Goodbye fbalpha, welcome fbneo

GreenHawk84

Hello,

Is there a way to lock down a Neo-Geo system overlay for Neo-Geo only? I think I tried to save a Neo-Geo overlay and it did it for FBNeo as a core. I have Neo-Geo arcade games as a separate system on my Retropie.

mitu

@GreenHawk84 You need to save a Content Dir preset, instead of a Core preset. Or edit the retroarch.cfg for the neogeo system and add the overlay configuration there.

Zering

Hey guys, I'm setting up a fresh Retropie installation and this time I'd love to get into some arcade gaming. But FBA and MAME both confuse the hell of me. As of today, which FBA set is the go-to one?

mitu

@Zering said in Goodbye fbalpha, welcome fbneo:

As of today, which FBA set is the go-to one?

There's only one - as the title of this topic says. If you want to get started with arcade emulation - look in the Docs, there's an entire section dedicated to it.

Zering

Thanks!

rob77

Hi

Does anyone have a good no clone 1g1r dat for fbneo? I've got the latest set of unmerged ROMs but would like to filter out all the clones and Japanese quiz games etc. I did attempt doing this myself but with over 6000 titles it was going to take forever.

There was a link on these forums to an older version of a dat someone had made but the links dead now.

Cheers

sirhenrythe5th

Has anyone else noticed issues with "DoDonpachi Dai-Ou-Jou" lately?
I updated FB Neo from source a couple of days ago to test the new additions (Crazy War, Wyvern Wings, Silkroad 2, Mr.Dig,...) and now "DoDonPachi Dai-Ou-Jou" does not start anymore :/
Has the supported romset been changed?

EDIT: ok, i just found some postings in Dink´s Dev-Thread concerning this game, it got a redump. So it is time again for hunting the right romset.

Darksavior

@sirhenrythe5th I got a romset dated from april 14th and it still won't load. I even threw in every version of ddpdoj*.zip. It might not have the updated set or it requires a parent rom that's not named that.

sirhenrythe5th

@Darksavior did the same thing yesterday, tried dozens of parents and clones, even those for MAME0.216 :D
Of course non was working :/

Darksavior

@sirhenrythe5th Here we go. I ran retroarch on my pc to get a log file. It now requires a new parent called ddp3.zip. I use the black label rom and now it loads fine.

sirhenrythe5th

@Darksavior just to clarify: i have to look for a "ddp3.zip" parent with 30+MB, right?
I had some of those "ddp3.zip" files yesterday, but they were clones with about 755kB :)
Thank you for these hints @Darksavior, much appreciated!

Darksavior

@sirhenrythe5th Yes, ddp3.zip~17.78MB is the parent. It 's in the romset dated 4-14. I use ddpdojblk.zip ~1.48MB with the parent rom to run the black label version.

sirhenrythe5th

@Darksavior got them, great help - thank you so much @Darksavior!

UDb23

Thought fbneo deserves its own logo for EmulationStation:

Created a new fba system vector logo based on the image shown in the (official ?) fbneo's twitter.

theissdev

@barbudreadmon Just wanted to follow up here on the spinner centering issue. I tried rewiring the opti-pac in several configurations and ultimately reverted back to the original.

Then, I swapped out the 3B+ w/ the 4 after the official release. Noticed the spinner was no longer working, but also that the mouse indexes switched from 0/2 to 1/3. Booted up powerdrift and lo-and-behold, it's no longer centering.

No clue what fixed it (4.6, 0->1 mouse index, or what). I copied the configs from the 3B+ over to the 4, but I may have wiped the fbneo config later.

Anyhoo... just wanted to let you know it's working. Thanks again for your help!

Rion

@barbudreadmon

FinalBurn Neo (ClrMame Pro XML, Arcade only).dat lists

	<game name="froggrs" cloneof="frogger" romof="frogger">
		<description>Frogger (Scramble hardware)</description>
		<year>1981</year>
		<manufacturer>Coin Music</manufacturer>

but Mame list is as a bootleg

froggrs Frogger (Coin Music, bootleg on Scramble hardware)
Frogger (Coin Music, bootleg on Scramble hardware)
Manufacturer: bootleg (Coin Music)

barbudreadmon

@Rion hmmm yes, it's a bootleg by "Coin Music", not sure what's your point here ?

Rion

@barbudreadmon said in Goodbye fbalpha, welcome fbneo:

@Rion hmmm yes, it's a bootleg by "Coin Music", not sure what's your point here ?

Sorry for being so vague.
I'm filtering my roms into folders based on Category and Bootlegs and so on.
FB neo 0.2.97.44 Built from source 06.21 Windows Gui reports
"froggrs (Clone of frogger)" when it should be listed as "froggrs (bootleg on Scramble hardware)"

But maybe you are only working on the libretro core and have nothing to do with the windows gui?

Edit: I should probably report this here instead.

barbudreadmon

@Rion i generally don't handle windows gui stuff indeed, and yeah it's always better to report issues on github, however i'm not too sure what could be the issue here, the name is properly set to "Frogger (Scramble hardware)" (as you saw in the dat file), and i believe that's the name that should appear in the windows gui list too ?

Rion

@barbudreadmon Yes that's correct.
The name is listed as "Frogger (Scramble hardware)" but is not listed when using bootlegs filter. But clearly it is a bootleg as Mame states.

Oh well issue reported and the right github page :)