mholgatem

Screen size using mame4all
we are working on building a database that will give you not only images, but also game descriptions, ratings, number of players, developer/publisher info, so I made the images smaller in anticipation for all of this extra info. Once I figure exactl…

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Joystick/Buttons
They are, but your pin numbers will be different in the retrogame code (you have to change them anyway, so it's not a big deal).

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ROM Newbie
indeed.

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ROM Newbie
mame4all uses 0.37b5 - advancemame uses 0.106. As far as I know, nothing else requires a specific romset.

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Rotation
it may just be too much. My only other suggestion would be for you to try to edit the mame.cfg file (/home/pi/pimame/emulators/mame4all-pi/mame.cfg). try setting: antialias=no translucency=no display_smooth_stretch=no

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Just cant figure it out
@jay_in_cgohio - Like Conno123009 said, I would start with a fresh image of the newest version. There have been some huge changes since .7.10 and everything might not migrate correctly.

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Rotation
@TonkaTuff - Are you running piplay inside of the X window system? or from command line?

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Rotation
@TonkaTuff - you need to up your gpu memory split in raspi-config. Direct quote from 'elinux.org/RPiconfig': Note: the 90 and 270 degrees rotation options require additional memory on GPU, so won't work with the 16M GPU split.

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PITFT adafruit 2.8''with PIPLAY
You can still use the tutorial that pilesofspam gave you. It walks you through how to set up the screen and get it working, regardless of what other software you want to run on it. then you just install piplay.

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No sound, missing piplay-sound.state
piplay-sound.state shouldn't have anything to do with it. it's just an alsa-sound state file that piplay looks for when it's loaded, if it's found, it will change the alsa settings to that, if it's not found, nothing is done…

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booting pimame with adafruit pitft
You need to use the piplay image and then go through the adafruit diy install method

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PiPLay works for a while, then starts saying that files are missing
I would venture to guess that your sd card is going bad.

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Noob setting up Retro Arcade
you just need to edit the pimame/pimame-menu/config.yaml file. that will allow you to hide any unwanted emulators

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Control volume
not really. you can press the tab key in the main menu to set sound volume, but that's about it.

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Some SNES roms work some don't
hmm... try overclocking and setting your gpu ram split to something like 128? I can confirm that both super mario world and kirby both can play on it (I have tested both on my system)

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Error message when trying to setup control for "Arcade"
great!

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Noob setting up Retro Arcade
I recommend using mame4all. it uses a specific romset (0.37b5), but works a lot better. You need to make sure that you configure your controller as well. In mame4all, you need to run your game, then press the 'Tab' key to configure it. Any…

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Fire button (KEY_LEFTCTRL) as enter key in main menu
@davidsford - you need to edit the controller.yaml file. it is located in /home/pi/pimame/pimame-menu under KEYBOARD: -> SELECT -> you can either add another entry, or just change one of the current entries it should look like - pygame.K_LC…

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Error message when trying to setup control for "Arcade"
no, it was fixed. I tested it myself. That, coupled with your previous problem of no 2 player prompt, leads me to think that there was a problem with your update. did you run the updater, or did you do a clean install?

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How to configure the second player with beta6
what emulator are you trying to set up? (After running through all of player 1 controls, it should then prompt you to set up player 2 controls.)

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Exit NES-emulator, dual key press possible?
unfortunately, no. We are working to find a copy of the source code, so that we can change this. I'm not sure why, but for some reason they wrote the original emulator so that exit can only be mapped to keyboard keys (I think that by default, i…

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Retro Arcade - PiPlay - Raspberry PI
did you edit the retrogame.c file and then run the 'make' command?

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Noob setting up Retro Arcade
where exactly is it that you are getting stuck? what have you set up so far?

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Retro Arcade - PiPlay - Raspberry PI
@clocey - check this out https://learn.adafruit.com/retro-gaming-with-raspberry-pi/buttons

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Feature Requests: What do you want to see in PiPlay?
MP3 player - I looked into this a bit and found that MP3 support is not natively built into pygame. It doesn't mean that we can't add it, but it's going to take some doing. I added background music as a theme option in the meantime, b…

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Root password?
ssh won't let you log in as root, it's a security thing. You would have to go in and override the settings. You can just use 'sudo' in front of any command and to do pretty much anything. or if you type your command in and forget…

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Retrogame Vulcan Nerve Pinch
yeah, I had some troubles with their version as well. One of the problems with how they implemented it is that you can get false positives for the keys that are inside the vulcanpinch. I altered the code so that it searches for the combos first, and…

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Retrogame Vulcan Nerve Pinch
sorry about the formatting, the forums sometimes do weird things when there are extra '

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Retrogame Vulcan Nerve Pinch
it does work, here's the basics of how the code works: cupcade setup: { 2, KEY_LEFT }, // Joystick (4 pins) [line-0] { 3, KEY_RIGHT },// [line-1] { 4, KEY_DOWN },// [line-2] { 17, KEY_UP },// …

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Beta 7 is up
@SSilver2k2- That's so weird, because I remember you merging it before beta 6 went out.

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