Updated - How to get a Dragon's Lair USB scoreboard to work on your RPI3 - Tutorial <solved>
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This type of confusion is also why it's a good idea to post as much information on your issue as possible upfront when you first make a support request. I remember the original thread you're referencing and outside of the contact information given there to the creator of this scoreboard and the accompanying Daphne build, the original poster ( @challenger2010 ) seemed to find himself at a standstill. Perhaps he solved it and just never posted back, but he's an active member, so I'm sure he'll respond in one of these two threads.
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Sorry for the confusion, i'll wait and see if he responds.
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He sells the scoreboard on his site, but also sells a secondary piece that hooks up between the scoreboard and USB. It was only $20 so I don't feel like I wasted any money. I am just waiting patiently to see if someone figures this out or if he at least puts up an image of his Daphne (minus the roms and LD files). I got no where on it :(
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Holy crap you still dont have it running either. Wow he charged me 50.00 for my dongle.
How far did you get on it? One issue i see is that he compiled using a 1.07 version of daphne and retropie uses 1.13. There is this compiled vldp2 library that his version refuses to open. Thats my last error, i've tried everything and still get the same error.
I can't find where the retropie version of daphne keeps this file as it runs lair for me perfectly. Once i copy his file over the current binary here come all the errors. I have 150.00 bucks invested in this, maybe you and i can bug him enough to get the answers needed to get this working.
I keep asking him simple questions like what is your folder structure and where are you placing the files and he doesnt give you a straight answer back like the expectation is ok you have the board now you figure it out. Its very frustrating and there's no documentation on this anywhere.
Im not exactly sure how pi-daphne was coded with a static or dynamic file structure his command lines are using his file structure and i noticed in his framefile he's got C:/ which is window syntax. He said he compiled this for retropie but executes it from the command line. I've executed via command and via ES and still no bueno.
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If you give me your email address, I will send you what I got from him
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how do you send a PM on here?
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@rablack97 Here is mine, send me something. GPPSP13@hotmail.com
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Man you won't believe this, i got this darn thing to work.
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What was the issue?
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@rablack97 so please send me an email now.
Please and thanks!
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I have one last thing to iron out and then i'll post my findings, I will tell you this it was not just copy daphne.bin over current bin file.
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I love the suspense! ...Aarrg, I'm lying, I can't stand it... Was it a hardware, or software problem? No, no. Don't tell me yet, I want to be surprised. I swear though, if it turns out that the solution can be found in any household junk drawer, you're gonna blow my mind.
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It's all software man, the only issue i'm having now it getting it to work through ES, it works fine via command line but will not initialize via the ES GUI. As promised I will do a thorough step by step how to so folks wont have wasted money and can enjoy this cool feature.
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@rablack97 if it won't launch in es but will in terminal you can look at the pushd popd functions in some of the modules (eg xrick) and that may solve it
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@herb_fargus The scoreboard seller, did say he ditched using ES as he couldn't get the scoreboard to initialize and left it at the command line level.
I tried modifying the lair.commands, daphne.sh. If I execute daphne.sh with static directories -usbsb at the terminal level, it runs fine, but when i exit back to ES and run it from the gui, the game loads but the scoreboard does nothing. I'm not very linux saavy, but i can follow directions, can you give me more guidance on this pushd popd idea.
I have no idea what xrick is or where the modules are you are speaking of :)
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@rablack97 https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/blob/master/scriptmodules/ports/xrick.sh#L38
Also is the scoreboard seller the dev of Daphne or someone else?
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He is neither, he just built the boards and compiled the daphne source to accomodate the scoreboard. He sold the board and the usb interfaces, not the software.
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Hi,
I know I am digging up an old topic here, for those who already have this Cambridge arcade converter, would you be able to send some photos of it to the forum (or PM me)? I would love to see it up close on both sides, it looks like a FTDI (possible a 28pin FT232R package) but he has blurred it out, and a couple of H174 on the web site from what I can make out.
Thanks
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I know I bringing up an old topic but we are having issues getting the scoreboard to work also. I’m
Using Cambridge’s score board and usb dongle. I’ve followed the tutorial but the pi still won’t recognize the scoreboard. It says scoreboard enabled but all I get is random stuff on the display. Not sure what we are doing wrong. Wanted to reach out to Rablack97.
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