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32/64bit Groovy Arcade Linux LiveCD/Install
Quinny:
There is a bug with the current release when using Ubuntu 10 that causes a error and crashes Wahcade when the video tries to play. The latest patch of wahcade will work though. Maybe try that version (1.0pre1) to see if it works any better.
https://code.launchpad.net/wahcade
I used lp:wahcade, not the experimental one.
dmarcum99:
--- Quote from: Quinny on April 27, 2011, 09:47:03 am ---There is a bug with the current release when using Ubuntu 10 that causes a error and crashes Wahcade when the video tries to play. The latest patch of wahcade will work though. Maybe try that version (1.0pre1) to see if it works any better.
https://code.launchpad.net/wahcade
I used lp:wahcade, not the experimental one.
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The splash screen indicates I'm running 1.0pre1 already...and my lack of linux knowledge has left me scratching my head. Having the multimedia things not work right now isn't a deal breaker...I'd like them to work but in the end they're fluff to enhance thw WOW factor.
I tried to mess with advancemenu before deciding to use wahcade, but there is so little info anymore since advancemenu seems a bit dated. I've seen videos of some great work done in advancemenu, but nobody is willing to share their work, help with questions, or even reply. It's not like I have no skills...before going to groovymame and linux, I was using a fully loaded Hyperspin setup with a custom made theme for my cab that I made myself. But bitbytebit made it difficult not to use his linux setup if you have the right equipment....and he and Calamity are great at responding to questions.
bitbytebit:
--- Quote from: dmarcum99 on April 28, 2011, 12:24:47 am ---
--- Quote from: Quinny on April 27, 2011, 09:47:03 am ---There is a bug with the current release when using Ubuntu 10 that causes a error and crashes Wahcade when the video tries to play. The latest patch of wahcade will work though. Maybe try that version (1.0pre1) to see if it works any better.
https://code.launchpad.net/wahcade
I used lp:wahcade, not the experimental one.
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The splash screen indicates I'm running 1.0pre1 already...and my lack of linux knowledge has left me scratching my head. Having the multimedia things not work right now isn't a deal breaker...I'd like them to work but in the end they're fluff to enhance thw WOW factor.
I tried to mess with advancemenu before deciding to use wahcade, but there is so little info anymore since advancemenu seems a bit dated. I've seen videos of some great work done in advancemenu, but nobody is willing to share their work, help with questions, or even reply. It's not like I have no skills...before going to groovymame and linux, I was using a fully loaded Hyperspin setup with a custom made theme for my cab that I made myself. But bitbytebit made it difficult not to use his linux setup if you have the right equipment....and he and Calamity are great at responding to questions.
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Yeah AdvanceMenu is really weird actually codewise, looking at it is very confusing (and only half as confusing as AdvanceMame). The way it was written, they separated it up into arbitrary directories that use single letters, I have no clue what arrangement it's following. All I know is when I look at the code for any of the Advance stuff, I get really confused and never know where anything is really or what any of the code really does, it's like they just used gibberish for function names, file names, variable names, so it's very sad since it'd be nice to modernize it (since the XML parsing is obviously out of date in it).
I'll look at WahCade some this weekend, I am using 1.0pre1 actually in groovy linux right now, will check out that patch and see if I can get it more 'multimedia' ized :) since that'll make it more appealing towards people used to hyperspin and such.
Also there was an interesting frontend in C for Linux named camino I think that I played with once, had to hack at it to get it to work with thousands of games since internally the programming didn't allow that and did eat a lot of resources. But it did the whole wheel of games thing similar to hyperspin and was pretty cool, at least looked like it had potential. Possibly I can include it too as another option, really it seems like it could be the future for Linux frontends being in C and already having that sort of hyperspin type interface, plus actively being developed. I like wahcade but being in python has disadvantages of it using quite a bit of memory and cpu for what it does, although it's good when your system can handle it, but there is generally some better system response/behavior to a C program opposed to a scripting language.
Update: Also could you run wahcade with the -d option, and get the output when you try to use multimedia with it? That might be interesting to see, and help see what I need to do to enable it. I think that's how I got it working when I did have it working, doing that and finding the stuff it was complaining about. That would help me hunt down what is missing, which the newest ISO's I've been not including the multimedia stuff so they definitely won't work :/, but the one you have installed did have the media stuff I think, so it should have the basic needed parts just missing something probably that wahcade wants.
bitbytebit:
Here's something to try, and it'll give you the ability to fully setup wahcade from scratch too. It also will help me in seeing what works, to get it into the main ISO :).
Checkout both the stable and development wahcade:
# first get bzr
sudo emerge -av bzr
# get devel
bzr branch lp:~waynemou/wahcade/devel
# get stable
bzr branch lp:wahcade
Then you can apply the patch attached here to these for the changes in config options groovymame uses...
cd wahcade && cat ../wahcade.diff |patch -p0
Then run the normal install script in the wahcade directory. I'm guessing the devel version isn't the one to use, but the main one might be with the fix mentioned earlier in this thread, possibly will help. If not, at least with this patch you can recompile wahcade, and possibly try the other main one that's available (99preX), but with that there's still a fix that needs to be done for it...
http://www.anti-particle.com/forum_phpbb3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=590
So that should be a third branch/option, but the bzr checkout ones are much better :) there were a lot of bugs ironed out it seems, I found they actually setup automatically and efficiently compared to the 99pre versions, hopefully that doesn't mean the media stuff is broken in the 1.0pre ones.
dmarcum99:
I ran into a couple of snags...
I was able to do the wahcade -d thing...at first I got 3 issues and I was able to resolve 2 of those.
1)PIL module not found error.....something about rotated images not supported
2)control.ini missing in /emulators/mame/ ....easy fix
3)directory not found /home/roms/avi...easy fix
So I copied the controls.ini file and moved all my .avi's to the appropriate directory. Nothing to talk about though...no improvement.
--- Quote ---Checkout both the stable and development wahcade:
# first get bzr
sudo emerge -av bzr
# get devel
bzr branch lp:~waynemou/wahcade/devel
# get stable
bzr branch lp:wahcade
Then you can apply the patch attached here to these for the changes in config options groovymame uses...
cd wahcade && cat ../wahcade.diff |patch -p0
Then run the normal install script in the wahcade directory. I'm guessing the devel version isn't the one to use, but the main one might be with the fix mentioned earlier in this thread, possibly will help. If not, at least with this patch you can recompile wahcade, and possibly try the other main one that's available (99preX), but with that there's still a fix that needs to be done for it...
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I was able to download the three branches, but I'm at a roadblock now. I downloaded the wahcade.diff file but wasn't sure what directory to copy it to. Also, I typed the your command verbatim and I got a directory or file not found error. (cd wahcade && cat ../wahcade.diff |patch -p0) Since I didn't get any further, I didn't attempt the install script.....