Include FBA games into MAME menu

mitu

@box4me Just copy them in the arcade folder, along with your other MAME/arcade ROMs - https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Arcade/#step-3-transfer-roms-to-raspberry-pi.

A Former User

@mitu Thanks. Some works just by transfer (into mame-libretro dir) but others don't...

mitu

@box4me I didn't suggest mame-libretro, but arcade, where you can choose lr-fbalpha as emulator for those FBA ROMs. mame-libtretro doesn't have an option in Runcommand to choose lr-fbalpha as emulator.

A Former User

@mitu I see. I will try that. Which runcommand.cfg file do you use for that ?

mitu

@box4me said in Include FBA games into MAME menu:

Which runcommand.cfg file do you use for that ?

None. The runcommand.cfg is used for a different purpose, not for configuring the emulators. If you want to add them all to a configuration file, it's the /opt/retropie/configs/arcade/emulators.cfg file that you need to modify and add your entries there.

A Former User

@mitu Ok. I tried to move a game from mame-libretro to arcade dir. The first time I launch it, I had to choose the default emulator. I have choosen lr-mame2003.
I copy all the cfg file (present into mame2003/cfg dir from mame-libretro) directly to mame2003 dir (into arcade/mame2003/cfg) but I don't retrieve my personnal inputs. When I launch this game, I see that the mame2000_libretro.so lib is used. That's strange, I have choosen the 2003's one. I have copied these cfg files into arcade/mame2000/cfg but my inputs was always bad...
Plus, this game was no more in fullscreen mode.
I have some work to do to retrieve all my config, it seems...

A Former User

Ouch. I changed the default entry (into /opt/retropie/configs/arcade/emulators.cfg) from lr-mame2000 to lr-mame2003 and all is correct now (full screen and inputs. That's great !!

A Former User

Hello and happy new year to all.
As you suggested me, mitu, which entries should I add into /opt/retropie/configs/arcade/emulators.cfg to redirect FBA roms (located in the arcade roms dir) to lr-fbalpha ?
Is there a tuto for that ?
Thanks.

mitu

@box4me As I mentioned at the beginning, start a FBA game from the arcade folder, then use the Runcommand launch menu to choose the emulator for the ROM. This entry will be saved in the /opt/retropie/configs/all/emulators.cfg file (and not in the system's emulators.cfg like a said in the beginning).
Take a note on how this entry is saved and add similar entries (one per line) to the file for each FBA game.
I think the format is

arcade_<romname> = "lr-fbalpha"

Here are some references

https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/6988/specifying-emulator-for-arcade-roms-via-command-line/4

A Former User

@mitu Thanks a lot, all is clear.