how to get 0.8 (beta 8) on a newly set up raspian sd card?
  • oggie
    I know there's an installer for version 0.7, but how do I get beta 0.8 onto a newly set up SD card?
  • beta_tester
    i wrote it already, but its post is digged very deep...

    download and install Raspbian (or NOOBS + Raspbian) from here
    http://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/

    once you have a running Raspbian system, boot into and log in to console.

    if you are not using an uk-english keyboard, you should fist change the language settings and the keyboard layout, by using
    sudo raspi-config
    see http://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/configuration/raspi-config.md
    there you also should expand the filesystem to the whole available size of SD card
    be sure your RPi boots always straight into the console.
    NOT into GUI desktop or Scratch.

    then update everything:
    sudo apt-get update
    sudo apt-get -y upgrade
    sudo apt-get -y dist-upgrade
    sudo apt-get -y --purge autoremove
    sudo apt-get -y autoclean
    sudo reboot
    (take long time to finish)

    download and run the install script:
    wget http://pimame.org/installer.sh
    bash installer.sh
    mkdir -p /home/pi/pimame/roms/zxspectrum
    touch /home/pi/pimame/config/piplay-sound.state
    sudo reboot
    (takes long time to finish)
  • oggie
    Great info. It worked perfectly.
  • xEnt22
    thanks for that beta_tester, i had to set raspbian to boot into console mode though and not the desktop.

    question - i tried out playstation and as soon as i clicked that, it went to a black console screen, then reloaded piplay in a different resolution, but went back to the main pi play screen. i then clicked playstation again and it just kept looping back into piplay without giving me an option to choose rom.

    i then tried SNES and loaded a game - mario brothers 1/2/3 combo it allowed me to select the game, but graphics went all crazy and unplayable. any ideas? im 100% new to piplay thanks.
  • beta_tester
    huh, when RPi boots straight into the desktop and install PiPLAY from inside the desktop, i never tried... i always boot into the console.

    EDIT:
    if you do not use a new RaspberryPi2, you can try to use the last good working old kernel for PiPLAY
    sudo SKIP_BACKUP=1 rpi-update f74b92120e0d469fc5c2dc85b2b5718d877e1cbb
    ... that will fix some black screen issues.
    but it is only a workarounf for the old RPi's until an updated SDL library is prepared for PiPLAY.
    see http://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=66&t=99323&p=695418
  • Freddy
    I followed this guide and the PiPlay web ui is not booting up. Any one else with this issue?

    The error I get is:

    Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "app.py", line 5, in
    from flask.ext.sqlalchemy import SQLAlchemy
    File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/flask/exthook.py", line 87, in load_module
    raise ImportError('No module named %s' % fullname)
    ImportError: No module named flask.ext.sqlalchemy
  • beta_tester
    you can give the brand new PiPLAY 0.8 beta 8 image a try... it is just released
    http://sourceforge.net/projects/pimame/
  • Freddy
    Thank you beta_tester. The web gui is working with the new image.
  • beta_tester
    i am not the maker of PiPLAY image... so don't thank me :)
    you should thank SSilver2k2, mholgatem, ...
  • Freddy
    Yes ofc!
    They are doing a splendid job on developing PIPLAY
    But thanks for the heads up about the image ;)
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