@strandbummler not to say it isn't worth trying to see though ;) may want to look into chromium or something like that with zerojays retropie-extra repo

I don't have those controllers, but had the exact same issue with 2 8bitdo SFC30 controllers: When i 2 player games player 1 would control both players.

The issue was that the controllers were connecting in "keyboard" mode and the d-pad keys in this mode are mapped to the keyboard ctrl keys (presume a computer only normally has 1 keyboard hence both controllers were mapped to the ctrl keys)

The solution was to get the controllers to connect in "joystick" mode and then they worked correctly.

However, they required totally reconfiguring again and I went back to basics to do this and more or less followed this video:

I had to remove the blue tooth pairing and re-pair in this mode.

I reverted the /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg back to defaults and the final solution had NO configuration in here just using the auto map functionality.

Used a default joypad config file from here: https://github.com/libretro/retroarch-joypad-autoconfig/tree/master/udev for my joypad in here: /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch-joypads/

And then did the Normal Emulation Station input process (and manually added the hotkeys into the ES_input file)

Matt...

no joy.
the share doesn't have a uuid to use in the fstab.
here's the line in the fstab as it is now:
····//10.0.0.10/Share/Folder /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/Saves cifs username=pi,password=raspberry,uid=1000,gid=100id=1000,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777,x-systemd.automount 0 0
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if it helps, its a Pi3, rasbian jesse image, then emulation station installed on the side.

MVC2 doesn't work on mame, until you get to the latest live version of mame, and it's very very very slow, even on my 4Ghz desktop system. Best bet: Dreamcast Version with Reicast works mostly full speed on a pi3.

@BuZz lr doomed worked perfectly. Thanks so much for your help

Sorry I was having trouble posting on the forum, so I could not respond.

I can confirm on a clean install of RetroPie 4.0 image, I am able to change the keyboard using dpkg command, so something I am doing must be interfering with the command later.

How weird!

@BuZz THANKS! That worked for me.

@BuZz said in Entries in Arcade folder when using AdvMAME 1.4 Artwork:

Just the subfolders - they are symlinks so one directly is actually a reference to another.

It was by design so if you wanted to use Arcade, you didn't have to duplicate data.

I can see that it will be problematic though unless you remove the symlinks. I think it might just be easiest to switch back to directories have have the user copy or move data as needed.

Ah ok, that makes sense. Yeah I wouldn't mind moving data around. I pretty much built the folder structure on a USB drive then match my "root" starting folder then cut-n-paste everything from ROMs, hiscore.dat, cheat.dat mameinfo.dat, screenshots, configs, pretty much everything in one shot with SCP when starting from scratch.

@chjensen glad you have it sorted :-)

@Dominus I think it would have stopped then too. I do intend to make some improvements to this soon.

Fixed, thank you !

@BuZz said in mame4all confusion (forked):

@Riverstorm I guess because it was easier from a code point of view and more compact etc. They could just dump the data structures then to the file without having to convert them to/from a human readable format. They may have had other reasons however.

That makes sense. I am definitely a strong advocate for "other reasons". Some of the people I work with occasionally make comments on how this or that is "dumb". I always reply with they probably had their reasons at the time why they did something a specific way.

Also, the following thread on a similar topic may help:
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3276/logging-out-of-lxde-and-using-emulationstation

@BuZz

Ok, thanks again for the help!

Thanks for the answers. I now understand more about how it works and see that putting ROMS on to usb and plugging in it automatically copies to the retropie file structure. Thanks.

@flow86 said in lr-mame2010 tankfrce4 - 4 player input problem (switch NS1 to Face_off):

do you know other top down view (tank) games
for 4 players?

One that comes to mind is Tank8 (using lr-mame2003). This is an old Atari title for 8 players but you can get away with four if you stagger the mapped players, and even map a button to the admin control to enable team play. That game definitely has its quirks, so you probably want to google it and browse through a PDF of the original manual.

I swear I played a cocktail version of Sarge, 4-players. I only ever see a 2-player ROM in compatibility lists, and I can't get it to work at all in 2003, but AdvanceMAME plays it. Anyway, if someone knows of a 4-player version of that, it's a great tank game.

I know you mentioned tank games, but I have to say Gauntlet and Gauntlet 2 are must-haves on a 4-player cocktail cabinet. These games are fantastic for 4-way coop fun. Other usual suspects are the Simpsons, X-Men, TMNT, NBA Jam, and a handful of 3 player games like Rampage and Xenophobe. I also recommend Stone Ball which can be setup for 4 players for a fun caveman football romp.

Don't overlook racing games like Championship Sprint, Ironman Stewart's Super Off-Road and even Demolition Derby.

@Evilmrt glad i could help.