It was working fine the last time I used it. Shut it down as normal now when I start it up it goes right to the command prompt with this error.

Oh I know you weren't and I thank you for the advise. You are correct, I will try and contact Floob or Kevin. I will try to reach out and in the meantime....going to just try it tomorrow. If it works, I will post my results to this post.

Glad you got it figured out :)

Yup no problem. I also feel like the guide should be more specific in stating the SSH and terminal spam problem, other than in the issues section that may not be noticed. I'm just not sure what section to state it in.

@dantropie yes, it's possible.

@dankcushions Not picking a fight, not in the slightest. As far as I am concerned I have done nothing wrong. I see people being referred to search engines all the time. If I had posted a direct link I would apologise and move on. Archivedotorg is nothing more than a repository. Referring people to it breaks none of the forum's rules as far as I, and others, are concerned.
Where is the dotuk link in any of my "non-conforming" posts?

@subz No worries man I appreciate you coming back to say you got it sorted. The forum is here for people to search first and foremost. Most people find a solution and then never come back, not caring about those that come behind them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Legend_of_Zelda_(video_game)

More than a year later, North America and Europe received releases on the Nintendo Entertainment System in cartridge format, making the game the first home console title to include an internal battery for saving data.

which is why it works for that as the hardware/flash is emulated by the emulator.

some mame games support hiscore saving via a file which details the part of memory which contains the scores etc so the emulator can dump/reload that part. I don't know if any of the nes emulators have any functionality like this.

Thank you, it completely make sense and it explains my problem. Is this possible to know which other files are changed by the script? I did not configure specific controls for any emulator, i am only using all/retro arch.cfg which works actually : control mapping is done from that file only as far as I know for my config and that's why I assumed restoring this file + input.cfg would be enough.

Sorry if I am not clear but I don't know how to explain further.

@GGA said in MAMEs 0.164 Help Please:

I tried using Arcade and he various MAME emulators.

But 0.164 is not supported, why would they work?

There are issues with it still imho - in the GUI, the mouse position is incorrect vs where the pointer is (makes it somewhat tricky to configure). The default opengl mode doesn't seem to work either - at least on grim fandango (software rendering seems ok though).

@tyler.bunting Please mark your post as "solved".

would you be able to provide the info in the following: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

I think some of it is in your first post, but I'm wondering what emulator is being used for N64 in particular.

lr-Mupen64plus uses retroarch configs and should work okay, but it isn't particularly the default emulator

Mupen64plus used it's own configs. It is supposed to do an auto-config, but that doesn't always work. You can go into the configs and set it manually.

I tend to use lr-Mupen64plus on systems that don't auto-config right, though it may not necessarily be the best performance. N64 is buggy enough that the extra performance difference isn't worth it to me.

@obsidianspider hmm i would guess that it's in the .cfg file, which would be
/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/mame-libretro/mame2003/cfg/gamename.cfg
or
/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/arcade/mame2003/cfg/gamename.cfg
depending on where your rom is.