alright, that did the trick. thank you sselph, i appreciate your help.

Thanks! I was saying because I heard that kawaks runs better games like King of Fighter that's why I was asking but I change the video mode for Lr-fba-next to Dmt-6 and it works much better I guess that's the One.

@BigC you should try this solution that worked for me.
neogeo-x-arcade-stick

@Duxa It's installed by default so is under Main Packages

@edm203 said in Sengoku 3 for neo geo:

lr-fbalpha

Managed to work it out and got the FBA optional package installed, buzzin.

@flop said in Need help for some neogeo and mame games:

I played Street Hoop with lr-fbalpha (0.2.97.39 romset) and it runs perfect; same with puzzle bobble, but I think puzzle bobble 2 or 3 (can´t remember) doesn´t work; maybe with the next rpi update with the new advmame it works :p

puzzle bobble 3 is not part of 0.2.97.39 romset. pb2 apparently works, and is part of it.

@rig Wow. Hadn't heard of this. Thanks for the recommendation, sounds like right up my alley!

@paradadf Read your reply too late, haha! I found a cover pack and matched the filenames to the images the scraper downloaded. Didn't take that long. Now the Neo Geo covers look far better than the rest of the game systems... :)

@darksavior Thats looks great.......i'm going to hopefully get it sorted once i'm home....Cheers again...

Thanks, will have a read through those later, I just assumed NeoGeo and MAME were separate things.

You're using the wrong romset. With MAME/NeoGeo/Arcade it's different compared to other systems. Lets say the roms have a version which is called romset, each emulator supports a version of the roms.

Just take a look at the following page:

https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/Managing-ROMs

You see the name of the emulator and which romset (version of the roms) it supports. Now lets say, you can convert them to other versions. You can do this with clrmamepro. The tutorial is right on that page on the link above. There is a video tutorial on the page, just follow along and you'll get it. I know it looks confusing but if you do it its pretty easy and simple.

Oh almost forgot. if you want to play neogeo games you need the NeoGeo bios files. Just use Google for this, we're not allowed to post links containing illegal files. But the first result in Google has the file. Put this file in the rom folder.

So lets say you're going to use the FBA emulator, you need to put the roms inside the FBA Roms folder, in this folder you also need to add the neogeo.zip (bios files). Oh and you never unzip MAME roms. They always need to be in a .ZIP file.

It's not that hard at all. The only thing I hated was the long upload time when I uploaded the entire romset to the Pi lol.

Well for the GBC all you need to do is to drag n drop the roms into the rom folder of GBC.

As for MAME. Well, you need to know which emulator you're going to use and you need that romset, lets say the romset is something like the version of the roms.

I can recommend you to use the lr-fbalpha emulator, this requires the 0.175 romset. if you can find this romset and download the games you're fine, all you have to do then is drag n drop the mame roms to the FBA roms folder and you're ready.

However, if you find a different romset you need to "upgrade" this romset to the romset the emulator is supporting. You can do this with a program named clrmamepro.

Here is how I did it the quickest way, just check this page:

https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/Managing-ROMs

See which romset is needed for the emulator you're going to use, like for an example "fba 0.2.97.39" Just add the two magic words one starts with a "D" and the second starts with a "R". Use Google for this. There is one site it's name starts with an "A" and ends on ".org". Well I said to much now... Good luck!

@cashnewman the bios zip goes in the ROM folder. Stick it in BIOS too if it makes you feel better.

@daeks said in Getting neogeo to run:

i have read both, but didnt know that I am not allowed to rename it.

Well, the fact that the name of the zip file decide which game will be launched is written on the wiki.

And honestly, the opposite make no sense : if you randomly rename zip files, how could the emulator know what game it is ? How could the emulator find parent rom if it needs it ? You think he'll scan up to 10 GB of zip files and/or compare with his database of 10000 games to find the right one ? Launching a game would be pretty long... And what would be the purpose of having a software who put the right file into the right zip with the right name if the name is irrelevant ?

Thank you so much- I'm sorry that I didn't see that read me. (My retropie is primarily a SNES machine for me, so I never really imagined that MAME would function so differently.)

@pomme if you put the neogeo roms at the roms/neogeo/ folder, then the config file you want to customize is /opt/retropie/configs/neogeo/retroarch.cfg.

If you have a windows PC, you can try this : https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/5291/soft-universal-xml-scraper-v2-easy-scrape-with-high-quality-picture ;)