MAME Cheats on RetroPie!

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.

dankcushions

@Rpie4TheWOLF said in MAME Cheats on RetroPie!:

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.

which folder are your mame roms in?

mediamogul

@Riverstorm said in MAME Cheats on RetroPie!:

do you work in a field that requires attention to detail when it pertains to grammar and punctuation?

Maybe I just find good grammar [sic] yo! In all seriouslyness, I work in advertising and it's just something I try to adhere to when possible.

JeffMD

@Rpie4TheWOLF

You install the additional mame emulators like 2010 and 2014 (I suggest no higher then 2010, development past 2010 has pretty much just been CHD games and other games out of the performance range of retropi) through the blue configuration menus, which menues escape me at the moment but its the same ones used to update the software.

@dankcushions said in MAME Cheats on RetroPie!:

@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?

The Pi 3 has zero problems running the capcom library of 1990, Neo Geo, Konami. Popular arcade machines that have been worked on for the past 2 decades are very efficient now. CAVE shooters arn't bad, it can get a little slow. I'm sure there are many other arcade games that can be singled out from that erra that are fine, too. 32 bit arcades like SEGA's and Psy aren't well optimized and will fall apart.

Final burn has a pi edition installed as default. It runs, It runs fine, but runs with even less options then mame.

Riverstorm

@mediamogul said in MAME Cheats on RetroPie!:

@Riverstorm said in MAME Cheats on RetroPie!:

do you work in a field that requires attention to detail when it pertains to grammar and punctuation?

Maybe I just find good grammar [sic] yo! In all seriouslyness, I work in advertising and it's just something I try to adhere to when possible.

It was meant as a compliant as you're well written. I do have to say though you catch me off guard frequently with your quirky colloquialisms in your writing with humor, it's refreshing! :) I just started reading Ready Player One and picked up Cline's other book too. Armada I think it's called.

mediamogul

@Riverstorm said in MAME Cheats on RetroPie!:

It was meant as a compliant as you're well written.

Thank you very much! I appreciate the compliment.

I just started reading Ready Player One and picked up Cline's other book too. Armada I think it's called.

I absolutely love 'Ready Player One'. When it came out, I read it a second time immediately after finishing the first. I really need to pick up and read 'Armada' as well. I'm cautiously optimistic about the RP1 Spielberg movie, but I've been burned so many times with these types of adaptations that I'm trying to manage my expectations. Are you enjoying the book so far?

columboscoat

@mediamogul Ha! I Enjoyed this thread more than I should have. There is absolutely no problem with using the English language as it is intended. Some plebs revel in their own ignorance and self-imposed stupidity. Let them wallow. I find it odd that someone would come onto a forum for a quite specialised piece of software and criticise someone and attempt to belittle them for being intelligent and communicating in a clear manner. Each to their own, I suppose.

Riverstorm

@mediamogul - It's been a good read so far but still at the beginning laying the ground work for the story. So many forum members seem to recommend it that it has to be good. I agree about the movie, well book adaptions in general. Your caution is duly noted. I don't want to high jack the thread off topic but wanted to comment as I was reading threads.

@columboscoat - I'm not sure if you missed my point or maybe it's to late and I'm missing the point! :) Proper grammar is something I genuinely appreciate as it gets so brutally mutilated with shorthand texting. Being grammatically correct is so rare it's a super power and that makes Media Superman...errr...no...Letterman (remember him)...I think it does anyway...or something like that...something...good...like...that!

mediamogul

@Riverstorm said in MAME Cheats on RetroPie!:

Being grammatically correct is so rare it's a super power and that makes Media Superman.

That and Earth's yellow sun of course. ;)

columboscoat

@Riverstorm It's not uncommon for people to coummunicate properly even via text. Maybe you should stop texting 12 year olds. Some of us are actual adult humans who value clear and concise communication. U gt me bruh? Sweet.

dankcushions

@JeffMD said in MAME Cheats on RetroPie!:

The Pi 3 has zero problems running the capcom library of 1990, Neo Geo, Konami. Popular arcade machines that have been worked on for the past 2 decades are very efficient now. CAVE shooters arn't bad, it can get a little slow. I'm sure there are many other arcade games that can be singled out from that erra that are fine, too. 32 bit arcades like SEGA's and Psy aren't well optimized and will fall apart.

current mame basically isn't optimised - that's not the intention. the code is there as a readable reference and to be as accurate as possible not as a means to run games. any optimisations that affect either of those goals have been taken out.

older mame (0.78) is less accurate (samples, hacks and so forth, and just because it was 14 years of development ago) and therefore runs a majority of its subset fine on VERY weak CPUs like the pi2/3.

as an example: cps2 and neogeo will drop frames in current mame on a pi3 and especially pi2. mame0.78 and fbalpha can run them on both at full speed on a pi2.

sirhenrythe5th

@dankcushions

"as an example: cps2 and neogeo will drop frames in current mame on a pi3 and especially pi2. mame0.78 and fbalpha can run them on both at full speed on a pi2."

I´m using (and loving) Advance-MAME and have the CPS-II Games working at full Speed, even on a PI2.
Concerning NEOGEO-Games i fully agree!

Side-Effect by using Advance-MAME: the cheats are fully implented by Default, just enter the DIP-Switches via the TAB-Menue when running a game et voila: Cheats can be activated on the fly. (as example: "undestroyable (cheat) -> yes")

dankcushions

@sirhenrythe5th said in MAME Cheats on RetroPie!:

@dankcushions

"as an example: cps2 and neogeo will drop frames in current mame on a pi3 and especially pi2. mame0.78 and fbalpha can run them on both at full speed on a pi2."

I´m using (and loving) Advance-MAME and have the CPS-II Games working at full Speed, even on a PI2.

advance mame isn't current mame. it's also a fork and has it's own optimisations.

Riverstorm

@columboscoat said in MAME Cheats on RetroPie!:

Maybe you should stop texting 12 year olds. Some of us are actual adult humans who value clear and concise communication.

Well surprisingly I do! ;) I have a half dozen nieces and nephews. I have children too with my oldest getting closer to 30. It's so precious watching them grow. Once you have kids they are a source of sorrow (and sleeplessness...you do loose years of it ;) but also the greatest joy you can ever experience. Looking back at photos when they weren't much bigger than a football is still amazing for me every time. Being middle aged now I do center my life around immediate and extended family activities like holidays, birthdays and just random gatherings grilling out, playing, etc. I can't think of anything more important.

I have to say I wasn't trolling the forums looking to hand out random compliments (not that that's necessarily a bad idea). I've been reading Media's posts, threads and guides for months and we even chat occasionally. I don't get to read the forums daily some weeks and miss others completely so I have to skim and read the posts that look interesting or contain information related to what I am trying to understand or configure. There's several excellent writers on the forums, the Wiki's are an incredible source of information. In fact I don't think I would be doing hardly any retro gaming on the Pi if it wasn't for RetroPie but Media's writing style just sticks out to me and his creative sense of fun humor. I think he's a neat writer and just felt like commenting.

For the life of me I am trying to figure out why you're flaming when all I was trying to do was share a thought that was a compliment. I believe it was well received by Media so why would you possibly care enough to take your time to post things so random (that were actually true) and derogatory when we know nothing about each other good sir?

mediamogul

@Rpie4TheWOLF said in MAME Cheats on RetroPie!:

I give up, it drives me crazy, in retropie shows me that mame2003 is installed, on mame runcommand is only 2 emulators

@dankcushions is the authority on all this and I believe he's likely nailed the source of your problem to having the ROMs installed in the wrong folder. If you ever decide to revisit this situation, you should definitely start by making sure your ROMs are located at /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/mame-libretro/.

Rpie4TheWOLF

@mediamogul The roms are in /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/mame-advmame

Can i move only the roms or roms and folders from mame-advmame in to mame-libreto?

Also is possible to rename the folder mame-advmame in to mame libreto?

mediamogul

@Rpie4TheWOLF

I would just move the ROMs from one folder to another, but renaming should work as well.