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General / Re: RPI 1&2 Attractmode image

« on: October 29, 2015, 01:55:52 PM »

Hmm, this thread is quieter than I had expected. I can now partially answer my own question above:

The image posted by the OP is apparently NOT suited for the Raspberry Pi 1. As reported above, I have consistently received "illegal instruction" errors when trying to start the emulators. Obtained a Pi 2 now, and the emulators work well with the identical image. Hence, while the DietPi OS and the Attract Mode front end work under both, Pi 1 and Pi 2, the emulators do NOT.

battlecat -- I would not try this as a total newbie. You will need to dig in various config files (e.g. the image here does not set Mame4all to rotate the image to vertical orientation), i.e. will need to work with the Linux command line. Also, while there is a lot of information around, I have not found one complete and coherent guide. The "Cupcade" from Adafruit is a notable exception: A palm-sized mini-cabinet built around the Raspberry Pi. Complete kits and good documentation are available; but you are limited to the very small screen they have designed this for.

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General / Re: RPI 1&2 Attractmode image - mame4all "illegal instruction"?

« on: October 24, 2015, 04:34:46 AM »

My first post to the forum here. I was very happy to find AttractMode: Had been trying to build a small Raspberry-based Mame cabinet last year, dedicated to vertical games. Mame4all works nicely, but would only show the "correct" vertical scanlines if I let mame4all handle the display rotation, rather than set it globally via the system config. But then I could not find any front end that handled display rotation nicely... AttractMode to the rescue!

I now have your image installed (thanks so much for that!), and a few games for Mame4all. Attractmode has found the ROMs and scraped artwork for many of them. But I can't start the emulator!

• No matter which game I select, the display just shows "Ready Player 1" for half a second, then switches back to AttractMode.
• When I start mame4all manually from the command line (after leaving AttractMode and X), I get an "Illegal instruction" error message, without any further details.

I am out of my depth here. Any idea what could be wrong? I am using an older Raspberry B, and the unmodified image from the link above. (Only changed the display settings to match my 1024*768 screen.) Many thanks for any helpful hints!