mholgatem

Submitting Custom Themes
The order is set by piplay itself. The default settings will first alphabetize the list, then pull all items that have a rom count to the front of the list, and finally pull all items listed as a "Utility" to the end. To get shutdown to t…

Comment by mholgatem September 2015 permalink
My build the PICAB
Very nice looking! Is that a kit or did you do the whole thing from scratch?

Comment by mholgatem September 2015 permalink
No internet connection to install Mame
It's been a while since I ran into this, but I think that it's an old problem where the original repo was stored with code.google.com (which has since closed). Try replacing the mame_install.py file with this one: https://raw.githubusercon…

Comment by mholgatem September 2015 permalink
2 USB ports, how do I set controls for two xbox controllers?
pressing 'button3' on any usb gamepad will open the menu as well. Xbox controllers need to be set up by first activating them on the main menu ('enable xbox controller') and then you'll also need to edit '/home/pi/pimam…

Comment by mholgatem September 2015 permalink
Feature Requests: What do you want to see in PiPlay?
That's a good suggestion, I'll make sure Shea sees this.

Comment by mholgatem September 2015 permalink
Problem with Keyboard in Piplay menu
Piplay can use either joysticks or keyboards to navigate the the menu. That sdl_joystickGetAxis message is generated by pygame (the underlying codebase of piplay) whenever it receives joystick information from the system. The main desktop gui and co…

Comment by mholgatem September 2015 permalink
Deleting roms
In command line, you can use this to get my latest version of the scraper. Let me know if you have any problems. wget -O /home/pi/pimame/pimame-menu/scraper/scrape_script.py https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mholgatem/pimame-menu/master/scraper/scr…

Comment by mholgatem September 2015 permalink
Joystick issue, help!
ah, Xin-Mo. try this out and let me know how it goes: http://piplay.org/forum/discussion/1840/another-xin-mo-question-mutliple-button-presses#Item_7

Comment by mholgatem September 2015 permalink
Joystick issue, help!
also, why don't you go ahead and send me a copy of your controller.yaml file? Holgate.mark1@gmail.com

Comment by mholgatem September 2015 permalink
Joystick issue, help!
what brand joystick is it?

Comment by mholgatem September 2015 permalink
Joystick issue, help!
no, it's not that pygame is looking for -1/1, its that pygame normalizes joystick output to -1/1, no matter what jstest is outputting. try changing: OPTIONS: AXIS_DRIFT_TOLERANCE: .9 to OPTIONS: AXIS_DRIFT_TOLERANCE: .1 maybe your joysti…

Comment by mholgatem September 2015 permalink
Joystick issue, help!
It should be like this, (pygame, the underlying software of piplay, works on a -1 -> +1 basis). JOYSTICK: HORIZONTAL_AXIS: 5 VERTICAL_AXIS: 4 DIRECTIONAL: LEFT: -1 RIGHT: 1 UP: -1 DOWN: 1

Comment by mholgatem September 2015 permalink
Top and Bottom of Display Screen Cut off after update
what is your setup like? hdmi? any converters or anything?

Comment by mholgatem September 2015 permalink
PS4 Controller
if you use it wired as a usb, then you can. Otherwise, I'm not entirely sure. I know I saw a github repo a while back that was working on it, not sure if they ever got it working or not.

Comment by mholgatem August 2015 permalink
Cannot open /home/pi/pimame/config/piplay-sound.state for reading: No such file or directory
I believe that there is an error using the mouse in this version. It's been a while since this version released, but I think that someone else had pointed it out early on. you may try just using a keyboard and I'll look into it more when I…

Comment by mholgatem August 2015 permalink
Joysticks and Buttons
Those joysticks look nearly identical to the ones that I bought from adafruit (other than coloring). They are indeed quite mediocre! What you want for fighting games is a Sanwa JLF. I have friends that build custom tournament joysticks and they swea…

Comment by mholgatem August 2015 permalink
Issues with 2 different SD cards with multiple symptoms
hmm... This is quite a conundrum. You've already tried all of my usual fixes. I'll pass this along to Shea to see if he has any ideas.

Comment by mholgatem August 2015 permalink
Arcade/FBA button config incorrect
yeah, this is a known issue. should be fixed in future release. You can manually edit the controls by editing the following files: FBA: /home/pi/pimame/arcade.cfg AdvMAME: /home/pi/.advance/advmame.rc

Comment by mholgatem August 2015 permalink
Share your Build Pics
Very cool! It looks really good. I hope that your employees enjoy having an awesome boss!

Comment by mholgatem August 2015 permalink
Nes start button
you need to edit the file located in /home/pi/.fceux/fceux.cfg (notice the '.' in fron of fceux, that means that the folder is hidden). You may just want to change your ipac config to something more benign though as you will likely run in…

Comment by mholgatem August 2015 permalink
GPioneer - A side project compatible with PiPlay
it's just the number portion of the pins labeled gpio#. I guess that it's based on the Broadcom Soc Channels, but that's about the extent on my knowledge about that. :D

Comment by mholgatem August 2015 permalink
GPioneer - A side project compatible with PiPlay
yeah, that's exactly what the db is for; so that you can remap keys that don't work for you. You should be able to remap to just about any other key. I haven't tested things like the 'F#' keys. Those extra pins can be set u…

Comment by mholgatem August 2015 permalink
Pi2 / N64
I haven't tried it yet. Last I heard, most of the games ran, but a few had texture issues (no faces on characters and such) I think that you need a new image when you go to the pi2. I can't remember exactly though. You may try sudo apt-ge…

Comment by mholgatem August 2015 permalink
Pi2 / N64
it's worth upgrading if you want to play n64. We haven't officially added n64 yet, but there's nothing stopping you from manually adding it.

Comment by mholgatem August 2015 permalink
SNES Two Player Controllers
You can set the mappings by pressing 'tab' in the piplay main menu the choosing 'controller config'.

Comment by mholgatem August 2015 permalink
GPioneer - A side project compatible with PiPlay
Cool. Glad you got it working man!

Comment by mholgatem August 2015 permalink
Problem with my joysticks
Glad you got it working! Gotta keep the kids happy :D

Comment by mholgatem August 2015 permalink
Problem with my joysticks
I think that the version of pisnes that got packed into the latest version of piplay was the old version that didn't have xin-mo support. grab this build. Unzip the file and copy/replace the snes9x file to /home/pi/pimame/emulators/pisnes. That…

Comment by mholgatem August 2015 permalink
NES emulator laggy
are you making sure that piplay is not being run from inside the desktop? in Raspi-config, did you expand your filesystem? Also try changing your memory split in raspi-config. If you are running a pi1 set it to either 64 or 128, if you are running a…

Comment by mholgatem July 2015 permalink
GPioneer - A side project compatible with PiPlay
as far as I can tell, that should work, but it has been some time since I messed around with retrogame. As you stated, you are using GPIO 13, maybe just double check that you are indeed connected to pin 33?

Comment by mholgatem July 2015 permalink

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