Neo Geo CD and booting up "properly".

[SkyHighGam3r]

2 hours ago, ci2own said:

Just curious, what is that glorious boot screen?

It has a spinning CD on a moving stars background with the words "Neo Geo CD" flying around and then the words settle under the CD and the CD changes to the Neo Geo CD logo.

2 hours ago, badboo said:

The same for me, when you press F1 to go to the Retroarch setting, you go instead to the original MAME setup. I haven't changed the controll's buttons because I am using an arcade stick and it is ok the way it is.

I think this is because of the way this core was programmed. 

Well, I can still pull up the RA menu with F1... and all that is set fine.
Pushing TAB though I pull up the MAME config menu.

The problem is I map everything to the keyboard, and then to xpadder.

I can't play at all without changing the controls because there are so many conflicts.
For instance: TAB on MAME is "Configuration Menu" but in my RetroArch TAB = Reset.

So I just need to figure out how to make it save the changes I make to the MAME configuration and I will be golden. Hell I think it will wipe out like 5 or 6 systems I have queued up in my to-do list actually.

[ci2own]

Well, I can still pull up the RA menu with F1... and all that is set fine.
Pushing TAB though I pull up the MAME config menu.

The problem is I map everything to the keyboard, and then to xpadder.

I can't play at all without changing the controls because there are so many conflicts.
For instance: TAB on MAME is "Configuration Menu" but in my RetroArch TAB = Reset.

So I just need to figure out how to make it save the changes I make to the MAME configuration and I will be golden. Hell I think it will wipe out like 5 or 6 systems I have queued up in my to-do list actually.

Ah! I can see it when launch a game


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[SkyHighGam3r]

2 minutes ago, ci2own said:

Ah! I can see it when launch a game

Yeah, now that I switched to the MAME core in RetroArch I'm pulling it up just fine.

I just need some help saving the changes I make to the MAME configuration so I can actually play the games.

[thatman84]

Retroarch outputs controller cfg files to the saves/MAME directory by default I learnt recently.

the default.cfg is the base settings and ui.cfg also

check for the files in the above place and if your not seeing anything maybe check you have all the folders needed for MAME in the system/MAME folder. It should match the normal MAME setup. Turn on "read & write" configurations in core options for this stuff to take affect

then there are the machine/game specific ones I believe. I'm not great at that stuff I'm spending most of my time working/sleeping or messing with border overlays and rom hunting.

[SkyHighGam3r]

40 minutes ago, thatman84 said:

Retroarch outputs controller cfg files to the saves/MAME directory by default I learnt recently.

the default.cfg is the base settings and ui.cfg also

check for the files in the above place and if your not seeing anything maybe check you have all the folders needed for MAME in the system/MAME folder. It should match the normal MAME setup. Turn on "read & write" configurations in core options for this stuff to take affect

then there are the machine/game specific ones I believe. I'm not great at that stuff I'm spending most of my time working/sleeping or messing with border overlays and rom hunting.

So should I just install the newest version of mame in Retroarch\system\MAME ??

[thatman84]

Nope. Copy the folders from a standard mame install into you r RA system/mame folder. Matching the mame creation to the RA core version. Thinks it's .183

turn read write on in core options.

 

boot a game up, maybe change one "input this machine" option and exit. Have a look for the files in saves/mame directory 

[Guest]

Still amazes me why people fight with MAME core in RA - when the experience is so, so much better with MAME directly.


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[thatman84]

37 minutes ago, tonesmalone said:

Still amazes me why people fight with MAME core in RA - when the experience is so, so much better with MAME directly.


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I would use MAME or a version of over RA if I had a pc setup

[SkyHighGam3r]

27 minutes ago, tonesmalone said:

Still amazes me why people fight with MAME core in RA - when the experience is so, so much better with MAME directly.
 

Nothing is better than RetroArch's experience (IMO)
Everything is setup with the same controls, same hotkeys, same shaders, sound options, video options, etc etc.

Honestly it wouldn't be much of a fight if these little steps were documented like... anywhere, on the libretro site...

Meanwhile MAME stand-alone won't work with Xpadder without re-compiling the stupid thing and that's no easy task (I don't care who says differently) and the whole UI is reminiscent of DOS, and is incredibly confusing. Plus you have that stupid nag-screen that you have to get a special version, or again, recompile to get rid of.

Again, that's just my opinion... after trying to setup MAME several times on my setup. I'm sure it's different if I was using an arcade cabinet or something, but with the console I'm building it's just a total disaster. Comped to RetroArch which is running 50+ systems with universal settings and plays wonderfully with Xpadder.

 

45 minutes ago, thatman84 said:

Nope. Copy the folders from a standard mame install into you r RA system/mame folder. Matching the mame creation to the RA core version. Thinks it's .183

turn read write on in core options.

 

boot a game up, maybe change one "input this machine" option and exit. Have a look for the files in saves/mame directory 

"Copy the folders"
So none of the actual files on the root MAME 0.183 install, just the folders, right?

[thatman84]

Put it all in there to start and delete as needed  it won't make much difference. A MAME.ini is unconfirmed needed! Your right about the documentation.

have look at my Atari 5200 guide in android section. It covers some of these steps.

[badboo]

4 hours ago, SkyHighGam3r said:

It has a spinning CD on a moving stars background with the words "Neo Geo CD" flying around and then the words settle under the CD and the CD changes to the Neo Geo CD logo.

Well, I can still pull up the RA menu with F1... and all that is set fine.
Pushing TAB though I pull up the MAME config menu.

The problem is I map everything to the keyboard, and then to xpadder.

I can't play at all without changing the controls because there are so many conflicts.
For instance: TAB on MAME is "Configuration Menu" but in my RetroArch TAB = Reset.

So I just need to figure out how to make it save the changes I make to the MAME configuration and I will be golden. Hell I think it will wipe out like 5 or 6 systems I have queued up in my to-do list actually.

You are right on that, I remember now trying to change the buttons for that and I couldn't. 

And I am using an Xbox 360 arcade stick, so I don't use xpadder for MAME or Retroarch. Still, I need to explore a bit more of the MAME Core because I still prefer to use Retroarch. I don't care what tonesmalone says lol

[Aorin]

57 minutes ago, badboo said:

You are right on that, I remember now trying to change the buttons for that and I couldn't. 

And I am using an Xbox 360 arcade stick, so I don't use xpadder for MAME or Retroarch. Still, I need to explore a bit more of the MAME Core because I still prefer to use Retroarch. I don't care what tonesmalone says lol

By default, to bring MAME tab menu in Retroarch, the key is "/", there you can map even save/load states, fast forward, etc., and unbind soft reset and dip switch from L3 and R3. All changes are saved under system/mame folder.

[badboo]

By default, to bring MAME tab menu in Retroarch, the key is "/", there you can map even save/load states, fast forward, etc., and unbind soft reset and dip switch from L3 and R3. All changes are saved under system/mame folder.

Thank you, I didn't know any of that hehe. I will try them

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