Mame 2014 Setup Help

Elwood

Hello.
I am having a hard time to setup the mame2014 core on retropie, i need some help if it is possible. i´m using the last version of RetroPie and the hardware is a PC (Core 2 Duo, 4gb Ram) with debian.

The problem i´m having is that i dont know how do setup this core, i dont know where is the config folders or where is the ini file (aparently even if i run any game this file is not being created anywhere) and everything for this mame. What a want to do is to setup the bios folder (i dont want that this bios roms apear on the game list) and enable hiscore. I did a research to this infos but didn´t find any info clarifing this subject.

I thank you all in advance.

dankcushions

The problem i´m having is that i dont know how do setup this core, i dont know where is the config folders or where is the ini file (aparently even if i run any game this file is not being created anywhere) and everything for this mame.

the config file is in /opt/retropie/configs/mame-libretro/retroarch.cfg
or
/opt/retropie/configs/arcade/retroarch.cfg
(depending on where your mame roms are)
this is stated in the docs: https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/MAME

there is no ini file used - generally libretro mame cores will stop using that file and rely on libretro configs instead.

What a want to do is to setup the bios folder (i dont want that this bios roms apear on the game list)

you can't move the bios folder - this isn't how mame cores normally work - a bios file (eg neogeo.zip) is no different from a parent rom file - it needs both in the rom directory.

if you want to hide files from the gamelist: https://www.reddit.com/r/RetroPie/comments/5rnips/neogeo_and_mame_how_to_hide_bios_files_in_game/dd8m8np/ (although i wouldn't recommend doing that unless you don't want to add ANY more games to your system, because it won't see them).

and enable hiscore.

should be working: https://github.com/libretro/mame2014-libretro/pull/44

i suspect https://github.com/markwkidd/RetroPie-Setup/blob/master/scriptmodules/libretrocores/lr-mame2014.sh needs to be updated so that it copies this file to the right place.

Elwood

@dankcushions said in Mame 2014 Setup Help:

should be working: https://github.com/libretro/mame2014-libretro/pull/44
i suspect https://github.com/markwkidd/RetroPie-Setup/blob/master/scriptmodules/libretrocores/lr-mame2014.sh needs to be updated so that it copies this file to the right place.

Thank you very much! I just didn´t understand the hiscore part. What i have to do to make work? Create a system/mame-libretro/hi and put the hiscore.dat inside this folder? the config file don´t say anything about enable the hiscore. Is enabled by default?

dankcushions

@elwood it's enabled by default. my guess would be put it in:
/home/pi/RetroPie/mame-libretro/hi/hiscore.dat
or
/home/pi/RetroPie/arcade/hi/hiscore.dat

or put it in
/home/pi/RetroPie/BIOS/hi/hiscore.dat

Elwood

Perfect.
I will try that and post the result here. Thank you!!!