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MAME installation problems in Piplay
@albill (and others having this problem) - it may not be an installation error. What kind of setups do you guys have? Anyone using a touchscreen or unconventional way of getting sound?

Comment by mholgatem 9:22PM permalink
Rom Uploads
hmm... is your pi on a wireless or wired connection?

Comment by mholgatem 9:15PM permalink
Rom Uploads
I just tested with Firefox, IE, and Chrome. All 3 were able to upload both with drag 'n drop and dialogue box (test file was 25.2MB) without any problems. I'll ask Shea about the 'Server responded with 0 code', is there any other…

Comment by mholgatem 5:39PM permalink
piplay exits out when i open a menu
what type of controller are you using? does it happen with all of the emulators?

Comment by mholgatem 5:03PM permalink
40-pins GPIO and joysticks
@KFJ1972 - It's still the same thing, you just have extra pins to use. You need to edit the retrogame.c file (near the top is an array of pins an corresponding keystrokes to send when those pins get activated) You can connect as many joysticks …

Comment by mholgatem April 5 permalink
Keyboard not working in latests PiPlay release
Thanks! Glad it worked!

Comment by mholgatem April 5 permalink
Help with playing MAME Arcade ROMS ON PiPlay
@enlischdude - have you expanded your filesystem and set your memory split (via raspi-config)?

Comment by mholgatem April 5 permalink
Hiss on audio, but only when nothing is playing and the sound is active
nice EkDor! I didn't even know that was an option for the boot config

Comment by mholgatem April 5 permalink
Deleting roms
@enlischdude - If you have deleted the roms and then run the scraper, they should disappear, but if they don't, you can run the scraper from the command line with the following flag: python /home/pi/pimame/pimame-menu/scraper/scrape-script.py …

Comment by mholgatem April 5 permalink
Keyboard not working in latests PiPlay release
@Imgpoz - the config for the piplay controls is located at /home/pi/pimame/pimame-menu/controller.yaml

Comment by mholgatem April 4 permalink
MAME installation problems in Piplay
@tgonzalez, @gamdeano - The "Fatal Python error (pygame parachute) segmentation fault" usually means that pygame is not correctly installed. I've never had anyone run into this until today (3 people today). First off, I recommend usin…

Comment by mholgatem April 4 permalink
Hiss on audio, but only when nothing is playing and the sound is active
@EkDor - it's mostly (but not completely) the 3.5 audio output that causes the noise. The reason that you don't hear it in terminal, is that it automatically turns off the audio until it is needed. The way that PiPlay works (more specifica…

Comment by mholgatem April 4 permalink
Bugs in 8 beta 9
mame4all is an exception to the controller setup utility. it has it's own built-in controller setup. When you run a game, you need to press 'tab', then you can set up controls.

Comment by mholgatem April 4 permalink
Help with playing MAME Arcade ROMS ON PiPlay
@englischdude - have you verified your roms using the clrmamepro utility?

Comment by mholgatem April 4 permalink
won't play my roms
@eddy761 - ok, then that means that pygame didn't get installed correctly. pygame is a python library that we use pretty extensively. You may need to do a clean install of piplay to fix this, but before you do, give this a shot:in the command …

Comment by mholgatem April 4 permalink
won't play my roms
everything above 'have a nice day :)' can be ignored. 'fatal python error: (pygame parachute) segmentation fault' typically means that pygame is not install correctly. in command line, type the following: python import pygame …

Comment by mholgatem April 3 permalink
Questions about emulators
@Sukerbole - cool, glad you were able to get it working!

Comment by mholgatem April 3 permalink
Keyboard not working in latests PiPlay release
@TheStrayMongrel - you can do this in command line to get the updated version of the formatter: wget -O /home/pi/pimame/controller-setup/formatters/advmame.py https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mholgatem/controller-setup/master/formatters/advmame.py

Comment by mholgatem April 3 permalink
Keyboard not working in latests PiPlay release
@beta_test, yes, it's true. that is how the controller setup tool works. You can modify the formatter itself though ->/home/pi/pimame/controller-setup/formatters/advmame.py

Comment by mholgatem April 3 permalink
Feature Requests: What do you want to see in PiPlay?
@EkDor - A lot of the rotation and things would be pretty hard for us to manage on a per user/game basis. By user theming, do you mean creating a theme in piplay, or on the forums? If you mean in piplay, then YOU CAN! It has always been my hope tha…

Comment by mholgatem April 3 permalink
New update IS HERE! .8BETA9!
@CrazyFamily - yeah, you are right. I have started cobbling together a new guide and some new FAQ's. Things have just been changing so fast with everything about piplay lately though. Shea and I feel like we have finally hit a milestone with th…

Comment by mholgatem April 3 permalink
New update IS HERE! .8BETA9!
@wirthjp - in your .profile, that last section (the last 8 lines) shouldn't be there. just delete the lines that say if [ $DISPLAY == ""] && [ $SSH_CLIENT == ""] && [ $SSH_TTY ==""]; then fi if [ …

Comment by mholgatem April 3 permalink
Joystick?
@pimann2000 - yes, not only is this possible, this is the way that I recommend everyone connect. Just look up adafruit's retrogame utility. It will convert gpio button presses into keystrokes and it runs in the background. You can also do a sea…

Comment by mholgatem April 2 permalink
Keyboard not working in latests PiPlay release
hmm, that's weird. it looks like some updates didn't go through for the advmame formatter. basically, where it says 'keyboard[0,return]' it should say 'keyboard[0,enter]' for right now, if you just go into /home/pi/.ad…

Comment by mholgatem April 2 permalink
Keyboard not working in latests PiPlay release
@TheStrayMongrel - yeah, most (if not all) of the config files were overwritten, that should fix it for you. let me know if you keep having problems though

Comment by mholgatem April 2 permalink
Questions about emulators
@Sukerbole - The error has come up with lots of different resolutions. In the past, it has almost always been fixed by specifying a fixed resolution in boot/config

Comment by mholgatem April 2 permalink
Questions about emulators
well, you can try changing some of the settings in /home/pi/.fceux/fceux.cfg. possibly: SDL.KeepRatio SDL.PAL (this should be automatic though) SDL.XResolution, YResolution (I think these get rewritten when fceux gets run) SDL.XScale, YScale

Comment by mholgatem April 2 permalink
Questions about emulators
@Sukerbole - sorry, I edited my last post for you. I didn't see that you had posted about your connection until after I replied.

Comment by mholgatem April 2 permalink
Questions about emulators
@Freddy - yes, this can be changed. I'll send a not to Shea, but the roms can be zipped as well, it really makes no difference.

Comment by mholgatem April 2 permalink
Questions about emulators
@Sukerbole - don't set the hdmi_drive=1 if you are using just straight hdmi (no converter) it will disable hdmi audio. For you, your /boot/config.txt should be something like this hdmi_force_hotplug=1 hdmi_drive=2 hdmi_group=2 hdmi_mode=16 …

Comment by mholgatem April 2 permalink

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