Raspberry Pi JAMMA options?

some good reading to be had here

The pi mame route is good but obviously requires some faffing about and getting the games you need etc.  If you cant be bothered with the hassle a pandoras box DX outputs to the good old CRTs and you can then add whatever of your favourite games are missing on a usb stick and it will play them.....plus it plays PS1 roms so you can add ridge racer to it :p   

Edited by jasonm737 - 28 Sep 2021 at 9:12pm

I use Pi2Jamma and EVO CRT as the front end, I only have Track and Field and Hypersports but I tried a few others and found this worked well with setting up the crt.

councilface wrote: jasonm737 wrote: The pi mame route is good but obviously requires some faffing about and getting the games you need etc.  If you cant be bothered with the hassle a pandoras box DX outputs to the good old CRTs and you can then add whatever of your favourite games are missing on a usb stick and it will play them.....plus it plays PS1 roms so you can add ridge racer to it :p    How on earth do I map controls for specific games on the DX? I've added robotron but neither stick works...

jasonm737 wrote: councilface wrote: jasonm737 wrote: The pi mame route is good but obviously requires some faffing about and getting the games you need etc.  If you cant be bothered with the hassle a pandoras box DX outputs to the good old CRTs and you can then add whatever of your favourite games are missing on a usb stick and it will play them.....plus it plays PS1 roms so you can add ridge racer to it :p    How on earth do I map controls for specific games on the DX? I've added robotron but neither stick works... I'm assuming you've went into the options and tried remapping stuff and its failed?  I have a 4 button cab so remapped buttons for use with Street Fighter so I had the 4 buttons I wanted just via the options on the menu screen.  I'll grab the Robotron mame rom and give it a bash on the DX the now and if I can figure out whats up I'll pm you.

I did try that, and thanks, its appreciated.

happy with the arpicade
and dee2er   is always on hand to answer any problems with set up.

video out is nice pi 3b+ with image vertion 3.x

only snag is small space for roms unless you have a linux pc / laptop
to adjust partition on the sd card..
but i liked being limited to space
it actually made me choose the games i wanted to play..

although it seems that there is a 128gig image out there
pre loaded..

arpicade   i think is a great product..
i guess you can do it all on rgb pi also..



made a little test rig
scart to jamma to a small sony crt
so i could configer the pi settings untill i get it
doing what i want.. then take it to the cab..

got a 2hawman set up as well equally excellent

not sure if it’s my monitor
but my   rtype leo pcb vs
2hawman pi set up video image was better from the pi.



Edited by Retroman839 - 28 Sep 2021 at 10:58pm

Edited by Venom - 28 Sep 2021 at 10:38pm

RGB-PI looks like they way forward. Thanks for all the imput. I would go with a windows solution but i prefer Linux based solutions these days and Raspberry Pi's are just awesome. 

A bit of thread resurrection, but I’m looking at getting an RGB Pi jamma and had a quick question. How does switching between vertical and horizontal games work?
From what I’ve read, it looks like you have to rotate the image in the rgb pi settings and it’ll show you the appropriate roms for however you’ve got the image oriented? Seems a slight faff or is it simple enough?
Option 3 is I’ve got completely wrong!
Cheers.

(I have a mix of all game types on mine, but yes.. some frontends filter the gameslist to only show games with the current orientation)

Edited by Flinnster - 26 Apr 2022 at 9:54pm