Erratic controller exiting mame.

[sparkie16]

Hi i've set up attract mode and mame as its the only emulator i want to use.  Ive managed to set it up with all the artwork and all is fine until I exit a chosen rom and it acts erratic.
The controller is an ipac 2 and is set as keyboard layout to mimic mame controllers.  When i exit a rom it will re enter that rom or move up or down to the next oen and enter that one just by pressing esc..  I dont know if anyone else is having these issues but as im new to the pi im struggling to fix this.. It doesn't behave like this through emulation station just attract..I'm using floob-retropie-attractmode-v05-23-AUG-2016.
Any help would be appreciated

[progets]

That's a known issue that has been resolved. Upgrade your version of AttractMode and it will be fixed. See the wiki for instructions.

[sparkie16]

Anyone got a link for the update attract instructions.  Can it be updated or do you have to recompile from scratch. 

[sparkie16]

Looks like you cant upgrade attract mode only compile new.
Do you need retropie installed first after installing raspian jessie as wiki instructions dont seem to give this infromation only to compile from scratch with just raspian.

[progets]

Yes, to update attractmode you must recompile but you won't lose any settings or configuation. To fix your issue you only need to follow the 5 command lines under "Download and build Attract-Mode" here https://github.com/mickelson/attract/wiki/Compiling-on-the-Raspberry-Pi-%28Raspbian-Jessie%29. I would recommend you do the entire install using "Method 2: build FFmpeg with mmal support (hardware accelerated video decoding)" though because it will give you mmal hardware decoding which you don't have from Floob's image. This will help a lot if you plan to use videos in attractmode.

[sparkie16]

Thanks for the reply but I'm new to this so I've got a bit of reading up to do.  Will give it a go.
Cheers

[slowsl]

Thanks for the reply but I'm new to this so I've got a bit of reading up to do.  Will give it a go.
Cheers

I'm in the same boat as you.  I'm very new to all of this, but am able to get around for the most part with some direction.  I have the exiting issue you describe, using an ipac2, and floobs precompiled image.   Going to try what progrets says and see if I get anywhere.

[slowsl]

Yes, to update attractmode you must recompile but you won't lose any settings or configuation. To fix your issue you only need to follow the 5 command lines under "Download and build Attract-Mode" here https://github.com/mickelson/attract/wiki/Compiling-on-the-Raspberry-Pi-%28Raspbian-Jessie%29. I would recommend you do the entire install using "Method 2: build FFmpeg with mmal support (hardware accelerated video decoding)" though because it will give you mmal hardware decoding which you don't have from Floob's image. This will help a lot if you plan to use videos in attractmode.

Okay, am I doing this correctly?  I exit to the terminal with f4, and try entering the first line  "cd ~/develop", however my tilde symbol shows as a little elbow symbol.  When I hit enter, it returns with "-bash: cd: ~/develop: No such file or directory.   I try to add the directory with "mkdir develop" and it returns "mkdir: cannot create directory develop: file exists"  what am I doing wrong?

[progets]

Yes, to update attractmode you must recompile but you won't lose any settings or configuation. To fix your issue you only need to follow the 5 command lines under "Download and build Attract-Mode" here https://github.com/mickelson/attract/wiki/Compiling-on-the-Raspberry-Pi-%28Raspbian-Jessie%29. I would recommend you do the entire install using "Method 2: build FFmpeg with mmal support (hardware accelerated video decoding)" though because it will give you mmal hardware decoding which you don't have from Floob's image. This will help a lot if you plan to use videos in attractmode.

Okay, am I doing this correctly?  I exit to the terminal with f4, and try entering the first line  "cd ~/develop", however my tilde symbol shows as a little elbow symbol.  When I hit enter, it returns with "-bash: cd: ~/develop: No such file or directory.   I try to add the directory with "mkdir develop" and it returns "mkdir: cannot create directory develop: file exists"  what am I doing wrong?

Your tilde is wrong because you don't have the proper keyboard layout. Floob isn't from the US so his keyboard layout isn't for a US keyboard. You can change your keyboard layout using raspi-config or you can replace "~" with "/home/pi" in your commands.

You can't create the "develop" directory because it already exists. Flood didn't delete it once he was done compiling attractmode. Just skip the "mkdir develop" step.