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    • RedBatmanR

      So why do some updates delete old save states and Arcade settings for FBA

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      cyperghostC

      @lostless Right!
      The chance of a broken .state## file is high if the emulator gots some bug fixes. It's even nearly impossible to port savestates from RPi0/1 versions to RPi2/3/3+

      A savestate feature you can always rely is the SRM state. As it's just a part of the ROM itself and is treated as memory dump. But not every game provides this and afaik only home consoles.

    • B

      Retropie for 3D mame games

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      HurricaneFanH

      @bcottington said in Retropie for 3D mame games:

      Starblade

      Try the MAME 0.139 version with lr-mame2010, I haven't tested but saw that it might work.

    • R

      FBA Not reading "per game cfg" files - Overlay IMGs arent loading.

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      @dankcushions i think i just solved my own problem. its because i put a input_overlay in the retroarch and its overriding the game files huh?

    • cyperghostC

      lr-fbalpha2012 is not saving highscore

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      I have the same problem. Anyone?

    • AlturisA

      Confused on full rom sets

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      mituM

      @obliv Links to ROMs and requests for ROMs are not part of this forum - please read the rules.

    • AndersHPA

      Runcommand launch images automatically chosen for ROM-specific emulatorchoices

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      AndersHPA

      Sorry to be so awfully slow, but I have had my arcade put aside for quite some time, but @meleu I now reformatted my ROMS USB to NTFS format and now your script works!

      Well done and thanks!

      Merry christmas to you all!

    • UDb23U

      New Overlay: Q*bert

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      @UDb23, @meleu : ok - repo is now set up, and (I think) ready to be added to the installation script.
      I've submitted an issue with the details.

      Also, sorry for the threadjack, and thanks for your patience.

    • AndersHPA

      For the coders - 2 tiny ideas

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      @andershp You can use the following commands to create a list of your games for a system:

      cd /path/to/gamelist.xml grep "<name>" gamelist.xml >> roms.txt

      You can open roms.txt in a text editor and use the Find and Replace tool to replace the <name> and </name> tags with blanks. Then you can copy and paste the contents to a spreadsheet.

    • retrocakeR

      Explaination of rom hierarchy in FBA DAT file

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      @retrocake said in Explaination of rom hierarchy in FBA DAT file:

      Why can't I just do this?

      cp original_roms/*.zip roms/ grep cloneof FB\ Alpha\ v0.2.97.42\ \(ClrMame\ Pro\ XML\).dat | sed -rn 's/.* name="([a-z0-9]+)" .*/\1/p' >> remove_roms.txt grep neogeo FB\ Alpha\ v0.2.97.42\ \(ClrMame\ Pro\ XML\).dat | sed -rn 's/.* name="([a-z0-9]+)" .*/\1/p' >> remove_roms.txt for file in `cat remove_roms.txt`; do rm roms/$file.zip;done;

      Yes, it would remove clones and neogeo games. If you search on this forum, i think you can also find a list of clones worth keeping (i kinda remember seeing topics about this).
      Also, it is worth mentioning sometimes parent roms are marked as NW (non working) and are in the romset only to allow their clones to work
      Actually, if you want to write your own script to filter games out, i would recommend writing something that parse https://github.com/libretro/fbalpha/blob/master/gamelist.txt since the NW information is present.

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      Weird FBA Hi Score Nonsense

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      Probably related to https://github.com/libretro/fbalpha/issues/162 which was fixed 10 days ago.

    • retrocakeR

      Need clarification on Neo Geo configuration

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      caver01C

      @retrocake said:

      what about the game roms make it specific to an emulator? Isn't there a standard, at least for the game roms?

      The quick answer to most of your questions is that only the names of roms for arcade emulators are consistent. For example, dkong.zip is Donkey Kong. However, the individual files within the zip, and the binary data within those files--this data changes as the emulators have evolved. It is not true in every single case, but during major emulator changes, the ROMs get updated too.

      The best way to describe this is that in the early days, emulators took some shortcuts. For example, early versions of a ROM zip file might be incomplete compared to today. Certain game elements might have been skipped back then, or missed because the early emulator did not need them. Later, as emulators improved, it required that they go back and re-capture the original game chips to get more complete versions of their contents (perhaps an over-simplification, but you get the idea). So, although a specific zip file is named the same from one set to the next, the files inside can change over time to match the improvements of the emulator. Each version of MAME for example, needs to use ROMs that match. This is why you cannot just get "the latest" ROM and expect it to work with an old version of MAME/FBA. Think about this--the same is true for other software. You cannot open an new Excel file using the old version of Excel. But emulators are even more picky since they cannot use older ROMs either because they are expecting the zip file to have everything the new emulator needs to perform accurate emulation.

      NeoGeo games are the same, but in addition to the game ROMs, they rely on a NeoGeo zip file which simply has a common set of data that they all need/use. You can think of the NeoGeo BIOS as a parent ROM required for any single game to work properly. Yet, this too is version dependent. In a complete romset that includes NeoGeo games, it will also include the neogeo.zip that matches them.

      The short answer is that ROMs, BIOS files and Emulators evolve together over time. Using a specific emulator requires its matching set because you are essentially using software and documents from a snapshot of the development lifecycle, so mixing and matching pieces just doesn't work. However, you can use utilities like CLRMAMEPRO to scan a collection of files from multiple sets and, provided you have all of the pieces, rebuild individual ROM zip files or entire sets using a corresponding .dat file as a reference. The emulators do not do this for you, and using utilities like this is a complicated endeavor, so you are often better off just finding the matching romset for the emulator you are using.

    • UDb23U

      New Overlay: Willow

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      Superb as always buddy... THANKS :D

    • matchamanM

      Same core, different core options per system?

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      matchamanM

      I understand :/ per game it is then... :)

    • T

      Noob questions about FBA or MAME

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      I have a thread about a similar topic. I went through and sorted most of the games that work better in MAME 2003/2010 vs. FBA vs. AdvanceMAME3.X. I posted lists of the rom names for each folder. I do not use the arcade folder. I believe I also posted my BIOS folder contents. I also have some other tips in that thread.

    • I

      Saving Neogeo Unibios cheat setting in FBA

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    • RedBatmanR

      CPS3 best optimization?

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      RedBatmanR

      @edmaul69 roms

    • R

      Video Manager & Generic Overlays.. Not working?

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      Anyone know of a fix?

    • UDb23U

      New Overlay & Art: Moon War (Stern)

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      UDb23U

      @hyruleslink said in New Overlay & Art: Moon War (Stern):

      You realize she is now most likely in her late 50s/early 60s lol

      sure,LOL.

      Nowadays it's just a funny picture. Today in advertising, and in general, we're used to way more "aggressive" girl images.
      Can you imagine in the 80's ? That must have been a very scandalous shot ! :-))

    • UDb23U

      Arcade games launching images collection

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      UDb23U

      @aristanton Check your e-mail

    • RedBatmanR

      What shaders do you guys use for Arcade emulation?

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      AddisonA

      I missed that the folder was shaders/shaders and not just /shaders.

      Sometimes I can be too stupid to live. :D

      Anyway, I applied the sharper settings and it's absolutely stunning.

      It makes the display I was using before seemed smudged as compared to now.

      I'm keeping this Shader forever since it looks so good.

      Thank you all. :)