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General / KeyBoard Focus/Launch Menu Retropie

« on: January 16, 2017, 11:15:43 AM »

Hi All,

I was wondering if anyone has this issue (Running latest version on RetroPi on RPi3 with Attract 2.2.1):

When I first boot, and then say go to a MAME game, I hit enter to launch game, and since I have the Launch menu enabled, I am able to hit a key before the game starts, and then choose an emulator or change launching parameters.  However, I can ONLY do this once, upon first boot.  Once the game launches, and say I then exit, going back to launch the game, NO LONGER allows me to have keyboard control in order to control the Launch menu.  I guess something happens after the game launches, and the keyboard no longer works on the Launch menu.  If I reboot, I am able to control the launch menu ONCE, but again, if I exit, and then go back in, the keyboard no longer works again on the launch menu.  The games and everything work fine, it is just the launch menu that only seems to work ONCE after a boot.

This is the same behaviour in every emulator....tried mame, N64, GA, GBC, GBA etc...same behaviour.

Anyone else have this issue?  Ideas?  Attract mode is set to full screen....it is as if it is loosing focus somehow after you launch a game once....

Hope I am explaining the issue correctly....

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General / Put Monitor to Sleep Rpi3

« on: January 12, 2017, 02:16:57 PM »

Hi All,

I was wondering if it is possible on Rpi3 to have a screensaver, that after some time, puts the monitor to sleep.  So for example, say after sometime, use the regular screensaver (like random videos) but after some extended time, put the monitor to sleep.

Through Emulation Station, the screensaver can be blank, but this DOES NOT turn off the backlight, just shows a blank screen. 

Anyone know how to do this?

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General / Re: Raspberry Pi Image for Pi 2 and Pi 3: CACHED KEY Press Fixed!

« on: January 10, 2017, 08:45:26 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.

Guys, first post here, but the cached key press key can be fixed, in the latest version of Attract mode, and the latest version of Retro-Pi....

The problem with this was in sfml-pi.  This is also why the issue would not show up if using X....but if not using X, it would. You need to upgrade the images, and then it will be OK....

https://github.com/mickelson/attract/wiki/Compiling-on-the-Raspberry-Pi-%28Raspbian-Jessie%29

Follow the instructions to clone SFML-pi and then to compile attract mode.  After you do this, you can also upgrade Retropie to all the latest.

Fire it up, and the issue will be gone.  Did this last night, and I could not be happier with it now!  This is by far the best front end for Pi in my opinion.....

Specifically:

sudo apt-get install cmake libflac-dev libogg-dev libvorbis-dev libopenal-dev libjpeg62-turbo-dev libfreetype6-dev  libudev-dev libfontconfig1-dev

then:

cd ~/develop
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mickelson/sfml-pi sfml-pi
mkdir sfml-pi/build;cd sfml-pi/build
cmake .. -DSFML_RPI=1 -DEGL_INCLUDE_DIR=/opt/vc/include -DEGL_LIBRARY=/opt/vc/lib/libEGL.so -DGLES_INCLUDE_DIR=/opt/vc/include -DGLES_LIBRARY=/opt/vc/lib/libGLESv1_CM.so
sudo make install
sudo ldconfig