Rasberry pi 2, what do you do with yours?

CiDeRmAn

That's the same one I have.
Feck, more experimenting needed.

Steve X2

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

That's the same one I have.
Feck, more experimenting needed.

But you are outputting 640x480 @60Hz?
Check it on a HDMI display and make sure its correct before moving on to the VGA.

KeRbDoG

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

That's the same one I have.
Feck, more experimenting needed.

Steve X2 wrote: »

But you are outputting 640x480 @60Hz?
Check it on a HDMI display and make sure its correct before moving on to the VGA.

Just follow this guide for pushing VGA via a HDMI->VGA adapter. You edit the config.txt file on the partition which pops up when you put the SDCard into your main PC. Any issues Cider, pop up to me. We can discuss the benefits of creating an I-PAC type adapter to JAMMA edge board instead of directly wiring to buttons in a pre-wired and working cab that you prob don't wanna hack apart.

Use one of the following modes;
Mode 4 -> 640x480 60Hz
Mode 9 -> 800x600 60Hz

Even a YouTube video for yea

The Last Bandit

Hacking up a Jamma cable is a bad idea alright. Its pretty easy to build a Jamma edge to USB adapter, should still have the AVR microcontroller code somewhere if you want it.

CiDeRmAn

No hacking up a Jamma cable!
Just taking the taking the current button wiring, from the old school, non usb IPac, and wiring it into a USB encoder doodad instead.
The VGA can go straight into the VGA feed to the monitor, that can be disconnected from the video cable from the Jamma loom.

The Last Bandit

Actually now that I think of it, since you're hacking up the jamma loom now is an ideal opportunity to replace the old dirty monitor with a really nice new LCD 16:9 screen.

Its what all the kool kids are doing

CiDeRmAn

The Last Bandit wrote: »

Actually now that I think of it, since you're hacking up the jamma loom now is an ideal opportunity to replace the old dirty monitor with a really nice new LCD 16:9 screen.

Its what all the kool kids are doing

I'm not hacking anything!!!!

And, I was hoping to replace the Trisync with a 15" lcd monitor, using a coloured in cereal packet as a bezel.... get a few black markers at it.

Steve X2

For those still having issues with MAME on the RPi. I've modified the720k's portable MAME a bit to make it a little quicker to boot and run and also cleaned up the interface graphics to make it look a little cleaner.
It's designed to replace those 60 in 1 type boards in arcade builds.

It's a locked version of MAME 0.37b5(running a modified version of MAME4ALL), all linux boot info is hidden so it boots directly into a list of MAME games. Or you can easily set it to boot directly into any game on the list.
The file system is locked, so there's a lot less chance of SD card corruption when the power is just cut to the Pi(as in if it was inside an arcade machine). You can temporarily unlock the file system to make changes and it will lock again on next boot.

I've made a version for myself with just a selection of the romset as I don't want all the games on a massive list. But I also did a version without roms, so it can be downloaded legally as it contains no copyright material.

Will post a link to that "safe" version here if anyone wants to give it a go.
It's setup for the RPi 2 right now, but a small change to the config.txt file will make it work on older PI's(but not the PiZero just yet). You'll also need a 32GB or larger microSD card as that's what I used to make this, so that's what WIn32DiskImager expects.

CiDeRmAn

Could you pop up a link to the file, thanks Steve.

Steve X2

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Could you pop up a link to the file, thanks Steve.

Yeah will do that a bit later. Need to stick it online, its 11.7GB zipped. Should have done it on a 8GB card, but I only had 32GB ones at hand.

Steve X2

Linky
No roms of any kind in this download. You will need MAME 0.37b5 romset.

Boot vid.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDwnWJFKEi0

CiDeRmAn

Quick question,
I have the linux version of Super Hexagon downloaded, can I run that from the Retropie menu?

eddhorse

Great thanks Steve, will throw that on my 16GB card

Steve X2

eddhorse wrote: »

Great thanks Steve, will throw that on my 16GB card

You'll need a 32GB card. Unless you are going to be messing around with resizing img files, which can be a right pain.

eddhorse

Steve X2 wrote: »

You'll need a 32GB card. Unless you are going to be messing around with resizing img files, which can be a right pain.

Fine sheesh 32gb so, only have OSMC on that one

Steve X2

eddhorse wrote: »

Fine sheesh 32gb so, only have OSMC on that one

Star Lord

Damn, gotta get myself a 32gb card...

Steve X2

Forgot to mention. I've got simple scanlines enabled on this setup of MAME.
So if going in a real cab make sure to turn those off

CiDeRmAn

I got the RP2 displaying on the cab, now just to sort out the controls.
That might be a while in doing!

Steve X2

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

I got the RP2 displaying on the cab, now just to sort out the controls.
That might be a while in doing!

Have you an ipac/jpac?

They're plug and play with the Pi for mame games.

CiDeRmAn

Steve X2 wrote: »

Have you an ipac/jpac?

They're plug and play with the Pi for mame games.

I only have the old style Jpac with no USB, so it's no good for this.
I have a Mr Chinasite adapter but it will need the cables wired into it, which will mean crimping to all controls.
http://www.aliexpress.com/store/product/2-player-USB-to-jamma-Arcade-control-Arcade-machine-accessories-game-machine-accessories-parts-for-coin/607318_451431388.html
Might be better to just get a more modern Jpac and using that.

Star Lord

Now I'm cursing my old slow memory card/usb hub. It's USB2, and it's a class 10 MicroSD but this is writing at about 1MB per second...

Steve X2

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

I only have the old style Jpac with no USB, so it's no good for this.
I have a Mr Chinasite adapter but it will need the cables wired into it, which will mean crimping to all controls.
http://www.aliexpress.com/store/product/2-player-USB-to-jamma-Arcade-control-Arcade-machine-accessories-game-machine-accessories-parts-for-coin/607318_451431388.html
Might be better to just get a more modern Jpac and using that.

Yeah, nice and cheap. Seems ok actually.
Crimping and connecting cables is handy enough, just monotonous work.

Star Lord wrote: »

Now I'm cursing my old slow memory card/usb hub. It's USB2, and it's a class 10 MicroSD but this is writing at about 1MB per second...

I have a cheap little adapter to plug into my USB 3 ports, works well for the fast SD and Micro SD cards. Must grab a prober USB 3 hub at some stage.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B007PFQ0PC?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_search_detailpage

Star Lord

Found one I had from before, and it worked much quicker alright.

Star Lord

Actually Steve, what's the root password on that image?

Nevermind... looked in the txt file...

Steve X2

Star Lord wrote: »

Actually Steve, what's the root password on that image?

Nevermind... looked in the txt file...

Haha, yeah handy that text file i did with all the info

But if you do need proper root access(rather than user access as in the text file) you will need to stick in a few commands to get it(I don't see why you would need it, but just in case).

Login with the details in the text file.
Run the "sudo rwenable" script as stated in the text file.

then type as below:
sudo su
passwd

Enter whatever you want the root password to be (twice), job done.
You should then test it by logging switching back to the "pi" account.

su pi

then back to root

su root
type in the new password to make sure it logs you in.

The Last Bandit

Great little distro, credits to everyone who put it together. Works great and perfect for my next hack

Steve X2

The Last Bandit wrote: »

Great little distro, credits to everyone who put it together. Works great and perfect for my next hack

I've also got another much more flashy distro I'm working on. Again, I've robbed bits from elsewhere and combined them, reworked some of the code and graphics.
Will see how it goes and post a link here when its ready to go(sans the roms of course).

eddhorse

Always sans the roms good work

Damien King

Steve X2 wrote: »

Forgot to mention. I've got simple scanlines enabled on this setup of MAME.
So if going in a real cab make sure to turn those off

Hi, How did you manage to get scanlines going?

I'm running retropie, got most of it up and running. have mame4all and other stuff but cannot for the life of me get scanlines going...I've been going into the config menus, setting enable shader as "true" and pointing it to the shader i've been trying to enable - as tempting as it to download a premade version i'd really like to suss this out.

Any pointers?

Steve X2

Damien King wrote: »

Hi, How did you manage to get scanlines going?

I'm running retropie, got most of it up and running. have mame4all and other stuff but cannot for the life of me get scanlines going...I've been going into the config menus, setting enable shader as "true" and pointing it to the shader i've been trying to enable - as tempting as it to download a premade version i'd really like to suss this out.

Any pointers?

Edit the mame.cfg file within MAME4ALL.


# display effect postprocessing: 0 none, 1 scanlines
display_effect=1

CiDeRmAn

Christ, anyone else remember using Mame back in the day, around 96/97, when it was all command line and you just had to get used to lovely options like that, fun times!!

Also, just saw the other day that Global Cafe, an internet cafe I frequented and Netscaped my lunchbreaks away back in the late 90's when I was spending my days off working in Gamesworld. Webrings, the site Video Game Classics, good times!

Damien King

Steve X2 wrote: »

Edit the mame.cfg file within MAME4ALL.


# display effect postprocessing: 0 none, 1 scanlines
display_effect=1

Thanks a million that helped, but not in the way i thought it would :pac:

Basicly I went to edit that .cgf file only to find it wasnt where it should have been, looks like I had made a bit of a balls of things the other night as some of the files that should have been in the pi (shaders, .cfg files etc) were in "my documents folder" on my PC!

Must have cut and pasted them while FTP'ing stuff over somehow. it was showing up in the transfer log

Anyhow if there was a time to see if I had made a decent backup this was it - used win32 disc imager to write the backup i made using partition wizard a few days ago and it worked.

I was then able to set and enable shaders for each system the same way i was trying to before and its all good now!

Harmony has been restored

Steve X2

I'll be sticking up another Raspberry Pi MAME distro later today. This one was a proper pain to get going :0/
For a quick loading and simple interface the previous distro I shared is better, faster and cleaner. This new one is fancy pants fabulous, so a bit slower on a Pi(and if you're not using a Pi2, even slower!).

Anyway, nothing to crazy, just MAME4ALL and AdvanceMAME running on a modified front end(advmenu, mostly) with preview vids, snapshots and other artwork, as well as lots of options.

So anyway, a heads up. You'll need MAME romset 0.37b5 for MAME4ALL and 0.106 for AdvanceMAME. No roms included in this build(apart from 4 or 5 freeware ones for testing).
Also, you'll need a 32GB or larger micro sd card(class 10 or better if you want a smooth interface and fast boot). The preview vids, images and whatnot take up about 10GB on their own. Which just leaves enough room to copy over both romsets(less the CHD's that are in 0.106).

CiDeRmAn

What advantage is there in the 0.106 romset?
What key games are added, would you know?

Steve X2

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

What advantage is there in the 0.106 romset?
What key games are added, would you know?

Theres a quite a difference really. You can google what new games are there.
0.37b5 is from 2000 and 0.106 is from 2006, so new games, better rom dumps etc. Plus the emulators themselves are very different(for better or worse).

http://wiki.mamedev.org/index.php/Previous_MAME_Versions

Star Lord

Really liked that one you'd uploaded previously, but might go back to trying to get RetroPi working, as I'd like to stick some other systems in there along with MAME.

Had some .36 ROMs that (mostly) worked on that build too.

Damien King

Star Lord wrote: »

Really liked that one you'd uploaded previously, but might go back to trying to get RetroPi working, as I'd like to stick some other systems in there along with MAME.

Had some .36 ROMs that (mostly) worked on that build too.

Worth doing if you are a PSX fan, I was impressed with how well its emulated - tested with crash bandicoot, micromachines v3 and urban chaos so far..... still not sure how it will react to to multi disc games though....

CiDeRmAn

Wow, I had no idea the PS was so well emulated.
I am a big fan of the formats shmups, and it's a good way of getting games not yet supported by Mame on the RP2, Raiden II and DX, running on the device.
Hmm, seems like I've some work to do yet with the little computer before it's ready to go into the guts of my Candy

Steve X2

Ok, here ya go. As it's my own work(mostly) I've given it a name, BerryCade
I'll be releasing a version setup for trisync arcade monitors at some stage. But with a bit of work you can get it running on one anyway.

This is a ready to go Raspberry Pi image(use Win32DiskImager to write it to a MicroSD card). Just get your legally owned roms, copy them over and it should work perfectly. All the preview videos and artwork is on the image.

You'll need MAME romset 0.37b5 for MAME4ALL and 0.106 for AdvanceMAME. No roms included in this build(apart from 4 or 5 freeware ones for testing).

Also, you'll need a 32GB or larger MicroSD card(class 10 or better if you want a smooth interface and fast boot). The preview vids, images and whatnot take up about 10GB on their own. Which just leaves enough room to copy over both romsets(less the massive CHD's that are in 0.106).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-D7qz9wlkSw

Size: 25.8GB rar file.


More info and any updates will be posted on my site:
http://www.retrovia.ie/showthread.php/64791-BerryCade-Raspberry-Pi-based-frontend-for-MAME-(MAME4ALL-and-AdvanceMAME)

eddhorse

You the man thanks, 32gb card defo getting wiped. I only have a RPi B+ so might go for the other version

Steve X2

eddhorse wrote: »

You the man thanks, 32gb card defo getting wiped. I only have a RPi B+ so might go for the other version

It might run ok on a B+. You can alway go in and move/delete the .mng files from the snap folder. That will disable the preview video and just use the normal still images. Should free up some resources.

But yes, that other distro uses a lot less resources and should run on most Pi's.

Duggy747

It's actually been a good while since I played with my RPI2 but I've recently gotten it back and I'm gonna fiddle with it again. Need a new SD card because the one I used was a right piece of unreliable crap.

What's the compatibility with Mame these days, any notable improvements in the past 6 months?

When I set up emulators on it last year Mame (can't remember which version) was the only one that had trouble with most stuff I threw at it (late 80's / early 90's era) so I disabled it in the end. PS1, Neo Geo, and Mario Kart 64 ran fantastically on it at the time.

Steve X2

Duggy747 wrote: »

It's actually been a good while since I played with my RPI2 but I've recently gotten it back and I'm gonna fiddle with it again. Need a new SD card because the one I used was a right piece of unreliable crap.

What's the compatibility with Mame these days, any notable improvements in the past 6 months?

When I set up emulators on it last year Mame (can't remember which version) was the only one that had trouble with most stuff I threw at it (late 80's / early 90's era) so I disabled it in the end. PS1, Neo Geo, and Mario Kart 64 ran fantastically on it at the time.

Well you're still dealing with the same basic MAME romsets. So 0.37b5 for MAME4All and 0.106 for AdvanceMAME.
I wouldn't think of the Pi as something to play every MAME game. It's a good replacement for those 60 in 1 or 400 in 1 type boards.

Did you have the correct romsets before? If not then you would get a load of roms/games giving errors or just not loading. To be fair, there are lots of games that have issues, but most of the time thats not down to the Pi, but the romsets and MAME version(it'd be the same on a modern PC if using those romsets and versions of the emulators).

CiDeRmAn

To repeat, I had no idea PS emulators were so good on tr RP2, it means that some titles unsupported on Mame, or poorly optimised, will run a treat, Raiden 2 and DX, GDarius, Einhander, the list isn't quite endless but there's tons on the format and, now, on the RP2 as well, albeit via Retropie.

Duggy747

Steve X2 wrote: »

Well you're still dealing with the same basic MAME romsets. So 0.37b5 for MAME4All and 0.106 for AdvanceMAME.
I wouldn't think of the Pi as something to play every MAME game. It's a good replacement for those 60 in 1 or 400 in 1 type boards.

Did you have the correct romsets before? If not then you would get a load of roms/games giving errors or just not loading. To be fair, there are lots of games that have issues, but most of the time thats not down to the Pi, but the romsets and MAME version(it'd be the same on a modern PC if using those romsets and versions of the emulators).

Oh I already have Mame properly set up on other systems so like yourself I'd only have Mame on the Pi running a few choice games like Snow Bros., Bubble Bobble, and whatnot. The Pi would be mostly used for other consoles anyways which it handles them like a dream, might do the Kodi setup with it too if I'm arsed.

At the time I wasn't too pushed about Mame which was why I disabled it, spent most my time with the PS1 / SNES side. Last time I checked the likes of the Mortal Kombat series and Sunset Riders had sound / speed issues so was just interested to see if there were any boosts on the emulation side of things.

Same for the N64 which I knew was a complete hog on the system. Mario Kart 64 being the only one I played on it, I was surprised my N64 USB controller adapter immediately worked on the Pi so I didn't have to configure anything.

Damien King

anyone having a no sound issue with the n64?

eddhorse

downloading now Steve, gonna take a while overnighter, maybe a good time to go to 360MB with Virgin

Steve X2

eddhorse wrote: »

downloading now Steve, gonna take a while overnighter, maybe a good time to go to 360MB with Virgin

Yeah, I went for it. Pretty decent actually. Just make sure they send you out the new Virgin modem, it's white.

eddhorse

Steve X2 wrote: »

Yeah, I went for it. Pretty decent actually. Just make sure they send you out the new Virgin modem, it's white.

Ah so its back to two boxes again.
Hmmm do Virgin have two boxes in the UK or will they incorporate their own TV boxes soon i wonder.