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    Attract Mode with RetroPie - Alternative to EmulationStation

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    • senkunS
      senkun @Floob
      last edited by

      @Floob ahh thanks for clearing that up, I must have messed up something on my install. Will wait for your new image :)

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      • FinheadF
        Finhead @senkun
        last edited by

        @senkun said:

        @Finhead hmmm extra steps meaning the patch? Seems the makefile has been updated and there is no need for the patch, but someone else in that thread still had to use the patch so I don't know. Maybe @Floob did patch his?

        I cleared the game quit hotkey I set from within the AM frontend, it's weird to have it return to the frontend and have the game still running in the background. I think a path got messed up somewhere. Perhaps it's best to wait for Floob to update more config files geared to the RetroPie setup

        Like I said found out later it wasn't needed. ;) I did find AM does not like to use a combonation of key presses in it's control config. If it will only except 1 key per input so the start/select combo press wouldn't work for me at least.

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        • FloobF
          Floob @InsecureSpike
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          @InsecureSpike

          I tried Floobs .img on my pi 2 but the dsmn thing keeps locking up on me after around 10mins, I over clocked to high and upped the memory split to 256, but still no help! any ideas? should I build if myself? would that help?

          I've noticed this is in the /boot/config.txt

          # Enable audio (loads snd_bcm2835)
          dtparam=audio=on
          gpu_mem_256=128
          gpu_mem_512=256
          gpu_mem_1024=256
          overscan_scale=1
          gpu_mem_256=128
          gpu_mem_512=256
          gpu_mem_1024=256
          overscan_scale=1
          

          I'm not sure why its duplicated, so maybe take out the last 4 lines. I need to check as I build it to see when that happens really, I cant see why they should be in there twice.

          Although it seems fine on my Pi2 for whatever reason.

          Please read the Docs before asking a new question.
          RetroPie Help Guides: https://goo.gl/3gcNsT

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          • InsecureSpikeI
            InsecureSpike @Floob
            last edited by

            @Floob ok, i'll have a look, altho, its still in development so..... these things take time....

            also, is there a way of running roms from usb's?

            thank for all your work on this guy's!!

            RPi 3 - RetroPie + 500gb HDD [consoles] + Razer Onza Tournament
            RPi 3 - RetroPie + 32gb USB [computers] + Keyboard
            both with AttractMode + FuzzBoxx Layout

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            • senkunS
              senkun @Floob
              last edited by

              @Floob FWIW on a fresh install of Retropie 3.6 those duplicates are there as well. Been wondering about that, but I had taken them out and forgotten until your post.

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              • RionR
                Rion
                last edited by

                With this setup can you have both emulation station and Attract on the same image.

                Attract started from Emulationstation,
                Emulationstation started from Attract?

                FBNeo rom filtering
                Mame2003 Arcade Bezels
                Fba Arcade Bezels
                Fba NeoGeo Bezels

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                • A
                  ashmck73
                  last edited by

                  I downloaded Floobs prebuilt Attractmode image dated April 10 and it all setup fine.

                  The only issue I have is trying to add another layout to it. I have downloaded the Nevato layout from the Attractmode forum and copied the folder over into the /home/pi/develop/attract/config/layouts folder on the Raspberry Pi but it will not show up as one on the available layouts.

                  I also see Robospin is listed as one of the available layouts, but I do not see a Robospin folder in the layouts directory as listed above.

                  Just wondering if it is loading the layouts from somewhere else.

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                  • FinheadF
                    Finhead @ashmck73
                    last edited by

                    @ashmck73 said:

                    I downloaded Floobs prebuilt Attractmode image dated April 10 and it all setup fine.

                    The only issue I have is trying to add another layout to it. I have downloaded the Nevato layout from the Attractmode forum and copied the folder over into the /home/pi/develop/attract/config/layouts folder on the Raspberry Pi but it will not show up as one on the available layouts.

                    I also see Robospin is listed as one of the available layouts, but I do not see a Robospin folder in the layouts directory as listed above.

                    Just wondering if it is loading the layouts from somewhere else.

                    Layouts are found in /home/pi/.attract/layouts
                    And for the nevato layout it doesn't like vertical monitors layout. You'll need to mode the layout.nut to make it work at all.

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                      ashmck73 @Finhead
                      last edited by

                      Thanks for that - was thinking I just had the wrong folder for the Layouts. Didn't realise there was a hidden folder for it.

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                      • senkunS
                        senkun
                        last edited by

                        I started again from scratch and been playing with AM for a bit, getting to really like it a lot now that I've got everything working more or less properly on my RPi3.

                        I've got it to now boot directly into AM, and fixed that xkbcomp RALT error by, well, "compose:ralt" to make it happy. It's pretty seamless now, from booting up into frontend then launching and exiting games. So went tweaking and got rid of that annoying flash of a white xterm window/log using a dirty hack of setting -fg and -bg to black, which also helps hide msgs in between starting and exiting a game. I'm sure there must be a more elegant solution by diverting output windows or suppressing msgs, if anyone?

                        Some surprises, I left it unattended to answer a call with just the frontend displaying, came back and was a tad shocked thinking somehow a game got launched automatically. Then realized it was just the AM screensaver. It has some awesome options, including full screen videos of whatever game videosnaps you have installed.

                        True to it's name, Attract Mode is very attractive and dynamic. So very end user friendly (with the setup ease and convenience of Retropie behind it), it just beckons one to try out the games installed. It would be fantastic for a cabinet but I'm looking forward to using it in a small portable setup with one of them cheap GPIO TFT screens.

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                        • FinheadF
                          Finhead @senkun
                          last edited by

                          @senkun

                          For startup I have mine running the standard RetroPie splashscreen with a Video. About 14 secs is all it needs and you don't see anything other than the video after the inital 4 Raspberries and the 4 lines of code for the breif second.

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                          • InsecureSpikeI
                            InsecureSpike @senkun
                            last edited by

                            @senkun said:

                            I started again from scratch and been playing with AM for a bit, getting to really like it a lot now that I've got everything working more or less properly on my RPi3.

                            I've got it to now boot directly into AM, and fixed that xkbcomp RALT error by, well, "compose:ralt" to make it happy. It's pretty seamless now, from booting up into frontend then launching and exiting games. So went tweaking and got rid of that annoying flash of a white xterm window/log using a dirty hack of setting -fg and -bg to black, which also helps hide msgs in between starting and exiting a game. I'm sure there must be a more elegant solution by diverting output windows or suppressing msgs, if anyone?

                            Some surprises, I left it unattended to answer a call with just the frontend displaying, came back and was a tad shocked thinking somehow a game got launched automatically. Then realized it was just the AM screensaver. It has some awesome options, including full screen videos of whatever game videosnaps you have installed.

                            True to it's name, Attract Mode is very attractive and dynamic. So very end user friendly (with the setup ease and convenience of Retropie behind it), it just beckons one to try out the games installed. It would be fantastic for a cabinet but I'm looking forward to using it in a small portable setup with one of them cheap GPIO TFT screens.

                            hi are you able to post up your .img?

                            RPi 3 - RetroPie + 500gb HDD [consoles] + Razer Onza Tournament
                            RPi 3 - RetroPie + 32gb USB [computers] + Keyboard
                            both with AttractMode + FuzzBoxx Layout

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                            • senkunS
                              senkun @Finhead
                              last edited by

                              @Finhead said:

                              @senkun

                              For startup I have mine running the standard RetroPie splashscreen with a Video. About 14 secs is all it needs and you don't see anything other than the video after the inital 4 Raspberries and the 4 lines of code for the breif second.

                              For some reason video splashscreens run flaky on mine. If you want you can get rid of the raspberries as well
                              to /boot/cmdline.txt add logo.nologo

                              That brief coloured flash on startup you can suppress by adding to /boot/config.txt
                              disable_splash=1

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                              • senkunS
                                senkun @InsecureSpike
                                last edited by

                                @InsecureSpike said:

                                hi are you able to post up your .img?

                                hey, I would but it's now been expanded to 16GB and I'd need to borrow a cd drive so I can use gparted and try compress it. As it is, the img we have now is quirky with the keyboard, AM seems to ditch it after a few seconds. If I hadn't set a controller I'd have to ssh in to shutdown or reboot.

                                I'd wait for @Floob to release his new img tho, it would definitely be the way to go.

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                                • InsecureSpikeI
                                  InsecureSpike
                                  last edited by

                                  ok, i just realised i've been trying to run this on a pi B,
                                  stupid me!!!

                                  RPi 3 - RetroPie + 500gb HDD [consoles] + Razer Onza Tournament
                                  RPi 3 - RetroPie + 32gb USB [computers] + Keyboard
                                  both with AttractMode + FuzzBoxx Layout

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                                  • FinheadF
                                    Finhead @InsecureSpike
                                    last edited by

                                    @InsecureSpike said:

                                    ok, i just realised i've been trying to run this on a pi B,
                                    stupid me!!!

                                    Here incase you missed it
                                    Image for RP1+2

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                                    • InsecureSpikeI
                                      InsecureSpike @Finhead
                                      last edited by

                                      @Finhead said:

                                      @InsecureSpike said:

                                      ok, i just realised i've been trying to run this on a pi B,
                                      stupid me!!!

                                      Here incase you missed it
                                      Image for RP1+2

                                      yup thought I was using my pi 2 b!

                                      now I am, and have Floobs img working! yay!!

                                      RPi 3 - RetroPie + 500gb HDD [consoles] + Razer Onza Tournament
                                      RPi 3 - RetroPie + 32gb USB [computers] + Keyboard
                                      both with AttractMode + FuzzBoxx Layout

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                                      • R
                                        robertybob
                                        last edited by

                                        So just to confirm, Floob's image doesn't have the RetroPie emulators (i.e Libretro) set up already within AM?

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                                        • FinheadF
                                          Finhead @robertybob
                                          last edited by

                                          @robertybob said:

                                          So just to confirm, Floob's image doesn't have the RetroPie emulators (i.e Libretro) set up already within AM?

                                          Even if it's not, which I believe it might have 1 setup but not 100% since I didn't use his image. IF you go to approx 55:20 on the video he shows you how to setup the mame emulator in retoarch.
                                          IT's very easy to setup emulators.

                                          You guys should really make time and watch his video, he was nice enough to spend the time to do one. Super awesome of him. ;)

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                                          • R
                                            robertybob @Finhead
                                            last edited by robertybob

                                            @Finhead Oh don't worry I did watch it ;) Might have been me being dumb but I couldn't tell if the image did or did not have all of the RP emulators set up.

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