Neo Geo setup and installation

barbudreadmon

@crumbs While finding a full working romset for an emulator is fucking easy (seriously, did you even try asking google about "fba 0.2.97.43 romset" or "whatever emulator you are using romset" ???), there are tools to check if your roms are compatible (again, clrmame is the most well-known) and easy to understand tutorial everywhere on internet... There are 0 reasons for someone to have issues with romsets, except lazyness to read documentation.

mitu

@barbudreadmon Take it easy, man. There's no need to get worked up for any post or user that ignores the advice/docs and presents his/her 'best way to do X'.

barbudreadmon

@mitu said in Neo Geo setup and installation:

@barbudreadmon Take it easy, man. There's no need to get worked up for any post or user that ignores the advice/docs and presents his/her 'best way to do X'.

Sorry, it just pisses me off sometimes, especially with people coming from time to time on github to say "emulator is broken, i downloaded random roms on internet and they didn't work", i got one again this week...

crumbs

@barbudreadmon said in Neo Geo setup and installation:

fba 0.2.97.43 romset

@barbudreadmon I don't appreciate your aggressive tone at all. I don't care if you have been frustrated by others. The guy asked the question a number of times and no one answered it directly or adequately. All I did was tell the guy how I do it. Have I asked Google? Personally, I don't actually want 2000 games based on a rom set for an emulator; it's too many to sift through, too many for the UI to display and I seek the personal nostalgic favourites only, but each to their own. I have consulted the documentation plenty of times. The links do tend to go round in circles or take you off track to tell the truth. Try not to blow up at people for no reason.

thelostsoul

@crumbs said in Neo Geo setup and installation:

Personally, I don't actually want 2000 games based on a rom set for an emulator; it's too many to sift through, too many for the UI to display and I seek the personal nostalgic favourites only, but each to their own.

Me too. I never include full romsets, I just pick the games out from the full romsets. The reason why people recommend doing this is, because you can be relatively sure that every single rom is working. Then you just can pick those roms as you would download it from somewhere else. That is the point.

mitu

@crumbs said in Neo Geo setup and installation:

The links do tend to go round in circles or take you off track to tell the truth

How does the documentation 'take you off track' ? Can you show some examples ?
The poster has posted multiple topics with the same question, received every time the indications on how to solve his/her problems, including in this topic.

barbudreadmon

@crumbs said in Neo Geo setup and installation:

The guy asked the question a number of times and no one answered it directly or adequately

We answered adequately, you didn't, you just told "pick random roms and perhaps they'll work with one of the emulator", which is the worst way to do that, and against what retropie documentation recommend.

@crumbs said in Neo Geo setup and installation:

I have consulted the documentation plenty of times. The links do tend to go round in circles or take you off track to tell the truth.

Documentation is crystal clear about this : select an emulator then pick the right romset for it. You do exactly the reverse, you recommend doing the reverse to other people, and you say you consulted the documentation ?

Honestly i couldn't care less how you do things, but the fact you are trying to mislead other people is a cause of concern, because that kind of post lead to more topic like this one. There is no need for trial and error, you can directly pick the right romset which is faster, easy, and the rightful way to do this.