Any Idea on how to get this game to work

wop99

I have the ROMs Brave Firefighters and Rolling Thunder, anyone know how to get these to work?

sirhenrythe5th

@wop99 Sure.
Buy a Hardware device (Windows PC, Macintosh, Android Phone,....), install an emulator and start the games.

wop99

@sirhenrythe5th OK, I have a pi4 and am running retro pie. want it to work on that hardware?

mitu

@wop99 So what exactly have you tried to make it work and it's not giving results ? Did you copy the games to the system's folder ?

Johan_Liebert511

@wop99
There are many ways how to transfer roms. I would recommend the easiest one over network. Just go to your pc turn on the pi and type in your pc in the file location line "\retropie". Press enter. Go to roms and put it in whatever system you want. Also your pi and pc need to be in the same network

wop99

@mitu i transferred the rom over the internet to the roms folder called fdba and mame-liberto. they show up on list, but when i click on it, it just goes back to the list. what emulator does it need?

mitu

@wop99 Arcade emulation is a bit trickier than other systems. There's a handy guide that explains it in the Docs. In short, you need to find a compatible ROMset for your emulator and not the other way around.

I'd recommend using lr-fbneo for Rolling Thunder. Brave Firefighters is a more recent title and it's not supported by Mame2003 or FBNeo, so you'd need something like lr-mame2016, though even current MAME doesn't fully support it - chances are it won't be 100% supported.

wop99

@mitu Thank you for the info!

IanDaemon

@wop99 FWIW I play Rolling Thunder often on my Pi 3B and 3B+ using lr-mame2003 and it runs fine.

wop99

@iandaemon then it is the rom. i put it in that folder and nothing. thanks

wop99

@mitu in the fbneo folder, they are unzipped. is that what i should do?

mitu

@wop99 Arcade ROMs are not to be unzipped - they don't work this way. Keep them zipped.