ARpiCADE_5 - for Pi4 or Pi5

[FrizzleFried]

That was anti-climatic. I created a plugins folder in the .mame folder. I added a hiscore folder inside the plugin folder. I added the hiscore.dat file in that folder.

No high score saving still... (251)

[dee2eR]

Oh damn.

Did you also edit /home/pi/.mame/plugin.ini to make hiscore 1 ? If so maybe it does need to be patched in.

[FrizzleFried]

I did not... THAT's likely the problem. Time to re-burn...

(May I suggest we name this version of the ARpiCADE software... "Reburn")?

[FrizzleFried]

... and, unfortunately, nope. I added 1 next to hiscore... still no saving high scores. ODDLY mame172 folder... of which mame172 is saving high score ... it's plugin.ini shows HISCORE 0 ...not HISCORE 1. Is there a different ini file I should be looking somewhere other than in the mame in questions folder by chance?

[FrizzleFried]

Also... i'm trying to clean up a little. There is a PLEASE WAIT type of message that appears upside down and squished for a second or less before LOADING shows up... I found the LOADING images... I can not find the PLEASE WAIT images. I plan on making those images just a single black dot which would eliminate the upside down PLEASE wait message...

[FrizzleFried]

Confirmed - AdvMAME vids/snaps/etc all fixed with the path fix within Attract Mode. What file can I change (if any) to do so from within linux? I'm trying to make as much "done" as possible for my latest image.
adding all the displays, removing all the non-usable displays, changing the path for AdvMAME, etc)... anything I can do to automate any of that makes the image that much closer to "done" at loadup.

You will want to investigate /home/pi/.attract/attract.cfg and also /home/pi/.attract/emulators/advmame.cfg (for the double /firmware/ fix)

For anyone following along... you will want to edit the home/pi/.attract/emulators/advmame.cfg file to fix the extra /firmware/ path issue...

[FrizzleFried]

Dee2er...

Can you think of a way I can get .269 installed. I ask because I can't actually install it until I put it in my cabinet... but then when I go back to the PC to add ROMS, etc... it will break the card.

Hmmm... maybe if you give me the folder name/path for the ROMS, i can then add the ROMS before I actually add the .269 version?

Also, can I put multiple things in the UPDATE folder? Because if not... then how would I both add the controller change and .269 being I would have to ... again ... go back to the PC to add one or the other after the first... no?

[FrizzleFried]

Also... is there anything else I can do "automatically"? Is there a configuration file somewhere that would allow me to pre-install...

• Vertical Mode
• 480i Mode

Also... could I manually do the updates ahead of time (controller and mame269) by doing what the update does myself?

[FrizzleFried]

Samples folder on the WINDOWS folder doesn't seem to be working. I put samples in there (each zipped)... but AdvMAME (which I know uses samples) doesn't play them... and .172 (which I suspect uses samples) doesn't use them. Both those versions play full speed with no sound other than voice. Unfortunately .251 plays with full sound... at the expense of speed. This old dog plays about 60% speed (estimated) in MAME .251.

I'm about to go see if I can find sample folders in each mame.

EDIT: OK... dropping samples in to .advmame/sample fixed advmame... however creating both /sample and /samples (I've read it both ways) with samples in both folders did not fix .172 (if Astro Blaster indeed uses samples for .172).

[cool_factor]

Just a fwiw.

My borked sd card was unable to be fixed using paragon v5. I decided to uninstall and install newer version 7 and try again.....it verified fixed it! I haven't tried it in a cab yet and won't be able to do so until Sunday afternoon... I'll update then. Maybe it is a Paragon issue after all. Even not mounting it as Friz has confirmed.