AdvanceMAME .debs plus another goodie :)

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 source 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://blog.sheasilverman.com/2012/10/advancemame-deb/


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

Nice -- hope to have a chance to check this out tonight.

Looking at the .deb package, it appears to install advmame (and other binaries) to /usr/local/bin instead of /usr/bin ? I would expect a package not to install and possibly overwrite anything in /usr/local

http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint ... ml#destdir

Anyway, I'll gladly try this instead of building it myself!

This week I'll try to install this. Let's see if it will work now!
Nice work on the case

And how about SNES emulators? Are you planing to post a tutorial for that?

New AdvanceMAME .debs available. Now has sound!

How are the joystick and buttons connected?

Can you add more buttons? say 6 total?

Do you think these parts would work?

http://www.paradisearcadeshop.com/en/imported-joysticks/45-classic-arcade-stick-zippy-long.html

In the space invaders topic someone linked some ebay controller parts that connect by USB, which do you think is method?

(sorry if any/all of these questions are answered, I'm a basic windows user trying to learn a bit more about doing stuff like this)

New AdvanceMAME .debs available. Now has sound!

How did you manage to get the sound?
Are you cross-compiling or building it on Pi itself?
I cross-compiled avance mame on my virtualbox and it went fine.
When I start a game, no sound is coming from the audio jack.
I replaced my binary with yours and the sound is fine.
I tried some other tricks like:

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chmod 777 /dev/fb0

and changing device_sound auto to device_sound alsa but then advmame complains it is unrecognized option and won't start at all.
Thank you.

I only compile on the Pi itself. I've been tempted to try cross-compiling, but I usually just let everything run overnight.

I think the problem is that SDL is not compiled in the official raspbian toolchain so when I run:

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./configure --host=arm-linux-gnueabihf

I get:

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configure:12951: checking for arm-linux-gnueabihf-sdl-config
configure:12985: result: no

That's probably the reason why the sound doesn't work.
The solution is to compile SDL into the toolchain but that is pain in the neck so I'll stick with your binaries

hah, that makes a lot of sense. Good luck

Hi SSilver2k2
New advance mame has been released:
http://advancemame.sourceforge.net/
Short changelog:

Still based on MAME 0.106 but with the new graphics effect XBR and various bugfixes.