mholgatem

Picade-PiPlay
no problem. This is very cool. I am wondering if I can hook up a potentiometer to my gpio and control this.

Comment by mholgatem June 2014 permalink
Need Help with MAME4ALL
There is usually a file in ~/pimame/emulators/mame4all-pi/roms that needs to be deleted. so you need to use rm -r ~/pimame/emulators/mame4all-pi/roms the -r recursively removes the files and then the directory. then make your symbolic link (think of…

Comment by mholgatem June 2014 permalink
Picade-PiPlay
nice, I'd love to see your code!

Comment by mholgatem June 2014 permalink
need help with NeoGeo
if one of them plays, but the other doesn't, then you may be missing some files. inside either your rom.zip or your neogeo.zip. on your system, you can grab the file '/home/pi/pimame/emulators/fba/fba_029671_clrmame_dat.zip', unzip th…

Comment by mholgatem June 2014 permalink
Remove escape to console
oops, that's right. Python would expect to see something there, so you would need to comment the 'if event.button == 1:' part out too. sorry bout that. It won't mess anything else up.

Comment by mholgatem June 2014 permalink
need help with NeoGeo
Have you tried any other roms? are you getting this for everything?

Comment by mholgatem June 2014 permalink
need help with NeoGeo
Sorry, no linking to roms on this site. Try reposting your question without linking.

Comment by mholgatem June 2014 permalink
Remove escape to console
@Chad - haha, old habits!

Comment by mholgatem June 2014 permalink
Remove escape to console
@jhnwhite - Same area as before, just a bit further down: elif event.type == pygame.JOYBUTTONDOWN: if event.button == 0: self.do_menu_item_action(self.get_selected_item()) if event.button == 1: pygame.quit() sys.exit() and cha…

Comment by mholgatem June 2014 permalink
Remove escape to console
@jhnwhite - You can do a couple of things. 1) you can add this to your config.yaml - label: Exit to Console visible: Yes full_path: no command: "" override_menu: yes 2) you can map some other key to quit out of pimame by…

Comment by mholgatem June 2014 permalink
Remove escape to console
you can, but it will require editing the source code. you need to edit this file: /home/pi/pimame/pimame-menu/pmmenu/mainscene.py Scroll down near the bottom and find the function called handle_events. It should look like this -> def handle_eve…

Comment by mholgatem June 2014 permalink
PiPlay unable to detect ROMs in subfolders and input mapping
Nice!

Comment by mholgatem June 2014 permalink
things I have learned from my Picade build
you can actually just do: rm -r ~/pimame/emulators/mame4all-pi/roms ln -s ~/pimame/roms/mame4all ~/pimame/emulators/mame4all-pi/roms 'rm -r' will remove a directory recursively, meaning that it will first delete all of the files, and then…

Comment by mholgatem June 2014 permalink
PiPlay unable to detect ROMs in subfolders and input mapping
As of right now, each emulator has it's own config file. I'm not sure if they are planning on writing all of the configs to a single file in the future, but I do know that you will still be able to configure them on a per emulator basis. T…

Comment by mholgatem June 2014 permalink
PiPlay unable to detect ROMs in subfolders and input mapping
The controller config will map button presses from either a joystick/gamepad/gpio mapped buttons. But first you have to have your gpio buttons set up and a script running to register the buttons as key presses. If you need help with that part of it,…

Comment by mholgatem June 2014 permalink
Dell 1503fp Monitor, odd behavior
maybe try doing a complete format of your sd card (erase mode) and then re-imaging it

Comment by mholgatem May 2014 permalink
see the front end emulators instead of the list.
you need to make a symbolic link named 'roms' that points to your rom folder. cd ~/pimame/emulators/fba/ sudo rm -r /roms ln -s /path/to/fba/roms roms

Comment by mholgatem May 2014 permalink
see the front end emulators instead of the list.
it looks like you are still pointing to the emulator (fba2x) rather than the frontend (fbacapex). change it in the config.yaml file

Comment by mholgatem May 2014 permalink
NES Legal notice: How do you remove it?
yeah, I compiled the fceux last week and can confirm that it is much better. The sound is pretty much spot on.

Comment by mholgatem May 2014 permalink
Map XBOX controller buttons to Keyboard?
you can probably find a third party script that will allow you to do this. Or you can buy a momentary button and wire it up to your gpio pins. I got 100 of them for $1.49 http://www.ebay.com/itm/100pcs-Tactile-Pushbutton-Switch-Momentary-Tact-LCD-S…

Comment by mholgatem May 2014 permalink
NES Legal notice: How do you remove it?
piplay is probably going to be moving over to the fceux emulator with the next release due to distorted sound problems with the current emulator. Fceux doesn't have the legal popup either

Comment by mholgatem May 2014 permalink
Overclocking issues
@wernernagel2005 - I've never encountered that sort of problem. I tried googling it, but couldn't find anything. Please let me know what you find out!

Comment by mholgatem May 2014 permalink
Overclocking issues
@sadeter sudo raspi-config option 1: Expand Filesystem option 8: Advanced options ∟option A3: Memory Split

Comment by mholgatem May 2014 permalink
Idle video?
Well, you would need a script that polls for button presses. Then you would add a timer to that script. The timer would need to be set to run your screen saver every 900,000 ticks (1000 milliseconds X 60 seconds X 15 minutes). Then you would need to…

Comment by mholgatem May 2014 permalink
WAY too loud
This is pretty much the most inclusive tutorial on also that I have come across, it's usually what I check when I have sound problems. http://blog.scphillips.com/2013/01/sound-configuration-on-raspberry-pi-with-alsa/

Comment by mholgatem May 2014 permalink
WAY too loud
are you using sudo alsactl storeto store the settings? You have to include the 'sudo' to run it with root permissions, since it's a protected file.

Comment by mholgatem May 2014 permalink
Theming
great!

Comment by mholgatem May 2014 permalink
Share your finished project!
nice! I would love a laser cutter!

Comment by mholgatem May 2014 permalink
WAY too loud
Make sure that you have alsa-utils installed, believe that is what you need to make it persistent between boots sudo apt-get install alsa-utils

Comment by mholgatem May 2014 permalink
Advance MAME Menu
yeah, for pimame menu, you basically need up/down/left/right/esc/enter. That's pretty much it for navigation. All of the emulators have config files that can be used to change any keys for in game.

Comment by mholgatem May 2014 permalink

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