#Demon front arcade rom install
#Demon front arcade rom update
#Demon front arcade rom trial

The last lingering issue that i see- and it's really petty, is that, often, when you run a game from AM, you get a brief 'loading', then black screen, then a few seconds of the 'loading' screen again before the game initializes. So you are probably right that it's something to do with GM, but maybe just needed to be reset by changing the audio settings? Maybe it needed to be initialized? I did both, but it very well could just be one of the setting that needs to be changed (either Sample rate or External samples).

Rebooted, checked more games still working. Got back into AM, ran a game and audio still was working. I then went back to the command prompt, ran groovymame, and set the Audio settings back to default (48000hz and external samples on). Rebooted and checked again- still working. Reloaded AM, loaded a game and the audio worked! I then tested with several other games with the same result. Went into the Audio options, set samples rate to 41000hz and external samples to off. So I got the idea to jump out to the command line, I updated while there, and then ran groovymame. Noted that the audio was not present, as before. Left AM alone, fired up a game, set some buttons for coin/start/ui_cancel. That build worked well except it wouldn't get proper mame names in AM. 2020.06 was great except that once I powered off or rebooted the machine, the joysticks/buttons would no longer be recognized in GA.

#Demon front arcade rom trial

reading up on arch, pacman, and just doing a bunch of trial and error learning.

#Demon front arcade rom update

So, I've been messing with previous builds to update from. I must have been doing something to jack it up before.

#Demon front arcade rom install

I just did a clean install and went straight to the desktop and it updated. I'm pretty novice with linux, so don't feel you need to spend a lot of time (or any) troubleshooting these issues.

It's probably some hardware issue on my end. I'm going to try a straight install and then reboot without changing anything to see if I can reproduce it. AM will recognize the joysticks and buttons. Another issue I'm experiencing (which is weird because I'm almost positive I've been running build 2020.06 on this hardware since it released up until this past weekend) is that once I get the build installed to the hard drive and copy over some ROMs, test some out- if i reboot, GA will no longer recognize my joysticks nor buttons. I also try via the desktop/terminal 'sudo pacman -Syu' but it also fails (can't import the PGP key). I've confirmed that I'm connected to the internet, I go to gasetup and run all the options to update the various things but there nothing available to update under everything option, with the exception of gasetup. *2nd update* I must be doing something wrong, with regards to updating. *update* I'm doing all this on an modded Arcade1Up (LCD) at the home, so don't need to worry about switchres for the moment. Just run the updating scripts in gasetup, correct? Then I kept experiencing the issue I posted in my *update*. I vaguely remembered setting that in AM (EXIT HOTKEY), but just decided to set it in MAME (UI_CANCEL) and that fixed that issue.

But this was to configure joystick buttons to kill the game and go back to AM. Hitting that would actually kill the process. Yeah, I was aware that ESC is the default. It was also nice that the ethernet interface grabbed an ip automatically as well. For the wifi connection I'm using SSID / PW authentication (Unifi waps).