Starting again.. New Pi image with Attract mode more recent than Floobs?

jamietuley · 22 May 2020, 14:36

Hi there,

I have been having issues getting my arcade cabinet working properly for well over a year now. All I want/have is:

Around 100 or so Mame 0.78 roms. I have all the snaps, wheel art etc. I have the Nevato theme that I like.

My issues are that my player 2 binds just will not work, I've tried everything.. I also cannot get my shaders to save.

I know the best thing to do would be to start from scratch as my configs are in a mess.. Id actually like to start again and do a clean build - shouldn't be too hard as all I want is purely arcade and just 100 or so games.

My issue is I have tried to do a clean build a few times and I do this from floobs image which during setup requires an update to allow attract mode to work - during this process something always goes wrong.

MY QUESTION IS: Is there a clean base image somewhere with a fairly recent attract mode that will run Nevato theme? I'm not that clued up with all this so really trying my best..

Any help much appreciated

Cheers

Jamie

Thorr69 · 22 May 2020, 14:38

You are asking for 3rd party images in a place that explicitly forbids support for them. Unless you intend to use the official clean image, your inquiries are not going to be answered here.

jamietuley · 22 May 2020, 14:54

@Thorr69
Hi there,

Yes I'm not after any 3rd party images.. each attempt at my build has been from the official image. I don't want any roms or anything, I have everything to add myself. I just wondered if there was anything that existed (official) that was more recent than the floobs one that is out there?

Cheers

Jamie

mitu · 22 May 2020, 15:01

@jamietuley said in Starting again.. New Pi image with Attract mode more recent than Floobs?:

My issue is I have tried to do a clean build a few times and I do this from floobs image which during setup requires an update to allow attract mode to work - during this process something always goes wrong.

Not quite sure how that functioned back in the day (the image is from 2016), but now AttractMode is included in RetroPie and it's installable like any other package - getting you the latest version of AttractMode. I'd say you start with the normal 4.6 image and go from there.

@Thorr69 The @Floob image was an experiment done before AttractMode was included in RetroPie, 4 years ago (see https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/93/).

jamietuley · 22 May 2020, 16:08

@mitu Thankyou so much.. I will give it another go and hope for the best!

Cheers

Jamie

Thorr69 · 22 May 2020, 21:25

@Thorr69 The @Floob image was an experiment done before AttractMode was included in RetroPie, 4 years ago (see https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/93/).

Got it. My bad. Apologies to @jamietuley

jamietuley · 23 May 2020, 08:22

@Thorr69 No worries atall, I understand theres alot of prohibited activity!

@mitu - Im just in the process of installing from scratch the new..

Ive put in my controller inputs (My cab is using an ipac2), whats the best way from the start to get the player 2 controls in??

I found Attract mode in Experimental packages - do I install from pre-compiled binary or Source??

Im being super careful this time around to get everything correct from the start!

Thanks for all the help

Cheers

Jamie

mitu · 23 May 2020, 08:56

@jamietuley said in Starting again.. New Pi image with Attract mode more recent than Floobs?:

Ive put in my controller inputs (My cab is using an ipac2), whats the best way from the start to get the player 2 controls in??

Depends on how the IPAC2 is configured, does it appear as a gamepad/2 gamepads or as a keyboard ?

I found Attract mode in Experimental packages - do I install from pre-compiled binary or Source??

Install from binary is faster.

jamietuley · 23 May 2020, 09:11

@mitu cool I'll do binary..

My ipac is configured as default so a keyboard..

Thanks for speedy response, helps when I'm doing the cab 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

jamietuley · 23 May 2020, 10:07

@mitu update from before.. I've installed attract mode through Binary and it did its stuff, though on the Retropie menu there is no option to enter/start attract mode? I did a reboot right after installing Attract mode... Is there something I'm not doing??

On the note of controls it seems to have sorted itself out by default.. I started a game and the insert coin, start and controls work on my player 2 controls :)

Its just the attract mode I need to sort!

Again any help very appreciated

Cheers

Jamie

mitu · 23 May 2020, 10:23

@jamietuley I think there's no gui/option to start AttractMode automatically, instead of EmulationStation. What you can do though, is to edit the autostart settings and manually edit the autostart file, replacing emulationstation with attract - see https://retropie.org.uk/docs/FAQ/#how-do-i-boot-to-the-desktop-or-kodi.

jamietuley · 23 May 2020, 10:25

@mitu One final addition I'm afraid..

I'm also trying to sort a sound issue out which I did before with no problems at all, the procedure is:

Though when try to edit the config.txt in /boot it wont let me overide the file? I'm using WinSCP.

Cheers

Jamie

mitu · 23 May 2020, 10:28

One final addition I'm afraid..

Leaving us so soon ?

I'm also trying to sort a sound issue out which I did before with no problems at all, the procedure is:

Though when try to edit the config.txt in /boot it wont let me overide the file? I'm using WinSCP.

That's because the file is not writeable by the pi user, it's a protected system file. Easiest way is to plug your SDcard into your PC and modify it there.

jamietuley · 23 May 2020, 10:32

@mitu Ah ok I'll do that now then..

and no of course I'm not off yet, I'm just trying not to frustrate you too much with so many questions ;)

jamietuley · 23 May 2020, 12:32

@mitu its me again :)

So I changed the auto startup to boot into Attract mode - the attract mode is completely bare bones but to the point where its not picking up on the 3 roms I put in:

/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/mame-libretro

Was that the right folder to place my roms in? They are from a 0.78 set - emulation station can see them but not attract mode?

Now I'm sure there is a stage I'm not doing here?? If you could shed some light that would be GREAT!

Cheers

Jamie

jamietuley · 23 May 2020, 13:30

@mitu and just when I thought things were going ok my sound is not working!

I tried to set the audio by editing the boot/config.txt as I have a USB dongle for my sound hooked upto the amp.

I made the config look like this:

Just by changing on to off.

My emulation Station sound settings look like this:

Following instruction from the forum (which worked on my previous build) I changed these settings:

I did wonder if the system volume at 0% was the issue but that's something that just wont save when I set it higher?

As you can see I am at a loss :(

Thanks in advance for you wise words..

Cheers

Jamie

mitu · 23 May 2020, 14:54

@jamietuley said in Starting again.. New Pi image with Attract mode more recent than Floobs?:

/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/mame-libretro
Was that the right folder to place my roms in? They are from a 0.78 set - emulation station can see them but not attract mode?

I can't help you with attract-mode setup, I'm not using it. I think you need to add the folder yourself and scan it for ROMs.

I did wonder if the system volume at 0% was the issue but that's something that just wont save when I set it higher?

If you disabled the on-board sound and your USB soundcard is the only output option, then the in EmulationStation the Audio Card should be set to 'Defaut' and the Default Device to PCM or Master (?). But the settings here affect only EmulationStation and not AttractMode or the emulators, so if you're not using EmulationStation, it's ok to leave them at defaults.