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I am wondering if this purchase was wrong. I have a brand new cocktail cabinet that had a Blue Elf 412-in-1 Jamma Board. I thought buying this one would be a great way to 1. Get more games. 2. Have my games save HiScores. 3. Be able to monkey around.

So I can see I can do item 3, if I understand this more. 1 is also there with 700+ vertical games it appears to have.

However upon boot up the main screen and going into any game, the screen is always cut off on the top. Also think it's shifted slightly to the left.Also appears the screen is major squished, like this setup is truly set up for a Horizontal setup, and the vertical is kinda just there???

I have done nothing except to backup SD card and turned it on.

I also tried the following: (according to the user doc on the Bootable/User docs folder)

You start by setting the Pi to the resolution you want in
/boot/config.txt
using the
hdmi_mode= ( I set mine to Mode 6) main screen lined up perfect)
setting you desire. This will ensure the hardware boots at the resolution you want and is the first thing to do.

You will then need to edit the service menu launcher script (boot/launchers/servMenu.sh) to uncomment (remove the ‘#’ hash) the highres options.

I did this, and upon a reboot, main screen is hi-res, but every game tried just goes to a blank screen. I could exit by adding a coin, and then holding P1 for a couple seconds

What settings do your cab need? Is it a high res screen?

What setting was set in config.txt originally? Mode 6 is 480i and is the default setting, I have a feeling it's not the one you want.

After you uncommented the high res options in /boot/launchers/servMenu.sh did you select one of them (the vertical option, I would think) from the service menu so the system could reconfigure and reboot? Your description makes it sound like you only uncommented the options without actually running one.

If you give me some more info I can probably help more. I would assume if you have a new cab with new monitor it would want to be run at high res. At the moment it sounds like you monitor can display 480i but not 240p, hence menu works but game is just a black screen.

Hi-res screen yes.
Config.txt was stock which is mode=1

I changed to mode 6 as that seems better? If on mode one, the snaps of the games do not line up in the boxes and the home screen is bigger(cuts off the top and the right of the home screen. When changed to mode 6, it all lines up perfect?

So guessing I am not understanding it all right. yes, uncommitted, select one from service menu? running one.. sounds like I am missing a step? Where/what am I running once?

Under mode 6 from config.txt monitor comes on detecting 1440x220

I just read through your first post again. Sorry I initially thought you had the ARpiCADE 3.82 release and were trying to set it up. Not knowing exactly what you have it is harder for me to give advice.

Mode 1 is 480p, which is generally right for high res monitors.

Not sure what you mean with the snap images not lining up, it sounds like maybe the theme in use doesn't suit the resolution. I'm really just guessing at this point.

You may be best to contact whoever sold you the software and ask them, maybe they have sent you the wrong one? Vertical high res isn't a particularly strange setup so I don't know why it should be so weird otherwise.

If you want to download the ARpiCADE 3.82 release and set it up with that I'm happy to help. You can get 3.82 here: viewtopic.php?f=12&t=530 (the default setup is low res horizontal but the advice I posted previously will help there) you may prefer to just contact your point of sale about the SD card you bought, they should be able to help with what you have there, I'm not sure what has been done to the setup or what version it started from.

I am way confused now. I realize I bought the hardware from Hiscoressaves.com.

But it's your software. Just so I can be clear, I need to go to them to solve the vertical issues? if so I apologize, for wasting your time.

Mode=1 is what is in my config.txt.

I did figure out to go to service menu, required f4, I changed to hi-res and the games do no show, can put a coin in(button), but screen is blank.

I un commented the servMenu.sh as the instructions for the Apricade docs state. (I have 3.8 version according to the docs)

When I save the images don't align inside boxes on the selected Attack-Mode (SDCard-vert)

I'm happy to try and talk you through getting the setup right for your cab. I just thought you may want to contact the point of sale if you thought the software was wrong, not knowing what has been done to the software you have makes it difficult (now knowing it's 3.8 helps me a bit).

When you selected the high res option in the service menu did the system reboot? If not you may not have uncommented all of the high res section in /boot/launchers/servMenu.sh and should try again. On builds older than 3.82 editing the config.txt alone will not properly setup everything. I suspect the problem with the games running on a black screen (probably the wrong resolution being sent to the monitor) you're having is related to this.

If everything worked as intended with the auto setup from the service menu I am confused as to what is happening. If you're unsure if you have edited servMenu.sh properly post the contents here and I will have a look.

okay lets go this way.

My understanding of required changes:
Given:
1. Cocktail Arcade Table, with a LCD Monitor
2. Monitor is connected via VGA cable. Using Jamma harness(allows 6 buttons, but currently only have 3 buttons setup)

Changes:
1. Edit config.txt if needed and make it say
hdmi_mode=6

2. Edit servMenu.sh
Uncomment out lines 5-21(remove the hash "#")

3. Reboot

4. Press F4 to exit Attach mode

5. Select Hi-res mode, by hitting "A" button, it automatically reboots machine.

Did I miss anything?
How do I tell exactly which version of ArpiCADE I have? It's version 3.8 for sure.. but not sure how to tell if it's 3.82.

It may be you have 3.82, not sure but from the servMenu having the high res options at the top it sounds like it. I forgot to update the instructions for 3.82 so it wouldn't say there. I'm assuming you have 3.82 for now, this is good.

Looking in my copy of servMenu.sh you would actually need to uncomment lines 5 through 23 for it to work (the comment in the file did say to line 21 though), if yours is the same as mine you may have 2 lines left to uncomment for it to work properly. Although if it did reboot when you first tried it maybe my file is just different because I changed it (I don't think so but I'm currently working on what will be 3.83 soon so it may be different). (I just fixed it to read 23 in future releases too)

So what you want to do is:
1. Edit config.txt if needed and make it say
hdmi_mode=6 (6 is 480i and is the default for 3.82 but if it works for you go with it for now it will be changed automatically later on by step 5. -- booting in mode 6 will cause the system to switch to 240p (or other non-interlaced low resolutions) for most games which is why I think you're seeing black screens instead of games.

2. Edit servMenu.sh (check I haven't left a typo in there suggesting you don't uncomment enough lines out)

3. reboot (if you were working on the pi until now) or boot up on pi if you haven't already been.

4. Press F4 to exit Attach mode

5. Select vertical Hi-res mode, by hitting "A" button, it reconfigures and automatically reboots machine.

6. If everything until now has worked the system is in 480p again, if your monitor positions the picture oddly there may be adjustments you can make on monitor to fix it up (or maybe an auto adjust button).

7. Please report back if this works or not.

I started with fresh backup copy of SDCard, unedited in anyway.

Edited my Config.txt from

hdmi_mode=1 to hdmi_mode=6

My servMenu.sh shows this:
## High res is disabled here by default for safety, uncomment lines 5 through 21 to use.
# if [ $1 == hrh ]; then
# #set Pi to High Res 480p horizontal
# cd /boot/config-updater
# sudo cp config.txt.hrh /boot/config.txt
#
# # Reboot to make changes take effect
# sudo reboot
# fi
#
# if [ $1 == hrv ]; then
# #set Pi to High Res 480p vertical
# cd /boot/config-updaterEdited my Config.txt from
# sudo cp config.txt.hrv /boot/config.txt
#
# # Reboot to make changes take effect
# sudo reboot
# fi
#
#if [ $1 == romscan ]; then
# bash /home/pi/.attract/sortRoms.sh

So clearly it would be lines 5-21. Line 23 is for Rom scanning

Edited my Config.txt from
Booted up to PI as I have working on files via Unbuntu

Screen boots up Arpicade logo
Monitor adjusts to 1440X240 (screen is lined up now.)
Exit from Attach Mode
Select to Hi-res vertical , machine reboots.

Upon rebooting, monitor says 640x480 now, and the Screen is once again misaligned.

games, play, but screens are mis-alinged.

I am honestly way confused. I can post images if that can help..