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Anyone liking Raspberry Pi running RetroPie for older console and MAME?
nitrogen_widget:
--- Quote from: stpcore on January 22, 2015, 09:30:22 am ---I would be VERY interested. I would even be willing to trade you some printed artwork for your time. I will also be using a KADE device on mine so I don't care about joystick configuration. PM me if you get a chance
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I'll try to run the retroarch script tonight.
last time I did that it litterally took 24hrs.
But, my RPI is overclocked to 1ghz now so maybe an hr less. HA!
The reason for the kade is mame4all has a limitation where the mouse is disabled if a gamepad is plugged in.
since I wanted to use one of those 2 1/2" glowing mouse based trackballs for centipede/millipede ect. with a mouse interface that would of been an issue.
Advmame works ok but is slower for some games I like so i'd end up playing trackball games on advmame & joystick games on mame4all.
so the workaround to using one emulator is to use the GPIO pins for the joystick or a keyboard encoder.
I picked up some cheap kade devices so I thought i'd go that route.
retroarch may end up being the happy medium with speed and controls & scanline shader though.
stpcore:
Sounds like a plan as I would like to use a trackball as well as joystick and buttons so I'm in the same boat. Please let me know what you think and if I can help.
I had no prior knowledge of working with the Raspberry Pi as I just bought the pi and followed an online tutorial to get Retropie installed and then placed some NES roms in the rom folder and it seemed to work. I would like to now add some MAME roms and maybe some Genesis but that would be it as I don't want to overclock if I don't have to.
I would like to create a SD card with those emulators/roms working with my KADE so that I can make a second machine and simply copy the SD card for my brother without starting everything from scratch (if that makes sense)?
nitrogen_widget:
Makes perfect sense.
I backed my sdcard up so i could restore it just in case.
I also have the FTP server installed on the RPI.
Makes it super easy to upload files & create directories remotely from my desktop.
You can also copy & paste text between the PC & SSH terminal window which speeds up command running.
jeepville2001:
There is also RetroBoxOS for the Raspberry Pi: http://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=78&t=96516&sid=af2e89ade2f3f0e028dfa51dbee0b0c2. It's easy to set up and supports 14 emulated game systems. It's based on Emulation Station. It does support USB game controllers of all kinds. Not sure if it supports keyboard encoders like the ipac or kade. I've posted this question in the Raspberry pi RetroBox thread.
It does run very well for NES, most SNES games, Genesis, TG16 and a few MAME games I tried. I'm hoping it already works with the ipac, or that support will be added in the future.
stpcore:
--- Quote from: jeepville2001 on January 22, 2015, 03:29:34 pm ---There is also RetroBoxOS for the Raspberry Pi: http://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=78&t=96516&sid=af2e89ade2f3f0e028dfa51dbee0b0c2. It's easy to set up and supports 14 emulated game systems. It's based on Emulation Station. It does support USB game controllers of all kinds. Not sure if it supports keyboard encoders like the ipac or kade. I've posted this question in the Raspberry pi RetroBox thread.
It does run very well for NES, most SNES games, Genesis, TG16 and a few MAME games I tried. I'm hoping it already works with the ipac, or that support will be added in the future.
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