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General / Re: pi4 No Sound at all in Attract mode but ok in games (FIXED)

« on: February 24, 2021, 06:10:17 AM »

I believe I know what is causing the sound not to work. Apparently there was a change in how the raspbian OS handles sound. See https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/new-raspberry-pi-os-release-december-2020/ for some more details. But, in summary the Dec 2020 raspbian release changed the sound server from ALSA to PulseAudio. I understand there are some good reason for them doing that but it seems to have broken audio from AM for some reason.

In my case I decided to download a raspbian lite image from https://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspbian_lite/images/. I specifically took the 2/14/2020 release which still uses the ALSA sound server. This image works perfectly for me. I will note though that you can't upgrade the OS as it will install the PulseAudio sound system which will likely break AM sound again.

In my research I ran across an article somewhere that said you could remove the pulseaudio packages and everything woud default back to alsa. Another option was to add some parameters to the /boot/cmdline.txt file to re-enable alsa compatability too. I didn't try either of these options though so I don't know if they will work or not.

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Themes / Re: anyone get mamewah themes working?

« on: February 24, 2021, 05:53:27 AM »

Here is a screenshot of the theme. It's not much but I built this since the games I am playing are the classic 80's stuff thus the inclusion of some of the classic arcade characters from that time period.

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Themes / Re: anyone get mamewah themes working?

« on: February 19, 2021, 01:23:11 PM »

Just to follow up here. I didn't get my existing mamewah theme to inport and be usable but I was able to build a layout.nut file using my theme. I have a very simple theme so I created a layout.nut that includes the background image from the mamewah file and then dropped in the snapshot, list, and artwork images and got the same result as I was hoping for.

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General / Re: pi4 No Sound at all in Attract mode but ok in games (FIXED)

« on: February 16, 2021, 11:18:02 AM »

I am having the same sound problem with a PI3. The games all play fine with sounds as expected. But, ambient sounds from AM don't play at all. I will note that I am using compiling manually (not using RetroPie) using the instructions from https://github.com/mickelson/attract/wiki/Compiling-on-the-Raspberry-Pi-%28Raspbian-Jessie%29.  It does compile and runs fine but no sound. I have verified that the mp3 file will play using 'mpg321 file.mp3' normally. I have tried the 'AudioMode' plugin as well but no luck.

I'll also note that when AM runs I see the following info printed over and over:
AL lib: (EE) ALCplaybackAlsa_mixerProc: Wait timeout... buffer size too low?

Is it possible that AM was not compiled with sound support somehow?

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Themes / anyone get mamewah themes working?

« on: February 15, 2021, 07:00:16 AM »

I see there is a mamewah.nut file in /usr/local/share/attract/loader but not sure how to use it. I have a layout.lay file from a mamewah theme (along with the corresponding jpg files for main, message, & options). When I select that theme from the list all I get is a while screen.

Any ideas?