Any speedups that could be made to boot time?

I'm waiting on a Daphne port myself (although I suspect the RPI might not be up to the task)

Map the keys in all the emulators to use the MAME keyboard keys. I haven't had time to play with all the emulators but I just figured out how to map them for SNES9x.

Mapping all keys to MAME keys is def a high priority for me. Thanks!

hello, i am new here... thank you for that very nice SD-Image!!!

i would like to see stella (Atari 2600 emulator), vice-emu (v2.4, c64 emulator), scummvm (v1.5.x), spec256 (ZX Spectrum emulator)...
as well integrated in the SD-image and in the game-menu...
... that would be great.

Xbox 360 controller support would be awesome (see xboxdrv)

Integrate some kind of GPIO driver. Something like

https://github.com/mmoller2k/pikeyd

I don't think the raspberry pi has the power needed to emulate the PS2 or gamecube unfortunately.

I would *love* to see the ILI9325 TFT driver incorporated into the build. I think this is a super cool project http://spritesmods.com/?art=rpi_arcade and he's posted a kernel patch, but I still have not been successful in setting up to cross compile a kernel. I'm just more of a hardware guy.

Hey thanks for that link, now if I can just find time to give it a try.

Do you know if that supports the ILI9325? IIRC this is a 320x240 display, while a lot of the smaller TFTs are lower resolution.

hi, i found an SD image for RPi, where vice-emu 2.3.21 is running very well on a RPi.
Ok, you have to setup the options carefully, but overall it works with 100% speed and 50fps with sound.
my wishes are now... i would like to see vic-emu also in your PiMAME image.
please, can you add vice as well?
... pleeeeeaas...!

- you have to use SDL as sound output, all others will drop the speed down to under 20%.
- floppy disk emulator is not performant, during loading, the fps goes down to 5fps, so it is better to use the option inject instead of emulate the drive - for the games that don't use copy-protection and special loader it is the fastest option to get games into the memory to run.
when you use these options, you can have lot of fun at 100%speed and 50fps and sound

Hi, SSilver2k2.

I'm actually making a cabinet with the raspberry and your software (Look amazing and i think you are great).
Today i see a great new.
PiFBA si announced!!!
I'm a D&D tower of doom fan. Is it possible to include this one in next versions of pimame?
Thanks very much, crack!!

how i installed vice2.3.21-1 on my PiMAME image...
download the package from
"http://www.areascout.at/vice-emu-rpi-2.3.21.zip"
extract it and install it with
"sudo dpkg --install vice_2.3.21-1_armhf.deb"
start it with
"x64"
(i have an xBox360USB joystick connected to my RPi, so i start it with "sudo xboxdrv -s -d & x64")

hit F12-key to get setting menu to see.
in "Settings management ->" i restore everything to defaults as basis.
"Sound settings ->" i changed the "Output driver ->" to "SDL" and "Frequency" to "22050 Hz"
"Machine settings ->","Joystick settings ->", "Joystick device in port 2 ->" to "Joystick" (i have a joystick connected to my RPi)
(port 2 is a less problematic port - c64 users know what i mean)
i setup the both "Joystick 1/2 mappings ->" to the same keys, for easier handling at switching between port 1 and 2.
disable "Allow keyset joystick", otherwise the joystick is not working on RPi.

to be able to easily swap the joystick between port 2 and 1 and back, i map a shortcut to the menu item "Swap joystick ports"
(mark the item you want to make a shortcut for with the ">" in front of, and hit M-key, then within 5 seconds, you can assign any keyboard key or an joystick button to be mapped for that shortcut - this is very very handy!)
i mapped also a shortcut key to the menu items
"Reset ->", "Hard";
"Autostart image";
"Drive ->", "Attach disk image to drive 8";
"Virtual Keyboard";

because of performance problems in my Pi, i disabled the option
"Drive ->", "True drive emulation",
"Drive ->", "Drive 8 settings ->", "Drive 8 idle method" to "Skip cycles",
"Drive ->", "Drive 8 settings ->", "Drive 8 parallel cable" to "Standard" and
"Drive ->", "Autostart settings ->", "Autostart PRG mode" to "Inject",
otherwise during 1541 disk io the speed slows down to a 10'th of a real 1541 drive and this is not acceptable. (maybe not all options are needed, but most games will load very quick)
i like to see the speed of the emulator, so i enabled the option "Statusbar"
as last, i save all settings under the "Settings management"
and "Quit emulator"

(maybe you have to change the permission of the ~/.vice folder and its included files, to be able to save all changes)


... ooohhh i love to play good old school games like "Space Taxi"
... hahahaha... have fun... :D

Please allow us to map an exit button so we can return to the frontend without pressing escape. ideally an ability to map combo buttons to exit a rom without using the ESC key.

hello is it possible to run the emulator Daphne on the PI ? thank you

Request: integration of Picodrive into Pimame: http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=78&t=53061

Runs segacd/megacd at full speed!

Scrooge: I'll look into picodrive and see how well it works :)

I second pikeyd

Would it be possible Unreal Speccy Portable - Sinclair ZX Spectrum?

Thanks

Don't have my system with me but is pygame included in the system? Write a couple of scripts. First script would setup a joystick and the second would be a modification to the initial menu to accept joystick control.

please disable screensaver on menu of PiMAME.
e.g. by putting "setterm -blank 0" to "rc.loca"l file. as second last command.

A universal 'controller configuration' tool would be really helpful.

Digging around for configuration files is quite cumbersome. I'm still not sure how to configure the NES emulator for my Xbox 360 controller.

Would be great to have a tool where you just picked a system and it would prompt you to press left, right, up, down, A, B, etc on your controller. And boom. Everything is assigned.

Good Idea beta_tester. I'll add a button to the main page for that.

hi all , just few words about cabrio-fe (cabrio-fe.org) ...







* Compilation OK (probleme with video.c but don't failed)

* Launch OK (you have to install somme lib or error on launch)

* Snap OK / Rotation background KO / wheel OK / Launching Game OK

See you ... :)

@gmello

hey, actually it s depend of the number of roms. cabrio work with xml (=> static), so more long is the file more long the charging is during :)

i'm working on it. Actually for the compilation i created a fork just for me wich is compiling with some warning : TuxBrio.

when i ll have the time to do it i'll make a video + tuto on DEADPOOL ARCADE REALISATION and on a new thread in this forum :)


see you :)