Hey All,
Thought you would like to see this:
The next release of PiPlay is so close I can taste it.
A few notes:
Have a good weekend all!
-Shea
Hey All,
So, I’ve been looking at more joysticks, and I want to tell you about an experience I had with a cheap $15 Chinese joystick I imported. I buy a lot of items from China. This time it was a disaster. I believe I ended up inadvertently getting a return rather than new stock, so I’m waiting for the vendor to explain the issue before I give up on them entirely (the other products I purchased were in good working order).
The joystick i purchased is supposed to be a Welcom WE-6200. There are a lot of joysticks that look like this one, just browsing aliexpress will bring up dozens of similar products.
The one I received had:
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Other than that, it does work.
PiPlay is coming along. I’m finishing up the joystick config system. I’ve add mednafen to the list of emulators. I’ve done some code modifications to it to enable it to work on console with DISPMANX.
Have a good weekend all!
-Shea
Hey All,
Sorry for the very late post, I’ve had some family visiting from out of town and spent the weekend catching up.
For PiPlay, I’ve been spending some time getting into the nitty gritty of some of the emulators. PiFBA happens to have a config file hardcoded in it’s source code. Because I use PiFBA for a few different systems, I needed to have individual configs.
My patched version of PiFBA is available here as source code: https://github.com/ssilverm/pifba-config-patch
Looking back, it wasn’t that difficult to patch, but my C++ is rusty, and I needed some friends help to get it running.
I’ve also been playing with SDL and DISPMANX. One of my favorite emulators is Mednafen, but it has a problem running on the console. If you use DISPMANX and try to run Mednafen, you get an SDL error (due to not needing SDL_GetVideoInfo()). I’m recompiling Mednafen right now which replaces the SDL_GetVideoInfo() call with generic video heights. DISPMANX should scale correctly anyway, so I will see how it looks.
On that note, I also had to deal with my favorite compiling issue on the Raspberry Pi: hq4x and running out of memory.
This is why I love the Raspberry Pi (and Linux). I learn something new everyday. To add or subtract swap space, type:
sudo /etc/dphys-swapfile
Change 100 to the desired amount of swap. I used 300 for hq4x
/etc/init.d/dphys-swapfile stop
/etc/init.d/dphys-swapfile startThe swap space will be created, and you can now compile without crashing (usually).
Have a good week everyone!
-Shea
Hello All!
It has been a long week. I plan on sleeping until Sunday.
PiPlay will be getting a joystick configuration utility in the next release.
Don’t mind the placeholder graphics. The designer who did the PiPlay logo is making all the controller graphics to go in there 🙂
The next release is coming along really well. I’m very happy with it so far.
I bought Mario Kart 8, so if anyone wants to race, friend me! My NNID is SSilver2k2
On a cuter note, my wife and I went to the Humane Society and adopted a 6 month old orange kitten.
Meet Applejack 🙂
Have a great weekend all!
-Shea
Hey all,
Not much to report this week. Coding on the next release is coming along nicely.
I have made a BerryBoot compatible image of the current release available to download here:
http://pimame.org/releases/piplay-0.8-beta3-bb.img.7z
I was interviewed by Circuit Cellar Magazine, which was pretty cool. The interview can be found here:
http://circuitcellar.com/community/interviews/raspberry-pi-innovation/
Have a great weekend!
-Shea
Hey all,
I’ve spent the past week on a lot of administrative PiPlay stuff, but I do have a couple of neat things to show.
Theme Support
Controller Config (very early)
Big thanks to Matt from the forums for coding up the theme support and Dan for helping with the controller configuration.
Desktop Arcade
On my off time (hah) I’ve been working on a desktop barcade machine. I’ve done 2 days of 3 coats of paint, 1 day of sanding, and I’m getting ready to do another few layers of paint.
Have a great weekend!
-Shea
Hey All,
Thank you so much for your backings and support. Over 400% funded! What did I do to celebrate?
I got a delicious post-Kickstarter celebratory Icee 🙂
Updates
To keep you all updated on my progress, I created this:
As I finish tasks (or add new ones) I will be updating this board (notice the green filled in dots at the bottom) and letting everyone know.
PiPlay Case
I got the PiPlay case in my hands last night. It looks and feels great. There is only a minor alteration that needs to be done.
Everyone who backed a tier with the case will receive this version that has Kickstarter Edition branding.
PiPlay
Lots of cool work is being done on PiPlay. Theme support is now built in, but it does have some quirks. We are fixing that, and it should be part of the PiPlay 0.8 beta 4 release.
Bartop
I got in a Bartop Arcade Kit from Rich’s Arcade today. I am going to take pictures as I build it, and put that up as it’s own post.
Enjoy!
-Shea Silverman
The PiPlay Kickstarter has gone over $9000!!!!
So far, we are working on theme support, joystick support, joystick configs, auto grabbing of game screen images, screen image previews, and more emulators.
I’ve also started a joystick build so that I can test out different encoders easily.
Custom menu from the PiPlay forums:
I’m going to go celebrate!
-Shea
Hey All,
Just got back from a neat tech talk that was put on buy a bunch of alumni/coworkers. Some very cool things were shown, like Google Glass and Wearscript.
Kickstarter & PiPlay
11 days to go, and I’m at 298% funded. This is crazy! PiPlay 0.8 Beta 3 was release to positive results, and Beta 4 is being worked on as I type this. A lot of enhancements, fixes, and some new emulators are being added to the distro.
I’ve ordered a few encoders which should be arriving by next week, and I can start implementing those into the software.
I was sent this link (http://iambuildingapicade.tumblr.com/) a few days ago, which chronicles the building of a Raspberry Pi arcade cabinet. It’s really well written and highly detailed.
I’ve also started a mini cabinet build. I purchased this kit and I’m looking forward to building it ( with all the extra time I have… /sarcasm )
Exciting times 🙂
-Shea
Update: PiPlay 0.8 Beta 3 is uploaded!
Lo all,
It’s been two weeks and my Kickstarter is at 242% funded!! This is incredible. I’m so excited and humbled at the community support. Thank you!
PiPlay 0.8 Beta 3
I am uploading the latest SD Card image of PiPlay. 0.8 Beta 3 includes:
What I’m currently working on:
Look for this SD Card image to be available tonight or tomorrow. My laptop is locking up / freezing randomly and I’m trying to generate a more recent backup, so I have to hurry up and wait while that happens.
I will update this post when it’s uploaded!
-Shea