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Update, massive, big thanks to @sorgelig for making the code mod needed for Pixelcade marquees to work with MiSTer , now in the main code base https://pixelcade.org/mister/

looks like a recent release broke things here, really what needs to happen to keep the Pixelcade integration working with MiSTer is that this PR gets accepted https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/Main_MiSTer/pull/416 . The only thing this change does is add the select game to /tmp/FULLPATH which Pixelcade then picks up so we know what game marquee to di...

thanks, it turned out to be a combination of a small MiSTer mod (will post a GitHub link to the change a bit later) and then monitoring these files. With those in hand, the mod then makes a call to the Pixelcade REST API http://pixelcade.org/api to update the marquee. /root# more /tmp/FULLPATH _Arcade/_Organized/_2 Core/_Capcom - Black Tiger /root#...

Hey All, thanks for all the advice and guidance here. We ended up getting this working and have MiSTer support for both the Pixelcade LED and LCD line of marquees. Here's a video of it in action https://youtu.be/hhrPBrxSyRQ . My partner who did the actual MiSTer integration also designed a pretty cool case for MiSTer which you'll see in that video ...

gotcha, thanks, will do some experimentation here

venice wrote: ↑Sun Feb 21, 2021 5:48 pm I have something similar running using zakk4223's "inotifywait" Idea in a script.
The display is just a bit smaller
https://misterfpga.org/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=1887

small but might! very nice, looks like you've got the console marquee artwrok, were you able to get game names also?

cool, thanks much for your help!

One thing to be aware of: a lot of the rom packs people are using do not separate every rom into a single zip file. The roms are in one huge zip file. MiSTer is agnostic to how you package roms, so there are basically infinite possibilities and naming. Without actual changes to Main_Mister you're going to be blind to the actual name of games selec...

I am currently trying to use inotifywait to see which rom is loaded by a core on the linux side. This is generally working fine, but shows a strange effect I described here: https://misterfpga.org/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=2058 . I have not looked at Pixelcade in deep yet, but I think one possible scenario avoiding running the Pixelcade application...

ah very nice , that may work, I will check that out, thanks for the direction

thanks for the reply. yes, that's correct, pass the rom name to Pixelcade's API and then it'll change. And you're correct, the API is part of the java console app that would run as a daemon on the MiSTer. It's a pretty low profile Java console app/ no GUI and have it running on pretty low powered hardware but I'm also not familiar with the MiSTer a...

thanks much, I'll do that. Parts of Pixelcade are open source, yes. The easiest way to integrate though would be through the Pixelcade API http://pixelcade.org/api but this assumes MiSTer can make REST API calls. I am a newbie to MiSTer so not sure if that is a possibility or not. Anyhow, will look into further and thanks for the guidance.

hey there, I'm the creator of a line of dynamic LED and LCD marquees that change to match the current game called Pixelcade, http://pixelcade.org. If there is any interest is doing an integration with MiSTer, do let me know and we can explore.

Thanks,

Al