@Joshua2005777 The default view in the File Manager (Midnight Commander) should show the user folder. Assuming you are using the SD card to store your files, your ROM files should be located inside the folder Retropie\roms\<System Name>.

ive already fixed this for myself for mame and mame2003+ i just made a gamelist from the dats of mame2003 and 2003+

@jlachniet I was thinking in terms of time ( to play) ...not file size ;-)

Solved: When writing the code for the .cfg that resides in the retroarch/overlay/arcade-bezels folder, you must reference the filename of the PNG overlay you are using. DON'T put quotes around that filename. For example:

overlay0_overlay = robocop2-ovl.png

NOT

overlay0_overlay = "robocop2-ovl.png"

It may work with, but some overlays will only work without quotes. Recommendation is just no quotes for all games :-)

@BuZz Sorry, I'm new to this and get confused between the RetroPie Forums and LibRetro Forums which link me to GitHub too. I wanted to update my previous post's title, but didn't know how, to see if runcommand.log error would spark others who know more about it.

Update: I figured out how to change the title of my last post and am trying to delete this post but can't.

@Thorr69 thanks. Banned both accounts and removed link.

@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.

@tmak glad it's working!

@natemac This is what I do, but you need to at least make the choice once. The easiest way to do it is to pick a default, say, lr-mame2003, then go through your ROMs and launch the ones you want to run using FBA and invoke the menu on those, choose FBA for "this ROM" and it will remember your choice.

For me, I have most games launching with 2003, vector games launching with AdvancedMAME1.4, and a handful (NeoGeo, fighters and a few others) launching FBA.

With everything setup the way you want, you can disable the runcommand menu from appearing and a typical user won't even know they are running different emulators.

I don't know a way to pre-select them. They get tracked in a file using some long ID, but by the time you figure out how to use that across each ROM, it would have been faster to just launch each one once.

I hadn't originally thought about the approach @dankcushions is suggesting but it does sound like the better way to integrate highscore.dat

I tried to sum up the two options in an Issue for RetroPie-Setup, even though this may take place in the mame2003-libretro codebase in the end: https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/issues/1859

@dankcushions said in MAME2003, Rgui vs Tab:

when you press tab, where are those control configurations stored?

https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/lr-mame2003#mame-menu

They appear to be tied to the retropad mapping so how do they work with the Rgui bindings?

basically all libretro emulators only see the retropad abstraction. so regardless of what controller you use, the emulator will only see 'Retropad A button', 'Retropad B button', etc. if you rebind something using the TAB key, what you are saying is 'Button 1' in mame is changed from 'Retropad A button' to 'Retropad B button', etc.

Perfect, thanks! I missed this in the Wiki.

@MrBlaschke The problem for me was the system-specific RETROARCH.CFG file, whose settings were overwriting the ones for the individual games. Making sure that wasn't in conflict fixed it.

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i tried to put hiscore.dat in to hsb dir... too..

how you can see today is 15 January... files are at 12 January 2017
if i try to load a title... mame not loads hiscore... and not save it

Thank you, I have done so without a double boot use BerryBoot and so far things are going well with 4.1 Retropie setup. I will know tomorrow if MAME configuration for controller 2 is working properly. The auto mount for USB works fantastic.

Is there a way to easily copy all my saved "scrapings" for my game on this new version without running the scraper from the database again? Maybe somewhere I can copy from my USB drive that was mounted properly to the old 3.6 Retropie version. All I saw thus far was that selph's scraper won't work with USB drives, and hate to run the other way again as the integrated scraper kept timing out (although worked on mounted USB drives). If selphs scraper now works with the December 30th updated version to auto mount the USB using file "Retropie-mount" folder then i can go that route too. Thanks in advance for anything you can offer

This shader has recently been rewritten by the amazing hunterk at libretro to create this effect at a very low processing cost in mame2003. You might have to tweak the parameters a bit in the retroarch menu or the code. It works great, and scales to fit the screen just like cocktail mode in mame2010.

https://github.com/libretro/glsl-shaders/blob/master/misc/cocktail-cab-portrait.glsl

@gunpadawan Now it's throwing this error:

pi@retropie:~/gunconf $ python setup.py install
running install
error: can't create or remove files in install directory

The following error occurred while trying to add or remove files in the
installation directory:

[Errno 13] Permission denied: '/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/test-easy-install-1018.write-test'

The installation directory you specified (via --install-dir, --prefix, or
the distutils default setting) was:

/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/

Perhaps your account does not have write access to this directory? If the
installation directory is a system-owned directory, you may need to sign in
as the administrator or "root" account. If you do not have administrative
access to this machine, you may wish to choose a different installation
directory, preferably one that is listed in your PYTHONPATH environment
variable.

For information on other options, you may wish to consult the
documentation at:

https://pythonhosted.org/setuptools/easy_install.html

Please make the appropriate changes for your system and try again.

The source mamedb.com is down. I have the same problem, hopefully the site will be back soon.