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    • Peetem

      Controllers and Mame
      Help and Support • controller issu mame controller mame config • • Peetem

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      dankcushions

      @peetem said in Controllers and Mame:

      @dankcushions said in Controllers and Mame:

      https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Runcommand/#launch-with-verbose-logging

      No, but I re-mapped in Mame and it seems to work now.

      The mapping is still really, really weird. Several buttons are showing as "Retropad1 A" when I press them, even though they are completely different and were mapped as such by ES.

      without seeing your config files and verbose log i can't really see what is going on. what you posted above was not what i asked for. you need to post the verbose log and the config file for your controller(s) in /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch-joypads

      I was able to at least get Player 2 controls to "talk" with Mame. Apparently they had been bound to the same registers as player 1 in Retroarch. So now the player 2 buttons and joystick work, but the buttons are still really screwed up.

      you're not going to end up in that situation unless you change RGUI settings or configs.

      you do the initial bind within emulationstation, and the button you bind as select will be the button for insert coin in lr-mame2003, by default. i suspect there's some changed settings/overrides going on.

    • common763

      Button Config RetroPie
      Help and Support • mame config retro pie • • common763

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      common763

      @dreamcastkid got it. thanks again. Think I am all set here. Appreciate it.

    • common763

      MAME Config Screen Lock
      Help and Support • mame config retropie menu • • common763

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      IanDaemon

      @common763 RetroPie has kiosk mode which does exactly this for its interface. You can make changes in full UI and then run in kiosk mode most of the time. You can quickly jump in and out of UI modes.

    • brutalizer

      How to run MAME v0.224?
      Help and Support • mame mame config • • brutalizer

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      mitu

      @brutalizer For the MAME emulators in RetroPie, this info is in the Docs.

    • Ashpool

      lr-Mame2016 kbd semicolon not recognized?
      Help and Support • keyboard lr-mame2016 mame config mame menu • • Ashpool

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    • Dan1300

      MAME not running ROMs issue
      Help and Support • mamearcade mame config mame emulations mame roms mame settings • • Dan1300

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      Riverstorm

      @Dan1300 @bollwerk said in MAME not running ROMs issue:

      It is perhaps worth noting that, I believe it's possible to create a romset for any version of MAME, by using the latest romset, the latest "rollback" romset, a DAT file from the version of MAME you need a set for, and a tool like ClrMamePro.

      I agree I think it's worth noting and worth bothering to learn to use the tools depending on your setup. With current MAME and the rollback sets you can build any version of MAME from the beginning of development for RetroPie or other projects outside the RP scope.

      You can build partial or full sets which is handy if using multiple cores with "Arcade" for RetroPie and only need a few games from a specific ROM set or a few per core.

      It works fine for vanilla MAME to just get the set from whatever source. If using mame2003-plus or fbneo who's rom sets are ever changing it's a big plus to know the tools but you'll still need to track down some miscellaneous or decrypted ROMs that may not included in the official MAME set when rebuilding.

      I find it easier to grab the current DAT once in a while for a changing core to complete a set vs. following every commit to grab the added/updated ROMs.

      Also mame2003-plus has the source driver files in the DAT which allows you to build subsets like neogeo only or cps1, cps2, cp3 or whatever combination you want. Now if we could only have the region information.

      Along with the rollback CHDs you can include those also in your sets too which is usually v3 with the older cores. A few games with CHDs run acceptably on the Pi 4.

      Mame2003-plus has support for UNIBIOS up to 4.0 if you have a need, want to tweak a setting or experiment, it's a core option.

    • Ashpool

      lr-mame2016 KEYCODE_COLON
      Help and Support • configure input keyboard mame config mame2016 • • Ashpool

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    • pingfreud

      Best Shaders for the BGFX PC MAME Look
      General Discussion and Gaming • pi4 mame config shaders video mode • • pingfreud

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    • nemo

      Installed WaveShare Game Hat, now trying to steer...
      Help and Support • mame config controls waveshare steering • • nemo

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      nemo

      Hm. Still at a loss. Do I have to save the game config to make it work? I would like to make a working configuration on the fly and only save it when it works. Also "User 1 Device Type" - I believe this should stay RetroPad? "User 1 Analog To Digital" - should I fiddle around with that? "User 1 Steering" is set to "Left Analog X" - which sounds reasonable, but does not work...

    • keptar69

      Can someone help me understand mame versioning?
      Help and Support • mame-mame4all mame config mame-libretro • • keptar69

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      steptoe

      0.37b5 should provide pretty much everything for 'classic' arcade games and will easily run on the PI3 B, MAME 0.106 is the last release for the PI and this should still work ok for the vast majority of games and will still run on the PI 3B

      MAME version NEED a specific ROM set as each version of MAME has updates and redumps or better dumps of ROMs that were not working earlier, which is why MAME fails if you don't have the ROMs to match

      I do have a set of ROMs that I picked up looking for some help on how to create a custom ROM set with only working ROMs and came across the set by accident that has ONLY the working versions of each game, and the best ones of FBA or MAME. with a lot of the redundant games removed. Easy to install and comes with very simple instructions to basically copy over and its ready to go. Try searching for "wills arcade set". Thats all the help I can give

      Never every unzip the MAME ZIP files. FBA and MAME need the files zipped, one of the few emulators that MUST be zipped for it to work as it should

      There are a lot of clones and games that are non-working and some where only the clones work. This improved with later revisions of MAME but the PI can't run the later games due to sheer processing power required

    • beezerhale

      Mapping for MAME buttons
      Help and Support • mame config mame-libretro mapping retroarch 1.7.1 • • beezerhale

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      beezerhale

      @mitu @dankcushions Thanks again for the guidance. I just needed a nudge. I started 1942, got into Retrarch from there, remapped the buttons for MAME to be what essentially is A/X/L on top and B/Y/R on the bottom. This gave me the B/Y buttons the main use for the games I play most - 1942, TMNT, etc. while keeping the standard mapping for all the other systems.

      Thanks again!

    • ashlava71

      Any idea why my Select button suddenly stop working as my coin button in MAME?
      Help and Support • mame config arcadecontrols select • • ashlava71

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    • htcjoy

      Problem with Aimtrak in Retropie
      Help and Support • aimtrak retropie 4.4 mame config lightgun installation • • htcjoy

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      Clyde

      @mitu Just stumbled over this thread because I am a proud owner of two Aimtrak lightguns since last saturday, and I'm searching for any information about their setup. :)

      Following the links from the video's description, I found the github page of the script in question:

      https://github.com/Shakz76/Eazy-Hax-RetroPie-Toolkit/

      It seems like it modifies an existing Retropie installation and adds some functionality the author deemed to be useful. I didn't dive deeper into it, because I prefer to use Retropie's own tools as long as they get the job done as well.

      Getting my Aimtraks to work with any kind of MAME is my next goal, but at present I can't help much further.

    • lockescow

      Remapping lr-mame2003 in-game GUI (Tab/R-shoulder) to something else
      Help and Support • mame 2003 mame config mapping • • lockescow

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      dankcushions

      the problem was that your foundation was wrong i think.

      my theory: during https://retropie.org.uk/docs/First-Installation/#configure-controllers you bound L bottom/R bottom to your L and R buttons. you should have bound L top and R top. this would probably mean that MK would have had sensible default controls (along with SF2, etc), and it would have also meant that you had no SNES button bound to the MAME menu (not that you should need access to it anyway).

    • Amishgamer

      Menu in Mame 2003 plus...can I change buttons around?
      Help and Support • mame mame-libretro mame config mame settings • • Amishgamer

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      grant2258

      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

    • Amishgamer

      History.dat in mame2003-plus?
      Help and Support • mame2003 mame mame config mame settings • • Amishgamer

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      Clyde

      @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.

    • wiggy808

      Advmame-0.94.0 button mapping for MAME game (Forgotten Worlds) not working
      Help and Support • advmame .94 mame config • • wiggy808

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      caver01

      @wiggy808 by the way, your grep is finding items for forgottn, but those are only the settings that you have made that vary from the defaults. All other settings in the .rc still apply. So, the game is using all input mapping’s, and in addition, these in your grep are overriding. So, now I am wondering what else in your .rc file is setup on the dial_left and right inputs. Maybe you can pastebin your .rc instead of only sharing snippets.

    • gabrielmm2

      how to disable l3 key mapped to f2 in mame?
      Help and Support • mame config • • gabrielmm2

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      kounabi22

      @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

    • tonytigeruk

      mame inout config issues with arcade joystick button kit
      Help and Support • mame-mame4all mame 2003 mame config arcade controls • • tonytigeruk

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    • VahnXDean

      Can't run a MAME game on my retropie
      Help and Support • mame mame config mame settings mamearcade mame4allconfig • • VahnXDean

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      Darksavior

      @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.