FrizzleFried that is awesome ! I've just read through your post & watched the youtube vid... I now have a Huge smile on my face
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.. Raspberry pie on order along with USB stick, SD card etc. etc.. I know I'm going to have a challenge getting things up and running, especially with the Ultrastick 360's - but I love to play hang-on, outrun & starwars -all analog controls -so these sticks are perfect, plus proper 4-way and 8-way choices help with pac-man playability (these ones I have are a few years old now & I read a post somewhere that retropie doesnt see the mk I's ..not sure if mine were the first incarnation or not , but will just have to get some more if so.)
..I've just spent the last 2 days solid researching this whole thing, from how to set up retro pie onto a raspberry PI and found out about rgbcommander for the ultrastick360's and using a USB memorystick to run the roms from instead of the SD card, different options for getting VGA out of the PI for the monitor plus different ways to "Talk" to the console from your PC using Putty and a serial lead USB to RS232 OR GUI access, with drag & drop to the PI via WinSCP-5.13.1 / finding where to get the right rom sets/ rotating the screen using Retroarch (i gather it is better to rotate in retro arch rather than in the command line console of the PI due to performance hit by doing it like ...sudo nano /boot/config.txt > display_rotate=1 ) .etc, etc ...along with discovering Attractmode. But finding out about this Theme really is the icing on the cake! I was hoping to find something "like" SD-arcade, but this is just fantastic!
I plan on it being the only theme on the machine and hope to figure out how to get all the games I want (all arcade based) that run on different emulators to be available under this "one selection" so for example Metal Slug on FB Alpha would show in the same menu along with the mame games ...from the bit of research I've done I imagine it can be done, perhaps by moving the FB Alpha rom to the mame folder and then using the retropie set-up menu to specify the correct emulator for running the specific rom.. probably won't work that way, but there is bound to be a way found after some trying (I think I will probably be making a few back-up images of the SD card and the USB stick along the way, so that its not all trashed when I inevitably break everything !)
Very much Looking forward to seeing the finished layout.
may I ask ...you mentioned music options ..would it be possible to include the cool arcade noise heard in ArcadeSD that happens when you scroll between the games ..the noise was sort of like something out of pac-man if I remember right? (I guess it may need muting in a fast scroll though, as it would probably become annoying quite quickly then) -just a thought, if it's possible and not too much work.
Regardless, thanks for making my day with this
