loughkb

Button Mapping Advice
I had a thought today on the mame title selection. I love the player button to select by letter. I think it could be made quicker if once you press the button, left and right on the stick moved through the letters like it does now, but either up…

Comment by loughkb December 2014 permalink
Share your Build Pics
Built it into an X-arcade solo. It's an easily portable arcade machine now. Just take it to a friends and plug it into their TV. Last year I built a 3D printer, so I printed a bezel to make it nice and clean. Never tried to link a share…

Comment by loughkb December 2014 permalink
Why on Earth is Avancemame even on Piplay?
I prefer advmame when in piplay for the simple reason that it runs all of the roms I have. There are several, like galaga, that fail with missing rom errors on mame4all, yet runs fine in advmame. That being said, I borked my advmame.rc file and …

Comment by loughkb December 2014 permalink
Hiding Unused Emulators?
What is "es"?

Comment by loughkb December 2014 permalink
Hiding Unused Emulators?
I'd love to see an option to auto-hide emulators with no roms or content loaded.

Comment by loughkb December 2014 permalink
X-Arcade joystick mapping issue
Actually, there's no reason to bother with the numlock or editing rc.local. The x-arcade itself can be remapped easily, all you need is a ps/2 keyboard. With the x-arcade powered up via usb, plug the ps/2 keyboard in to the available jack. …

Comment by loughkb December 2014 permalink
X-arcade solo stick
I can now confirm that this is the easy fix for the x-arcade solo and others. You just re-program the x-arcade's buttons for the joystick to be the arrow keys on the keyboard and not the numpad keys. The steps are easy. With the x-arcade p…

Comment by loughkb November 2014 permalink
X-arcade solo stick
I might have found a solution. By plugging a ps/2 keyboard into the x-arcades ps/2 connector, you can program it to certain keys. I'm going to try that tomorrow, reprogramming the joystick to the arrow keys on the keyboard, rather than the …

Comment by loughkb November 2014 permalink
X-arcade solo stick
Hello, I also have an X-arcade solo stick. Just picked up the pi and downloaded piplay. I have tried it with sonic the hedgehog. (I own the original). And also in mame. Even after going through the configure controller steps, once in a ga…

Comment by loughkb November 2014 permalink

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