No Arcade System Option

mediamogul

Registering under the name "FrustratedUser", It appears as though you may be looking to blow off steam rather than seek help. RetoPie is first and foremost a hobbyist/learning project and an "out of the box" experience is never guaranteed. Informing us that you're wasting hours out of your life doesn't help anyone. If in fact a help request can be inferred from your post, then you'll need to remain patient with the process and to those offering up their free time to help. You'll also need to post as much information as possible about your setup. That information can be found at https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first.

DarkWolf

@mediamogul I should have posted something like that... Maybe next time

mediamogul

@DarkWolf

Of course, there's nothing wrong with your attempt to help him. Your advice should hopefully point him in the right direction.

StormJH1

Yeah, I can totally empathize with being frustrated and being obsessed with getting things to "just work". But totally agree that @mediamogul 's perspective on Raspberry Pi usage is the much healthier perspective. It's a $35 chipboard that ships in a folded over piece of cardboard. Print up a few "how-to's" online and you have a stunningly powerful mini-computer with WiFi and Bluetooth capability up and running in as little as 30 minutes. Think of how mind blowing this thing would have been to someone in 1995. The "messing around" and "trying to get things to work" is part of the whole point of buying one.

Getting to you direct questions, however, look for the actual MAME2003 ROM set that matches the included emulator, and then put the full zip files in the libretro ROM's folder. I have very little knowledge about how this stuff works, but about 85% of the ones I tried started up and ran with no problem for me. If they don't, then so be it.

DarkWolf

@StormJH1 Here are full compatibility lists:
https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/MAME

FrustratedUser

@DarkWolf said in No Arcade System Option:

@FrustratedUser your roms should be zipped. You could also copy them into the mame-libretro folder and check if the parse gamelist only option is off.

Also read the wiki/documentation entries first please

I read all the documentation. Apparently not close enough.
"So you can have one zipped ROMset for each of these..."

::FACE PALM::

Thanks DarkWolf. Maybe if the word zipped was in bold or something, it's mentioned so casually in the middle of a paragraph. Okay I'm going to wipe this egg off my face and go see if that fixes the problem.

Thanks man you immediately nailed it on what i had done wrong.

@mediamogul said in No Arcade System Option:

@FrustratedUser

Registering under the name "FrustratedUser", It appears as though you may be looking to blow off steam rather than seek help. RetoPie is first and foremost a hobbyist/learning project and an "out of the box" experience is never guaranteed. Informing us that you're wasting hours out of your life doesn't help anyone. If in fact a help request can be inferred from your post, then you'll need to remain patient with the process and to those offering up their free time to help. You'll also need to post as much information as possible about your setup. That information can be found at https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first.

I'm absolutely looking for help.

Informing you that I've wasted hours of my life was intended as a show of respect that I have put in the work trying to get this to work and that asking for your help was my last resort.

I'll concede my username is a bad first impression but i was honestly surprised it wasn't taken yet when i registered. I didn't actually think it would be accepted lol.

DarkWolf

@FrustratedUser A zipped mame rom should (or does in the most cases) contain multiple files with all sorts of file extensions... That's why they have to be zipped!
Glad to hear it helped. :-)
Good luck with your upcomming projects/problems

FrustratedUser

@DarkWolf I had them all in their own folders and that groups them as well as a zip file. Ah well I'm still waiting for this transfer so i can verify everything works now.

Next up, to figure out why sudo apt-get install atari800 gives me an error.

DarkWolf

@FrustratedUser Try installing it via the retropie-setup script... Better implementation

FrustratedUser

@DarkWolf Confirmed.

I just played PacMan. #I'm mary poppin's yall