I need help with MAME on my RaspberryPi 3
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@simonster yes you're 100% right
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These are the ones I know.
"samples" contains a set of sound samples required from some early games (where the audio cannot be emulated for some reason or another)
"m37b5s " is the source code that is compiled to build a version of MAME that supports 0.37 roms (you do not need this)
"ROMs are Non-Merged" is a note that the Roms rely on parent versions when required (such as the 2 player version of turtles - tmnt2p, requires the 4 player version to work, as it only contains the different roms). There is an article in the wiki on Merged vs non-merged sets. -
@simonster Thanks! Also I'm getting the .078 romset too
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@martinrdgz did you read this non technical guide I wrote?
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@simonster said in I need help with MAME on my RaspberryPi 3:
but hopefully is now on the right track.
The right track starts at reading the Arcade wiki. If this is hard to understand, this track can start at reading the How to use MAME with RetroPie guide or the link posted by @rbaker above.
Without reading the docs, it's not the right track.
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@rbaker my bad for some reason I might have not seen it since I'm struggling researching and understaing all this, but im on it now. Again I want to thank everybody from heart that has tried to make me understand and helped me thank you guys. You all dont know how much this means to me.
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@simonster said in I need help with MAME on my RaspberryPi 3:
"ROMs are Non-Merged" is a note that the Roms rely on parent versions when required (such as the 2 player version of turtles - tmnt2p, requires the 4 player version to work, as it only contains the different roms). There is an article in the wiki on Merged vs non-merged sets.
pedant alert: it's the opposite :) non-merged means clones don't need parents; all roms work standalone: https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/Validating,-Rebuilding,-and-Filtering-Arcade-ROMs#crash-course-in-arcade-roms
also, i don't know why OP is using mame 0.37b5 - recommended for pi3 is 0.78 + lr-mame2003: https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/Arcade#step-one-choose-an-arcade-emulator
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@dankcushions said in I need help with MAME on my RaspberryPi 3:
also, i don't know why OP is using mame 0.37b5 - recommended for pi3 is 0.78 + lr-mame2003: https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/Arcade#step-one-choose-an-arcade-emulator
It's because he downloaded a 3rd party image with that installed and now he's wondering why his games don't work. Not sure why there's so many responses on trying to help this lazy guy. I stopped helping until he starts with a clean image.
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@darksavior Look I don't appreciate you name calling me "lazy guy" if you don't even freaking know me. I would like to be treated with the same respect i've been giving others. Now if you want to start name calling I will treat you the same way. For all I know mabe you're a guy that dosent have a job and all he does play games still leaveing off your parents income, simply [you don't have life, and dont know the responsibiltys of life]. Now I don't think you appreciate me talking like this to you when I don't even know you. If you don't got nothing good to say keep it to your self. Also man you state im using a 3rd party image all I did was extracted the roms and deleted the dam image you dont have to get all fired up making it seem like its a big deal which I don't mine deleting everything and get the roms myself. Also I never said that the mame 0.37b5 romset came in the 3rd party image.
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Folks, calm down.
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Thanks @dankcushions , I was tired and started writing non-merged and ended up thinking split sets when writing. Oh well!
So @martinrdgz - each game in the non-merged set is self contained (i.e. doesn't rely on parent games).
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@martinrdgz I think the problem with a third party image in this case, even if you are not running that image, is that you really don’t know that the ROMs that are on that image are correct to begin with. They might be, or they might not be. You could be just copying over incorrect ROMs that the person who made that image had wrong all along. There’s no way to be sure.
SO, let’s say you are trying to do the right thing, using the official image, but you are filling it with ROMs from an unknown source. Then, if a game doesn’t work, how can you be sure you have the right version of any ROM? You are relying on that 3rd party image being correct.
Most of the advice here is about getting the knowledge to understand exactly what you need without breaking forum rules about where you can go to get what you need. Understanding MAME is the key to this process. Knowing that each version of MAME has a corresponding set of ROMs that work with it is the point. Sometimes, a given ROM won’t change from version to version and you get lucky, but more often than not, folks don’t understand that the version of the entire set has to match the version of MAME being used, and if it doesn’t, you will eventually come to a ROM that fails even while some of them might accidentally still work.
It is best to abandon that third party image as a source of ROMs and look for the reference sets you need. As others have recommended, using ROMset 0.78 and using it with lr-mame2003 is your most flexible option.
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I would add that Retropie is mainly an opensource project, based on Linux.
Free software users/devs are nearly always prone to help people, as long as said people does a minimum of efforts by reading manuals, doing google searchs, or trying to understand what they are doing.
Not that we are necessarily pedantic (I'm a linux user for nearly 2 decades now, and have tried to help people on the internet for nearly as long, so I'm including myself), but :- docs represents a lot of work to do, and it's not well seen to ask questions without event consulting it
- devs/helpers are nearly always volunteers, doing this kind of stuff on their free time, and answering a question that is well documented is a waste of time that could be better used coding or helping users with more interesting issues
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Here is a classic paper that anyone should read at least once : http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#intro
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I would like to thank every single one of you'll that has tried to help me understand the mame system, this mean a lot to me. I have learned somewhat and now have mame working. This couldnt be possible without you'll guys I thank you so much.
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