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.

@barbudreadmon OK, so it seems to work. As long as I have enough credits (P1 and P2): P1:Start starts a 1P Ms Pac-Man P1:A starts a 1P Galaga P2:Start starts a 2P Galaga P2:A starts a 2P Ms Pac-Man @bengalsfan88 can you give it a try ?-Just update lr-fbalpha from source to get the latest modifications added by @barbudreadmon and try using the mapping for Start/A on each player to get the various starting options in the ROM. EDIT: Ms Pac-Man.

@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.

@chubsta Welcome. It sounds like you'll be able to handle things well. Message me back if you have any issues. My updates to the setup guide have been somewhat haphazard, but I'm pretty sure everything is right.

@hazeldig said in Problem with SSF2.ZIP (works from RA, not from ES): I noticed that FBA 2012 runs SSF2.ZIP flawlessly, but opening it from the EmulationStation on my Pi 3B+ Stating the fact : using fba2012 on a rpi3b+ is stupidity born of lazyness.

@Danielsan Well, I don't think you'll be too interested since you are running much better hardware, but I made a custom ROM Set consisting of everything that seemed to run well enough in FBA, MAME 2003 Plus, and MAME 2010 on my overclocked RPi3B. https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/20348/all-in-one-overclocked-rpi3b-arcade-rom-set-setup You'll need cosmo0's Arcade Manager to sort the ROMs out with the new CSV lists I made if you decide to check the collection out. It might save you some time if you are using FBA at the very least. The MAME versions I used might be useable for an ODROID-XU4 (I would guess Mame 2010 is the standard for that), but a PC would certainly be wasting its time running such outdated MAME emulation.

@mitu Thanks a lot, all is clear.

@barbudreadmon @mitu Interesting. I don't think it mentioned anything about that on the wiki page.

@thelostsoul Ach guck mal, ein Landsmann 😊 Ich komme aus Münster/NRW by the way. 50x gescrapt? 😱 Ich scrape gar nicht sondern mache mir echt die Mühe für jedes Spiel ein eigenes tolles Artwork zu suchen. Hat zwar lange gedauert aber dafür ist mein Setup natürlich ziemlich schön anzuschauen und ziemlich einzigartig. Könntest du nicht einfach die gamelist.xml backupen, wenn alles so ist wie du es haben willst? Das zu kopieren geht doch mit Sicherheit schneller. @topic: Im ersten Schritt habe ich ein paar FBA-ROMS in den NeoGeo Ordner gehauen und getestet. Laeuft soweit, wenn auch Cyvern zu anspruchsvoll ist (ruckelt zu stark) und BeeStorm den Dienst versagt, probiere ich nachher noch mit dem Japan Set. Aber alles in allem super, ich mache an der Stelle erst einmal weiter und schaue was geht 😊 Kommt man bei FBA eigentlich auch irgendwie an die Dip-Switches der jeweiligen Spiele? Gruß und einen entspannten Samstag

@markwkidd said in I forked 2 arcade emulator cores and added many hacks from HBMAME.: We've discussed in mame2003-plus that it would be good to only add hacks and homebrews that bring meaningful changes from the versions of games that are already supported. Some games seem to have dozens and dozens of different hacks that only make minor changes like enabling a certain cheat. That is what we realized when we were working together before. In other words, we're willing to add 3 or 4 hacked versions of a game -- if the hacks are interesting -- but not 20 or 40. If there are some "Best of HBMAME" hacks and homebrews in your fork that are compatible with mame2003-plus then let's try to work together to add them. For now I spend most of my time trying to port all hacks from HBMAME of PC to my HBMAME2003 Plus and M.B.A mini Plus since we have no port of HBMAME for SBC. I have ported about 2 thousands of hacks from HBMAME. And I also decrypt and offer some hacks from a commerical emulator named YouJu. Maybe later when I am free I will try to choose some valuable hacks and add them to MAME2003 plus.

@saccublenda said in Why separate Neo Geo system from Arcade?: It looks like in this case I should leave retroarch.cfg alone and make all the changes in neogeo-core-options.cfg, am I right? Again, any core options done in the RGUI are automatically saved in that file, you don't need to edit it manually. For other configurations, use the system's retroarch.cfg file.

I see. Thanks for your answer. I think I'll stick with PiFBA until I'm patient enough to filter my own romset.

With your help, I finally tested this (so far with one game each system, but there should be no reason why the other games don't work as intended now) successfully. But there is a mistake in your posting. @mitu said in AES/MVS in FBA and Neo Geo system, want two different settings: modify the system's retroarch.cfg and add core_options_file = `/opt/retropie/configs/<SYSTEM>/retroarch-core-options.cfg` The emulator does not seem to read from this setting, but there is already an existing setting for this file. Instead of core_options_file look for core_options_path. This worked for me. Anyway, thousands of thanks, as this was the last riddle in the Neo Geo mystery to me and I tried to figure this out since month! I am really happy now.