Support for iCade announced at CES

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http://www.ionaudio.com/icade

Original issue reported on code.google.com by a2...@hotmail.com on 11 Jan 2011 at 11:23

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Matt

For what it's worth, I'm 4.3.3 and every game I've tried seems fine. I haven't 
tried any of the fighting games with multiple buttons, though. 

Original comment by jmann99...@gmail.com on 8 Jul 2011 at 1:02

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Good news, Martijn.Bosschaart has gift me an iCade to test, that I will 
received in a week ... I can't wait to check iCade support.  Thanks 4 your 
help. 

Original comment by seleuco....@gmail.com on 8 Jul 2011 at 8:05

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In portrait mode, there a way to remove the DPAD and button pictures and just 
go full screen while the iCade is detected? If not automatic, is there an 
OPTION to make games go FULL SCREEN in iPAD and lose the DPAD and buttons? 
Thanks in advance. 

Original comment by jeremy.m...@gmail.com on 9 Jul 2011 at 3:15

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It doesnt work options/portrait/fullscreen? 

Enviado desde mi iPad

El 09/07/2011, a las 17:15, imame4all@googlecode.com escribió:

Original comment by seleuco....@gmail.com on 9 Jul 2011 at 4:11

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Yep. It was there. My bad, and thanks for the quick response. Most appreciated. 
(I simply overlooked it.) !

Original comment by jeremy.m...@gmail.com on 9 Jul 2011 at 8:21

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I have uploaded a release candidate with some improvements. let me know how it 
works... ;)

Original comment by seleuco....@gmail.com on 10 Jul 2011 at 11:56

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Issues with 1.7

* do you have to show the Alert saying you detected an iCade on every launch? 
The user knows he has an iCade he is sitting right in front of it!

* also the iCade disconnected Alert is annoying too, modal alerts are almost 
always a bad UI idea

* When the onscreen controls fade in/out the game screen jumps (I guess to fill 
the entire screen) this is distracting.  It was much nicer for the game to stay 
in one place and the controls fade out (no jump).  considering you need to 
activate the on screen controls for OPTIONS/EXIT this is something everyone 
will see.

* Now a real bug. enable fullscreen/protrait, start game from scratch, select a 
ROM and start a game using only iCade controls (except for dismissing iCade 
alert at start) on screen controls do not fade out, you have to touch the 
screen once then touch iCade to get them to go away.....

Original comment by tod...@gmail.com on 10 Jul 2011 at 5:10

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Issues with 1.7

* do you have to show the Alert saying you detected an iCade on every launch? 
The user knows he has an iCade he is sitting right in front of it!

Yes but i like to notice what happen there, and i want to warn users that iCade 
could not suited for all games... (and that they can put iMame on fullscreen 
;))... anyway it only should bw ahowed one time per launch isnt't it?

* also the iCade disconnected Alert is annoying too, modal alerts are almost 
always a bad UI idea

but... this is a situation... that shoud not happen in normal use... isnt't it?

* When the onscreen controls fade in/out the game screen jumps (I guess to fill 
the entire screen) this is distracting.  It was much nicer for the game to stay 
in one place and the controls fade out (no jump).  considering you need to 
activate the on screen controls for OPTIONS/EXIT this is something everyone 
will see.

When the touch acreen controls are showed, the arcade window is relayaut using 
the rom resolution, so not much arcade screen are hidden by your fingers (this 
is its normal behavieur with the  touch controls)... when iCade is working, the 
arcade screen is centered... this aproach is also used also with wiimotes..

* Now a real bug. enable fullscreen/protrait, start game from scratch, select a 
ROM and start a game using only iCade controls (except for dismissing iCade 
alert at start) on screen controls do not fade out, you have to touch the 
screen once then touch iCade to get them to go away.....

Ok.. i take a look 

Thanks for your testing

Original comment by seleuco....@gmail.com on 10 Jul 2011 at 5:34

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> i want to warn users that iCade could not suited for all games...
just put some instructions in the help, or at least only show the alert once 
and only once (write a flag to disk)

> but... this is a situation... that shoud not happen in normal use... isnt't 
it?
I want to leave my iCade in "attract mode" after a few minutes the iCade will 
go to sleep messing up the game attract mode. I want to just walk up to it hit 
the COIN and START button, not have to dismiss alerts! we want the full 
illusion of a real arcade machine.

Original comment by tod...@gmail.com on 10 Jul 2011 at 6:12

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> i want to warn users that iCade could not suited for all games...
just put some instructions in the help, or at least only show the alert once 
and only once (write a flag to disk)

i already have put it on in help... like full screen option ... but as you can 
see not all people read help... :(

> but... this is a situation... that shoud not happen in normal use... isnt't 
it?
I want to leave my iCade in "attract mode" after a few minutes the iCade will 
go to sleep messing up the game attract mode. I want to just walk up to it hit 
the COIN and START button, not have to dismiss alerts! we want the full 
illusion of a real arcade machine.

sadly you always see a keyboard fade in- fade out... because that it is how 
iCade works when disconect. i will think on doing an automatic dismiss after 
some time for the alerts windows... but it has not high priority.

Original comment by seleuco....@gmail.com on 10 Jul 2011 at 6:49

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* Now a real bug. enable fullscreen/protrait, start game from scratch, select a 
ROM and start a game using only iCade controls (except for dismissing iCade 
alert at start) on screen controls do not fade out, you have to touch the 
screen once then touch iCade to get them to go away..

i can't get this bug...  can you elaborate more?

When i dismiss the alert window and send a iCade key with my keyboard, the 
controls are hidden...

Original comment by seleuco....@gmail.com on 10 Jul 2011 at 7:10

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OK i get the bug... :) Thanks again. It's the problem to test with a keyboard 
and not the real HW

Original comment by seleuco....@gmail.com on 10 Jul 2011 at 7:18

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I have upload 1.7 again fixing Todd bug... and auto dismissing alert views... 
but the first one..

Original comment by seleuco....@gmail.com on 10 Jul 2011 at 11:14

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hey guys thanks for adding the icade support, version 1.7 seems to be working 
great so far, i have not noticed any lagging issues like 1.6 had, i do have one 
question i cannot access the menu (in game) where i can change button mapping 
and autofire setting, how do i access that menu, again, i am not referring to 
the imame4all menu.

Original comment by ebay...@gmail.com on 11 Jul 2011 at 2:05

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push the START and COIN buttons (both RED buttons)

Original comment by tod...@gmail.com on 11 Jul 2011 at 2:07

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Tried that many times, doesnt seem to work for me, ill try to remove and 
reinstall imame4all and try again. Thanks.

Original comment by ebay...@gmail.com on 11 Jul 2011 at 4:27

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you must have selected a ROM and have it running before the START+COIN will 
bring up the MAME menu.

Original comment by tod...@gmail.com on 11 Jul 2011 at 4:17

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You should remove manualy Mame files on roms folders.. The rom's keyboard 
mappingn are stored there,...

Original comment by seleuco....@gmail.com on 11 Jul 2011 at 4:18

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One thing for GERMAN users of iCade: On a GERMAN keyboard "Y" and "Z" are mixed 
up by design - we have QWERT"Z"-Keyboards, not QWERT"Y".

If you start MAME (or the ATARI-Collection or every other iCade game) the games 
doesn`t work with "German" settings, because if you use "down" on the joystick, 
releasing expects "z" but gets a "y", and "UP" does not work anymore... If 
"button 1" is pressed (sending "z" instead of "y") it works till you move the 
joystick "down" - but "button 1" does not work as expected too. 

I needed 5! hours to find the solution after receiving the iCade (with help of 
comment #6)!

Solution: Set the soft keyboard to "english (us)" before using the iCade. It 
works, but is anoying, because if iCade is already connected the soft keyboard 
doesn't work untill you stop bluetooth, and after gaming the keyboard and 
autocorect (from german view) is mixed up with english ... 

In Deutsch (for deperate German userslike me): Lösung : Um in imame4all mit 
der iCade auf dem ipad und mame oder atari zu spielen, vorher das iPad bzw. die 
Eingabesprache auf "english (us)" stellen, damit der Joystick-Bug behoben ist! 

Is it possible that imame4all detects the settimg of the keyboard, and if it is 
set to "German" just exchange "Y" and "Z" internaly? Or displays a warning? Or 
makes it possible to set the key/button-mapping manually?

Original comment by lenn...@googlemail.com on 11 Jul 2011 at 5:20

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This is a nasty iCade behaviour, but it is a fake keyboard with a custom 
firmware ... when i recive the cabinet i will think on it... now I already have 
sent the deb file to publish on Cydia.

Original comment by seleuco....@gmail.com on 11 Jul 2011 at 7:28

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Hi everybody. I'm running the experimental version published by Todd via a 
precompiled "mame" executable for ipad with my recently received iCade and an 
iPad one and it works pretty well. I'm just noticing glitches when I press too 
many buttons (like firing a lot). There's image freezes but sound is still on 
and I can hear myself being killed :-)

I just wanted to say THANKS and add a feature request: wouldn't it be great to 
have an option for a full-screen non-portrait (cabinet?) mode? It would fit the 
iCade and the iPad screen size perfectly.

If there´s any other place to add feature requests I'd love to post it there 
if anyone's kind enough to send me a pointer.

Thanks a lot

Original comment by fernando...@gmail.com on 12 Jul 2011 at 2:46

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Seleuco put 1.7 on Cydia, should have all that and more. 

Original comment by tod...@gmail.com on 12 Jul 2011 at 2:50

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oh, yes! upgraded, tested and beautifully working!! Thanks!!

Original comment by fernando...@gmail.com on 13 Jul 2011 at 10:16

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The source is only up to 1.6.1  - will you be posting the 1.7 source soon?

Original comment by blackpow...@gmail.com on 19 Jul 2011 at 12:49

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I'm not tagged it yet, but it is all in main trunk

Original comment by seleuco....@gmail.com on 19 Jul 2011 at 4:48

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iCade support is not working whit iOS 6 and the new jailbreak.

Original comment by valiente...@gmail.com on 6 Feb 2013 at 4:40

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Imame4all is only supported on ios 5.x.  It has issues on iOS 6.  

I'm not currently supporting imame4all since it has been replaced by mame4ios 
reloaded. 

I will update mame4ios reloaded on cydia to support iOS 6.x. 

Original comment by seleuco....@gmail.com on 6 Feb 2013 at 8:57

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Can you add an option to where I can make the controller and buttons smaller 
for the iPad? Maybe a slide bar or something. By the Gridlee is working great.

Is this you? 
http://www.mameworld.info/ubbthreads/showthreaded.php?Cat=&Number=303303&page=0&
view=expanded&sb=5&o=&fpart=1&vc=1

Anyway it have not been taken down from the iTunes yet. Only have Gridlee on 
it. Been over a week since the released. After the app loaded up the 
gridlee.zip become unhidden. I think the name of iMAME4All or anything that 
have MAME name will be taken down from iTunes.

Original comment by coonstat...@gmail.com on 9 Feb 2013 at 10:48

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Oh I forgot to ask. Can you add second player start button? Just for Pacman and 
some others that switch players.

Original comment by coonstat...@gmail.com on 9 Feb 2013 at 10:49

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Gridlee can't load neogeo.zip (MAME). Therefore NEO-GEO games like Puzzle 
Bobble will report missing roms.

Original comment by presiden...@gmail.com on 15 Feb 2013 at 8:45