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General / Cocktail cabinet build

« on: August 15, 2015, 03:19:49 PM »

Hi guys, finally finished my cocktail cabinet running 'Attract Mode'

Took about 2 months, mainly weekends and a few late nights but has been an extremely enjoyable project from start to finish.

Many thanks for all that helped me on the forum along the way, especially omegaman for the theme I've cloned from and nitrogen_widget for the Raspberry Pi distribution and hints/tips

Video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWf9GWMi-GA

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General / Video snaps (.mp4) running slow on RP1

« on: July 07, 2015, 05:28:07 AM »

I've managed to get my AM layout just as I want it running on my main desktop machine, perfect.

However when transferred over to the Raspberry Pi 1 512k, the video snaps play incredibly slowly.
I've taken them off YouTube from MameVideoSnaps I believe. Converted them with a firefox plugin to create an .mp4 file. Aprox 35 seconds long, and about 1.5 meg in size, 320 x 200 ish

The question is, is there a preferred format, or a process I need to convert the files to, or is it more tuning the RP

Probably a question for @nitrogen_widget as they are running smoothly in his RP video online.

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General / MAME ROMs won't load with RetroPie

« on: June 26, 2015, 11:28:49 AM »

Hi,

Im having problems getting any of the games to work on Raspberry Pi with nitrogen_widgets RP image.

These are 0.37b5 ROM's

I've taken AM out of the equation as can run MAME4ALL from the command line, and it starts with the list of Games that represent my ROM's in ROM path

Hit Enter and get something like:

invaders.h   NOT FOUND
invaders.g   NOT FOUND
invaders.f   NOT FOUND
invaders.e   NOT FOUND
ERROR: required files are missing, the game cannot be run.

XArchiver can unzip the ROM zip files from the downloads folder, but NOT from /root/RetroPie/roms/mame-mame4all/ (Archive format is not recognised)

So, I've established root cause, but don't know how to fix it. Am a Raspberry PI noob see.

I'm hoping this should be a bread and butter question for people who actually know what they are doing.

Thanks in advance.
Paul