mholgatem

Spam sent to Pimame email address
As far as I know, there has been no breach but I only have access to the forum backend, not the actual server. I'll have Shea look into it. I know several people on here that use email addresses that are specific to these forums. I'll ask …

Comment by mholgatem January 2016 permalink
No keyboard or mouse
well piplay is just a program that runs ontop of raspbian, so if they worked on a standard install, then we can get them working with piplay. Let's start with what type of keyboard/mouse are you using?

Comment by mholgatem January 2016 permalink
How to configure my controllers?
yeah, you should be able to have 2 identical controllers. if you want to send me your config file, I'll take a look at it. The file is located at: /home/pi/.fceux/fceux.cfg *note: the .fceux folder is hidden email it to me at holgate.mark1@gma…

Comment by mholgatem January 2016 permalink
Audio working for me, but not others
no problem, audio issues are troublesome because there are so many different variables to separate

Comment by mholgatem December 2015 permalink
Audio working for me, but not others
try this in your /boot/config.txt: change hdmi_force_hotplug to: HDMI_FORCE_HOTPLUG=1 add/change hdmi_force_edid_audio to: HDMI_FORCE_EDID_AUDIO=1

Comment by mholgatem December 2015 permalink
Feature Requests: What do you want to see in PiPlay?
we haven't gotten our hands on the new pi zero yet but if you don't have an old pi, you can just do a fresh install of the latest raspbian image and then run the piplay installer. Instructions found here: https://github.com/ssilverm/pipla…

Comment by mholgatem December 2015 permalink
PiPlay front end menu unresponsive until 2nd launch
I don't know for sure, as I haven't run into this problem; but this may fix it for you. http://www.kasploosh.com/weblog/14000/14016-debian_jessie_usb_keyboard.html

Comment by mholgatem December 2015 permalink
Performance of PiPlay (not the emulations)
startup takes a while on the older pi's due to a number of factors. Some of the biggest things are: SD Card: make sure that you have a fast sd card (or set up symbolic links to a fast thumb drive). There are a lot of read operations on startup …

Comment by mholgatem December 2015 permalink
Waste in the piplay 0.8 beta 9 image file
hey, this is much appreciated. I'll make sure Shea takes a look at this. Some of that is necessary though. The biggest offender (home/pi/pimame/.git/) is used for versioning control. So when you update, it will keep your changes to things like …

Comment by mholgatem December 2015 permalink
Theming
I don't, unfortunately.

Comment by mholgatem December 2015 permalink
PiPlay front end menu unresponsive until 2nd launch
My guess would be that the keyboard is getting loaded after piplay launches. PiPlay relies on PyGame for handling input events. It doesn't always recognize inputs that are loaded after it is loaded. Are you using just a standard keyboard or an …

Comment by mholgatem December 2015 permalink
Forum spam
yeah, the problem in the past has been finding maintainers. We had started to an FAQ/tutorial section, but things quickly went out of date and people stopped contributing. If you'd like to put something together, I'd definitely support it …

Comment by mholgatem December 2015 permalink
Forum spam
agreed. I wish that I could make several changes around here, but only the all powerful Shea can make those changes. :D * You should see the spam folder

Comment by mholgatem December 2015 permalink
Any Web Developers willing to donate some time?
yeah, I know about the Bonk. I told Shea about it. It's just a matter of when he can get around to it. Once we get the online database setup, I want to create a way to give the users a way to add entries for games not found in the database.

Comment by mholgatem December 2015 permalink
Few problems with piplay/raspberry
if you go into the web frontend -> database admin -> options -> change 'theme pack' to a different one that is currently on your system.

Comment by mholgatem November 2015 permalink
How to change default exit rom inputs
which emulator?

Comment by mholgatem November 2015 permalink
Lighted Buttons
That's what I was thinking as well. Light them up on a per emulator basis, but I think that @mkcroce is hoping to light them on a per game basis, in which case you would need to make a list of the games along with what buttons that they need to…

Comment by mholgatem November 2015 permalink
Lighted Buttons
I have lighted buttons, but they are always lit. It would be pretty easy to use the pi or an arduino and a solid state relay

Comment by mholgatem November 2015 permalink
Few problems with piplay/raspberry
so fba and advmame are both handled by pressing TAB in the piplay main menu, but MAME4ALL doesn't have an editable config file, so you have to press TAB in a game and then set the general controls so that you can exit.

Comment by mholgatem November 2015 permalink
Few problems with piplay/raspberry
ok, like Caver01 said, you need to turn off the menu option to include full path (web interface->db admin->menu items->include_full_path). After that, you need to manually run the scraper: python /home/pi/pimame/pimame-menu/scraper/scrape_s…

Comment by mholgatem November 2015 permalink
Lagging after update?
hmm... I'm wondering why your server giving you cpu spikes. I think that there is a listing the config database that tells you what the current version is.

Comment by mholgatem November 2015 permalink
Lagging after update?
@Caver01 - The 10 is just the internal numbering system that Shea uses. We haven't released a new version for a while. @scooterboy - did you set your memory split in raspi-config to something like 128?

Comment by mholgatem November 2015 permalink
Lagging after update?
hmmm... gunicorn shouldn't have been using much resources, that's why we chose it. In any case, it's not entirely necessary. It runs the web frontend that is used for easily uploading roms and making edits to the various databases. On…

Comment by mholgatem November 2015 permalink
Few problems with piplay/raspberry
actually, the reason that both folders are the same is because the mame_install script creates a symbolic link (same as a folder shortcut on windows). /home/pi/pimame/emulators/mame4all-pi/roms points to the /home/pi/pimame/roms/mame4all folder Y…

Comment by mholgatem November 2015 permalink
Few problems with piplay/raspberry
that's what I'm thinking as well. It sounds like it's not launching without the arguments.

Comment by mholgatem November 2015 permalink
Few problems with piplay/raspberry
Shea knows a lot more about the mame side of things than I do, I'll make sure he takes a look at this post, but without an error message, I'm not sure he'll be able to trouble-shoot. just out of curiosity, what format are your roms ar…

Comment by mholgatem November 2015 permalink
GPIO and USB Joystick for P2
it's fine to mix and match, there is probably just something overriding the other. maybe try changing the retrogame udev rule: sudo nano /etc/udev/rules.d/10-retrogame.rules try changing: SUBSYSTEM=="input", ATTRS{name}=="retrog…

Comment by mholgatem November 2015 permalink
GPioneer - A side project compatible with PiPlay
are you the phoenix from here? http://blog.petrockblock.com/forums/topic/gpio-to-keys-simplest-method/#post-110050

Comment by mholgatem November 2015 permalink
PiSNES 2 player with same keyboard fix
The file is already built in my repo. Just do the following: download https://github.com/mholgatem/PiSNES/blob/master/build/pisnes.zip?raw=trueunzip and copy the snes9x file to /home/pi/pimame/emulators/pisnes/ folderchmod 777 /home/pi/pimame/emulat…

Comment by mholgatem November 2015 permalink
Another Xin Mo Question (Mutliple Button Presses)
yeah, I thought about grabbing some of those; but I wasn't in a hurry and didn't really want to do all that soldering :D

Comment by mholgatem November 2015 permalink

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