@sirwin44 said in Question about Sets for MAME and FB:

Do i need all parts of gameX.zip for it to run properly?

it depends. is your romset collection non-merged? if so, each romset should be standalone. see https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/Validating,-Rebuilding,-and-Filtering-ROM-Collections#crash-course-in-arcade-rom-terminology

Hello,

Here is the solution I found :

1/ In the file /home/pi/.attract/emulators/Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator.cfg :

executable /opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh args 0 _SYS_ mame-libretro "[romfilename]"

2/ In the file /opt/retropie/configs/mame-libretro/emulators.cfg

lr-mame2003 = "/opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch/bin/retroarch -L /opt/retropie/libretrocores/lr-mame2003/mame2003_libretro.so --config /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch/retroarch.cfg %ROM%" default = "lr-mame2003"

3/ In the file /opt/retropie/configs/mame-libretro/retroarch.cfg

input_remapping_directory = "/opt/retropie/configs/mame-libretro/"

4/ In the file /usr/sbin/rgbcommander/rgbcmdd.xml , section MAME, place :

<emulator binary="mame-libretro" name="Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator" active="Blue" inactive="DimGray" arcade="1" retropie="1" retropiebinary="retroarch" reference="arcade">

5/ To continue using overlays (example for the game 1943)
Create the file 1943.cfg in the directory /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/mame-libretro/roms :

input_overlay = /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch/overlay/arcade-artwork/1943.cfg input_overlay_enable = true input_overlay_opacity = 0.900000 input_overlay_scale = 1.000000

and in the file /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch/overlay/arcade-artwork/1943.cfg :

overlays = 1 overlay0_overlay = 1943.png overlay0_full_screen = true overlay0_descs = 0

And the overlay image must be placed in /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch/overlay/arcade-artwork

6/ In the file /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch/retroarch.cfg, set the parameter config_save_on_exit :

config_save_on_exit = "false"

there is an option to select analog or digital in mame2003+ as it supports analog 2003 doesnt just go to your options and change you controller setting to digital.

it sin options->control mapping change it to digital and it will work for snes pads and arcade sticks ect with having to set all the inputs. The majority of people want real analog controls when available so thats the default.

Love Emulator? :O
Never heard about this one.
What is that? Some kind of japanese "i get no wife, so i try some tech" - toy? :/

@dudleydes "Select" eventually inserts a coin for all roms. However, I have to push a bunch of buttons first before "Select" inserts a coin. I've experimented to see if I need only to wait a certain amount of time, or hit a certain button before Select, however I haven't found any specific requirement other than hitting a bunch of buttons. And this happens for all roms, mspacman.zip, frogger.zip, mappy.zip, dkong.zip, and so on.

It's off topic but fun to mention-- I modified the dkong.zip ROM so that Pauline is the one climbing the ladders to save Mario rather than the other way around. It's pretty cool that it actually worked (i.e., I didn't figure out how to do it, but found a process for doing it on the web).

@mitu that was my first thought as well but the retropie user that's being used on my system is already part of those groups.

I found the problem. Mame seems to define a controller + a keyboard as possible inputs. Since my controller is a device that is mapped through RetroPad the event gets fired twice: once through the keyboard emulation and once through RetroPad. If the mapping is even different in the retroarch.cfg in can cause some strange events overlapping each other.
Solution: I changed the MAME input configuration to only receive one input (RetroPad). That solved it :)

@roycebryan You can certainly do that (using a cfg file for each ROM).
Using the Core input mapping and creating an remap per game would be similar - the config file would saved in the RetroArch overrides folder.

@UDb23 I appreciate your help. I have never played this game before I saw your overlay. But something about using your overlays makes me feel like I'm a kid at the arcade again :D

@MrRalphMan said in Unable to get Trackball working with Mame2003.:

*** Can I mark this as solved or something? ***

Modify the topic subject and add a Solved at the beginning.

@dankcushions Ah, okay! I didn't know that, thanks.

I've been trying to keep up with the repository the last week or two but for what it's worth I'm on the road again and mostly away from keyboard for most of the next week. It might be that the Thanksgiving holiday is when I get some quality mame2003-plus time again.

@udb23 Thanks for sharing the original cardboard bezel scan and the bezels that you created based on it. I wanted something slightly different to the bezel that you shared already, and came up with this:
asteroid-w-overhang-example.jpg

I'm using lr-mame2003-plus, and wanted an "integer resolution" bezel to support this.

I found that lr-mame2003-plus has better resolution core options than fbneo in my quick comparison. Two resolutions that the core offers that work well for me are 640x480 (with 2x integer scaling in retroarch) and 1280x960 (with the beam width = 2 set as a core option).

If anyone is interested I've put my bezel attempts here: https://github.com/busywait/retroboxes/tree/main/overlay/Asteroids

There does seem to be a little problem with letterboxing (black bars) at the top and bottom. Does anyone have any idea why lr-mame2003-plus doesn't fill the whole 960 height with the game? I ended up setting a custom resolution of 1280x1060 in the game.zip.cfg that does fill the space.

@Cybrasty It worked! I followed the info in the post from @caver01 and it worked like a charm. Hotkeys disabled, and I now have a dedicated EXIT button that gets me out of games in advmame1.4, mame2003, and PSX.

@dankcushions I did try with MAME2003plus and Operation thunderbolt and the issue persisted, don't know if other games are fixed.

@amishgamer Have you tried the suggestion in the docs for the config hierarchy ? Create a romname.cfg file alonside your ROM file and put there the setting you'd like.

@albecacif great to hear! thanks for testing and confirming the patch is working for you.

@markwkidd @mitu I have just made it a habit to update my Retropie system and packages from time to time. Of course, an update may break something, but I think the benefits outweigh the risks by far in general.