Playing mame games with a better compatibility, e.g. solomon...

spartrekus

Hello,

I have found that ~/RetroPie/roms/arcade can old various types of mame games.

However, to play games such as Mame, lr-mame 2000 is not much working.
A great way is to install with retropie-setup the lr-mame2010, and to have as follows ~/RetroPie/roms/mame-libretro.

Then, if you have ~/RetroPie/roms/mame-libretro/solomon.zip, and then select by default (press while loading ncurses window popup) lr-mame2010, then your games (mame) will work.

This can allow to play much more games (mame) and they are located into mame-libretro, which allows to select lr-mame2010.

If mame-mame4all, then, you can have issues with gamepad keys with lr-mame4all.

Best:

mame-libretro
lr-mame2010 (to be added).

Have fun.

sirhenrythe5th

@spartrekus there are a lot of philosophies about THE right MAME-Port with the Raspberry Pi.
I am using a combination of AdvanceMame and FBNeo - and think its great.
Others have other ideas and so on....
Yours is a bit irritating for me to be honest.
It's nothing special or new on the fact that you can choose the emulator when you drop roms in the Arcade-Folder.
And i am pretty sure that you can even get better results with even more Arcade-Emulators installed than the two that you mentioned.
Just my 5 Cents....

spartrekus

@sirhenrythe5th

for neogeo, it works flawlessly, almost all games by default.
I placed them neogeo into ~/RetroPie/roms/neogeo,
sidekick 1,2,3
metal slugs,...
...
for lr-mame2010.
solomon
aliens3
mk1
mk2
...

spartrekus

maybe we could try to make a compatibility list for
mame mame2010 ?

there is github for uploading files in order to keep up to date a compatibilty list of mame files, and sharing infos about it:

here for lr-mame2010
metal slug works
golden axe 1 and 2
knight with lancelot, arthur,...
nemo
3wonders
turtles in time 4 players
simpsons 4players
in progress.

I have feeling that there is much more mame games that work.

Killer instinct 1 maybe.... too.

http://www.patricklewis.net/ has cool images, showing games.

mitu

@spartrekus said in Playing mame games with a better compatibility, e.g. solomon...:

maybe we could try to make a compatibility list for
mame mame2010 ?

There is a list already distributed with the emulator (.dat) that lists what games are supported by the emulator. If you mean to test the compatibility with a Raspberry Pi system, there is already a list created that can always be improved.

barbudreadmon

@spartrekus just mentioning this, all the games you mentioned (bar one : golden axe 2) also work with lr-fbneo. They might even be better emulated in some cases (i assume "knight with lancelot, arthur,..." is knights of the round, a cps1 game, which is unarguably more accurate in FBNeo), and at the very least should allow proper readahead support if you are ever interested in reducing input lag.