Headrush69

1) I assume you are talking the ID within MAME? If so you can look at MAME static IDs for making those IDs static. 2) You'll need to use MAME save states. I'll let someone who know them better to add more, or google that. 3) If your mice are appearing as different IDs, I assume you have enabled multi-mouse in mame.ini. If so you should be able to map your trackball OK within MAME. Have you set Trackball input to use a mouse device in MAME? (are you using command line MAME or a GUI variant?) Setting like this in mame.ini...

I suspect that the command line options you set in LB for MAME are not the same you are using directly with MAME. As Retro808, are you using command line MAME or MAMEUI or another variant?If you are seeing diagonal lines across the screen in MAME, it's like a problem with missing artwork be used by a MAME layout file.

Go into Tools -> Manage Emulators and for the emulator for that system, make sure the path to the emulator exe is correct and that the emulator itself hasn't been moved or deleted.

Probably the easiest work around for the few multi system cores where this might happen.

It saves them in Retroarch -> config -> core as well. So my core override is called Genesis Plus GX.cfg and my directory overrides are called Sega CD.cfg, Sega Genesis.cfg, and Sega MasterSystem.cfg, which match my directory folders holding those roms. The Retroarch configs are additive, so more like appended, so they are incredibly flexible. As you get closer to inidivual game configs, only differences are applied.

I don’t know about stand-alone Mednefan. The Beetle-Saturn core in Retroarch is based on Mednefan and I know it does.

Can't tell you where to get roms, but chdman from MAME can turn multiple bin files into a single chd file. Works great for emulators that support it. (Retroarch Beetle Saturn core for example)

I just display the all time leader board for that reason. Just right size and still room for video and details on a 1080p screen. (Set the leader boards to display n LB Options)

Select all the games, right click and select use bulk edit. Then switch the Platform. If you haven't changed them yet, I find selecting each platform first and right clicking and add a playlist named after that Platform. Then do the step above. This is handy if you ever want to switch back or change to a different emulator just for those roms. SO for example I have a Teknoparrot playlist, but they are all in the Arcade platform, If some new better emulator comes out, I can select them all in that playlist and bulk edit rather than going through all the Arcade plartform that is a mix of Teknoparrot, JConfig, MAME, m2emulator, supermodel, etc,

Try launching the Supermodel exe, not the UI and also remove the space in your resolution option (1280,1024)

You can add any game into the Arcade platform, just make sure after switching it points to the appropriate emulator still and hasn't switch to the default for that platform. I group all Arcade roms together regardless of whether it uses MAME, Supermodel 3, Sega Model 2, Sammy Atomiswave, Daphne LaserDisc, etc. Basically if it's an arcade machine it's in that platform. I do it for the simple reason when people come over and they trying to find a game they remember, they have no clue what "other" platform it would be in. You can hide games by using bulk editor or in each game details. If you want to see them at some point just select View Hidden Games from View menu.

As much as I love LB, I think buying better hardware just for it might not be worth it. Except for Sega Saturn, those systems you listed can run fine with even a Raspberry Pi. That laptop would be fine as well. I think the biggest issue you will have is supporting cocktail mode. MAME does this, but I don't know of any console emulators do. It doesn't really make sense that they would. How big of a collection of console games do you expect to have? Edit: You wrote bar top, my mind read cocktail.... ignore the cocktail stuff.

You'll need 3rd party support for Daphne to get bezels. Daphne is one of the few cases I use Rocketlauncher for that. You can also look into WootLauncher. It does have some bezel support but I don't know if Daphne is one of them.

Not sure what the issue was, but deleting the digdug nvram file fixed the issue. First it reset digdug to the default hiscore, than on next restart of the game the LBDB hiscore was restored. Now it's updating properly.

Yes I have done that. I see the message Figured it out. Seems I must have changed my default variant of Dig Dug to the Atari version, hence the hi scores show there. (digdugat) Now I swear I set the default back to just digdug, going to re-test and see if it will update now. Edit: So I made sure digdug variant was the default for Dig Dug. Restarted LB. Played and beat hi score (90000+) Message in LB logs about handing off hi score.... no update. PS: I get a lot of Retro Achievement messages in the log, is that normal?

Is cheats disabled in plugins.ini in mame folder?

No autosave and yes there is a digdug.hi file in MAME/hi. Nothing has changed since it posted a high score earlier.

Since that "weird" score was changed, dig dug no longer is adding hi-scores for me now. Beat it 3 times now and no upload. Other games seems to be working ok. (I'm on beta 3 now)

Isn't that the point of the functionality in LB, so we can see it there? A web thread with hi scores is going to get unruly fast, IMHO.

Ahh. I don't think it's a big issue as these defaults will certainly be overwritten fairly quickly after everyone enables this feature and plays a few times.

Testing some games, and in Burgertime you had the only hiscore so far. My score got added, but it copied your 28,000 score, not the 3500 I had.

Do the nvram or the hi files store whether the cheat plugin is enabled? I've never used cheats but it was enabled and even though I have disabled it in mame.ini, my LB logs say cheat enabled. Wondering if old hi score files will need to be flushed?

For what it's worth, I just use MAME for everything and no issues, but It will depend on your hardware. MAME strives for accuracy and FB Neo (FinalBurn) may perform better on lesser hardware. There is some lengthy debates as to whether FB Neo has the advantages over MAME that it did in the past. I'd just say use MAME and if you find a game that absolutely needs FB Neo, just set that game to launch with it instead.

I don't think having a keyboard attached matters as Retroarch doesn't multi-keyboard support by default. (I have one attached with my iPac Ultimate and no issues ever) The auto configs shouldn't be changing keyboard mappings you set in retroarch.cfg So the question is, if you start a system in Retroarch, bring up the Quick Menu and go to Controls and then the Port 2 Controls, are the keyboard mappings you set in retroarch.cfg still showing there or are they blank?

I normally use Altirra for 5200 and can use the XBOX sticks for true analog input, but that hack works with my cabinet controls as well and frankly plays better anyways. Thanks for the heads up. (Just need a hack for centering input for MAME starwars now ? )