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@davej said in Scanlines in Libretro AdvMAME and FBA:

@jretropie said in Scanlines in Libretro AdvMAME and FBA:

@Floob When I try 0 or 2 for the mask_type. the scanlines disappeared.

That sounds like what you get when there's a mistake in the shader and it defaults to what you get when you specify no shader.

Reinstall the files so you've got a correct version and change line 18 so it reads:

#define MASK_TYPE 0

Thanks! You are right. It works now. when I set it to zero.

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@jretropie

As the great Gordon Shumway would say, "No problem!"

What a lot of the online videos fail to mention is that they are overclocking their Pi3 for the best results in these more demanding emulators. The Rpi group have yet to release any advisable settings for overclocking a Pi3 that would not void your warranty, let alone damage the Pi3 itself. However, you can find user-based recommendations for overclocking a Pi3 all over the net. I hope you'll excuse me if I don't recommend any particular settings here.

Work is currently underway to improve gamepad support for the Atari 800 & 5200. You can find out more here...

https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/847/atari-5200-new-version-of-atari800-beta-two-triggers-moon-patrol-hat-start-and-exit-buttons

@dankcushions thanks!

@abhikapahi I'm using the official 7 inch and retro pie, both work perfectly. For many games the aspet ratio is incorrect as old school games ran at 4:3 but that's not the LCDs fault.

Good to hear. Now all we need is the ability to play video games while our video games are loading and we'll be set.

No. But the symlinks are there so that you can access the configurations in one place in /opt/retropie/configs/instead of having to find the configs in various areas of the home folder

I wouldn't worry about having lots of hidden symlinks - it's not a problem. You can ignore them.

@Bolthouse I use a 1280x1024 LCD in my cabinet and I think it works great. 4:3 would be 1280x960 with letterbox bands 32 pixels high on the top and bottom. You might try some of the libretro emulators to see how games look full-screen vs. 4:3. I like the barrel-curve shader with scanlines, so I want every pixel available. This would be 5:4, but I honestly, with the curvature I don't notice the difference.

Another consideration is this: If you will be playing any vertical games on the screen mounted horizontally, you might want to take advantage of all of the pixels you can--something that a physical bezel would prevent. You'd be limited to 720x960, when you could get 768x1024. Just a thought.

Hello,

Try this :

Plug a keyboard launch your Pi launch your game (mame4all?) press TAB

You will see a menu and you can assign control. (I hope)

Yeah you'll need to do that through the console on you Pi i believe. If you do something like sudo get https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit-Retrogame.git that should work... might have that syntax wrong but I'm sure someone will correct me.

Good luck.

Ball's up on my part, had the key allocation arse about. Got it sorted now using gngeo and its working well. Doesnt seem to be full screen like lr-fba-next (slight border round the outside) but im sure thats in the settings somewhere so will get it sorted out. Not a massive issue if i cant.

Thanks very much for the help everyone. :)

dont have enough time to do that...

Just to add if i do jstest player 1 controls are js1 and player 2 controls are js0

I'm happy to announce that I have discovered the source of my problem.
So, I checked the key map file (/opt/retropie/emulators/vice/lib/vice/C64/sdl_sym.vkm) and I had found in its last line this:
0 -3 1
which is the 'second RESTORE key' responding to the scan code 0. I don't know what does the 'second restore' mean, and I'm not sure what the 0 scan code stands for. I guess it somehow connected with the 'do nothing' action in the joy-map file (which is also 0 coincidentally).
Commented out this line and now I can shoot clouds with Loco, I can fire happily with WoW (which definitely stands for Wizard of Wor and not that new stuff), and... and I'm a happy man!

Thanks for reading!

Hi Pifan :)

Yep, it's the same project! But as much as I like the idea, things are not looking very promising so far. All solutions available are way too rigid it seems.

I am new to everything here. I did know about the key combination but assuming I don't it's a lot safer :P

I don't really need that many keys though. I do find it more elegant to have a dedicated key for the most used commands like save, load, quit/close and turn on/off. But another way of doing this is taking advantage of the key combination feature and wire a button that triggers the combination internally, no need for messing with software settings. Then I don't need to find a freakish control with more keys than usual.

@BuZz said in Disable all Console Text:

I haven't used attractmode yet - can't advise. You should ask @floob perhaps if you are using his image.

No I complied my own image since his has some issues on the RPi3, well on my testing anyway.
And I did ask on the AM forum but no reply. It's still running on the Retropie image along with EmulationStation, I can switch between the 2 by dropping back to the console.
Just when Advmame loads a rom it drops to the console , it's fine if no one knows how to hide the console after the frontend loads I can live with it. Just thought I would ask. ;)

Excellent, I'll check this out.