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Scripting / Re: Determining orientation of game?

« on: December 05, 2024, 02:56:04 AM »

i solved this , perhaps it help you:
https://youtu.be/Zr8ZmwlTWjg?si=zBTpEqXVVH85-6o1

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Scripting / Scripts to send the marquee to a second LCD when the screensaver is active RPI4

« on: September 19, 2024, 01:45:07 AM »

2 Raspberries Pi in a single arcade, one for the emulation and another for the marquee lcd.
When the screensaver of the Raspberry Pi 4 displays random game videos in Attract Mode's screensaver mode, it sends the marquee to a second Raspberry Pi 3 over an internal network. The Pi 3 then displays the marquee on its own LCD screen. When it cannot find the marquee, it displays a default one. This works by using an add-on in the screensaver and a script on the second Raspberry Pi. Additionally, the marquees need to be stored on the second Raspberry Pi as well. It works very well.
Here are the scripts and an example of the files/directories. Made with the help of chatgpt.
https://youtu.be/6MirHyOxnu8

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Scripting / Re: execute a file when layout/emulator is chosen?

« on: October 02, 2023, 05:06:05 PM »

I used args inside runcommand-onstart file to launch a python script in RPI

https://youtu.be/JNBNhP7byXU?si=WNukWY2lAR4qIaHX

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General / Re: Has anybody gotten video files to work on PieMarquee2?

« on: September 13, 2023, 05:08:26 AM »

Hey! good morning friend, how did you get the PieMarquee2 to work properly? I'm trying to use it on a pi4 with retropie and AttractMode and it only launches the maintittle.png correctly, it's like it doesn't recognize the systems or something, does it work fine for you?

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Themes / Re: Personalized theme

« on: November 18, 2021, 06:04:31 AM »

The layout uses an extra art option in the emulator´s config called (savegames) i use a simple .bat csript that searches for .state files inside the roms dir and creates a disk.png with the name of the rom with .state inside the savegames folder , you must do this one time manually , and each time you launch a game and crate a new save-state, there is some instructions in bash script inside the "runcommand-onend.sh" that do the same as the .bat does.


The bat and the disk file are here: https://mega.nz/folder/yRoClJwI#-vOoYmLD6s-51UbtxVFLJw

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Themes / SBOX DASH 2000 Year

« on: November 18, 2021, 05:57:39 AM »

Hi , i have the idea of ​​making the xbox interface design for the systems menu, but I don't have time, I have the background video in a loop and the soundp but nothing else, I post it in case someone with time is encouraged to do it.

https://mega.nz/folder/TJBnTYhJ#LUv1ogtXxeHcEdyJuMUSVQ

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Themes / Re: Personalized theme

« on: November 18, 2021, 05:54:41 AM »

sure, here is it :

https://mega.nz/folder/eNZTDK7S#59JI2QwxRZCIcfZEgmgt4g

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Themes / Personalized theme

« on: November 18, 2021, 04:59:12 AM »

Hi all !! well... here is the layout I use since last 4 years in my Arcade with a Raspberry pi 3, it´s simple... it can show snap, the marquee, the info of the  game, argument of it, if it is  vertical game or not, fav or not and if is there .state saved for the game you are viewing... when you uses the key to go to next theme, it rolls over next layouts changing to vertical orientated and to another design changes. I´ll put on MEGA if you consider ... but warning! it has a lot of persoalized functions i created for my setup and i have no much time for suport asks.
Sorry about pics i have no way to capture from the Raspberry Pi...
https://youtu.be/8lqtA9SSC8w

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Themes / Re: System Menu

« on: April 12, 2020, 11:36:05 AM »

WIP with my own personal menu layout, i hope Yaron could help me to become real and responsive for all kind of screen sizes.

Here the WIP - https://mega.nz/file/eFRxSI5C#F4P8pMlkBlGGmwL2ckhxNrhCedhmIGmhtiZ-mHFS7wM

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Themes / Re: New layout in progress ...

« on: March 30, 2020, 06:45:50 PM »

thanks for your comment, i will try it .... and i am going to share some versions with community , cheers

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Themes / Re: Hyperspin Theme Mode [Release v1.4]

« on: March 20, 2020, 12:16:32 PM »

great  work dude !!!!!!!  working fine in my rPi 3 with 4:3 cabinet. thanks so much

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Themes / New layout in progress ...

« on: March 20, 2020, 12:10:09 PM »

Hello everyone, I hope all of you will be fine at  home, mothe F***ER COVID19!!! ... I want to show you my simple and humble latest layout in 4: 3 format that I am designing, thank you very much to the creator of the keyboard search plugin, the idea is to use the arcade overlays created by Flood in the preview. It`s in beta state, there are about 1000 overlays but some of then does´nt fit with resolution ... there are 2 defaults overlays in case custom overlays is not found. The video is taken with smartphone because i only work with raspberry. I need some help in use of mask and some others thins about size of some overlays... i hope to share with you very soon ... God luck and cheers

Here video preview: WIP but working fine.

https://youtu.be/to8R3HLkoaU

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Themes / Re: MatteCleanHD (WIP) Preview

« on: January 16, 2020, 02:44:30 AM »

VERY VERY GREAT WORK MAN!!!!!!!!!!

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General / Re: POLL: What system are you running Attract Mode on?

« on: September 28, 2019, 04:41:29 PM »

I used vinyl art printed in pixarprint online, then I paste it over soft plastic film and then I used magnetics 1cm*1cm with 3M paste film behind.

Then, in every side of the arcade machine there are a lot of magnetis under the 3mm of wood cover pinged in white.

Sorry for my English , cheers

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General / Thanks to AM you can use your old Rasberry pi (1,2) as a Dinamic marquee.

« on: September 12, 2019, 02:28:46 AM »

Hi, hope you like it, and hope you enjoy it!!

here video and all you need to download.

https://youtu.be/-BTjUmI8SLg

more about this here:
https://youtu.be/6UHoO6Lha08