Ok it looks like I have figured it out. Apparently I needed to edit the retroarch.cfg file that was in the arcade folder instead of the mame-libretro. Once I properly set the hotkey and the menu toggle buttons, I was able to bring up the RGUI menu and then consequently configure the rest of my controls. Thank you everyone and hopefully this will help someone else down the road. Mark as solved!

Got the catver.ini but still romlister shows no roms when I go through the process of creating the xml.
Seems it's not as straight forward as I first thought.

@will I know, those games are and was working before. Its just the incompatibility with the rewind feature.

@markwkidd

nice work mate im going to to some work on mame magic for making a catver for mameplus when im off work should be Monday or Tuesday. I didnt think you would get it added to lrmame-2003 well done mate am very impressed :)

Thanks a lot. I have also tried a lot of configs without any luck, all on 4.3.
I will test with a 4.2 installation.

@grant2258 said in mame 2003 dat wrong just to let you guys know:

im not sure if this is the right thread or if i should start another one ive made a little script to grab all the mame2003 game names from the dat and compare them to the catver.ini

I think this would be better placed in a new thread, as this one is about the MAME 2003 entry in the docs.

@dankcushions Hey nice, updated MAME2003 from binary and it worked. Thanks!

Hi all,
Ended up doing a clean install of Retropie and all running beautifully.

Thanks,
Dwarfboysim

@markwkidd Word received 😀. Great work as always 😎

@flightrisk said in BattleZone mame2003 input issue:

Thanks. Is this rom setup for free play? I don't see anything referencing "insert coin". And if you want to adjust flicker, scanlines, etc. for just this rom or just vector games, is there a way to do that? MameUI had a feature for slide controls and they would appear at the bottom of the screen and you could adjust phosphor life, bloom, etc.

Unfortunately, we don’t have phosphor or bloom effects in AdvanceMAME. Also, none of the vector settings are accessible through the GUI menus. You have to edit the .rc config file. This post covers the details.

@pepijn123games No problem, glad you fixed it. Arcade ROMs are always tricky to get right.

@alturis said in Editing mame2003 cfg file:

Is that expected behavior? Is there an editor or something?

Yes, it's not a text file. Quoting from https://retropie.org.uk/docs/lr-mame2003/:

These files are not human-readable, but can be safely deleted if you get into a mess and wish to return to the default configuration.

@alturis they could be made of pure gold for all I care. Fact is they are profiting on things that are free, taking others work and selling it as their own. There are more reputable arcade parts sellers out there.

@newellj79 The emulator copies the behaviour of the original game, so when it's player 2's turn they just hop on to the single joystick.
You could try mapping both controllers to player 1 with the MAME TAB menu as it allows for multiple inputs. So up could be joystick0>up, joystick1>up and keyboard>up. And then saving for that specific game. Obviously this means player 2 will be able to interfere with player 1's controls (if it indeed works).

Problems reported that have been fixed so far........

Sega System 16 /18 games a core update broke all these games i have since fixed this
Sound problems in certain Midway / Williams games eg Mortal kombat

Thanks for the updates. I am glad it is recognized as an issue. Maybe the speedhacks will help the gameplay once all of this is resolved. I am always up for some improvement!

@markwkidd said in *SOLVED* [Help Retropie 4.3] Some MAME2003 roms not working after update:

I think your project is very important.

@gamez-fan Agreed, the fixes are appreciated! :)

@floodie The Arcade part is responsible for a lot of questions asked here in the forums and most of the answers are found with a quick read in the docs. That - and the fact that you're using a 3rd party image but you ask for support in the RetroPie forums is what might have caused a little 'abrasiveness'.

See the table in https://retropie.org.uk/docs/MAME/ for which folder is used by each emulator. You're using the wrong rom probably. That's what you should ask the seller of the image, RetroPie doesn't come with any overlays by default. We can't tell which 'mame' games are you referring. As people mentioned, there are a few Mame emulators used in RetroPie and it's hard to understand which one you're using and why the settings don't persist. The Arcade compatibility list is linked from the page I mentioned above.