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Title: iPodMame
Post by: mahuti on March 08, 2006, 03:31:15 pm

http://ipodlinux.org/Ipodmame

See the link. Nuff said.

Title: Re: iPodMame
Post by: deadkenndys1105 on March 08, 2006, 03:35:11 pm

I was going to get any mp3 player that wasnt a i-pod but I this sparked my mind.

Title: Re: iPodMame
Post by: PCtech on March 08, 2006, 03:53:05 pm

Quote from: deadkenndys1105 on March 08, 2006, 03:35:11 pm

I was going to get any mp3 player that wasnt a i-pod but I this sparked my mind.

Might want to have it "spark" again...looks like it messed up your english... ;D

Cool idea w/ the IPOD...now I just have to figure out where to mount the trackball  :D

Title: Re: iPodMame
Post by: DrumAnBass on March 08, 2006, 05:14:45 pm

And the world's smallest functioning Mame cab:

http://www.umlautllama.com/gallery/nanomame

Title: Re: iPodMame
Post by: NY_in_TX on March 08, 2006, 09:41:34 pm

no red balltop?   ;D

dude, that rulez

Title: Re: iPodMame
Post by: SirPoonga on March 09, 2006, 03:41:32 pm

Quote from: NY_in_TX on March 08, 2006, 09:41:34 pm

no red balltop?

You could paint the center of the clickwheel red...

Title: Re: iPodMame
Post by: koolmoecraig on March 09, 2006, 03:45:46 pm

oops.

Title: Re: iPodMame
Post by: markrvp on March 09, 2006, 03:59:21 pm

When someone here gets this up and working on their iPod, could you please give a step-by-step on how to make it work?  The links seem to assume you already have a good knowlege of ipodlinux and compiling experience.

Thanks.

Title: Re: iPodMame
Post by: sc1103 on March 09, 2006, 04:03:14 pm

Quote from: markrvp on March 09, 2006, 03:59:21 pm

When someone here gets this up and working on their iPod, could you please give a step-by-step on how to make it work?  The links seem to assume you already have a good knowlege of ipodlinux and compiling experience.

Thanks.

Right now I have IpodLinux running on my dying 3G iPod.  I can update to the newest kernel and use their nightly builds, so hopefully if its been thrown in I can give you an idea of how to do this.  I probably wont be able to look at it until this weekend-finishing up a couple last college apps  :P

Title: Re: iPodMame
Post by: SirPoonga on March 09, 2006, 04:30:55 pm

Quote from: markrvp on March 09, 2006, 03:59:21 pm

When someone here gets this up and working on their iPod, could you please give a step-by-step on how to make it work?  The links seem to assume you already have a good knowlege of ipodlinux and compiling experience.

Thanks.

What ipod do you have?  Some are easier than others.

The easiest thing to do is use floydzilla or viPodzilla installers.  Once installed you follow the directions on the ipodmame wiki.  Bsically mount your ipod, copy the ipodmame folder where needed, create the .sh file (linux version of bat files, essentially), start your ipod up into linux and start the sh.

I know people have been having issues with linux on the ipod.  Many hoops to jump through to get it to work.  I got it to work for a little bit on mine.  I might try again now.  I see floydzilla has been much improved since I last used it.

The cool thing about ipod linux is that the old firmware is there, the ipod is dual booted.  You have to like hold the menu key or turn hold lock on or something to boot into the non-default firmware.

Title: Re: iPodMame
Post by: RayB on March 09, 2006, 04:46:40 pm

What kind of frame-rate does this thing get?

Title: Re: iPodMame
Post by: Wetworks on March 09, 2006, 05:16:03 pm

I last heard it was running at about 70% with no sound...That's running PacMan..
I need sound and 100% so I will be waiting to buy my Ipod and it works better on the larger screen Ipods as it doesn't have to resize the screen image to fit .

Title: Re: iPodMame
Post by: DrumAnBass on March 09, 2006, 08:43:52 pm

I wonder if it will work with the video output of a video ipod?

And I wonder how hard it would be to build some kind of adaptor for the docking connector to interface it with a real arcade joystick...

Sorry; getting ahead of myself ;-)

Title: Re: iPodMame
Post by: Dav on March 09, 2006, 11:29:15 pm

If anyone's using this I'm curious if the roms here will run.


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