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Re: Welcome to the Raspberry Pi 4 LOVE Fest ;)
« Reply #80 on: October 25, 2021, 11:36:18 am »
[I have tried about 75 games so far and only found 1 that didn't run - but I do believe it is a perfect solution for a simple set up running only classic games.   :cheers:

Thanks for your post, I, for one, appreciate it greatly.  I want to do a dedicated 2-way/4 way horizontal cabinet for classis like Ghost and Goblins, Ghouls and Ghosts, Zookeeper, Popeye, etc  that just are horrid with an 8 way.  Would you mind testing those and maybe Track-N-Field since that is also an all-time favorite horizontal game.
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« Reply #81 on: October 25, 2021, 01:22:32 pm »
[I have tried about 75 games so far and only found 1 that didn't run - but I do believe it is a perfect solution for a simple set up running only classic games.   :cheers:

Thanks for your post, I, for one, appreciate it greatly.  I want to do a dedicated 2-way/4 way horizontal cabinet for classis like Ghost and Goblins, Ghouls and Ghosts, Zookeeper, Popeye, etc  that just are horrid with an 8 way.  Would you mind testing those and maybe Track-N-Field since that is also an all-time favorite horizontal game.

OK I tried a few games people were curious about in here.  Ghosts n Goblins and Ghouls n Ghosts appear to work just fine.  Popeye has a sound glitch when the game starts and Popeye himself has a black box around him when he gets it so I would put this in the "no" category (it seems playable but not perfect).  Track and Field seems to work.  Ninja Baseball Batman also worked but Killer instinct wouldn't even launch.  In fact, just having this rom on the memory card slowed everything down, including the front end.  All I did was copy the kinst.zip file into the roms folder - not sure if there is a special BIOS required.  I don't ever play this game.

Here are some quick videos.  Note that I did zero tweaking and don't really know anything about these games like if special settings make them run better or something like that.  I do not have this connected to a joystick yet either - I'm trying (and failing) to use a keyboard to move while holding my phone to record.










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Re: Welcome to the Raspberry Pi 4 LOVE Fest ;)
« Reply #82 on: October 25, 2021, 01:52:51 pm »
Quote from: javeryh link=topic=164728.msg1735954#msg1735954

The dream is actual MAME on a pi with an extremely simple GUI and no other garbage...

Actually that is well.... was my dream too

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Re: Welcome to the Raspberry Pi 4 LOVE Fest ;)
« Reply #83 on: October 25, 2021, 02:20:05 pm »
Quote from: javeryh link=topic=164728.msg1735954#msg1735954

The dream is actual MAME on a pi with an extremely simple GUI and no other garbage...

Actually that is well.... was my dream too

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Re: Welcome to the Raspberry Pi 4 LOVE Fest ;)
« Reply #84 on: October 25, 2021, 02:37:39 pm »
Killer instinct wouldn't even launch.  In fact, just having this rom on the memory card slowed everything down, including the front end.  All I did was copy the kinst.zip file into the roms folder - not sure if there is a special BIOS required.
Killer Instinct also needs the unzipped 92MB "kinst.chd" file in a "kinst" sub-folder under the "roms" folder where you put the zipped 4MB "kinst.zip" ROM file.

  ROM file:
\mame\roms\kinst.zip

  CHD file:
\mame\roms\kinst\kinst.chd


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Re: Welcome to the Raspberry Pi 4 LOVE Fest ;)
« Reply #85 on: October 25, 2021, 06:26:55 pm »
I didn't see it mentioned however there is a lot of trash posted in this thread getting in the way of the good stuff.

There was a recent bios update for the rpi4 and rp400 that lets you boot and run the OS from an SSD using a cheap usb3 to SSD adaptor.
no extra power needed.
no Sdcard to tell it to boot off usb needed either.

I have my 2gb rpi4 hooked up now and it's fast to boot and load stuff.
not doing arcade with it (amiga 500 stuff).
I imagine compile times for something like this would go noticeably faster.


also, had zero idea mame had it's own front end like in op's video.
is that new?
I was playing around with the latest version of mame last spring and only saw the text front end.
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« Reply #86 on: October 25, 2021, 07:03:30 pm »
I didn't see it mentioned however there is a lot of trash posted in this thread getting in the way of the good stuff.

There was a recent bios update for the rpi4 and rp400 that lets you boot and run the OS from an SSD using a cheap usb3 to SSD adaptor.
no extra power needed.
no Sdcard to tell it to boot off usb needed either.

I have my 2gb rpi4 hooked up now and it's fast to boot and load stuff.
not doing arcade with it (amiga 500 stuff).
I imagine compile times for something like this would go noticeably faster.


also, had zero idea mame had it's own front end like in op's video.
is that new?
I was playing around with the latest version of mame last spring and only saw the text front end.

That's good info - speeding things up is always a plus.

The front end is Attract Mode, not MAME.  bbegin's image comes with regular MAME front-end/menu plus AdvanceMENU and Attract Mode as proper front ends.  I haven't tested AdvanceMENU but Attract Mode works as expected.  You can put whatever theme you want in the layout folder and it should work.  My goal was to get something like ArcadeSD up and running, which is why I chose that theme.   :cheers:

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« Reply #87 on: October 25, 2021, 08:43:03 pm »

That's good info - speeding things up is always a plus.

The front end is Attract Mode, not MAME.  bbegin's image comes with regular MAME front-end/menu plus AdvanceMENU and Attract Mode as proper front ends.  I haven't tested AdvanceMENU but Attract Mode works as expected.  You can put whatever theme you want in the layout folder and it should work.  My goal was to get something like ArcadeSD up and running, which is why I chose that theme.   :cheers:

i'm so out of touch with rpi stuff.
only just got back into mine with the weather turning yucky.

I have a new SSD coming to put this image on.
I think last yr i put killer instinct on the pi4 and it was laggy.
however i didn't realize until later on that mame was running at 1080p
so it might work at a lower res.

or there is this backasswords method.



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Re: Welcome to the Raspberry Pi 4 LOVE Fest ;)
« Reply #88 on: October 26, 2021, 08:28:34 pm »
I have a couple of Pi3 "ARpiCADE" setups and a 4P Pi4 setup.  I love `em.

The Pi4 handles many NAOMI/Dreamcast games with little to no lag via flycast.

Good stuff.

Name a game... I'll try to get some vid.

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« Reply #89 on: October 27, 2021, 09:57:58 am »
I have a couple of Pi3 "ARpiCADE" setups and a 4P Pi4 setup.  I love `em.

The Pi4 handles many NAOMI/Dreamcast games with little to no lag via flycast.

Good stuff.

Name a game... I'll try to get some vid.

Hey man thanks for that theme!  I love it. 

Are you using the Raspberry Jamma or just an ARpiCADE image?  Looks like it comes with Attract Mode so I assume you can change the look however you want similar to what we are doing with this project.  I would be curious to see how it boots and what it is like scrolling through games, starting something, exiting out, etc.   :cheers:

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Re: Welcome to the Raspberry Pi 4 LOVE Fest ;)
« Reply #90 on: October 28, 2021, 09:05:58 am »
Sure... I'll get some footage shortly. 

I am using ARpiCADE builds.  Custom romlists/etc of course...

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EDIT: Here is an old video I made a while back of my Pi3 Vertical setup...





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Re: Welcome to the Raspberry Pi 4 LOVE Fest ;)
« Reply #91 on: October 28, 2021, 11:43:11 am »
Pi zero 2 seems capable too, its very small.

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« Reply #92 on: October 28, 2021, 07:58:58 pm »
Pi zero 2 seems capable too, its very small.

I just saw this was released.
benchmarks show it's same as a pi2 but can get closer to pi3 if you overclock.

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« Reply #93 on: October 30, 2021, 11:56:13 am »
I was stocked for this, but I guess my enthusiasm was premature.  I cant seem to find a CRT solution that incorporates the Pi 4.  Is there something that my Google skills failed to reveal?

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« Reply #94 on: October 30, 2021, 04:16:30 pm »
I was stocked for this, but I guess my enthusiasm was premature.  I cant seem to find a CRT solution that incorporates the Pi 4.  Is there something that my Google skills failed to reveal?

Would it be what you're looking for?

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Re: Welcome to the Raspberry Pi 4 LOVE Fest ;)
« Reply #95 on: October 31, 2021, 10:32:27 am »
The ARpiCADE is about as close to plug n play as you're going to find I suspect... IF said CRT is standard resolution that is.

www.arpicade.com

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« Reply #96 on: October 31, 2021, 03:21:17 pm »
I have a couple of Pi3 "ARpiCADE" setups and a 4P Pi4 setup.  I love `em.

The Pi4 handles many NAOMI/Dreamcast games with little to no lag via flycast.

Good stuff.

Name a game... I'll try to get some vid.

Can it run fist of the north star on dreamcast/atomiswave?

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Re: Welcome to the Raspberry Pi 4 LOVE Fest ;)
« Reply #97 on: November 08, 2021, 10:27:48 am »
Yeah... this is raw.  I was going to edit it for time... and content... and try to make it look all nice and semi-professional but when I saw the quality of the video this old crappy video cam puts out I just gave up on the idea.  I was originally going link this video from my blog post on this project.... meh... I think I'll do a little investigating and maybe pick up a new video camera (BLACK FRIDAY!) and re-shoot that.

But... for anyone interested... here you go.

NOTE: the "circular bullseye" looking rings on the video are not visible to the naked eye.  Nor is the horizontal line that runs from bottom to top.  That line is caused by the refresh rate of the camera and monitor matching.  Things get really funky when I demo NBA Jam.   NBA Jam doesn't run at quite the same refresh rate as all the other games... the result is interesting (and also of course NOT seen by the naked eye).

Next video will be more ... quality. 

PS: I started the video at the exact same time as I powered up the cabinet... so load time is from the moment the video starts...

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« Reply #98 on: November 08, 2021, 11:11:13 am »
Yeah... this is raw.  I was going to edit it for time... and content... and try to make it look all nice and semi-professional but when I saw the quality of the video this old crappy video cam puts out I just gave up on the idea.  I was originally going link this video from my blog post on this project.... meh... I think I'll do a little investigating and maybe pick up a new video camera (BLACK FRIDAY!) and re-shoot that.

But... for anyone interested... here you go.

NOTE: the "circular bullseye" looking rings on the video are not visible to the naked eye.  Nor is the horizontal line that runs from bottom to top.  That line is caused by the refresh rate of the camera and monitor matching.  Things get really funky when I demo NBA Jam.   NBA Jam doesn't run at quite the same refresh rate as all the other games... the result is interesting (and also of course NOT seen by the naked eye).

Next video will be more ... quality. 

PS: I started the video at the exact same time as I powered up the cabinet... so load time is from the moment the video starts...



Video is unavailable for me (private)... anyone else having this issue?

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Re: Welcome to the Raspberry Pi 4 LOVE Fest ;)
« Reply #99 on: November 08, 2021, 11:44:56 am »
fixed....durr... sorry.
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« Reply #100 on: November 08, 2021, 12:49:09 pm »
NOTE: the "circular bullseye" looking rings on the video are not visible to the naked eye.
https://xkcd.com/1814/



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« Reply #101 on: November 09, 2021, 09:11:28 am »
The ARpiCADE is about as close to plug n play as you're going to find I suspect... IF said CRT is standard resolution that is.

www.arpicade.com
I bought a couple and could never get them working.  Does the ARpiCade support the Pi4?

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« Reply #102 on: November 09, 2021, 12:17:01 pm »
They do have a Pi3 and a Pi4 setup.  The video is of my Pi4 rig.

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