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Raspberry Pi 2 with Mame - anyone tried it yet?
DaOld Man:
--- Quote from: yotsuya on March 03, 2015, 07:07:33 pm ---Plug a flash drive into a USB port.
ES will make a folder on the drive for ALL the emulators.
Plug the drive into your PC.
Add roms into the correct folders on the flash drive.
Plug the drive back into the Pi.
ES will move the files over.
Done.
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Thanks!
Nitro: I could not get to retropie through my network, but the usb stick worked pretty good. Now how do I transfer snaps?
jukingeo:
--- Quote from: nitrogen_widget on March 03, 2015, 06:36:51 am ---Idk, maybe the rpi doesnt like your card?
I've had the same install on my RPI for months booting it up and shutting it down and I know its lost power a few times also.
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Hmmm, tried three different cards, three different brands, all did the same thing. In the end, I was thinking there might be something wrong with the Raspi itself and I delegated it to other 'lesser' projects. But that hasn't happened and for the most part I just put the Raspi away. I don't know if you read that LONG thread I posted on the Raspi forum about my issues. But when you mentioned the corruption in regards to the OS that kind of raised an eyebrow.
--- Quote ---If you buy a pi, get the rpi2.
There really isn't a reason to go with the rpi1 unless you have a specific low power project you need it for.
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I thought there might be improvements with the B+ since it seems to follow the same form factor as the RPI2. But I certainly could get the RPI2 instead, it is a bit more money, but still no biggie.
--- Quote ---But, there are also a few atom or and apu micro boards out there you could set up with a small ssd for Chromebooks that might work better for you if you are looking for a small low power solution.
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I have this:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0041RSC94/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o06_s01?ie=UTF8&psc=1
I bought it for $87 a few years ago.
I was going to set this up with either Linux or Windows XP OS using a CF card as a hard drive. This way it is a fanless, noiseless system. It was shortly after I bought this I learned about the Raspi and given that it was smaller, I wanted to give that a shot. I was saving the Atom computer for a 'bigger' project, but I COULD use it now.
Being that it was mentioned that the Raspi works better with just Mame and no front end, I had thought of creating a bartop Space Invaders cabinet that would have the 'moon lit' back drop. I have the half silvered mirror to do that 'trick'. It would be a button only cabinet that you would just type in 'Mame (game here)' to run and it would pretty much stay on that game. Mostly I would run Space Invaders and Space Invaders Deluxe (II). I had a post here in regards to that build:
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,98542.msg1040700.html#msg1040700
--- Quote from: nitrogen_widget on March 03, 2015, 04:37:40 pm ---Hey Jukingeo, A thought, I made my stripped down vertical image available for download.
It has no X-windows, boots into advmenu in the vertical orientation, and is setup to use mame4all which is setup to rotate also when it launches a vertical rom.
It has SSH for running remote commands & FTP so you can copy your roms and snaps over your network.
It has no gamepad drivers yet but I plan to use either the GPIO or a kade device for my controls but keyboard will work just to test.
If you want I can PM you the link to my drop-box for the image along with the root password (it only runs as root) and you could try that out.
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That sounds good. Yeah, I will give that a shot.
Thank you,
Geo
nitrogen_widget:
--- Quote from: DaOld Man on March 03, 2015, 08:31:29 pm ---
Nitro: I could not get to retropie through my network, but the usb stick worked pretty good. Now how do I transfer snaps?
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Try finding the RPI's ip address by exiting Emulationstation & dropping to the command prompt then typing "hostname -I" without quotes.
take that ip address and use it to connect directly in windows explorer by typing "//192.168.0.10" or whatever your RPI ip address is.
That should bring up a folder you can drill down to.
alternatively you could just run emulationstations scraper & goto bed. it'll download the snaps & metadata for your roms but will take a while.
EightBySix:
--- Quote ---The biggest annoyance with vertical games is emulationstation doesn't rotate or supports vertical themes & rotating the pi itself can cause performance issues so you are pretty much stuck with advmenu and for some reason I can't change the aspect of the tile's in the menu so all my vert screenshots/movies are squished.
If I could find another simple front end for the RPI1 it would def. go in the dedicated vertical 4-way cab i'm building.
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I found that rotating the pi itself (via the config.txt) works nicely with EmulationStation2. The default theme isn't ideal in that orientation, but I'm hoping to roll my own anyway. Maybe the RPi2 gives it the extra grunt it needed. It's great not to have to get a stiff neck whenever you drop into the OS and have to read sideways.
I've found that the Rpi2 performance just tips it onto the right side of borderline, for the games I want to play.
nitrogen_widget:
--- Quote from: EightBySix on March 06, 2015, 11:21:06 am ---
--- Quote ---The biggest annoyance with vertical games is emulationstation doesn't rotate or supports vertical themes & rotating the pi itself can cause performance issues so you are pretty much stuck with advmenu and for some reason I can't change the aspect of the tile's in the menu so all my vert screenshots/movies are squished.
If I could find another simple front end for the RPI1 it would def. go in the dedicated vertical 4-way cab i'm building.
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I found that rotating the pi itself (via the config.txt) works nicely with EmulationStation2. The default theme isn't ideal in that orientation, but I'm hoping to roll my own anyway. Maybe the RPi2 gives it the extra grunt it needed. It's great not to have to get a stiff neck whenever you drop into the OS and have to read sideways.
I've found that the Rpi2 performance just tips it onto the right side of borderline, for the games I want to play.
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emulationstation 1 would goto a blank screen when rotated because of sdl1 & a bug.
I tried the rotation on the rpi1 with em2 but when I tried to adjust the theme I broke something & couldn't get it to work again so I just switched to advmenu. :)
If you come up with a vertical friendly theme please share it.
I'm looking at pyrharckade right now which does have a vertical mode https://github.com/tuxme/PYRHARCKADE/.
I also got Wah!cade/Mah!cade (I foget which one is the latest) running on my rpi2 last night but havn't played with it yet.
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