@RedBatman you should read this post: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/2859/how-to-use-mame-with-retropie-help-guide

And, of course, the official docs too: https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Arcade/

@meleu said in Rebuild fba/mame romset to remove clones:

Where are you planning to get the mame gamelist txt file from?

Well, actually that was my question :-). I'm not so familiar with arcade romsets let alone how to rebuild them..
Guess I'll stick with clrmamepro for my mame romset. If i've found a solution, a certainly will post this into this topic!

Much thanks for your help!

What is important is the information you should include in your post (pi version, where you got Retropie from, what version, etc.).

MAME is a complex subject. It is a project that has been in development for many years and the supported filesets are updated with each release. You cannot just take a MAME ROM and throw it at a random MAME emulator, it has to match the version of MAME that the emulator is based on. On Retropie there are a number of different MAME packages and each supports a different romset.

If you want to play a specific game, you need to get the ROM in the right version for the emulator (a list of romset versions for each emulator are in the wiki).

@mikikiki

Moved to 'Help and Support'.

Updated the SVG files, added some new ones

Just updated everything, retested it: WORKING!
Thanks so much for your help. I was already creating all the MD5 checksums and doing some regex & excel magic to combine all lists LOL

Thank you! :-)

@pedrohead super, im glad it worked out

I use lr-fbalpha for most arcade ROMs. My guess is that you need newer ROMs. Update your image to the latest Retropie and then find some new ROMs.

@natemac This is what I do, but you need to at least make the choice once. The easiest way to do it is to pick a default, say, lr-mame2003, then go through your ROMs and launch the ones you want to run using FBA and invoke the menu on those, choose FBA for "this ROM" and it will remember your choice.

For me, I have most games launching with 2003, vector games launching with AdvancedMAME1.4, and a handful (NeoGeo, fighters and a few others) launching FBA.

With everything setup the way you want, you can disable the runcommand menu from appearing and a typical user won't even know they are running different emulators.

I don't know a way to pre-select them. They get tracked in a file using some long ID, but by the time you figure out how to use that across each ROM, it would have been faster to just launch each one once.

@dankcushions
I doubt that because from what I remember back when a lot emulators were being released on the xbox, they used the linux sources and some ports used SDLX.

@barbudreadmon Thanks, that sounds great. I'll test it today or in the next days. My Pi is doing the update from source right now, but I don't know yet if I'll have the time to test it later today.

AFAIK there should be no need of different mouse devices for trackball/spinner/lightgun, because they all use the same /dev/input/event… devices. (Multiple mouse devices may be needed for games with multiple mouse-type devices, though.)

Trackballs and lightguns will use both axes of a mouse device, whereas spinners will use only one axis per spinner. For two spinners, that may be X and Y of a single mouse device if they are connected that way. Others, like the USB adapters that come with the SpinTrak spinners, will map them as separate mouse devices and only use their X axes.

https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Spinners,-Trackballs,-Lightguns,-and-other-Mouse-Devices/ describes the different kinds of axis mappings in great detail.

You are trying to load a rom (batmanfr) from MAME which is not supported by FBA, so it can't find the driver since it does not exist.

@barbudreadmon thank you