Hello , that’s work good I was put the ROM files NeogeoCD in the wrong folder. That’s why it doesn’t work. But it may it will work better with two distinct menu.

@krullbeast said in games i can't get to work on pi4b driving me wakuwaku:

my set-up running MAME 2003 with non-merged 0.78 roms

From my experience, there is a 99.99% chance a part of that sentence is wrong, meaning either you are not using MAME2003 for those games, or you are not using 0.78 romsets for those games, logs would confirm. The 0.01% remaining would be that that your files are corrupt or that MAME2003 simply can't run those games (it'd be surprising but never say never about a MAME game flagged as working properly while it actually doesn't). Which leads to the main question: why you are using MAME2003 on a pi4 to run those games ? There are multiple options that are plain better, almost any other option actually.

@krullbeast said in games i can't get to work on pi4b driving me wakuwaku:

RetroPie Version Used: standalone version in PINN

So what is that exactly ? One of those 3rd party builds that are not supported here ? It would explain a lot about your issues.

@Darksavior said in Edit core keymap to only affect NeoGeo games?:

@WeirdH Not sure if it's the answer you want, but I put my neogeo games in the neogeo folder so I can set up my buttons specifically for it.

That would be the correct answer or at the very least the only method i know to remap several games having the same layout at once.

@mitu Cheers!

@SeeNoWeevil Yeah, arcade roms are a headache and you are correct, you have extracted roms, but don’t know what version of MAME they are for. It’s just as bad as finding a random arcade rom on the internet and hoping it works.
But there is good news, most neo geo roms have not been changed in years as they were ripped very well early on. So your best bet is try to run them on Finalburn neo and see if they work. If not, try MAME 2003. You will also need a neogeo bios file put into the bios folder. Which is just as illegal as downloading a rom. Or if you're lucky, the makers of these machines and gog may have put it into each rom or have a copy somewhere that you can extract it.

@UberLumby said in NeoGeo games folder nolonger working:

I guess it became out of date

It didn't, that bios with crc 0x91b64be3 has been part of the neogeo romset for 2 decades, it's the default neogeo bios (MVS Asia/Europe ver. 6), its presence has always been mandatory in a normal neogeo romset. My guess is that you deleted that bios and put another one (AES or unibios) in its stead, it's a known trick to force another bios in some arcade emulators (it's the only way for pifba iirc), FBNeo doesn't accept that trick though because it has proper means to change bios through core options, and it requires that bios to be present as a fallback if the alternate bios you select in core options isn't available.

@sf_junkie said in Odd Sound Issue with Neo-Geo games when loading a save state:

lr-fbalpha

I don't think anyone is gonna provide that kind of support for several years old version of our project (i certainly won't), so you should use the current version (FBNeo), furthermore that issue is probably something we solved long ago because afaik those games work properly with runahead (which saves and load states at every frame).

Thanks for your replies, I'll look into this more carefully when I get the chance.

@dankcushions luckily i found the bios needed thanks

@cnoto Cool! I did something similar with the speakers in my cabinet, but I think yours turned out even better. The speaker covers were a good choice.

There are actually several MAME roms that are essentially video pinball machines. The coolest thing about them compared to console or PC pinball titles is that they actually prompt for coins (like any other arcade game) and keep real high-score lists (also like most other arcade games). Some are better than others, FYI. Time Scanner is pretty good, as is Pinball Action, Speed Ball and Grand Cross (which is really unique).

http://mamepedia.com/game/category/pinball

@mitu Yes for PS3 Controllers. I'll update, thanks for reminder.

I face indeed the same issue, i recently started using my Pi3B+ again to make a Sega only system, and after a clean install, FBNEO performs really poorly. compared to the FBALPHA it used to run before i stopped using that Pi.
In any event I'll try the suggestions here, and also have a look which version is included by default before i update it.

@darksavior said in Neogeo games won't run:

I'm not sure why someone that has no idea how roms work would make a tutorial about it

To make money... and as you said, this guy probably doesn't understand what he is doing, he is only succeeding by sheer luck...

@soren several issues with that video :

it's outdated, FBAlpha is now FBNeo it doesn't cover the most important aspect of arcade emulation : romset validation

@mitu said in It's possible to integrate Samurai Showdown Perfect in Retropie?:

EDIT: samsh5fe titlescreen is still 'Samurai Showdown V Special', maybe it's not the 'perfect edition'.

Fullname of samsh5fe is "Samurai Shodown V Special (Final Edition, location test version)", it is indeed what some people refer to as "Perfect Edition". The word "Perfect" feels kinda counterfeit though, afaik they simply removed some gameplay elements from "Samurai Shodown V Special" (probably making the game more casual in the process) to make room for a story mode.

Except if you are using a non-merged romset, you'll probably need its parent samsh5sp.

@fcibx6r1un said in It's possible to integrate Samurai Showdown Perfect in Retropie?:

From what I understand the "Perfect" edition of the game is an emulator that runs the "Special" edition, and overlays it with new content. It isn't a self-contained ROM.

To be more precise, the commercial emulator from "Samurai Shodown Collection" uses some quirks to replace the title screen and to add an english translation to the story mode. FBNeo use the raw romset and doesn't have any of those quirks.

There's a setting called "Parse Gamelists Only" in the Emulation Station menu (I don't remember where exactly right now, just bring up the menu and poke around) that would do what you're describing.

thx.... hope this information helps:

Pi Model or other hardware: Raspi 4
RetroPie Version Used: 4.7
Controller used: Xin-Mo
fbneo_libretro

@g30ff Fair point. I wasn't sure how high I could go with MAME before it would hit the CPU limits. I'll switch to 2016 and see how it goes. Thanks!

@Zering said in Neogeo - Problems - Hours wasted.:

Your bios is all wrong for neocd, you should have a neocd.zip and a neocdz.zip and they should not be in a separate folder. I'll have to check later but they should be in your BIOS directory.

No, as i said, you are trying to launch games for 1 system (neogeo pocket games) with an emulator for another system (lr-neocd, which emulates neogeo cd) while using the bios for a third system (neogeo mvs/aes). You need to decide on 1 system.

If it's for your father, you can never go wrong with neogeo aes/mvs, which was the dream console for anyone from my generation. Neogeo cd was the "cheap" version of that console, and while emulation cancel its main drawback (loading time), the graphics are still inferior to the mvs/aes and the games use more storage, so i don't recommend it. Neogeo pocket was a handheld, and a niche one.

Documentation about neogeo emulation is there : https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Neo-Geo/ . You'll have to read all of it and the linked documentation specific to the emulator you'll chose, otherwise i think you can give up on neogeo emulation.