If the games are playing fine with mame2003 then I wouldn't worry about the romset itself, just the sounds for the right romset. Maybe check the permissions of the sounds as well, I think as long as they are world readable then its fine. I'm pretty sure I used the same sound files for mame2003, when I moved over to advanced-mame I just copied them to it's samples directory. It's a different romset though. I double checked and the sound files I am using are from Twisty's mame sound collection.

@traveler said in Having trouble with donkey kong (black screen) but pacman works (arcade .78): For some reason there were only 3 wav files inside that zip. You probably swapped your samples file with your roms file. @traveler said in Having trouble with donkey kong (black screen) but pacman works (arcade .78): As far as I can tell everything is good now. Might as well mention it even if some people prefer it that way or don't care : dkong colors are wrong in mame2003, as an example the red stages are supposed to be pink like this : If you are interested in getting the game to run with real colors, they are fixed in the recent mame cores (2015 onwards) and the FBNeo core.

@bluesparkle that's interesting - I thought it was just all the spring stages in sequence starting from a high levle, not the same one over and over. it does seem like it would be easierand quicker to use a savestate in that case.

@John_RM_70 said in Donkey Kong Pauline Edition: I also want to eventually finish my old arcade overlay project I started a couple of years ago on the Retroarch forums. The last ones I worked on look like this. Pretty :)

Even the current version of MAME requires a good number of samples but Donkey Kong was fully emulated (no samples required) with version 0.116 and mame2014 is based off of version 0.159 so that's kind of interesting.

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@dankcushions Hey nice, updated MAME2003 from binary and it worked. Thanks!

@herman27d said in Bartop - Donkey Kong themed: @edmaul69 I bought a wood kit and it came with a 1 player panel and also a 2 player panel. ...didn’t think I would have 2 people playing it at one time very much so went with the single player option. ...it’s only a 19” monitor so not super huge I did the same thing, but for different reason: my button layout uses 12 buttons and 0 joystick. For second player, I put an USB controller.

I found out that the issue I am having corresponds with the fba emulator that I am trying to use. Switching to Mame2003, the game will work and the scores will save, but the gameplay is superior on fba so I want to get that working. My retropie is set in accordance with the following link: https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/lr-fbalpha#high-scores The "game.hi" file is being created in the correct place so I am still not sure what is going on

@thedeathstar It certainly isn't the point to keep going over the same material again and again no. It may have been better to perhaps say "Please read the arcade documentation." though - which is what herb really meant. It's frustrating because people don't even bother to read the information on registering - users are asked to agree to read the sticky topic then, and they don't. We only ask that users try to help themselves first a little - so our time can be used more efficiently.

@trixta never even heard of it. But as above. No source. No port. The dev has ported it to ouya you could request he port it the raspberry pi.

Thanks everyone! I found the solution for my setup. In short, the solution was to use the audio on my TV rather than my home theater system. My Setup My setup is a small home theater, not a dedicated display for retro awesomeness... Raspberry Pi 3 HDMI output to TV TV volume all the way down Optical S/PDIF out to Bose speaker system As it turns out, this is okay for some MAME games, not frogger or most anything that needs samples. It sounds like some of the audio durations are too short to come through the system. Perhaps it needs to un-mute the Bose amplifier and fade in, but by then it's too late to hear anything more than a slight pop. Solution Raspberry Pi 3 HDMI output to TV Use TV volume (don't route audio through home theater, it can be plugged in but not used) I put all of the config files back to default, I think..., and all of my mame and nes games seem to sound good with some quick testing. All is well in retro land. I hope this helps someone else!