ARpiCADE meets Vertipie (WIP)
Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2018 4:45 am
Didn't really know where to put this as it's not really a "support" type thread, more of a "this is what I'm working on thread" 
Once upon a time, I downloaded a raspberry pi image specifically designed for SHMUPS called "Vertipie" by Freddy Poli who was originally part of a Retropie FB group which is now known as the Project Hyperpie group.
I wanted this rpi image since it was the only one out there that had a collection of vertical games and used the fancy attract mode (was fancy back then
).
Ever since this image existed, I've always had a desire to build my very own dedicated shmups cab. At some point last year, that dream became a reality when I built the weecade inspired verticade
It went perfectly with my Horiztonal Hyperpie build - they were a match made in bartop heaven
As we all know, I wouldn't be on this forum if it wasn't for my recently purchased RaspberryJamma. I obviously purchased the RaspberryJamma for an Arcade setup. For me, it's the Sega Astro City, which up until 20 days ago, was non-existent in my garage. I managed to get one at a decent price and another at a complete bargain ($AUD150), unfortunately the the chassis on it has a vertical collapse and is currently getting fixed.
Since 3.8 is runs attract mode natively, I thought I'd try creating additional displays which uses the same layouts from the Original Vertipie.
Steps I've taken:
Here's the generic display showing every single game
Here are the other 4 displays setup
Cave
Mame
SHMUPS (capcom, toplan, taito, midway etc)
Psikyo
I obviously still need to rotate my screen and fix up the width, but you get a rough idea of how it looks
I'm hoping to add/remove some roms from the romlist eg. add Ketsui, DodonPachi Dai-Ou-Jou, Espgaluda to the CAVE page and remove all the games from the MAME page (should just be a matter of adding/removing a line in the romlist).
I will be testing further, but I'm hoping I don't have to put roms in individual folders so for example, I create a "vertical-cave.txt" romlist on the Cave display and when I launch DoDonPachi II - Bee Storm, it runs it through advance mame or if I launch DoDonPachi Dai-Ou-Jou, it runs it through FBA using the romlist below..
Still plenty of testing to do and I'm still waiting for my chassis to come back from repair, so there's no major rush to have it sorted, but hopefully my theory works
Once upon a time, I downloaded a raspberry pi image specifically designed for SHMUPS called "Vertipie" by Freddy Poli who was originally part of a Retropie FB group which is now known as the Project Hyperpie group.
I wanted this rpi image since it was the only one out there that had a collection of vertical games and used the fancy attract mode (was fancy back then
).Ever since this image existed, I've always had a desire to build my very own dedicated shmups cab. At some point last year, that dream became a reality when I built the weecade inspired verticade
It went perfectly with my Horiztonal Hyperpie build - they were a match made in bartop heaven
As we all know, I wouldn't be on this forum if it wasn't for my recently purchased RaspberryJamma. I obviously purchased the RaspberryJamma for an Arcade setup. For me, it's the Sega Astro City, which up until 20 days ago, was non-existent in my garage. I managed to get one at a decent price and another at a complete bargain ($AUD150), unfortunately the the chassis on it has a vertical collapse and is currently getting fixed.
Since 3.8 is runs attract mode natively, I thought I'd try creating additional displays which uses the same layouts from the Original Vertipie.
Steps I've taken:
- Copied all the roms from the vertipie image (appears to be a full romset of advance mame since there's over 6k files) and shoved them under /boot/roms/mame-106/
- Copied all the layouts from vertipie and copied them over to /boot/attract-layouts (there's only 4 - MAME, CAVE, SHMUPS and PSIKYO)
- Copied the romlist from vertipie to /home/pi/.attract/romlists
- Created a CAVE display with the layout Vertipie-Cave using the list Vertical Cave - repeat this step to setup the other 3 displays
Here's the generic display showing every single game
Here are the other 4 displays setup
Cave
Mame
SHMUPS (capcom, toplan, taito, midway etc)
Psikyo
I obviously still need to rotate my screen and fix up the width, but you get a rough idea of how it looks
I'm hoping to add/remove some roms from the romlist eg. add Ketsui, DodonPachi Dai-Ou-Jou, Espgaluda to the CAVE page and remove all the games from the MAME page (should just be a matter of adding/removing a line in the romlist).
I will be testing further, but I'm hoping I don't have to put roms in individual folders so for example, I create a "vertical-cave.txt" romlist on the Cave display and when I launch DoDonPachi II - Bee Storm, it runs it through advance mame or if I launch DoDonPachi Dai-Ou-Jou, it runs it through FBA using the romlist below..
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ddp2;DoDonPachi II - Bee Storm (World, ver. 102);advmame;;2001;IGS;Shooter / Flying Vertical;;;;;0;;;;;
feversos;Fever SOS (International, Ver. 98/09/25);advmame;;1998;Cave (Nihon System license);Shoot-;;;;;0;;;;;
agallet;agallet;advmame;;;;;;;;;0;;;;;
esprade;esprade;advmame;;;;;;;;;0;;;;;
guwange;guwange;advmame;;;;;;;;;0;;;;;
ddonpach;DoDonPachi (International, master ver. 97/02/05)";fba;;1997;Atlus / Cave";;;;;;;;;;
ddpdojblk;DoDonPachi Dai-Ou-Jou Black Label (V100, (2002.10.07.Black Ver), Japan)";fba;;2002;Cave / AMI";;;;;;;;;;
dfeveron;Dangun Feveron (Japan, ver. 98/09/17)";fba;;1998;Cave / Nihon System inc.";;;;;;;;;;
espgal;Espgaluda (V100, Japan)";fba;;2003;CAVE / AMI";;;;;;;;;;
