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I found a way to mute volume while SAM is running! Please reset SAM through the menu and reinstall to get the latest ini. There is a new Mute="Yes" option now in the ini. As of right now when you push a button, SAM will restart the current game with sound. I did some limited testing and it seems to work alright! If this works, we can see...

Do you have it working in other cores? If not, start there. This video runs through serring up and using it in general. No PSX specific instructions though. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0F8KnqeOd8 Edit: Tested qiuckly with Guncon 3 and I can get the crosshairs to move, but didn't have the correct button mapping to get the triggers to work corre...

Looks like at least NES/SNES/Genesis/PSX. Basically anything that has gun controller support in the core will work with the Guncon 3. Cores don't have to specifically support it, Main/Linux takes care of all the driver and translation stuff, so any gun supporting core will work.

I just downloaded MP3s from this playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=P ... tDYx75IC6c

Working great after the update! Have a load of BIOS/boot sounds previxed with _ and a handful of menu themes without, and everything works as I would expect! I did get it to bug out once and play music during a core--I think it happened because the boot sound was ending right as I clicked on the core, and the script maybe didn't see the core change...

Guncon 2 (CRT) and Guncon 3 (LCD) support are in and working as of today's Main/Linux update. Tested a GC3 against my plasma, played a couple of levels of Yoshi's Safari and it worked great. Seems much more consistent than the Wii Remote was.

Works great! I loaded up the menu music from the various mini consoles, and it feels pretty much right. Love that it also works while scripts are running, makes waiting on Update_All or running through the new favorites script a little more fun.

Good stuff. Ran a quick test, and can confirm that Games now shows and TG-CD games work from USB. Unfortunately, I don't have a CIFS mount to test against to see how that's impacted.

So I've got some weird behavior when trying to create MGLs for favorite games. The script only shows _Arcade and _Console in /media/fat, and doesn't let me navigate to the "games" directory. I can get to the games directory on my USB drive though. Any idea why that might be? The /media/fat/games folder is completely loaded and works fine ...

Guncon 3 support is available for testing, and works great. Don't see why we need to reinvent the wheel here. The only reason Duck Hunt doesn't work on a flat panel is latency. That's it. And I can easily prove this, because hacked roms of Duck Hunt exist that DO work on LCDs, all it does is increase the timing window for how long the white box sta...

There's already support for GunCon2 on CRTs, and GunCon3 support is in active development for LCDs. There's a test Linux build in the controllers thread on Discord, seems to work well. Looks like support was added in main recently, just need Linux to get updated and it should be official.

edit 2: Reading docs further, they rec using a BIOS that auto-launches game. Got it. It seems like it still manages to auto-launch sometimes, though? Which is nice if so. Edit 3: Explained below, thanks! Yup, older builds required auto-boot BIOS for any core that needed a click through. But mrchrister did some sorcery to allow FDS games to automat...

Done.

One small issue I've noticed. When issuing a STOP command, TTY2OLED resumes normal functionality. But if SAM is interrupted by input, TTY2OLED remains stopped.

This makes me wonder if the way we think CRTs work, especially in relations to "scanlines", is even close to being right. What I observed looked more like a LCD grid, where black lines exist both horizontally AND vertically. Something to keep in mind here is that you weren't looking at a consumer display running 240p content on a display...

Some sort of 3D printed riser should work. Or if the outside edges of the display are flat, you could just double stick tape or command strip the bottom edge of the sensors there.

Hi@all, find attached my Beta2 which is based on the latest sources on Github. I opened a pull request as well. Please report! Looking promising, but a couple of things I noticed: Skip command has unexpected behavior now. Takes much longer to run (has to go through all the TTY steps, even though SAM already ran once and killed those). After issuin...

I assume the TTY code here in the SAM script is getting a "corename" variable or something from SAM, so when SAM shuffles to a Famicom Disk System game, the TTY code uses "FDS" as the corename, finds no corresponding graphic, and just displays the text.

Tested, and looking good so far! A couple of notes: Instead of a graphic it just shows "fds" on the display when SAM shuffles into an FDS game. Might need to alias that to show the NES logo, or if there's an FDS graphic in the TTY stuff show that. (TGFX16-CD games do show the TGFX16 core graphic) Got stuck for longer than usual after show...

Yep, I think that's all it is. Had it happen on another game, tried them both manually, and get the same results there. Not sure if it's a bad dump or just a core compatibility issue, but definitely out of the scope of this thread.

I think that sorts out the autoboot stuff. Can confirm that TGCD, MCD, and FDS all click through the bios basically immediately. Excellent feature update! Edit: One hiccup ovserved so far. When it tried to shuffle to Mega Schwarzchild on MegaCD, it looks like it may have mis-timed the button press and we ended up in the CD audio view instead of the...

venice wrote: ↑Fri Mar 25, 2022 4:15 pm Which MCU do you use?
ESP32 or 8266?

8266

Yeah, I guess I'm out of ideas then. Maybe we're lucky and I'm just the only person who will have issues with it. I'll just give up on using TTY with SAM for now, maybe try again later at some point. Looping back to MegaCD and TGFX16-CD click-through on the BIOS screens, that appears to still not be working. TGFX16-CD games will sit through a full ...

Yep, according to the TTY2OLED update script, my device is detected at /dev/ttyUSB0, and that's what's in my SAM ini file. Works just fine outside of SAM, used to work just fine with SAM. But on the latest zip on this thread, it freezes trying to stop the screensaver. I've tried it both while the screen saver is not yet active on the display, and w...

Testing with the Venice Beta, and it doesn't seem to work for me. Updated TTY2OLED this morning just to be thorough (was on 220219 before, still am now), dropped in your script and .ini, and it just hangs here: Screenshot 2022-03-25 091649.png SAM never shuffles, TTY2OLED never does anything other than show the main menu graphic. Yeah GBA is tricky...

Sleeps aren't a particularly elegant solution but I think it should be sufficient for all SAM is trying to do. Sleep for 10 or 15s after shuffling, then send the text commands should be plenty of time for TTY2OLED to do its thing, leave the core graphic on screen long enough to be appreciated, then put the text up. There'd be some tweaking to do on...

Latest unstable did the trick! And it does appear to hit the start button to jump out of BIOS as expected. I've also been able to revert to my default zip structure, and it works great. EDIT: Some further thoughts. As you mentioned previously, a lot of GBA games have a safety prompt that you could bypass now. Though a lot of games also don't have t...

Ok, what else can we try? Maybe it has something to do with the zip. Just to rule it out, can you google "htgdb gamepacks" and get the pack from over there? Edit: That's the only thing I can think of that's left to try since the mgl looks good. Definitely a strange error... The other thing to try would be another index, but looking throu...

OK, so after wiping to a fresh ini, it seems to be OK with my zipped folders! Still just getting a grey screen and no gameplay though, so MGL file is loading and just not going anywhere. MGL looks like this: <mistergamedescription> <rbf>_console/nes</rbf> <file delay=2 type=f index=2 path="../../../../media/fat/games/NES/3 Famicom Disk System....

Yup, updated well after your post. After the zips failed, I put some unpacked ROMs in /media/fat/games/NES/fds, and it failed. After changing to /media/fat/games/NES/famidis and updating the ini it worked. So at least in my test, it seems like at least for me the "fds" exclusion did cause it to be ignored for unpacked files. I couldn't fi...