@kahelmaz said in MAME games intermittently won't respond after switching to a new game:

It seems to be something in the handoff between ES and MAME that's happening inconsistently where another terminal session gets activated and "steals" the input, but I just have no idea what to do about it...

Hmm, there is another guy on the forums that might possibly chime in some feedback. He does use an IPAC4 and is extremely adept with AdvMAME. If it's an operational problem vs. something unique to your particular setup causing the issue he has probably seen it.

The garbage characters I see are entered into the login user field, as if the joystick is "typing" into the login user field.

The characters I see aren't in the user login field but I thought I would put that information out there in case there was any correlation or some revelation as to the fix. The answer always comes when I set it aside and I am doing something else.

@edmaul69

Awesome, thank you for this, I'm keeping my eye on you guys lol... nothing creepy ;-)

Have you seen a way to change the screenshot directory? It's currently set to:

/home/pi/

This is also where a blank copy of linapple.conf is, can we get rid of that now that it's updated to the latest version?

Dudes, look through here and see if anything helps: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/2127/xin-mo-instructions/13

I did everything in there and I have been solid, no issues.

I have updated retropie through the menu, but still having the same issues.

5v - 2.5,its the one that came with my retropie kit when I bought it.

No, I haven't touched those files. At least not that I'm aware of.

@Dta316 I have not come across that issue with the Ipac2.

Ok update for everyone, I made a last ditch attempt by using FileZilla and it worked straight away. Not too sure why Finder and Cyberduck couldn't work but all good now. Thanks.

@dudleydes yeah i got it working. I had to chown the /home/pi/roms folder back to pi owner and from there i got wolfenstein full version working great. I did have to google to learn about the lowercase. Now my next thing when i wake up will be to work on hexen series and chex quest.

I use several of these zero delay boards. It should just work. Plug it into a PC and see if it works there. If it does not show up on the pc, it may be defective.

Turns out that there is an issue with the DIY install for the latest versions of the Raspbian and Ada fruit are looking into it.

I'll have to get by on the older version they have in the pre-made Wheezy image for the time being.

@Hydro Do not use explanation points. No one here is on your payroll. I am done trying to help you.

@aland93 glad to help.

I can't see any problem in the screenshot. The error message can be ignored. It has recreated the second partition at full size by the looks of things.

what is the output of

sudo blockdev --getsize64 /dev/mmcblk0 sudo parted /dev/mmcblk0 unit b print df -h

@thrussmeister if you open up /etc/emulationstation/es_systems.cfg you can move the systems into whatever order you like. I have mine arranged by: whatever system i modded a pi in and all that manufacturers consoles, then oldest to newest but keeping manufactures system altogether. Consoles first, then arcades, then computers.

@ckng2000

You're really going to need a rom from one of the listed rom sets that correlates to one of the already available arcade emulators in RetroPie. So, if you wanted the latest non-experimental Mame version of 'Cherry Master' for RetroPie, it would need to be from the 0.139 Mame rom set and you would launch that rom with lr-mame2003.

Edit: Being a Neo Geo game, you will also need the neogeo.zip BIOS file from the 0.139 Mame rom set as well.

Edit 2: Of course this example is just for Mame. Many people prefer running Neo Geo games through the FBA emulator. It's just important to remember to match the rom set version to the emulator you choose as detailed in the two links above.

Did kof98.zip and neogeo.zip get verified by clrmamepro? Where did you get the .dat file?
How many files are in your neogeo.zip?

Does this output anything if you type once youve tried to load the game?

nano /tmp/runcommand.log

I just tried it and it does work.
Make sure you put your zip files in
/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/mame-mame4all
I selected to run that in lr-mame4all as the default in that dir is mame4all.

I would say either your romsets arent correct, or you are putting them in the wrong rom folder.
This may also help:
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/2859/how-to-use-mame-with-retropie-help-guide

This will link the folder roms from your HDD to the ROMs-directory in Retropie. That's a convinient and save way. For future updates you do not have to carry over your ROMS back to SD. Coz you've 2 storages now:

The SD-Card only as Retropie sytem (4GB are enough)
2 An USB-stick for ROMS storage with FAT32 format (easy copy from Windows to the device)

How to link?

cd /home/pi/RetroPie mv roms roms_backup ln -s /media/usb/roms roms

For more info read ahead here:
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/2582/can-my-usb-device-have-data-on-it-already/5

@VFansss i actually use the ps1, ps2 and ps3 pads. I got my ps1 and ps2 controllers in good shape. I wired a hde ps1, ps2 usb adapter soldered to the controller port. I used this video i took off of youtube. You need to rip it to an sd video not hd. (480 but still wide screen and still looks good)

And here is the link to my pi-station 1 i did:

https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/2583/my-sony-pistation-1-and-super-mario-bros-zero-cart/14

I checked the path in the gamelist, yes all the games are there only in the gamelist they are in the wrong folder.. do you know how I can edit this?

Not even all my neogeo games show up in the list.