the screen at all so it only plays games where the screen can rotate between player 1 and player 2 for each turn. From the FAQ on this forum: ROTATE DISPLAY TO VERTICAL -------------------------- To rotate display to vert…

Comment by johnnygal February 2014 permalink
Sound via USB possible?
I've certainly had sound working fine with a USB audio soundcard.

Comment by johnnygal January 2014 permalink
Shutdown button using gpio pin
Whoops, yep, sorry. I had left a "debug" print line in from when I was testing. That looks interesting regarding the interrupt driven GPIO library. I suppose it should reduce cpu usage. The arcade machine I built is now with my nephew but…

Comment by johnnygal January 2014 permalink
[SOLVED] advancemenu for mame4all...
yep, see FAQ... Add these lines to advmenu.rc emulator "mame4all' generic "/usr/local/bin/indiecity/InstalledApps/mame4all_pi/Full/mame" "%s" emulator_roms "mame4all" "/usr/local/bin/indiecity/Installed…

Comment by johnnygal January 2014 permalink
Briefcase Arcade
Like it. Great idea!

Comment by johnnygal December 2013 permalink
[BUILD] PiMAME cocktail table
The shutdown button is the little black one at the back of the Player1 control panel. It is connected to two of the GPIO pins (One input and ground) and a python script monitors the state of the GPIO input, shutting it down when it sees the relevant…

Comment by johnnygal December 2013 permalink
[BUILD] PiMAME cocktail table
Hi bodobear, Thanks. I have no plans for it I'm afraid. I kind of made it up as I went along, inspired by looking online at various write ups. I started with building a couple of cardboard mockups, to get a feeling for size and how things woul…

Comment by johnnygal December 2013 permalink
Difference between AdvanceMAME and MAME4ALL?
I can answer a few of these... Mame4all is based on v0.37b5. Put Advancemame roms in /home/pi/roms You can use the AdvanceMenu front end and Mame4all as the emulator - see FAQ

Comment by johnnygal December 2013 permalink
USB Audio Card w/ PiMAME. Bad!
I have used a USB sound card without issue on PiMAME. In the early days I was getting some cracking on the audio from onboard sound using the 3.5mm audio jack. I was using the USB soundcard for a little while before I resolved the onboard sound issu…

Comment by johnnygal November 2013 permalink
[BUILD] PiMAME Arcade Coffee Table
Cool. I love these coffee table builds. Good job.

Comment by johnnygal November 2013 permalink
Mini Arcade Cabinet with PiMame
Soooo cool!

Comment by johnnygal October 2013 permalink
Shutdown button using gpio pin
Yep, well spotted. The formatting above in your post matches the script I am using. I am using the version of python that comes ready installed on Pimame - 2.7 ? (Shea?) I don't have my Pi here to check.

Comment by johnnygal October 2013 permalink
Shutdown button using gpio pin
Also, if you copied and pasted the script from this message board straight into an editor it may have hidden control characters in. Best to start with an empty editor session and key all script in manually.

Comment by johnnygal October 2013 permalink
Shutdown button using gpio pin
probably need to do: sudo python /home/pi/shutdown.py (to run as root)

Comment by johnnygal October 2013 permalink
Shutdown button using gpio pin
Sounds like the GPIO python class didn't install properly. Did you get any errors when installing it. Does it give the same error if you run from the command line i.e. python /home/pi/shutdown.py (yep, I manually created a "bin" dir…

Comment by johnnygal October 2013 permalink
Shutdown button using gpio pin
Edit file /etc/rc.local and just before last line add.. python /home/pi/bin/shutdown.py &

Comment by johnnygal October 2013 permalink
Shutdown button using gpio pin
SET GPIO#17 to be internally pulled up, then need no resistors and only 2 wires Connect one side of button to gnd and other to GPIO#17 - i.e. shorts pins 9 and 11. Script to monitor GPIO #17: [Save as /home/pi/bin/shutdown.py] import RPi.GPIO as G…

Comment by johnnygal October 2013 permalink
Shutdown button using gpio pin
From the FAQ... Shutdown Switch --------------- To install python for shutdown switch: sudo apt-get install python-dev wget http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/R/RPi.GPIO/RPi.GPIO-0.4.1a.tar.gz untar and install with "sudo python setup.py …

Comment by johnnygal October 2013 permalink
Shutdown button using gpio pin
The message board won't let me post an answer,maybe because it's too long. I'll try to break it up into parts...

Comment by johnnygal October 2013 permalink
Shutdown button using gpio pin
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Comment by johnnygal October 2013 permalink
HDMI Sound Not Working
Was there a config change you had to do? Please let the board know for users which may hit a similar issue.

Comment by johnnygal October 2013 permalink
[BUILD] PiMAME bartop cabinet
Nice neat job there bjo88. The acrylic makes for a nice finish.

Comment by johnnygal October 2013 permalink
My "Arcade Classics" Arcade Stick
nice job. looks great.

Comment by johnnygal October 2013 permalink
FAQ
When you use Mame4all as the emulator from the advmenu, the games list shows up as the filenames, so is often difficult to tell which game is which. To produce a file that can be used by advmenu to give the correct titles, run this command in the M…

Comment by johnnygal October 2013 permalink

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