moving mame back to lr-mame

dcaputi

My Pi5 standalone mame arcade setup has an analog ultrastick and 2 thuderstick spinners (mouse X and Y) with 2 buttons each (left/right mouse clicks)

I'm now back on RetroPie because I can't get a basic CRT shader to work without killing performance. The crt-pi shader works great. (BTW, theoretically, should that work in standalone mame with GLSL?)

Is there any way to map mouse clicks into the lr-mame core? I was able to map mouse X/Y to analog (a while ago with a Pi3 setup - not sure if I'll be able to do that again but regardless...) but now I'm having trouble with the buttons (left/right mouse clicks need to be mapped to a player button).

Sorry my explanation is confusing. I would have posted this on Reddit but haven't had much luck there lately. Hoping to find some help here!

barbudreadmon

@dcaputi Are you maybe trying to remap using RetroArch's Quick menu > Controls ? Afaik, only FBNeo is really designed to fully work with that menu.

For MAME cores, use MAME's OSD, which should be able to map anything to anything.

dcaputi

@barbudreadmon, thanks for the reply, sorry I only got back here now (I assumed the system would notify me if someone responded - oh well)

I opened the lr-mame OSD with the tab key and that went nowhere:

the menu looked broken - very blurry, ugly, and scaled too large.
select "Input Controls" and hit ENTER does nothing, dismisses the OSD
select any menu item and hit ENTER does nothing (same as #2)
tried the player 1,2,3 and 4 button A,B,X,Y,... same as #2

Any clue? Shouldn't this work? ... Pretty sure lr-mame2003 works. But this is a Pi5 and I want the latest MAME core. Maybe I should try FBNeo. Could I point it to the arcade folder? (where I have all my roms for lr-mame)

Thanks again for the help!

dcaputi

@barbudreadmon, I went back and double checked the OSD problem. Good news is I found the magic button that opens the Input Config sub-menu. Bad news is my joystick doesn't register when I attempt to remap player 1 up/down/left/right. I have a reddit post that's not quite dead yet on that issue.

So ignore all that and just tell me, should I give FBNeo a try? My concern is I'm going to run into a favorite that won't be compatible.

barbudreadmon

@dcaputi said in moving mame back to lr-mame:

So ignore all that and just tell me, should I give FBNeo a try?

Unlike MAME's OSD, RetroArch's Quick menu > Controls isn't good at remapping anything to anything. I have a feeling this might be a problem with your setup. Make sure you read this if you want to try anyway.

And yeah, a lot of games supported by MAME 0.274 aren't gonna be supported by FBNeo, especially 3D games. As for the differences between both emulators, they are explained here and there.