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    Closing mame4all with select+start not working?

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      Neo-Rio
      last edited by

      It seems that select and start is not shutting off mame4all and returning to emulation station.

      That combination seems to work for every other emulator except this one, including mame2003
      I can always exit via keyboard, but clearly that makes no sense if there's no keyboard attached.

      I'm using an old Raspberry pi 1B overclocked, so later mame versions aren't really viable on this hardware.

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      • jonnykeshJ
        jonnykesh @Neo-Rio
        last edited by jonnykesh

        @neo-rio It's not a libretro / RetroArch core. Only emulators that begin lr- use the hotkey function. Standalone emulators all have their own individual exit keys.

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          Neo-Rio
          last edited by

          I checked out the mame4all sourceforge. Apparently the SELECT+START exit feature used to be in the code, but was removed for some reason. Now it only supports keyboard quitting.

          WHY? Makes no sense why the author would do that. Not even giving us the option to enable or disable.
          Not everyone is going to plug in a keyboard to play mame.

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          • markwkiddM
            markwkidd
            last edited by

            Have you considered lr-mame2000 instead of mame4all?

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              Neo-Rio
              last edited by

              How to get the retropie to use lr-mame2000 for everything instead of lr-mame2003 when files are dropped in the mame-libretro directory?

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              • jonnykeshJ
                jonnykesh @Neo-Rio
                last edited by jonnykesh

                @neo-rio press a button on the runcommand screen (grey box) as you launch a ROM. Change default emulator.

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                  Neo-Rio @jonnykesh
                  last edited by

                  @jonnykesh
                  But wouldn't I have to do that for all the games as loaded? Seems time consuming.
                  Any way to ensure that everything in that directory gets started by lr-mame2000 by default?

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                  • jonnykeshJ
                    jonnykesh @Neo-Rio
                    last edited by

                    @neo-rio no. You can choose per rom or default for system. This is all covered in the docs. You should take the time to have a read through them.

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                      Neo-Rio
                      last edited by

                      I'm already looking at the docs for lr-mame2000
                      It doesn't say anywhere exactly how I can set everything to mame2000 by default.

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                      • jonnykeshJ
                        jonnykesh @Neo-Rio
                        last edited by

                        @neo-rio no it doesn't. Why would it? As I said, you should read the docs. https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/runcommand

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                          Neo-Rio
                          last edited by

                          Ah OK. Figured it out.

                          noticed that lr-mame2000 isn't quite as good as mame4all is.

                          Street Fighter II runs at full speed in mame4all and has smoothed out graphics. lr-mame2000 nearly runs full speed and is blockier - but at least it has start-select to exit the game.

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                          • rbakerR
                            rbaker @Neo-Rio
                            last edited by

                            @neo-rio said in Closing mame4all with select+start not working?:

                            lr-mame2000 nearly runs full speed and is blockier

                            Only because you choose it to be. https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Shaders-and-Smoothing/

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