How to build custom MAME Romsets?

T1nmaN

@thrussmeister Would it be possible for you to post a directory or a text file of the working roms? I really appreciate the hard work and would love to see this shared. Thanks so much for your hard work!!

mahcneto

Is there any Mame version that can run the 1st Killer Instinct?

dankcushions

@mahcneto said in How to get the best MAME Romset?:

Is there any Mame version that can run the 1st Killer Instinct?

yes, advmame can run it, but it's about 0.5fps on a pi3 so not much point. I gave instructions here: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/2248/ri3-killer-instinct-2-snk-vs-capcom-chaos-plus-not-woking-on-advmame-1-4-0-94/3

mahcneto

@dankcushions You think this is more an emulator thing or the Pi3 capacity thing? Maybe a better Mame version could come up eventually

dankcushions

@mahcneto said in How to get the best MAME Romset?:

@dankcushions You think this is more an emulator thing or the Pi3 capacity thing? Maybe a better Mame version could come up eventually

it's a (slightly) 3d accelerated game so mame won't get any faster, just by its nature. maybe later versions of the pi could run it in mame but they'll need to be quite a lot faster than the pi3!

there was a killer instinct 1 & 2 emulator for the original xbox which might be a good base for a pi emulator, but as far as i can tell it's not open source and/or the source code can't be found.

BuZz

Even if the source was available it wouldn't be a good base to start from, as it would likely be for the XBox API - DirectX / OS API similar to winnt - I would think a lot of work would be needed.

thrussmeister

@T1nmaN Hiya, actually got delayed on the project because of Children and boring life stuff happy to share when complete.

T1nmaN

@thrussmeister Thanks! I hear you.

jollster101

@thrussmeister

Hi thrussmeister

I would be interested in any list as well if you have one.

Does anybody out there know if there is a master games list somewhere on the net for the 0.78 roms? I have run the lite dat file and now I only have 1650 odd games (eeeeek) in my arcade folder.

If I could get hold of a master list from somewhere then I could look to whittle it down further on paper and then cull on the pi itself.

dankcushions

@jollster101 the lite set already removes all the known non-working roms. there may be a handful that have specific issues on the pi but not many.

anyway, the best list of all the games is the compatibility list: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LP1MELCvcxu7TfiowF_0ZuvRVEMqlfQyTVetnOJvuJc/edit?usp=sharing

jollster101

@dankcushions Its not the non working roms as such but more being able to whittle the total number in the lite down further. I am also looking at Don's Hyperspin Tools (or some other app that you can filter genres by) to possibly filter and reduce.