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pbj:
No better place to hide whiskey and cigars. They'll never look in there. Just saying.
nitrogen_widget:
I just set up a minimal console only ditro on my RPI that autolaunches advmenu & runs advmame using .106 roms.
I have preview video's working in the menu.
sound in advmenu however for preview videos is foobar'd so I have that turned off.
This will be a dedicated vertical cab for mostly the classics.
I have a 19" 1280x1024 LCD 4:3 hooked up via hdmi to dvi adaptor.
the RPI is forced to 640x480 output.
I'm letting advmame do it's fancy scaling stuff & using it to generate some scanlines.
the scanlines make it look nice.
it looks too good without them. :)
right now I have <1990 games on it, about 480.
some of the late 80's games run slow so i'll probably drop them.
I also have the sparkfun trackball attached using a ps2 to usb adaptor & that works great in games like centipede.
I'm now at the point where I need to build a control panel, figure out buttons & decide if i'll use the GPIO inputs on the PI or a hacked up gamepad.
I use putty to SSH into the pi so I can administer it via the command prompt (no x) and filezilla to upload files.
The reason i'm using an RPI is because i plan to keep the cab on my covered back porch in the summer for my parties & decided on the pi because no moving parts.
Skinnysloth:
I used a Rpi (overclocked to 1000mhz) running retropie. Retropie includes many emulators and a front end. Mame games run fine if you use (I think default) mame4all pi emulator with the 0.37b romset. Fighting games, such as street fighter alpha 3 runs at 60fps using PiFBA. Other systems such as SNES, NES, GBA, and Genesis ran fine. N64 games are laggy.
The reason I used the Rpi was space limitations (icade) and it fit my budget. I have since ditched the Rpi because I found a used i3 laptop that would fit in the icade for under $100.
I have another icade power by an Atom based laptop and mame 0.153 is sluggish with certain games.
retrogamedude:
--- Quote from: Skinnysloth on September 03, 2014, 10:20:32 pm ---I used a Rpi (overclocked to 1000mhz) running retropie. Retropie includes many emulators and a front end. Mame games run fine if you use (I think default) mame4all pi emulator with the 0.37b romset. Fighting games, such as street fighter alpha 3 runs at 60fps using PiFBA. Other systems such as SNES, NES, GBA, and Genesis ran fine. N64 games are laggy.
The reason I used the Rpi was space limitations (icade) and it fit my budget. I have since ditched the Rpi because I found a used i3 laptop that would fit in the icade for under $100.
I have another icade power by an Atom based laptop and mame 0.153 is sluggish with certain games.
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I am building an iCade now got any pics of your current or past setups? what screen do you use?
Skinnysloth:
--- Quote from: retrogamedude on September 03, 2014, 10:35:52 pm ---I am building an iCade now got any pics of your current or past setups? what screen do you use?
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It's nothing special. I went with the icade because it was cheap ($24) and small. I used the screen that came with dell latitude 2100 laptop (10" screen). Had to decase it and found out it was a little to wide to fit in the icade. I had to dremel a slot (1/8" deep) on each side of the icade so it would fit. It worked out since it holds the screen perfectly in place without use of any fasteners.
In the back you can see I used the hinge bracket that previously held the screen to secure the laptop to the icade.
I added three 24mm admin buttons and changed out the microswitches on the buttons to groovygamergear soft-touch microswitches. The buttons were easier to press, but still a little too stiff for my tastes. I tried the buttons without the springs, but that didn't feel good to me, so I went with the lesser of two evils. Short of replacing the buttons, it was the best choice for me. The bluetooth encoder board was replaced with one of the $10 ebay zero delay arcade usb encoder and works just fine. The wires were a little to short which limited my mounting option for the board. I had to get a little creative to get it fit.
The screen for the next icade was an idea I got from another member here. He used an ipad2 replacement screen with a vga board controller. The ipad2 screen is so much better than the lcd in the laptop. It is brighter, has better viewing angle, better color, and with an aspect ratio of 4:3, better suited for arcade games.
I hope I didn't derail this thread too much.
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