Experiementing with GroovyArcade on a Foxconn Barebones (Radeon HD 6310 GPU)

[P.H.U.]

This will be the first time I have ever attempted to install GroovyArcade. I have been using HyperSpin and I love it, but it would be nice to have something I can take with me anywhere.

I have one of these http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?sdtid=5915224&SID=d4cb68f2003f4da89aab7d387eeed9dd&AID=10440897&PID=1225267&Item=N82E16856119072&nm_mc=AFC-C8Junction&cm_mmc=AFC-C8Junction-_-cables-_-na-_-na&cm_sp= laying around. I used it previously for openELEC and it worked great, but I have replaced it with a Raspberry Pi which works almost as good. So it frees this up for some tinkering. It has a Radeon HD 6310 chipset on it, which by all accounts should work with the GroovyArcade/Calamity drivers (I hope). I want to hook it right to my Sega New Astro City but can't for the life of me find a DVI-to-VGA adapter anywhere and am too cheap to go out and buy one. For now, I am just going to install it on my LCD. At one time, I did install TinyXP on this with HyperSpin, but it was soooo sluggish. Likely because I only have 1GB of RAM installed in it. Hoping GroovyArcade will run better.

Anyone ever installed GroovyArcade on one of these? Let me know how it worked out if you did. Anyways, I'll document things as I go.

[P.H.U.]

Here are a couple of snaps during the installation testing of it running World Rally. As you can see, it is running at 100%, which bodes positively. I hope that it can run Tekken 3 smoothly. That is about as new and advanced of a MAME game that I wish to play on GroovyArcade. I wasn't able to get audio during the testing however. Hope that ends up working after the installation is complete. The monitor I am testing it on is a Dell U3011 (overkill, I know). Also, a snap of the unit with the cover off and no internal HDD installed. I managed to wipe out all the roms off the my HDD during my first installation attempt. So as I am copying over the roms again on another PC. I figure I would redo the installation with no HDD installed so that I don't repeat the same mistake. I'll scan for the roms later. Snapped a pic of it next to a CD so you can reference the size of this. I have a Sega New Astro City and I may even be able to nest this under the CP.

[P.H.U.]

Ran into a few issues:

• Splash screen bug, which I was able to correct after reading some previous posts.
• No audio - after installation, after selecting the correct audio device in setup, I still have no audio. Re-entering audio setup, I see that GroovyArcade reverts to Generic HD Audio (or something like that) instead of the onboard Realtek audio device.
• After scanning the HDD for roms, roms do not become selectable in the UI.

Please help.

[Calamity]

Hi P.H.U.

Your card should work fine with GroovyArcade. Windows is a different story and we don't have drivers that support HD 6xxx cards.

The audio problem is probably because your video card has audio support (hdmi) and it's picking it instead of the onboard audio. Search this forum for a solution because this problem has happened before, though I can't remember what the working solution was. Maybe you need to black list the HD Audio device.

Regarding the roms, are you possibly using .7z roms? If so, you need a newer AdvMenuPlus build than the one in the live cd. Check here: https://code.google.com/p/groovyarcade/downloads/list

(there's one from July 2013 that should work).

BTW I too have an U3011, nice monitor, a shame it doesn't support custom refresh rates at all.

[machyavel]

Hi,

Indeed, Ves solved a similar sound issue, check http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,130667.msg1353062.html#msg1353062

Hope it helps

[P.H.U.]

Great. Thanks guys. The audio fix looks doable for me. As for the roms not scanning, they were 7zip format. I am a little lost here with what do do to update to the latest AdvMenuPlus. Do I have to recompile a whole new ISO or do I update using commands from a terminal?

[Calamity]

Great. Thanks guys. The audio fix looks doable for me. As for the roms not scanning, they were 7zip format. I am a little lost here with what do do to update to the latest AdvMenuPlus. Do I have to recompile a whole new ISO or do I update using commands from a terminal?

You can use the update commands from GAsetup, provided you have a working network. As an alternative you can download the Advmenu binaries from the google code site and replace the ones in your current installation, as well as the corresponding advmenu.rc file. Explore the file system to locate the existing binary, you must use the same folder to place the new one. The configuration files are placed in /home/arcade/.advmenu or something similar iirc.