MAME4All per-game configuration

Retroid

No, not the service menu. I'm also keen on using the non-LR version as it definitely seems faster for me (I'm running this on a Pi 1 in preparation for my Zero - it's just easier)

As seen on my Xperia Play:

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BuZz

The RPI port probably doesn't have it then.

Retroid

Yeah, I can't find any hint of it.

Which is a shame, because it hobbles it. The ASM cores mean it's noticeably faster than lr-MAME4All but CPS games - as an example - are in 1:1 pixel mode and horribly stretched. :(

Retroid

I wonder what options are available when compiling, I may look into that....

BuZz

lr-mame4all on retropie uses the cyclone asm core, but not the DRZ80 as it has some compatibility issues, as well as not working on later ARM cpus. mame4all standalone has a built in array containing per game configurations so it can disable the asm cores for certain games. lr-mame4all doesn't have this so it's better to just disable the DRZ80 core.

dankcushions

looks like you can get into the GUI in mame4all-pi if you run it directly via the command line (ie, run the mame binary, not with a game as an argument). not tried it, but that's what the readme says.

Retroid

@BuZz Interesting about the Cyclone core in lr. One of my test games is Pacmania which runs noticeably slower / higher frame-skip on lr-MAME4All in comparison with MAME4All standalone.

@dankcushions Yeah, that's what I was playing with. But the MAME4All UI seems restricted to game selection & the functions you could already access when running through ES, nothing like the photo I posted above. Sadly.

In the meantime, I'm doing things on a per-game basis in the Arcade directory. Thankfully PiFBA has some aspect ratio control & is a nippy bugger ;)

rbaker

@Retroid Have you by any chance managed to get 2 player working in piFBA?

meleu

@rbaker said in MAME4All per-game configuration:

@Retroid Have you by any chance managed to get 2 player working in piFBA?

I think you should start another thread for this problem, but I answer in advance: Yes. I have no issues to get player 2 working in pifba.

Reading recommendation: https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/FinalBurn-Alpha#pifba-controls

rbaker

@meleu I already did. See here, ages ago. Never been able to solve it. Says it was fixed back in 2013 but when I alter that config, it makes no difference. Wouldn't know how to replace the binary as described here. Just tried updating from source as advised in the thread I started.

Retroid

@rbaker I have to admit I've not tried; I'm fiddling with a single-player thingy and that's not come up for me. Yet!