RetroPie emulator question

Ecks · 5 Jul 2017, 09:10

Hi i was just curious but is there a way you could back up just a certain emulator that you ended up downloading from the experimental part because i messed up a setting in my Pi and i have no idea which i did which i was thinking of just starting from scratch (which i don't mind because the games i have on it is not too many) and would like to back up Mame2016 if it might be possible because it did take a long time to install it and would rather back it up onto my PC if possible and just put it back when i would flash my SD card again rather than waiting about 2 hours for a emulator only.

dankcushions · 5 Jul 2017, 11:08

@Ecks the installed binary would be stored as
/opt/retropie/libretrocores/lr-mame2016/lr-mame2016.so, but i think the install still has to happen for retropie to add all the relevant menu items, folder associations, etc. i don't think you can easily transfer that side of things.

Ecks · 5 Jul 2017, 14:41

Oh ok thanks just a pain to just sit and wait you know and Mame2016 is helpful for a few games that i play like Ninja Baseball Bat Man as an example.

lostless · 5 Jul 2017, 14:54

@Ecks Ninja Baseball Batman runs on mame2003 almost perfectly on a pi3 (Assuming you're using a pi). Just a little slowdown and glitching during cut scenes, otherwise it runs perfectly in gameplay. Just get the right rom version

Ecks · 5 Jul 2017, 20:18

@lostless said in RetroPie emulator question:

@Ecks Ninja Baseball Batman runs on mame2003 almost perfectly on a pi3 (Assuming you're using a pi). Just a little slowdown and glitching during cut scenes, otherwise it runs perfectly in gameplay. Just get the right rom version

I tried it out on the Mame2003 and honestly even lowering my resolution and everything there was a bit of slowdowns during actual game play and yes i tried multiple ways and also yes i am talking about the Pi if you might have read what i said first as well.

mediamogul · 5 Jul 2017, 20:26

@Ecks

AdvanceMame is also an option. I play 'Ninja Baseball Batman' pretty regularly and the game runs at a steady 60fps apart from the interstitial segments between stages mentioned above. Those just seem to be too taxing for the Pi and that's not likely to change with any version.

Ecks · 5 Jul 2017, 20:29

@mediamogul said in RetroPie emulator question:

@Ecks

AdvanceMame is also an option. I play 'Ninja Baseball Batman' pretty regularly and the game runs at a steady 60fps apart from the interstitial segments between stages mentioned above. Those just seem to be too taxing for the Pi and that's not likely to change with any version.

Well i bet it works better for the Linux version lol.

mediamogul · 5 Jul 2017, 20:32

@Ecks

Well, Raspbian is Linux, but yes, I was talking about the Pi versions.

Ecks · 5 Jul 2017, 23:31

@mediamogul said in RetroPie emulator question:

@Ecks

Well, Raspbian is Linux, but yes, I was talking about the Pi versions.

Oh i know you were talking about the Pi version but i was just stating that the PC version should be able to run games like that a lot smoother.
Also wanted to ask you this other question as well and that is when i press start for the menu part and wanted to increase the Vram on the system that when i highlight it that it starts to move up and down and i don't think it is a controller issue because i tried it out with my PS3, G3s and a wired keyboard.

edmaul69 · 6 Jul 2017, 01:07

@mediamogul i have never heard of this game but if it works in lr-mame2010 on the pi, (not sure about any other mames) as an example, if you set frameskip to 10 in golden tee 2k which does the same thing, it plays perfect and smooth. No jittering from the frameskip. I assume you could do the same in lr-mame2003.

mediamogul · 6 Jul 2017, 01:19

@edmaul69

Very promising. I'll give that a shot.

SunnyMo · 6 Jul 2018, 08:11

@Ecks sorry to bring up this old topic a year ago. i like Ninja Baseball Batman very much, and can't find a good emulator for it. the lr-mame2003 has error on emulating and lr-fbalpha runs a little bit slow. the best emulator i found at present is advmame3.8, but it's pain to set bezel for it. i have a pi 3b+ .which emulator u use to play it? thx.

Eldrethor · 7 Jun 2018, 15:28

@sunnymo I use lr-mame2003 to play the game, and while it does warn you that the emulation isn't perfect, I don't see any real graphical glitches or anything like that; just some slowdown during cutscenes, but that's the extent of it.

mediamogul · 6 Jul 2018, 14:32

@sunnymo

On the Pi, I believe you'll have slowdown during the cutscenes no matter which emulator you choose.

SunnyMo · 7 Jul 2018, 11:44

@eldrethor yes, finally i turn to lr-mame2003-plus, this is good enough to play.

Ecks · 7 Jul 2018, 16:05

I use lr-fbalpha which i find runs better and no slowdowns during the cutscene.

mediamogul · 7 Jul 2018, 19:34

@ecks said in RetroPie emulator question:

I use lr-fbalpha which i find runs better and no slowdowns during the cutscene.

Are you perhaps using a Pi 3B+? I just tested this on my 3B and it had considerable slowdown during the cutscenes, as well as the actual game play. For my setup, I've personally had the best luck with AdvanceMame 3.x. Aside from the problematic cutscenes, the game play runs at a steady 60 fps.

Ecks · 7 Jul 2018, 19:49

@mediamogul I am using the Pi 3B+ but when i was using a Pi 3 awhile back i had it overclocked to like 1.35Ghz and was still running pretty good from my experience.