mholgatem

New update IS HERE! .8BETA9!
@CrazyFamily - yeah, you are right. I have started cobbling together a new guide and some new FAQ's. Things have just been changing so fast with everything about piplay lately though. Shea and I feel like we have finally hit a milestone with th…

Comment by mholgatem April 2015 permalink
New update IS HERE! .8BETA9!
@wirthjp - in your .profile, that last section (the last 8 lines) shouldn't be there. just delete the lines that say if [ $DISPLAY == ""] && [ $SSH_CLIENT == ""] && [ $SSH_TTY ==""]; then fi if [ …

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Joystick?
@pimann2000 - yes, not only is this possible, this is the way that I recommend everyone connect. Just look up adafruit's retrogame utility. It will convert gpio button presses into keystrokes and it runs in the background. You can also do a sea…

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Keyboard not working in latests PiPlay release
hmm, that's weird. it looks like some updates didn't go through for the advmame formatter. basically, where it says 'keyboard[0,return]' it should say 'keyboard[0,enter]' for right now, if you just go into /home/pi/.ad…

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Keyboard not working in latests PiPlay release
@TheStrayMongrel - yeah, most (if not all) of the config files were overwritten, that should fix it for you. let me know if you keep having problems though

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Questions about emulators
@Sukerbole - The error has come up with lots of different resolutions. In the past, it has almost always been fixed by specifying a fixed resolution in boot/config

Comment by mholgatem April 2015 permalink
Questions about emulators
well, you can try changing some of the settings in /home/pi/.fceux/fceux.cfg. possibly: SDL.KeepRatio SDL.PAL (this should be automatic though) SDL.XResolution, YResolution (I think these get rewritten when fceux gets run) SDL.XScale, YScale

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Questions about emulators
@Sukerbole - sorry, I edited my last post for you. I didn't see that you had posted about your connection until after I replied.

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Questions about emulators
@Freddy - yes, this can be changed. I'll send a not to Shea, but the roms can be zipped as well, it really makes no difference.

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Questions about emulators
@Sukerbole - don't set the hdmi_drive=1 if you are using just straight hdmi (no converter) it will disable hdmi audio. For you, your /boot/config.txt should be something like this hdmi_force_hotplug=1 hdmi_drive=2 hdmi_group=2 hdmi_mode=16 …

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Questions about emulators
@Freddy, I don't think that they use the same emulator. If you have a different screen that you can test it on (one that won't require you to use your dvi converter, that would be ideal). I really think that it is due to the emulator not g…

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Questions about emulators
@Freddy, ok. This is probably where the problem is occurring then. Fceux (the nes emulator) can sometimes have problems when there are converters involved. It tries to grab the screen resolution but either can't, or gets the wrong resolution. …

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Questions about emulators
@Freddy, you aren't using an hdmi -> vga adapter are you?

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Keyboard not working in latests PiPlay release
actually the 'arcade' is for advmame and FBA. Mame4all has it's own built in controller config. so you'd be ok to do that.

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Joystick and buttons problem
yeah, you may want to just map a gpio button to esc. The problem is with the emulators. a handful of them will only accept keyboard keys for things like 'quit' and 'reset'. or you could always grab a mini wireless keyboard and j…

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New update IS HERE! .8BETA9!
@wirthjp - try this: sudo nano /boot/config.txt un-comment (remove the '#') the line that reads: hdmi_force_hotplug=1 then just under that line, add this one: hdmi_force_edid_audio=1 Hopefully that will get the audio playing through your h…

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Keyboard not working in latests PiPlay release
In the main menu for piplay, pres [TAB] to bring up the popup menu, then select 'controller setup' then 'arcade'

Comment by mholgatem April 2015 permalink
Keyboard not working in latests PiPlay release
@StrayMongrel - did you run the controller config? This latest update overwrote a lot of config files because we converted the emulator folder into a git repository.

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Joystick and buttons problem
@MoodyL, as far as I know, most of the other emulators are compatible with xin-mo (at least I haven't had anyone telling me otherwise). I know for a fact that they all work with 2-player gpio, since that is primarily what I use.

Comment by mholgatem April 2015 permalink
Joystick and buttons problem
@MoodyL, I'm not sure that the version of fba that we are using supports xin-mo at the moment. I'll have to double check with Shea. We had to customize pisnes to handle it, but I'm not sure that we have done the same for fba yet.

Comment by mholgatem April 2015 permalink
Questions about emulators
@Freddy, @Sukerbole - NES is working great for me on the pi2 using the install script. So there may be an error in the updater portion perhaps? I don't know. In the meantime, try running the nes emulator from command line like this: /home/pi/pi…

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New update IS HERE! .8BETA9!
@wirthjp - That is an old installer, you should remove /home/pi/pimame and all of its contents then use the instructions found here: https://github.com/ssilverm/piplay-installer

Comment by mholgatem April 2015 permalink
Joystick and buttons problem
It's a debounce issue with the Xin-Mo.Check out Ian57's answer to solve this.

Comment by mholgatem March 2015 permalink
[SOLVED]Neo Geo games not launching
no problemo! Marking as solved.

Comment by mholgatem March 2015 permalink
[SOLVED]Neo Geo games not launching
nope, not neogeo emulator. it's the neogeo bios. It's like a parent file for the roms. You treat it just like any of your other roms (dl it, put it in your roms folder, then run the roms that you want). The roms will automatically pull the…

Comment by mholgatem March 2015 permalink
New update IS HERE! .8BETA9!
@pongo1471 - there appears to be a problem with the updater, if some files were changed by the user, then the new repo fails to initialize. In the meantime, I would recommend giving this a try: cd /home/pi/pimame/emulators/ git submodule init &…

Comment by mholgatem March 2015 permalink
[SOLVED]Neo Geo games not launching
@kaptainchok - you need to make sure that you have the neogeo bios in your roms folder.

Comment by mholgatem March 2015 permalink
[SOLVED]PSX emulator crashes on pi2
marking as solved.

Comment by mholgatem March 2015 permalink
Joystick problem
there shouldn't be any conflict between a usb keyboard/usb joystick/gpio joystick. I have all three set up on my system with no problems. I assume that your gpio joystick is using adafruit's retrogame (or some variant thereof) to send keys…

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New update IS HERE! .8BETA9!
@Pristopher - you'll have to grab those manually for now. I need to run a kickstarter or something so I can afford to host all the images myself.

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