Newbie question about mame version and romset to use

meaning

I actually rebuilt my romset based on the advmame 1.4 (0.106) dat.
I hope this is a decent choice ?
So I need to put the mame roms in advmame folder, and the fba roms in pifba folder, and at first start, select the right default emulator. right ? :)

If I made a mistake by choosing advmame 1.4 (I actually selected this one because more roms are supported and it is not tagged as experimental...) please let me know .

Thanks again !!!

dankcushions

@meaning said in Newbie question about mame version and romset to use:

I actually rebuilt my romset based on the advmame 1.4 (0.106) dat.
I hope this is a decent choice ?
So I need to put the mame roms in advmame folder, and the fba roms in pifba folder, and at first start, select the right default emulator. right ? :)

If I made a mistake by choosing advmame 1.4 (I actually selected this one because more roms are supported and it is not tagged as experimental...) please let me know .

Thanks again !!!

i don't use advmame but many do so you should be fine! yes, place in mame-advmame as per the docs, but with that you'll probably want to do the runcommand stuff for mame as well as Fba, as there are a couple of versions of advmame and you want to make sure you're using advmame 1.4 to match your romset, not advmame 0.94 or whatever the other version is.

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@meaning Place your PiFBA ROMS in fba folder, not "pifba"

meaning

@dankcushions Any tutorial about the runcommand ? I have actually no clue what you are speaking about... does it mean I'll need to run a specific command at rom launch to make sure the game runs correctly (fullscreen, etc.) ?

dankcushions

@meaning said in Newbie question about mame version and romset to use:

@dankcushions Any tutorial about the runcommand ? I have actually no clue what you are speaking about... does it mean I'll need to run a specific command at rom launch to make sure the game runs correctly (fullscreen, etc.) ?

i already linked it :) https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/runcommand

meaning

oops... :)
Thanks ! gonna check this one now.

meaning

Well...I selected advmame 1.4 as default emulator.
But some roms (even if I converted my 0.169 romset to 0.103 and followed the guide you provided) don't load :/

Example are the king of fighters series. I get no error message, I just get back directly to emulationstation. Any clue of what could be the cause of this ? :(

thanks guys !

dankcushions

@meaning said in Newbie question about mame version and romset to use:

Well...I selected advmame 1.4 as default emulator.
But some roms (even if I converted my 0.169 romset to 0.103 and followed the guide you provided) don't load :/

Example are the king of fighters series. I get no error message, I just get back directly to emulationstation. Any clue of what could be the cause of this ? :(

thanks guys !

advance mame 1.4 needs the 0.106 set, not 0.104, but most games should probably still work. have you transferred the entire set to your pi? if not, are you using a parent rom? do you have the neogeo.zip bios file in your roms/mame-advmame/ directory also?

meaning

Hi there,

Actually, neogeo roms are working, but it looks like ALL the other roms are not working at all :(
(yes, even old ones like wonder boy or street fighter 2...)

I've went back to clrmamepro and checked the .dat file I did use to rebuild my 0.169 romset, it was the 0.106 .dat. -> so this should be OK.

So, basically I should now have a 0.169 romset rebuilt to 0.106, but no roms are launching, I sytematically get back to the emulationstation interface after a few seconds. No error message, nothing.
It is also good to know I did create a split romset. no merge.

So here I am again...
Is there a way to check if I rebuilt the roms the good way using clrmame?

PetroRie

You need to rebuild those games. It's explained step by step in the following page:

https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/Managing-ROMs

I followed exact these steps for the 0.37b5 romset and it worked. I found a source for MAME 0.78 and I'm going to copy them to my Pi now using lr-mame2003.

meaning

@PetroRie , I did rebuild the roms using clrmamepro.
As it was not working, I figured out how to get a 0.106 romset. Now, more roms are launching, others don't...

I really miss playing wonderboy on my cabinet :/

dankcushions

@meaning said in Newbie question about mame version and romset to use:

@PetroRie , I did rebuild the roms using clrmamepro.
As it was not working, I figured out how to get a 0.106 romset. Now, more roms are launching, others don't...

I really miss playing wonderboy on my cabinet :/

we'll get you there :) but we need more information. what specific rom (filename) isn't working? on what emulator? is it a parent? are your roms split/merged/non-merged? any error messages in /tmp/runcommand.log?

jseibert81

Hey all. I am new to this as well, I have retro pie setup and all my games except for the arcade roms. There is so much documentation, I'm unsure of where to start. I will be using MAME 0.37b5 , I believe I downloaded the correct rom set, but from that point I'm not sure what to do. I know the files get placed into the Arcade folder, but do I place the whole zip in there or does each rom need to be unzipped?

AlexMurphy

@jseibert81 Put the individual game zips in the folder.

AlexMurphy

@jseibert81 Once you have done that restart Emulation Station and the ROMs should appear in the Aracde system gamelist. Launch one, Hit the A button the get into the runcommand screen and select the default emulator as lr-imame4all this is the version of MAME that runs the 0.37b5 ROM set.