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Main => Raspberry Pi & Dev Board => Topic started by: Binkles on May 10, 2015, 06:48:15 am

Title: Mame4all front end
Post by: Binkles on May 10, 2015, 06:48:15 am

Can anyone recommend a front end for mame4all?

I have rasping installed and only mame4all.

I use Mala on my upright windows machine, but want to put basic vertical menu for the cocktail.

Something like the *cough* 60in1 menu would be ideal.

I know mame4all has its own built in, but looking for something different, and graphical.


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Title: Re: Mame4all front end
Post by: lostboy4480 on May 10, 2015, 12:10:52 pm

Have you tried Attract Mode Front End,  Here is an active post of the status of getting it working on the Pie

http://forum.attractmode.org/index.php?topic=107.15 (http://forum.attractmode.org/index.php?topic=107.15)

Title: Re: Mame4all front end
Post by: Binkles on May 10, 2015, 06:20:54 pm

Thanks, looks more for the pi2 with its extra grunt.


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Title: Re: Mame4all front end
Post by: nitrogen_widget on May 10, 2015, 10:41:09 pm

Quote from: Binkles on May 10, 2015, 06:20:54 pm

Thanks, looks more for the pi2 with its extra grunt.


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Actually i did the same thing on the RPI 1 with 256 mb for the heck of it and it works surprisingly well.
I used the diet_pi distro with its minimal x windows.
Plus rayman got hardware acceleration going on his feet on RPI.

The version of the os I originally used was beta according to the Dev.
I built a new one this weekend with the latest version of diet_pi that will run on either RPI 1 or 2 and I plan to share it as soon as I can.
It just takes a while to create an image that doesn't require the same size card I'm currently using (16gb) and up load it to drop box.

Which I'll do once I have it all set up and ready to go.

Title: Re: Mame4all front end
Post by: Binkles on May 11, 2015, 07:24:41 am

I understood the first paragraph, then it went south from there ;)

Are you saying you would upload an image file to burn?


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Title: Re: Mame4all front end
Post by: nitrogen_widget on May 11, 2015, 12:30:23 pm

Quote from: Binkles on May 11, 2015, 07:24:41 am

I understood the first paragraph, then it went south from there ;)

Are you saying you would upload an image file to burn?


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I will upload  an RPI image that you can load onto an SD card & boot up your RPI with.
it would be just like putting rasbian or retro pi on an sd card.

Except, what I made is just a simple linux install with attractmode pre-compiled for you and the retropi install script already on it.
you will have to learn attract mode & retropi & figure out your own controller scheme though.