mholgatem

Help Make PiPlay Better! - PiPlay 0.8b4 Known Issues / Bugs
@lateo - - I found the problem with the memory leak. It has been fixed and the update is being put through to the main repo right now. If you want to fix it yourself, you just need to edit pmutil.py from os import system, remove, close, execl …

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Help Make PiPlay Better! - PiPlay 0.8b4 Known Issues / Bugs
@lateo - in .8b4: - we worked volume into a popup menu - fade effects can be turned on and off (popup menu again), plus have been optimized. We found that changing the screen surface to 32 bit mode was what killed the speed, so that has been fix…

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Help Make PiPlay Better! - PiPlay 0.8b4 Known Issues / Bugs
@minorconfusion - If it's running as slow as you are saying, then there is most likely something wrong with your hardware (either sd card, power supply, external hard drive, or raspberry pi) or perhaps your image didn't get written to the …

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Menu Shortcut Keys
@danielsondownunder - I hard coded a quit to terminal keypress into the menu. Just press 'LeftCtrl+Q'. Now, in order to edit the controller.yaml file you need to use the pygame key constants Also: This is what you need for your control…

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Feature Requests: What do you want to see in PiPlay?
@bramd - We will be adding that a bit later, we are working to build a faster database on which to search.

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Unable to play NES games
Thanks @dubstylee!

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struggling to make a working bootable SD
There are a couple things that it could be, can you answer some questions so that we can narrow it down? Is it a completely black screen that you are getting or is there an error message? Are you using composite or hdmi for video? If it is a comp…

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Help Make PiPlay Better! - PiPlay 0.8b4 Known Issues / Bugs
ok, for the rom scraper error, it's saying that you have an emulator pointing a rom folder that doesn't exist. You can fix it by creating a folder: mkdir /home/pi/pimame/roms/c64 or change the emulator to point to an existing folder by edi…

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Unable to play NES games
@zebek - can you post the entire error that is printed out?

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compatibility with new Rpi B+?
It will be. There may be some hiccups, but we will make sure that we get it all working on the B+. We will probably have to put out a custom image for the B+ if it needs a different version of raspbian.

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Genesis roms won't load
@Pristopher - you need to change the permissions of the file then. sudo chmod 755 /home/pi/pimame/emulators/dgen-sd1-1.32/dgen

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Genesis roms won't load
Sorry, I forgot to change my google drive permissions. You should be able to download it now.

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Genesis roms won't load
ok, you can download the binary here. I haven't had a chance to test it though because my drive with all my games just died.

Comment by mholgatem July 2014 permalink
Genesis roms won't load
yeah, the dgen binary is missing. I will be home for a few hours later this evening and I will upload it to my google drive. Or, you could install a previous version of piplay (like .8 beta 3) and grab the binary from there.

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pIMAME with adafruit controls buttons, joystick?
Here :)

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Unable to play NES games
hmm... mighty strange.

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0.8b4 availability?
It will be available once we work all of the bugs out. Hopefully in a week or two. I'm kind of out of the loop right now, as I'm on vacation; but I know that Shea is working diligently!

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Unable to play NES games
after running the NES emulator for the first time, it will create the folder for you. It should be located at /home/pi/.fceux or possibly at /home/pi/pimame/.fceux

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Can't play any ROMs; only goes to Raspbian Desktop
@Imgpoz - It sounds like your permissions are messed up. Try this: Exit to command line and then launch with sudo python /home/pi/pimame/pimame-menu/launchmenu.py and then try running an emulator or the scraper.

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Unable to play NES games
you can try editing the config manually. That's what I did because I needed 2 players

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Can't play any ROMs; only goes to Raspbian Desktop
no worries. ok, so the "can't load image" things can be ignored. Those are part of the theme, it's just to let people know that it's not a valid image file (in this case, a blank image) It auto loads a valid blank image in i…

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Help Make PiPlay Better! - PiPlay 0.8b4 Known Issues / Bugs
Cavestory keeps crashing :( I'll post the actual error when I get home.

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PiPlay on Banana Pi?
yeah, I was actually trying to talk my wife into letting me get one (but I already have 1 that is still in a closet). I think that the new B+ is perfect for piplay. It has plenty of usb and tons of GPIO!

Comment by mholgatem July 2014 permalink
Can't play any ROMs; only goes to Raspbian Desktop
ok, so that error means that the Levenshtein module isn't loaded for some reason. In terminal type sudo apt-get install python-Levenshtein (make sure the 'L' is capitalized) Then just re-run the scraper. It should work for you then.…

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Unable to play NES games
It has been playing all of my .nes roms flawlessly. I'm not sure why you are getting that error.

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PiPlay on Banana Pi?
I wouldn't expect any better performance. 1) while the banana pi has better specs, it's not as well optimized and thusly performs at the same level in most bench tests 2) the emulator community is pretty big on the raspberry pi, so the s…

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Help Make PiPlay Better! - PiPlay 0.8b4 Known Issues / Bugs
if using hdmi, try this: sudo nano /boot/config.txt disable_overscan=1 hdmi_group=2 hdmi_mode= (find your resolution mode here - http://elinux.org/RPiconfig) You may also need to change the 'aspect' setting on your monitor to something …

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0.8b4 availability?
Some info about the update. New emulators! Controller config - You can now easily update your control schemes for each emulator Custom Themes - You can now create custom themes. PopupMenu - Press 'tab' or 'joystick button 2' i…

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Runlevel issues
No problemo!

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Help Make PiPlay Better! - PiPlay 0.8b4 Known Issues / Bugs
looks like the ssh check didn't get added to .profile

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