@showstopper said in FBA Neo Romset help?: For the HBMAME bit is there a list of the files that are required? No, sorry, but apart from the few dkong hacks i added a few weeks ago (see https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/23549/donkey-kong-spooky-remix-in-retropie), i expect most of them to be also available from older FBNeo/FBAlpha romsets.

@mitu Thank you. I had read that guide several times. I can’t believe I overlooked that. I rebuilt a full non merged set with clrmamepro and then used the same batchfile I mentioned earlier. Now it works.

@m2306 - I was thinking about this over the weekend and there might be another way but requires a bit more work. I don't think it would be to much really and only initially. If you're set and good to go then no worries. Take CPS games for example. Basically if you had a list of parent ROM names in a text file with one per line like so: ... 1941 avsp ddsom dino sf2 etc. With a list like this it would be pretty easy to pull parent ROMs only or parent + clones. The advantage being is you only need to track parent ROMs and not clones as they are automatically linked to the parent. So basically by listing the 70 or 80 CPS games you could generate new DATs after an update with very little changes after the initial setup. I don't believe parent ROMs change to often and if they do it would be only a matter of changing the name in the list like sf2 to sfi2 for example. The clones will be automatically linked. The clones make up a much larger part of the games list by several hundred so it's nice that you only need to track the parent. I think a lot of filter lists and batch files that copy ROMs are based of specific DATs in time and are outdated with the next release whereas this would allow you to be a bit more dynamic with new releases and generate a current correct ROM set. You could also stack lists to make a master list. Like combine the CPS and Neo Geo list or CPS, Neo Geo plus favorites, etc. I'm not sure of that makes sense but I believe it would work fairly well.

@Deltax5 said in What version rom set is FBA is at?: Is there settings to set for better performance then default. https://github.com/libretro/FBNeo/tree/master/src/burner/libretro#game-xxx-runs-slowly-why- @Deltax5 said in What version rom set is FBA is at?: Im hoping the pi 4 has better performance with run ahead Supposedly it has 2x-3x the performance of a pi3, so yeah i guess it will help a lot, but i own an odroid n2 which clearly outperform the pi4 (more recent cpu with higher frequency) and it's still unable to run some games full speed iirc (and i'm not talking about the special case of killer instinct)

@mitu - Not a big deal but shouldn't Core Providedfill the screen on the x or y axis but not necessarily Integer Scaling which would be more of a whole number multiple of the original resolution less than the display resolution or am I reading that wrong?

Yes. Some games you can manipulate by changing setting to 2 coins/1 credit if the game in question has that option, some do not. I have tried re-installing mame 2010/ 2003 but same outcome. Will probably do a fresh install now that the pi-4 is out anyway. Thanks for your input.

@barbudreadmon - I've grabbed the new DATs and see the information. Thanks a lot for adding it! I find it a very useful quick reference if a game has a working status. Much appreciated! :)

Good in theory, but AFAIK the retroarch devs have no intention of implementing said feature in the short to medium timeframe. lr-fbalpha having it would be a lifesaver, there are a lot of 2, 3 and 4 buttons per player arcade cabinets out there that badly need it. What's the last lr-fbalpha version that fully supports it?

At this point it would be better to just let them sort it out internally, i don't think this kind of video/topic will have a good impact on their moral.

@quicksilver ok, maybe i'll take a look in the future when things settle down in my TODO list.

Tried it for some days now, seems to work! Thank your very much barbudreadmon!!!

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@dankcushions said in Struggling to get a decent FB Alpha v0.2.97.44 romset - use a Mame one?: .44 is synced with current mame though a "non-merged" romset would have more roms Careful with that statement, it's mostly true but there are exceptions, as an example i know a lot of pgm games won't work if you use a mame romset without converting it to a fbalpha one through clrmamepro (every few months i have people who report issues saying "pgm games don't work" thanks to that). FBAlpha also includes a lot of hacks from hbmame, some are fun. @chubsta Sorry, i don't provide "no-clone" dat files, and i don't recommend it either : a few parents aren't working and are there only to get their clones working idk about 1943 specifically, but some games are different from a clone to another, i think that's especially true for a few shmup where you get different foes/pattern, i noticed that while working on a bug with raiden2 last year.

@chubsta Anytime. Something else that may be useful to you is adjusting the crf value, sometimes called constant quality. A setting of 22 is usually default but that will make large videos that look good full screen, if its just going to be in the corner of your theme you may want to go with a higher value. I use crf 28 (the higher the value the lower the quality) This brought ~100gb worth of videos down to just over 32gb

@SumavisionQ5 said in Born for arcade hacks - FBA4S905&RPi 0.2 is released.: For more infomation, please visit my fork: [removed] If you'd like to advertise your FBAlpha fork, please remove any infringing/ROM links from your project's pages, as per the forum rules. Thank you.

@bengalsfan88 said in Help with mapping 4 start buttons for Galaga/Ms. PacMan: I'll be sure to make a post when the project is complete and the cabinet is restored to her former glory! I'd like to see that, thank you !

@TheBlueBanner @chubsta Another solution is to create "non-merged" romset, definition from the mame website : A non-merged set is one that contains absolutely everything necessary for a given game to run in one ZIP file. This is ordinarily very space-inefficient, but is a good way to go if you want to have very few sets and want everything self-contained and easy to work with. We do not recommend this for most users. Clrmamepro allows you to build such romsets, or you can do it manually by copying files from parent and/or bios to the romset you want to launch.

@muldjord said in Anyone got a full set of fba/mame-libretro scraped files they could share?: Skyscraper has just been updated to v3.0.3 adding some requirements to the APIv2 of the screenscraper module and also containing a workaround for slightly invalid XML being returned from the module. If you had bad results using the screenscraper module, please update to 3.0.3 and try again. I must admit to being very impressed with skyscraper - after a few mishaps because I wasn't sure how to work it correctly I am now having far better results than I ever had with any other scrapers - top work!

@chubsta You should give Skyscraper a try - it's part of the RetroPie script, just like Steven Selph's scraper - https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Scraper/#lars-muldjords-skyscraper.