AdvMame and MAME2003 simultanesously?

Pyjamarama

Hi!

Can I have both AdvMame 1.4 (I want it for the vector games) and MAME (for the rest) simultaneously?

Can I have a different platform lists inside RetropIe for each of the two?

Thanx in advance!

rbaker

@Pyjamarama Yes, you just place all your roms in the Arcade folder. You then choose the emulator you want using the run command. One menu, multiple emulators. I do exactly what you want to do.

Can I have a different platform lists inside RetropIe for each of the two?

Not sure what you mean by this though. If you install both those emulators, you already have different lists under each emulator.

Pyjamarama

Thank you! Is there artwork that makes AdvMAME set apart from MAME in the GUI?

rbaker

@Pyjamarama Not sure what you mean

suprjami

@Pyjamarama means he's put libretro MAME ROMs in the right directory, and AdvMame ROMs in the right directory, now EmulationStation has two systems called MAME. How do you tell them apart?

To answer your question, no there isn't artwork to differentiate between these in the default theme. We decided that making per-emulator theme changes for the various MAMEs available was too much work for little gain and would just make theming even more difficult.

You could look up how theming works on the wiki and make your own images if you wanted to.

If you don't want to do that, put one in the MAME directory and one in the arcade directory, then choose a default Arcade emulator to match the ROMs in that directory. eg:

mame-libretro directory runs with lr-mame2003
arcade directory runs with advmame

This way the two different emulators have different heading picture in the ES menu.

rbaker

@Pyjamarama said in AdvMame and MAME2003 simultanesously?:

Is there artwork that makes AdvMAME set apart from MAME in the GUI?

Ahh, I get it now. Yes, you can do this:

See this thread with graphics to match:
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/2975/svg-format-for-emulationstation/9