"Dragon Blaze" and "Hit the Ice"! Two fantastic games right there.

DRAGON BLAZE with the ability to "throw your dragon forward" (and retrieve it in two different fashions) was a nice breath of fresh air in the sea of shmups. I like the added strategy. Psikyo shooters also had bullets that changed speed in mid-flight. Cave shooters had consistent bullet speeds. I love most shmups by both companies, but this is probably my favorite Psikyo shooter.

HIT THE ICE was sorta the "NBA Jam" of ice hockey. It's fun and cartoony! It's easy to pick up and play. Personally I find it more fun than NBA Jam, but that's just me.

@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.

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@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.

@enderandrew Hello. MAME is indeed a beast and before you begin even thinking about installing anything at all on anything, I recommend that you read read and read again. Here are some links to help you understand a bit about the MAME variants that are supported on Retropie...

https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/7247/guide-arcade-games-and-how-to-play-them-a-non-technical-mame-fba-tutorial

https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/2859/how-to-use-mame-with-retropie-help-guide

https://choccyhobnob.com/mame/demystifying-mame-roms/

Once you have read these, you should have good understanding of what you need to get. You will need to be comfortable in updating romsets over time to maintain functionality but personally, I build with the recommended emulators depending on the hardware I choose. I don't use windows so I cannot comment on that but all the links above stand true for Arcade emulation regardless.

Good Luck and....

Here is the compatibility list (second tab along the bottom)

and recommended MAME variants

...oh and there are sets with one rom / one game but come to that later - you will need to get your head around DAT files and filtering methods.

@meleu @AndersHP Good idea. A little, but important detail. Here is the new version with better readable text too.

What will we do this week?

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MAME ROW #99 is live

@unicornsonlsd
I did this using the RGB Commander utility. It sets the servo stick from 4/8 way automatically depending upon the game you launch in MAME.

DISCLAIMER: I'm using RGB Commander v.3 with one of the older RetroPie Jessie images. Haven't tested the current v.4 with the newest RetroPie 4.4 Strech image. Might be worth a try though!

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@mitu said in Is it possible to run MAME without keyboard?:

@mulder32 Which emulator are you using ? The Libretro based emulators have Hotkey + Start as exit combination (Select + Start) - https://retropie.org.uk/docs/RetroArch-Configuration/#hotkeys

I am using mame4all. I will try using the other one you mention and see what happens.

@metroid88 said in Vs. Ice Climbers:

I'm building a coin operated arcade machine for my personal use (to helpme save some money) and I'm trying to play VS system games and PlayChoice-10 on my retroarch 4.4 build, but haven't been able to run properly some games, Like VS ICE CLIMBERS and VS SUPER MARIO, Has anyone been able to run those under MAME or FBA? What can I do to run them properly?

I can only get the VS games running in the current lr-mame. I actually did a tiny build of it with only vsnes.c driver. Runs fine on a pi3+...

@tomcat said in Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection:

Any updates on how to do that?

Nope, since i didn't expect anything good from the capcom emulator (and i was right considering there was 4 frames of input lag at the release), i bought the game only because there was a limited edition with an artbook in my land, and it was console only. Since i don't have the steam version, i can't extract the rom, so i can't try to implement it in fba.

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ALl I had to do was move the NV files as well as all emulator named folders under roms\arcade over and all is great!

odroid go isnt running retropie i dont even think its running Emulation station

from what i understand its running a custom launcher made to look like ES

@thrash00

We need a little more information about what all you're using. The required information can be found at https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

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Couldn't resist one more go :)
I actually killed the 3rd boss but he did get me too. So I could not see what further madness occurs in level 4. Will definitely try later.

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