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Raspberry Pi 2 with Mame - anyone tried it yet?
Saneless:
For me, rotating the Pi itself caused my performance to tank. However, I noticed that it set the resolution really high when loading MAME. Once I locked it to 640x480 it really helped.
Still doesn't seem quite as smooth though. EmulationStation definitely has has visible tearing
nitrogen_widget:
--- Quote from: Saneless on March 06, 2015, 07:34:32 pm ---For me, rotating the Pi itself caused my performance to tank. However, I noticed that it set the resolution really high when loading MAME. Once I locked it to 640x480 it really helped.
Still doesn't seem quite as smooth though. EmulationStation definitely has has visible tearing
--- End quote ---
I found the same with my rpi1
I also found if I split the video memory instead of just giving the video 64mb that things worked smoother vertically.
My rpi1 only had 256mb.
Having mame & advmenu rotate on their own made a big difference.
With the rpi2 I can give my video a lot more ram so i'll give the vertical a try again.
Saneless:
I did that as well, bumped it to 128.
Not really liking retropie so far. I'm sure it's good overall if you want to use other emulators but for MAME only there has to be better.
nitrogen_widget:
Pyros supports vertical setups.
But its website is in Spanish I think.
I've been asking themdev for help over on the piplay forum.
Also, I just compiled advance menu plus on my rpi2.
It supports simple layouts and can be rotated along with advmame at startup which means you can boot horizontal.
edit: I think retropi is a great distro for the pi.
They utilize SDL compiled with dispmanx for scaling the emulators.
This means the gpu does some of the work.
I'm looking into changing the frontend to advmenu plus for my classic project & I believe the setup script will let you remove emulators so you can make a smaller image.
Their version of advancemame seems to work really well on the RPI2 also.
I can't get piplay beta 8 to work on my RPI2 so i can't test it yet.
berzerking:
Hi i just google my project and it seam that you re talking of it :) The web site si en french :) But the Wiki is in english (english from a french)
Theire is a new version of Pyrharckade : http://pyrharckade.io/pyrharckade_2_1b.tar.bz2
Pyros will come next ...
See ya all
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