Updated - How to get a Dragon's Lair USB scoreboard to work on your RPI3 - Tutorial <solved>
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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. -
@windsoreight did you get it to work?
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@rablack97
Can someone help me with my usb serial adapter to scoreboard setup in raspberry pi? Not sure how to set up the drivers in the software. -
@oppolo did you follow my tutorial?
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This hardware and the code I wrote to support is is now >5 years old.
The version of daphne used was current as of when the new drivers were written and pre-dated any daphne support in retropie.
The USB adapter was sold as being USB compatible for raspberry pi using my pre-compiled binaries, not "RetroPie" compatible.I submitted a LARGE set of patches to the Daphne/RetroPie maintainer on github that included USB scoreboard support and a whole lot of general code cleanup, and that submission was rejected, so if you want to complain about this not working out of the box, talk to him -- I tried to contribute and your territorial maintainer who has contributed almost no code of his own didn't want anyone else's name on it.
It's good to know that people like "james194zt" want to copy and profit from my work, and that someone posted the binaries on dropbox without permission.
In any case the "tutorial" is wrong.
"dlusb" is simply a utility to write to the scoreboard to test the libraries, permissions, etc.
Adding "-usbsb" to the normal daphne.bin command line enables the usb scoreboard.
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