FinalBurn Neo

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FinalBurn Neo is a Multiple Arcade Emulator most popular for emulating Neo-Geo, Capcom, Konami, and Cave games. It is developed by the FinalBurn team and originated from FinalBurn by Dave and old MAME versions.

FinalBurn Neo is an active fork of the FinalBurn Alpha emulator, created by former FBA developers.

Arcade ROM paths

Five of the available arcade ROM paths in RetroPie are shared directories which are used by more than one emulator: arcade, mame-libretro, mame-advmame, fba, and neogeo. In order to successfully load zipped ROM sets in these locations you must specify the arcade emulator version which matches your ROMs.

To avoid having several menus for different arcade emulators, all arcade-based ROMs can be placed in the arcade ROM folder, but you will have to specify which emulator each zipped ROM set will use from the Runcommand Menu.

Emulators

lr-fbneo

Note: Please see lr-fbneo for information on how to configure specific features of this emulator.

Accepted File Extensions: .7z .zip

Roms Dir: /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/fba
Samples Dir: /home/pi/RetroPie/BIOS/fbneo/samples/
Binary Dir: /opt/retropie/libretrocores/lr-fbneo
Config Dir: /opt/retropie/configs/fba/retroarch.cfg

Game remaps:
/opt/retropie/configs/arcade/FinalBurn Neo, **or**
/opt/retropie/configs/fba/FinalBurn Neo, **or**
/opt/retropie/configs/neogeo/FinalBurn Neo

High scores / NVRAM files:
/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/arcade/fbneo, **or**
/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/fba/fbneo, **or**
/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/neogeo/fbneo

NOTE: If you have updated RetroPie from an existing installation since 27th May 2019, lr-fbneo now replaces lr-fbalpha. However, if you have existing game remaps, samples, or high scores, you will need to rename the directories to match the above, otherwise lr-fbneo will not be able to find these files.

ROM Version: Subset of latest MAME/HBMAME roms available

Total arcade games emulated: 5500+

BIOS: 7
Samples: ?

FB Neo DAT Files:

Controls: lr-fbneo utilises RetroArch configs. Add custom retroarch controls to the retroarch.cfg file in:

/opt/retropie/configs/fba/retroarch.cfg

For more information on custom RetroArch controls see: RetroArch Configuration

lr-fbalpha2012

Visit the FinalBurn Alpha 2012 homepage on github

Accepted File Extensions: .7z .zip

Roms Dir: /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/fba
Binary Dir: /opt/retropie/libretrocores/lr-fbalpha2012
Config Dir: /opt/retropie/configs/fba/retroarch.cfg

lr-fbalpha2012 does not have support for Samples in any form.

ROM Version: FB Alpha v0.2.97.30

Total games emulated: 3369 * BIOS: 5 * Samples: ?

FB Alpha v0.2.97.30 DAT File: FB Alpha v0.2.97.30.dat.zip

FB Alpha v0.2.97.30 Neo Geo Only DAT File: [fba-lr

geo](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/HerbFargus/retropie-dat/master/lr-fbalpha2012/fba-lr-neogeo-only.xml)

Controls: lr-fbalpha2012 utilises RetroArch configs. Add custom retroarch controls to the retroarch.cfg file in:

/opt/retropie/configs/fba/retroarch.cfg

For more information on custom RetroArch controls see: RetroArch Configuration

PiFBA

Visit the PiFBA homepage on sourceforge

Accepted File Extensions: .zip

Roms Dir: /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/fba
Binary Dir: /opt/retropie/emulators/pifba
Config Dir: /opt/retropie/configs/fba/fba2x.cfg

ROM Version: FB Alpha 0.2.96.71

Total games emulated: 684

BIOS: ?
Samples: ?

FB Alpha v0.2.96.71 DAT File: FB Alpha v0.2.96.71 (ClrMame Pro).dat

FB Alpha v0.2.96.71 'Lite' DAT File: fba_029671_od_release_10_working_roms_filtered.zip (clones, non-working, mahjong, quiz, adult, casino, rythm removed)

Controls

PiFBA controls are located in:

/opt/retropie/emulators/pifba/fba2x.cfg

As there is no menu to configure controllers with PiFBA like there is with Mame4all, you'll have to edit the aforementioned file manually.

NOTE PiFBA currently only supports 2 players.

Example of fba2x.cfg

[Keyboard]
# Get codes from /usr/include/SDL/SDL_keysym.h
A_1=306 #LCTRL (button1)
B_1=32 #SPACE (button3)
X_1=308 #LALT (button2
Y_1=304 #LSHIFT
L_1=122 #z
R_1=120 #x
START_1=49 #1
SELECT_1=53 #5
LEFT_1=276 #left
RIGHT_1=275 #right
UP_1=273 #up
DOWN_1=274 #down
QUIT=27 #escape
#player 2 keyboard controls, disabled by default
A_2=97 #a (button1)
B_2=113 #q (button3)
X_2=115 #s (button2)
Y_2=119 #w
L_2=105 #i
R_2=107 #k
START_2=50 #2
SELECT_2=54 #6
LEFT_2=100 #d
RIGHT_2=103 #g
UP_2=114 #r
DOWN_2=102 #f

[Joystick]
# Get codes from "jstest /dev/input/js0"
# from package "joystick"
A_1=3
B_1=1
X_1=2
Y_1=0
L_1=4
R_1=5
START_1=9
SELECT_1=8
#Joystick axis
JA_LR=0
JA_UD=1
#player 2 button configuration
A_2=3
B_2=1
X_2=2
Y_2=0
L_2=4
R_2=5
START_2=9
SELECT_2=8
#Joystick axis
JA_LR=0
JA_UD=1


[Graphics]
DisplaySmoothStretch=1
# Display Effect: 0 none, 1 scanlines
DisplayEffect=0
DisplayBorder=0
MaintainAspectRatio=1

[Sound]

Emulator	Rom Folder	Extension	Required ROM Version	Controller Config
lr-fbneo	arcade or fba or neogeo	.7z .zip	-	/opt/retropie/configs/arcade/retroarch.cfg, or /opt/retropie/configs/fba/retroarch.cfg, or /opt/retropie/configs/neogeo/retroarch.cfg
lr-fbalpha2012	arcade or fba or neogeo	.7z .zip	FB Alpha v0.2.97.29	/opt/retropie/configs/arcade/retroarch.cfg, or /opt/retropie/configs/fba/retroarch.cfg, or /opt/retropie/configs/neogeo/retroarch.cfg
PiFBA	arcade or fba or neogeo	.zip	FB Alpha 0.2.96.71	/opt/retropie/emulators/pifba/fba2x.cfg or /opt/retropie/configs/fba/fba2x.cfg