Is there a clrmame or other program that can check the samples files to let me know they are incorrect / incompatible?
The list of needed wav files is included in the dats i provide at https://github.com/libretro/fbalpha/tree/master/dats . Clrmamepro should be able to tell you if you have all needed wav files if you setup "Sample-Paths" in Settings, then check "Samples" in the scanner, it'll only check filenames though, not crc.
@giovanni11 Please don't bump older topics, you already have a separate topic opened for your question. Use the latest MAME and see if that solves your issue.
@mitu Yep /home/pi/RetroPie/configs/mame-advmame/artwork does exist. I don't think I even created that folder it was created when I installed advmame I believe.
But aha! Yes indeed. Moving the artwork zip files to /opt/retropie/configs/mame-advmame/artwork seems to have done the trick!
@jono Thanks for reaching out. I've had some time in the last week or so to tinker with settings. I will definitely try what you've outlined and get back to this thread. BTW- I've read that the latest update to RetroPie breaks the tank stick config. Has anyone heard this as well?
@AndersHP
it's not in either. you'd need to use lr-mame2014 or later via the experimental menu. i would expect it to have pretty poor performance on a pi3 but who knows.
@barbudreadmon
No, no overclocking. Tried two different SD cards (one from me testing a new SD card cloning software on my 128gb Samsung Evo+, and the other was a fresh install on a brand new Samsung Evo+ 64gb card). I just chalk it up to another random RetroPie encounter ;) ...like how all my controllers just stopped working last week I mentioned above (and like 50 other things to date lol)...