Can't boot game MAME 0.164

giventofly

I saw there is no offical support no the wiki, tried all versions and even put the bios on the same folder (is that the right place?)

is there any way to change the romset or any emulator i could try?

i guess i can put the link for the game, its this one: [removed]

anyone can help?

rbaker

@giventofly
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/2/forum-rules

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https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/2859/how-to-use-mame-with-retropie-help-guide
https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/Managing-ROMs

Cornervizion

@giventofly If your using Mame 0.164 then the Rom & STV BIOS must be compatible or the most up to date with that version too (ROMs and BIOS go in the same folder btw).

Tbh, I wouldn't try getting STV or any 3D Based games in MAME as it's very demanding on desktop PCs let alone a Raspberry Pi.

giventofly

@rbaker its not a site for downloading roms, its the site to get info from a rom that is linked in the "read this first" section

@Cornervizion is there a way to get mame 0.164 ? i'm using the one(s) that came with retropie

dankcushions

you didn't give us any details as per https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first but...

0.164 is not supported. the only sets that are supported are listed on the wiki. use one of those.

diehard and other 3d games will either not work or work very poorly on a raspberry pi system.

Cornervizion

@giventofly There is. But from what I can gather the latest MAME version that's available for RetroPie only goes up to 0.139 (but that needs to be compiled by source online) and the latest version of Final Burn Alpha uses 0.175 ROMs but STV emulation dosent feature possibly as it's imperfect and would run slow anyhow.

Nismo

@giventofly I use windows version of emulationstation, and i had a lot of bugs and issues with mame libretro cores so I use a normal version of mame (not libretro version) that matches all my romset, but it's a headhache because you need to specify a lot of path to get it working like expected.

This is my es_systems.cfg:

<system>
<name>mame</name>
<fullname>MAME</fullname>
<path>~.emulationstation\roms\mame</path>
<extension>.7z</extension>
<command>%HOME%.emulationstation\systems\mame\mameui.exe -inipath %HOME%.emulationstation\systems\mame -cfg_directory %HOME%.emulationstation\systems\mame\cfg -nvram_directory %HOME%.emulationstation\systems\mame\nvram -input_directory %HOME%.emulationstation\systems\mame\inp -artpath %HOME%.emulationstation\systems\mame\artwork -state_directory %HOME%.emulationstation\systems\mame\sta -samplepath %HOME%.emulationstation\systems\mame\samples -rompath %HOME%.emulationstation\roms\mame "%ROM_RAW%" -waitvsync -triplebuffer -multithreading -throttle -filter -effect triad6</command>
<platform>arcade</platform>
<theme>mame</theme>
</system>

The bios files must be inside the roms folder, so I use the bios files in zip format and roms in 7z format, as you can see on my system config I only use 7z for roms so that way the bios files are hidden on gamelist and I only see the roms.

I hope this helps somebody. Regards.