@johnodon Yeah, I was referring to pc.

On my overclocked Pi 3, I also use Mame2010. It is good enough to handle it. But that should not bother you. In fact, I have an third emulator for arcade games (fba), because there are a lot games working better. On PC, I just could use the newest version. But if your pc is a little bit old, then performance could still be a problem with some 3D titles.

@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.

set your controller again with emulation station

Switching to AdvanceMAME resolved this issue.

@mitu na all roms are running on the sd card, 32GB sandisk. I have a few of them that I cycle through during updates etc. All of them have shown the same behavior. I haven't changed default config.txt.

I'm using an LCD monitor with hdmi, not sure if that was the screen question :)

Also the map message only happens with Galaga so far, Berzerk does not show that it just completely freezes, screen does not go black like Galaga does.

@urko948 The roms / zip files shouldn't be renamed. Mame expects them with specific names, because in the emulator is a database of filenames and other informations. Thats why you need a specific romset for a specific Mame version btw. If you rename anything, then you should do this within the gamelist.xml or elsewhere related. So, you should bring back the original state of roms with original names. Then remove the non working gamelist.xml by moving the file to different place for later analysis.

And then? I don't know. :D Maybe upload the faulty gamelist.xml, so we can check it and maybe see something unusual going on.

This is a CRT via composite: Brightness about 40
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And this one with Brightness: 25
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Problem is, this is a really low Brightness, even if I bump Contrast to ~80. There's one more variable in my telly (S-Bright), but overall I play with the brighter version on. It all depends on a game though: for example in this title (CAW) the low brightness is mostly fine, but in other, darker titles you will start losing details. It's also dead hard to calibrate properly, I'm not even sure if its possible, to have one profile for all games and systems.

The gist of the Getting Started guide for Arcade is that users need to 1) pick your arcade emulator and then 2) you find the exact romsets designed for that emulator version

Your emulator is mame2003 and it will only work with a MAME 0.78 collection. If you have a MAME 0.78 romset collection you will not get CRC errors and the games will, generally, play.

The MAME 0.78 romset collection is very easy to find on the internet. No Dark Web required, just a search engine :)

@dankcushions Got it. Thanks for all your help!

We all miss things. That’s why being on this forum is great. If one of us misses something, someone else will pick it up

@boxall Right on !Making a backup is always a necessity. I have 5 cards with diff purposes and self made images, would be at a loss if I ever " tweaked" , then messed up and lost what I worked so hard on.

@grant2258 Yes, I just wanted to report that after some testing yesterday. You were faster than me. ;) I can confirm that most of my samples work in mame2003 binary and mame2003-plus, but not in mame2003 from source; with few exceptions like Blockade that works in all of them.

Since there already is a pull request for this, I consider this topic as solved. Thanks for the help! (edit: as well as @markwkidd for the fix and @Headrush69 for testing.)

@mitu

thanks for the help i will give that a try

@fluffymastodons said in Some Games do not accept control input (MAME 2003):

the ones that don't, like tapper, don't do anything at all.

Is it just Midway games you're having trouble with? 'Tapper' is a Midway MCR title and none of them have worked since MAME 0.78 was originally adapted into being a RetroArch core. You're in luck though, as after several years of this being the case, the issues have been resolved just this past month. However, you'll still need to wait for the updates to make their way to RetroPie.

@timbone316 You probably have save_on_exit in RetroArch. Try to open the RGUI (Select + X) while ingame and disable this.
To revert to the Mame2003 default retroarch.cfg file, re-install the package from the RetroPie-setup script.

@dankcushions ok. My wii madcatz fightstick is setup the way i mentioned so they at least kept with that layout on the wii. Honestly i think its retarded to have your R buttons on the left side of your L buttons. Makes no sense.

keeping in mind that samples ARE NOT roms, can someone give me info on where I would find these samples? I've tried searching, and mostly find youtube vids.

@edwardthehuman you can change where the BIOS (retroarch system directory) folder is, but by default it's in /home/pi/RetroPie/BIOS so you shouldn't need to. you can't change the samples directory beyond that - it will always be in retroarch system directory/fba/samples.

by default fba will look in /home/pie/RetroPie/BIOS/fba/samples/ - please give me your full file path and name of the sample zip.

how do you know they're not loading? with donpachi, i believe the samples are just ripped music from the CD of the saturn (?) version, which should sound pretty similar to the emulated music. it does take much longer to load, though.

@dankcushions Thanks, that solved my problem!

Will do. Thanks