@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!!!

please fill out https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

@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.

@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.

@Parabolaralus
yes it will remove these letters.
You can see it on that screenshot (column: Wiped File Name).

https://github.com/TobiasKoller/RomSetManager/blob/master/Images/Readme/bestmatch_3_actions_wipe_btn.PNG

@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.

@luckyluca said in Why separate Neo Geo system from Arcade?:

When making a copy of the core options to neogeo-core-options.cfg and changing to AES as suggested, should I also copy and add all fbneo core lines (there are plenty including lots of per-game dipswitches, one for each game executed)?

It's been a while when configuring it, I had just copied the entire file and made it act like an independent emulator. I actually don't know if RetroPie or fbneo will look for in "/opt/retropie/configs/fba/" first, if you load up a game from Neo Geo systems folder. If that is the case, then you can only include the differences you want to have in "/opt/retropie/configs/neogeo/neogeo-core-options.cfg" . If RetroPie requires you to have two different files, then you are probably out of luck.
Or you can try to use the "include" statement on top of the neogeo-core-options.cfg to point to the file from fba. But I don't know if this works.

As a sidenote, when looking through my old Raspberry Pi 3 installation backups, I don't see any neogeo-core-options.cfg files anymore, but retroarch-core-options.cfg. Not sure if the tutorial is outdated. Sorry for the late reply and I hope you get it working.

Also, would it be problematic using a rom not ending with h in AES neogeo mode?

Not at all. This was just my personal decision to use these specific versions of the ROMs. Although I couldn't spot any differences tbh