@cybermrc you probably figured this out by now, but the cocktail switch only serves to flip player 2 upside-down. It won't induce the initial rotation.

@AgentGentner

Not a problem. Glad it's up and running.

@Radioaktive In the strictest sense, distributing a ROM is illegal, so the RetroPie community cannot distribute an image with the ROMs preloaded. In practice, most ROMs are effectively abandonware and are easy to find online. Many sites have full collections of every ROM for a given system.

However, it is important to not cultivate any perception that RetroPie is used for anything illegal because we don't want this project being shut down (even though emulators and ROMs have been around for ages without being shut down).

You won't find anyone here who will link to ROMs themselves, or a SD image with the ROMs preloaded. However, I wouldn't be shocked if a preloaded image existed somewhere out there. And frankly it isn't that hard to copy the ROMs over.

For whatever city you live in, there is probably a LUG (Linux User Group) where someone locally is probably willing to help set up the Pi for your son for Christmas. For example, here is my local LUG.

http://www.olug.org/

@dankcushions
I doubt that because from what I remember back when a lot emulators were being released on the xbox, they used the linux sources and some ports used SDLX.

@RaspberrySi said in C64 Roms:

Is there something particular I have missed from the advice page you have linked?

It recommends you search the forum and the wiki for answers before you post your own query. This request is to allow users to benefit from well known and documented issues that come up frequently. It also requests that you post as much information about your setup as possible when you finally do post a support question. A lack of that information results in people having to take wild guesses as to your particular situation. For example, not knowing any more than I do about your setup, all I can do is echo what @rbaker has already posted above and point you here.

After rebuilding a new kernel to help solve my "northwest drift" problem with my Raphnet adapter, I've noticed this seems to be fixed. Maybe a fix was pushed out that I got when I updated prior to patching the kernel? In either case, I tested this with a couple of games, and it now seems to be working like it should.

woah, this is great! thank you everyone

https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

Which version of Advmame are you using in both instances?
Which game are you trying?

gotta love fridays.

@barretta no Prob :3

SEGA CD isnt expecting .zip files:
https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/Sega-CD

Yeah good point, the FBA emulators also run recent MAME romsets, those are worth a try too.

You can also run the very latest lr-mame on RetroPie.

However, even the latest MAME doesn't have the 2D games right. If you truly want to play these games, fix their emulation in mainline MAME then consider backporting them to earlier stable MAME libretro cores.

@shanet94 unfortunately I'm a little dim when it comes to these types of things. I'd love to be able to help but I feel at this point a chocolate tea pot would be more help :) thanks again for your help.

Thanks again, I now have a compatible rom set :-)

Kev

@silence0101 said in Does anyone have or know a MAME download of 10 or roms?:

i find downloading all these roms one at a time can be super tedious so if anyone has a download that has 20 in one or something that would be great thanks!

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

@silence0101 said in Does anyone have or know a MAME download of 10 or roms?:

if anyone has a download that has 20 in one or something that would be great thanks!

FORUM RULES ALSO ON POSTING IN REGARDS TO ROMS/GAME IMAGES:

Due to the nature/complexity of Copyright/Intellectual Property Rights Law, which differs significantly from Country to Country, before posting on the Forum regarding Emulation please read the following rules. BIOS/ROMS/Game Images are prolifically available on the Internet (a quick search in your favourite Web Browser should suffice), however, to protect The RetroPie Project from possible legal action by the Copyright Owners please DO NOT ask for roms, post links or ask where they can be downloaded.