Yep, ArchLinux based, built for a RPi B+ that i received yesterday :p


* What it isn’t (sorry)
– an official PiPlay image
– a full desktop environment install.
– an image that will fullfill all your needs
– wifi friendly (although a few tools are installed, you’ll have to DIY the Archway. check out their incredible wiki)
– tested with older RPi
– THE super-extra-light-system. i just installed whatever i wanted to 😀
– (Note : devtools and lots of usefull stuff installed)
– the beginning of an alternate image disk that will pop up at each piplay version.
– 42

* What it is :
– an early first shot, for the fun of playing with the new Pi
– a mostly configured and ready to run archlinux based Piplay (e.g: o/c & mem split configured)
– piplay is very incomplete (a few emulators, no webui, main menu only, …)
– the build is PICADE centered (sorry ^^)
– (Note: please do NOT use picade-piplay tool/script or it will mess up things while overwriting various files with ones made for a Debian based Piplay)
– emulators from piplay : dgen-sdl-1.32, fba, mame4all-pi, pcsx_rearmed, pisnes
– (Note : all of those preconfigured ; mame4all, NeoGeo(fba), pisnes tested)
– emulators from arch (absolutely unconfigured, those are there so that you can fool around with them as you please) : dgen-sdl 1.32-4, mednafen 0.9.36.2-1, snes9x 1.53-8, stella 4.0-1, vice 2.4-6, … and that’s it if i’m not mistaken.



* Notes
I probably have forgotten various points. Oh, well…

Most of the process was easy thanks to http://archlinuxarm.org/platforms/armv6/raspberry-pi image file.

Most “troubles” i had were about pygame (build from source as a last resort) and python2 /vs/ python3 (piplay being python2 and default in arch is python3 – came up with a super-extra-ugly hack here, there’s just no faster one : a symlink).

I tried to make the image file 4GB frienly (targetting 3,9GB — including 1.3GB free for rootfs) from my 16GB card but i’m unsure i made it right…
In the worst case it should work with any card bigger than 4GB.


Note to the Piplay team : terminal is spammed with « libpng warning : iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile », unsure why.

Hope you’ll enjoy this build 🙂


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edit:
~1.2GB download here : https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B3QhUcFHXJRgb1F2Q0FDS1BiVnc&usp=drive_web

Usefull info:
– uncompress
$ tar xzf picade-piplay-archlinux.dd.img.gz
– push it to sdcard, try
$ sudo dd if=picade-piplay-archlinux.dd.img of=/dev/XXXXX bs=1M
Change bs to lower value in case of failure (e.g: bs=4k)
– ethernet is dhcp
– sshd running
– user pi is sudoer, password is raspberry ; you may want to disable root account (root/root btw).
– to change menu items :
$ nano piplay/pimame-menu/config.yaml
– if you want to use the “Roms – Load from NFS” menu item
$ nano bin/nfs_roms
edit SERV (ip), DVOL (nfs export) and DIR (path/to/folder) items, then mount the nfs share (using the now configured menu item), and create roms dirs if needed :
$ roms_dir=/home/pi/pimame/roms
$ cd $roms_dir
$ for rep in 2600 advmame gb gba genesis gg mame4all neogeo nes ngpc pifba psx scummvm sms snes tg16 c64; do
$ if [ ! -d $rep ]; then mkdir -p $roms_dir/$rep && echo "[info] fix ok [$roms_dir/$rep]"; fi
$ done, push you roms in there and you’re done.
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