[ogandou]

OK, that one I got working (found a different one). But I don’t have the 0.37b5 romset, no. Need to look for it. :-(

[ogandou]

Yup, the 1941 and 1943 (Battle of Midway) games for example don’t work… I got an error message with big letters saying the 1943.01, 1943.02, 1943.03 files are missing…

[ogandou]

OK, thanks. Can you mix romsets? For example some of my games require the naomi romset, others the neogeo romset, another the 0.133 BIOS pack. Can you just drop them all in the same folder?

Not all the games that need the 0.133 BIOS pack seem to work for me. Ghosts and goblins do but not the 1941 series. None of the games that require the naomi or neogeo romsets seem to work though, I’m not sure why but I’d like to fix it…

[ogandou]

[quote=85329]
Its a collection of games for a version or program. mame4all-pi uses the 0.37b5 mame roms set which was used by an old version of mame. between roms sets the names of zip files can change, the files within them can be removed/add/renamed; games get added and removed etc

From my understanding adv mame isnt even playable…. there should be away to add games and or features form newer code… like support for -listxml
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So when you say “mame4all-pi uses the 0.375b mme roms sets”, that doesn’t mean that mame4all comes with these roms, right? It’s just that the version used in mame4all is the 0.375b version?

So why is advanced mame even there by default instead of mame4all?

[ogandou]

OK, this is what it has in the MAME section, so I’m good, right? It’s using mame4all?

    <system>
        <fullname>MAME</fullname>
        <name>mame</name>
        <path>~/RetroPie/roms/mame</path>
        <extension>.zip .ZIP</extension>
        <command>/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh 4 "/opt/retropie/emulators/mame4all-pi/mame %BASENAME%"</command>
        <!-- alternatively: <command>/opt/retropie/emulators/RetroArch/installdir/bin/retroarch -L /opt/retropie/emulatorcores/imame4all-libretro/libretro.so --config /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg --appendconfig /opt/retropie/configs/mame/retroarch.cfg %ROM% </command> -->
        <platform>arcade</platform>
        <theme>mame</theme>
    </system>

[ogandou]

Ah, cool, that’d help, thanks! It’d make it easier to configure another joystick. But let’s say for example I went through the “register retroarch controller” again with the same controllers I have already configured, it would write over the 2Axes11KeysGamePad.cfg file, right? But it would not change the contents of the RetroArch.cfg file which I have edited, right? So at this point how would retropie know which one to use?

[ogandou]

[quote=85332]To get a benchmark can you try the same Pi on another TV?[/quote]

Sure, I’ll try it on my PC monitor and report back, it has an HDMI input.

[ogandou]

[quote=85311]That sounds about right! Unless you want to use Adv mame which is doubt since mame4all is significantly better.[/quote]

So how can I tell what I’m using? I installed mame4all yesterday (which took forever it seemed :-D) but I’m still saving my roms in the ‘mame’ folder, I don’t seem to have a ‘mame4all’ rom folder…

Sorry I’m such a noob. :-( That stuff ain’t easy!

[ogandou]

[quote=84915]

<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>chito wrote:</div>
Mame4all is missing so many games. I know that its meant to be better performance by not emulating newer games but there are plenty of older games that are missing. Is there a better alternative? Or is there a way to add games to a custom compilation?

There are over 2,000 roms in the 0.37b5 romset, which isnt bad.
If you want games that are outside of that, you can convert them

See the “SUPPORTED GAMES” section here:

https://code.google.com/p/mame4all-pi/

Or you could use fba to run arcade games:

https://code.google.com/p/pifba/

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Could you explain what is a romset? I have to say that I am confused. Is it a collection of games? I thought it was some sort of collection of BIOS files necessary for the emulated games to run. But then why would they be saved in the roms folder? I’m very confused… :-|

[ogandou]

[quote=84831]http://goo.gl/goLHF4[/quote]

So basically we can keep all the MAME roms in the ‘mame’ folder and forget about the ‘mame4all-pi’ folder?

[ogandou]

First off I apologize for not answering sooner. Just move into a new house so things are pretty busy. :-)

Second, thanks for answering my question. :-) :-) You’ve posted a TON of very useful stuff, thank you!

So I did go through your video. I have tried to add the “overscan_scale=1” line to the config.txt file and did not notice any difference: the emulation station screen still seems too large for the TV screen and it’s cut off in all 4 directions (that is the original problem I’m trying to solve).

I’ve tried to uncomment the overscan_left/right/top/bottom values and set them to 30 but again for the emulation station menu it makes no difference. It does add a margin when I go into the terminal by hitting F4 though…

I also tried changing the mode to 4 in the fba emulator in es_systems.cfg, it also made no difference.

I figured I should match the hdmi_mode in config.txt to what is in es_systems.cfg so I uncommented the hdmi_mode line and assigned it a 4 value (so hdmi_group=1 and hdmi_mode=4). Did not solve the issue in emulation station, but now the terminal is easier to read! :-D

So I’ve tried all of that and I still have the exact same issue (in fact it seems like none of the above changed a single thing about it): when I am in Emulation Station, the menu seems too big for my screen. For example, on the bottom left corner, the bottom of the “MENU” letters are cut off and what is on the left of “MENU” is off my screen. I wish I could fix that, I’m not sure what it is. I don’t think it’s my TV, I’ve tried all of the display format and none of it fixes the problem… I’m using the HDMI input and it’s a 1080p display… Thanks.

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