Enter MAME Menu, FinalBurn Alpha

esbenboye

I'm currently running RetroPi 3.8.1 on a Pi 1 b+, installed from an downloaded image.

My question is this;
What is the button name for acessing the onscreen mame menu? I'm thinking about the menu where you can config the controls in mame, like this http://www.cpcwiki.eu/imgs/thumb/e/eb/MAME_menu_CPC.png/230px-MAME_menu_CPC.png

I've been looking into my /opt/retropie/emulators/pifba/fba2x.cfg file, but can't find any name for the button that should open the mame menu. My config is the default that came along with the installation, so right now the TAB button is SELECT_1

rbaker

@esbenboye Final Burn Alpha and MAME are not the same thing! FBA is an emulator and MAME is another. If you want to enter "service mode" in piFBA the press L+R+SELECT together according to the wiki :

https://github.com/RetroPie/pifba

caver01

@esbenboye I think this menu input is called UI TOGGLE, or at least I think that is what it is called in AdvanceMAME. The default key assigned is TAB. Most of us on the forums refer to this area as the MAME GUI menu. As @rbaker pointed out, you won't find any reference to that inside the FBA emulator config file, as this is a MAME screenshot you linked to, not a menu in the Final Burn Alpha emulator.

Cellar Dweller

I was actually going to post the same thing. I actually had this working at one point in mame4all using lr-mame whatever emulator selection and lr-fba-next.

I had my joysticks (xbox wireless 360) working with this until I had to reset everything. First you needed to use a keyboard and use the Tab key then within the menu I was able to set what opened the menu which was assigned to my joystick right trigger as example then I also set the "Reset" to my right bumper on joystick this then allowed me to enter the menu and to reset or do service mode for games like Defender.

Anyway here's what I'd like to see working or at least posted.

I posted out on the main General Discussion my working configs for the Xbox 360 controllers for mame4all and lr-fba-next.

That current set up allows me to play just about any game in both emulators using Select as coin input, Start to pick 1 player or Start and to use the Left joystick as my controller instead of D-PAD. Holding Select then hitting Start "Exits" the game and returns you back to Emulation Station, but now my keyboard "Tab" is not working to get into the menu to set up what I mentioned above. I've already deleted any default.cfg files and tried just about everything and can't figure out how to enter that menu again to finally get those 2 other items above working with Joystick only (MAME UI and RESET). Once this can be figured out my Xbox 360 Controller setups and configs for MAME would be complete and would help all those having similar issues.

esbenboye

@rbaker, @caver01 - thanks for clearing things out... I must have missed something in the video tutorial I found :)