in all honesty its easy to setup but you need to understand ra and it needs documented you can go back to the old way like above or set up up in controls both work im sure mark will get round to documenting it for people

@grant2258 said in History.dat in mame2003-plus?:

cp /opt/retropie/libretrocores/lr-mame2003-plus/metadata/history.dat ~/RetroPie/BIOS/mame2003-plus/

Or hardlink the file to save unbelievable 6 MB disk space. :)

ln /opt/retropie/libretrocores/lr-mame2003-plus/metadata/history.dat ~/RetroPie/BIOS/mame2003-plus/history.dat

(I'm back from a gamer's bar and a bit drunk right now, so cut me some slack, please. :*) )

edit: Aaaand … I forgot the history.dat at the end. Corrected.

@gabrielmm2

i was have same problem solve it by enter the retroarch inside the game go to controls and then leave black the service button choice

@vahnxdean Play it on windows with mame or buy it from steam. That game requires a newer version of Mame and I highly doubt it's playable even if you did get it running on the pi.

@amishgamer

Did you watch...

I watched it as a complete beginner wanting to use that DAT. It worked great for me first time.

@alistaircg which folder are you running the roms from? /roms/mame-libretro?

OK, to answer my own question, I found the problem soon after posting here (Murphy law in action).
For some reason I had a file ~/.config/retroarch/config/MAME 2003/MAME 2003.cfg that was overlapping the configs. Removed it and started to work.
I don't know WHAT created this file, but I will let the infromation here in case someone has the same problem.

@colebeansbroskie

You should start by reading through these links.

https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/2859/how-to-use-mame-with-retropie-help-guide/34
https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Arcade/

@ApricotRembrandt

Is this happening with all MAME titles, or just certain ones. If it's the latter, which games are affect?

@stevefo

I'm not sure. I've never tried it before.

SOLVED: I was able to work around this problem by installing the experimental lr-MAME2014 emulator and using the most recent rom set I could find rather than the proper one with it. I don't know what they changed, but it appears to fix the issue!

@dankcushions
I doubt that because from what I remember back when a lot emulators were being released on the xbox, they used the linux sources and some ports used SDLX.

I'm sorry that you can not solve the problem :-( thank you!

Hi,

So I ran the commands from SSH. Booted up the Pi and only one controller recognised. I typed in LSUSB and could see that the Pi could only see one controller. After multiple tests I did some testing and it looks like the USB cable is faulty. This would explain why the second controller is not recognised however it did work up until (and after the problems).

I will borrow a controller from a friend and see if I can get this working but to be honest I might just try and get a second controller running with Bluetooth.

I have a problem where I deleted it but it wont recreate the file? any ideas or help with that.. I have chmod the cfg directory to 777

mame4all works fine

lr-mame4all wont work at all