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General / Re: Attract Mode now available within RetroPie - in Experimental - Nov 22nd

« on: November 22, 2016, 05:52:42 PM »

very cool!

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General / Re: BUG:AM 2.1.0 in Settings menu it jumps a setting..?

« on: November 21, 2016, 10:52:50 PM »

This sounds familiar to me. I believe it is fixed in 2.2.

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Announcements / Re: Version 2.2.0 Released

« on: November 21, 2016, 10:31:49 PM »

OS X package is now updated to 2.2 on the download page

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Announcements / Re: Version 2.2.0 Released

« on: November 21, 2016, 10:31:14 PM »

Having a hell of a time trying to get mmal to work still just following the wiki. For those who have this working, do you get a result when you run ffmpeg -codecs | grep mmal ? Thats something that seemed needed previously but I cannot get it to show up with --enabled-shared on. And no matter what I do and recompiling Attractmode each time, I can't get MMAL to show up on the decoder menu.  Is there any dependencies that might not be listed or.. I don't know, things I should remove? This is an oldish setup (Everything is up to date, but its seen endless amounts of tweaking and testing and package removal and reinstallation so I imagine there could be something small and stupid I'm missing)

Make sure you have removed any previous ffmpeg or libav packages you may have installed previously before building ffmpeg yourself.  It might be that you have a conflicting ffmpeg package that attractmode is linking to

To confirm what ffmpeg attract-mode is getting, run

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attract --version and compare the version of avcodec against the version of ffmpeg that you are compiling with mmal enabled

hope this helps

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General / Re: Raspberry Pi Zero, 1, 2, 3 AttractMode + Retroarch images (based on buildroot)

« on: November 21, 2016, 10:22:40 PM »

great work! I'll add a link to the download page so people can find this....

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General / Re: MAME - Attract Mode showing both parent and update roms

« on: November 11, 2016, 01:22:39 PM »

If I have one or more filters how do I choose which one to use?

Set a key or button to bring up the "Filters Menu" in Configure-->Controls-->Filters Menu.

You can also map keys to the "Previous Filter" and "Next Filter" commands and use those keys to cycle through the filters

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General / Re: Snaps and grid theme trouble

« on: November 11, 2016, 01:21:22 PM »

I'm not sure I understand the problem.  Is it that you don't want there to be a selector moving in the grid?  (so instead of a selector moving over the snaps that are onscreen already, you want the selection locked in one position and for each movement to move the entire list around?)

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General / Re: Totally NO WAY to scrape mame rom's real names ( only zip names here )

« on: November 11, 2016, 01:15:34 PM »

I think this is because on the pi people are using runcommand instead of mame directly.  By default when you run "Generate romlist" for mame in attract-mode, it tries to run the configured emulator with the "-listxml" parameter, (so "mame -listxml") to get full game names.  I expect this won't work with runcommand configured.

As a workaround, you can generate a mame xml file yourself outside of the frontend with the command:

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mame -listxml > mame.xml

Then in the frontend's emulator configuration, put the full path to that mame.xml file into the "Additional Import File(s)" field.  Attract-mode should then pick it up and use it to replace the zipfile names with the proper names when you run "Generate romlist"

I hope this helps

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General / Re: Updtae AM on windows

« on: November 11, 2016, 01:08:03 PM »

Please post the error message that you are getting when you try to build the windows exe.

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Announcements / Re: Version 2.2.0 Released

« on: November 11, 2016, 01:03:03 PM »

# Changelog #

## Commits from v2.1.0 to v2.2.0

### Andrew Mickelson (36 commits)

* Bump to v2.2.0
* Issue #250 - Fix improper handling of "Upos" joystick axis
* Added scraping of game overview text from thegamesdb.net
* Added configure option to disable scraping of mamedb.com
* Fixed "Toggle Layout" when used on the displays menu layout
* Added layout options configuration for 'Displays Menu' layout
* [rpi] Issue #266 - Fix for keypresses being cached w/ sfml-pi build (non-X11)
* Added ability to set image origin in scripts (for centre rotations etc)
* Added customized layouts for the diplays menu/system selection menu
* Issue #264 - fixed SWF crash when unimplemented actionscript constant types encountered
* Added a no border window mode
* Issue #258 - Windows 10 v.1607 task bar fix (Fullscreen Mode)
* Limit the squirrel script functions available when gathering plugin descriptions
* Added an "RGB Movie" mode to the screensaver
* Updated the "Keyboard Search" plugin so "Back" clears the current search
* [linux] Fixed potential hang when waiting for emulator exit
* Issue #262 - Fixed sound volume setting after game return
* Added ability to generate multi-emulator romlists to the configuration interface.
* Misc. fixes to internationalization, updated italian translation
* Minor changes to mutex usage in media player
* Added ability to set a custom executable and arguments for each game
* Added an "Edit Game" action
* Fixed jumping cursor bug when using keyboard to edit
* Refactor of thegamesdb_scraper()
* Updates to the italian translation (P. Ghezzo)
* Fix cancel using the back button during scraping
* Added basic ability to edit text using a control pad (in config mode)
* [rpi] Default to "Fill Screen Mode" on the Raspberry Pi
* [linux] fix focus issues with exit hotkeys and "fullscreen mode"
* Issue #246 - Added ability to import mame listsoftware format xml
* Issue #247 - fixed the "Show in cycle" display setting
* Fixed memory leak when video frames are dropped
* Issue #245 - fixed fade module getting stuck when no image found
* [rpi] Issue #236 - Initial addition of MMAL video decoder support
* Issue #231 - revert to not randomizing artwork
* Issue #232 - fixed scraping of random system artworks
* Added Italian translation (author: P. Ghezzo)

### Dave Wongillies (1 commits)

* Minor changes to Debian packaging

### Jeffrey Clark (1 commits)

* osx package: work around libhfs dmg bug

### Rob Loach (1 commits)

* Add Dolphin configuration

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Announcements / Version 2.2.0 Released

« on: November 11, 2016, 01:00:16 PM »

SO here we go with another version of Attract-Mode!  Highlights include the ability to set custom layouts for the "displays menu"/Systems menu (finally), a new "edit game" command for tweaking game information (including the ability to customize the launch commandline on a per-game basis), mmal hardware accelerated video on the Rasberry Pi, an italian translation, various bug fixes and much more.

Full changelog is posted below, and downloads are available here: http://attractmode.org/download.html

[edit: OS X binary now posted]

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Announcements / Re: Version 2.1.0 Released

« on: November 10, 2016, 11:18:56 PM »

Hi, how do I get the Video Decoder options on RPi3?

I have installed ffmeg with mmal according to these instructions:
https://nwgat.ninja/quick-easy-compiling-mpv-for-raspberry-pi/

and compiled latest AM from source but I still can only select software.

Kind regards
Carl

What worked for me was to build FFmpeg w/mmal on my RPi3 using the following commands :

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git clone git://source.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.git
cd ffmpeg

./configure --enable-mmal --disable-debug --enable-memalign-hack --enable-shared
make -j4
sudo make install

then build attractmode from source....

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General / Re: New Source Code Strikes Gold!

« on: November 07, 2016, 11:49:21 PM »

I'm not sure what is going on with the buildbot... we'll have to track down h0tw1r3 to see if he can figure out how to fix it.

My plan is to get version 2.2 with these new features and more out in the next few days...

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Announcements / Re: Version 2.1.0 Released

« on: November 07, 2016, 11:41:05 PM »

New version of attractmode is imminent... the full list of changes that it will include is available here: https://github.com/mickelson/attract/compare/v2.1.0...master

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Scripting / Re: AM's sfml implementation?

« on: November 02, 2016, 11:14:54 PM »

Hey there, it actually looks pretty straight forward... in fact I 've got it implemented now for the next version jst looking at it