Neogeo

guythp

@Darksavior Thanks for the quick reply - I have realised that the correct romset and neoeo bios need to match. The fba roms (including neogeo games) were, as far as I know, from the same romset. As the neogeo games didn't work I thought it may be an issue with the bios so I got a neogeo romset with its own bios and tried that but they also didn't work so before I tried it, I thought I'd ask if going via a mame .78 route would be worth trying.
I had read the thread (albeit skimmed through) so apologies if I missed something.. I'll have a tinker with things in the morning to see if I can workout what's wrong. Thanks again for responding.

dankcushions

@guythp said in Neogeo:

@Darksavior Thanks for the quick reply - I have realised that the correct romset and neoeo bios need to match. The fba roms (including neogeo games) were, as far as I know, from the same romset.

it's not so much that they need to be from the same romset, but the right romset. lr-fbalpha was updated recently (and again a couple of days ago, but you probably have the previous version) and i believe the neogeo.zip is one of the files that is different now. so to use lr-fbalpha you need the neogeo bios and games from the 0.2.97.39 FBA romset or you will not get it to work. some other arcade games may work if their dumps happen to be unchanged since whatever romset you have, but it's random. if you have the right romset, nothing is left to chance :)

As the neogeo games didn't work I thought it may be an issue with the bios so I got a neogeo romset with its own bios and tried that but they also didn't work so before I tried it, I thought I'd ask if going via a mame .78 route would be worth trying.

if you have a valid 0.78 romset you could do that, but it's likely a worse emulator than lr-fbalpha for neogeo. to do it: place both games and neogeo.zip from that .78 set in /roms/neogeo/ and also you'd have to change the neogeo default emulator to lr-mame2003 via the runcommand menu: https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/Runcommand

herb_fargus

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guythp

@herb_fargus Apologies - I realised after I'd posted what I'd done. It won't happen again.
I've sorted it in the end; it seems the bios with fba works with the seperate neogeo roms I acquired elsewhere.

Sometimes even not knowing what you're doing can work :)

Daveb3650

@starcade2084 I seem to have the same problem....I'm new to the Pie.......I got the SD card installed fine, I copied a single Rom to test it......when I launch the Emustation it shows a single NEOGEO file....when I click it does nothing.......I wasn't aware that I needed to do anything BIOS wise....although I did see the folder for BIOS and was curious.......is this the same for all machines being emulated....Amiga....C64 etc etc.......so do I track the BIOS files down and stick them into the BIOS folder on the USB drive, I assume they will be copied across......

BuZz

@daveb3650 Please do not post a support request without first reading and following the advice in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

Daveb3650

@buzz Apologies Buzz,,,, i'm sort of swamped with tons of info, I was just looking for a quick solution from someone who had had a similar problem. Your comments are noted...Thanks

Darksavior

@daveb3650 https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/FinalBurn-Alpha

There's your quick answer without knowing what emulator you're using. I'll repeat the answer again.. get the right romset for the version of fba you want to use.

Daveb3650

@darksavior Will do..........I foolishly thought that once I had an emulator installed it would just.....er......emulate........but i'm learning fast that's its not going to happen "straight out of the box"............

Daveb3650

@darksavior Thats looks great.......i'm going to hopefully get it sorted once i'm home....Cheers again...