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    Are there FBA or Mame error logs?

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    • senkunS
      senkun @senkun
      last edited by

      apparently I don't know how to rebuild roms either.

      finally. got the bugger working, if I wasn't stubborn as a mule I'd have given up on this ages ago. I can't remember exactly what I did because I tried so many d@mn things, but I am certain I used the fba 0.2.97.37/38 .dat files, and took dmnfrnt from the 0.172 mame set. plus like I mentioned earlier, you do need IGM's pgm.zip, then rebuilt using clrmamepro.

      is it worth all this trouble? if you're a fan of the metal slug series, it is. Very fun, and when the baddies in the game pull their pants down, moon and fart at you, it did make it worthwhile for me.

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      • CharcoC
        Charco @h0gg1e
        last edited by

        @h0gg1e @senkun Glad you got it working, I'd be the same, once I have a notion to play a particular game I keep at it to get it working!

        The game is good fun for sure, nice pixel art and pretty hectic in 2 player mode!

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        • senkunS
          senkun @Charco
          last edited by senkun

          @Charco

          Yeah really nice 2D engine that polygame, and rather surprisingly they were a Taiwan game company. Gonna look for more games from IGM.

          Is it running at 100% for you? I'm getting quite a bit of lag when things get busy, only managing around 40fps and there's choppy sound issues. I'm using lr-fba-next, what are you running it on?

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          • dankcushionsD
            dankcushions Global Moderator
            last edited by dankcushions

            it's good to know some people read the wiki :)

            FYI, have a look at /tmp/runcommand.log after you get crashes in most emulators - that should say the error

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            • CharcoC
              Charco @senkun
              last edited by

              @senkun il-fba-next aswell. I haven't played through it on the Pi 3 yet though, only played with my friend on the Windows version of RetroArch. I will test it and see how it goes.

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              • senkunS
                senkun @dankcushions
                last edited by

                @dankcushions :

                it's good to know some people read the wiki :)

                FYI, have a look at /tmp/runcommand.log after you get crashes in most emulators - that should say the error

                it's always my first port of call! very very much appreciated, thank you, and appreciation and thanks also to all the wiki contributors.

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                • senkunS
                  senkun @Charco
                  last edited by

                  @Charco ahhaha. on a pc it should be smooth as silk. it's playable on the rpi3 but now i'm tweaking to get it as best as it can on a stock config, and then finally overclock the pi and see how much of a difference it will make.

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                  • CharcoC
                    Charco @senkun
                    last edited by

                    @senkun Great, let us know how it performs :)

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                    • B
                      brenthunter2005
                      last edited by

                      Is there a way to (temporarily) display the errors produced on the screen, instead of writing to the log file?

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                      • senkunS
                        senkun @brenthunter2005
                        last edited by

                        @brenthunter2005 you can pipe output to another console. but i find it better to output to a logfile to review at leisure anyway as sometimes stdout/stderr is not updated and then when the process is killed all the remaining data is only then written. or maybe it's because I am viewing and logging, then again I am a newbietoallthislinuxiethings.

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