@mitu Cheers!

@Drdave79 said in FBNEO Screen Glitches. (CLOSED):

I wasn't aware I had to run verbose logging via runcommand.

you're never going to guess where this is clearly written... https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first :P

But yes, I did run the command and report back as @dankcushions has requested. He must have missed my response.

you didn't give me the output. ls -l /dev/shm won't just output a filename, it will output the entire contents of the directory, permissions, etc. that's what i wanted.

@dankcushions

/opt/retropie/configs/arcade/retroarch.cfg

https://pastebin.com/X6UqByyC

finally this is how you use pastebin. thank you :)

/opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg

https://pastebin.com/7J9b0fzz

# Menu driver to use. ("rgui", "xmb", "glui") menu_driver = "xmb"

the default in retropie is rgui, which consumes the lowest resources. i'm not aware of others causing issues, but bear in mind.

shaders aren't neccesarily a problem, depending on which one you use, but coupled with overlays they are known to cause performance issues.

without a verbose log it's a lot of guesswork, though.

@geese-howard said in LR-FBNEO so slow to load/unload a game:

1.0.0.03 c8d75dc

This is not the latest commit, meaning you probably updated from binaries if you updated today, i recommend always updating from sources.

Also, i remember people mentioned having weird boot delays when using (8bitdo?) controllers in bluetooth mode, is that what you are using ?

@geese-howard said in LR-FBNEO so slow to load/unload a game:

Remap directory: "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/arcade/mame2003-plus"

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@mitu
Understood & (re)educated. Thank you for your time.

@frederik said in FBNeo error:

can you tell me how to get the missing files from/from FBNeo to the right place on my retropie SD card?

No, rule no. 1 from https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/2/forum-rules.

@gomisensei Yes, I'm aware of that. What I'm concerned with is getting it working. It doesn't run in lr-bluemsx, lr-fmsx doesn't run anything at all, lr-fbneomsx doesn't support MSX2 and lr-mess runs it but neither keyboard nor joystick responds.

@barbudreadmon
Thanks, I'll check out some hacks based on that.

@barbudreadmon Great stuff thank you !

Hi we wrote a complete guide on how to setup both a spinner and a trackball at the same time, so that the configurations are persistent and will apply to a whole game folder.
The idea is to set up a default retroarch config for mame/fbneo that will configure one of these devices as the default mouse (for example, the trackball), and create then just a file for rom folders that will be spinner specific.

For example, you have a roms/mame folder -> all games in there will work with the trackball by default, thanks to the global default config. Then you have roms/mame/spinner then for this folder, you will have to generate a retroarch "content configuration file" that will apply just for this folder, and set the mouse_index to the one of the spinner.

Trap: the retroarch menu will not let you save mouse_index configs, but will create the config files. You will have to add manually a line with player1_mouse_index = 2 for example...

We wrote a detailed guide (in french, use deepl.com to translate) with screenshots, etc. And we use it on several Retropie arcade cabinet that we built, that have both trackball and spinner in the control panel.

Trackball and Spinner persistent configuration guide HOWTO (Google Doc, french)

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@luckyluca said in Some roms not working with lr-fbneo:

The only reason why I haven't updated the core yet, is that I don't know if doing so might affect other systems I already built, and would necessitate updating their roms too (neogeocd for instance, and anything else I might not think of right now).

Your version is over 6 months old, so no doubt there will be romset updates/additions (we probably added over a dozen of new systems since then), neogeo cd won't be a problem though.

@lupin it may well be a generic thing that would affect the official retropie image also but they are not supported here because we don't know what has changed under the hood, and also do not want to encourage the distribution of illegal material under the retropie name, etc. the image maker calling it 'official' is particularly egregious...

@barbudreadmon ok, thanks for faster reply.

@dankcushions
I did see that set. It's on my list of things to get.
I see in my future getting a merged set of ROMs to save download time and creating my own non-merged set afterwards.

Do you think my 9 year old PC might be powerful enough to run most games on the latest MAME? I know it is leaps and bounds ahead of the Pi, but I don't know how PC processing power compares to arcade hardware.

EDIT: Forgot the age of my PC

@mrnoholster what happened is you updated fb-neo which requires a new rom set. The old roms are not for newer versions.
FYI. Updating arcade emulators to newer versions is risky as there is no guarantee that the update will work with your roms. Don’t update them if you have a working set of games. Most roms may be fine in if you just go up to the next update, but if you keep updating, there will reach a point where fewer and fewer roms run.

@barbudreadmon Yes, the problem was the hiscore.dat file. It turned out that instead of the actual file I did download the github html page containing the file.
Thanks.

@barbudreadmon Thanks! I had put the cheats in the wrong folder.

@mitu

Thank you very much

I will do just that

@crossmr I managed to get the controls reconfigured, however the graphics option"MaintainAspectRatio=1" doesn't seem to work in the config file. Right now the image is stretched to the sides, instead of maintaining the proper aspect ratio.

@Zodiark12 said in FBNeo Set missing samples?:

this seems to be for 1.0.0.0 while I'm using the set 0.2.97.44.

they didn't change for months, maybe years, so that won't be a problem

@YFZdude Thanks YFZ. Leaning my way through this one mistake/question at a time. ;-)