Hey All,
Dan Frisk just announced via Twitter and at Minecon that Minecraft for the Raspberry Pi is in the works. It’s coming! It’s going to be based on the PE edition that runs on Android / iOS. This is awesome news.
Nov
24
Category Archives: Gaming
Nov
23
Friday Post: Happy beginning of the holidays!
Hello All,
Happy beginning of the holidays. Thanksgiving, Black Friday, Cyber Monday… To all my friends here in the US, I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving. I spent some great time with my family. To all my friends in other countries, I hope you are having a wonderful week 🙂
Raspberry Pi Camera
The Raspberry Pi Foundation today released the first video of the Raspberry Pi Camera. It looks like it’s going to be an awesome piece of kit. $25, 1080p video, 5MP pictures. I cannot wait to order one!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=8N7kgtL0-Ts#!
Wii U
So I was able to purchase a Wii U Deluxe set during Black Friday. I was not expecting to come home with one. I was really just driving around looking at the lines. Toys ‘R Us had opened at 8, it was 8:20, and the line was short, so I decided to go in. I went to the back of the store, where the electronics section was, and asked if they had any Wii U’s in stock. I was completely shocked to be given a ticket for a deluxe model. My fiancee didn’t believe it either. 2 hours later (yay, waiting in line to pay) and I’ve got this thing hooked up.
The first thing it needed to do was download a huge update. It took about 2 hours to download and install. After that, it was smooth sailing. The system is awesome. The gamepad is not just a gimmick, it works amazingly well. It acts as a universal remote for my TV and my Cable box. It’s much faster to browse the cable guide using the Dpad than using the remote itself. Netflix is better on the Wii U than on the Xbox 360. To be able to select from the queue on the gamepad, watch it on the TV, or press a button and switch the stream straight to the game pad is so cool. It’s seamless.
Nintendoland is this consoles version of Wii Sports and Wii Play combined. You can use the Gamepad to play the games in single player mode, but to use 2 player you need to use Wiimotes. It’s nice they kept backwards compatibility. The ninja minigame is a lot of fun.
I also purchased New Super Mario Bros. U. The game is gorgeous in hi-def. The multiplayer mode can be a relationship killer though. Just warning you! The game plays like all the other NSMB games, but that’s a good thing. It’s great fun 🙂
Spark Fun Free Shipping
For Cybermonday, Spark Fun will be doing free shipping! Happy Hacking!
Megacynics DeskCade
To anyone who hasn’t read the webcomic Megacynics, you should start. It’s a great comic, Ash and Steve are cool people. I recently made a DeskCade for them. This time I tried it out of Acrylic. It took less time, but cost a bit more in raw material. I’m really happy with the look of it though. I have to find a better materials supplier.
Ornaments
I’ve also started making some ornaments on the laser cutter. I’m thinking of starting an Etsy store for them. I’m taking requests, so leave a comment!
Take care all!
Nov
16
Friday Post Part 2: Disney’s Wreck-It Ralph DeskCade
Hey All,
So here is why I need to do a two part post today…I was asked to make a Wreck-It Ralph DeskCade for Disney!!!!
This is so cool and I’m really excited with how it turned out. I’m really looking forward to this project and I hope my readers are as well.
-Shea
Sign up to get notified of DeskCade information at my new site: DeskCade.com
Nov
16
Friday Post: IAAPA 2012
Hey All,
This is going to be one of two posts since they both deserve their own highlight!
Today I went to the IAAPA Expo (International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions). It’s a huge event filled with food, video games, attractions, rides, and more. I got to see the latest developments in gaming and got some good contacts for DeskCade parts. It’s funny to see how big 3D was last year in games, and now very few games are offering it. Only the big mega attractions are still being offered in 3D versions.
Enjoy!
-Shea
Nov
02
Friday Post: Wreck It Ralph!
Happy Friday everyone!
I just got back from seeing Wreck-It Ralph and here’s my verdict: Go see it right now. Not only was it a great story, it was a great homage to the entire gaming industry.
Today I also got an iPad Mini. I have an iPhone 4S and love it. At work I use an iPad 3 and have found it to be too big and bulky. This iPad Mini is amazing. It’s light, has a great screen, and fits my hand(s) perfectly. I’m even typing this whole post on the mini right now. So far it’s totally worth it.
I got AdvanceMESS compiled with sound but I have yet to test it. I have an issue where check install doesn’t like installing both mame and mess because they have some of the same executables (advcfg, etc.). If anyone knows much about Debian package creation I would love some help and advice.
Have a great weekend!
Nov
01
Better AdvanceMAME debs with Sound!
Hey All,
I have an updated set of AdvanceMAME debs. This time there is sound, and a lot of the stupid tricks I had to do to compile have been resolved. It ended up being a libsdl issue and an older version of GCC.
Please uninstall the older .deb by entering this command:
- sudo dpkg -r advancemame
- Then download this new version of AdvanceMAME
- sudo dpkg -i advancemame-raspberrypi_1-1_armhf.deb
You should now be set to run AdvanceMAME with sound!
If you want to compile AdvanceMAME yourself, make sure you install libsdl1.2-dev and gcc-4.7. After that make sure to do export CC=gcc-4.7 and export CXX=g++-4.7 on the command line. Then type ./configure, then make.
Oct
29
AdvanceMAME .deb
UPDATE: Debs with Sound now available here
Hey All,
It’s been a long time coming. Between work, prototyping, other complications I present the AdvanceMAME Debian package.
I was able to get past the issue with AdvanceMAME compiling on Raspbian. It’s the sh2 processor for the Saturn, so I had to disable that. After that, it compiles.
I have the src code up on github if anyone wants to check out the changes I had to make.
Github: https://github.com/ssilverm/AdvanceMAME_RaspberryPi
Debs: http://sheasilverman.com/rpi/raspbian/debs/advancemame_0.106.1-1_armhf.deb http://sheasilverman.com/rpi/raspbian/debs/advancemame-raspberrypi_1-1_armhf.deb (with sound)
To install:
- sudo dpkg -i advancemame_0.106.1-1_armhf.deb
- Once it’s installed, just type advmame and it will create your configuration file.
- Roms go in ~/.advance/rom/
- Edit your advmame.rc for your display:
- For HDMI try:
- device_video_clock 5 – 50 / 15.62 / 50 ; 5 – 50 / 15.73 / 60
- For NTSC TVs try:
- device_video_clock 5 – 50 / 15.73 / 60
- For HDMI try:
- to run a game: advmame gamename (ie advmame sf2)
- ENJOY!!!
Also, another goodie… My deskcade project is coming along incredibly well! I just got in these 18mm Sanwa buttons. They are awesome.
I hope everyone enjoys. Let me know if you have any questions, comments, or suggestions!
-Shea
Oct
25
AdvanceMAME compilations issues on Raspbian [SOLVED]
Hey all,
If anyone is having compilation issues of AdvanceMAME on Raspbian, here is the relativly simple fix:
Change the line:
CONF_CFLAGS_OPT= -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-merge-constants -Wall -Wno-sign-compare -Wno-unused
to
CONF_CFLAGS_OPT= -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-merge-constants -Wall -Wno-sign-compare -Wno-unused
in your Makefile.
.Debs to be released shortly now that this is sorted!
Oct
19
Friday Post: New Pi and Deb Beta Users Wanted!
Happy Friday Everyone!
It’s been a fun week over here. I was able to order my 512MB Raspberry Pi from Element 14, and it arrived on Wednesday. Protip: Call Element 14 when they have stock and you will get it really really fast.
Some high quality shots below:
I’ve been working on my Mini Arcade Cabinet project, and I was able to source a mini joystick from P3America.com. I’m going to be working on the cabinet this weekend, and will be incorporating this into it.
Now for the big news….I have created some .debs for you all to test! The latest version of Raspbian has been giving me a lot of compiling errors. What I have gotten done I would appreciate some of you to beta test for me.
The two debs available now are PCSX_ReARMed and Gngeo. PCSX worked for me when I made the framebuffer larger in config.txt, and gngeo seems to be crashing or hanging randomly. I’m hoping it works better for you all. Please provide me with any and all feedback you have regarding these!
Oct
06
Friday(ish) Post: Hanging out with Eben and Liz
Hey all,
Sorry for the late post. The past two days have been jam packed and I had limited internet access.
Friday and Saturday I was at Magic Ruby. It was a Ruby conference at the Walt Disney World Hollywood Studios park. I’m still decompressing from the conference, so I’m not ready to make a full review about it. Some talks were amazing, some were downright crappy. I’m just exhausted.
Right after the conference Friday night, I had to run straight to the FamiLAB Hacker Space in Longwood, Florida because they were hosting Eben and Liz from the Raspberry Pi foundation!
We spent the first part of the night hanging out with Eben and Liz, showing off our projects. Liz loved my arcade cabinet, and I need to get a kit out to her ASAP 🙂 Eben and Liz then did an interview with the Orlando Sentinel (as did I regarding my projects). After the interview, Eben did a presentation to a standing room only gathering of people regarding the Pi, as well as a QA from the audience. It was a great event!
Eben and Liz are both really humble and genuinely nice people. I’m really glad I was able to spend some time with them.
Also, on a side note, my little Color Picker test app for Windows 8 passed certification, and is now in the Windows App Store! Go me!
Have a great weekend!
-Shea