PIFORCE with game marquee possible?

[thejew]

Idea have raspberry pi display a game marquee to led screen marquee I've seen a lot of mame projects now using LCD/led marquees thought this idea should be feasible if anyone with the know how could do it that would be the shit!!!

 

[thejew]

Merging piforce with raspberry pi attract mode would make a lot of possibilitys maybe make a python script using the original piforce for every game and have attract mode run the script instead of a emulator.

 

[Derick2k]

You want to have RasPi, running PiForce script in a netboot setup load a game and then output either image(s) or video to an lcd display used as a marquee thru its hdmi port, correct?!

 

[thejew]

Yes that would be nice I also would like to figure out a way to load a specific game from the raspberry pi command line so you could use the front end attract mode for a more customizable ui.

 

[thejew]

So if anyone could send a altered triforetools.py that only loads one specific game that I could easily alter for each game that would be awsome

Could you just add the game name to the code and run it from command line

# upload a file into DIMM memory, and optionally encrypt for the given key.
# note that the re-encryption is obsoleted by just setting a zero-key, which
# is a magic to disable the decryption.
def DIMM_UploadFile(name, key = None):
	import zlib
	crc = 0
	a = open(name, "rb")
	addr = 0
	if key:
		d = DES.new(key[::-1], DES.MODE_ECB)
	while True:
		sys.stderr.write("%08x\r" % addr)
		data = a.read(0x8000)
		if not len(data):
			break
		if key:
			data = d.encrypt(data[::-1])[::-1]
		DIMM_Upload(addr, data, 0)
		crc = zlib.crc32(data, crc)
		addr += len(data)
	crc = ~crc
	DIMM_Upload(addr, "12345678", 1)
	DIMM_SetInformation(crc, addr)

 

[wilycoldcuts]

So if anyone could send a altered triforetools.py that only loads one specific game that I could easily alter for each game that would be awsome

Could you just add the game name to the code and run it from command line

Good idea! I got this mostly working, I think. I left triforcetools.py untouched but used a new "loader" python script (link) that you can call from Attract Mode which handles loading the image. I started a separate thread with more detailed instructions over here.