Neogeo issues

RpiBeginner

Hi guys.

So I'm making a Picade 10 inch setup and the NeoGeo games are acting up.

At first I could not get any game to load, trying fba, and others. Had the neogeo.zip in both bios and roms folder. Then I tried pifba which finally started the game, however that gave me another problem.

I have background music on my retropie menu. Normally that music stop when starting a game. Only that does not happen here. The music keeps on going and i have no game sound, because its replaced with the menu sound.

How to fix this? I also cant go to the quick menu to change bios settings to unibios, because when I press X+SELECT nothing happens. Its like the button configuration is different from the other consoles.

mitu

@RpiBeginner PiFBA is not a RetroArch emulator, so Select + X cannot work.
For the other problem - you'll have to specify which music script are you using - RetroPie doesn't come with one - are you using the RetroPie image from retropie.org.uk/download or a 3rd party image ?
If your ROMs don't load with FBA (now FBNeo), then you might have a wrong set of ROMs - https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Arcade/.

RpiBeginner

@mitu

Oh okay that makes sense :-)
I'm using the music script from Will over at HyperPi (Adding Background Music to Emulation Station)
I'm using a vanilla image from the link you posted.

mitu

@RpiBeginner said in Neogeo issues:

I'm using the music script from Will over at HyperPi (Adding Background Music to Emulation Station)

Do you have a link to that script ? Maybe it can be modified to accomodate pifba.

RpiBeginner

Yeah here it is:
http://www.hyperpie.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=23&sid=044bf542752408cda8720c263be41174

You know what I actually got it working now.. I forgot that i could use mame-libretro. I put many other roms in that folder and I forgot that Neo geo could go there. When i use that, the music stops and I can enjoy the cool game Magician Lord finally :) With sound

mitu

@RpiBeginner said in Neogeo issues:

http://www.hyperpie.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=23&sid=044bf542752408cda8720c263be41174

The link doesn't work for unregistered users.

RpiBeginner

No unfortunately not, but here's the content:

Download this file from mega containing the script to play music:
https://mega.nz/#F!Gc4SXYpC!LbY-4hpON_EWppl7-xa13Q

Create a folder named "music" Place any music in mp3 or ogg format inside the folder, as well as the Script folder that you just downloaded.
If you transfer roms via usb, you can just put the folder in the roms folder and it will transfer over just like as if it were a folder of roms, or you can use winscp,fillezilla, or windows file explorer to move the folder over to /home/pi/RetroPie/roms.

Exit to the commandline by exiting emulation station, or ssh in from a computer and type:

sudo apt-get install python-pygame

When prompted, hit Y to continue.

Next we edit a start up file to get it working by typing:

sudo nano /etc/rc.local

This will bring you to a page with a lot of commented lines, near the bottom is "exit 0". Go one line above that. (this is case sensitive and all characters must be typed) Type:

(sudo python /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/music/Script/music.py) &

You must include all of the above.

Press Ctrl + X to exit. Press Y to save. Press enter to confirm the name. (don't change it)

Type: sudo reboot now

RpiBeginner

@mitu

Hi again.

Are the neo geo really unstable? Now all of the sudden Magician lord does not work, but worked perfectly 10 minutes ago ? :O

mitu

@RpiBeginner said in Neogeo issues:

Are the neo geo really unstable? Now all of the sudden Magician lord does not work, but worked perfectly 10 minutes ago ? :O

Please add the info requested in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first. Note that pifba is an old emulator and there's no upstream support anymore, so if there is anything buggy with it, there's little to do. If you can, include the log file after the game launch fails (/dev/shm/runcommand.log).

RpiBeginner

@mitu thank you. I deleted the game and put it back in and now it works again. Very strange.

barbudreadmon

@RpiBeginner feels like a defective sd card for me