Raspberry Pi Image for Pi2, Pi3 and Pi4 - with RetroPie

[omegaman]

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Any emulator that runs on emulationstation will work with AM. So, I'm not sure what you are talking about. The front-end just passes the cmd line arguments to the emulator. You can pretty much cut and paste the emulationstation emulator configs with a few modifications into attract emulator configs. It's not that complicated.   

As to mame 2010,  I can't speak for people on the retropie forums who claim to have input issues.  All that I know is when I configured it through emulationstation and then used the same emulator config in attract it works like a champ.

Now, I didn't test every single game because it emulates close to "8782" games but I did test all the classics like I did with 2003 and didn't experience any problems. All the emulators have their pros and cons, you just need to choose the one you feel comfortable with.

Now, for neogeo games I use the FBAnext libretrocore.   

[Finhead]

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Any emulator that runs on emulationstation will work with AM. So, I'm not sure what you are talking about. The front-end just passes the cmd line arguments to the emulator. You can pretty much cut and paste the emulationstation emulator configs with a few modifications into attract emulator configs. It's not that complicated.   

As to mame 2010,  I can't speak for people on the retropie forums who claim to have input issues.  All that I know is when I configured it through emulationstation and then used the same emulator config in attract it works like a champ.

Now, I didn't test every single game because it emulates close to "8782" games but I did test all the classics like I did with 2003 and didn't experience any problems. All the emulators have their pros and cons, you just need to choose the one you feel comfortable with.

Now, for neogeo games I use the FBAnext libretrocore.   

Alright would you be able to do me a solid and try Advmame on your setup?
I can dropbox a few good working ROMS if you don't have any handy just to see if it actually is working. I am at a lose to get it going so it would be a huge help if your able to.

[omegaman]

efraimsangil-

Even if you don't install the xbox 360 driver emulationstation will still detect it and install a generic xbox gamepad that you can find here /opt/retropie/configs/all/emulationstation/ in this es_temporaryinput.cfg file. There is another es_input file as well.

That said, if you installed the xbox 360 driver manually then your rc.local should look like this. If you not using wireless then change --wid to just --id.

xboxdrv --trigger-as-button --wid 0 --led 2 --deadzone 4000 --silent &
sleep 1
xboxdrv --trigger-as-button --wid 1 --led 3 --deadzone 4000 --silent &
sleep 1

[omegaman]

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Sure, I think I still have that rom set.

[nitrogen_widget]

I got it to work. Got the games to work the videos and wheel art just need some marquees.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=3TLsac_EfSQ

Anyone add the mame4all? If can provide link for executable of emulator would appreciate thanks

It's all I use since advmame 0.94 does not want to work in AM, works perfect in ES though.

executable           /opt/retropie/emulators/mame4all/mame
args                 [name]
rompath              /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/mame-mame4all/
romext               .zip;.7z;<DIR>
system               Arcade
info_source          listxml

advmame has SDL issues with hardware scaling on x-windows.
Mame .78 libretro runs awesome on the RPI2 & 3.

Ah so it's broken, good to know.
MAME .78 has about half the ROMS that I want to use as "known issues" and fail to start  or if they do start they don't respond correctly etc. And yes that is a rebuilt full set, does the exact same in Emulation Station. So I guess MAME4all if I want to use AM. 

advmame is not broken.
Just slow.

Which ROMS arn't working for you? i'd like to test them.

Also, Just an FYI, I built a romset using advmame roms and again using mame 172 roms and I found a ROM that didn't work.
Macros Plus for example was missing files in the archive both times.
This tells me the .DAT file is possibly wrong?
I copied the file over manually and it worked.

[Omamez]

I got it to work. Got the games to work the videos and wheel art just need some marquees.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=3TLsac_EfSQ

Anyone add the mame4all? If can provide link for executable of emulator would appreciate thanks

It's all I use since advmame 0.94 does not want to work in AM, works perfect in ES though.

executable           /opt/retropie/emulators/mame4all/mame
args                 [name]
rompath              /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/mame-mame4all/
romext               .zip;.7z;<DIR>
system               Arcade
info_source          listxml

advmame has SDL issues with hardware scaling on x-windows.
Mame .78 libretro runs awesome on the RPI2 & 3.

Ah so it's broken, good to know.
MAME .78 has about half the ROMS that I want to use as "known issues" and fail to start  or if they do start they don't respond correctly etc. And yes that is a rebuilt full set, does the exact same in Emulation Station. So I guess MAME4all if I want to use AM. 

advmame is not broken.
Just slow.

Which ROMS arn't working for you? i'd like to test them.

Also, Just an FYI, I built a romset using advmame roms and again using mame 172 roms and I found a ROM that didn't work.
Macros Plus for example was missing files in the archive both times.
This tells me the .DAT file is possibly wrong?
I copied the file over manually and it worked.

how big was your set after rebuilding and is it merged or split?

[Finhead]

advmame is not broken.
Just slow.

Which ROMS arn't working for you? i'd like to test them.

Also, Just an FYI, I built a romset using advmame roms and again using mame 172 roms and I found a ROM that didn't work.
Macros Plus for example was missing files in the archive both times.
This tells me the .DAT file is possibly wrong?
I copied the file over manually and it worked.

Sorry my last message didn't post correctly.

None are working in Attract Mode at all, wont even try and open them. In ES I have every one I want on my list working fine, it's not the roms that wont work.
I can't get AM to open them, obviously the wrong Executable and Arg. I can't figure out the proper path to either.
Can you post your working paths?
It's all I use since advmame 0.94 does not want to work in AM, works perfect in ES though.

[Omamez]

@finhead - which roms you wanted testing I have the whole set give me few titles and I will load them no need to upload them since I have full set

I know it sounds silly but have you tried to reinstall advancemame emulator via emulationstation binary and you have the neogeo.zip bios?

/opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch/bin/retroarch
-L /opt/retropie/libretrocores/AvanceMAME.94/AdvanceMAME.94_libretro.so --config /opt/retropie/configs/atari2600/retroarch.cfg "[romfilename]"
/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/mame-advmame

[Finhead]

@finhead - which roms you wanted testing I have the whole set give me few titles and I will load them no need to upload them since I have full set

I know it sounds silly but have you tried to reinstall advancemame emulator via emulationstation binary?

It's NOT the ROMS, I have them fully working prefectly in Emulation Station. I don't need ROMS tested I was offering to load them IF Omega didn't happen to have them on hand.

What I am looking for is the paths entered in Attract Mode to run the AdvMAME emulator.

I have tried quit a few combonations but these are the 2 I tried that I thought might work but didn't.

executable           /opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch/bin/retroarch
args                 -L /opt/retropie/emulators/advmame/0.94.0/bin/advmame --config /opt/retropie/configs/mame-advmame/advmame-0.94.0.rc "[romfilename]"


That one didn't work as Omega pointed out Advmame is a stand alone install not a libretrocore. So I tried his suggestion which also did not work.


executable          /opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch/bin/./retroarch
arg                      /opt/retropie/emulators/advmame/0.94.0/bin/advmame "[romfilename]"

[Omamez]

AdvanceMAME 0.94.0
URL: http://sourceforge.net/projects/advance ... me/0.94.0/
Roms Dir: /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/mame-advmame
Binary Dir: /opt/retropie/emulators/advmame/bin
Config Dir: /home/pi/.advance
MAME Version: Based on MAME 0.94 (March 2005)
Size: 11.6GB
Romsets Emulated: 5563 (includes clones etc..)

Active Sets 5563/5563
·Parents 1236/1236
·Clones 2473/2473
·Others 1829/1829
·BIOS 25/25

[Finhead]

AdvanceMAME 0.94.0
URL: http://sourceforge.net/projects/advance ... me/0.94.0/
Roms Dir: /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/mame-advmame
Binary Dir: /opt/retropie/emulators/advmame/bin
Config Dir: /home/pi/.advance
MAME Version: Based on MAME 0.94 (March 2005)
Size: 11.6GB
Romsets Emulated: 5563 (includes clones etc..)

Active Sets 5563/5563
·Parents 1236/1236
·Clones 2473/2473
·Others 1829/1829
·BIOS 25/25

Thanks for the reply but that is not the information I'm looking for, trying to set this up in Attact Mode not RetroPie or EmulationStation.

Looking for these 2 lines that are underlined in red.

[nitrogen_widget]

I got it to work. Got the games to work the videos and wheel art just need some marquees.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=3TLsac_EfSQ

Anyone add the mame4all? If can provide link for executable of emulator would appreciate thanks

It's all I use since advmame 0.94 does not want to work in AM, works perfect in ES though.

executable           /opt/retropie/emulators/mame4all/mame
args                 [name]
rompath              /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/mame-mame4all/
romext               .zip;.7z;<DIR>
system               Arcade
info_source          listxml

advmame has SDL issues with hardware scaling on x-windows.
Mame .78 libretro runs awesome on the RPI2 & 3.

Ah so it's broken, good to know.
MAME .78 has about half the ROMS that I want to use as "known issues" and fail to start  or if they do start they don't respond correctly etc. And yes that is a rebuilt full set, does the exact same in Emulation Station. So I guess MAME4all if I want to use AM. 

advmame is not broken.
Just slow.

Which ROMS arn't working for you? i'd like to test them.

Also, Just an FYI, I built a romset using advmame roms and again using mame 172 roms and I found a ROM that didn't work.
Macros Plus for example was missing files in the archive both times.
This tells me the .DAT file is possibly wrong?
I copied the file over manually and it worked.

how big was your set after rebuilding and is it merged or split?

I think merged.
4,710 roms

[Finhead]

Nitrogen, any chance you would share your paths to the Advmame exe and arg? Thought this would be easy info to share. lol

[efraimsangil]

efraimsangil-

Even if you don't install the xbox 360 driver emulationstation will still detect it and install a generic xbox gamepad that you can find here /opt/retropie/configs/all/emulationstation/ in this es_temporaryinput.cfg file. There is another es_input file as well.

That said, if you installed the xbox 360 driver manually then your rc.local should look like this. If you not using wireless then change --wid to just --id.

xboxdrv --trigger-as-button --wid 0 --led 2 --deadzone 4000 --silent &
sleep 1
xboxdrv --trigger-as-button --wid 1 --led 3 --deadzone 4000 --silent &
sleep 1

Thanks... I have Xbox 360 wireless receiver too. And with Retropie distribution (Retroarch 1.3.0), works perfectly without touch any configuration in rc.local.

I have the same problem like you. In rgui it's impossible move the cursor and keyboard it's locked. If unplug xbox receiver, my keyboard still alive

I try with your xboxdrv configuration but also fails.

This version of Retroarch is 1.3.2 and I upgraded to 1.3.3 with same result.

Any suggestion?

Thanks

[Omamez]

my mouse and keyboard and wireless xbox360 work great without the install of xboxdrv retroarch 1.3.2 I think it is