Mame2003 performance
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@barbudreadmon They're definitely not faster. I'm even using the same rom on FBNeo that I'm using on the Mame 2003 and it runs perfectly on FBNeo compared to mame. I'm actually using the pi zero w on a TV. I bought this around 2.5-3 years ago and at the time it was the only pi I could get here in South Korea, and it was originally intended for older stuff. I may get a Pi4 sometime, but for the most part this does what I want. Is there a config or something I should copy/check to see if there is something wonky with the settings of this emulator?
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Additional information here: Something definitely not quite right with the mame2003 install. It's not saving any configuration. When I open the emulator, use select and the button to open the emulator menu to configure things like audio/video/etc, the "save changes on exit" never stays to on, everything just resets.
I just wanted to try manually editing the file with the settings from here: https://www.reddit.com/r/retroflag_gpi/comments/c1kusn/mame4all_core_fastest_mame_core_on_pi_zero_info/ and I couldn't find it anywhere. I went into the emulator told it to save, made a change and came back in and found the changes weren't saved. Any idea what's up there?
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@crossmr Save your configurations it as a core override, not directly . There's a bug in RetroArch that doesn't allow saving when the conf file includes another.
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Sorry I'm not quite following you. is this something I have to do manually somewhere?
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@crossmr Instead of using 'Save Configuration' in the RetroArch's menu (RGUI), use 'Overrides' (accessible once you open the RGUI Quick Menu) and choose 'Save Core Overrides'.
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I found it. Well, I changed a bunch of video settings and what not trying to make this better but nothing offers any improvement. I think at this point I need to get another SD card and write that MLP image to it and investigate to see what they had set up on there. See if they were really using mame 2003 or if they had something else going on.
thanks all for the help
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@crossmr i would suspect they were actually using mame4all-pi/pifba as these are the recommended mame emulators for pi 1/0.
mame2003 will probably be a little too much for the humble 0.
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@dankcushions I broke down and ordered another SD card that will arrive tomorrow. I think I've found a working copy of the image I had previously installed, so I'll write it to that while preserving this good image and try to check it out
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@crossmr Unfortunately I think this is as far as the test will go. I found what appeared to be the one working link to grab that image, it wrote to the SD card via etcher, verified, and seemed fine. I plugged it in and fired it up, got the initial colorful splash screen, then that was it. It's still sending a signal to the TV, but doesn't seem to be doing anything. Just a black screen. I tried another TV (newer one) and nothing. I thought it might be trying to run at a too high of a resolution.
I added a wpa supplicant file to see if it was actually booting and if I could ssh in, but it never seems to join the wifi network.
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@crossmr Turns out I had the wrong image, after hours of slow downloads, I managed to get the same pi zero w image that I had before. it looks like the rom in question was being run on lr-fbalpha, not fbalpha2012. This was a retropie 4.2 image. The performance on lrfbalpha seems slightly better than the alpha2012 that is available on 4.6 retropie but still not as good as pifba.
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