@theburgerking said in Integrating lr-mess quasi-cores into RetroPie-Setup:
Is there an lr-mame core? Could I build one? I have used lr-mess both prebuilt and built from source and I see from its build script that it just pulls from https://github.com/libretro/mame.git.
Yes. Both lr-mess and lr-mame are built from the same codebase you mentioned (forked upstream MAME), but with different build options, which results in different supported systems (arcade vs. non-arcade).
I was referring to MAME (the upstream project), not the libretro cores.
Does this mean that mame itself is the part of the mame distribution that can run that system?
Upstream MAME distributes only 1 binary which supports all systems included - either arcade, computer, mechanical, etc. There's no separate MESS anymore and I think hasn't been for quite some time.