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General / Attract Mode vs Retroarch question

« on: March 11, 2016, 10:28:27 AM »

So I've loaded Retropie up on an SD-card, installed the mame libretro-cores (2003 and 2010) installed LXDE and compiled Attract Mode and got it working.

Now I'm stuck at configuring libretro in AM's menu, I've got:

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Executable : /opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch/bin/retroarch
Commandline Arguments : -L /opt/retropie/libretrocores/lr-mame2010/mame2010_libretro.so [romfilename]
Rompaths : $Home/pi/RetroPie/roms/mame-libretro/
Extensions : ZIP,7z,DIR

For some reason this setup forgets to add fileextensions to the end of the parsed line when run, so when I run Bubble Bobble I get:

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/opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch/bin/retroarch -L /opt/retropie/libretrocores/lr-mame2010/mame2010_libretro.so /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/mame-libretro/bublbobl
Instead of what I should have gotten:

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/opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch/bin/retroarch -L /opt/retropie/libretrocores/lr-mame2010/mame2010_libretro.so /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/mame-libretro/bublbobl.7z
I've also tried just adding the ".7z" after the [romfilename] in the commandline arguments. This seems to create the correct launch-command, but it still fails with a "rom not found". OTOH, if I run the command from a terminal (in X) outside AM, then the rom loads correctly.

Am I going about this completely wrong or...?

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General / Recommended software-setup for Raspberry Pi 3 MAME-machine wanted.

« on: March 08, 2016, 06:10:27 PM »

It's all in the headline. Which software should I use for a dedicated arcade-frontend-like MAME-machine if I'm on a Raspberry pi 3?

OS: Dietpi? https://github.com/Fourdee/DietPi/issues/216
DE / X-windowmanager: ? (I suppose attract need some kind of graphical environment to run in)
Which version of MAME: ? (performance vs newer something something)
Which Romset: ?

I'm currently trying to compile on raspbian jessie, which I guess would be a waste of resources; but right now it's the only distro I've managed to get both samba and wifi to work on concurrently (samba is black magic to me), so i figured I'd cut my teeth on that until I knew the optimal software-composition.