@zodiark12 here's the sha1 and crc checks 2003+ is expecting. https://github.com/libretro/mame2003-plus-libretro/blob/f7e53fda8195ae9d9a2b33c1dbed27e7410a41ff/src/drivers/neogeo.c#L1574-L1589

You can compare the ones you have to these and double check your naming conversation. Make sure you done have ".rom.rom" or something like that either. Some desktops hide extensions. My guess is the check sum is off here for it not to include the file.

My pleasure. See the AM Wiki for example filters.

If you go this path in the end, maybe you could share your steps to a working AM/Retropie setup in a little How-To? 🙂

Just for another subjective opinion, I'm content with MAME 2003-Plus (in arcade) and FB Neo (in fba) next to each other and see no need to change that after moving to a Pi 4.

For more recent MAME versions, I have my bigger computers. But I didn't feel the need for that for over two years now.

Thanks, I have done that. I'll try different ROMS.

@Parabolaralus
yes it will remove these letters.
You can see it on that screenshot (column: Wiped File Name).

https://github.com/TobiasKoller/RomSetManager/blob/master/Images/Readme/bestmatch_3_actions_wipe_btn.PNG

There's a handy 'cloud' enabled saves storage script posted by one of the forum users - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/18712/script-setup-script-to-sync-saves-to-cloud-services. You can maybe adapt it for your needs; it's based on rclone(rclone.org).
Other than that, git would be easy to implement, but it's a bit overkill for this purpose - unless you'd like to have a versioning system in place. A simple rsync script would suffice.

As for the file types, I guess you'll have to think if you want to synchronize:

save states (*.state[X]) memory saves (*.srm) artwork/gamelistst (media folder and/or gamelist.xml).

You could unzip them to their own separate folders - so each game has it's own folder, then browse the folders and pick the game based on your region.
(U) is USA NTSC 60hz,
(E) is Europe PAL 50Hz,
(J) is Japanese NTSC 60hz.
Just pick the one you want, for each game, then (if space is a issue) zip it back up.

Ah ok, thanks and have a nice evening.

Thank you for all the help, everyone. I managed to compress my entire collection into CHD files. Much cleaner, and much smaller space-wise. And, they all work...except for the Sega-CD 32x games (there's only three or four of those). I guess I have to do some more homework on that one.

Not all my images were bin/cue. Getting them to be bin/cue so I could convert them to CHD was tedious and sometimes frustrating, but I got it done.

Thanks again.

@meleu said in Rebuild fba/mame romset to remove clones:

Where are you planning to get the mame gamelist txt file from?

Well, actually that was my question :-). I'm not so familiar with arcade romsets let alone how to rebuild them..
Guess I'll stick with clrmamepro for my mame romset. If i've found a solution, a certainly will post this into this topic!

Much thanks for your help!

'bests' games list?
Devil's Crush or Alien Crush for the TurboGrafx 16, Sonic Spin all for the Genesis, or now with Drastic Metroid Prime Pinball for the Nintendo DS.

@dankcushions >the docs are synced to the wiki... at some point.

They should be synced automatically ish. At least much quicker than once a week. :)

@chunger I have the same doubt about this issue, what have you done?

@Lyle_JP said in Best Emulator / ROM Set for saving high scores?:

What 8/16 bit console ever kept high scores?

I just died laughing just now.

Why on earth did they ever even put a high score system into games like Contra and Black Belt if they weren't going to save it on battery backup? Man, some poor kid was probably almost on that "NES Achievers" on Nintendo Power and lost his high score to not having a camera or his mom tripped over the power cord. O_o

Well, trying to figure things out for MAME now anyway. (EDIT: Got it now, figured out I had to put hiscore.dat into ~/BIOS/mame2003/)

@twd oh i forgot to mention that it was for mame. my roms work for other emulators like snes and genesis on ES but not on AM.

also, not interested in using floobs image yet. I like to make it myself and know how to configure it manually. just seems like the right info isnt displayed anywhere online. i have a feeling i need to get floobs image tho, this shit is frustratingly difficult.

Port to macos
Get the script with the following command:

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/meleu/share/master/noclones_fba-next.sh --output noclones_fba-next.sh

on script replace the line 47:

if ! wget -O "$gamelist" "$gamelist_url"; then

by:

if ! curl "$gamelist_url" --output "$gamelist"; then

No, there is no metadata stored in the actual ROM zip, it's just a compressed file containing one or more files of binary ROM data.

That binary data might be a valid parent ROM, a valid split child ROM, a valid non-merged child, a picture of your cat, or random garbage.

The only way to check the contents of the zip against known ROM contents is to checksum the contents and compare them to known checksums. Those checksums are what a DAT file contains.