[falsemaria]

OK, that makes sense. Perfect. Thanks for your help.

[falsemaria]

Parent roms. Wow, a lot of memories flooding back now about MAME. Completely forgot about those.

Alright, so likely a lot of these roms are missing parents or something like that. I’ll have to mess around this weekend once I’ve got some time to spare. I think I’ll take 20 popular games I want to play that don’t currently work, and I’ll focus on fixing those. Once I found a way, I’ll do the whole romset.

If I clrmamepro for mame4all and then fba, and copy each romset to each folder, how does emulationstation decide which to rom to play when I choose a game? Do multiple ‘MAME’ icons appear?

Sorry for the barrage of questions. I’ve almost got the whole picture now ;)

[falsemaria]

OK,

I just went through the clrmamepro process. I get a small number of games that work, but 7/10 I still get file not found. /roms/mame and clrmamepro’d rebuilt my roms using mame4all DAT.

Since I don’t know the romset of my last DL, I am grabbing another which I know the version of, and is close to 0.154 which is the romset on RetroPie.

If I do the clrmamepro steps correctly, what is the success rate of a game loading? I’ve gone through about 20 classics, and I get maybe 3 out of those that work now.

Also, is it OK to SSH into the Pi with WinSCP and copy the roms to the folders that way, or is there something special that happens when you plug a USB stick into RetroPie and it copies over?

[falsemaria]

Got it, thanks. I’d read that page before, but it’s not very explicit that it fixes your roms to work with the emulator DAT file provided.

Is there a reason why you decided to rebuild them to work with mame4all as opposed to another MAME emu? It supports a lot less roms that FBA-Libretro.

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