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

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    • jamietuleyJ
      jamietuley
      last edited by jamietuley

      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

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      • Thorr69T
        Thorr69
        last edited by

        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.

        RPi 3b
        Official PSU
        Official RetroPie image
        Pandora's Box 5 controller

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        • jamietuleyJ
          jamietuley @Thorr69
          last edited by

          @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

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          • mituM
            mitu Global Moderator @jamietuley
            last edited by

            @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/).

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            • jamietuleyJ
              jamietuley @mitu
              last edited by

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

              Cheers

              Jamie

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              • Thorr69T
                Thorr69 @mitu
                last edited by

                @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

                RPi 3b
                Official PSU
                Official RetroPie image
                Pandora's Box 5 controller

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                • jamietuleyJ
                  jamietuley @Thorr69
                  last edited by jamietuley

                  @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

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                  • mituM
                    mitu Global Moderator @jamietuley
                    last edited by

                    @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.

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                    • jamietuleyJ
                      jamietuley @mitu
                      last edited by

                      @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 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

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                      • jamietuleyJ
                        jamietuley @jamietuley
                        last edited by jamietuley

                        @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

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                        • mituM
                          mitu Global Moderator @jamietuley
                          last edited by

                          @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.

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                          • jamietuleyJ
                            jamietuley @jamietuley
                            last edited by

                            @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:

                            59498409-f5b7-4737-9be7-b49f64c01b8c-image.png

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

                            Cheers

                            Jamie

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                            • mituM
                              mitu Global Moderator @jamietuley
                              last edited by

                              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.

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                              • jamietuleyJ
                                jamietuley @mitu
                                last edited by

                                @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 ;)

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                                • jamietuleyJ
                                  jamietuley @jamietuley
                                  last edited by

                                  @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

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                                  • jamietuleyJ
                                    jamietuley
                                    last edited by

                                    @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:

                                    5a3456c1-0940-4fe7-94c1-a4d2b52f2e8d-image.png

                                    Just by changing on to off.

                                    My emulation Station sound settings look like this:

                                    20200523_141539_resized_1.jpg

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

                                    91e0f555-429d-4f51-8bbf-d63604b16832-image.png

                                    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

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                                    • mituM
                                      mitu Global Moderator @jamietuley
                                      last edited by

                                      @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.

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