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Raspberry Pi 2 with Mame - anyone tried it yet?
Mocean:
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--- Quote from: yotsuya on April 28, 2015, 04:06:39 pm ---I just want to chime in that the720k's project KICKS ASS! I'm a believer.
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LEDAero:
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Well, I had a rather lengthy post up on the Raspberry Pi site if you care to take a look at the trials and tribulations I have had with getting Mame to work with the Raspi:
http://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=78&t=44667
I did manage to get it to work, but every so often it would still blow the SD card. Of course I do have backups but since I was testing the feasibility of using a Raspi for a cabinet build. Let's just say it flunked the test. I just simply can't have it blowing SD cards constantly.
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90% of corrupted SD cards were due to either not enough juice (cheap wall-wart) or overclocking.
The other 10% was cheap SD cards.
Which was it in your case?
I've been using R'Pi's since about a couple of months after they came out - some have stayed powered on for months at a time and never a single corrupted SD card.
I use 2A power supplies and always buy quality cards.
Badly-configured Linux implementations, where the log file is constantly being written to the SD is another problem- eventually the card fills up.
As hardware, the Pi is extremely reliable. I have 5 of them, doing duty as such things as streaming hifi receivers, wifi repeaters, Airplay powered speakers, second TV streamer.
The hifi and wifi units have been on as long as the power has held up in the house - and we haven't had a power cut for a while.
But then I don't have a need to overclock - which some seem to do as a matter of course.
nitrogen_widget:
also,
Shutting down the rpi instead of just unplugging it keeps the os good.
I have my gpio's hooked up to just run a halt script.
No matter what I do to lock up my RPI hitting my shut off button eventually shuts it down & lets me start back up no problem.
sealcouch:
To anyone using The720k's build, how can I change the blinky loading screen? I've been trying for 2 hours and I feel like I'm probably missing something obvious. I've replaced the file in the main folder, is there another copy of it somewhere? I am trying to make it a little more theme appropriate for my cab.
the720k:
--- Quote from: sealcouch on July 07, 2015, 11:18:08 pm ---To anyone using The720k's build, how can I change the blinky loading screen? I've been trying for 2 hours and I feel like I'm probably missing something obvious. I've replaced the file in the main folder, is there another copy of it somewhere? I am trying to make it a little more theme appropriate for my cab.
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Hey there, sorry for the delay - I don't log in as often as I probably should. Yes, you can change the blinky png file pretty easily. Do a
--- Code: ---sudo rwenable
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and then replace /etc_org/splashscreen.png with the png of your choice. The png files in the /home/pi folder are just there for doing a quick replacement of the /etc_org/splashscreen.png file. I thought I put this in my instructions somewhere, but I've had a few people ask this, so I probably just forgot to mention it. I've been meaning to revise the instructions at some point anyway,
Hope you enjoy the project! v3.0 will be out at some point in the not-so-distant future, and it'll include my modified mame4all binary baked-in so that people can play CPS roms and other oddball roms with weird native resolutions without the "squish" factor on 4:3 monitors. I'm also planning on adding a way to rotate the mame4all menu for vertical displays. Stay tuned to the official thread on the other site for updates.
And someone here also asked if I've made any progress in making an image that doesn't include all the roms. Thanks for reminding me! Yes, v3.0 will have two releases - the "lite" version with no roms - just the structure I built for the distro, and the "renegade" version that will only be posted at the other site. I'll post a link in this thread to the "lite" edition when I have it ready, and I'll try to make one for 2.0 as well.
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