MiSTer Super Attract Mode (SAM) is now available - the first game screensaver for your MiSTer!

[mrchrister]

Update:
ao486 is now supported. Place screensaver vhd's under /media/fat/games/ao486/screensaver (USB or SD works)
You can find the vhd's in archive under ao486_screensavers

UPDATE

• flynnsbit is currently working on a way for SAM to launch random games directly from the top300 image!

• SAM now has a kids_safe ini setting. This will download white lists for supported cores that filter games by ESRB "All Ages rating" so you don't have any sexy mahjong game running while the kid comes in

[mrchrister]

Some quality of life updates:

• Sam will now create a new gamelist if you add new roms. Sounds trivial but the reason it wasn't implemented so far was to minimize SD card writes. We found a way to only update lists if necessary
• Kids safe filter received other improvements and a menu selection
• Sam will soon be updated completely through update all without the need to use Sam's updater

[mrchrister]

• TTY2OLED Updates: Text in the upper line doesn't bounce back and forth anymore but instead runs through continuously
• SAM Menu got restructured
• Updated roulette mode
• Updated category only mode
• Pushing the start button now let's you play the current game, any other button returns to the MiSTer Menu. This was working before thanks to wizzo but wasn't cleanly implemented. You can set it up in the menu under "Configure Exit behavior".
  All added controllers to SAM are now stored in /Scripts/.MiSTer_SAM/sam_controllers.json.

Please share your controller info from sam_controllers.json so I can add those to github.

[rhester72]

ao486 is now supported. Place screensaver vhd's under /media/fat/games/ao486/screensaver (USB or SD works)
You can find the vhd's in archive under ao486_screensavers

I can't get this working at all, despite using the included boot0/1 ROMs in the archive.org set and placing them in the correct folder (and ensuring they appear in the gamelist). Is there some trick required?

[mrchrister]

Did you set the corelist to ao486 as well? You can also open SAM's menu and go to the single core selection mode to only select ao486.

[rhester72]

Did you set the corelist to ao486 as well? You can also open SAM's menu and go to the single core selection mode to only select ao486.

Yes to both. The core starts, but just says it can't detect a hard drive.

[Majorspawn]

Would it be possible to only choose specific arcade cores for example rizing or cave core, I have a horizontal and a vertical cabinet but the vertical orientation filter doesn't always play vertical games. Or cps1, 2, neo for horizontal only?

[mrchrister]

I did some changes to the horizontal and vertical filter and have talked to the admin of the mame database to remove certain games that are not horizontal or vertical. Please make sure to have the newest version of SAM, this should make those filters work much better.

SAM also supports path filters. You can create a directory under /media/fat/_Arcade/ and just drop the mra's in there you'd like to play. Then set the arcade path filter to that directory in MiSTer_SAM.ini

[mrchrister]

@rhester72
Not sure what the issue could be... do you have top300 image working?
You might want to ask flynnsbit through discord. We're also working on supporting Top300 image as a screensaver image for SAM atm

[rhester72]

@rhester72
Not sure what the issue could be... do you have top300 image working?
You might want to ask flynnsbit through discord. We're also working on supporting Top300 image as a screensaver image for SAM atm

Never tried - other than the screensaver images, I only have a single image I built myself with favorites.

Will give the Discord channel a try.

[Majorspawn]

I did some changes to the horizontal and vertical filter and have talked to the admin of the mame database to remove certain games that are not horizontal or vertical. Please make sure to have the newest version of SAM, this should make those filters work much better.

SAM also supports path filters. You can create a directory under /media/fat/_Arcade/ and just drop the mra's in there you'd like to play. Then set the arcade path filter to that directory in MiSTer_SAM.ini

so i added arcadepathfilter="/media/fat/Arcade/SAMV"
is is the full path or just the sub folder name under "Arcade"?

[mrchrister]

I believe either way should work. If it doesn't work, SAM has likely not added the custom path to it's game list. There is an option to reset gamelists on the menu that might help