Knights of Valour and FBA

meanliar

According to the compatibility lists (and posts by others), FBA should be able to handle the Knights of Valour series. Unfortunately, I can't get them to work on my Pi 3, updated to current as of 30-Sep-17.

I've tried MAME 0.184 ROMs and FBA 02.97.40 ROMs updated (perhaps incorrectly by me) to 02.97.42 using clrmamepro.

I've seen it mentioned that these games need a separate BIOS. Now, I have Knights of Valour running on MAME w/o audio, so I assumed that the BIOS was available to both MAME and FBA. Is that not the case?

Do these games need a BIOS which isn't part of the standard Retropie install/update process for the FBA package? That is, do I need to seek out the BIOS separately and manually insert it into the BIOS/fba folder?
Are the ROMsets I'm using for this incorrect? As in, MAME 0.184 doesn't work with FBA ...42 and I may have incorrectly converted the ROMs from 40 -> 42?

Uh... help? Thanks.

sirhenrythe5th

@meanliar you will need the Polygon Master BIOS which is not included with the Retropie Package as far as i know.

Cant speak for FBA, i use AdvanceMame and can confirm: Kov and Kov plus are working perfect in general, so FBA should work too with the right Romsets and BIOS

dankcushions

@meanliar said in Knights of Valour and FBA:

I've seen it mentioned that these games need a separate BIOS. Now, I have Knights of Valour running on MAME w/o audio, so I assumed that the BIOS was available to both MAME and FBA. Is that not the case?

no. you need to have a valid bios in the rom directory you're running the game from. the bios is part of the romset, so you could only 'share' it between mame/fba if you're running mame/fba from the same folder /arcade/ ? AND they somehow use the same romset.

Do these games need a BIOS which isn't part of the standard Retropie install/update process for the FBA package? That is, do I need to seek out the BIOS separately and manually insert it into the BIOS/fba folder?

yes. it's part of the romset. retropie doens't come with any BIOSs. they're as illegal as roms.

Are the ROMsets I'm using for this incorrect? As in, MAME 0.184 doesn't work with FBA ...42 and I may have incorrectly converted the ROMs from 40 -> 42?

i don't know... latest retropie uses 0.2.97.42. i can't tell you if your conversion via clrmamepro worked - clrmamepro would have, though.

meanliar

Yep, the missing bit for me was the PGM.zip (Polygon Masters BIOS) needed to be in the ROMs/fba folder, not anywhere else. I'm up and running with lr-fbalpha (FB Alpha 02.97.42).

So, for those searching this topic, Knights of Valour (and most of its derivatives) seem to work with:

MAME 0.184 ROMs
pgm.zip (Polygon Masters BIOS)

...all in the ROMs/fba folder.

No need to seek out a FBA 02.97.42 ROMset.

rudymagic

Hi.. a little help pls. I hv placed some KOV 0.184 rom and pgm bios in the fba/rom folder. But it still won't start. I am running fba v0.2.97.42.
@meanliar Do u need to install & select any other fba/mame versions?
Thanks in advance.