@mitu I tried the runahead out and it was great! Thanks all!

@pjft I'll try today and get back to you! Edit: It didn't go well.... Score went more down than up... not sure what I finished at but about 2,000.... Died on the bit with the large plane (maybe a boss?) Further Edit: I tried again and did a lot better, it's about getting past that first level and then the score gets a bit happier.

@cyclair Probably not enough. The link clearly asks for some logs and config files so that we aren't pulling things out of thin air. To be clear, with pretty much thousands of people running and playing vertical games on the official image, especially on the RPi3B that's been around for quite a while, I would vouch for the fact that what you're facing is pretty much configuration issues from that exact image. But do share more details per the link shared above - type of screen you're using, etc.

Thanks very much for the detailed reply, it seems like the benefits will outweigh the pretty minimal cost.

@dankcushions no I wouldn’t ask you to and thank you it’s really helping me and I promise no more questions (for tonight at least)

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I did a similar project not too long a go. E.g. built RetroPie into Atari 2600 case. Anyways - yes, key presses that ControlBlock sends when using MAME layout are hardcoded into it's driver: URL: https://github.com/petrockblog/ControlBlockService2/blob/master/src/controlblock/gamepads/MAMEGamepad.cpp#L41-L141 To change e.g. switch 'z' to send something else than z, say a, you would modify lines below and replace KEY_Z with KEY_A. And recompile and re-install the driver (instructions here https://github.com/petrockblog/ControlBlockService2). URL: https://github.com/petrockblog/ControlBlockService2/blob/master/src/controlblock/gamepads/MAMEGamepad.cpp#L68-L70 to Available KEY_* events (that you could replace KEY_Z above) are found from here: https://github.com/petrockblog/ControlBlockService2/blob/master/src/controlblock/uinput/UInputEventCodes.h I hope this helps you forward. I did a slight re-write for the driver myself as I wanted all the Atari 2600 switches to provide their original functionality. Which isn't straightforward since official ControlBlock driver doesn't support switch where both on and off indicate certain state (e.g. on -> colorTV, off B&W). I suppose I could clean up my code a bit and put it up to github sometime.

@arcadez2003 said in Is Turbo Outrun (arcade) playable on anything?: He got banned so i guess it's a bit late Well, the information could help others with the same question. Insofar, thanks for sharing it. :)

@arcadez2003 The scope of my project is to have artworks and faster emulation on RPi v0 and v1: lr-mame2003 is not fast on v0 and v1 (try to play Cadillacs and Dinosaurs, Final Fight or Double Dragon on a Raspberry Pi v1...) mame4ll can't use external artworks (only harcoded ones). Clear and simple

Many 3D arcade titles still struggle on the pi 4. Unfortunately I think we are stuck using the ports for virtua racing. The saturn port is closest to the arcade version and runs pretty good using lr-yabasanshiro. You can get the experimental script module for it here: https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/pull/3132 (it is not officially a part of retropie yet but you can test it out like I have been).

Unless it doubles as a handwarmer, you don't got a Pi4 in there...

An easy way to replace the artwork location in the gamelist.xml with another / new one is the sed command (stream editor). This example changes the video directory from the relative path ./media/videos/ to the absolute path /mnt/artwork/videos/: cp gamelist.xml gamelist.xml.backup # make a backup in case something goes wrong sed -i 's#<video>./media/#<video>/mnt/artwork/#g' gamelist.xml The part in single quotes does the actual sed-magic: s(earch)#[old string]#[new string]#g(lobally, i.e. all occurences) This works for every other path, just change <video> to <image>, <marquee> etc. Omitting the artwork tag before the path will change any occurence in the file, e.g. if the whole artwork is located in another place. Execute man sed in the command line to get the manpage (manual page) of this tool, or search the web for myriads of examples.

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@jmbooth2000 yeah, i was just trying to make sure he had the pi4 issue before posting that same thing.

Tate mode doesn't auto-rotate. TATE mode adjusts the screen to fill your monitor. What you need to do is is specify the exact rotation you want for each game you need to and make a game-specific config file for it. If you have auto-rotation on and auto-rotate on, you will get some weird results. Auto-rotation should be turned off when using TATE mode (setting allow_video_rotate = false). Some games will need 180 degree rotation. You'll have to decide which end of your monitor you will consider your base (the one that will be the bottom edge when you spin it). For each game you want to have in cocktail mode, you will likely need a cfg file with the setting video_rotation = 2 for games that need to be flipped. Set it to 0 (or don't write a cfg) for games that sit the right way from the get go. This post was greatly helpful for me when I was doing my cocktail setup: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/post/39024

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@neurocrash said in Tested MAME rom collection?: I need to send less time acquiring games and more time playing. Famous last words.

@barbudreadmon Cool, that’s what I needed. I started my RetroPie project years ago but haven’t managed to get the arcade games the way I wanted until now :)

@sirhenrythe5th said in Which Mame is suggested for the a Pi 4 with 4GB of Ram?: @Jiryn But you got it working now? Hint: if you map "Cancel GUI" to "select" + "start" you can exit the games like you are used to with the lr-emulators ;) Hint2: if you furthermore want to get rid of the exit-menu, set "safe_exit=0" in the AdvanceMame-config-file. Sadly no, when I hit tab and try to configure my controller it just ignores it I've tried both general and this game and neither seems to accept the inputs of the controller Unless I am missing something Games run great though! Nm fixed it! I have to hold the buttons to register...I can be a derp How do I save it though? When I switch or reset all my controls disappeared