fsa317

ROM Newbie
so i have neogeo.zip in my roms/mame4all directory, doesn't seem to make a difference. However the same file in the neogeo directory did help fix a few roms for me. In general if the same rom is available for mame vs. platform specific emulat…

Comment by fsa317 November 2014 permalink
ROM Newbie
So I'm up and running, all things MAME continue to frustrate me. I got the 0.37b5 romset. However a number of roms dont work. It seems like many of them that dont work are complaining about neo-geo.rom . I then tried to download a direct ne…

Comment by fsa317 November 2014 permalink
Front-End Question
When you mentioned the information, do you mean the game data or how to configure PiPlay the way I mentioned (showing a list of games)?

Comment by fsa317 November 2014 permalink
Front-End Question
Yea, not really worth it unless there was some substantial benefit. I think right now I'm not getting any meta data from the scraper so my user interface looks pretty dull which had me looking into what other tools I could use. Have you tried…

Comment by fsa317 November 2014 permalink
Front-End Question
Hmm, when I read up on retropie it said "The project uses Raspbian as OS at the bottom and integrates a large set of emulators for a wide variety of computer systems from the past decades" so I figured the architecture of the two (piplay a…

Comment by fsa317 November 2014 permalink
Joystick/Buttons
So i got my pi and setup piplay. So far so good a few minor issues. Right now I'm just setup on my computer screen with a usb keyboard. One thing that is confusing me a bit is that each emulator seems to have their own keyboard mapping. Is …

Comment by fsa317 November 2014 permalink
Joystick/Buttons
Thanks guys, I was forgetting a common ground... it's been a while since I wired anything like this. Thanks again for the guidance!

Comment by fsa317 November 2014 permalink
Joystick/Buttons
Thanks, so since I dont have my pi yet I've been doing lots of reading. One question I have is that if I want a 2 player setup with multiple buttons it appears that the GPIO pins aren't enough. From what I can see people then switch a USB…

Comment by fsa317 November 2014 permalink
Joystick/Buttons
One other thing I just noticed, all of the examples use Raspberry Pi B, I have a B+ on the way, does anyone know if the B+ is compatible with the instructions at the end of the adafruit article?

Comment by fsa317 November 2014 permalink
Joystick/Buttons
Thanks for the confirmatin, much appreciated!

Comment by fsa317 November 2014 permalink
ROM Newbie
So as I understand your comment, other emulation for lets say NES doesn't require any specific romset - meaning a rom for NES should work without having to be specific for the emulator used by PiPlay?

Comment by fsa317 November 2014 permalink

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