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Raspberry Pi F.A.Q.
progets:
1. 90% of your issues will be resolved by making sure that you running the latest Raspbian, RetroPie and Attract-Mode. Please update these aspects of your Pi before asking questions.
Warning to upgraders: If you are upgrading from a version of Attract-Mode that was originally installed from the RetroPie Setup menu do not use these steps, instead upgrade using the RetroPie Setup menu like your original install. Failure to do so will result in two desperate Attract-Mode installations. This specific step is meant for people that have manually installed Attract-Mode from the command line or are installing Attract-Mode for the first time.
Upgrading Raspbian. (Raspbian wiki - https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/raspbian/updating.md)
--- Code: ---sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get upgrade
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Upgrading RetroPie (skip this step if you aren't using RetroPie). (RetroPie wiki - https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Updating-RetroPie/)
--- Code: ---sudo bash ~/RetroPie-Setup/retropie_setup.sh
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Choose option "U Update all installed packages"
Upgrading all aspects of Attract-Mode. (Attract-Mode wiki - https://github.com/mickelson/attract/wiki/Compiling-on-the-Raspberry-Pi-(Raspbian-Jessie))
--- Code: ---cd ~; mkdir develop
sudo apt-get install cmake libflac-dev libogg-dev libvorbis-dev libopenal-dev libfreetype6-dev libudev-dev libjpeg-dev libudev-dev libfontconfig1-dev
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/libbrcmEGL.so -DGLES_INCLUDE_DIR=/opt/vc/include -DGLES_LIBRARY=/opt/vc/lib/libbrcmGLESv2.so
sudo make install
sudo ldconfig
cd ~/develop
git clone --depth 1 git://source.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.git
cd ffmpeg
./configure --enable-mmal --disable-debug --enable-shared
make
sudo make install
sudo ldconfig
cd ~/develop
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mickelson/attract attract
cd attract
make USE_GLES=1
sudo make install USE_GLES=1
cd ~; rm -r -f ./develop
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2. If you started with anything other than the latest RetroPie image directly from the RetroPie website, ask the creator of the image for solutions to your problems. They will be better suited to answer them since Attract-Mode can be built and configured many different ways.
3. Videos don't play, stutter, turn grey, etc.. Enable hardware video decoding or use lower resolution videos.
To enable hardware video decoding: Configure-->General-->Video Decoder = mmal (if you can't select "mmal" run the steps for Attract-Mode upgrade in F.A.Q. #1)
4. I have random weird things happen when I exit a game or use a RetroPie configuration menu. This is an old known bug, run the steps for Attract-Mode upgrade in F.A.Q. #1 to fix it.
5. Some emulators like Daphne and Advance MAME run behind AM (a.k.a. in the background), my RetroPie runcommand dialog doesn't show in AM, or my RetroPie Setup Menu doesn't work properly in AM. Configure-->General-->Window Mode = FullScreen Mode
6. How can I access the /home/pi/.attract/ folder from Windows without using 3rd party software? You can use the RetroPie GUI that is described here http://forum.attractmode.org/index.php?topic=821.msg8138#msg8138.
You can do it from the command line like this:
--- Code: ---sudo nano /etc/samba/smb.conf
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Add these lines to the end of the file
--- Code: ---[attractmode]
comment = attractmode
path = "/home/pi/.attract"
writeable = yes
guest ok = yes
create mask = 0644
directory mask = 0755
force user = pi
--- End code ---
restart the samba service
--- Code: ---sudo /etc/init.d/samba restart
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7. How can I easily create custom wheels across mutiple emulators using the AM GUI? See this thread http://forum.attractmode.org/index.php?topic=1165.msg8455#msg8455 .
8. I have a lot of roms, how can I skip a page or a letter at a time?
Set these controls:
Configure-->Controls-->Previous Page
Configure-->Controls-->Next Page
Configure-->Controls-->Previous Letter
Configure-->Controls-->Next Letter
9. How can I add menus to switch booting from Attract-Mode to EmulationStation and vice versa? How can I run RetroPie Setup options from Attract-Mode? This post has a script to setup it up http://forum.attractmode.org/index.php?topic=1311.msg9542#msg9542
If you want to manually create a menu for the RetroPie Setup options in Attract-Mode see this post http://forum.attractmode.org/index.php?topic=869.msg6679#msg6679 . (Make sure you set Configure-->General-->Window Mode = FullScreen Mode)
10. In MAME emulators I see the romnames and not the friendly/nice looking game names. See these posts http://forum.attractmode.org/index.php?topic=1764.msg12450#msg12450 and http://forum.attractmode.org/index.php?topic=1665.msg11810#msg11810
11. I misconfigured my controls and now I can't make changes to correct them.
Reset your inputs to the default input mapping.
--- Code: ---nano ~/.attract/attract.cfg
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Replace the entire "input_map" section with the defaults listed below
--- Code: ---input_map
configure Tab
prev_letter Up+LControl
next_letter Down+LControl
filters_menu Left+LControl
next_filter Right+LControl
configure Escape+Up
edit_game Escape+Down
add_favourite Escape+LControl
prev_letter Joy0 Up+Joy0 Button0
next_letter Joy0 Down+Joy0 Button0
filters_menu Joy0 Left+Joy0 Button0
next_filter Joy0 Right+Joy0 Button0
configure Joy0 Up+Joy0 Button1
edit_game Joy0 Down+Joy0 Button1
add_favourite Joy0 Button0+Joy0 Button1
back Escape
back Joy0 Button1
up Up
up Joy0 Up
down Down
down Joy0 Down
left Left
left Joy0 Left
right Right
right Joy0 Right
select Return
select LControl
select Joy0 Button0
default back exit
default up prev_game
default down next_game
default left prev_display
default right next_display
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Restart Attract-Mode
12. How can I get rid of the boot text and images? Checkout this https://retropie.org.uk/docs/FAQ/#how-do-i-hide-the-boot-text
13. How can I get rid of the terminal/console text I see when I launch a game or exit a game? Check out this post http://forum.attractmode.org/index.php?topic=1642.0.
14. How can I have Attract-Mode default to my "Favorites" romlist instead of the "All" romlist? See this post http://forum.attractmode.org/index.php?topic=1613.0.
(moderator edit: updated retropie URLs since the github wiki content has been moved to the main site)
hi-ban:
Hi!
I'm building this in a pi3. Started from a freshly installed (latest) retropie image from retropie website, and followed all the steps.
However, when building ffmpeg with mmal, in the step when you do:
./configure --enable-mmal --disable-debug --enable-memalign-hack --enable-shared
it does not recognize the --enable-memalign-hack option (it says unknown option), so i had to omit that option and do:
./configure --enable-mmal --disable-debug --enable-shared
to be able to continue. Is that something to be concerned about? i'm getting some warnings when compiling (no errors, though) and i dont know if those warnings are supposed to happen...
progets:
--- Quote from: hi-ban on March 23, 2017, 07:12:56 PM ---Hi!
I'm building this in a pi3. Started from a freshly installed (latest) retropie image from retropie website, and followed all the steps.
However, when building ffmpeg with mmal, in the step when you do:
./configure --enable-mmal --disable-debug --enable-memalign-hack --enable-shared
it does not recognize the --enable-memalign-hack option (it says unknown option), so i had to omit that option and do:
./configure --enable-mmal --disable-debug --enable-shared
to be able to continue. Is that something to be concerned about? i'm getting some warnings when compiling (no errors, though) and i dont know if those warnings are supposed to happen...
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I can confirm that the new ffmeg no longer supports the --enable-memalign-hack switch and it does seem to compile ok. I have adjusted the steps above to reflect the change.
hi-ban:
I finished to compile it and i have the option to select mmal. However, my menus are a lot slower when using mmal, so i'm using software right now...
progets:
I'm glad you got it working. If mmal decoding is slower than software decoding your videos might not be using codecs supported by mmal. If this is the case, mmal tries to load them and fails so it resorts to using software decoding anyways. This could be the reason that mmal is slower on your build.
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