@mitu You're totally right, the ROMs I have just aren't the two control set versions, I just tried Gauntlet and everything worked fine. Thanks for your help!!!

@mitu Thanks, apprecriate your responses, I'm actually now just formatting the SD card and starting from fresh. Will then install approriate roms.

@drdave79 saving the game option file should work.

Retroarch main menu-> Quick menu-> options-> create game options file

You may have to start a different rom after and change the default setting back though.

So start rom, change setting, save game option file, close Retroarch. Next, play regular game, change setting back, then just exit Retroarch.

Or....

You can also save the game option file then just manually edit the cfgs over network. The default core options are saved to Configs-> all-> retroarch-core-options.cfg

Then just edit the opt file you created Configs-> all-> retroarch-> config -> mame2003 directory-> game.opt

@dtyler3 What is your version of retropie? Are any other modifications made to it? We need a little more info to help you, and a verbrose log would be very useful too.

@grand_national you need to show a screenshot.

service menu is entered pressing F2: https://retropie.org.uk/docs/lr-mame2003/#service-menu

mame menu is entered pressing TAB or R2: https://retropie.org.uk/docs/lr-mame2003/#mame-menu

I guessed at the button config for the controller when EM first started and config'd what I thought to be the minimum.

does not inspire confidence... what layout did you use?

@dankcushions yeah that theory makes sense. Good enough for me. Lol.

@mitu

Thanks! This gets stranger.
Originally I was using a MicroSD Adapter to read the card on a built-in SD card reader in an HP Elitebook 2540P I5 laptop running Windows 10. Today, I used a different micro SD card reader (a USB version this time "T-flash USB") - didn't even know I had one, but found it by chance when I was going through my USB drives in order to install gpartLIVE as bootable drive) on the same laptop. When I looked at the micro SD card using this USB reader, disk manager showed the 256MB partition, another space of several gigs, and a large unallocated space (albeit TOO large). I wiped out the partitions (using Diskpart I believe). Then I saw a capacity of 2TB of unallocated space (on a 128GB card!!!). I got gpart to run on my other Retropie SD Card (never actually needed the USB drive) and using the same USB reader, it too reported 2TB for total capacity. Other Linux utilites reported the same capacity. I tried a different SD card in this USB reader and that reader always shows SIZE 2TB, but it does show the correct partition sizes. Now I had the opposite issue - too much space reported. Various partitioning and formating utilities choked b/c I think they were trying to read/write beyond the actual capacity of the drive. On a whim, I put the card back in the original Micro SD card adapter and disk manager showed 116GB unallocated. I created a simple volume and it worked. I imaged the card and the Pi booted. Almost 24 hours later and I'm almost back to where I started. I thought these adapters were just devices which passed the connection through pin for pin with no 'smarts' in-between. Maybe the built-in card reader had an issue? Dunno. In any case, thanks for all of your help.

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@tpr not in mame2003, however mame2003-plus just added official support for the middle mouse click. 😎😃 You can update or install it from source to get the new input.

@Clyde

Your absolutely right Clyde , I should post a question about it here

Thank you also for the documentation for the mame 2016

Appreciate that ;)

@melbmatt50 I thought you already used the configuration editor to set those options ?
Anyway, you can find it in Retropie-Setup, under 'Configuration/tools' - see https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Configuration-Editor/.
You can go into the Advanced Configuration -> Configure Libretro options, choose which core (or all if you want all cores), then in the list choose to configure input_player1_analog_dpad_mode - from there you can configure which joystick (left/right) to control the D-pad.

@mitu

Wow clones huh , i had no idea .... its nice to know now

and it truly makes me think .. and want to stick to the original parent Version

Thank you for the info ... it helps alot

@arcadez2003

Thank you for informing me

Really appreciate that

I will try it on Mame2003 plus

@mahoneyt944

Thank You Very Helpful , I Appreciate that

Thank you both

It Worked!!!!

that did the trick !!!!!!

@everett115 please fill out https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

@mitu /opt/retropie/configs/mame-libretro/retroarch.cfg is already in that state (and it's identical to retroarch.cfg.rp-dist)

@iandaemon What about the title "Lock N Chase" or that "Tower of Druaga" game, I remember in the Tower of Druaga: The Aegis of Uruk anime they had a cocktail arcade cabinet in the dungeon of that very game.

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Thank you, thank you, thank you.

I looked up how to get into service mode and is f2. I have my hotkey input_save_state set to f2. One time, I must have not hit the hotkey.

And now I'm going to re-map these buttons.