Mame - Rom custom cfg

[Cyberfra]

Hello Retropie community,

I was able to setup an headless raspberry pi 4 with Retropie, connecting by wifi to my 'arcade' box using ssh.

I need to create some custom rom cfg file, but the lack of usb keybord make the task difficulty, to use runcommand.

I use arcade emulator, lr-mame2003 is the default, now my goal is to config some rom to use other emulator because they does not work with lr-mame2003.

Because I can use only ssh, can somebody give me and examble of a rom cfg file (romanme.cfg) where you select a emulator different from the default.

Sorry foe my bad english.

Thanks

Francesco

[DreamcastKid]

@cyberfra
runcommand will work without a keyboard ... i'm using an Arcade Joystick and Arcade Buttons with it and am able to change emulators using a Arcade Joystick.

If you want to make change via SSH ... then there is this way below

edit the emulators.cfg file found in

/opt/retropie/configs/all/

format is system_romname = "emulator"

lets say for example galaga.zip game does not work with lr-mame2003

in emulators.cfg add this ...

arcade_galaga = "lr-mame2003-plus"

if the game still does not work, then keep editing the emulator text until you find one that does.

eg. my copy of galaga works great with fbneo which i happy with ... so that would like like this in emulators.cfg

arcade_galaga = "lr-fbneo"

[mitu]

@cyberfra said in Mame - Rom custom cfg:

I need to create some custom rom cfg file, but the lack of usb keybord make the task difficulty, to use runcommand.

You can use the runcommand launch menu with the gamepad also.

[Cyberfra]

Hello,

thanks to all of you.

Now I nderstand that I dont need to edit emulator.cfg, just lanch runcommand.

Thanks

Francesco