Charco Posted September 12, 2016 Share Posted September 12, 2016 Hi guys, so I have a full MAME 0.161 set and followed Brad's tutorial on setting it up in LaunchBox. I tested the roms with the MAME (2014) core in Retroarch and every game I tried seemed to work. I imported all the roms and LaunchBox began scraping all the metadata from Emumovies as I am a lifetime member over there. I left it run overnight as there are about 25,000 roms in the set. This morning I saw that the import completed with an error saying that "Emumovies failed to parse HQ video" or words to that effect. It seems there is a platform video but none for any games and many of the clear logos are missing. Finally, when I click on a game in Big Box, RetroArch starts the game but focus remains on Big Box with the game playing in the background RA window. I have to exit Big Box in order to see the game. Can anyone help me with these issues please? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted September 12, 2016 Share Posted September 12, 2016 I can't help you with the movies but I would suggest you use the Mame core without a year after it if you want to use Retroarch for Mame. The 2014 core is based on the 159 version of Mame plus you can turn off the nag screens in the core options. As for your Retroarch loading up in the background do you have your Mame Retroarch core set to load full screen or windowed mode ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charco Posted September 12, 2016 Author Share Posted September 12, 2016 (edited) Thanks for replying so fast. The reason I was using the 159 version is because when I loaded a rom with the latest MAME core the graphics were blurry, especially noticeable on text and nag screens for example. I had used stock RA settings and no filters, so I had no idea why it was doing that. Tried some settings to no avail and when I saw 159 version worked without issue I went with that core. My MAME RA core is set to launch full screen, yes. Edited September 12, 2016 by Charco Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted September 12, 2016 Share Posted September 12, 2016 Hmm, is it maybe set to full screen windowed ? Is there a reason you are using the RA Mame over stand alone ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charco Posted September 12, 2016 Author Share Posted September 12, 2016 I'll check that setting now. I am using RA MAME over standalone as I prefer the ease of use of RA for controllers and shaders and as I am used to it I guess. If I continue to have issues with it I could change to MAME stand alone though. I'll check that setting now and get back to you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted September 12, 2016 Share Posted September 12, 2016 I found Mame easier to setup controls for actually and with good HLSL shaders it looks really good. Retroarch Mame is just as good in terms of emulation quality though and you get more shader options. My issue with RA shaders though is I like a CRT shader and vertical Mame games don't work well with a CRT shader. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charco Posted September 12, 2016 Author Share Posted September 12, 2016 I just checked there and windowed fullscreen was set to on, I changed it and tested again and the issue persists. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted September 12, 2016 Share Posted September 12, 2016 Weird, hopefully @Jason Carr or someone else has an answer for you with that one cause I haven't run into that one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charco Posted September 12, 2016 Author Share Posted September 12, 2016 Would it be some sort of conflict with hiding the nag screens and warning screens maybe? I have those hidden. I'll turn them back on and try again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted September 12, 2016 Share Posted September 12, 2016 Honestly I couldn't tell you, I just use the stand alone Mame. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charco Posted September 12, 2016 Author Share Posted September 12, 2016 (edited) Ok, thanks for all your help anyway. I'll wait and see if Jason or others may have a solution. In the meantime, I am going to ask the guys over at Emumovies about that issue with the videos, I don't think the ones it grabbed for my other systems are HQ either and I have spent the weekend setting up all my systems. I hope there is a way to replace with HQ versions without starting everything from scratch if these are standard quality. If I had to set it all up again I think I would go insane! lol EDIT: I changed the emulator for the arcade platform to the latest MAME RetroArch core to see if it made any difference but it still launches behind Big Box, with it's horrible blurry graphics Edited September 12, 2016 by Charco Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick1974 Posted September 12, 2016 Share Posted September 12, 2016 I believe the latest MAME core in RetroArch is broken and has been for a bit... You can turn on 'use alternate render method' in core options and it should fix it, but then shaders won't work.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charco Posted September 12, 2016 Author Share Posted September 12, 2016 Ah ok, I guess I'll stick with the MAME (2014) core in that case if the latest one is broken. Your suggestion does work for the blurry graphics though, but no shaders like you said. I still haven't figured out the issue with it launching in the background but I had enough to keep me busy with getting some missing videos from Emumovies FTP server and doing a tidy up. I bet we all spend more time configuring than playing! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted September 12, 2016 Share Posted September 12, 2016 I suggest you give stand alone Mame a try with my HLSL settings. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charco Posted September 12, 2016 Author Share Posted September 12, 2016 Will I need the 0.161 version of standalone MAME or just the latest version? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted September 12, 2016 Share Posted September 12, 2016 If you are going to try my HLSL settings then you will need 172 or newer. Before 172 HLSL was shit in Mame but with 172 they made some changes and made it extremely good and the settings I use don't look good at all in previous versions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charco Posted September 12, 2016 Author Share Posted September 12, 2016 Ok thanks lordmonkus. I'll download the latest MAME and see if I have better luck. At least I could yse that if I can't fix the MAME RA core focus issue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted September 13, 2016 Share Posted September 13, 2016 Hi @Charco, what are your MAME emulator settings? We found a bug recently where the MAME default settings had been changed incorrectly. You should have "Don't use quotes" and "rom file name only" checked. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charco Posted September 13, 2016 Author Share Posted September 13, 2016 Thanks @Jason Carr, where are these settings located please? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted September 13, 2016 Share Posted September 13, 2016 Under Tools > Manage Emulators > MAME. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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