@lolonois Good call. Now I know what the hotkeybtn is used for.

@sirhenrythe5th Thanks for your reply. I will check the dreamcast version.
For the arcade one I'll then use latest mame via Retroarch on my i5 USFF PC.

Hello and welcome to this forum.

Alas, you won't find much support for a third-party RetroPie installation here, because we can't know how much its makers changed the official installation image. On top of that, RetroPie's licence and the licences of many of its components don't allow commercial use, including selling it as part of a commercial product. The people who sold it to you broke those licences.

So, you'll have to either ask the vendor about the problems with their product, or install the official image from https://retropie.org.uk/download/. In the latter case, you should make a backup of your old system and its games as described here – or just use another SD card.

We'll be happy to help you with any problems you may have with the official image. As a side effect, you may learn a bit or two about the inner workings of the wonderful retrogaming box of bricks that RetroPie is. 👍

Be sure to read https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first to get more useful information to start in this forum.

@holyheadshot said in Cannot map controls to IPAC:

Maybe another silly question but I've read other threads about emulation station configuring as gamepad vs keyboard. Would changing something like that help?

There's no explicit setting in EmulationStation for that, however there is one for the IPAC and it's referenced in the doc page I linked earlier.

@marky161 said in Adding other system roms to Arcade (Dragons Lair/Space Ace):

Everything perfect! Time to configure controller and button mappings!

Great news there. Glad everything worked out.

Video of the overlays
Overlays

@barbudreadmon Looking into this now.

If the switch maps ZR/ZL to axis (instead of buttons), then EmulationStation (where I assume you try to register them) will ignore them as buttons. Have you tried to map them to LT/RT (the should trigger buttons) ?

@dankcushions
I did see that set. It's on my list of things to get.
I see in my future getting a merged set of ROMs to save download time and creating my own non-merged set afterwards.

Do you think my 9 year old PC might be powerful enough to run most games on the latest MAME? I know it is leaps and bounds ahead of the Pi, but I don't know how PC processing power compares to arcade hardware.

EDIT: Forgot the age of my PC

@iandaemon I have put the split screen shader in and have noticed i will probably just use other games as 1 player for the moment. this was a whim project bought the pi end of jan had spARe wood laying around so i made this.. looked at my pool table and copied learning retropie has been fun though.
i Am all ready thinking of a daphne cabinet lol trying to get cliff hanger going

@greenhawk84 yes.

Add the line lr-flycast = "/opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch/bin/retroarch -L /opt/retropie/libretrocores/lr-flycast/flycast_libretro.so </dev/null --config /opt/retropie/configs/arcade/retroarch.cfg %ROM%"

to your /opt/retropie/configs/arcade/emulators.cfg.

Move the rom to the roms/arcade folder.

Restart Emulationstation, click the game name in the arcade list, pull up the runcommand menu, select emulator for ROM, lr-flycast should be in the list, select it, and launch.

I assume you have or know how to set/activate runcommand. if not, go to config menu of emulationstation, select "run command configuration" and make sure "launch menu" is enabled.

@codafire https://retropie.org.uk/docs/MAME/ lists the romset collection used by each MAME emulator.

@jiryn said in Sound Issues with System 32 Games in MAME2003, 2010 and 2016 (Jurassic Park):

@barbudreadmon
Interesting, and I never use the controllers in bluetooth mood, they are always hard wired to the console with USBC
Never tried overclocking, just use it stock for the most part.

More interested in the best em ups anyways, but Jurassic Park was always a fav.

The Sega system 32 graphical rewrite circa MAME97-98 will always cause performance issues on lesser devices,
as @barbudreadmon suggested quite often this can cause skipping and or other sound issues. MAME2003
is one of the fastest cores and apart from that it uses the faster although slightly more imperfect system 32
video code from before the big rewrite i mentioned above.

So it might be your best bet to get the best performance on your device of choice and may sort your sound problems
when playing Jurassic Park it's worth a try at least.

Special kind of stick, for controling movement whilst shooting in another direction (example ikari warrior),

Ah, OK. I learned something here!

"Eierlegende Wollmilchsau"

Hahahahaha! I learned another thing today! Yes, I totally understand.

P.P.S.: Seeing such Wiki Articles now(adays) are somewhat frustrating me: Analog-Stick - sigh...

That article leaves a lot to be desired. Lots of words, and yet says very little that's useful!

I may take another pass at searching for details on the UltraStik 360 + RetroPie, and think more carefully whether it's something I might want to try — or not. Part of me, at this point, wants to just load MAME directly on something like an Intel NUC, running Windows, and call it done. I really only use the arcade functionality of RetroPie, and perhaps another platform would be better suited to what I actually want.

But... The tiny little Raspberry Pi is appealing for many reasons — cost among them — so who knows.

Thanks for replying.

@yfzdude I finally did find it; at least in my RetroPie, it's actually:

Quick Menu -> Overrides -> Save Core Override
Quick Menu -> Overrides -> Save Game Override

Writing this primarily for the benefit of future readers.

Thanks for the help on this. I don't know how I missed it; I would have expected save options on the Main Menu, but I'm sure there's a method to the madness.

@iandaemon that’s how I started, but your luck may vary. I found that most Konami beat em ups (tmnt, simpsons,, X-men) were not changed over the years and most neogeo games have not been changed in years. A lot of my old 2010 roms (actually from 2010)set worked on those particular roms worked with FBneo. And some even worked in mame 2003.