mholgatem

Minipac only responds when another keyboard is plugged in.
cool, I didn't know that it could handle that. yes, the script would break that. You would need to alter the regular expression (regex) in order to account for that. I don't have time right now to look into it, but here's a quick refe…

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Arcade joystick and a few buttons - where to start.
ok, so you have everything connected to the 3v line. The two columns on either side of the breadboard are for your 3v and 5v lines. You need to move everything to the pin ROWS. it looks like you have 3 open holes per pin (you really only need 1). He…

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Cannot open /home/pi/pimame/config/piplay-sound.state for reading: No such file or directory
!Make a backup first! then just copy them to the corresponding files in /home/pi/pimame/pmmenu/ then run piplay like normal.

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GPioneer - A side project compatible with PiPlay
should just be: sudo apt-get install python-dev python-requests python-pip sudo pip install evdev

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Minipac only responds when another keyboard is plugged in.
as far as I can tell, advancemame doesn't handle controls the way that you are hoping. I think that 'or' is about its extent. You can probably find a utility that will allow you to map multiple buttons to specific combos. There'…

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Configuring 2 usb controllers with advmame
cool, no problem.

Comment by mholgatem January 2016 permalink
Minipac only responds when another keyboard is plugged in.
ahh, that makes sense. I didn't realize that the ipac or minipac registered themselves as keyboards. I don't believe that there is a wildcard. I've been through the documentation quite a bit and don't remember seeing anything l…

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Arcade joystick and a few buttons - where to start.
yes, it's perfectly alright. If you look at your breadboard, the two columns on the far left and the two on the far right are 'rails'. you can connect one or two of those rails to your raspberry pi ground pin(s) and then connect all g…

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iBuffalo Controllers
what happens when you try to configure them in the piplay controller config menu? Does it register a button push and go to the next item? or does it just not register at all?

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Arcade joystick and a few buttons - where to start.
ok, gotcha. so you are essentially going straight to the gpio (even though you are going through a breadboard to do it.) You basically have two options. You can use the adafruit retrogame utility or you can use my GPIOneer utility. Basically what …

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update not working
type this in command line: nano /home/pi/piplay/version if you are up to date, it should simply say '11' I used to get the dbus message. I believe that it has to do with the splash screen. I think that it needs to be delayed a bit. I do…

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Documentation
documentation on what? What is your teacher expecting to be documented?

Comment by mholgatem January 2016 permalink
Arcade joystick and a few buttons - where to start.
are you doing your controls directly to the raspberry pi? or are they being connected to a micro-controller? (a micro-controller usually means that you will connect to your pi via usb.) Either way is fine.

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Configuring 2 usb controllers with advmame
ok, so you need to edit /home/pi/.advance/advmame.rc it's going to be the stuff near the bottom of the file. you can set them up like this: input_map[p1_left] joystick_digital[0,stick,x,left] input_map[p1_right] joystick_digital[0,stick,x,righ…

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bios files and marvel vs capcom
yeah, there's a lot of trial and error that goes into getting good working sets. Usually it comes down to having a robust bios file that has all of the supporting files inside.

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Minipac only responds when another keyboard is plugged in.
First, what I would try: boot up with your ipac/minipac and keyboard plugged in, then type lsmod That will list all of the modules loaded. Then restart with the keyboard unplugged and do it again. figure out if there are any modules not being loaded…

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GPioneer - A side project compatible with PiPlay
ah, that's why. The installer should have installed pip for you, but something must have gone wrong. try manually installing sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get -y install python python-dev python-requests python-pip sudo apt-get -y install supe…

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Minipac only responds when another keyboard is plugged in.
but in all seriousness, I think that I've run into this before. If I remember right, it's just that you need to force a module to load. do this: sudo nano /etc/modules at the end of the file, add: evdev save, exit, then restart. hopeful…

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Minipac only responds when another keyboard is plugged in.
uh, keep the keyboard?

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Cannot open /home/pi/pimame/config/piplay-sound.state for reading: No such file or directory
You can try copying my latest repo. It's been a while since I've done any work on it, so I don't remember how far it has come. A cursory glance at the pmmenu/mainscene.py file makes it look like it should work.

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Robotron mini
Wow, that is a really great looking system! Did you do the decals yourself or was it prefab?

Comment by mholgatem January 2016 permalink
GPioneer - A side project compatible with PiPlay
hmm. that's weird. I just installed it on an unrelated raspberry pi no problem. Now, does it say: no module named evade? or no module named evdev? in any case, try this out: sudo apt-get remove python-six sudo pip uninstall six sudo pip instal…

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How to configure my controllers?
@cadusis - I have limited experience with usb controllers, since I use buttons connected directly to the gpio. But so far, every controller that I have tried has worked fine.

Comment by mholgatem January 2016 permalink
How to configure my controllers?
@cadusis - yes, it works for a usb gamepad @tomcooper - yeah, those ones should work. There are several of those knockoff snes style (that's what I use). I think that they are actually all the same, just rebranded.

Comment by mholgatem January 2016 permalink
Emulators list
no, I don't believe that it's very accurate anymore. Here are the changes:"Neo Geo" - Final Burn Alpha "TurboGrafx 16" - mednafen "Neo Geo Pocket Color" - mednafen "Sega Master System" - mednafen &q…

Comment by mholgatem January 2016 permalink
How to configure my controllers?
ok, I looked at it and everything looked normal. What brand controllers are you using? also, try running jstest. sudo apt-get install joystick -y jstest /dev/js0 jstest /dev/js1 the first line installs the joystick module so that you can run js…

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Robotron mini
looks like the link didn't make it through? can you try reposting (or you can email me the link and I'll post it for you, holgate.mark1@gmail.com)

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Performance of PiPlay (not the emulations)
The problem is that there is a lot of config/database files that have to get read into the system before it can display the current theme + rom list. I moved my piplay folders to a fast usb thumbdrive and then just created symlinks. My load times ar…

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Waste in the piplay 0.8 beta 9 image file
The reason that we include it in the SD card image is because it doesn't change the image size, but if we didn't include it, then your first update would have to download an additional 600MB, which is pretty huge since most people just use…

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bios files and marvel vs capcom
Can you give me a list of the Bios files that are showing up and I'll check into it.

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