Groovy Arcade 2016.07.02 - New User - some minor issues

[gg339]

Hello,
I've only recently come across Groovy Arcade, as I had a working cabinet for many years with XP and Mame. Unfortunately my HDD died, and in the process of looking at what was now the standard I came across this, and downloaded the 2016 07-02 live CD. Firstly, it seems like an amazing piece of work, as (in my case), I always had issues with scrolling in say, Wonderboy (screen tearing etc).

After some initial struggles with the live CD (not booting, CRT issues), I've gotten the basics operational and can run many games, thanks to Lacanians (http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=144155.0) guide.

I have a few issues, and questions, if somebody would be kind enough to answer them..

Cabinet has a K7000 monitor (and no issues with it with GA at present).

1. I've lots of games that wont run under mame - appears my roms differ from the GroovyMame required roms. I've not updated the system through gasetup, so firstly, should I do so, and what is the default groovymame version on the 07-02 live cd? (I think my MAME roms are from ver 0.117?

2. I note some users (and I) have issues with Kung Fu Master under GA - I didn't have this under XP and old Mame, and I gather its due to sound changes in the newer version of mame. Can I roll back the groovy mame version that I now have to one which both suits my romset, or am I better orr going forward to the current version. If so, are there any instructions as to how I can do this?

3. I linke the look of Attract-Mode, but my issue with it is, once ran, and a game played and exited, no keyboard works from then on in the frontend. I have to go out to shell and rerun gasetup and restart the frontend, at which time I can now select another rom and play it - all will be fine, until I again exit, and so on.. Any ideas what may be causing this?

4. I have my wifi working and can both putty and SMB into the cabinet, but on restarting I've to rerun the wifi setup under gasetup before it will connect - wont automatically connect - all the details stay the same, but running ping etc. from command line says network not present.

Thanks very much to those who have put great effort into GA - even though I know little of linux, I think it has the potential to be the best emulator for me to get the best experience from the games I run, and although I reckon I'll have lots of issues (due to my limited linux knowledge) the initial pain will be worth it.

Thanks again, and hopefully somebody can shed light on my current issues.

Regards
GG339

[qseventeen]

Hi GG339,

I think I can help with a few of these questions, let's address each one:

1. I've lots of games that wont run under mame - appears my roms differ from the GroovyMame required roms. I've not updated the system through gasetup, so firstly, should I do so, and what is the default groovymame version on the 07-02 live cd? (I think my MAME roms are from ver 0.117?

The 07-02 live CD is using GroovyMAME 0.171 by default:

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[arcade@GroovyArcade bin]$ ./groovymame -help
MAME v0.171 (Feb 24 2016)
Copyright Nicola Salmoria and the MAME team

GroovyMAME - SwitchRes version 0.015m


2. I note some users (and I) have issues with Kung Fu Master under GA - I didn't have this under XP and old Mame, and I gather its due to sound changes in the newer version of mame. Can I roll back the groovy mame version that I now have to one which both suits my romset, or am I better orr going forward to the current version. If so, are there any instructions as to how I can do this?

I've only personally upgraded my GroovyMAME version, I don't see why you couldn't downgrade.  I can't speak to Kung Fu Master specifically, but I did notice some improvement in some games.  Here's what I did:

First, I downloaded the latest version of GroovyMAME linux.  I copied them over to GroovyArcade in a newly created dl folder in /home/arcade.  Uncompressed the binary with tar, made a back up of my original groovymame binary and copied the new one in.  I then changed the permissions to match the old binary.  Here are my commands:

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[arcade@GroovyArcade ~]$ cd /home/arcade/dl
[arcade@GroovyArcade dl]$ tar -xvjf groovymame64_0179.016_alpha2_linux.tar.bz2
groovymame
[arcade@GroovyArcade dl]$ cd /usr/local/bin
[arcade@GroovyArcade bin]$ sudo mv groovymame groovymame.orig
[arcade@GroovyArcade bin]$ sudo cp /home/arcade/dl/groovymame .
[arcade@GroovyArcade bin]$ sudo chmod 777 groovymame


3. I linke the look of Attract-Mode, but my issue with it is, once ran, and a game played and exited, no keyboard works from then on in the frontend. I have to go out to shell and rerun gasetup and restart the frontend, at which time I can now select another rom and play it - all will be fine, until I again exit, and so on.. Any ideas what may be causing this?

I ran into the same issue, I changed the Window Mode to Fullscreen and disabled Multiple Monitor support in Attract Mode's General Settings and that seemed to do the trick.

4. I have my wifi working and can both putty and SMB into the cabinet, but on restarting I've to rerun the wifi setup under gasetup before it will connect - wont automatically connect - all the details stay the same, but running ping etc. from command line says network not present.

I run into this occasionally and I'm wired in via ethernet. I rerun gasetup's network setup to get that working again too.  I assume this is a bug.

[gg339]

@qseventeen,

Many thanks for your suggestions - I've tried most of them and it has helped with my setup.

Thank you again.

Regards