Raspberry Pi Configure Wifi

From Command prompt $

sudo raspi-config

1.  System Options

    S1. Wireless LAN

Follow the prompts.

Adding Games to VMMenu

The Excellent vmmenu application uses /usr/local/share/advance/vmmenu.ini to configure menu choices.

 

The Format of vmmenu.ini is

Manufacturer name|Display name|name of parent game|name of game

To add Tempest Tubes as an alternate version for Tempest:

Atari|Tempest Tubes|tempest|temptube

Here is a file with all(maybe) of the playable vector games already included:

vmmenu.ini

 

Multi-Vector Fix your Spinner

There are two locations for for advmame.rc.  The one you want to edit is /home/pi/.advance/advmame.rc

Here are the lines to add or edit: 

device_mouse raw
device_raw_mousedev[0] /dev/input/mouse0
device_raw_mousedev[1] /dev/input/mouse1
device_raw_mousedev[2] /dev/input/mouse2
device_raw_mousedev[3] /dev/input/mouse3
device_raw_mousetype[0] ps2
device_raw_mousetype[1] ps2
device_raw_mousetype[2] ps2
device_raw_mousetype[3] ps2 

input_map[p1_trackballx] mouse[0,x] mouse[1,x] mouse[2,x] mouse[3,x]

input_map[p1_trackbally] mouse[0,y] mouse[1,y] mouse[2,y] mouse[3,y]

input_map[p1_dialx] mouse[0,y] mouse[1,y] mouse[2,y] mouse[3,y]

input_map[p1_dialy] mouse[0,y] mouse[1,y] mouse[2,y] mouse[3,y] 

input_map[p1_paddlex] mouse[0,y] mouse[1,y] mouse[2,y] mouse[3,y]

input_map[p1_paddley] mouse[0,y] mouse[1,y] mouse[2,y] mouse[3,y] 

 This will ensure no matter which mouse your spinner gets detected as and which interface is used, it will work in the game.

Extremely useful information here if you want to read more :  RetroPi Spinners, Trackballs... 

While we are not using RetroPi, we are using a specially compiled version of AdvanceMAME.  Ignore the RetroArch section and scroll down to AdvanceMAME.

Fix Vectrex Games to run

Getting an error when attempting to run Vectrex games?

Advance Mess considers vectrex games 'images' not 'roms'.  Two potential solutions:

• Put your vectrex games and bios, including system.img, in /usr/local/share/advance/image/vectrex

OR

• If you have already put your vectrex games in rom folder - '/usr/local/share/advance/rom/vectrex'. You can update the dir_image value in the file advmess.rc to look there-
• dir_image /usr/local/share/advance/rom

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