I spent a lot of time at Gameworks in Vegas as a kid and it was a pretty awesome arcade with 100s of games and a sweet deal for unlimited play by the hour. I think it was $10/hr, but were talking almost 20 years ago now...

A buddy of mine who still lives there told me a a while back that the original Gameworks closed, but i just looked it up and its now at town square still on las vegas boulevard, but at the 215 instead of downtown. It never made sense to me as a kid to have to walk past drunken debauchery to get to a freaking arcade, but at least its moved since.

Also i live an hour from Santa Cruz now and i dont recall at least on my last visit the arcade being anything special. Theres a couple old rather crappy games available, but if I were to do anything in that "arcade" it would be minigolf. Youll see it if you stop by and dont forget to ride the roller coaster!

@m2306 Yes, it's possible to use different gamepads as P1, depending on the system you play or choose at runtime. You can use Meleu's joystick selection tool to do that.

@edmaul69 All games I wanted in my list did work, so Wrecking Crew. It works for both, Mame2003 and the NES version. You should try this again.

@mitu I think that is in the end my only option, if I want a single Arcade menu option. I really wanted avoid this.

Good idea , good job!

The gist of the Getting Started guide for Arcade is that users need to 1) pick your arcade emulator and then 2) you find the exact romsets designed for that emulator version

Your emulator is mame2003 and it will only work with a MAME 0.78 collection. If you have a MAME 0.78 romset collection you will not get CRC errors and the games will, generally, play.

The MAME 0.78 romset collection is very easy to find on the internet. No Dark Web required, just a search engine :)

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@andrewh Is that a classic? I never heard of it...

@allenpie Install the Joystick Selection tool from the link provided and you'll have an extra menu entry in the RetroPie menu for you to configure the controller/player mapping.

@dankcushions Thanks man

Pixel Theme for me! :D

@813_alex That stick, like any arcade one with microswitches is quite noisy (but I like that). Also the stick itself (spring ?) makes noise when moving it. On the other hand that's a real 4-way ;-)

Thanks @clyde I am definitely going to add arrows to indicate direction on this box. This one will likely be disassembled with most components going into my full cabinet build.

I'm using a Pac-Drive from Ultimarc for my LED buttons. @savetheclocktowr made a controller software for some nice sequencing effects. It's not needed for permanent lighting, the Pac-Drive will do that out-of-the-box in Retropie.

i think it might be simpler to have your arcade rom folder on the server: https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/Running-ROMs-from-a-Network-Share

this way, the mame .hi files themselves would be also on this server (see https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/lr-mame2003#high-scores), so you would both be using the same individual files. i guess you wouldn't be able to log scores on the same game at the exact same time.

@markwkidd said in Need Help Configuring D-Pad to act as Analog Stick in Arcade Games:

This will be easier to accomplish with the new remapping system in RetroArch 1.7.2 -- probably RetroPie 4.5 though. Cold comfort today I know.

how would it work with this specific example? i don't know what the new retroarch stuff does, yet, so this will be an interesting example.

i'm thinking for retropie's initial binding, we give the users each abstracted retropad button, and they press the associated physical button they want to use for that, which seems logical so far. how would retroarch 1.7.2 change this approach?

@matchaman said in Would it be possible to have retropie emulate an actual Neo Geo MVS?:

FBA emulates the Neo Geo flawlessly from what I can tell.

I remember reading fba (actually a fork called fba-rr including recording tools) is the recommended emulator for neogeo speedrun, because of its accuracy.

WAS YOU CORRECTLY CONNECTING THE ACCEPTOR TO THE TILES?
IF YOU HAVE TAKE THIS SHOW BECAUSE I HAVE EXACTLY THE SAME PROBLEM

@mitu Thanks for the info. I think I will just wait then for the stable release.