mholgatem

Text PiMame Menu on PiPlay
The splash is only there until everything reloads(otherwise it would just be a black screen) . When you run a rom, it kills the Piplay app to free up resources. So when the rom is done, Piplay has to re-initialize. You can make it speed up quite a b…

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Text PiMame Menu on PiPlay
You can disable the transitions by pressing 'tab' in the main menu to bring up the pop-up menu.

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set button 1 as Enter as well as Left Ctrl in Advmame
If you check out the advmame.rc file, there should be on option to either disable the confirmation part or set the UI_confirm (it may be called UI_select) to a different button. I'm away from my computer for the next week, so i can't dig i…

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New guy. Getting a few errors.
1) It should auto scrape the roms for you (so that they show up in the list with all of the info) but if they don't, then you can run the rom scraper utility from the main menu. That should get them showing up. 2) I'm guessing that your r…

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TurboGrafx 16 and MAMEBIOS.rar
hmm, it's strange. There shouldn't be an issue with the number of roms that you run, I have batched somewhere around 8,000 in one go with no problems.

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TurboGrafx 16 and MAMEBIOS.rar
ok, so I just tested putting a turbografx game into the turbografx folder and it worked fine for me. Did you try manually running the rom scraper from the main menu (it should auto run in the background, but sometimes it doesn't) you can also t…

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Share your Build Pics
nice! I love it! looks like you need a suction cup mount (or a really heavy base) to keep it from moving around.

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MP3 palyer on Piplay Help
Piplay is written entirely in Python (2.7) and Pygame. Pygame doesn't handle mp3 (it can handle ogg and wav though) You could probably write (or find) a script that can use something like omxplayer in the background to handle it.

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Super Noob Question, initial PiPlay setup
cool. glad you got it working!

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Super Noob Question, initial PiPlay setup
NOOBS is basically just a multi-boot selector. Think of it more as a BIOS. So what you do is load NOOBS onto the card, then you copy the piplay image to the /images directory in the NOOBS filetree.

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Help for FTP
what error does your ftp client give you when you try to copy the file?

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piplay exits out when i open a menu
does it display any error messages?

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Kodi installation on PiPlay?
I believe that you can use Noobs and just place a zipped piplay image and a zipped KODI image into the /images folder. I haven't tried it, but it should work.

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Letting a PiPlay arcade into the wild
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 th…

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advmame scripts
hmm... I don't know why that would be. It may be a rom by rom basis (I really don't know). I do know that when I when I was testing the original script, some of the scripts didn't trigger when I tried 1945kiii, but they did trigger wh…

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Letting a PiPlay arcade into the wild
@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 sen…

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advmame scripts
yeah, let me know how it works. I don't have a keyboard with led's, so I had to test it by toggling a message onscreen. That worked fine, so as long as I didn't screw up any of the led code, it should be good.

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advmame scripts
It's entirely on an emulator by emulator basis (if they make use of the led's). I honestly have no idea. I really didn't even know about the script ability of advmame until you brought it up. That being said, Here is how you would ena…

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advmame scripts
you need to use a while (event()) {} loop. That way it knows when to end. I'll see if I can come up with the exact code you need

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advmame scripts
I'll give it a shot if you want to go ahead and post the code that you already have that brings it on solidly until p1 is pressed.

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Really small button solution
That is really cool Dave! I'm impressed. What kind of screen are you going to hook it up to?

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MAME installation problems in Piplay
Always glad to hear when people are enjoying it!

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MAME installation problems in Piplay
@kongorilla-Email me at holgate.mark1@gmail.com and I'll do whatever I can to help you hit that deadline (I got into this whole thing because I came across this project while building an arcade for my son for Christmas, so I've been there)

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MAME installation problems in Piplay
check out this comment from jsreisinger: http://pimame.org/forum/discussion/comment/6414#Comment_6414

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Menu Keys
you need to edit /home/pi/pimame/pimame-menu/controller.yaml

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Raspicade-Retrogame-2Player-Pi2 + Advance Mame = ...
The error is just catching at 166, so it may be that a closed parenthesis is missing somewhere before that. you can email me the code that you have and I'll take a look at it for you. holgate.mark1@gmail.com

Comment by mholgatem April 2015 permalink
MAME installation problems in Piplay
yeah, from what I have seen, it seems to be an issue with resolution (possibly in combination with the display). I have tried, but have yet been unable to reproduce this error. I have used composite in several different resolutions. I have had two…

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Raspicade-Retrogame-2Player-Pi2 + Advance Mame = ...
ok, so the important line in all of that is this: retrogame.c:166:55: error: expected ')' before ';' token the error occurs at line 166, column 55. You are missing a closing parenthesis ')'. So check around that area an…

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Raspicade-Retrogame-2Player-Pi2 + Advance Mame = ...
no, I'm not sure. I'll have to look into it.

Comment by mholgatem April 2015 permalink
piplay not saving controller map Xbox 360 wireless
maybe this? (I'm just shootin' in the dark here, I only have 1 xbox controller to test with) xboxdrv --trigger-as-button --wid 0 --led 1 --silent --config /home/pi/pimame/config/xboxdrv_mapping.cfg & sleep 1 xboxdrv --trigger-as-button…

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