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I am running ArPicade 3.9 in a vertical cabinet. everything seems to be working with MAME 203 with no issues, except for Donkey Kong 3. So I tried using FBA and the game runs great! however, its not recognizing my controls other than the joystick, so i want to remap them. When I press F1 i get the retroarch menu, and but then nothing moves. I have to end up hitting CRTL+C to kill it, which takes me back to attractmode.

Any ideas how I can remap the controls in FBA?

Also, i tried MAME-172 and the sound is funky, also, when using MAME-172, there is no text in my TAB menu. The blue box comes up but its empty. This is a brand new image i just made.

and MAME 078 seems to have the same issue as FBA, only the joystick functions, no other buttons, and i cant select anything in the Mame config menu.

Looks like i figured it out. I was editing the wrong .cfg file. i enabled udev and now i can use the keyboard in the Quick Menu.

Joystick should have worked in Retroarch menus, I wonder why it wasn't.

With the input driver set to UDEV in retroarch you won't be able to use the joystick hotkeys to exit/pause/ etc. But, if your setup is working for you don't let me stop you...

EDIT:
for MAME 078 change the inputs using MAME s menus, not the Retroarch ones. For FBA you can only use the Retroarch menus as it doesn't have its own.

dee2eR wrote: ↑

Thu Apr 30, 2020 1:11 am

Joystick should have worked in Retroarch menus, I wonder why it wasn't.

With the input driver set to UDEV in retroarch you won't be able to use the joystick hotkeys to exit/pause/ etc. But, if your setup is working for you don't let me stop you...

EDIT:
for MAME 078 change the inputs using MAME s menus, not the Retroarch ones. For FBA you can only use the Retroarch menus as it doesn't have its own.

This was just my stupidity on using FBA.

However, do you know why MAME-172 has a blank menu on the in-game in MAME (tab) menu? That seems to be the biggest issue Im having still, and horrible lag when the menu comes up.

Thanks for replying! This is by far the best Arcade image i have used, and with the ArcadeSD theme, its almost perfect

The menu rendering bug in 172 is something to do with the UI font size and the original games resolution and maybe the Pi output res... it's not consistent across everything so I'm not entirely sure what the problem is.

The smaller font fix that is implemented works for some games but not everything... also I am pretty sure I've experienced inconsistent behavior of the menu rendering in some games...

The lag with the menu up I don't have any fix for. Thankfully, the menu based performance issues are only when the menu is up.

Thanks for the reply!

I was able to just map my settings in .172 using the cfg files in /home/pi/mame172/cfg.

Posting for reference in case someone else has an issue.

How do you change/remap FBA controls? I’m using the 4-player setup in my NBA Jam cab Using a separate SD card for 4-player and 2-player games. I am very familiar with Mame mapping and setup the middle two players (2&3) to be first and second player but I’ve never used FBA before and there are some games I want to play. I’ve watched some retropie videos but haven’t attempted the changes yet (for this weekend). Any advice is appreciated.