Arcade Folder Question - Multiple Romsets, CHDs and Samples

Garisaan

Hey everyone. I've been working with Retropie for a while and had a couple questions concerning the Arcade folder.

I have the reference sets for Mame 2003 and 2010 as well as for FBA 2016. My goal is to add these three sets into the folder, but am not 100% sure if there's a particular order to copy them as a general rule. I do realize some games will work better with certain emulators than others but I can sort that out as I have time to work on this.
Also, these reference sets have additional folders I haven't given much thought into about, namely the CHDs and samples. Are these actually needed to be copied over to the RPi as well and if so, where?

Any insight would be helpful.

dankcushions

@garisaan said in Arcade Folder Question - Multiple Romsets, CHDs and Samples:

Hey everyone. I've been working with Retropie for a while and had a couple questions concerning the Arcade folder.

I have the reference sets for Mame 2003 and 2010 as well as for FBA 2016. My goal is to add these three sets into the folder, but am not 100% sure if there's a particular order to copy them as a general rule. I do realize some games will work better with certain emulators than others but I can sort that out as I have time to work on this.

there's not really a rule, and since they mostly share filenames, you need to decide what games you want to run on what emulator, and then make sure the respective romset's file is present.

personally, i use mame2003 for everything, except for a handful of CPS3 games and some shootemups exclusive to fba. i don't use mame2010 at all.

if i was starting from scratch i'd probably just use advmame.

FBA 2016.

?? lr-fbalpha was updated this year, so you need the latest romset (FBA 0.2.97.44)

Also, these reference sets have additional folders I haven't given much thought into about, namely the CHDs and samples. Are these actually needed to be copied over to the RPi as well and if so, where?

https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/lr-mame2003#samples

https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/lr-fbalpha#samples

arcade CHDs are basically useless on a pi3 - 99% of these games aren't playable anyway.

akafox

This is exactly what I did. I went through each rom one by one and used the "best" emulator for the rom (i.e. the emulator that made it run the best). I did use mame 2010 because some games I could not for some reason get the samples to work in advmame.

Advmame was my "main" emulator. (the newest and version 1.4 some roms didn't like the new version for some reason)
Very few I used 2010 for
I used FBA for mainly neogeo and cps3
and a small few just ran better in mame2003 (speed issues...mostly midway games)

And I have my daphne roms in the same list...if it took a coin(s) to start it's there in the arcade list

All versions of fba mame advmame and daphne roms are mixed up in the single folder

I can not think of an easy way to set them up honestly of the top of my head

Garisaan

Great! This answers everything in one fell swoop. +1 to you both.

cyperghost

@garisaan personally I would stick to separated systems. But you can also extract each dedicated romset to its own folder and symlink or mount bind to arcade folder

cyperghost

This post is deleted!

akafox

@cyperghost I agree with you...wish I would have thought of that myself! xD