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Here are some updated images for the web-selector interface, 4 games that were missing or wrong, and new images for zoids that are better quality.

I put taco bell's bmps into the oled folder and made sure the names matched but it's not picking them up.
I did notice they're not 1-bit so maybe that's why they're not working? I'm surprised the oled bmp master himself @opt2not hasn't taken a crack at these :D
 

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Ill check tonight with this - I know when I moved the capcom fighting jam .bmp in there, it worked right away. I would assume that it has to be a 1 bit file - as its a monochrome oled.

The reason I like the text is because it's just more info - like version number, etc.

Matt
 
Yeah - I am sure that its because these are not 1 bit files - can you convert them to 1 bit (and probably resize to 128x64) and see if that displays? There is a .bmp file in /var/www/html for Capcom Fighting Jam - that works, so you can see how that is configured?

Matt
 
I've made a bit of progress. a warning to others DONT use Ex2Fsd to try to access Ext partitions in windows. it really messed up my PC, corrupted some files (including some oled images I created) and lied about copying files to the SD card.

I caved and hooked up a monitor to the Pi so I could work out the IP address and SSH in. Now that I've done that I've made some progress.

Here's some things that need fixing.
-the .csv file on the boot partition doesn't do anything. the REAL csv file is in /var/www/html/csv - should probably be removed to avoid confusion
-a bunch of the files in the images folder don't match the names in the csv file
-the fgtjam.bmp file needed to be changed to fghtjam.bmp to be recognized and match the csv (was missing an h)
-taco bell's oled images technically work but because they're not 1-bit most of them are completely illedgible on the OLED.
-a bug or quirk is that the the oled selector doesn't respect the game order of the csv games are always displayed alphabetical by the "rom" name of the csv (the web interface respects the csv order
-another bug is that the oled selector doesn't respect the "enabled" option of the csv games marked as "No" on enabled still appear (the web interface respects this option and will not display games with "No" under the enabled option)

I do wonder if this could be configured to have the dongle, oled, csv, and images mounted to a USB thumb drive that would allow us to mount a 2nd thumb drive to the front and change these parts out as easily as we swap the disc images.

another fun fact is that this image runs well on a Pi2, Pi3, and Pi3B+ you get a minor speed bump with the newer variants. the Pi2 gets to the "Loading Disc" message with in 1 minute 2 second, Pi3 is 59 seconds, and Pi3B+ is 58 seconds. I don't have a Pi4 or 5 to test those speeds, but it's nice I can put some old Pi units to good use here.

Would love to see if this setup can be adapted for other hardware like Konami M2 or Konami 573
 
are these PI setups still availbale? Bit late to the party but thats life :)
 
They are - but they are reliant upon you have an ODE that isn't for sale anymore. There is another one being worked on, so I would wait for that to come out, and we have a chance to get everything settled with the new footprint, switching commands, etc.
 
mathewbeall said:
They are - but they are reliant upon you have an ODE that isn't for sale anymore. There is another one being worked on, so I would wait for that to come out, and we have a chance to get everything settled with the new footprint, switching commands, etc.
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ok great, im currently usind discs and trying to get this PSx dongle working but its driving me insane!
 
mathewbeall said:
They are - but they are reliant upon you have an ODE that isn't for sale anymore. There is another one being worked on, so I would wait for that to come out, and we have a chance to get everything settled with the new footprint, switching commands, etc.
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the new ODE should just work with the selector the same way the old one did (we're still testing and working out the firmware kinks). a bigger problem is the multi-dongle being unavailable.
 
Got my ODE which is the last piece for this build came in yesterday. I am assuming it is a newer version as the ones I am seeing in this thread looks different?
 

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