@grant2258 Thanks Grant. I can't understand what's in that link, I'm afraid....beyond my pay-grade. But I'm OK with using the USB keypad to make it work.

@gomisensei said in AdvMame - Looks Pretty, Does Nothing: @Tango If you set up button1 in input(general) it will work for all games that use the first button. Same with each button, digital axis, analog axis etc that you setup. You can also set up single unique-per-rom inputs under Inputs(this game) that will not carry over, but will overwrite the general inputs for the rom you set it up in only (not sure about clones). Cool! Sounds like just what I want. Thank you.

The crash is somehow related to the SMP processing in advmame. If misc_smp is set to no in the advmame.rc file, the crash doesn't occur. As a workaround, you can try this setting for now.

The Pi4 support is currently being worked on, the advmame module is not currently - as-is - compatible with the PI4.

@sirhenrythe5th no reason other than 0.94 was listed on the compatibility chart i linked to and it worked for me. i use lr-mame2000 for most mame games on the GPi (pi zero w).

great - thank you!!

@Ivro74 said in Aimtrak light Gun configuration issues: Edit : Edit done, is it okay like this ? Yes, thank you.

@MISTERHOLLYW00D great choice, i use AdvanceMame and FBNeo (for NeoGeo) and am very satisfied with this combination. I also like Nitroball 😊, i recommend to play "Gunball" also. That is the japanese Version of Nitroball which is totally different concerning the Level Design 😉

Update 2: What a rollercoaster! So I made some guesses on the joystick ID (above), and got advmame to start long enough to let me map controls. I pulled the trigger, and found it was showing up as j5. I wiggled the gun around, and it showed up as j4. Armed with that knowledge, I went back into advmame-1.4.rc and updated those lines. Back into duck hunt and... SUCCESS! Sort of. I had movement, and it didn't drift, but it also was clearly moving in 4 directions. Like a joystick. So I went back to gunconf, set the gun for mouse mode, and went back into AdvMame. Nothing worked (which I expected), but I was able to do that mapping trick and learn that both buttons and movement was showing up as j6. I made the appropriate changes to the rc file, and.. nothing. Buuuuut, I did learn something about how the rc files works, so I decided to throw caution to the wind and make some changes. I went back into the rc and set it up this way again: device_mouse raw device_raw_mousedev[0] /dev/input/mouse0 device_raw_mousedev[1] /dev/input/mouse1 device_raw_mousedev[2] /dev/input/mouse2 device_raw_mousedev[3] /dev/input/mouse3 device_raw_mousetype[0] ps2 device_raw_mousetype[1] ps2 device_raw_mousetype[2] ps2 device_raw_mousetype[3] ps2 I set the lightgun mapping back to "auto", and fired up duckhunt again, and it was a QUALIFIED SUCCESS! The lightgun is now working (as in, it moves in the right direction at the right time), but there is clearly a calibration and/or sensitivity issue. The gun functions inside a very small area, which I suspect is about the resolution of duckhunt, rather than the resolution of the monitor. I attempted to calibrate inside of duckhunt, but that's a frustrating experience since the crosshairs bounce all over the place, and I can only guess where I'm supposed to be aiming. Hardly ideal for what I'm trying to make happen here. I am going to re-calibrate in 4:3 using gunconf, and then play with the sensitivity settings to see if I can get it to match up.

@leitmotiv You can use the same topic, it's up to you if you want to use another forum or not - you might try the AdvanceMAME forums.

@jmbooth2000 Raiden Fighters 2 sound rom was properly dumped for MAME 0.149, so having sound issues with older MAME version is to be expected.

@mitu I think I've already got lr-mess installed (EDIT: actually lr-mess 2016). What do I need to add to EMULATORS.CFG?

@SpudsMcToole Oh, if it helps - when I get the MESS copyright splash screens and it says "Type OK or move joystick left then right to confirm", the joystick is recognised and works but the keyboard doesn't. (The keyboard works fine with other emulators.)

@mediamogul said in Using xboxdrv with mame4all/advmame: At this point, the only suggestion I can make to move forward is to reinstall RetroPie using the official image. I would also recommend re-configuring your network to allow a direct connection to your Pi so that you can troubleshoot these types of issues more effectively. I had to rework my entire network configuration about two weeks ago, so I know it's a pain. However, as it stands, you're working at a huge disadvantage by not being able to fully relay the exact contents of these configuration files and error logs. Yeah, redoing my network is something I'd like to do at some point anyway to simplify working with some things, but it's not something I'm prepared to do right away. Nor is re-flashing the SD card, although I recognize that would simplify a few things. (I'd have to save some of the info I've already setup, like my onstart/onend scripts, but that's okay.) I may have to go forward with the system as it is now and look into getting the rest of this working at a later date.

@pyjamarama Advmame has the config files in /opt/retropie/configs/mame-advmame - see https://retropie.org.uk/docs/MAME/ for each version. For Vice - see the corresponding emulator page at https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Commodore-64-VIC-20-PET/.

Thank you, setting it to SDL worked. I never would have thought to try that. I think that they modified something in Advmame as it was working prior to one of the updates with 3.x then just nothing and still worked with 1.4 with Alsa.

@alturis said in AdvMAME 3.6 Input Issues with certain games: but they are nowhere near as convincing as the retroarch crt shaders. I would probably still be running advmame for everything if it weren’t for those shaders in RetroArch. This and better analog support is the reason lr-mame2003 became my default, but it was mostly for the shaders. Now, Advmame is primarily for vector on my cab until someone adds hi-res rendering to the vector video in 2003.

@alturis To my knowledge you can't, but I haven't put a lots of time into experimenting either. Acceleration, for example, seems to only affect the max speed. If you continue to test and find out something different, I'd be very interested.

@alturis said in AdvMame Artwork: Missing something: @jonnykesh Weird. The information I was reading about it seemed to suggest just the opposite. That the old format was .art and the new format was .lay Yeah, you have it right, but wrong assumptions about which one AdvanceMAME requires. I tried to clarify that here, after @Meneer-Jansen's post.

@andershp ha ha ha ha, must have made an odd typo and then autocorrected to "old". Funny, but possibly true!