ARpiCADE 4.3 (for RPi4)

[dee2eR]

Side note: How do I get to a command line???

F4 from the service menu and confirm exit. When you're done doing whatever type

sudo reboot

to reboot, or type

sudo poweroff

if you're done and want to shut it down.

[Firehawk]

If I press the service button on my cab I can do the rom scan. But I can't get out of the service menu without rebooting or shutting down. Is this normal or am I missing a button combination? I can add Full rom scan to favourites but where can I find this favourite menu?

Another question is when I play Dreamcast games it consist mostly of multiple files bins and cue for example. Arpicade shows the game then multiple time for every file. Is thery a way to hide the bin files for example?

Btw, I have to say Atomiswave/Naomi/Dreamcast runs very well. Better then Deathsmiles.

Rebooting to get back to the game menu from the service menu is normal. The service menu and the regular game menu are two sepperate instances of Attract-Mode.

I think you have to add a favourites display using Attract-Modes menu to use favourites.

You can hide stuff you don't want seen in the menu manually using a keyboard. When it's highlighted in the menu press 'e' for the edit menu, delete this game is one of the options - it only removes the menu entry and doesn't actually delete the game. Next time you scan the roms the entries you remove this way will reappear though. It's also possible to edit the game lists directly with a text editor.

Thanks I will look in to this.

[cool_factor]

Side note: How do I get to a command line???

F4 from the service menu and confirm exit. When you're done doing whatever type

sudo reboot

to reboot, or type

sudo poweroff

if you're done and want to shut it down.

Couldnt figure this out (I dont know Linux very well at all) so I actually reflashed a new sd card (same type,Sandisk Extreme 64GB) put one ROM on it, started it, it started fine, no errors, did the update to 4.3.1, got the same exact errors. Opened cmdline.txt and changed from skip to auto, restarted again, saw a quick screen of something (like 1/2 sec if that and then a bunch of what looked like code entries), the ArPiCade splash screen, no errors, then attract mode. shut down, changed cmdline back to skip from auto, restarted system, nothing but black screen, the ArpiCade splash, black screen again, then attract mode with the one game. Wondering if something is happening during the upgrade? I'll keep an eye on how it starts up the next few times and report back.

SIDE NOTE: Is there a way to change the splash screen like on 3.x.1?

[dee2eR]

Interesting, maybe one of the new files in the update is causing the issue. Maybe there's a corrupted file or similar. I wonder if I made it run e2fsck while updating would it fix it up... might have to investigate this further.

At the moment on Pi4 the splash image is: /boot/previews/splash.png just edit that file to change the splash.

[dee2eR]

Found a slight performance increase for MAME 203 and 230. In /home/pi/mame203/mame.ini and /home/pi/mame230/mame.ini find the section labled 'OSD VIDEO OPTIONS' and change 'video' from 'auto' to 'accel'

Seems to make a bigger difference for 203 but both are improved from my testing.

It doesn't work for MAME 172, in fact it has the opposite effect and will cause worse performance...

[cool_factor]

Errors back.... I'm not doing anything different than I did with 3.x.1 so not sure what's causing it. It Im going to try leaving fsdk on auto and see what happens. Weird if 2 identical SD cards would be faulty. Its the first time I've used the Extremes though. Ill let you know findings..

[Firehawk]

Found a slight performance increase for MAME 203 and 230. In /home/pi/mame203/mame.ini and /home/pi/mame230/mame.ini find the section labled 'OSD VIDEO OPTIONS' and change 'video' from 'auto' to 'accel'

Seems to make a bigger difference for 203 but both are improved from my testing.

It doesn't work for MAME 172, in fact it has the opposite effect and will cause worse performance...

Tried this for mame 203 with Deathsmiles black label. Runs indeed a little better.

Also overclocked my pi4 to:
arm_freq=2147
gpu_freq=750

Can't really tell if it makes a difference. My Pi4 still seems to run stable with these settings.
Can you also check somewhere in Arpicade at what speed it is running?

[dee2eR]

You'd have to goto the command line to check the speed of the processor if that's what you mean.

If you mean the emulation speed in game you can press F11 on a keyboard (MAME only) to see the emulated game speed.

In my experience Black Label is a bit harder to run than non Black label Death Smiles. The overclock should be helping, it certainly makes a difference for me, although I haven't tried Black Label in 203 as far as I remember. Except for Akai Katana I've had the best luck in 172 for the newer CAVE games.

[dee2eR]

Errors back.... I'm not doing anything different than I did with 3.x.1 so not sure what's causing it. It Im going to try leaving fsdk on auto and see what happens. Weird if 2 identical SD cards would be faulty. Its the first time I've used the Extremes though. Ill let you know findings..

If the second card does it too I doubt it's the SD card card (assuming they're genuine), I haven't noticed anything different with the SanDisk Extremes I've had compared to SanDisk Ultras (not even the theoretical speed increase, not that I've timed and compared writes or anything).

I'll put cmdline.txt back how it was for the next release if this continues to happen. Quick startup isn't worth corrupt filesystem...

[cool_factor]

fsck.mode=force fsck.repair=yes is what I added to command line.. It actually slows down all the code I was seeing before, would it be helpful to see a pic of it???

fsck.mode=auto works as well but goes way too fast to read anything.