@grant2258 I started a new topic on this to not clutter this one.

system_directory should be "~/RetroPie/BIOS". I think it defaults to the current content dir (ROM folder) if not set.

@IceChes1 You've got a temporary ban for ROM linking and asking for ROMs, disregarding the forum rules. If you wish to return, try to follow them, as we all do.

@mitu - Hey, that's nice, many thanks for the tip! I'll be adding it to my FBNeo list. Sometimes I miss those numbered ROM's at the beginning of the list as 3countb comes before 20pacgal for example, thinking it's not in the list. Computers and their sorts! :)

SOLVED!- it was in the coding- I had buttons double-coded so to speak and had a bunch assigned to R_X/Y plus&minus (input_player1_r_x_plus_btn = "5" for example) as well as what they should've been assigned. HUGE weight off my back- I've been poking around like a blind squirrel.

Both configs are correct. Your new configuration has axis for the directional buttons, most likely you've configured the joystick as a D-Pad this time ? EmulationStation should work with both D-pad and Joysticks.

As for MAME2003, what game are you trying out ? It may be that the same has no analog controls and thus it expects digital (i.e. D-pad) controls. You can play with RetroArch's settings for this - in the Controls section of the RGUI, you can switch the P1 device type to RetroPad w/ Analog and change the User 1 Analog to Digital to either Left Analog or Right Analog, depending on how you mapped your joystick in MAME.

@sirhenrythe5th I think its because select & x does the retroarch menu so i was expecting it to be the same for the mame menu, but its not. No matter it works now!

Release 1.7
Download it here

Changelog

Separate roms and CHD folders (roms folder will be used by default if no CHD folder is specified) Allow to exclude CHD game from set generation Includes properties files for each game with the following information: orientation, CHD, samples Includes 2 players version for roms with 4/6 players preventing the user from selecting specific characters Updated to FBNeo 2024-04-30 and Mame 0.265

@Jonas5746 mspacman is the oddball for not having hardcoded hiscores

Thank. God. That was so much easier (though I still confused myself.) At least doing it that way I can test it in the game and change it on the fly if it wasn't right. Megadrive/Genesis is mapped correctly, so now I just need to work on the MAME games themselves (which I can save per game config instread of per core.)

Thank you so much!

@mitu duly noted about the ROM links won't happen again.

Thank you so much for your prompt reply and it is bitter sweet to know that everything is working as it should.

@mitu I did that, and it didn't solve anything, I am just going to use mame2010 and fbneo for now.

only 0 and 1 are registering in your config log file. If your happy using advanced mame just use that. I find stand alone emulators more pleasing to use as well :).

works now. did as specified above and all set. thanks.

Now looks much better in Mame2003,
I did change aspect ratio to 32:9 in retroarch video settings...