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General / Re: RetroPie Build - What games do you use alternate emulators?

« on: July 21, 2017, 03:25:43 PM »

I'm also running this on a PI3, as you mentioned if I was on a PC I would be using Hyperspin and the latest version of MAME

your right to each their own.
 I spent allot of time removing duplicate games and trying to fix broken games
you asked what emulators people where using to make everything more playable. I gave you my solution


the only major problem with MAME2010 is that it only supports 2 joysticks.  not a major problem since most people only have 2 joysticks connected to their system.
( I removed all the 4 player games from my list and  added the 2 player clones)
I don't know about the High score support,  but I know their is no  Nag screen for MAME2010.

if its broken I'm sure I can go into the Retroarch config menu and fix it along with the Williams problem.
I only need to update the folder paths to match the ones for MAME2003

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General / Re: RetroPie Build - What games do you use alternate emulators?

« on: July 21, 2017, 01:32:03 PM »

mame2003 is a complete joke,  I started to filter my game list and noticed that over 100 broken games,  but those same games do work on mame2010

Michael Jackson moon Walker  --> parent does not work,  but the clone game works??
the majority of Capcom games don't work,

I set mame2010 as my default emulator  *you will need to rebuild your roms to MAME 0.139
games that don't work on MAME are run on the Lr-Fbalpha core
NegoGeo MVS runs on FBA
Most of the Capcom games --> FBA
Cave  --> FBA
Poly Master Games --> FBA

I only have the Williams games running on MAME2003,  as you know Williams game need to generate a cfg file (when you first load a game).
they don't do that when you run them on MAME2010

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Themes / Re: Hyperspin themes

« on: March 30, 2017, 05:30:33 PM »

I'm coming to the conclusion that either
- the PI is not good enough to run the Hyperspin themes
or
- the Hyperspin plug in for Attract Mode still needs allot of work.


I  have done the following:
- scaled my videos to 320-240
- reduced the Frame Rate from 60 to 30

and still had slow down problems.

the only way I can get decent performance is when;  I REMOVED!!!! (rebuilt)  all my Main Menu Themes so they don't have any Flash animations.

I only rebuilt my main menu themes, as this is not a viable option for the game specific themes.  I'm not about to rebuild 1K+  MAME themes.

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Themes / Hyperspin Themes Crash Attract Mode

« on: March 25, 2017, 04:56:14 PM »

I been adding Hyperspin themes to my Pi running Attract Mode,  but some themes that contain SWF files seem to crash Attract Mode.

I exported all the SWF files from my Main Menu themes and converted them to PNG,  but I can't do this for all 1000 plus MAME game themes.

this themes in particular
http://www.hyperspin-fe.com/files/file/11317-mame-arcade-classics-169-main-menu-themes/

seem to crash Attract MODE (White screen) once this happens no game can load and I have to re-boot the PI

anyone seen this before or know how to fix it.

scroll to Minute 3 of the video
https://youtu.be/Za3xJzEddqE