I tried device_joystick raw first and had no luck with either controller, but sdl worked so i stuck with that. I will take another look at it. Thanks for the reply!

@caver01 I really appreciate how helpful you have been. I just don't want to waste your time.

@stevep Did you add ROMs? Which advMame? There are 3.

@lushous ??

SOLVED..?!?!

So no real explanation. I came home, scratched my head a few minutes, made sure my files were not set to read only, reinstalled the advmame packages, double checked my placements and linkage, rebooted the entire house... and it works now. Three randomly picked games loaded up. I need to map keys but yes, this is awesome.

In the attract mode motion blue & hyperpie, the sega and atari circuit board system display layouts pull from the advmame set, and it turned out to be one of the only sets I don't have, so this was awesome, not sure what all was wrong here.

Thanks again to everyone's help on this

@edmaul69 yep. It works a lot like AdvMAME. However, I noticed analog settings like sensitivity don't get the image name embedded, so these are universal for the system.

@zmanz Please do not tag me to try and get help from me directly.

@caver01 said in choosing advmame v1.4 vs v3:

Perhaps @amadvance can offer a suggestion?

The man himself...that'd be nice. He's probably knee-deep in code, but maybe...paging @amadvance, @amadvance do you read me?

Battlezone was the first videogame that truly blew my mind. Proper 3D in a 2D era. I was about 6 or 7 y.o. when I first saw it, and had to take train trips to another city to actually play it (even though I could barely reach that periscope/visor). Also remember "steering" myself using imaginary twin-joysticks when walking to school. Heady days :)

@zmanz It doesn't support the hotkeys you might have setup for retroarch emulators, but there is definitely a way to map the EXIT command to two buttons. You need to open up the MAME GUI menu (TAB) and edit the Inputs (General) then scroll down to UI Cancel which is usually mapped to Esc. Hit enter on this item, then press your two buttons at the same time. Wait a moment, and it should register a "1 5" for that function.

What you are doing is called a <CODE AND> boolean key map by pressing both buttons at the same time you are telling MAME you want the function to trigger only when both are pressed. If you don't move to another function, you can map another key, say for example that you want to also keep ESC mapped, you can add that one right after. If you move away to another mapping function and come back, it will be replaced.

You can do some pretty nifty stuff with <CODE AND> mapping as well as <CODE NOT> mapping (in which you double-tap a button to exclude it). With AND and OR and NOT combinations, it is possible to make a single joystick move a tank that would normally require two tank sticks.

@johnsorger6 I have used a spinner and joystick in Tron without any issues at all in AdvanceMAME. It sounds like you might have the analog control also mapped to your joystick LEFT which is a default mapping you would want to eliminate in the GUI menu by mapping controls for "this game".

@Lamaman1971 You need to update the setup script to 4.1.21. Then update all installed packages. You seem like you are on an older version if it still says 0.94.0. Do this first.

@BuZz The procedure you suggested completely fixed the problem. The new advmame-1.4.rc contains the correct paths and /home/pi/.advance is now a symbolic link.
Thanks.

Pretty sure I needed up fixing all my issues.

@tribunal88 The turnaround on this is fantastic, and you are finding things that might have otherwise persisted for a long time.

I have not updated mine since 3.2, as the install was incomplete on my system for some reason. I ended up building my own references to the .rc file using the version number in emulators.cfg. I will have to reverse this and go with a generic configuration to accommodate the rapid updates.

@AlexMurphy

Sweet! 3.3 was mentioned specifically in the release notes and I figured a couple days was too quick a turnaround. Clearly I underestimated the RetroPie team. Good on 'em!

I'd like to know if the function is available: " HISCORE save function " in a rom set newer than, mame2003

it's good for me understand if i add ADV-MAME 1.4:
if i put hi-score.dat in
/roms/mame-advmame/hi
it will works in retropie?

thanks in advance.

@littlemike hi there! I'm also having the same issue with my Tronsmart Mars G01 controllers.. They work for all other MAME versions but not AdvMAME which load roms that the other MAME versions don't.
My Tronsmart Mars G01 controllers use the Microsoft 360 profile. Were you able to get your controllers to work with AdvMAME? If so, could you please shed some light and help please.

@dudleydes said in Arcade Vs Adv-Mame...:

rc file in a text editor, go to line 42 (or search for dir_rom) and make the changes outlined in my previous post. Repeat for the other

Just did it and is working now!!! Thank you very much!
Now if i could get also the mame2014 working it would be great.

@Febbweiss

Hi , Anyway I can contact you in a private message or email

You seem to have got something working that I was having an issue with , hope your able to help me

Thank you