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Hi there,

I wish a happy new year 2016 to all Raspicade users. I had a lot of work the last 6 months wich prevent me to work on the next release of Raspicade.

I started to work again on it. I hope a new release will be soon available.

Stay tuned.

see my webpage for more info : http://www.morere.eu/spip.php?article181

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I made a little video for the proof of concept of using the piTFT 2"8 resistive screen with Raspicade :

Will make the img of the distro when all is good. Stay tuned.

I made some test on a Pi 512 rev B. There is problem with the libretro snes9x emulator which is selected by default. Rpi1 is not enough powerfull for libretro and sound is crackling !

All is working fine with the standalone pisnes (need some key configuration modification on xin-mo, because start is not working : get the new config file here https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ian57/Raspicade-configuration-files/master/pisnes/snes9x.cfg-xinmo-2players).
So for RPi1 you need to use pisnes instead of libretro snes9x.
it is easy to configure :... read more

All is in the title

raspicade-samba-gamepads-keyboard-pikeyd_ready-B-B+-GPIOready-ES-20150512.img.gz and raspicade-samba-gamepads-keyboard-pikeyd_ready-Pi2Optimized-GPIOready-ES-20150512.img.gz : major revision of raspicade. Now there is 2 specific releases of raspicade : one for Pi1 B512 B+ and another optimized for Pi2. BE SURE TO DOWNLOAD THE RIGHT ONE!!!. This last one includes in addition advancemame emulator which supports more recent roms pack (0.106). In this release, all power consuming emulators have been compiled with armv7 optimization. EmulationStation has been enhanced and includes background music for each emulator, a quick access to Ip adress from the menu. Due to the integration of advmame, the xinmo wiring has been modified. See wiki for the new wiring (only 5 wires have to be moved). Xbox controllers (wired and wireless) are now supported by default thanks to the xboxdrv driver, but emulators are not yet configured fot them. You'll need to do that ;).

• raspicade-samba-gamepads-keyboard-pikeyd_ready-B+-Pi2-GPIOready-ES-20150423.img.gz : All previous bugfixed. The enxt release will have huge modification. stay tuned

Some users encounter problem when booting the yesterday release. See photo below

Usually it comes from a date problem. Here on the picture, the current pi date is 8 of april, and my distro was made on 9 of april... the system can't boot in the future ;)

to fix that easily just plug a keyboard and type the password "pi". after that run the following command... read more

If you own a huge SD card (16Go 32Go 64Go), can you test the last release of raspicade to check if boot problem appears with the release? see https://sourceforge.net/p/raspicade/discussion/bugs/thread/1351e8ec/ for details.

I've integrated the last start_x.elf and fixup_x.dat file in the distro.

There are permissions problem on 4 directories : mupen64 and scummvm roms, retroarch bios and videos folders.

To correct that do the following :

$ mkdir /home/pi/retro/roms_scummvm
$ chmod 777 /home/pi/retro/roms_scummvm
$ chmod 777 mupen64plus/roms/
$ mkdir /home/pi/retro/bios
$ chmod 777 /home/pi/retro/bios
$ chmod 777 videos/
$ sudo /etc/init.d/samba restart

The roms should be uploadable. I changed that in the current release and re uploaded it. ... read more

I updated the input selector script to include GPIO (retrogame) and MCP module (pikeyd) selection. See https://github.com/ian57/Raspicade-configuration-files/commit/8d03b843f38d36e2379516ff02c789d2a6f183cc#diff-b04cf1e875a950a775567cba87fbebc5

You can update the 20150408 release with these commands :

$ cd temp/Raspicade-configuration-files/
$ git pull
$ sudo cp etc/rc.local* /etc/
$ cp piinputconf.sh ~/
$ sudo reboot

I've just uploaded a new image file that includes an upgrade for Pisnes. It fixes a spped problem on this emulator. See here https://sourceforge.net/p/raspicade/discussion/general/thread/7aafc063/ for details. If you find pisnes slow and you got the last release 20150408, please DL the last binary at https://github.com/ian57/Raspicade-pisnes-xinmo/raw/master/snes9x and replace the one you have in the /home/pi/pisnes directory. It should run smoother.

I discovered lately that the startup scripts had no effect on configuration!!! The recent updates keep the file system in Read Only mode during the boot preventing the configuration scri pts to write in files. I delayed the configuration script to make them work. The release of Raspicade has numerous novelties :

• new 3.18.11+ kernel with Xin-Mo patch : Linux raspicade 3.18.11-v7+ #5 SMP PREEMPT Tue Apr 7 14:37:34 UTC 2015 armv7l GNU/Linux;
• Last start.elf and fixup.dat files for a better support of large SD cards see https://sourceforge.net/p/raspicade/discussion/bugs/thread/1351e8ec/;
• Update of Mame4all-pi with the last release from https://sourceforge.net/projects/mame4allpi/. My XinMo patch has been applied to it;
• Updates of all libretro emulators
• Integration of the fixed SDL 1.2 libs to avoid the "black screen" on emulators like Dgen, ScummVm or Stella
• Adding the Scummvm emulator
• Adding the mupen64 N64 emulator
• A new start configuration script to select the type of input : Keyboard or Gamepads or XinMo
• Upgrade.sh script has been updated too (but use at your own risk!!! not fully tested)
• Severals bugs has been fixed (ex : pimenu startup bug)

raspicade-samba-gamepads-keyboard-pikeyd_ready-B+-Pi2-GPIOready-ES-20150309.img.gz is out
Corrects the retrogame bug for GPIO support.

I made a mistake in the retrogame 2 players for Pi2. I modified the ioTFT array instead of the ioStabdard array. As a consequence, no key is sent to the emulators or frontend. This is corrected in the github repository https://github.com/ian57/Raspicade-configuration-files/commit/45cfe6c33127755c31b51aec8b51d82adf8de783 and https://github.com/ian57/Raspicade-Retrogame-2Player-Pi2. Will upload an update soon. Stay tuned... read more

Raspicade is now supporting Pi2. check this out by downloading the last release.

Adam Turner, a australian journalist has made a good article which explain how to update Raspicade to make it work on the new Pi2. He's using the GPIO wiring.

http://www.pcauthority.com.au/News/400932,update-raspicade-retro-arcade-project-for-raspberry-pi.aspx?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

Great thanks to him for the job made.

If you are brave, you can use it to make your own upgrade. ... read more

I'm actually working on the Pi2 support. It's on its way...

Stay tuned.

Hi,

I wrote 2 simple scripts to switch the configuration of the emulators to XinMo or Gamepads. They're located on the github and will be included in the next release of raspicade :

• https://github.com/ian57/Raspicade-configuration-files/blob/master/ConfigToGamepads.sh
• https://github.com/ian57/Raspicade-configuration-files/blob/master/ConfigToXinMo.sh

Just downloads them, or make a git pull in ~/temp/Raspicade-configuration-files to get them. After that just run the right script according to your will.

Be careful, don't upgrade your raspberry pi firmware manually with rpi-update : Dgen and gngeo get broken.

You get black screen when running games. It's a graphical problem, sounds works with Dgen

There is a little bug in the last release which prevents pimenu to run at boot.

in the .profilePI file change the line :

clear;home/pi/pimenu/pimenu > /dev/null 2>&1

by

clear;/home/pi/pimenu/pimenu > /dev/null 2>&1

The first "/" is missing! Save and restart, it should work.

There is a small bug in the es_systems.cfg file for ES1. Dgen command line is wrong and prevents roms to launch :

edit the file and replace the line

COMMAND=clear;home/pi/dgen/bin/dgen %ROM%  > /dev/null 2>&1

with

COMMAND=clear;/home/pi/dgen/bin/dgen %ROM%  > /dev/null 2>&1

and reload ES1, that's all

raspicade-samba-gamepads-keyboard-pikeyd_ready-B+GPIOready-ES-20141211.img.gz : Christmas release of Raspicade ;). This release has huge modifications : integration of libretro for new emulators : NES (fceu), GB/GBC (gambatte), GBA (meteor), PlayStation 1 (PSX), Atari2600 (stella), Vectrex (vecx). ES2 is the default frontend. New boot up video. Some tuning in emulators command to avoid text in the console.... read more

The compilation of SDL 2.01, and after the last release of ES2 (from git) with the new firmware of the pi fix the DGEN bug.

A new release of raspicade will be soon released with a big gift before Christmas... Stay tuned...