@John_RM_70 said in Donkey Kong Pauline Edition:

I also want to eventually finish my old arcade overlay project I started a couple of years ago on the Retroarch forums. The last ones I worked on look like this.

Pretty :)

Well I'm a bit late, but cancelled trains meant I was stuck at home today and finally managed to get on the high score table. In common with a lot of oldies though, it's just the score that's recorded, you don't even get to put your initials in!

13750 , I'm satisfied with that!

Really enjoyed this one. My only tactics were:

Level 1
Stay as far right as possible, that way you get maximum time for your bombs to take out the rockets, or at least time to take avoiding action. It's annoying when a rocket takes off when you are at the left of the screen and there's no-where you can go to avoid it.

Level 2
A lot easier when you realise the artillery shells have a limited height (apart from a couple which sometimes enter the screen from the right very high up) you can basically fly around the shells if you are lucky.

Level 3
I just ignored everything but the red stars, trying to shoot as many as possible before the fly towards you. Of the ones remaining, by alternating high/low you can avoid most of them - once they start flying towards you they don't have time to adjust to your height. Luckily nothing much on the ground seemed to attack me.

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@IanDaemon That's how I always did it in the arcades. Your money goes further, and you eventually master the game. You can beat some surprisingly hard games that way. I was able to clear Mercs and even NARC on one play, but it took a LONG time to get there.

Although saving state before a boss fight and playing that fight over and over even if you win until you have it down pat really helps with the bullet hell shooters. I can get about 5 million on Donpachi on one play because I trained hard on the boss fights.

hey @dask, i spent a little time with this and managed to figure out a few things..

expanding on your idea of using the overlay/bezel system, it's possible to (using a hotkey combo) swap a transparent overlay with a control image overlay. this can be done on a per-system basis using the retroarch.cfg files located in /opt/retropie/configs/<system>

retroarch.cfg:

overlay_directory = "/your/path/to/overlays" input_overlay_enable = true input_overlay_hide_in_menu = true input_overlay = "/your/path/to/overlays/mame-controls.cfg" input_overlay_opacity = 0.9 input_overlay_scale = 1.0 input_overlay_next_btn = "6"

i think you can substitute the last line with input_overlay_next = "<keyboard key>" and input_overlay_next_axis = "<joystick axis>" to adapt this to your hardware scheme.

next, create the two images needed: transparent.png, and mame-controls.png

and here are the contents of mame-controls.cfg:

overlays = 2 overlay0_overlay = transparent.png overlay1_overlay = mame-controls.png overlay1_name = "mame-controls" overlay0_full_screen = true overlay1_full_screen = true overlay0_descs = 1 overlay0_desc0 = "overlay_next,400,460,rect,40,20" overlay0_desc0_next_target = "mame-controls" overlay1_descs = 0

there probably already exists a much better way of doing it, so this is just a proof of concept.
either way, hope it's enough to help you get started.

@markwkidd said in I forked 2 arcade emulator cores and added many hacks from HBMAME.:

We've discussed in mame2003-plus that it would be good to only add hacks and homebrews that bring meaningful changes from the versions of games that are already supported.

Some games seem to have dozens and dozens of different hacks that only make minor changes like enabling a certain cheat. That is what we realized when we were working together before.

In other words, we're willing to add 3 or 4 hacked versions of a game -- if the hacks are interesting -- but not 20 or 40.

If there are some "Best of HBMAME" hacks and homebrews in your fork that are compatible with mame2003-plus then let's try to work together to add them.

For now I spend most of my time trying to port all hacks from HBMAME of PC to my HBMAME2003 Plus and M.B.A mini Plus since we have no port of HBMAME for SBC. I have ported about 2 thousands of hacks from HBMAME. And I also decrypt and offer some hacks from a commerical emulator named YouJu. Maybe later when I am free I will try to choose some valuable hacks and add them to MAME2003 plus.

MAME ROW #112 is now live

@pjft said in MAME ROW #110 - Super Spacefortress Macross II:

Wonder if it plays with 4 players or is it 2 humans vs and 2 CPU ones.

Unfortunately it's just two human players verses two CPU. That's another drawback from being such an old genre, is that home consoles didn't yet cater to four players properly. The 2600 supported four players with the paddles, but that was just because the existence of 'Video Olmpics' allowed other games to follow. If 'Snafu' had been developed to take advantage of the Coleco Adam addon, with its two additional controller ports, it could've been the definitive snake party game, but sadly it didn't.

Something else to consider outside of the classic game play are the variants of both 'Surround' and 'Snafu', which are all a lot of fun themselves. 'Surround' has one variant that allows diagonal movement and another where you can use the fire button to briefly accelerate. That latter really amps up the excitement of competition when you have another human player. 'Snafu' also has a variant for diagonal movement, as well as a combat variant. There, each player chases the other's tail, which always has a limited length. A collision with the tail will remove a segment that can grow back over time. When all the player's segments are gone, that player is eliminated.

@cousinsfan pretty much. You can buy arcade usb encoders which are basically a controller that you can wire up arcade controlls to. Get 2 of them and wire up each side as a separate controller.

"Golden Tee Golf II" (as pictured above) is incredibly slow and tough to play. The later versions are awesome though, don't count them out!

thank you so much! didn't knwo that only certain versions of MAME are supported in retropie :)

@Clyde said in Please help, 2 problems with my retropie install!:

@Ranma said in Please help, 2 problems with my retropie install!:

For the OP I'd definitely look at the TV settings before tinkering with Retropie. Any kind of game settings on the telly you've enabled? I usually switch off anything that sets itself to "auto" in my TV settings too. Loads of different hidden settings can cause lag.

There also is a section about TV speed optimisation in the Docs:

https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Speed-Issues/#tv

Thanks but it's outputting to a small 8in screen that comes with the kit.
(other emulators have no sound delay, only mameforall)

MAME ROW #109 is live

@rbaker Solved! Thank you!

@mitu I think it should be a selectable option under the es menu, just like you can select specific emulators to open to.

@xwons said in Trying to organize my arcade rom library. There's so much information that I'm lost.:

Apart from that, if I want to trim my collection (eliminating clones and duplicates) I found a tool called RomLister (https://www.waste.org/~winkles/ROMLister/) but it starts by asking me a xml file and I have no idea where to get it.

Validating, Rebuilding, and Filtering ROM Collections in the Retropie Docs explains a lot of this and more.

I love Assault, but have yet to see a PS style controller do it justice, because I just got too used to playing the arcade version. It is possible to flick both sticks outward at the same time you hit the fire button to drop a mortar shell right in front of you and your tank won't even rear up, it's that quick. There are also some other stick tricks that just don't work right with a controller.

MAME ROW #108 is live

MAME ROW #107 is live

Modified in Github.
Thanks ;)

Oh, sorry, no Im not.

Didnt realise, sorry