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General / Re: Totally NO WAY to scrape mame rom's real names ( only zip names here )
« on: November 08, 2016, 03:52:03 PM »
Have you created a Mame.xml file and added it to the emulator's settings in Attract Mode?
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General / Re: Raspberry Pi Image for Pi 2 and Pi 3
« on: November 08, 2016, 10:15:04 AM »
Just exit to the command prompt and type (or copy/paste) the commands that were posted by progets in the post right before yours. Detailed instructions can also be found here: https://github.com/mickelson/attract/wiki/Compiling-on-the-Raspberry-Pi-%28Raspbian-Jessie%29
Note that if you are on a raspberry pi 2 or 3, you can add "-j4" to the lines that contain "make" to speed it up a lot.
Note that if you are on a raspberry pi 2 or 3, you can add "-j4" to the lines that contain "make" to speed it up a lot.
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General / Re: Raspberry Pi Image for Pi 2 and Pi 3
« on: November 04, 2016, 10:38:36 AM »
Last night some changes were pushed to Attract Mode's source code that fix the cached keypress issue. Maybe we can get a v.6 image that incorporates the fixes.
I went ahead and re-compiled Attract Mode from the update source code and it seems to be working great. My issues playing some of the videos have also disappeared.
I went ahead and re-compiled Attract Mode from the update source code and it seems to be working great. My issues playing some of the videos have also disappeared.
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General / Re: Raspberry Pi Image for Pi 2 and Pi 3
« on: November 03, 2016, 09:04:18 AM »
If that doesn't fix it, you can schedule your pi to reboot every day at 7:00 am (or whenever you want)...
From the prompt type:
sudo su
crontab -e
Then add this to the end of the file:
0 7 * * * reboot
Then exit and save it.
You might also want to disable the screen saver and see if your pi survives longer without crashing to the prompt. If it continues to crash with the screen saver off, it's probably not being caused by a bad video file. If it still crashes, it's something else - like a memory leak.
From the prompt type:
sudo su
crontab -e
Then add this to the end of the file:
0 7 * * * reboot
Then exit and save it.
You might also want to disable the screen saver and see if your pi survives longer without crashing to the prompt. If it continues to crash with the screen saver off, it's probably not being caused by a bad video file. If it still crashes, it's something else - like a memory leak.
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General / Re: Raspberry Pi Image for Pi 2 and Pi 3
« on: November 03, 2016, 08:36:07 AM »I know why I wanted to upgrade was that v2 crashes after a period of time. If you leave it running the screensaver starts by showing the snaps from your roms. If i leave it going over night it it at the prompt when i get up.So I finally had a little time to get my cabinet up and running. It's using v.2 and I only have a 60 ROMS on it. Mine occasionally ends up at the prompt in the morning. One of my roms has a video preview file that causes Attract Mode to crash. I've seen other threads here referring to certain video files crashing Attract Mode. I haven't gotten around to removing the offending file, but I know which one it is because when I scroll through the games it crashes robospin every single time I stop on that game.
The error that shows is "xinit: connection to X server lost
I might have to swap out the ipac for a controller if I can't figure this out.
Any ideas?
So perhaps the screen saver is hitting a video file that is crashing Attract Mode. It might not be noticeable in later builds that have better/hardware accelerated decoding enabled.
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General / Re: Raspberry Pi Image for Pi 2 and Pi 3
« on: October 17, 2016, 09:28:17 PM »
I won't be able to work on mine until this weekend, but I was going to try to manually upgrade Attract Mode to the latest version. If that doesn't work, I'll do a fresh install and set it up from scratch without using these images.
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General / Re: Raspberry Pi Image for Pi 2 and Pi 3
« on: October 16, 2016, 07:08:29 PM »
Probably not a coincidence. Hopefully Floob can use this info to fix the newer versions. Now my v0.2 isn't downloading any preview videos (worked fine on my other builds). It's downloading all the other images correctly when I run the scraper. Not sure why the videos aren't downloading... I did enable video downloading in the scraper settings. Any ideas?
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General / Re: Raspberry Pi Image for Pi 2 and Pi 3
« on: October 16, 2016, 08:12:47 AM »
V.02 doesn't seem to have the problem. I made a fresh copy of it, added a few ROMS, and the games exit properly. I only tested a few, but it's working great. Will stick with this one for now.
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General / Re: Raspberry Pi Image for Pi 2 and Pi 3
« on: October 16, 2016, 06:52:04 AM »
I booted up my v.04 card exited attract mode. From the command line I restarted it using "xinit attract". Looks like it didn't solve the problem. After exiting a MAME game the "Exit Attract Mode" screen pops up almost instantly - probably because my MAME exit button is ESC.
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General / Re: Raspberry Pi Image for Pi 2 and Pi 3
« on: October 15, 2016, 04:36:45 PM »
Which previous versions didn't have this issue? I was using v5 (attract mode 2.1) and just now I threw v4 (which has Attract Mode 2.0) on an SD card, but it had the same problem.
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General / Re: Raspberry Pi Image for Pi 2 and Pi 3
« on: October 15, 2016, 08:27:16 AM »
There is currently an open bug report here: https://github.com/mickelson/attract/issues/266 that refers to games restarting immediately after exiting. But I suspect that it's just key presses being passed to attract mode after the game exits.
There are a couple other threads here that reference this problem and apparently there are numerous reports on the Attract Mode facebook group. I've tried using different window settings (fill screen / full screen) with no improvement. I've also tried setting input_poll_type_behavior to 0, 1, and 2 in the retroarch.cfg file. No improvements yet.
Users report that the problem doesn't exist with emulationstation, so the problem looks like it's in Attract Mode.
There are a couple other threads here that reference this problem and apparently there are numerous reports on the Attract Mode facebook group. I've tried using different window settings (fill screen / full screen) with no improvement. I've also tried setting input_poll_type_behavior to 0, 1, and 2 in the retroarch.cfg file. No improvements yet.
Users report that the problem doesn't exist with emulationstation, so the problem looks like it's in Attract Mode.
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General / Re: Raspberry Pi Image for Pi 2 and Pi 3
« on: October 14, 2016, 09:56:28 PM »
I think I have a similar issue as matthewj. I'm on a pi3 using your image. I'm also using keyboard input and ESC is set to exit the game. So pressing ESC will exit the game, but then it goes back to AM the game instantly relaunches. Or sometimes it brings up the exit prompt for attract mode.
In general it seems like key presses are being passed to attract mode when I exit mame-libretro. Sometimes after returning to attract mode it scrolls up and down the list of games.
Any help would be appreciated because it's pretty unusable at this point.
In general it seems like key presses are being passed to attract mode when I exit mame-libretro. Sometimes after returning to attract mode it scrolls up and down the list of games.
Any help would be appreciated because it's pretty unusable at this point.
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