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Well Fed Games:

So I can't stop thinking about using a Pi for some projects, but as a "plug and play" type guy there are always  questions that are a little above my head... for instance, I would love to use the Pi build of reassembler's Cannonball software to restore an Outrun cab, but I have no idea how I would interface real driving controls to it.

Likewise, I would love to do a lot of smaller projects, including a cocktail, using Pi once there is more info out there... just watched this video (below) and it gave me hope that there might be step-by-step instructions soon for folks like me- and that the Pi community and BYOAC seem like a good fit. Anybody use PiMame yet? Any thoughts?

Link to PiMame: http://blog.sheasilverman.com/pimame-raspberry-pi-os-download/


Example of a build with PiMame:


EvilNuff:

I literally just got myself 2 pi's yesterday and have not yet started playing with them.  Trying to get mame up on one was one of the things I had considered, however.  Do you know of any compiles for it or for linux in general?

Generic Eric:

I asked recently about using a keyboard encoder and told it should work.  If you have can find a perphial that you know works in debian, there is a chance it will work in the PiMame you linked to as that is from the raspberry pi version of debian - Raspbian.  Periphials not working out of the box is what has put people off of linux for years.

OTOH you could be "that guy" that builds an optical driving interface with FF for the raspberry pi using a breakout board.

I'm looking forward to reading more project threads.  I have a pi and most of what I need to get started.  Best of luck.

@Evil, the link he posted has download links for PiMame.  The comments says it uses mame 0.109

ids:

fwiw, take a look at http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/3075 - basically a plug-n-play emulation system supporting Mame and others.  Also supports SMB (windows shares) so you can upload your games for each supported system, etc.  I've done some basic testing with it and it's been solid.  No setup required, beyond writing the image to your SD card, and of course copying games over.

Generic Eric:

That is a great video.

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