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    • thelostsoulT
      thelostsoul @sirhenrythe5th
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      @sirhenrythe5th If you read my thread, then you will see that there are some roms which have a special version for AES. Also some games using the neogeo bios never came out for the console, which I also covered. I wish you a lot of fun. I know how much work this is now ;-), depending on the count of games.

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      • sirhenrythe5thS
        sirhenrythe5th @thelostsoul
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        @thelostsoul i am very excited to read your threads, starting right now.
        I did not know that there are special options in NeoGeo-Games depending if you play it on MVS or AES 😮, i play them in Arcade Mode since i started with NG-Emulation in the 90s (NeorageX for Windows)

        Over the years i got about 1700 Games running with AdvanceMame on the Pi (no Doubles, various sets of games), so i think of about 20-30 Games that i will hopefully get running by using the Arcade Folder and the runcommand to change the emulator per rom when it is needed.

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        • mituM
          mitu Global Moderator @sirhenrythe5th
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          @sirhenrythe5th Since most of your ROMs are running with advancemame, you should probably set it as the default for the arcade folder, then add the rest.

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          • sirhenrythe5thS
            sirhenrythe5th @mitu
            last edited by sirhenrythe5th

            @mitu that was my idea 😊

            Just another two questions concerning that:

            1. in the rom folder of AdvanceMame are also other items located, exspecially the highscore-folder.
              My idea is to let those folders at their place and delete AdvanceMame from System.es to hide it in Emulationstation.
              Do you think this will work, or should i change the paths in the AdvanceMame config-file?

            2. where do i have to put the BIOS-Files? Since some time the NeoGeo BIOS does not have to be in the NeoGeo Folder.
              It's ok when it is in the BIOS Folder.
              What about i.e. the PGM.zip or the BIOS for the Kaneko super Nova System to get Demonfront and Cyvern running? Put the BIOS Files in the Arcade folder, or the BIOS Folder?

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            • thelostsoulT
              thelostsoul @sirhenrythe5th
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              @sirhenrythe5th said in Folder "Arcade":

              1. where do i have to put the BIOS-Files?

              I forgot what was the default behavior, as I changed some settings. I think for all of them you have to put the bios files in the folder of roms. You can put them also in bios folder somewhere else located, but you have to ensure the emulator points to this directory. I did this for FBA, Neo Geo and Mame2010. But for the Arcade folder itself I think it did not work to do a different bios folder, can't remember. You can safely put all bios in same folder as your roms, but then they will show up on the list of playable games.

              You can find the files in folder "retropie/opt/retropie/configs" (lookup real configs path on your system). The files you have to look for are "retroarch.cfg". They contain a line, which you can change:

              system_directory = "~/RetroPie/BIOS/fba"
              

              I somehow missed the part in your question, that your Neo Geo bios stuff works as intended. Then at least you can experiment with this setting, if it does not work in arcade folder.

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              • sirhenrythe5thS
                sirhenrythe5th @thelostsoul
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                @thelostsoul thank you once again!
                If the BIOS Files are shown in the gamelist i would easily hide them before switching to kiosk-mode, so this part should be no Problem. 😊

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                • thelostsoulT
                  thelostsoul @sirhenrythe5th
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                  @sirhenrythe5th How do you hide them? I wasn't able to hide bios files without touching the gamelist.xml.

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                  • sirhenrythe5thS
                    sirhenrythe5th @thelostsoul
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                    @thelostsoul i can only say: as usual.
                    I enter the metadata of the entry in the gamelist and set the "hinten" Status to yes.
                    After switching to Kiosk-Mode they are no länger visible.
                    This works pretty well, no problems so far 🤔

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                    • thelostsoulT
                      thelostsoul @sirhenrythe5th
                      last edited by thelostsoul

                      @sirhenrythe5th
                      Yes, I know this way. The problem to me was, because i had a LOOT of scraping the same system again and again (probably done this for arcade games 50 times, probably a lot less :D). So editing it would require doing this again and again, because that setting gets lost with scraping. You could do this with a script. Whatever, if it is working for you, go ahead.

                      (German Psss: Warum sagst du das nicht gleich das du Deutsch sprichst? ;-))

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                      • sirhenrythe5thS
                        sirhenrythe5th @thelostsoul
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                        @thelostsoul Ach guck mal, ein Landsmann 😊
                        Ich komme aus Münster/NRW by the way.

                        50x gescrapt? 😱
                        Ich scrape gar nicht sondern mache mir echt die Mühe für jedes Spiel ein eigenes tolles Artwork zu suchen.
                        Hat zwar lange gedauert aber dafür ist mein Setup natürlich ziemlich schön anzuschauen und ziemlich einzigartig.
                        Könntest du nicht einfach die gamelist.xml backupen, wenn alles so ist wie du es haben willst?
                        Das zu kopieren geht doch mit Sicherheit schneller.

                        @topic: Im ersten Schritt habe ich ein paar FBA-ROMS in den NeoGeo Ordner gehauen und getestet.
                        Laeuft soweit, wenn auch Cyvern zu anspruchsvoll ist (ruckelt zu stark) und BeeStorm den Dienst versagt, probiere ich nachher noch mit dem Japan Set.
                        Aber alles in allem super, ich mache an der Stelle erst einmal weiter und schaue was geht 😊

                        Kommt man bei FBA eigentlich auch irgendwie an die Dip-Switches der jeweiligen Spiele?

                        Gruß und einen entspannten Samstag

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