Arcadie Amiga Port (WIP)

Kick off 2 – Playable on Arcadie!

I have been determined to get Kick Off 2 working on my Arcadie with the Amiga Emulator (iAmiga), so thought i’d take a look at the non-jailbreak version of iAmiga thanks to Les Bird. I thought it would be reasonably easy to replace the touch screen controller view like in iMAME but that wasn’t the case. I’ve had to remove the tabular view at the bottom of the screen and reorganise a lot of the interface and settings menu as it wasn’t very user friendly.

I’ve now managed to add the touch screen buttons that map to the Arcadie controls and modified the touch events to reflect similarly like my iMAME port. I booted up Kick Off 2 and we did some testing down the pub…..did some more tweaking and managed to get it working perfectly!

I still need to tidy up some more of the interface and change some of the buttons to fit properly on the Arcadie screen. As soon as i’ve done that, i’ve release the source code if any interest.

Steve

Arcadie iMAME Port

I bought an Arcadie (mini arcade caddy) for iPhone back in September and was disappointed with the games available on the app store for it. I noticed some Youtube videos of an iMAME version and was excited for it’s release.  After waiting and waiting for months, there was still no sign of it being released!

I noticed there were quite a few people in the same boat as me, so decided to have a look at the iMame4All source code and try and figure out how to code the controller myself. After a few days i finally managed to get it working perfectly – thanks to Les Bird for his non-jailbreak port.

I’ve had to strip out some of the other control views as it was easier for me to customise for the arcadie. Some of the on screen buttons ‘coin’, ‘start’ etc had to raised up a bit and their transparency values extended in height to allow you to be able to touch them without taking your phone out of the arcadie. I’ve only tested it with a few games so far and everything seems to work fluidly:

• all 8 joystick directions working
• arcadie B button mapped to mame B button
• arcadie A button mapped to mame X button
• arcadie A+B together mapped to mame A button

I’ve also changed a few minor cosmetic things and some of the options could do with being disabled. I’ll probably release another update if required.

Anyway, my port of the source code is available here:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/5ymysllqfk8bsy7/iMame4All-Arcadie.zip
Please note – this version has been coded for non-jailbreak. I’ve no idea if it will compile on a jailbroken version!

Once unzipped, go into the iMame4All-Arcade->xcode folder and run the iMame.xcodeproj which should then load up xcode. You must then enter your bundle identifier e.g. com.myname.iMAME and set your code signing identity to your certificates. Then click Product->Run to deploy straight to your device or Project->Build and copy manually through xcode organiser.

I’m using Lion 10.7.4 and Xcode 4.5.1 and deploying to an iPhone 4S iOS6.

More info can be found here about the particular port i’m using: http://www.lesbird.com/iMame4All/iMame4All_Xcode.html

Let me know how you get on.

Steve

Arcadie running iMAME

Arcadie running iMAME