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A few questions
To avoid having the Continue/Exit menu popup when trying to exit a game, edit the advmame.rc and change "misc_safequit" to "no""
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April 2013
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Checking keys?
I have seen this for some games but assume it's the game. I have "cocktail" selected for most games (in DIP switch settings), as I am getting ready to build a cocktail cabinet. It certainly rotates the display and allows player 2 con…
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April 2013
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Checking keys?
If you look in /var/log/messages you should see what HID device it spots the encoder as. The way I tested mine is just to get to the command prompt and exercise each button - of course this will only work with normal characters and not CTRL/ALT/etc…
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April 2013
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[BUILD] PiMame Arcade Cabinet
Here's a good post on adding a shutdown button... http://www.3cc.org/blog/2013/01/raspberry-pi-shutdown-switch-safely-turning-off-the-pi/
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April 2013
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Clear screen when advmenu calls advmame
Weird. It works on one of my other Linux boxes but not on the pi. It accepts the commands but makes no difference. I set both the foreground and background to black but it left the text white
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April 2013
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Clear screen when advmenu calls advmame
Thanks, good idea Shea. I need to give it some thought whether I will ever need to get to the console again. I suppose I could have a shell script that turns it on again and blindly run this if I need to. Cheers.
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April 2013
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PiMAME 0.6 Beta 3 Available
Another alternative here: https://sites.google.com/site/degenatrons/controller-interfaces/usb-keyboard-encoder I have built one of these - £9 delivered for the minimus and flashing the provided hex file was easy. I have tested with pimame and inten…
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April 2013
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Clear screen when advmenu calls advmame
Tried various combinations but can't get it to work. I will put this on the backburner for now. Thanks for the tip anyway.
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April 2013
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Video issues?
Just tried it now. Works ok, no signs of any corruption in any of those areas
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April 2013
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Clear screen when advmenu calls advmame
Thanks. Will have another play tonight...
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April 2013
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Video issues?
Yep, I have run Tempest on it. I don't recall any corruption to the high score area. I will check tonight when I get home.
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April 2013
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[BUILD] PiMame Arcade Cabinet
Maybe that's the easiest solution - just keep an image to reload. You'll lose highscores if you have to reload but it is a quick procedure to re-image the card.
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April 2013
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[BUILD] PiMame Arcade Cabinet
Is there not a risk that file corruption will occur if just removing the power? That device looks nifty, will take a closer look. As my arcade machine will be in use by teenagers (and younger!), I want to see if I can put something in place to avoi…
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April 2013
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[BUILD] PiMame Arcade Cabinet
Hi Martin3232, I am planning to create a small arcade table/cocktail cabinet based on pimame. Can I ask how you handle powering off the pi? I was thinking of wiring a contact to a GPIO pin and running a shutdown script when pressed.
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April 2013
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PiMAME 0.6 Beta 3 Available
I can also report that the fix for popping analogue audio when entering/exiting advmame/advmenu is fixed by this updated pi firmware.
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April 2013
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[BUILD] PiMame Arcade Cabinet
nice!
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April 2013
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[SOLVED] Advance Menu Slowness
Yep, I have tried 0.6 with about 10 roms and each "down arrow" takes about 1 second. I don't recall it being like that in 0.5
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April 2013
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Clear screen when advmenu calls advmame
No luck. When I try the above advmenu fails to runup giving "No emulator". Seems it just expects the executable as the final parameter.
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April 2013
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PiMAME 0.6 Beta 3 Available
Ok thanks.
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April 2013
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Clear screen when advmenu calls advmame
Ahh ok. I will give that a go tonight when I get home and post back. Thanks.
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April 2013
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PiMAME 0.6 Beta 3 Available
Hi Shea, What's different between 0.6 beta 2 and beta 3?
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April 2013
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[Solved] Running Advmenu @ startup
Yep, you could edit the .profile, take out the call to the menu (python...menu.py) and put in "advmenu" instead.
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April 2013
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