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Laythe:
Great job on digging yourself out of that occluded button problem! :applaud:

javeryh:

--- Quote from: Arroyo on November 15, 2019, 01:23:37 pm ---Ahem......

Glad to see you back at Javery. Looking forward to seeing you button this one up. Nice mod on the button by the way, that would have had me scratching my head for awhile.

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Heh... yeah I definitely get motivated every time I check in on your build. I can't let you finish before me!

--- Quote from: Laythe on November 16, 2019, 02:16:40 am ---Great job on digging yourself out of that occluded button problem! :applaud:

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Thanks - that button gave me a lot of headaches so now I have to get the ServoStik working properly. That's one of the last things I have left other than configuring the software. I am just about out of room and I need to find a place for the little PCB that came with it.

Today I got a little bit further... I'm really having a hard time with the pi just because I don't know anything. I had it all working but I wasn't getting a picture on my screen. I discovered through some googling that I needed to edit the /boot/config.txt file to force HDMI... so after about an hour of googling how to SSH into the pi remotely I got it to work. On first boot I had to configure the "gamepad" and retropie thought I was using a keyboard, which makes sense. The joystick was easy but I'm not sure what to do with everything else.

I made a diagram - the colors refer to the wires I had on hand so I could keep track of everything. Since RetroPie seems like it wants a PSX/Xbox controller I'm not sure what the best way to configure everything is with the IPAC. The admin buttons aren't configured properly and I'm not really sure what I need to do. I'll make another post when I make some progress there.

What a mess. A lot of my space issues are because the cables I'm using have to be bunched up and I'm not confident enough to remove a section and splice them back together.

So the cabinet boots up and I installed a "safe" shutdown switch by following an online guide (ETA Prime on YouTube). The image I'm using has too much crap on it. There is an "Arcade" section (with like 5000 games) but also NES, GBA, SNES, etc. Tons of stuff that will not get used... although the Atari 2600 stuff is intriguing. So next up is to SSH to the Pi and delete all of the games except the ones I want. I can't decide if I should make it Arcade only or maybe include 10-20 games from other systems that would work well in this cabinet.

Punchlist:

* Figure out gamelist
* Change boot up intro (there is a Ninja Gaiden video that plays when the cab boots - I want to change this to a splash screen with the Marquee logo)
* Change "theme" - I just want a simple 4:3 Gamelauncher-looking skin or something. The cab currently displays way too much info about each game plus a movie which I don't think I care about.
* Finish dustwasher. I have the smart phone protector but I still need to print the art at the proper size.
* Install t-molding.
* Wire the ServoStik
* Configure ServoStik in Retropie
Whew. So close yet so far away...

Jimbo:
Looking good mate, you'll get there. These last finishing touches always take the longest time. :cheers:

javeryh:

--- Quote from: Jimbo on November 17, 2019, 06:15:00 am ---Looking good mate, you'll get there. These last finishing touches always take the longest time. :cheers:

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Definitely for me. I'm more of a woodshop person than a computer/wiring person so all these finishing details are tough for me because I have to teach myself everything from scratch.

The "Now Loading..." screen when you boot up your bartop is so cool. Was that easy to make? I was envisioning something similar for my cabinet using the existing artwork. The robot or the marquee or some combination of the two with "Now Loading..." font in the bottom right (the animated ellipses would be a nice bonus). Nothing too fancy though.

If anyone wants to give this a shot for me I wouldn't say no... I can provide the photoshop art files with everything so it can be sized to 4:3 or whatever. :cheers:

Jimbo:
I just got the artist (that you also used) to do the pixellated drawing from an idea I had, and I put it as a start up screen in retropie's options I think (it's been a while now, can't remember which settings or anything right now). It was messing around with the splash screen I think, you can set it as a video etc. :) I might even have linked to a retropie startup how-to on my Videotron thread.

A friend at work did the animated videotron logo/vector lines and made it look like a VHS tape loading while my music played. :)

Get an idea for a loading screen graphic using the cool robot art and ask the same artist to do one for you is my suggestion. Same artist will keep the theme the same, they could even pixellate it ;)

Good luck!

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