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Main => Raspberry Pi & Dev Board => Topic started by: mlenardon on January 22, 2014, 07:00:30 am

Title: Raspberry PI Menu for Mame 4 All
Post by: mlenardon on January 22, 2014, 07:00:30 am

Is there a ready to go image for Mame 4 All Raspberry PI, it seems to run enough games at high speed but defaults to a text menu with various emulators instead of going to the Mame 4 All menu which would be cabinet ready.  It appears to support skin changes.  I am considering it for a SF II style cab as over clocked it will run most games up to MK 1 without issues overclocked.  There does not seem to be a lot of posts on the Raspberry PI.

Michael

Title: Re: Raspberry PI Menu for Mame 4 All
Post by: lkesteloot on January 23, 2014, 12:45:14 am

Hi Michael,

I've tried both PiMAME and RetroPie. I didn't like either menu. PiMAME has a simple text menu that launches mame4all directly (or advancemame). RetroPie has a more sophisticated menu (emulationstation) that also launches MAME. Neither uses the built-in MAME menu, which itself is pretty awful.

I've finally decided to make my own menu, which I did tonight using Python and the PyGame library. You pick a screenshot of a game and it runs it. Nice and simple for kids.

By the way I had a hard time getting games to run smoothly on the Pi using those two distros, but once I made my own Raspbian-based install and got mame4all-pi from the source, it all worked really well. https://code.google.com/p/mame4all-pi/