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.

In the tar manual

man tar

--strip-components=NUMBER strip NUMBER leading components from file names on extraction

eg path1/path2/file becomes path2/file

@BuZz said in Dreamcast rom folder missing:

@silverrock you need to install the emulator from retropie setup. (Reicast under optional packages)

I knew it i was missing something...

Thanks