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PiPlay ISO image to SD card 8GB
Here's a great guide with software suggestions for Windows, MAC and Linux. RPi Easy SD Card Setup: http://elinux.org/RPi_Easy_SD_Card_Setup

Comment by Chad July 2014 permalink
Suggestions for "control" keys on converting a Porta-Pi from RetroPie to PiPlay
That tutorial explains everything nicely but if you have a question I just finished mine up. If you download the newest version you need to run this command or it will not work. sudo apt-get install ncurses-dev libexpat1-dev mholgatem's link…

Comment by Chad July 2014 permalink
Can't play any ROMs; only goes to Raspbian Desktop
Agreed, I format it using the "Format Size Adjustment" = ON too.

Comment by Chad July 2014 permalink
Samples Location in Mame4all
You don't need to zip them inside each game ROM and you don't need to tell Mame4all where the folder is located. They will just use them if they are located in the right place. Under the Mame4all directory there should be a directory name…

Comment by Chad July 2014 permalink
pIMAME with adafruit controls buttons, joystick?
Perfect! Thank you very much I really appreciate that!! :)

Comment by Chad July 2014 permalink
pIMAME with adafruit controls buttons, joystick?
@mholgatem - Do you happen to know where a person could download the older Adafruit Retrogame zip package or someone that can share it? The newer one has some additional code in the retrogame.c for Adafruit's Cupcade and Vulcan Pinch (two-key …

Comment by Chad July 2014 permalink
0.8b4 availability?
Excellent! Downloading it now and have a great weekend!

Comment by Chad July 2014 permalink
Suggestions for "control" keys on converting a Porta-Pi from RetroPie to PiPlay
Thanks mholgatem, I am REALLY looking forward to the new version and some of the new features. I know what you guys do does take time but will definitely be worth the wait. "Patience Daniel-san.." ;)

Comment by Chad July 2014 permalink
Suggestions for "control" keys on converting a Porta-Pi from RetroPie to PiPlay
Any suggestions? Anyone? I will be using the GPIO pins so to change the config around would take a bit more work. I was hoping to plan it out before getting into the GPIO to key mapping configuration. I want to be able to play and navigate with just…

Comment by Chad July 2014 permalink
Is artwork feature being worked on for MAME4ALL yet?
Are you confusing Artwork with bezels? I think some of the actual arcade games had images inside which were projected into the screen. Those images can't be emulated and have the actual image put to the screen through the emulator. Bezels on …

Comment by Chad July 2014 permalink
I need some help please
@mholgatem - Those might be good questions to add to a FAQ. They seem to pop up a lot more frequently. Like what versions of MAME ROMS MAME4ALL and AdvMAME use. Using a ROM manager like ClrMamePro or one of the others available out there. Where…

Comment by Chad July 2014 permalink
Mame4all file test
Go to http://www.mamedev.org and under the Downloads|ROMS section they have several games for free, non-commercial use.

Comment by Chad July 2014 permalink
ERROR: required files are missing, the game cannot be run.
@robot1125 - "mame4all_1.0_samples" are not game ROMS they are the sound samples for the games. You need the game in addition to the sound samples for those games to run properly. As mholgatem said you can use ClrMamePro to verify ROMS or…

Comment by Chad July 2014 permalink
what happens with advmame and mame4all if you use later romsets
@L1ght3d - Yeah I have seen games run with no issues even with a warning but also more often than not they throw an error about missing a ROM file and fail to run. Can you explain that a little more. What do you mean you "mixed" Ms. Pac-M…

Comment by Chad July 2014 permalink
Please someone help!
@mholgatem - Thanks, that was explained better than I had. The up, down, left, right seemed pretty straight forward with the letter indicator and I figured VDD had to be ground but had no idea what the acronym stood for.

Comment by Chad July 2014 permalink
MAME4all config issue
That's nice and handy to remember that basically MAME4ALL doesn't like the brackets? If I may ask how do you reprogram the keys on the X-Arcade?

Comment by Chad July 2014 permalink
MAME4all config issue
I did a search and didn't find anything useful except the standard ASCII mappings. I think you're right and the PiPlay guys might have to dig into that one. I would be curious what it is though.

Comment by Chad July 2014 permalink
Please someone help!
Here's your same topic on Adafruit: http://forums.adafruit.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=51347 I think what he is asking is there is two pins for each connection on the Zero Delay Encoder but only one "dupont" connection per wire comi…

Comment by Chad July 2014 permalink
Please someone help!
@dubstylee - uff-da...agreed...yeah there's 5 or 6 threads on the same topic! :/ I think Jsavage00 you may get better help if you consolidate it to one thread. I did a search and found an image that clearly shows the four directions and where …

Comment by Chad July 2014 permalink
what happens with advmame and mame4all if you use later romsets
If the ROM files haven't changed then they will work fine. Something like "golden era" games like Donkey Kong (dkong.zip) would probably work from a newer romset as there hasn't been many changes over the years. Three things may…

Comment by Chad July 2014 permalink
map esc to joystick?
I think you can map whatever you like but would that work? It would be like hitting the escape key every time you hit the up arrow on your joystick or something? Can you map a joystick direction + button in the emulators or is that not possible?

Comment by Chad June 2014 permalink
PiMame Menu is fullscreen, but emulators are 1/2 screen size (RPi -> GBS-8100 -> WG Tube)
That sounds really cool. I have no hardware to do such fun stuff. It's funny how we buy cards to "downgrade" the VGA signal to CGA? Arcade machines truly have gone full circle! :)

Comment by Chad June 2014 permalink
How to overclock
I agree I think the Pi is made to run "as-is" without issues with overclocking especially if they are willing to allow it without voiding the warranty. If it dies a few months out of warranty (1 year?) then they hit the nail on the head of…

Comment by Chad June 2014 permalink
How to overclock
Check this thread as it might help with a decision: http://pimame.org/forum/discussion/1074/overclocking#Item_4

Comment by Chad June 2014 permalink
Games for mame
I am not sure what game emulator you're looking to play games with as PiPlay runs a lot of emulators but most ROM downloads you can't discuss on the website. If you're looking for a free MAME ROMS http://www.mamedev.org does have a s…

Comment by Chad June 2014 permalink
rom confusion
That's a good add dubstylee. I forgot about the symbolic links. What type of errors are you getting RogerQuery? I haven't done much MAME4Droid but I did use MAME4ALL on an iPad. I was just using the executable method of ROM verification …

Comment by Chad June 2014 permalink
Need help with roms!
Thanks mholgatem, that's really helpful information. I wish they would have been more specific on what they consider large. I suppose if it fails to run you could always convert it to .fba and try it. Having a DAT file though should really mak…

Comment by Chad June 2014 permalink
Need help with roms!
Hmmm...it can't be completely based on .37b5 which I think ONLY contains Metal Slug and Metal Slug 2 BUT NOT 3 through 6 or X.

Comment by Chad June 2014 permalink
Need help with roms!
That's really nice. Is there a specific version of ROMS PIFBA uses?

Comment by Chad June 2014 permalink
Need help with roms!
Yeah I played a few rounds and was surprised at how well it did run, that's overclocked at maximum though. I have never played with PIFBA I will definitely give it a shot once a get a little further along with my mini arcade. I bought one of th…

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