@edwardthehuman you can change where the BIOS (retroarch system directory) folder is, but by default it's in /home/pi/RetroPie/BIOS so you shouldn't need to. you can't change the samples directory beyond that - it will always be in retroarch system directory/fba/samples.

by default fba will look in /home/pie/RetroPie/BIOS/fba/samples/ - please give me your full file path and name of the sample zip.

how do you know they're not loading? with donpachi, i believe the samples are just ripped music from the CD of the saturn (?) version, which should sound pretty similar to the emulated music. it does take much longer to load, though.

@toutankh said in [HELP] Some Arcade Game High Scores Not Saving FB Alpha:

Tested with dndtod, it works :)

I've been playing it these past few days as well, what a coincidence :)

After more than two years, I finally found the motivation to work on this project again and improve it.

Download: Release ArcadeManager v25.1

New features

The biggest new feature is the ability to check a romset against a DAT file, and to transform a romset into a non-merged one. Several common DAT files are provided: MAME for the latest Batocera and Recalbox versions, MAME2003 in different flavors, and FBNeo. Merged and split sets are not supported, as they make no sense in the context of this tool.

Other new features:

Completely rewrote the "top x" lists in the wizard and added some new selections Added some new games lists in the wizard (4 buttons, vertical, multiplayer vs/coop) Before copying files listed in a CSV, the app now lists the missing ones Added the possibility to help translate using Weblate New translation in Swedish - please contribute to other languages if you can, it's not hard! A new console application has been created, in case you want to automate things In the latest MAME versions some files (other than samples and bioses) are needed, they are now copied along with the roms Fixed bugs The Windows zip file version launches the debug window upon starting Crash when a CHD file already exists 404 link in the help section Encoding error in some JS error messages Path with "+" doesn't work

@eldrethor said in Avenues to acquire legal copies of old roms?:

They can make some very disagreeable business choices, but I've seldom ever had a problem with their first-party products.

Even the VirtualBoy (arguably their worst product ever) was very well made. It was just ill-conceived.

If you like playing for highscores, then visit MAME ROW (its a subforum on this forum). We are currently playing Parodius.

https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/18081/mame-row-89-parodius-da/7

@jwshuler said in Custom Arcade Cabinet Build:

It is actually start to look like an arcade cabinet.

It sure does. :)

@edmaul69 said in Arcade with Two PS1 Controllers:

@aznag look for @meleu’s joystick selection. It allows you to do whatever you want with all of your plugged in joysticks

Thansk @edmaul69. I will check it out.

@bcottington said in Retropie for 3D mame games:

Starblade

Try the MAME 0.139 version with lr-mame2010, I haven't tested but saw that it might work.

@clyde I try to create such a config file there with the output from jstest. All buttons are recognized, even the coin input gives feedback. It already helped to try on. Thanks very much, I get back later...

Edit: unfortunately no. My resources are very limited, I'm actually in the Philippines for holidays, building this machine for my friends bar. Brought all electronics from CH but no controller. But now time starts running out :-( glad that at least there's no power outage for days and internet is working...

Edit2: I copied the cfg of the Logitech gamepad to something like joypad.cfg, commented out most of the lines and ES doesn't ask anymore. Joystick works, most of the buttons too. Not sure if retroarch takes this config for the games now, but that will be sorted out tomorrow. Was a great help to get here, thanks again.

If you are set on using a big CRT. You gotta make the cabinet very strong. I'd suggest 3/4 MDF or Pine hardboard.

Nice job buddy! I have finished my large cab too and was thinking about doing a small upright like this. I like how you have the shape and it's not the same as every other generic bar top...looks original.

Do you have it booting straight into Pac man?

@thelostsoul said in Neo Geo folder - is it worth it?:

the only way would be having two different core options files and that is a no go to me personally.

I don't really understand the aversion to this. The settings are thoughtfully put in place to allow the type of functionality you're looking for. Having two files seems like a small price to pay, but that's just me.

@alturis said in Trying to identify a game I remember...:

Like having a tank driver and tank gunner.

Exactly. :D

New releases for both repositories!

Artwork overlays v1.1 - 1220 games
V1.1 integrates overlays from the MotionBlue Retropie image.
https://github.com/cosmo0/retropie-overlays-arcade-artwork/releases/tag/v1.1

Realistic overlays v1.1 - 554 games
V1.1 integrates OrionsAngel overlays up to pack 35.
https://github.com/cosmo0/retropie-overlays-arcade-realistic/releases/tag/v1.1

@hurricanefan

So the only things I plan on adding are a trackball, some low profile casters for the back, and some levelers for the front. I didn't know exactly what casters I wanted before starting the build, or else I would have cut them in before I built it. It's not that big a deal to do it after the fact, but I'm worried about getting a bunch of saw dust between the plexi and the monitor which will be a royal pain to clean. Other than that, I just picked up an 8 bitdo bluetooth controller to supplement playing on some of the console systems. I haven't had time to play or sync it with the arcade yet. So far, that's about it. Maybe I'll come back with some updates once I've played with it for awhile. It seems there are always some things you would do differently once you own things for a while!

@willie1280 tipofmyjoystick is a subreddit dedicated to questions like this

Just in case someone stumbles upon this thread while searching, I was able to fix the issue by clearing out my "Nvram" folder. Apparently it had some corrupt data in it.

@barbudreadmon Again Thank-you!!

yes it works well in fbneo