I've just read this on the mamedev wiki... "The original controller for 720 Degrees was a joystick that was hardware-limited to only travel along the outermost edges in a circle. The internal mechanism for reading this control was similar to a spinner except that it had the additional benefit of knowing which direction the joystick was pointing. Because this knowledge is an important aspect of the game, the current emulation of the controller maps an analog joystick to the underlying controls instead of a spinner." I've never heard of this before! That would be hard to emulate. So does this mean that the system doesn't recognise when the joystick is central, so you always have to be facing in a direction for the game to work? I'm guessing you would have to set the controls in mame to allow this, but you wouldn't need to configure it as a spinner. I'm pretty sure your left right up down system would work as normal.

@Libation thank you! I'm actually going to Ottawa in a couple of weeks, I might drop by!

@MattyL42 said in The Last Starfighter Arcade?:

I was just wondering is it possible to play it on Retropie?

It would require Windows. There's always the unreleased Atari800/5200 prototype. It's not nearly screen-accurate, but it is completely period-accurate and obviously the home version that Atari planned to release.

Konami's Scramble instruction card restored:

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Source scan by MrDo/Guru.

@mitu My mistake! You were right! The config was set to true in the retroarch.cfg file in the /opt/retropie/configs/arcade directory.

@mitu thanks!

The Expansion Pack has been released on Thingiverse: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3491239

Additional Details can be found here.

@krullbeast more specifically, can i map the nunchuck(as a directional pad also) C and Z buttons as select and start in emulation station or retroarch AND also have two seperate A and B buttons wired to GPIO pins on my Pi 3b? will they all communicate with the Pi? or will the A and B buttons not work after enabling 12c serial at start up?

i am very new to this, please forgive me if i sound stupid.
and thank you for any advice
this is a rough schematic of what i'm trying to build

@SumavisionQ5 said in Born for arcade hacks - FBA4S905&RPi 0.2 is released.:

For more infomation, please visit my fork: [removed]

If you'd like to advertise your FBAlpha fork, please remove any infringing/ROM links from your project's pages, as per the forum rules. Thank you.

At the moment, MAME 2003-Plus has more advanced support for analog input devices. It is currently in testing, although after about six weeks the new analog input features have been tested by a fair number of users.

If you are willing to try with MAME 2003-Plus, please consider posting here: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/17766/mame2003-plus-hundreds-of-new-games-improved-input-features-new-bugs-now-with-runahead-support

@ironj679 Sorry we couldn't fixed your original problem - but I'm glad you managed to find a solution. I hope the upgrade to 4.4 was smooth and you managed to keep all you settings.

@simpleethat said in Anyone familiar with the arcade Dinosaur King?:

@mitu I'll be interested to see what we're emulating then.

Everything that is already running on PC maybe running on PI by then. Like Switch, Model 3, PS2, Xbox etc

@stoney66 That did the trick! Just needed the right ROM. Thanks a bunch!

@mitu said in Theme Issues:

@ballboff Remove the /home/pi/.emulationstation/themes link and then re-create the folder, you should be able copy there your theme and then select it from Emulationstation.

Ok, i'll give that a go, and thanks for your patience. :)

I know why I was getting that weird error now, it was related to having '&' in the name of a game. My example didn't help matters seeing as I didn't type '&'.

The list it generates still doesn't have the games I haven't picked, for example say the arcade rom folder has 300 games and the gamelist.xml file lists 200 roms. There's still 100 games that I have to manually pick in order for them to appear in the gamelist.xml file.

Thanks for all the help everyone I've learned a great deal from all your input.

@ballboff No, the USB hub would only power the usb devices you connect to the Pi. The Pi itself would be powered from its own power supply. Having more power supplies isn't unusual with USB hardware, in example hard drives. I also use a HDMI to VGA converter which comes with its own power cable too.