Adding files/txt docs to image...

[dee2eR]

Hello.

Let me start by saying "thank you." (to Dylan) I can't tell you how impressed I am with your after the sale "customer service." You really go over and above dealing with the constant questions on your product. I see all of your replies on the various forums and am constantly asking myself... "how does this dude deal with all these dorks like me that don't know the first thing about Linux."

Your patience is amazing.

Before I move on.... what is the command on 3.83 to get back to attractmode from the service menu?? seems to have changed.

OK...so I have to ask. Has anyone reading these posts managed to try this out and getting it to work? I sure can't.

Here are my Exact steps... starting from a fresh image that works perfectly before I start.

1. Fire up the Arpicade and it does it's romscan as normal.
2. go into the run.sh and disable romscan. test this by rebooting and all is fine.
3. follow the command prompt lines above;
sudo mv /home/pi/.attract/romlists /boot
Follow that by creating the symlink:
ln -s /boot/romlists /home/pi/.attract/romlists
4. This creates the romlist folder in Boot partition. I can find the "allGames.txt" file and make changes.
HOWEVER when I go to reboot AttractMode still looks at the original file. It does not appear to move its focus from the romlist in the original partition to the new location.

Any thoughts on what I am missing here.

Honestly...this is not that big of a deal. I just really like to teach myself how this stuff works.

If this is becoming a waste of time just let me know and I will drop it.

I can say....moving forward, as was stated earlier, having the romlists folder in Boot to edit like the other configs would be awesome.

Have a good one...sorry so long!!

Thanks for the compliments....

After creating the symlink in .attract Attract-Mode will think it is still looking at the same spot (/home/pi/.attract/romlists) but 'romlists' is now a link to the new romlists folder on /boot. That said, I'm not sure why it didn't work for you... (when I tested this I made the symlink on my Linux box and not on the Pi... I will go through again and do it on the Pi to see if I missed anything - not sure if I can fit it in today...).

@FrizzleFried (assuming you've tried) did moving the romlists to /boot work out for you?

[FrizzleFried]

I've not tried it out yet....

[cool_factor]

Forgive me if this is a stupid question... The only list I've ever edited has been the allgames list, why would the others need to be edited? I've noticed that after the initial scan and disabling that the romlsts remain the same even if editing the allgames list.

[dee2eR]

You can have Attract-Mode set up with as many or as few lists as you like so all the different lists may or may not come in handy for you. You've noticed edits to one list will not change another, which is actually why you may want to edit multiple lists. As an example you could make it so in you all games list different versions of games have the console in the title to identify them easily: eg.
Mario Bros. - Arcade
Mario Bros. - NES
At the same time you can have them in dedicated lists without any extra info in the titles.

This isn't something I've done but it is a reason you may want the all games entries to be a bit different to the other lists...

Personally I prefer not to edit the rom lists but edit the .lst files for the MAME versions so I can scan the roms from the service menu if I add/remove games and have any title changes I've made stay.

[FrizzleFried]

I have multiple lists... and switch between the multiple lists from within the front end (and each list can have it's own unique layout...)...

On my horizontal cabinet I have:

DAPHNE - All Daphne games
CAPCOM - All Capcom games
DATA EAST - etc...
IREM
MIDWAY
KONAMI
PSIKYO
TRACKBALL ONLY
SPINNER ONLY
ALL MAME2003
ALL ADVMAME
ALL MAME172
FAVORITES

...and probably one or two others...