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cacophony555

wgtspook wrote:Can you repost mameGenXml. The link appears to be broken. Thank you.

Sure, here's a new location:
http://bobtailed-primes.000webhostapp.com/mame/

Hope it proves useful!

cacophony555

I can't seem to get it to work. Followed the tutorial by the letter but RetroArch won't start. If I try to run it through a command I get no feedback at all. When I run it through the file manager nothing happens. And when I run it with terminal then the terminal immediately disappears. I'm quite n...

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I'd really like to know how Mame 0.171 (which is the latest) performs on the pi 3:
http://choccyhobnob.com/mame-for-raspberry-pi2/
more info here: http://choccyhobnob.com/mame-0-171-for- ... -playable/

It should have far better compatibility and accuracy

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I'm curious how this performs on the Pi 3. Would it benefit from a recompile or would most of the performance gain be achievable using the same executable?

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"Is that to quit the frontend or MAME itself? For MAME you need to configure the buttons in the program itself, i.e. hit TAB." yes but when i tab to set controls in mame, there is no option to quit or exit the emulator. the keyboard esc key exits but there is no whee to set that within mame itself,...

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You solved it by switching to the mame4all retroarch core. The standalone core has significantly better performance/framerate than the retroarch core so I'd suggest switching back. To set the controls in standalone you just need to plug a keyboard in and press TAB after a game has loaded. This will ...

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What I really should have used is:

pgrep --exact "deluged"

Then I would have been fine with the "deluged-watcher.sh" script name

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I figured it out. The watcher script I wrote had "deluged" as part of the title, so every time the script checked if "deluged" was running... it thought it was!

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hmmm... looks like there is an issue with the logic. I don't understand why this isn't working. The full output from my console shows what I'm seeing: [email protected] ~/scripts $ more deluged-watcher.sh #!/bin/bash # Check if deluged is running if pgrep "deluged" > /dev/null then echo "Running" else ...

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I've noticed that deluged has a tendency to crash so I was interested in monitoring the service and restarting if necessary via cron, but I can't get it to work. Here's the cron job: * * * * * /home/pi/scripts/deluged-watcher.sh I've verified that the cron job is firing and that the logic in the scr...

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So I initially tried bootdelay=10 and it didn't work. I changed it to rootdelay=10 and it worked.
Thanks again for the help.

cacophony555

Ahh, sorry, didn't notice that you were referring to a slightly different mechanism. Did I get the file location correct?

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The UUID thing is handy if you may have other storage devices connected as it uniquely identifies the device no matter what /dev/sdX name it is given. However, that is not your problem. It's an excellent thing when you accidentally leave a USB stick inserted when you reboot and the hard drive appea...

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That's a great suggestion rpdom, thanks for the response. I'll give that a try.

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I did try using the UUID by adding this to /etc/fstab, but it didn't make a difference: UUID=dad3727d-6b29-4f64-b7be-abacc0c90a23 /usbdrive auto defaults,noatime 0 1 As before, doing a "sudo mount -a" works, but following reboot the drive is not mounted. Perhaps the USB devices aren't even being rec...

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There's also this output, which seems to indicate it is ext4: [email protected] ~ $ sudo blkid -c /dev/null /dev/mmcblk0p1: SEC_TYPE="msdos" LABEL="boot" UUID="140A-14B7" TYPE="vfat" /dev/mmcblk0p2: UUID="f24a4949-f4b2-4cad-a780-a138695079ec" TYPE="ext4" /dev/sda1: LABEL="downloads" UUID="dad3727d-6b29...

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Short version: I can't get my new USB drive to mount automatically on boot, despite the fact that it mounts fine using "sudo mount -a". Long version: I have a new USB external hard drive plugged into my Pi 2. I created a mount directory and successfully formatted it to be EXT4 using : sudo mkdir /mn...

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Update: So I bought a WD Elements 500GB portable hard drive and formatted it to be EXT4 using this tutorial: http://devtidbits.com/2013/03/21/using-usb-external-hard-disk-flash-drives-with-to-your-raspberry-pi/ Now I get a consistent 9.5MB/sec write within Deluge, which is basically maxing out my in...

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I think you're mistaken to pursue sd card speed as the reason for super slow torrent download speeds. High speed sd cards are designed for long bursts of write operations to support hd video recording whereas an operating system performs many small i/o operations which, ironically, are often suppor...

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FWIW, I'm using a "SanDisk Ultra 32GB UHS-I/Class 10 Micro SDHC Memory Card Up to 48MB/s". I did a disk read/write test at some point and didn't see anywhere near 48MB/s. I can't recall the exact numbers, though I remember it as being around 10MB/s, and that might just be sequential reads. Perhaps w...

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Interesting, thanks for the reply. I wonder if using an external hard drive would help.

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I'm trying to setup Deluge on my Raspberry Pi 2 using the following tutorial: http://www.howtogeek.com/142044/how-to-turn-a-raspberry-pi-into-an-always-on-bittorrent-box/ All the steps work fine, but when I actually add a torrent I see a wildly variable download speed that also appears cyclical. Whe...

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Since getting the Pi 2 Ive been using RetroPie. If I wanted to try retroarch with Dispmanx could I just modify the local params from the retroarch setup script to pass the suggested parameters:
https://github.com/petrockblog/RetroPie ... troarch.sh
?

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I've been seeing an intermittent issue and I'd like thoughts on how I can diagnose. About 4 times in the past day my Rpi 2 shut off completely (and without any warning) following a pretty short session of usage. And no I didn't take a flash picture :mrgreen: Some info about my setup: I've been runni...

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When I first set up a pi or retro gaming about two years ago I started with RetroPie. I liked it but it felt somewhat suboptimal because it came with so much installed that I didn't want. I also wanted to ensure that everything was built/launched in the most optimized and performant way possible. So...

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