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I don't know if you're like me and leave everything on one sd card but man is it annoying to load up a game to find out it's vertical or you just nuked your free play settings going to/from Atomiswave and Naomi. I was really bored today so I rewrote the menu interface to piforcetools and the game list to introduce categories! To navigate categories you just use left/right on the lcd panel. Up/down/enter work just as they do in the previous versions.
To install you need to replace the two python files in /boot/piforcetools that are attached. Before doing this you need to do two changes to the piforcetools.py file:
So line 13 is the category array for the menu. Any category that has no games will cause piforce to crash so remove them.
For example I don't have chihiro, triforce, naomi2 or guns so line 13 becomes:
Pretty simple. Line 37 needs uncommented if you have a newer RGB LCD panel for your net booter. I do not so it is commented out.
The categories are as follows:
atomiswave - standard horizontal atomiswave games
atomiswave_special - vertical/games with nonstandard controls
naomi - standard horizontal naomi games
naomi_vertical - vertical naomi games
naomi_special - naomi games with special controls i.e wheel, keyboard, maraccas, etc
naomi_gun - naomi gun games
naomi2 - naomi2 games
chihiro - chihiro games
triforce - triforce games
commands - ping/change ip of netbooter
You may need to edit the game list to match your roms or if you reference the list you can probably redo your existing list to match the categories. My game list might not be 100% accurate either as I was going off some assumptions when putting it together.
I don't know if you're like me and leave everything on one sd card but man is it annoying to load up a game to find out it's vertical or you just nuked your free play settings going to/from Atomiswave and Naomi. I was really bored today so I rewrote the menu interface to piforcetools and the game list to introduce categories! To navigate categories you just use left/right on the lcd panel. Up/down/enter work just as they do in the previous versions.
To install you need to replace the two python files in /boot/piforcetools that are attached. Before doing this you need to do two changes to the piforcetools.py file:
Code:
LINE 13
categories = ["atomiswave", "atomiswave_special", "naomi", "naomi_vertical", "naomi_special", "naomi_gun", "naomi2", "chihiro", "triforce", "commands"] # Add or remove categories that are unused
LINE 37
# lcd.backlight(lcd.BLUE) # REMOVE COMMENT IF USING NEWER RGB LCD
For example I don't have chihiro, triforce, naomi2 or guns so line 13 becomes:
Code:
categories = ["atomiswave", "atomiswave_special", "naomi", "naomi_vertical", "naomi_special", "commands"] # Add or remove categories that are unused
The categories are as follows:
atomiswave - standard horizontal atomiswave games
atomiswave_special - vertical/games with nonstandard controls
naomi - standard horizontal naomi games
naomi_vertical - vertical naomi games
naomi_special - naomi games with special controls i.e wheel, keyboard, maraccas, etc
naomi_gun - naomi gun games
naomi2 - naomi2 games
chihiro - chihiro games
triforce - triforce games
commands - ping/change ip of netbooter
You may need to edit the game list to match your roms or if you reference the list you can probably redo your existing list to match the categories. My game list might not be 100% accurate either as I was going off some assumptions when putting it together.
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