What is the best MAME to use with Pi 4 4GB? (Largest library, highest compatability)

YFZdude

@jiryn said in What is the best MAME to use with Pi 4 4GB? (Largest library, highest compatability):

Anyone know what Mame is suggested for Area 51, Area 51: Site 4, and Maximum Force?

I have no idea how they would run on a Pi but I have used MAME2003 to run Area 51 on my old PC and it works great.

barbudreadmon

@jiryn said in What is the best MAME to use with Pi 4 4GB? (Largest library, highest compatability):

I heard they got System 32 games running on FB Alpha or something recently..

I don't think FBAlpha is updated anymore by anyone. If you are talking about FBNeo then no, it doesn't support sega s32 yet.

Jiryn

@darksavior
Do you happen to have Jurassic Park the arcade game working?
I had it work for a bit, but every time the T-rex roars, the sound cuts out and I am wondering what is going on.
Does it need Samples?
Did I put my samples in the wrong folder?

/home/pi/RetroPie/BIOS/mame2016/samples/

Drdave79

@roslof This is a great spreadsheet! However, I tried 2010 for Tekken Tag (I tried all of them actually) and it just goes back to the main menu when I try to launch the game. I can't get Tekken Tag to load at all and I've tried a few different roms.

How did you get it to run in 2010?

barbudreadmon

@drdave79 said in What is the best MAME to use with Pi 4 4GB? (Largest library, highest compatability):

I've tried a few different roms

Clrmamepro is your friend.

IanDaemon

@drdave79 Don't try different random ROMs. Well, you could, but it's ~~like trying to find a needle in a haystack~~ frustrating. Use CLRMAMEPRO to verify/rebuild the ROM if it's at all possible.

Drdave79

@iandaemon I'm unfamiliar with Clrmamepro. I'm running on a Raspberry pi4 system. Can you elaborate please?

dankcushions

@drdave79
https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Arcade/#step-2-select-the-right-rom-set

https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Validating%2C-Rebuilding%2C-and-Filtering-ROM-Collections/

Drdave79

@dankcushions Alright, so I ran both Tekken Tag Tournament and Killer Instinct through Clrmamepro using 2010 and neither will load. Am I just picking two very difficult roms?

dankcushions

@drdave79 please supply a verbose log of the failed loads

roslof

@drdave79 said in What is the best MAME to use with Pi 4 4GB? (Largest library, highest compatability):

@roslof This is a great spreadsheet! However, I tried 2010 for Tekken Tag (I tried all of them actually) and it just goes back to the main menu when I try to launch the game. I can't get Tekken Tag to load at all and I've tried a few different roms.

How did you get it to run in 2010?

You will need a Tekken Tag rom specific to the 2010 emulator. A challenge of using multiple emulators is that you will have to ensure you verify the individual ROMS.

Keep in mind for this one, it doesn't run full speed with 2010 (45fps?, but it does run with the correct rom.

Drdave79

@roslof This is so confusing. I thought the whole purpose of using CLRMAMEPRO was to modify the rom to work with the correct version of Mame. I guess I'm not fully understanding the purpose here.

Darksavior

@drdave79 Make it easy on yourself and hunt down the mame 2010 romset instead. And yea, the game will probably be too slow anyways.

barbudreadmon

@drdave79 said in What is the best MAME to use with Pi 4 4GB? (Largest library, highest compatability):

I thought the whole purpose of using CLRMAMEPRO was to modify the rom to work with the correct version of Mame

The purpose is to check and manage your files, but it can't create the right file out of nothing. Everything is explained in the documentation.

IanDaemon

Yes, you can't build from nothing, but from https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Validating%2C-Rebuilding%2C-and-Filtering-ROM-Collections/:

"...It is possible to 'rebuild' from one version of an ROM collection to another. If you also have access to ROMs from a newer or older ROM collection you can 'roll forward' or 'roll back' your ROM version...."

So everyone is right.

aidy80's

@roslof Thank you for sharing this spreadsheet, it's fantastic. I've been fumbling around with my arcade ROMs for awhile now but never been 100% happy. How does one go about compiling all the roms for the different emulators together by using that spreadsheet? Is it a case of going through each rom one by one?

What I mean really is - how do I get my own ROMs and the respective emulators to match your list?

dankcushions

@aidy80-s you would have to separately acquire the romsets of the respective emulators, and then manually transfer the game . zip from the desired emulator's romset to your /arcade/ directory, then select the same emulator via runcommand.

you can build any romset via current MAME and the rollback set, but that's more complicated and time-consuming than just acquiring the individual romset collections.

aidy80's

@dankcushions Thank you. Sounds like it'll be quite a lengthy job.

roslof

@aidy80-s said in What is the best MAME to use with Pi 4 4GB? (Largest library, highest compatability):

@dankcushions Thank you. Sounds like it'll be quite a lengthy job.

The work to gather the correct ROMs takes time, but there is a shortcut to associating ROMs to emulators.

It requires some skill with a text editor (one with column mode like Notepad++ or UltraEdit).

Backup configs/all/emulators.cfg
Remove all arcade references
Either manually create our I can provide a list of games with associated emulators
Merge the list from #3 into emulators.cfg

For example, from my MAME list, anybody can make a copy and sort it however they want. Can sort by emulator name, then copy the ROM names and format them accordingly to work with the emulators.cfg file.

For #3, I don't want to provide a partial file and have a noob blow away all of their references in emulators.cfg (since ALL emulators for all platforms are in this list) so I may offer a copy of mine upon request. My personal file uses lr_mame as the default emulator, so everything in the file is for all of the other emulators.

A pain, but definitely a shortcut.

roslof

Okay, I was "feeling cute" and decided it would be easy to leverage my existing spreadsheet and create a sheet with all of the emulators listed -- friendly for the emulators.cfg file located in /opt/retropie/configs/all/emulators.cfg.

WHAT THIS IS:
If you want to leverage my Recommendations List, and if you have the matching roms in place, instead of manually assigning emulators for each of the games, experienced users may inject what they want into their own emulators.cfg file and avoid the painstaking process of updating one-by-one through EmulationStation.

HERE IS THE LIST which is next to the recommended Arcade Emulators sheet.

Currently, I update the Arcade Recommendations list every week or so) and those changes will automatically carry over to the Arcade for emulators.cfg sheet.