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I'm not sure, Shea is the one that handles the update script and all that stuff. I just make pretty things. Most of the stuff I know can be handled just by pulling the repo, but we also added sqlite3 to handle database stuff, which requires a m…

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Bug Report: Arcade Controller Setup
ah, ok. fba configures it's buttons as a,b,x,y,l,r. So there must be something mixed up. I'll have to take a look at it.

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PiFBA Help, 2 Controllers Registering as Player 1
This might be a problem with the way that the configuration file is written by the controller config app. I'll have to take a look at it (later though, my brain is fried after working all day today). You should be able to manually configure y…

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Bug Report: Arcade Controller Setup
which emulator?

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Project Idea: Portable Media Center + Arcade
Shea has all of the emulators forked, if you check out his repo list. https://github.com/ssilverm?tab=repositories

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Controller Setup
@spacecowboy. There is no 'OK' option. It just runs through the controls and then saves them. Which emulator(s) are you trying to configure?

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Project Idea: Portable Media Center + Arcade
@fsa317 - Yes! Here is the current piplay repo, (this is what the updater pulls from). You will still need to install some things, like the python-Levenshtein module for the scraper, and pretty soon you will need to install sqlite3 ('cause trus…

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CLRMame Question
@gamerdad09 - yes, it is possible to do. it's been a while since I have messed with clrmame, but I remember that I had 6000 assorted mame roms and I had it build me 2 sets .106 and .37b5 in two different folders while leaving the original intac…

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Feature Requests: What do you want to see in PiPlay?
@gamerdad09 - you can add extra mappings, but it's on an emulator by emulator basis. Some support it, some don't.

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NES Black screen 8.0.7
nice workaround @rob3662!

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Project Idea: Portable Media Center + Arcade
on my main cabinet, I have 4 per player, plus 2 general buttons (start1/start2, or coin1/coin2) I use my modified version of retrogame, so I can do combo keys as well. it's like having 6 buttons per player, plus 4 general buttons (start/select…

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Keyboard not working - New to PiPlay
@iloveradio - did you run the controller config utility first? In the main menu of piplay, press 'tab', then go down to 'controller config', then 'advmame'

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NES Black screen 8.0.7
hdmi to vga and hdmi to dvi can both cause problems (i'm not sure why). The only thing that I have found to work is to make sure that you for hdmi mode in /boot/config.txt and you also need to specify a resolution (some work, some don't). …

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Rom list navigation
@gamerdad09 - it would take a fair amount of programming to do that. so I went ahead and added a 'favorites first' filter. So you can go to your emulator, then set 'favorites first' and all the favorites will be brought to the to…

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My Raspberry Pi B+ is not booting
any ideas what the problem was?

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Portable Arcade Build
nice @rom3662! it's looking good!

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Project Idea: Portable Media Center + Arcade
I haven't messed with xbmc. I've been meaning to. I imagine that it would be pretty easy to install xbmc and then add piplay to it. There would be a handfull of packages that you would need to install to get piplay running (I'm not su…

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Project Idea: Portable Media Center + Arcade
yeah, I think that I'm just going to do an hdmi to tv. It's mostly so that I can bring it over to my parents house, so all of my kids/nieces/nephews can play.

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Project Idea: Portable Media Center + Arcade
yeah, it should be fine. The pi uses a traditional bluetooth stack, so it should be able to handle that. I would go that way, but I'm really cheap :)

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Project Idea: Portable Media Center + Arcade
I have an old rocketfish bluetooth keyboard that I don't use anymore, so I'm tearing that down. I'm going to have two traditional arcade joysticks + buttons connected to the same module. My original idea was to tear down one of thes…

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My Raspberry Pi B+ is not booting
can you verify that the image is actually being written to the sd card (IE - make sure it's not in write protected mode)?

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Project Idea: Portable Media Center + Arcade
I'm working on a similar project. I have decided that I'm going to use a bluetooth module and make some wireless controls. This also has the added benefit of being able to support wii controllers for extra players if I want.

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Portable Arcade Build
the files are here. Retrogame just runs in the system background (works on all emulators) and converts button/gpio presses to key presses.

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Portable Arcade Build
nice! I'm hoping to build a cnc machine soon so I can do all kinds of cool stuff like that too! :) I'm glad my version of retrogame was able to help.

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mame4all - every ROM is missing files
I think that you need to set a symbolic link that points to your roms. In command line type: cd /home/pi/pimame/emulators/mame4all-pi/ rm - r ./roms ln -s /home/pi/pimame/roms/mame4all/ roms

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New Guy stuck trying to upload roms. Begging for help.
ftp or the built-in uploader. Otherwise, you can load them to a [thumb/hard] drive and then either transfer them, or change the default rom locations to point to your external drive

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Portable Arcade Build
hmm.. well that's really weird then. hopefully we can get this sorted out!

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Portable Arcade Build
If you are still getting responses from your other gpio (even if you do have to press ESC), then I doubt that you ruined anything. My guess would be that something is wired incorrectly. What model are you using? Are you connected to gpio30 or pin 3…

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Hdmi video Problem
check out the answer here, this should fix your problem: https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/2169/how-do-i-force-the-raspberry-pi-to-turn-on-hdmi

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Adafruit Bluefruit EZ-Key -12 Input Bluetooth HID Keyboard Controller?
you could also connect teensy to a bluetooth module like this

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