GroovyArcade live-CD 2020

[lettuce]

The option you wrote in advmenu.rc is right, so if it doesn't work I don't understand what's going on. So you're saying that if you rename the uccops.7z file as .zip then it's properly recognized?

Yeah that is correct

[lettuce]

Now after copy all the roms over, they show up in the list but none of the seem to load, just quits back to advmamemenu!. if i exit out of Advmamemenu, i can see that mame cant find the correct files in the rom zip folder. The rom set i download was from [romsite name and link redacted] and was 0.148 merged rom set. It cant be all the clone, parent roms being in 1 zip causing the issue as it worked before with undercover cops!!?

[Calamity]

If you launch LXDE, then open a terminal (lxterminal) from the start menu, that's like the Windows command line. You can launch GroovyMAME from there, like this:

groovymame 1942

Then try renaming one rom back to .7z, and try launching it from command line. It could be that MAME doesn't recognize the format now that you're telling it it's zip when its not. If that's the case, I'll tell you about another possible strategy for AdvMenu, though you will need to rename everything back to .7z

[lettuce]

Ok tried that and comes up with

uc_h0.rom NOT FOUND (tried in uccops uccops)
uc_10.rom NOT FOUND (tried in uccops uccops)

etc

[Rockman]

Hi Lettuce.

Try to edit advmenu.rc from gasetup and search and modify the line with the command "merge differential" with:

merge parent

Or try with the option:

merge any

With this command you select the format of your zip romset.

From the advmenu documentation link: http://advancemame.sourceforge.net/doc-advmenu.html#5.1.11
Regards.

[lettuce]

That didnt appear to work either. I dont under stand it though as before i just had 1 rom file (uccops) and placed that it the rom folder on the USb stick renamed it from uccops.7z to unccops.zip and advmamemenu didnt have a problem loading it at all, it even knew that there was 4 clones inside the rom as it states it in advmamemenu and can press F12 to select with parent or clone rom you want to load.

So not sure why now when i have copied the whole 0.148 merged rom set over it doesnt load them anymore??....does advmamemenu have a limit of the amount of roms it can display maybe??

[lettuce]

It would seem renaming the whole rom folder from .7z files to .zip files has cause a problem with mame reading the rom file correctly. As i have just tired normal Windows Groovymame and thats also saying it cant find the correct files in the rom folder:


D:\MAME>mame uccops
SwitchRes: could not find a video mode that meets your specs
uc_h0.rom NOT FOUND (tried in uccops uccops)
uc_l0.rom NOT FOUND (tried in uccops uccops)
uc_h1.rom NOT FOUND (tried in uccops uccops)
uc_l1.rom NOT FOUND (tried in uccops uccops)
uc_sh0.rom NOT FOUND (tried in uccops uccops)
uc_sl0.rom NOT FOUND (tried in uccops uccops)
uc_w38m.rom NOT FOUND (tried in uccops uccops)
uc_w39m.rom NOT FOUND (tried in uccops uccops)
uc_w40m.rom NOT FOUND (tried in uccops uccops)
uc_w41m.rom NOT FOUND (tried in uccops uccops)
uc_k16m.rom NOT FOUND (tried in uccops uccops)
uc_k17m.rom NOT FOUND (tried in uccops uccops)
uc_k18m.rom NOT FOUND (tried in uccops uccops)
uc_k19m.rom NOT FOUND (tried in uccops uccops)
uc_w42.rom NOT FOUND (tried in uccops uccops)
ERROR: required files are missing, the game cannot be run.

D:\MAME>

If i change it back from uccops.zip to uccops.7z the game loads

[Calamity]

It would seem renaming the whole rom folder from .7z files to .zip files has cause a problem with mame reading the rom file correctly. As i have just tired normal Windows Groovymame and thats also saying it cant find the correct files in the rom folder:

Yeah probably changing the extension is making GM don't recognize the file format. So you probably should restore the .7z extension and find a way to make AdvanceMenu read the files.

[lettuce]

It would seem renaming the whole rom folder from .7z files to .zip files has cause a problem with mame reading the rom file correctly. As i have just tired normal Windows Groovymame and thats also saying it cant find the correct files in the rom folder:

Yeah probably changing the extension is making GM don't recognize the file format. So you probably should restore the .7z extension and find a way to make AdvanceMenu read the files.

yeah i can confirm renaming them back to .7z file does make them work again. An other ideas on how to get AdanceMenu to read .7z extensions

[Calamity]

One possibility (bad) is changing this line:

emulator "mame" sdlmame "groovymame .....

for this

emulator "mame" generic "groovymame .....

Then the emulator_roms_filter option we set before should work making the .7z files being recognized.

The problem is the list won't show the full names of the games, only the rom name.

But I believe that if you were able to read .7z files with AdvanceMenu before, then it should read them. Check any options that you may have touched before for parents/clones, etc.
 

[lettuce]

One possibility (bad) is changing this line:

emulator "mame" sdlmame "groovymame .....

for this

emulator "mame" generic "groovymame .....

Then the emulator_roms_filter option we set before should work making the .7z files being recognized.

The problem is the list won't show the full names of the games, only the rom name.

But I believe that if you were able to read .7z files with AdvanceMenu before, then it should read them. Check any options that you may have touched before for parents/clones, etc.

Changing it to generic causes advmenu not to load and quits back to grub screen

[Calamity]

Ok, it could be that AdvanceMenu just can't accept .7z files. Damned, this is the typical factor one doesn't count with, but since the .7z files are so recent in MAME most of us still are using .zip files. Won't you have a .zip romset around?

[lettuce]

Ok, it could be that AdvanceMenu just can't accept .7z files. Damned, this is the typical factor one doesn't count with, but since the .7z files are so recent in MAME most of us still are using .zip files. Won't you have a .zip romset around?

yeah i do, but i much prefer these 'merged' rom sets as they are almost half the size of the full room sets and still include all the roms, but they only appear to be in .7z file format

[lettuce]

How do you setup a USB pad to work with mame and Advmenu?? I have loaded up that rejoystick program in LXDE, and it detects all the pad inputs when i press them, but cant see to get config an input when in mame itself??

[lettuce]

I have also notice the game GunForce only appears to be running @97-98% speed!. I also left the game in attract mode for about 2 hours and when i came back i noticed the game was running really slowly, when i press F11 it was only running at 16% speed?

And ideas on either of these issues?

[Calamity]

I have also notice the game GunForce only appears to be running @97-98% speed!. I also left the game in attract mode for about 2 hours and when i came back i noticed the game was running really slowly, when i press F11 it was only running at 16% speed?

And ideas on either of these issues?

I've tested gunforce here and it runs 100% perfectly fine, but... when I left it alone for two hours I've came back and it was running at 12% speed! So yes, this is a confirmed problem, I don't know if it affects all games or just some. I remember one user already reported this for some games.

[lettuce]

Any ideas why it was only reporting 97-98% speed??

Also any ideas on getting a USB pad to work???

EDIT: Just saw your post about front porch in the other thread

[Calamity]

Also any ideas on getting a USB pad to work???

I just use J-PACs so have no experience with USB pads, but mame.ini has a section for defining joysticks and stuff, I guess you just need to figure out how to set it up right in there.

[lettuce]

Hmm, has anyone else had problems with a USB pad not being detected by default?

[NightSprinter]

Unplug the gamepad and do

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ls /dev/input and see if it has entries like js0 and js1.  I know for my install, wminput is run at boot an creates those entries by default.

[ves]

Hello lettuce.

Joystick not configured by default, because it interferes with wiimotes.
Active joystick options, mame.ini and advmenu.rc , and disables all the wiimote on mame.ini.

[lettuce]

Thanks for the info.

So you can not have a wii mote and a USB pad enabled at the sometime?. For lightgun games could you enable the wiimote for that games ini file?, would this still cause conflicts it the jockstick was enabled in the main mame.ini file?

Also Vas is there a possibility of adding the cave SH3 driver diff in your next release?.

I have noticed when I tried GroovyArcade on a USB stick on my LCD setup, that I couldnt config the audio to work through the GPUs HDMI cable, can this be fixed in the next version?

[MonkeyJug]

guys, got a quick question:

i have all my roms and media on my server under the stairs.  i'm not clued up on path conventions in linux, but what/how do i need to change in the mame.ini to allow GM to see my roms over the network?

the network is working, as i've confirmed it by 1) browsing to the GA install in my windows machine, and b) i can update GA (see the updates) using the built in update utility.

in windows, the path is this:

//server/media/hyperspin roms/mame/roms

i tried setting this in mame.ini, but it doesn't launch the rom and automatically returns to the game list...

[MonkeyJug]

i've done a bit of googling.  i think i may have to edit the smb.conf file.  i have managed to locate it in /etc/samba, but i'm not sure what details i need to enter...

any linux gurus able to help me out here?

[Ansa89]

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# mount //server_ip /path/to/somewhereThen you should find the shared directories under "/path/to/somewhere".
If you want GroovyArcade to do this automatically, you need to add a line into "/etc/fstab".


NOTE: "/path/to/somewhere" must exists and must be empty.

[MonkeyJug]

tried adding:

//192.168.2.211/media/hyperspin roms/mame /mnt/samba smbfs username=Mark,password=0 0 0

(username for share is Mark and password is 0 (zero)

rebooted and now it's giving a parse error on fstab and won't boot.  asking me for 'give root password for maintenance or control-D to continue)

stumped...

[Ansa89]

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//192.168.2.211/ /mnt/samba cifs user=Mark,pass=0 0 0Remember also that directories/files with spaces aren't so funny.

[machyavel]

Hello,

I'm new here and I'd like to say thanks for this great piece of software 
GA made me go and get an UMSA so I can run it on my old tv set, this is pure wonder.

However I get a little annoyance: in order to get sound working I have to reboot the system a few times until it sticks to my sound device.

Indeed I have 2 soundcards, one is my "regular" PCI card (esi juli@) and the other unexpected one comes from my vga hdmi (asus hd4870).
Usually the hdmi sound output gets the 1st place (device 0), as shown in the audio setup menu and then I have no sound.
When I reboot and get lucky the PCI card is shown as device 0 and in that case I do have sound working.

I didn't find a way to manually assign a default device, so if I'm missing something please tell me where is it.
Also I tried what is described here https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=975049 but didn't get any result (same behaviour).

Thanks in advance,
M.

[ves]

Hello, you can press F6 to identify and configure your default sound in alsamixer.

[machyavel]

Thanks for the reply, however I already tried F6, this is where I can see the order of my devices.

When the regular soundcard is on position 0, sound is working fine but when it's on position 1, while I can get the alsamixer view for it, sound won't work.
What should I do to assign which device to be set as default?

[ves]

Hello machyavel.

If you know what sound modules, you could disable in blacklist.

Please post lsmod command.

[machyavel]

hello ves, here's the lsmod command:

*************************
Module                  Size  Used by
fuse                   69245  5
arc4                    2008  2
snd_ice1724           117059  0
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rt2800usb              17265  0
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snd_ak4114              7718  1 snd_ice1724
rt2x00usb               9059  1 rt2800usb
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rt2800lib              49648  1 rt2800usb
snd_ice17xx_ak4xxx      2437  1 snd_ice1724
snd_hda_codec_hdmi     27561  1
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rt2x00lib              36341  3 rt2x00usb,rt2800lib,rt2800usb
snd_ac97_codec        113457  1 snd_ice1724
snd_hda_intel          27668  0
mac80211              432338  3 rt2x00lib,rt2x00usb,rt2800lib
ac97_bus                1207  1 snd_ac97_codec
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snd_rawmidi            18800  1 snd_ice1724
cfg80211              179435  2 mac80211,rt2x00lib
snd_seq_device          5269  1 snd_rawmidi
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snd_pcm                77827  7 snd_ice1724,snd_ac97_codec,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel,snd_ak4113,snd_ak4114
rfkill                 15997  1 cfg80211
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crc_ccitt               1364  1 rt2800lib
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snd                    60157  15 snd_pt2258,snd_ice1724,snd_ac97_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_timer,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_i2c,snd_pcm,snd_rawmidi,snd_hda_codec,snd_ak4xxx_adda,snd_hda_intel,snd_seq_device,snd_ak4113,snd_ak4114
soundcore               5443  1 snd
iTCO_wdt                5288  0
coretemp                6231  0
iTCO_vendor_support     1930  1 iTCO_wdt
joydev                  9728  0
kvm_intel             124064  0
i2c_i801               10917  0
lpc_ich                11346  0
kvm                   384689  1 kvm_intel
acpi_cpufreq           10631  0
mperf                   1268  1 acpi_cpufreq
processor              27496  3 acpi_cpufreq
pcspkr                  1900  0
asus_atk0110           12097  0
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microcode              14434  0
ppdev                   7183  0
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mbcache                 6027  1 ext4
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loop                   18257  6
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sr_mod                 14824  1
cdrom                  35521  1 sr_mod
usb_storage            43828  2
uhci_hcd               25069  0
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usb_common               955  1 usbcore
radeon                869060  1
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drm_kms_helper         33103  1 radeon
ttm                    64961  1 radeon
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i2c_core               23076  5 drm,i2c_i801,drm_kms_helper,i2c_algo_bit,radeon
button                  4670  0
intel_agp              10745  0
intel_gtt              15361  1 intel_agp
*****************************

[ves]

Hello machyavel.

Edit this file
nano /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf

Add these lines

blacklist snd_hda_intel
blacklist snd_hda_codec_hdmi
blacklist snd_hda_codec

[machyavel]

Good day Ves,
I blacklisted modules as you said and now the hdmi device doesn't appear at all!
Thanks a lot 

[Ansa89]

Communication for linux users: here you can find the 15KHz patches for linux 3.9.

[machyavel]

Hello,

I have 2 questions:
Is there a way to enable some other system (pce, gba...) to emulate in Mednafen/GA?
Where can we put our own modeline in GM/GA?

[NightSprinter]

I must be doing something stupid/wrong, as I cannot update pacman at all to update packages.  For wine and such, are there any particular packages/versions to install to not break update capabilities?  (Also noticed that Arch is able to do Amiga HiRes Laced resolution, while Ubuntu with the patched kernel cannot).

[lettuce]

Ves, I use only HDMI audio on my PC with GA on, but am unable to get any audio. How can I get the HDMI audio to work?

[Calamity]

I must be doing something stupid/wrong, as I cannot update pacman at all to update packages.  For wine and such, are there any particular packages/versions to install to not break update capabilities?  (Also noticed that Arch is able to do Amiga HiRes Laced resolution, while Ubuntu with the patched kernel cannot).

Hi NightSprinter,

The last live-CD was locked at date 02/23/2013 so it will only install packages from that date's repository. This was done to prevent users from screwing the system by updating things that overwrite the patched elements. I think VeS pointed you can revert this by editing /etc/pacman.conf. Or by using yaourt to update wine (??)

[Calamity]

Hello,

I have 2 questions:
Is there a way to enable some other system (pce, gba...) to emulate in Mednafen/GA?

Sure, but you need to do it manually, editing advmenu.rc, etc. (no big deal)

Where can we put our own modeline in GM/GA?

If you mean a custom crt_range line, then that's done in mame.ini, or switchres.conf if you want to use it for the desktop/frontend.