Arcade Punks Mame Rom Sets

[Asdrubal Dagreat]

Ican build a playlist on my PC and it does recognize these as MAME, and it makes a list with all of these weird machine titles (with no thumbnails recognized). I am in the process now of transferring the actual roms over

I have maintained a couple of DATs for personal use (with a few additions) in sync with the latest MAME and the upcoming FBA 0.2.97.44 (WIP). The MAME set has 700 games and the FBA one 540. I can share the DATs here if there is any interest.

The MAME set sits at 4.87Gb - 663 games. I would advise against using this set with RetroArch since the current MAME core is behind upstream so the rom set is probably not 100% in sync. The FBA sets sits at 3.18Gb - 537 games. You need the latest core from the Online Updater.

the most important thing for me is to link thumbnail images in Retroarch with the arcade games. this is my ultimate goal. I have figured this out with home console roms but it seems there are some gaps in my own knowledge missing to get mame roms functioning with thumbnails.

DATs describe the ROM contents including filenames, file sizes, and checksums to verify contents are not incorrect or corrupt. DATs are usually maintained either by emulator developers (such as with MAME or Final Burn Alpha) or digital preservation organizations like TOSEC and No-Intro.

I downloaded the no filler rom pack from arcade punks and found the roms and they are 3.4GB !!! this is exactly what I am looking for, they even came bundled with a bunch of different thumbnails. I have managed to figure out how to make playlists with playlist buddy but so far I have not figured out how to attach thumbnails within playlist buddy. this no filler pack came with a single file with a .xml extension. I am guessing this is my magic key.

I feel like I am getting close but I still cannot attach thumbnails to these games. I even have a multitude of different .png games including screen shots, marquees, box art etc. along with the libretro library of covers. I cant them to link to the ROM

A community-driven list of which emulator should be used with which game can be found at nonMAME (its name to symbolize which games are non-MAME compatible, and the best alternative to use as a backup). A list of arcade games tested on an RPi 3 can be found on the BestArcade list.

Certain arcade boards are conversions of home consoles. These can be found on System16's base hardware list. Typically, these work best with the standalone emulator for that console, but more often than not the arcade games are in an unworking state (and some emulators do not extend their compatibility to their arcade spinoffs anyway).

As a friendly reminder, Batocera does not provide copyrighted content. Questions asking where to download such ROMsets will be ignored. Once you have the ROMset you prefer, head over to the copying over the ROMset section.

Information on how to clean the ROMset to shorten it can be found on the advanced arcade emulation page. Cleaning is not required in order to use a ROMset, but can be very preferable to copying over the entire set (they can get in excess of terrabytes if you include everything).

If you simply want the easiest thing to do, use a full non-merged version of one of the ROMsets and simply pick and choose which ZIPs to transfer over. A full non-merged set should contain everything needed to run the ROM in that single ZIP.

Most arcade ROMsets will deliver their ROMs in ZIP files. Do not uncompress the individual ROM files. They are designed to be read directly from the ZIP files, and rely on the naming structure of the ZIP files in order to function. Batocera will display the name of the game once the ROM has been scraped.

The exact folder the ROMset should be copied to depends on which emulator is being used. Check the Arcade section on the systems page for the specific folder depending on which system is being used. If you simply don't care, put them into the roms/mame folder as that has the most emulators.

That's it. You may copy over the ROMs as you wish. All files necessary for each title are included in the ZIP with the title's short name, you can even pick and choose which ROMs you'd like to keep. Do not rename the ZIP files, otherwise the games will not work.

ROMs will usually have a few variations, such as region (American release, Japanese release, etc.), revision or hack. These will usually be indicated with an additional character on the end of the short name, refer to the DAT file for the specific version.

It is still somewhat possible to pick and choose which ROMs to copy over, however if the ROM is dependent on a BIOS file that needs to be copied over too. Check the error logs if something fails to launch, and it will usually tell you the exact file needed.

You could try copying over the entire set, however you'll find many undesirable ROMs being included such as testing utilities (for the arcade boards, not your Batocera), prototypes, bootlegs, not to mention all the duplicated clones. If you want to avoid these, it is a requirement to clean the ROMset first before copying over.

After cleaning the ROMset, copy over the ROMset to the folder. By default, Batocera will only be capable of launching the parent ROM of each ZIP, so ensure it's that version which you want to play. This will be up to your ROM cleaner to decide, if it even has such functionality.

Some more recent arcade games can use extra files (typically that were physically stored on a disc) called CHD (compressed hunks of data). To use CHD for a game, the CHD must be placed in a folder with the same name as the game's ZIP. For example, carnevil.zip the game will be looking for carnevil/carnevil.chd when it launches.

Once copied over, if refresh your gamelist and go to the newly added arcade/MAME/FBNeo/etc. system you'll see a much of meaningless names for all the games. Unlike home console ROMs that are typically named after the title of the game they are for, arcade ROMs require a specific naming scheme in order to keep track of which is which. These should not be altered under any circumstances.

Long answer: Arcade ROMsets typically require each game to have a unique name, and a short one at that to allow for differentiation of every clone/bootleg/regional variation/etc. They are usually abbreviated to allow for the most flexibility. You may be tempted to rename these files yourself, however doing so will render the game unplayable as the emulator will no longer recognize which game it is.

Check system/logs/es_launch_stderr.log and system/logs/es_launch_stdout.log. They'll usually tell you directly what has gone wrong, or if any alternative ROMs that are in a working state are available.

Only a full non-merged set will provide all the files required in one ZIP file. You most likely have a regular non-merged set, which requires certain shared BIOS files to be present in the same folder as the ZIP itself. You can check the error logs to see which file it is requesting.

Arcades traditionally had control panels tailored specifically to them. It would be an impossible task to try and assign them logically onto a Batocera Retropad by default, so they just use whatever the emulator itself sets up. Controls can be remapped per game.

This is a guide on how to configure any of the arcadepunks.com images (specifically HyperPie) with our GameRoomSolutions.com cabinets or control sets. With purchase of any of our cabinets or control sets we provide you with the configurations files so everything just works with this setup.

Check out our Arcade cabinets or control panels here as they are the best and most complete on the web! Go together quick like Ikea with provided cam locks and we offer full graphics package and controls kits.

First thing first. Download megadownloader as it will make life easy. Megadownloader will allow you to simply past in a link of the download you want and it will pull all the files down for you in one fail swoop.

Once you open it, get a link to download utilizing it. We will start with hyperpie (you can do any image from their page you want to try) which is the image file we will flash on our Raspberry Pi that will give us all the frontend interface for systems, game preview videos, etc.

Go into the retropie settings to do this, use a keyboard to put in your wifi password or just connect to your router with a network cable if possible just to copy and configure everything (wired will be faster and you can use wifi or no internet after it is configured up).

With purchase of any of our kits you get our configuration files at no charge. Simply navigate to \\retropie and you will see the configs folder (just like how we did the roms). Copy our supplied config folder over to the \\retropie configs and allow it to overwrite.

MAME will be configured with our config files (this should not be necessary), but if you are not familiar I will show you here how to change controls in case you want to for a specific game or all games. Boot into a game. We will do Street Fighter 2. Plug in a keyboard. When the game is running, press tab on your keyboard and bring up the menu.

I just finished my build of your Deluxe Kit this past weekend and love it. The image you provide is great, but I wanted to have a more flashy front end like HyperPie. So I do own the Xin Mo controller and your kit. If you could post this HyperPie image with the other two you provide that would be unbelievable!!!! I have tried a few times to get certain images posted on arcade punks to work (including these instructions) with your kit but always run into issues. Thanks

Incorrect. The image will work for anyone. If you purchase a cabinet or control kit from us we provide config files so it works with our system out of the box. Otherwise you will have to manually configure the controls to whatever encoder you choose to use. There are tons of guides out there to configure controls. It can be time consuming.

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