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Anyone liking Raspberry Pi running RetroPie for older console and MAME?
nitrogen_widget:
--- Quote from: pbj on April 30, 2015, 07:44:37 pm ---Mother of God. Can you shut the pi off with a toggle switch without corrupting anything?
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no.
But I should be able to set up a 2nd emulator to run shutdown & reboot scripts.
Then you can hit the toggle switch.
pbj:
We need that front end combined with the720k's stability. What's a good place to learn more about your setup?
nitrogen_widget:
--- Quote from: pbj on April 30, 2015, 08:45:48 pm ---We need that front end combined with the720k's stability. What's a good place to learn more about your setup?
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I agree.
That would be nice.
My setup is the distro DietPI.
http://fuzon.co.uk/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=6
With the retro pi script installed & mame4all plus shared folders enabled.
I then compiled rpi sfml & attract mode using the instructions on the github site.
https://github.com/mickelson
The reason I went with Diet Pi distoro is because it boots into Xwindows using very little resources.
Attract mode needs X.
There are other ways you can shutdown the RPI with scripts & buttons controlled via the GPIO and I may end up going that route.
Right now I have a script that shuts it down when I execute it & i just need to figure out how to call it from attract mode.
I found a post on the RPI forums that tells you how to call a similiar script from advmenu so i'll try that method this weekend.
pbj:
--- Quote from: yotsuya on April 29, 2015, 02:53:04 pm ---Portable-Mame Pi FTW.
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I played that last night. It has several awesome things going for it. Boots very quickly, games load very snappy. There's a few knocks:
Text Menu with no screen saver
Complete ROM set has a lot of non-working games and clones nobody cares about
If you try to load a non-working game, you're stuck at a loading screen with no way to get out
The Space Invader image flickers horribly on composite output - which is a darn shame because I was quite impressed at the composite image quality otherwise
Had a lot of slowdown during Metal Slug 2 which kind of surprised me
:cheers:
yotsuya:
--- Quote from: pbj on May 07, 2015, 10:23:56 am ---
--- Quote from: yotsuya on April 29, 2015, 02:53:04 pm ---Portable-Mame Pi FTW.
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I played that last night. It has several awesome things going for it. Boots very quickly, games load very snappy. There's a few knocks:
Text Menu with no screen saver
Complete ROM set has a lot of non-working games and clones nobody cares about
If you try to load a non-working game, you're stuck at a loading screen with no way to get out
The Space Invader image flickers horribly on composite output - which is a darn shame because I was quite impressed at the composite image quality otherwise
Had a lot of slowdown during Metal Slug 2 which kind of surprised me
:cheers:
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I hear you. I loaded the SD card up in Ubuntu, removed all the roms, added the ones I wanted, tested them out to make sure they worked (removing the ones that didn't), and all was good. I'm with you , though - I love the fact that the systems and roms boot quickly and that there is no Linux garbage anywhere to be seen when exiting and loading games.
I'm not a fan of text menus, personally, but this one works so that's good, and it looks a million times better than PiPlay. My next step is to tweak the background images.
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