MAME Cheats on RetroPie!

Rpie4TheWOLF

Is not working while i am in game on MAME, when i press nothing happens, only if pres on keyboard 5 for credit or tab, i control the game with controller only after i credit the game and begin...but select + X is not working at all

mediamogul

@Rpie4TheWOLF

It will be easier to help you further if you first follow the guidelines detailed in the link below:
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

Rpie4TheWOLF

I already read those when i register. I tryed what you said and is working on other consoles but on MAME no.

mediamogul

@Rpie4TheWOLF said in MAME Cheats on RetroPie!:

I already read those when i register.

If you'll remember, those guidelines also make mention of the information required to help diagnose a problem like you're having. For example, what version of MAME are you running?

Rpie4TheWOLF

0.81

markyh444

@Rpie4TheWOLF I call Troll!

mediamogul

Hah! Well, just in case he isn't, here is a list of all the Mame versions available in RetroPie. When you select a game, a little white window pops up for a moment or two and will say which version of Mame you're using. If the rgui is not acitvating, it's likely to be 'Mame4all-Pi', 'AdvanceMAME .94', or 'AdvanceMAME'.

Rpie4TheWOLF

I checked and it shows me advmame 0.94.0, after the full update, what i have to do next?

mediamogul

@Rpie4TheWOLF said in MAME Cheats on RetroPie!:

it shows me advmame 0.94.0

That would indicate that you're using 'AdvanceMAME .94'. Unless you have a specific reason to stay with that emulator, you can use the runcommand window to select 'lr-mame2003' as your emulator and the instructions you've been attempting to follow previously would then apply. If you should choose to move in that direction, make sure you obtain ROMs from the 0.78 ROM set, otherwise known as the MAME 2003 Reference Set.

JeffMD

So currently, if you want to run MAME games, not use a totaly inferior ROM set (seriously.. .78? mame2003 needs to be abolished from retropi), and use cheats, you have to kick retropi to the curb and run mame using raspbian?

Seriously for consoles retropi is awesome... for mame/final burn it sucks.

mediamogul

@JeffMD

It all depends on the games you like to play most. The Raspberry Pi in general is completely inadequate to run most any MAME title past the 90s, but as long as you're using something like lr-mame2003, where the overhead is much lower than a more modern MAME build, it's still an an excellent choice for playing the classics.

dankcushions

@JeffMD said in MAME Cheats on RetroPie!:

So currently, if you want to run MAME games, not use a totaly inferior ROM set (seriously.. .78? mame2003 needs to be abolished from retropi), and use cheats, you have to kick retropi to the curb and run mame using raspbian?

current mame in raspbian will barely run anything fullspeed, and basically nothing that's not in the mame 0.78 romset in the first place. to use it is to run less games. what's the point?

final burn it sucks.

current final burn is fully functional on the pi?

Rpie4TheWOLF

Is not working, in runcommand i have 2 options advmame-0.94.0 and advmame-1.4

mediamogul

@Rpie4TheWOLF

You can install it by using the information found here.

Rpie4TheWOLF

@mediamogul Where exactly? i was looking there but there is no point with mame or cheats installation, i also did most of those thing in that tutorial.

mediamogul

@Rpie4TheWOLF

Use that instructional link to first install lr-mame2003 and then you can enable cheats using the method we've been discussing in this thread.

Riverstorm

@mediamogul said in MAME Cheats on RetroPie!:

@JeffMD

It all depends on the games you like to play most. The Raspberry Pi in general is completely inadequate to run most any MAME title past the 90s, but as long as you're using something like lr-mame2003, where the overhead is much lower than a more modern MAME build, it's still an an excellent choice for playing the classics.

Hey Media, completely non-related but do you work in a field that requires attention to detail when it pertains to grammar and punctuation? You sentences always seem to be so nice and squeaky clean, grammatically bright! ;) Vigilance in the rules of grammar aside, we all make mistakes but it seems typos and grammatical snafus are more about carelessness than aptitude anymore.

Rpie4TheWOLF

Ok, i downloaded this folder: mame2003-libretro-master, where i have to put it on pie?

This drives me crazy: Extract cheat.dat from this .zip and place in:

/home/pi/RetroPie/BIOS/mame2003/
Further to this, the 'enabled cheats' core option needs to be turned on via a setting in the retroarch-core-options.cfg file, found in:

/opt/retropie/configs/all/
The option is:

mame2003-cheats = "enabled"

How do i turn on via a setting in the retroarch-core-options.cfg?

markyh444

@Rpie4TheWOLF Have you actually read the link posted? Sounds like you've just downloaded part of the RetroPie repository rather than installing the emulator through the RetroPie setup script @mediamogul was referring to.

Rpie4TheWOLF

I give up, it drives me crazy, in retropie shows me that mame2003 is installed, on mame runcommand is only 2 emulators, i really don't know what to do. Is already 5 days on this.