ARpiCADE 3.8 Release!

[dee2eR]

I've updated the first post with an update (3.81) to fix issues with advmame controls when changing setups.

[Matt68061]

Thanks for the bug fix! seems to have helped the exiting issue. Have not played around with the wifi anymore but I did discover another potential issue.

When I go into the mame172.ini file using Paragon software on my windows machine none of my changes save after using Notepad++ software.

I am trying to enable mouse input for a usb trackball. This worked fine in 3.72.

I will try to open the file from command line on the pi itself but just thought I would point out the change.

Thanks!
Matt

I did try to take ownership of the file in Windows... these might be something that would be handy on the other partition by the way...

[Matt68061]

I hope folks realize im not trying to poo poo on anything at all...just reporting behaviors after the 3.8 unveiling

I notice some weird behavior on the screen saver. I use the movie collage and two things are happening.

1. The last game played seems to be "stuck" behind the movies played...
2. When a clip is done playing...a quick "shuffle" of about 10 clips pass and then the new one starts...

Not a biggie...but new with 3.8.

[dee2eR]

All good Matt, I appreciate the feedback (although of course I'd prefer if I got everything right off the bat but there's so many things a Pi can do it's really hard not to miss some things).

Not sure why the files won't save through notepad++ and windows. I assume you're saving the file in notepad++ and then safely removing the SD card. It may not be a good idea to change file permissions as it could stop MAME from being able to write to the file (but also may not matter, just something to keep in mind). Out of curiosity can you edit the mame.ini for 192 and save it through paragon?

I havn't noticed the screen saver differences I'll keep an eye out. It's probably just a quirk of the new version of Attract-Mode. I like that the new version brought back the jump to the position on the list that corresponds to the current video on the screen saver when you press b1, I missed that feature). You may want to check all your games have video, I deleted a bunch to help the file compression for the release.

[dee2eR]

This is attempt the second at fixing up advmame config files, should fix the joystick configs for all advmame versions. This can go over 3.72, 3.8 or the "3.81" update I put out yesterday.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=16qfj1 ... 2tMkjdrukS

just unzip and copy the contents to /boot/config-updater (you need both the update.sh script and the folder 3.811_fixupdate with all it's contents). The update can then be installed through the update option of the service menu.

[Matt68061]

Busy day...will try to save 191 ini later and report back...

I see others on KLOV having issues with exiting games... i sporadically have that happen as well. It sort of comes and goes.

Be curious if they have a keyboard plugged in or not?

Have a nice weekend.

Matt

[Bubbak]

Thanks for the hard work on keeping up with updates.. Does the update script and files take the place of the full image or do I need to re-image then install the update script? I'm currently running 3.72.

[_jack_]

First of all, thank you very very much for this amazing project !!
I am an happy raspberryjamma owner and succesfully update to new 2.8 release. I succesfully connect to internet via wi-fi to my router and can surf the sd card via ssh and filezilla from windows... so the question is:
I would be able to do a scraping of the roms for video preview downloads ( as someone did in retropie, for example ). I see there is a scraper entry in the service menu and also the video option ... so are there some istructions to use the scraper in arpicade?
Thank you in advance for the answer

[dee2eR]

Thanks for the hard work on keeping up with updates.. Does the update script and files take the place of the full image or do I need to re-image then install the update script? I'm currently running 3.72.

3.8 is a full SD card image, there is an update of advmame config files that goes on top of 3.8 though.

[dee2eR]

First of all, thank you very very much for this amazing project !!
I am an happy raspberryjamma owner and succesfully update to new 2.8 release. I succesfully connect to internet via wi-fi to my router and can surf the sd card via ssh and filezilla from windows... so the question is:
I would be able to do a scraping of the roms for video preview downloads ( as someone did in retropie, for example ). I see there is a scraper entry in the service menu and also the video option ... so are there some istructions to use the scraper in arpicade?
Thank you in advance for the answer

There's not currently a video scraper, I have written one but decided to keep it off the ARpiCADE release as it would be very easy to corrupt the SD card accidentally downloading too many video files to fit on the card. I might release it sepperately at some point or add some sanity checks to make it safer... not sure yet. If there's demand for a Linux terminal based video scraper for MAME roms please let me know.