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Howdy, I have not come up with a better solution. Since finding hack for games is such a manual process of adding notes and images for each game I do not think there is much that can be done. The only thing would be a batch file if you are making a copy of the exact same game and naming it something different many times as per the patch files. Though, to use my Mario hacks category as an example some of the hacks required different variants like region so I could not do that to the every game. It was pretty quick though because I would just have every region ROM and make a quick copy of it for each patch I found. Very annoying compared to LB's regular platforms which are mostly automatic but it was done out of love for these hacks so I could bare it. If this thread did help at all it is nice to know but sorry I did and do not not have a simpler solution.

I have tried your plugin and it worked very well, brilliant! Thanks very much.

Thanks very much for the detailed reply. I am downloading the MAME 0.220 Software List ROMs (split) right now and will test it when it has finished. I knew someone would have something that would aid in this. Thank you so much!

That looks fantastic. For it to work do you have to have the files named what MAME is looking for to start with?

It definitely is a heck of a lot easier using standalone MAME but there are some things you can do with RA that MAME can't, just little minor things. It would be really cool if for whatever platforms it can be done for that the shortened MAME names be added to the LB database just like the import wizard does for MAME games themselves. I know there are higher priorities and not a lot of people would use it but surely it could be done easily because all the hash files already exist with the names. I feel like there have been quite a few people throughout the years that would like to play non-arcade games in RA through the MAME core but it is little things like this that may stop people. I am not knocking RA, LB or anything else but this feature would just be cool to have.

If you want to run a system on RA that requires the MAME core the games have to be named as per what MAME is looking for in a hash .xml file. This is fine for a system like the Entex Adventure Vision because it has four games and thus takes no time at all to manually do it. However, for larger systems it would be ridiculously time consuming. Not only because you would have to change them but then after you go through the import wizard in LB it will not scrape them as they are now named a name it won't recognize so you have to change them all back again in the import wizard. Just wondering if anyone has found a convenient way of doing this or if it just is not possible without setting a day aside along with your sanity.

It very well may not be of help but I thought I would mention it as it what happened to work for me. I saved it as core override so it would not alter my other platforms.

The unbroken tutorial does not mention any data folder and I did not do anything regarding that and it works fine. You might have to do that with the standalone but not RA. I could be incorrect on that one but I am reasonably confident that is the case. If you are getting any kind of issues try changing the video driver on RA from GL to NULL. After you change it save it as a core override so it does not change for all your other platforms. It might not do anything for you but that is what worked for myself on my setup.

Well go and make that for me, now! Just kidding. That is a shame as that was the only reason I wanted to use RA so I could use a nice overlay but without the screen gap option it wouldn't work. That is okay, I have about 25k other games and cannot have everything. Thank you for replying.

It specifically says to use the GL video driver and would you believe what made it work was NOT using the GL video driver. I tried null and it loaded straight up. Would anyone happen to know where the screen gap option is on the new RA menu as I cannot find it? I did it for the DS but now I am doing the 3DS in the new menu it is eluding me.

Yeah as I said in my post I did watch a video about it but the videos aren't any help because setup is very straight forward. I have checked all the requirements such as file extension, decryption, video driver etc so on paper it should work, but it is not, RA just launches to a white screen then crashes. Even though standalone Citra is better if I cannot do it with RA I am going to forget the 3DS.

Just wanted to ask about the 3DS in RA using the Citra core. I saw a video on how to set it up with RA but there is nothing special you really need to do. I have above OpenGL 3.3, my video driver is GL, my ROMs are decrypted and are .3ds. They will not work in RA alone or launched with LB. When I do try and play a game RA pops up, displays a white screen for a few seconds then closes. I know the standalone emulator might be better but I have seen RA do it fine. Has there been much progress on this core since I posted last in 2018 or is there anything I might look at asides from the above mentioned?

I just thought I would post this here in case anyone is having trouble getting these to work in the future. Most people seem to get these working okay and I have done so successfully in the past with snes9x core. However, for some reason they were not working for me recently when I added them again to my setup. The only thing that made these games work for me was using the mesen-s core. So, if anyone is struggling give that a shot as it may work for you too.

I have been very happy with my Hori FC but recently I have been playing PS1 and PS2 more as well as getting into the Wii U with the Cemu emulator and as a result I am yearning for analog sticks. There still seems to be no one controller to truly rule them all. The Hori Pad EX Turbo 2 looks like it would be a contender but it does not surface for sale regularly and when it does it fetches more than I am willing to pay. I just discovered the iBUFFALO BSGP16 and whilst it does not look like perfection, it looks very promosing and affordable: I am too big of a fighting game fan to use the XBOX or PS controller solely as they lack the 6 button layout on the front. Has anyone looked into or tried the iBUFFALO BSGP16?

Regarding cofig files and general saves in RA is there any reason why a particular platform/core might not save controls well? Nearly all of my platforms have no issues mapping controls but for some reason there are the odd one here and there which just do not seem to want to save inputs like the MSX and Super Famicom. Are some cores known to be fussy with saving inputs etc?

Finally got this to work! Even though this little thing only had four games for it, I love it. I have wanted to get it working in Retroarch for some time now just to have the overlay of the unit.

Thank you for that info. I manually edited my cfg to MACHINE_TYPE=Atari 5200 and I added the header info to my zipped ROM, I tried it zipped and unzipped with the zip and actual ROM file with header info but no go unfortunately. This still is a puzzle for me but I will come back to it in between other stuff I am doing on my set up, thanks again.

I uninstalled everything, everything being RA, LB, controller drivers etc and everything is working fine now. There was something funky on my setup somewhere but I did not figure out where it is. I only have one question now regarding saving controller inputs, where exactly does it save to? Just for my own curiosity, thanks.

Yeah I have tried it with about ten different roms, thank you for the suggestion though, I appreciate it.

I hit F1 to bring up the menu, then I went to System Settings and the first option is Machine. I changed that from 800 to 5200 however it did not change anything. I did not do anything regarding resolution or controller settings because at this stage I still cannot get past the menu into a game. I would like it working of course though it is not something like the NES or Arcade where I would be devastated to not have it.

Haha, we are all stubborn in certain ways. My stubbornness keeps me restricted to RA and MAME even if there is something superior out there for a particular platform. I am going to try what you just said if not today then definitely tomorrow and I will report back on the results, thank you.