@sirhenrythe5th said in NEO-GEO Shoot 'em up - Help Me Remember: Alpha Mission 2 This is definitely it. Also happens to be my absolute favorite Neo-Geo game. =)

Reply to myself and anyone that would experience my same issue. I was scanning a split collection, not a non merged one. You first need to convert it to non merged (google is your friend) and then scan the resulting output. After merging my romset using the dat files provided by @matchaman everything ended in a happy ending.

@RpiBeginner feels like a defective sd card for me

with a CRT display there's a certain amount of image retention which makes these fast flickering shadows appear just as transparent grey, with the floor visible underneath. i thought there's shaders out there that fake the same effect for modern screens, but i can't find them...

@mitu said in NeoGeo not RUN lr-fbneo and any emulators: have that BIOS file Yes. Old bios not work. My friend resent me bios and him work. Thank you. IDK why old bios not work.

@barbudreadmon Yeah, it was the principality of it, saving and loading game specific options in a global config. I think I could not get either the macros or cabinet settings to work this way, rendering them beyond completely pointless. I think the actual cabinet settings for the retroarch core are saved in /roms/neogeo/FBA/ along with high score, and I don't know what was up with the macros.

@mitu ok i dont have anything different with the neogeo core other then the overlay. so adding the line to disable override is going to work for me. but still knowing a different way is good to know just in case

@rafioso24 There's no asking/sharing copyrighted material in the forums - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/2/forum-rules.

Tried it for some days now, seems to work! Thank your very much barbudreadmon!!!

@Thorr69 said in The Neo Geo emulator does not find the bios: @Rubencn1234 Put it in the same directory as the roms. If you put it in the BIOS directory, it doesn't seem to find it. I had to put it in the roms directory (with the correct name) in order for it to work. Which emulator are you using? FBA works fine without "neogeo.zip" in the roms folder. I have it just in the BIOS folder. @Rubencn1234 Check to make sure you have the right BIOS file. neogeo.zip needs to be ~1.5 MB and CRC-32 should be 20F12195

So far I did not explicitly test the GamepadBlock with a Neogeo controller. Can you post a link to the controller that you have? Looking at the pin out at http://old.pinouts.ru/Game/NeoGeoJoystick_pinout.shtml the integration of Neogeo support should be quite easy.

@box4me Btw, is this your site ? Are you by any chance selling RetroPie with arcade cabinets ? Are you also including ROMs with your cabinets ?

Ok so I took a copy and then updated lr-fbalpha and it works with the neogeo.zip in the BIOS directory :)

thank you. I did not change any video modes via run command. Not even sure how to do this? I know during emulation you can make changes but I can't see the options because the screen is so zoomed in I can only see the first few options. Same for changing emulators but I may be wrong with that as well. I may need to switch emulators but I'm not 100% how to do this through the CLI / config menu's ATM. I'm going to take a stab at that too. Update: I was already using lr-fbalpha (NEOGEO), and tried switching to pifba but got a black screen no sound no nothing (so worse). Thinking I can update the emulator software and have better results? worth a try. OK I tried editing the config.txt and it didn't make a difference in the menu or the emulation. here is the current config.txt # For more options and information see # http://rpf.io/configtxtreadme # Some settings may impact device functionality. See link above for details # uncomment if you get no picture on HDMI for a default "safe" mode hdmi_safe=1 # avoid warnings, 1 only remove overlay, 2 allos turbo avoid_warnings=2 # hide splash rainbow disable_splash=1 # uncomment this if your display has a black border of unused pixels visible # and your display can output without overscan disable_overscan=0 # uncomment the following to adjust overscan. Use positive numbers if console # goes off screen, and negative if there is too much border overscan_left=16 overscan_right=16 overscan_top=16 overscan_bottom=16 # uncomment to force a console size. By default it will be display's size minus # overscan. #framebuffer_width=1280 #framebuffer_height=1024 # uncomment if hdmi display is not detected and composite is being output #hdmi_force_hotplug=1 # uncomment to force a specific HDMI mode (this will force VGA). Now 720p is set (josete2k) #hdmi_group=2 #hdmi_mode=4 # uncomment to force a HDMI mode rather than DVI. This can make audio work in # DMT (computer monitor) modes #hdmi_drive=2 # uncomment to increase signal to HDMI, if you have interference, blanking, or # no display #config_hdmi_boost=4 # uncomment for composite PAL #sdtv_mode=2 #uncomment to overclock the arm. 700 MHz is the default. #arm_freq=800 # Uncomment some or all of these to enable the optional hardware interfaces #dtparam=i2c_arm=on #dtparam=i2s=on #dtparam=spi=on # Uncomment this to enable the lirc-rpi module #dtoverlay=lirc-rpi # Additional overlays and parameters are documented /boot/overlays/README # Enable audio (loads snd_bcm2835) dtparam=audio=on #gpu_mem_256=128 #gpu_mem_512=256 #gpu_mem_1024=256 #overscan_scale=1 # Overclocking (moderate) #dtparam=sd_overclock=100 #arm_freq=1300 #core_freq=500 #over_voltage=5 #sdram_freq=400 #gpu_freq=400 gpu_mem=256 #sdram_schmoo=0x02000020 #over_voltage_sdram_p=6 #over_voltage_sdram_i=4 #over_voltage_sdram_c=4 #v3d_freq=500 #h264_freq=333```

@saccublenda said in Why separate Neo Geo system from Arcade?: It looks like in this case I should leave retroarch.cfg alone and make all the changes in neogeo-core-options.cfg, am I right? Again, any core options done in the RGUI are automatically saved in that file, you don't need to edit it manually. For other configurations, use the system's retroarch.cfg file.

@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.

Ok I was missing the neogeo.zip bios from the rom folder, now eerything works grate

Such a poor excuse for breaking the rules. There's no support for scammers here.

With your help, I finally tested this (so far with one game each system, but there should be no reason why the other games don't work as intended now) successfully. But there is a mistake in your posting. @mitu said in AES/MVS in FBA and Neo Geo system, want two different settings: modify the system's retroarch.cfg and add core_options_file = `/opt/retropie/configs/<SYSTEM>/retroarch-core-options.cfg` The emulator does not seem to read from this setting, but there is already an existing setting for this file. Instead of core_options_file look for core_options_path. This worked for me. Anyway, thousands of thanks, as this was the last riddle in the Neo Geo mystery to me and I tried to figure this out since month! I am really happy now.

@edmaul69 Thank you for the idea. mitu did explain this with a little more depth in the other linked thread.