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General / Re: OSMC (Raspberry Pi2)

« on: April 17, 2016, 08:25:14 AM »

Thanks for the comments, although my "skills" are largely involving a sellotape and glue approach!

I'm afraid I havent tried an OSMC image in a while, so I would need to check the paths in that.
I have Kodi pre-configured in the Pi image I built, although you would need to install Kodi from the experimental section of the RetroPie menu first. I'll make sure its already installed in the next build.

To confirm, are you using an image from here? Or a different one?
https://osmc.tv/download/

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General / Re: Raspberry Pi 3 Image

« on: April 17, 2016, 03:12:41 AM »

Floob, which of retroarches 5 config files did you change to get the RPI shaders to run?

Please check this one:
/opt/retropie/configs/{systemname}/retroarch.cfg

I make a very brief reference to shaders in the readme.txt file in that build. I have also installed and used a slightly newer version of the davej shader. Remember, this has a lot of tweakable options such as curvature effect and changing the style of scanlines.

Please just let me know if you want to know anymore about the config file setup. I have made a very long and boring video of it here (slightly dated):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnjQ6fLd5T8

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General / Re: Raspberry Pi 3 Image

« on: April 17, 2016, 03:08:37 AM »

Floob-

An awesome contribution man. This exceeds all expectations, and these extra goodies you added is icing on the cake. 

I split your post out to make a sticky for your image.   

Ah - that explains it, I was confused where that went, haha
Thanks very much! Hopefully that will make it easier for people with a Pi (It should work fine on a Pi2 and Pi3) to get up and running with Attract Mode.

Would it be possible to link to that sticky here?
http://attractmode.org/download.html

I've had a lot of feedback about the layout used on the video showing the 0.2 image, people are loving that style of layout, and hopefully they will see how easily AM allows users to flip between layouts.
I'm very new to AM, and trying to get my head around it all at the moment, so any recommendations of tweaks are much appreciated.

I'm very tempted to make a custom build specifically for the Picade:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4sdwWoQlD0
https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/picade

Does anyone know the legality of distributing artwork? For example images sourced from here?
http://www.progettosnaps.net/
http://www.emumovies.com/
http://www.hyperspin-fe.com/

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General / Raspberry Pi Image for Pi2, Pi3 and Pi4 - with RetroPie

« on: April 16, 2016, 03:51:20 PM »

Image Downloads
https://www.smartretro.co.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=8277

Video Overview:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrXe3icI-mI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VG0P7S3U3lE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfWZqr0BwS8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ssbyofbm4Q
v0.6 - https://youtu.be/9Tjt0O0s4Y8

Version History
==================
10th April 2016 - v0.1
- First Version

16th April 2016 - v0.2
- RetroPie 3.7
- Attract Mode 2.0.0 - 15th April 2016
- Shaders configured for RetroArch emulators
- AM configs pre-configured to match most RetroPie emulators
- Artwork directories created in the roms directories of the systems
- Extra AM layouts/themes pre-installed
- Exit to from AM to ES and vice versa
- Added MAME controls.ini, nplayer.ini, catver.ini to help filters in AM
- Fixed keyboard hang (hacked boot delay)
- Added boot script by Shakz (to flip between ES and AM)
- Hide motd, rainbow splashscreen and raspberry logo appearing
- Hide last login and uname output
- Stop white screen with X boot info showing
- Selected new version of Robospin as default theme
- Setting correct aspect ratio for re-configured systems
- Various small tweaks
- Install intro video for AM

2nd May 2016 - v0.3
- Recompiled AM with new SFML so X is no longer needed (https://github.com/mickelson/sfml-pi)
- This means runcommand now works under Attract Mode, and emulators that use SDL 1.2 can now be run with attractmode outside of X with hardware scaling.
- Advmame for example scaled only in software in X. Now it will use hardware scaling.
- Updated configs to no longer start X
- Updated Emulators to use runcommand (https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/runcommand)

7th May 2016 - v0.4
- Kodi Installed
- Daphne Installed
- Updated some Attract Mode layouts
- Added more emulator configs

8th May 2016 - v0.4 Artwork
- As 0.4 but with MAME artwork
- Stored under the mame-libretro roms directory
- Credits to http://www.progettosnaps.net/ and omegaman on the AM forums
- Full credits and author details in the readme folder

23rd August 2016 - v0.5
- RetroPie 4.0.1 (22nd August)
- Attract Mode 2.1.0 (22nd August)
- Experimental version of Emulation Station with grid mode
- Video Manager tool pre-installed, but not configured
- RetroPie setup script accessible within Attract Mode
- No X mode installed/configured


15th April 2022 - v0.6
- For Raspberry Pi 4B/400
- RetroPie 4.8.2 (https://retropie.org.uk/)
- Attract Mode 2.6.2 (http://attractmode.org/)
- Minor tweaks include, quiet boot, custom menu to choose AM or ES, preloading layouts and Kodi
- Build is for Raspberry Pi 4B
- Binaries updated as of 15th April 2022
- Credits to:
Yaron - http://forum.attractmode.org/index.php?topic=3289.0
Verion - http://forum.attractmode.org/index.php?topic=252.0

To Do
- Auto resize image partitions
- Other Stuff

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General / Re: Raspberry Pi 3 Image

« on: April 16, 2016, 07:48:31 AM »

If anyone is interested in testing the pre-release of robospin on the pi, you can download here:

https://app.box.com/s/o6mekpndz8cu4toh588uhywt9vmbfeob

You can enable pan-and-scan by selecting it as a background. Thanks...

Bundling this as the default layout in my next build this weekend. Its amazing!

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General / Re: Raspberry Pi 3 Image

« on: April 13, 2016, 02:21:58 PM »

Nice tutorial...

My approach is a little different but your method might be a little bit faster. First, I install raspbian jessie, resize the partition, configure the window mgr the way I want it then update and upgrade raspbian before the next step. Next, I get the retropie install script, and install retropie. Once it's installed, I just use it to setup my joysticks and to install more emulators. I never even run emulationstation, I do everything through the retropie_setup.sh tool.

The last stage is installing AM by following the attract wiki for the pi.

And, I just wanted to say that it's nice to see someone enjoying robospin on the pi. I made it where you can turn off some features if performance is an issue. But, I've been pleasantly surprised how well it runs on the rpi3.

Speaking of robospin, I've added some new features and hope to release it in the next day or so. It was getting a little stale, so I wanted to add some new features like pan and scan for those who want it. It already has system logos but I thought it would be cool if I could add game logos without creating too much clutter. And, I think that was accomplished. The hardest part has been getting all the game developer logos, I might be short some but most are accounted for.         

Thanks, thats an interesting point about building it that way round, maybe I'll try it on my next image.
I'm going to pre-configure all the libretro cores, so its ready just to take all the roms. I'll also preset shaders - I'd usually use overlays, but given the likely wide variety of resolutions used in AM builds its probably a better bet to run with the davej shader. I also need to work out why my keyboard stops working after a couple of minutes if I boot directly into AM. I might also tweak my video overlay tool to be geared for AM, so more shaders. https://github.com/biscuits99/rp-video-manager

I'll also add more layouts, although I havent found one I like more than robospin yet.

I'm very new to AM, but loving it as a very comprehensive FE for arcade setups. Has a fantastic community as well.

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General / Re: Raspberry Pi 3 Image

« on: April 10, 2016, 01:23:52 PM »

Sure, I do this (then compress with 7zip)
http://smartretro.co.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=58

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General / Re: RPI 1&2 Attractmode image

« on: April 10, 2016, 11:39:53 AM »

I've put my image up here, hopefully that will work for you:
http://forum.attractmode.org/index.php?topic=673.msg4928#msg4928

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General / Re: Raspberry Pi 3 Image

« on: April 10, 2016, 11:38:51 AM »

Here is my attempt at an image for the Raspberry Pi with Attract-Mode. I built this using a Pi3, but I think it should work ok on others.
http://smartretro.co.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=8277

Video Guide here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrXe3icI-mI

It will boot to the CLI so you need to login with pi/raspberry.

Then resize the filesystem using the "sudo raspi-config" command.
When its rebooted and you have logged in, run it with "xinit attract"

Or you can get it to auto boot into Attract-Mode if you run the retropie setup, and in the setup menu set it to start Emulation Station by default (although because of the edit below it will start Attract Mode)
"sudo /home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/retropie_setup.sh"
3 - Setup
Auto Start Emulation Station
Start Emulation Station at boot
Quit out of setup


edit this file
"sudo nano /etc/profile.d/10-emulationstation.sh"
and replace emulationstation with "xinit attract"

Please note if you auto start it, it seems to not like the keyboard after a while for some reason, not really a problem if you configure your own controller. So I'd get your controller working with it before you auto start it.