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by mrchrister
Sun Dec 31, 2023 10:13 pm
Forum: Linux
Topic: MiSTer Super Attract Mode (SAM) is now available - the first game screensaver for your MiSTer!
Replies: 602
Views: 184978

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

I have an issue. I dont get any commercial videos with SAM video. Only the sound. mister menu still shows and the background picture flickers when it plays. after its done, a corresponding game loads as expected, hdmi mister.ini settings is what sam set it to; [menu] video_mode=8 fb_terminal=1 fb_size=1 Try changing this in MiSTer_Sam.ini https://...
by mrchrister
Sun Dec 31, 2023 10:11 pm
Forum: Linux
Topic: MiSTer Super Attract Mode (SAM) is now available - the first game screensaver for your MiSTer!
Replies: 602
Views: 184978

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

One thing I wish I could do was when I see a game interesting running the demo I would like to press a button and start playing it, but no, everytime it reboots the mister, dont know if I have to change something in settings. Use Sam menu to configure your controller (start button will then play current game) otherwise set play current game=yes to...
by mrchrister
Sun Dec 31, 2023 10:10 pm
Forum: Linux
Topic: MiSTer Super Attract Mode (SAM) is now available - the first game screensaver for your MiSTer!
Replies: 602
Views: 184978

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

I've got a SAM issue. I think. I want to disable SAM. I've done this using the script, I've even uninstalled it via update_all. However - ATTRACT MODE IS STILL RUNNING FROM THE MAIN MISTER MENU. Help! What am I missing? Could there be another attract-mode type program I've forgotten about? What are the files on a Linux level where I can investigat...
by mrchrister
Mon Dec 11, 2023 7:51 pm
Forum: Linux
Topic: MiSTer Super Attract Mode (SAM) is now available - the first game screensaver for your MiSTer!
Replies: 602
Views: 184978

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

The timer does not show every second counting down for me either. It's more meant to give you an approximation when the core is about to change.

by mrchrister
Wed Dec 06, 2023 10:20 pm
Forum: Linux
Topic: MiSTer Super Attract Mode (SAM) is now available - the first game screensaver for your MiSTer!
Replies: 602
Views: 184978

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

Thanks for testing! I will change one setting which might have to do with the skipping second.

Update: Please try with the new version of SAM if the skipping improved

by mrchrister
Wed Dec 06, 2023 12:15 am
Forum: Linux
Topic: MiSTer Super Attract Mode (SAM) is now available - the first game screensaver for your MiSTer!
Replies: 602
Views: 184978

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

@rhester72 Screensaver should not get disabled anymore. Please update SAM and see if it works for you.

by mrchrister
Mon Dec 04, 2023 10:00 pm
Forum: Linux
Topic: MiSTer Super Attract Mode (SAM) is now available - the first game screensaver for your MiSTer!
Replies: 602
Views: 184978

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

@venice reactivating the screensaver after sleepfile deletion seems to fix the issue. Just sent you a PR

by mrchrister
Sat Dec 02, 2023 3:42 pm
Forum: Linux
Topic: MiSTer Super Attract Mode (SAM) is now available - the first game screensaver for your MiSTer!
Replies: 602
Views: 184978

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

Thanks for taking the time to respond, Venice! The best thing would be an ini option in this case to send the restart screensaver command if desired by the user.
I'll play around with this next week.

by mrchrister
Thu Nov 30, 2023 9:16 pm
Forum: Hardware Setups
Topic: No output with Villena's composite/s-video adapter
Replies: 4
Views: 4264

Re: No output with Villena's composite/s-video adapter

Configuring the jumper was needed in my case. I was stumped at first as well. Good luck fixing the issue!

by mrchrister
Thu Nov 30, 2023 7:29 pm
Forum: Linux
Topic: MiSTer Super Attract Mode (SAM) is now available - the first game screensaver for your MiSTer!
Replies: 602
Views: 184978

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

Wow, you were quick to respond :)
It might have to do with the way tty2oled daemon sleeps when SAM is in use. venice added support for SAM a while back and all SAM is doing is tell tty2oled when to take over and when to go back to normal operation. It would be something to discuss with venice.

by mrchrister
Thu Nov 30, 2023 7:24 pm
Forum: Linux
Topic: MiSTer Super Attract Mode (SAM) is now available - the first game screensaver for your MiSTer!
Replies: 602
Views: 184978

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

Hey rhester, I'm not planning on supporting the screensaver function anytime soon, sorry. The reason is that it's a very specific use case and getting tty2oled supported wasn't easy in the first place. The dev (paradox) that worked on tty2oled support for SAM has moved on and I wouldn't have time to enable screensaver mode and test it. My MiSTer wi...
by mrchrister
Wed Nov 29, 2023 10:23 pm
Forum: Linux
Topic: MiSTer Super Attract Mode (SAM) is now available - the first game screensaver for your MiSTer!
Replies: 602
Views: 184978

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

New feature:

SAM's GOAT list.
I have created a list of awesome NeoGeo and Arcade attract modes. You can enable this feature from the preset menu.

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by mrchrister
Sat Sep 09, 2023 10:53 pm
Forum: Linux
Topic: MiSTer Super Attract Mode (SAM) is now available - the first game screensaver for your MiSTer!
Replies: 602
Views: 184978

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

As of right now, only the Amiga Rbf is supported, no mgl. Strange with the demo selection not working, might be a bug. I'll Look into it when I have some time!

by mrchrister
Sat Sep 09, 2023 4:33 am
Forum: Linux
Topic: MiSTer Super Attract Mode (SAM) is now available - the first game screensaver for your MiSTer!
Replies: 602
Views: 184978

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

Not sure I understand, would you mind explaining this some more? Update all updates the minimig core but shouldn't give you any Amiga games, so not sure what you mean with two amiga setups.

As long as you have the AmigaVision files set up in the right folders and activate Amiga in SAM it should play the amiga games for you.

by mrchrister
Mon Sep 04, 2023 2:53 pm
Forum: Hardware Setups
Topic: MiSTer Inside a Sony PVM-14L5
Replies: 8
Views: 5483

Re: MiSTer Inside a Sony PVM-14L5

That's really cool! Maybe there is a way to connect to RGB internally?

by mrchrister
Tue Aug 22, 2023 9:04 pm
Forum: Linux
Topic: MiSTer Super Attract Mode (SAM) is now available - the first game screensaver for your MiSTer!
Replies: 602
Views: 184978

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

Unfortunately not possible. We have put in a request with sorgelig but we don't expect support for such a feature. The best way is to either check the ssh monitor of SAM or get a hardware display like tty2oled. In other news: Saturn support. Easiest way to get it working is use vampier's update script ( www.vampier.net/Saturn ) and then copy your g...
by mrchrister
Mon Aug 14, 2023 5:12 am
Forum: Linux
Topic: MiSTer Super Attract Mode (SAM) is now available - the first game screensaver for your MiSTer!
Replies: 602
Views: 184978

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

Thanks, I'm glad we have a video player for mister as well :) I'm in the process with wizzo to test another way to play videos on MiSTer and we also want to include this in remote. Currently SAM will randomly play a video from the folder and there is no way to tell SAM which one you want. To get rid of the crop, you would need to adjust the CRT vid...
by mrchrister
Sun Aug 13, 2023 5:05 pm
Forum: Linux
Topic: MiSTer Super Attract Mode (SAM) is now available - the first game screensaver for your MiSTer!
Replies: 602
Views: 184978

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

https://github.com/mrchrisster/MiSTer_S ... M.ini#L109

Yes, you can set video playback to local and move video files into the /media/fat/video folder (or define another path in the ini)

File format should be divx 640x480

by mrchrister
Mon Aug 07, 2023 12:44 pm
Forum: Linux
Topic: MiSTer Super Attract Mode (SAM) is now available - the first game screensaver for your MiSTer!
Replies: 602
Views: 184978

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

There are some controllers that dont get detected by SAM. It could be that that's the issue here. What kind of controller are you using?

by mrchrister
Wed Jul 19, 2023 6:21 pm
Forum: Linux
Topic: MiSTer Super Attract Mode (SAM) is now available - the first game screensaver for your MiSTer!
Replies: 602
Views: 184978

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

Sorry I don't have a PC CRT to check. Just making sure, did you update and reboot MiSTer after applying the setting?

by mrchrister
Thu Jun 29, 2023 10:04 pm
Forum: Linux
Topic: MiSTer Super Attract Mode (SAM) is now available - the first game screensaver for your MiSTer!
Replies: 602
Views: 184978

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

If you set samvideo="yes" and samvideo_tvc="yes" in MiSTer_SAM.ini and then update SAM, your MiSTer will show a commercial (currently SNES, Genesis and Megacd) and then show the game that was advertised after the commercial.

by mrchrister
Mon Jun 26, 2023 7:13 pm
Forum: Linux
Topic: MiSTer Super Attract Mode (SAM) is now available - the first game screensaver for your MiSTer!
Replies: 602
Views: 184978

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

I took out sv_custom_vmode since it doesn't seem to have any effect on the display. I added sv_aspectfix_vmode though, which should hopefully help (still set it to HDMI please).
Sorry I can't test it myself, please let me know.

by mrchrister
Fri Jun 23, 2023 8:21 pm
Forum: Linux
Topic: MiSTer Super Attract Mode (SAM) is now available - the first game screensaver for your MiSTer!
Replies: 602
Views: 184978

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

Hey scrooge, Glad you're liking it. Unfortunately I don't have a PC CRT to test, but you probably don't want to use CRT mode in this case. Try HDMI setting since this should display the video in standard 640x480 @rhester Appreciate the feedback. I must admit it was playing those cores by design since I love the old GB commercials and that's what go...
by mrchrister
Tue Jun 20, 2023 2:26 pm
Forum: Linux
Topic: MiSTer Super Attract Mode (SAM) is now available - the first game screensaver for your MiSTer!
Replies: 602
Views: 184978

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

It depends if you have mute set. It reboots into the game to unmute since you can't do that on the fly with MiSTer. If mute=no then it should let you take over.

by mrchrister
Tue Jun 20, 2023 6:45 am
Forum: Linux
Topic: MiSTer Super Attract Mode (SAM) is now available - the first game screensaver for your MiSTer!
Replies: 602
Views: 184978

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

Latest updates: Fixed issues with amiga core. Menu has slightly changed. There is an easy way now to configure SAM to your liking through "Presets and Game Modes". Right now there are only 2 modes though. Maybe someone has an idea what else to add. SAMVIDEO: MiSTer.ini resolution for menu core will now be set to 1920x1080 which should hop...
by mrchrister
Sun Jun 18, 2023 2:37 pm
Forum: Linux
Topic: MiSTer Super Attract Mode (SAM) is now available - the first game screensaver for your MiSTer!
Replies: 602
Views: 184978

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

Hey Lamer, Very sorry about the trouble this has caused you! When you launch SAM from command line, it actually displays a warning message that it has to set menu resolution in the ini for Samvideo to work. I actually pushed new code on how to handle mister.ini yesterday since I've experienced the same bug as well where it modified video_mode outsi...
by mrchrister
Fri Jun 16, 2023 7:45 pm
Forum: Linux
Topic: MiSTer Super Attract Mode (SAM) is now available - the first game screensaver for your MiSTer!
Replies: 602
Views: 184978

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

Thanks for all your testing, rhester! That must be a very old bug indeed. Never used the screensaver function of tty2oled, that's probably why I never noticed the bug... Some updates to the Video player: tty2oled: Videos will now have a countdown timer. tty2oled: Video will now display the title in tty2oled for archive and youtube No more blinking ...
by mrchrister
Thu Jun 15, 2023 6:21 pm
Forum: Linux
Topic: MiSTer Super Attract Mode (SAM) is now available - the first game screensaver for your MiSTer!
Replies: 602
Views: 184978

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

Yes the blinking cursor problem! You can get rid of it by logging in to the terminal yourself (push f9 in the main menu) And then type setterm -cursor off You can also type chvt 2 to get a blank screen Unfortunately we don't have a way to automate this yet. If you would go through the YouTube links and help curate them, that would be much appreciat...