Confirm it works great on ps3

[lapieandalpie]

We were about to mothball our ps3 when we found this project. Got it running on a pi 4B and hooked to our old first generation ps3.

[lapieandalpie]

The PS3 didn't provide enough usb power to boot the pi 4, so we had to hook an external power supply feeding 5v into the "GPIO" power pins and SSH remotely over the wan via laptop terminal. Externally powered, the game recognized the toypad right away. About once every 40 minutes or so we lost the ability to remove characters from the pad. (app would show them removed but they wouldn't remove) and refreshing the app page just loaded a page with no characters visible. The solution was to reboot the pi... although inelegant. I wondered if there could be a "reboot server" button on the web interface and a way to set the pi to boot into toypad mode so we wouldn't have to ssh into the pi in order to boot/reboot. That said... DUDE!!!! WHOAH!!!! How freakin epic is this project!!!! Me and my son were giggling with glee the entire time we played, being able to access all the characters and levels we couldn't find/buy. Thank you SO much!!! (sent a coffee your way)

[Berny23]

Thank you for the support and your infos about compatibility with the PS3!

@cort1237 recently updated the layout and added the ability to locally save changes to toy tags, as well as many other improvements.
To update the emulator, just view the "Update" section in the guide.

[DaPiMan]

@lapieandalpie - From your message I got tinkering and also got the RPi4B to work on my PS4 finally (see my other issue message). Like you, I want the RPI4B to auto load the application. I've done it as follows:

1. Login as "pi" and from /home/pi run "npm install pm2 -g" to install "Process Manager 2" (https://pm2.keymetrics.io/)
2. Change directory to /home/pi/LD-ToyPad-Emulator and run "pm2 start index.js" and the process will start

3. Open the web browser and see if it's working (should be)
4. To configure pm2 to start our application on boot run "pm2 startup" copy the sudo script line that is created and ensure you paste this as user "pi" in /home/pi to create the systemd service
5. Finally run "pm2 save" to save the running application to auto start from the new service with pm2 ressurect
6. Reboot. If you can open the web interface you're done :)

Some additional commands for pm2:

pm2 list - Will show the running application(s) and IDs
pm2 log ID - Will show you the logs of the running application ID (example below)

pm2 logs 0
[TAILING] Tailing last 15 lines for [0] process (change the value with --lines option)
/home/pi/.pm2/logs/index-error.log last 15 lines:
0|index | (node:1488) [DEP0005] DeprecationWarning: Buffer() is deprecated due to security and usability issues. Please use the Buffer.alloc(), Buffer.allocUnsafe(), or Buffer.from() methods instead.
0|index | (Use node --trace-deprecation ... to show where the warning was created)

/home/pi/.pm2/logs/index-out.log last 15 lines:
0|index | REQUEST (CMD_READ): index: 2 page 26
0|index | REQUEST (CMD_MODEL): index: 2 conf: 13359372
0|index | Placing tag: 68
0|index | Placed character tag: 68
0|index | EVENT: Event { pad: '2', index: '1', dir: 0, uid: '04CDA73B659580' }
0|index | REQUEST (CMD_READ): index: 1 page 38
0|index | REQUEST (CMD_READ): index: 1 page 26
0|index | REQUEST (CMD_MODEL): index: 1 conf: 1598185597
0|index | Placing tag: 1006
0|index | Placed vehicle tag: 1006
0|index | EVENT: Event { pad: '3', index: '3', dir: 0, uid: '04FE7B16D0BC80' }
0|index | REQUEST (CMD_READ): index: 3 page 38
0|index | REQUEST (CMD_READ): index: 3 page 26
0|index | REQUEST (CMD_READ): index: 3 page 35
0|index | Server running on port 80

Hope that helps with your auto start question. As for rebooting, use pm2.io and link your new pm2 setup to that. You'll have a web interface for restarting the app :-)

[DaPiMan]

@cort1237 @Berny23 not sure if you have seen my pm2 setup for this, makes the setup auto start at boot

[cort1237]

I did see that and it sounds interesting. I might try it out for my personal pi.

[Ravandragp]

hello i want to try it on my ps3 too but what do i have to do first if i want to play on ps3?

[the-onechiel]

For me it works yeah, I thought it didn't at first but you need to have one port on raspberry for powering and the other connected tot the ps3 Op zo 17 dec. 2023 10:03 schreef Ravandragp ***@***.***>:

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[cort1237]

@Ravandragp

hello i want to try it on my ps3 too but what do i have to do first if i want to play on ps3?

You will need the game itself and then follow the Single-Board Computer (Raspberry Pi) method in the readme.