@barbudreadmon
I figured it out.. it was older retroarch mame cfgs
in the retropie configs folder.
I deleted them and it came right on.
No sound problems, no black screens.

@parabolic said in Pi Zero dedicated 1 game mame. Is there a optimized build for this?:

but its well emulated in MAME

That'll entirely depend on what you mean by "well" and the MAME version you are using. Using a pi zero might impede your choice about that. For the reminder, older MAME versions will be less likely to be accurate (i.e. faithful to the original game), and the newer versions usually require better machines.

@Jolt said in Keyboard configuration issues with an IPAC2 in a Retropie/Pi/Mame arcade setup:

I tried to go into ../config/all/retroarch.cfg and update the configuration there back to the MAME default, but it ignores that an uses the incomplete mapping I did last night.

retroarch.cfg is not the MAME configuration file, it's RetroArch's, which happens to also run MAME cores.

I looked on forums a bit and it suggested to run the retropie_setup.sh, but I'm a bit concerned about how much that will roll everything back.

Running the setup script will not do any un-intended configurations. You can use the reset configuration menu and you'll be able to start over with the EmulationStation's input configuration.

Is there a way to reset all the keyboard controller work only? Or is there a way to manually hardcode the Emulation Station controls like I've done in the rertoarch.cfg?

You can manually add the configuration in EmulationStation, but it's better to go through the input configuration - see above on how to reset the configuration and start anew.

@jamrom2 said in Berzerk (STERN 1980) - MAME missed sound issues:

"They are about as close as it's going to get until another version is coded that has the modern updates of recent MAME versions for use on a Pi."

And i was pointing out that mame2016 has those modern updates while mame2015 hasn't. Did you miss that ?

Yet again there is absolutely no reason to use mame2015/mame2016 when latest mame is available, better integrated with the libretro api, and will perform just as fast most of the time.

@WildDog Not my expertise there. You should make sure you are exiting the game properly to ensure that if the game is able to retain scores, it will. (Turning off the machine will not let scores save. You have to exit the game with the hotkey combo.)

@Folly Sure, once I have this Pi 5 set up so I can run 0265.

@mattsyd said in Setup Difficulties - Hit a Dead End....:

I don't mind which mame system I use. What ever is simpler. Very happy to go with a recommendation.
ON mame I want to setup street fighter ii, mortal combat, frogger, pacman or puckman, space invaders and a few other classics to start with.

I like lr-fbneo; it doesn't even have that TAB-menu and with proper romsets it "just works" in my experience. All control mapping is done by core input remapping in the RetroArch menu.

After wiping the sd card and setting up again, I now have a different issue. The controls on my simple usb gamepad ( ABXY LR and D pad) don't work as mapped in ES. N64 mario cart and puckman on mame are my tests at present. The controller works perfectly for navigating retro pie settings and menus, (and is mapped correctly in es config input menu) until I start playing N64 mario cart for example, all buttons work except the D pad. Can't move left or right.

Does the D-pad work in the (in-game) menus, and just not once the race begins? That's normal; Mario Kart 64 don't use dpad in the race, it need the thumb stick. Dpad work in the menus to select a race but once it start, it need the thumb stick.

I understand it has to be mapped in ES input config, and then again for each emulator too?
Perhaps again for individual games within an emulator too in some cases?

No, when you do it once for ES it should automatically configure inputs both for RetroArch and for the stand-alone emulators at the same time, too.

You can **re-**map the controls for a single game or emulator, but you shouldn't have to set them all up individually.

Okay, here they are:

https://easyupload.io/gy7no9

For most of them you'll want to set aspect_ratio_index = "21" and input_overlay_opacity = "0.350000" and input_overlay_scale = 1.060000 or thereabouts in your CFG file.

@barbudreadmon This is INCREDIBLY helpful. Thank you for sharing that link and giving me a breakdown of how I should be handling my ROMs. I appreciate you taking the time!

@abj said in Import ROMs into Mame:

@jak75

This message is the runcommand launch menu, it's not an error message. It's appearing every time you start a game. More info here : https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Runcommand/.

Ok regarding the message I saw, but I can't get the audio, I reset the audio to default settings but nothing to do, it works well with other operating systems, any advice?

@mitu Hi, just a quick follow-up that downloading from source (MAME 0.263) has resolved this error for me as well. Thank you!

@mitu Thank you for the information. I am sorry for posting in the wrong area.

@Muckypaws I think you can do this with core input remapping.

For quick menu > controls > port 2 controls, you want to set the joystick directions to their right stick counterparts, and then set mapped port to port 1. Now the player 2 joystick should behave as player 1 right-stick. Save this as a game remap file and you should be all set.

https://retropie.org.uk/docs/RetroArch-Configuration/#core-input-remapping

@krullbeast said in games i can't get to work on pi4b driving me wakuwaku:

my set-up running MAME 2003 with non-merged 0.78 roms

From my experience, there is a 99.99% chance a part of that sentence is wrong, meaning either you are not using MAME2003 for those games, or you are not using 0.78 romsets for those games, logs would confirm. The 0.01% remaining would be that that your files are corrupt or that MAME2003 simply can't run those games (it'd be surprising but never say never about a MAME game flagged as working properly while it actually doesn't). Which leads to the main question: why you are using MAME2003 on a pi4 to run those games ? There are multiple options that are plain better, almost any other option actually.

@krullbeast said in games i can't get to work on pi4b driving me wakuwaku:

RetroPie Version Used: standalone version in PINN

So what is that exactly ? One of those 3rd party builds that are not supported here ? It would explain a lot about your issues.

@thelostsoul yes, you and @mitu can all make me feel bad for the liberal use of sudo when I shouldn't :) You're right, I don't need sudo. I might have originally saved the collection files in a folder where the pi user didn't have write permissions, so that was that! Or I might have just been lazy about it - also likely.

Yeah, there's no issue with the platform you use, by all means - though you can install RetroPie on a Linux machine as well! A Pi3 is certainly a viable option, though with the Pi4 and the Pi5 - and especially with you playing on a Linux PC and a Steam Deck - the systems it supported are slightly self-contained by now.

No worries, I'm thinking of some developments on the EmulationStation front and this was a fun input that I had not considered. When I get around to it and publish them here I'll tag you.

Cheers, have a great weekend!

@drog1998 whether a rom runs with a particular core ain't depending on the folder (that would decide which (if installed) emulators are available to choose from for the roms therein; for lr-mame-cores those would be arcade and mame-libretro.), but of its content (dumped information within the archive). You need a dump matching the cores requirements (defined/queryable within its dat/xml). Take a look at RetroPies Docs and the libretro docs about romsets. In short you need to aquire or build a rom that matches the core requirements (and don't ask for it, as that would be violating the forum rules).