Top:
"No Data
X Back"

Bottom (which is just a PlayStation 2 main menu without a disc in, with the text in Japanese):
"Browser"
"System Settings
O Enter (triangle) Version"

This means most likely that the hard drive has bit the dust. Did you ever remove it from the machine? I hear that that kills GFDM V-V3 harddrives.

No have not removed the hard drive.  RIP Drum Mania!

NOOOOOOOOOOOO

I guess it had to happen eventually, though...

Maybe we can get a DDR Extreme in its place?

At least there's room for that TechnoMotion machine we've all been asking for.

 

lolwut

Well it's been a good run, Bill.  Thanks for keeping the DM going as long as you did.  Guess I'm going to be making more trips up to Vancouver, B.C. from now on!

This sucks, we will miss the DM.  But it should be staying in the local community, as someone who posts here on occasion is the lucky new owner, and knowing him, he will have it running soon.  :-) 

I obviously don't want to stop anyone from going to Acme, but I should remind people that there is a Drummania over at Gameworks currently that is in fairly good condition. If something is wrong with it, complain to the two techs there (Eli and Richard), and it should get taken care of. I just wish I could have got to Acme more while V3 was still there. Still, what Bill said is right and I'm sure we'll see it again soon

Oh...I would have been interested in bidding on it.  Guess I'm not well connected enough.

Not really a fan of Gameworks; strange as it sounds, I am more inclined to drive the distance to B.C., than drive to downtown Seattle.

OK that's a bit of an exaggeration...guess I'm just royally bummed right now.  But I end up being in Bellingham once or twice a month anyhow, so that's why I don't feel like Vancouver is all that far.

Chris has second dibs on the DM if the original deal does not go through.

Tony, if you happen to be near Acme, see if you know what the error code is on ITG today.  Game is down, and our lead tech is not in until Monday.  Reboots bring it back to the same error.

Many thanks to Gerrack!  He brought a keyboard and was able to resurrect the ITG.  thanks much for that!  Remind me I owe you some free credits when I see you.  :-)

Oh I never said this but I intended to, to elaborate:

The ITG machine was giving an error when it booted, but it was very small (looked like a small syntax error, but Tony said it was something with an improper shutdown). In any case it can be fixed by plugging in a keyboard into the front slot and hitting "I" to ignore the error.

Well Acme had a keyboard I had them dig out and keep up front, but it broke somehow so in a fit of rage I bought a cheap new one (my home one's a gaming keyboard and requires software to use). I left it at the front desk with a note on it, so should anyone have this problem again where it's stuck on an Ubuntu error screen, just ask them for the keyboard, plug it in, and push I and it'll work fine.

Hope that helps

Wait, don't you need to open the coin thing to plug it in? They said they don't have the keys for that so that means we'd have to get a tech all the way up there just to open it lol

You can plug in a keyboard directly into the USB ports on the front of the machine.

I thought that thing was fried? Unless it just doesn't work for flash drives then ok it makes sense

The problem with the USB ports is entirely software related, and has to do with how the OS Tony put on the new machine and OpenITG both handle USB. When you boot the machine, the OS isn't loaded yet, so you can use a keyboard with those ports just fine.

WOW I could've fixed it then because I asked the front if they had a USB keyboard and they said yes. I thought those slots were unusable.

Hitting the ITG3 cab up in a couple hours...

-EDIT-
Acme was closed for a party. Never seen that happen before.

FYI regarding ITG3.  Last night, our tech was unable to get the game up when in error, using the keyboard from the desk.  He added another keyboard directly to the computer, and it is behind the machine in case any of you need to use it to clear a error.  Not sure why the USB keyboard did not work last night?

Sorry for disappearing for two months - I stopped checking the boards when I was laid off at the beginning of Decemeber, and never started checking after I got a new job.

As mentioned above, ITG profiles don't work because the OS and OITG don't yet play nicely with one another.  Other than that, the front ports do work, but can be a little finicky; I've found that I sometimes a keyboard plugged into the front with only work after two reboots for some reason.  Furthermore, if I plug a drive into the front and try to copy data off of it (with the OS, which can mount drives just fine), the data rate is ridiculously low (less than 1 Mb/s) and larger transfers (for example, full song packs) tend to freeze half way, whereas everything runs fine if a drive is plugged into the machine directly.  The front USB hub may have some issues, but I'll need to do some testing to make sure.  Bill, can you let me know where you get those hubs?  I'd like to look up the part just so I should know what to expect of them performance and reliability wise.

Regarding the the machine locking up while booting, I personally haven't seen the error message in question, unless it's just a disk check being run after an "unclean shutdown" (since ITG blocks access to the OS, we never shut it down cleanly, since the only option is flipping the power switch).  I don't know why a disk check would be completely locking up the system, though, so I'm inclined to say it's something else.  Next time I have a chance to do some work on the machine, I'll see if I can reproduce the problem.

Ditto. I'd like to know what I should look for in case mine ever dies.

I'm not sure where our lead tech Mark got the hubs.  I have sent him the question, and he may come here to this thread and post the info.   If not, I will find out more Monday.

Well if you don't mind, since it's been giving this error upon every shutdown for several months now and I had to put a downright obnoxious note on the machine to keep people from breaking it, could you please end your period of not working on or caring about the machine since you're kind of supposed to be the one who wanted to be in charge of fixing it, and you've rejected offers I've given you to have other extremely experienced Linux programmers look at it with you or in your stead.

I know the job situation is difficult, and believe me when I say I empathize with financial strain of late, but if you want to be the one in charge of maintaining the machine, could you please do something to fix

-the USB interface

-the crashing on certain songs (such as Where Have You Gone or Whiteblue), this of course being a bigger problem with #4 below being the case as well...

-the need for new custom songs, including replacing some you deleted off the machine (Such as Fly High, or a couple others you deleted as "repeats", but they had different charts, and in some cases you deleted the 'better' version...). This would of course be handled by fixing the USBs but worth mentioning...

-and the inability to boot up...

I and those others who still play at Acme would greatly appreciate it! Thanks!