New user needs HELP!!! Mame & Rapsberry

[Funtana40]

Hi everybody,

This is Funtana40 (Mike) from Spain 46 years old....hopping to learn from anyone who feels like helping...

I am totally newbe to the Rapsberry world and just make to work Retropie, for my deception when I was gonna play Pacmac I get an error indicating that some files does not exit.

I moved the game to the MAME4ALL folder but eventhoung retropie says the game exist I cannot run it due to those "lost files"

What am I doing wrong? I move it to the file without unzip it and also zip but no way to make it work.

This is the link to the game I downloaded:

[deleted]

Said this, I would really apprecite your opinions

Regards

Funtana40

[mediamogul]

@funtana40

There's a lot that you need to go over and learn when first dealing with MAME. You should start here and move forward into the docs as needed. Feel free to come back and ask questions if anything is unclear.

[mitu]

@funtana40 Please do not post links to ROM/game sites, it's against the forum rules.

[Funtana40]

Thank you very much for your instructions mediamogul, I start reading in 5 min

Sorry about the link mitu, it wont happen anymore.

Thanks and for sure will be back

Regards

Funtana40

[Funtana40]

Back again...

I appreciate a lot your help with the link mediagul, I made it work!!!!!!!

Amazing and remembering my chilhood.

Just one doubt. I find the xbox joystick whith low sensitivity...would you know if I can change that parameter? Also, Is it possible to change the level of difficulties in the games?

Regards and have a nice weekend

Funtana40

[Lurker]

@funtana40 said in New user needs HELP!!! Mame & Rapsberry:

Just one doubt. I find the xbox joystick whith low sensitivity...would you know if I can change that parameter? Also, Is it possible to change the level of difficulties in the games?

I can not comment on the Xbox controller as I use arcade joysticks, but for the difficulty of the games there are two main options you can look to.

1. Is cheats and hacks. There are codes and modifications you can make to games to make them more or less difficult, but I would not recommend them in your case until you are more comfortable working with the configuration files and such.

2. Many arcade games like Pac-Man have a service game menu different from the Retropie menu. In this menu you have access to dip switches that were built into the game that effect the difficulty. For Pac-Man there is a dip switch that you can toggle on or off that control if the ghosts speed up in higher levels or not.

On a personal note; I am not surprised that these settings exist and as an adult I am glad I can shift the game one way or the other for whom ever is playing but my inner child swore up a storm when I realized some arcade vendors were setting the game to harder settings to suck more quarters from my pockets when I was little.

[Clyde]

@lurker said in New user needs HELP!!! Mame & Rapsberry:

1. Is cheats and hacks.
2. Many arcade games like Pac-Man have a service game menu different from the Retropie menu.

1. Here's a post about how to enable cheats in MAME4ALL. They should be available from the tab menu after that.
2. See here for a short description of MAME4ALL's tab menu.

[Funtana40]

Thank you both, Lurker and Clyde

I appreciate very much your help and time to help me learning about this new machine.

I will make some try and find out if I can improve the joystick output and level of dificulty.

Regards and will keep in contact

Funtana40

[Clyde]

@funtana40 I'm curious, did you choose mame4all because you have a Pi 1 or Zero, or why else? If you own a Pi 2 or 3, lr-mame2003 would be the recommended MAME variant.

[sirhenrythe5th]

@clyde AdvanceMame FTW! (crawl and hide 😂)

[mediamogul]

I'd say AdvanceMAME runs equally as well as lr-mame2003 on a Pi 2 or 3 and has the added benefit of a much larger ROM set. However, the configuration learning curve is higher and there are many people who like using the shaders which are only available in the libretro cores. I personally use AdvanceMAME myself, but both it and lr-mame2003 are great MAME options.

[Clyde]

I'm using AdvanceMAME for vector games because its the higher resolution, and lr-mame2003(-plus for games that need it) for all other games because of its shaders and its universal configuration across all systems.

@Funtana40 FYI in this regard, Retropie's Runcommand menu let's you choose different emulators for either a single game or all games of the emulated system easily.

[Funtana40]

Hi all,

I used mame4all because I was doingt it wrong.

After reading the instructions on the link mediamogul post I moved to lr-mame2003 wich seems to work well for the 3-4 games I have played.

I just got two arcade joysticks form amazon and will mount tomorrow. Lets see how it works....

ahhhh I forgot to comment, I own Rapsberry 3...

Regards and have fun

Funtana40