@sirhenrythe5th I recently introduced friends to Robotron 2084 and Cloak and Dagger. Both great dual stick games!

Thanks @mitu!

I did these tests with just the default RetroPie 4.7.1, though I did sudo apt update; sudo apt upgrade to get all the latest packages.

Let me know if this information helps:

pi@retropie:~$ uname -a Linux retropie 5.4.72-v7l+ #1356 SMP Thu Oct 22 13:57:51 BST 2020 armv7l GNU/Linux pi@retropie:~$ lsb_release --all No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Raspbian Description: Raspbian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) Release: 10 Codename: buster

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@dipkid Awesome work!

Oh my god thanks I'm so angry I swear I used the search before I made this and must have missed it.

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And in the meantime I've tried just about every possible setting in lr-yabasanshiro and Nights is still choppy. It's not far from being playable, but it's not playable currently (much like Panzer Dragoon Saga).

I added 6 new all_in1 plug & play consoles runned by xavix.cpp driver. They need frameskip = auto. With that, they run well. The list is in "Tutorial: Handheld and Plug & Play systems with MAME" is updated with those six consoles.

namcons1
namcons2
taitons1
taitons2
tak_geig
tomcpin

I add those plug & play in my gamelist.xml and downloaded images. see : https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1bfuYF7Ij_dhNc9b8bVCS6I22XiEmP7rv?usp=sharing

For lr-mess, I added a gamelists and images for pockstat and updated svmu with more games.

solved.

The version of Asteroids that's included in the 3-in-1 GameboyAdvance cartridge is nice. You seem to have unlimited warps although I can't figure out if you can control them or not. (Was the original like this? I know in "Deluxe" you had three shields.) You can select between two or three backgrounds during the game which is nice.

The game seems MUCH easier on the GBA , but considering this was a "kid's console" I guess it shouldn't be surprising. I quite like this version. Initially all I played on this cart was Yar's Revenge (not Pong or Asteroids), but now this is another classic arcade game to add to my list.

@dankcushions thanks mate - i did see the comment on the verbose logs.
In learning about how to trigger them and retrieve them, I went into the RetroPie configuration editor and then notice there was an Aspec ratio setting. I set this to 4:3 and everything is perfect now.

Glad Im solved it and thanks for your time.

Excellent forum by the way

So you were right I only need the rotation part and then needed to set the aspec ratio.
video_allow_rotate = true
video_rotation = 3

This was the magic line:-
aspect_ratio_index = "0"

Any luck with this,?

@sirhenrythe5th I'd really like to see the high score table :)

Tangent intro: a few years back, after noticing that I had a lot of MAME games that I should like but ended up not playing them very much because the process wasn't fun enough, I read an article which is no longer online that made me understand why: https://web.archive.org/web/20181120043643/http://insomnia.ac/commentary/arcade_culture/

I ended up learning that this author seems to have some strong opinions on some topics, and tends to write in a controversial tone, but this specific article I save to this day because it changed the way I played MAME games - and made them so much better as a result - precisely because of what you just said very subtly, "don't play anything with continues".

As such, I set up a collection on RetroPie where I'd keep some games that I'd just play over and over again, 1 credit at a time, to see how far I'd make it. In the beginning they were Final Fight, Contra and DoDonPachi - I don't think I had any others in my "regular" list. It took me a while to consistently get to the first @mitu score, and afterwards making it to the high score list was an extremely rewarding achievement - that's why I want to congratulate @IanDaemon and @mitu on their scores during just the MAME ROW period! I certainly didn't get to have a score in the high score table in the first week.

These days I get to the end of level 2 boss consistently, and the majority of the time I get to the 3rd level and lose somewhere around there.

My top score is 8.5M, 4th level - I don't think I ever made it past it with 1 credit.

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Still, a lot to learn, but it's one of my favorite games from these past 2-3 years that I've played it. I didn't take part in MAME ROW because I didn't have time, but I'd love to try it out and submit a new score if I get to the high score table again.

But do share your score, really - impressive achievement 1cc'ing this game :) Hope to get there one day.

Daytona USA won't run at any sort of playable speed on a Pi.

Second this - no way!

@doughughes If you can find and use "Full non-merged" romsets, then each zip file will contain all of the necessary parts and you won't have to locate a parent version of anything. Plus, it will allow you to delete all the variations of games you don't need, like other regions that aren't your preferred lanuguage. Makes life easier if you aren't overly concerned about disk space.

MAME ROW #172 is now live!

@mitu I need to read a lot of documentation. Thank you !

Exactly! It's a bummer, as my plan was to use a Raspberry PI to emulate in an original Asteroids cocktail cab. The other games I put in there work well (Space Invaders, Galaga, etc.), but the Asteroids and Asteroids Deluxe just aren't up to par. Sounds like my only real option is to use a PC/MAME that can handle more advanced effects. I recognize that vector games relied on specific monitor hardware to get the desired effects, but as a novice, it just seems crazy that there isn't a good way to emulate 50-year-old visuals on a modern (albeit low-powered) PC and monitor. I'd be happy to forego the glow if I should just SEE the bullets. Maybe someone smarter than me will eventually work out a way to size them up! :)

MAME ROW #171 is now live!

@BuZz Yeah, I’ve read that already. I already posted the version I’m using.

@muppets4 said in MAME: how to prevent vertical games from going vertical?:

CRTPi-RGBv30

sorry, but we do not support third party images.