FBA vs. MAME

barbudreadmon

I just feel like these parties are doing the same job, why not spare the energy and work together instead?

MAME and FBA teams have been working together for a loooong time, and both emulators have different focus.

I haven't tried the FBA version of Gyruss since last we talked about it, it was kind of a gamechanger to me that the sound was off and it didn't save hiscores.

not sure why, but i was never able to reproduce your "fuzzy sound" issue, i'm even wondering it it's not some kind of performance issue since the most noticeable thing for those is generally choppy audio.
hiscores work, not sure why they didn't on this specific game at some point.
to my knowledge, the pace of gyruss music in fba is the same as in current mame, it seems mame changed it a few years ago (v0.146) because it was off, old mame cores should be the ones with the bad timing. I can't confirm this with the actual pcb though.

grant2258

@markwkidd said in FBA vs. MAME:

The answer is obvious -- merge the two cores. First we need another layer of abstraction, or two. Then we need a name. Something like "Multi Multi Arcade Machine Emulator: Final Burn Beta"

My god, it's full of stars.

@markwkidd get that idea out of your head right now lol! :)

UDb23

@markwkidd
2001: a cat odyssey ?
;-)
btw the Pi probably has more processing power than HAL 9000 was supposed to have...

AndersHP

Aww, I was trying to update my games to newest FBA version but copying from my list with the command mentioned earlier

cp `cat lr-fbalpha.txt` /Volumes/where/my/games/are

just copies the last file of my txt file (the zzyzzyxx.zip game) and returns this error (every other game mentioned):

cp: 1941.zip\r: No such file or directory
cp: 1942.zip\r: No such file or directory
cp: 1943.zip\r: No such file or directory
cp: 1943mii.zip\r: No such file or directory
cp: 1944.zip\r: No such file or directory
cp: 1945kiii.zip\r: No such file or directory

Terminal didn't do this the last time I copied - what can this be related to? What does the \r: mean? @dudleydes any hints?

pjft

@andershp that's a line break. You probably created the file in Windows and it's complaining that line breaks in Unix are different. You need to open it and save it with Unix line breaks very likely. Some editors have that option, I don't know one I'd recommend in specific though. :/

AndersHP

@pjft You are the man. Resaved the file with Line breaks: Unix and now it seems to be copying. Thanks a bunch!
Edit: using Text Wrangler, by the way.

Riverstorm

@pjft @AndersHP - Notedpad++ is a free open source text and code editor for Windows. It's pretty powerful and works well. Just goto Edit -> EOL Conversion -> UNIX/OSX Format check that and your good to go for editing any Pi files. You can switch it to Windows, MAC, etc. A plethora of options but the defaults work great.

AndersHP

I'm on a mac, that's why I use the TextWrangler :) Don't know why the file was saved with windows linebreaks though.

On another note; have anyone gotten Knights of Valour to run? I just updated to FBA 0.2.97.43 and still none of these games work...

barbudreadmon

@andershp said in FBA vs. MAME:

On another note; have anyone gotten Knights of Valour to run? I just updated to FBA 0.2.97.43 and still none of these games work...

I never had any issue with them.

Sano

@andershp said in FBA vs. MAME:

On another note; have anyone gotten Knights of Valour to run? I just updated to FBA 0.2.97.43 and still none of these games work...

Don't they need pgm BIOS ?

ByteThis

@sano It does need the PGM bios.

Riverstorm

@andershp said in FBA vs. MAME:

Don't know why the file was saved with windows linebreaks though.

It might just be a setting in the preferences similar to Notepad++ that allows you to save files out for different platforms. Notepad++ is written for Windows but that option above still allows you to save for other platforms, like old MAC format or Windows getting rid of the CR/LR (\r\n).

I just tested KOV on .43 and it works fine but as the others pointed it does require PGM. There doesn't seem to be any difference between .42 and .43 for either file though, I'm surprised it doesn't work.

AndersHP

@bytethis I have pgm.zip in my home/pi/RetroPie/BIOS/FBA folder.
Does this need to be different when running my fba games off the Arcade folder?

dankcushions

@andershp try it in the arcade folder. i know you can (optionally) put the neogeo.zip in the bios folder but i’m not sure about other bios files. best to assume everything is in the arcade folder as a starting point.

Sano

@andershp
I would try :

first in RetroPie/BIOS (exactly like for the neogeo.zip file, so not in the fba subfolder)
if this doesn't work, just put it in the RetroPie/roms/arcade folder, as suggested by @dankcushions

barbudreadmon

@andershp said in FBA vs. MAME:

I have pgm.zip in my home/pi/RetroPie/BIOS/FBA folder.

fba will search for bios in this order :

same directory as the rom you are running
directory pointed by your retroarch system_directory variable, if /home/pi/RetroPie/BIOS/FBA/ is where you put hiscore.dat and samples, then this is the wrong directory, bioses should go in its parent directory (actually i guess it would be a good idea to check the fba subdirectory where we store hiscore/samples too)

Edit : after my last commit, fba will search <system_dir>/fba/ before searching <system_dir>/. Also, there is no caps (same for hiscore, samples, ...), i guess it could explain why you had issues with hiscores in gyruss.

ByteThis

@andershp The PGM bios needs to be in the Arcade folder if your running roms that require it in Arcade itself. The PGM bios needs to be in the parent folder in order for the games to run.

AndersHP

Thanks all, the games boot now, I wasn't aware the BIOS files shouldn't be in the fba folder. By the way, the fba folder isn't CAPS (my bad), so I still don't know why I have hiscore issues in various fba games.

Riverstorm

@barbudreadmon said in FBA vs. MAME:

Edit : after my last commit, fba will search <system_dir>/fba/ before searching <system_dir>/. Also, there is no caps (same for hiscore, samples, ...), i guess it could explain why you had issues with hiscores in gyruss.

Thanks for adding <system_dir>/fba it will be nice to move the files into a system directory subfolder.

ByteThis

@andershp Whatever folder you have have a rom in that requires the PGM bios..it has to be present in that emulator folder along with the rom. Glad you got it sorted !