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i have launchbox and im using retroarch for my arcade games. i am using usb arcade controls for gameplay. if i load a arcade game from launchbox the game opens in retroarch but i have no controls.  the controls work for launchbox and work in retro arch if i run it from its shortcut with no games playing. what can i do.

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Thanks. Turns out i still had a custom config being called from my testing stages.  took that out and all is well.

 

Now i have a new problem.  I turned on full screen in video settings and when i launched burger time it was rotated 90 degrees.  no big deal i went in and rotated 90 in main video settings . burger time was back to the right orientation. i launched donkey kong and now that is upside down.  why would roms have a different orientation. does this mean i need to figure out command line orientations and edit each roms emulation to get each one right?

 

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i am using retroarch. i changed it the main settings from normal to 90 because burger time was the first game i loaded and it was wrong.  then the second game was even more wrong.  i guess ill put back to normal and change in each game.

any idea what percentage need to be rotated. i never saw any like that in all my testing not oin full screen.  

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Did you set any overrides? My next solution to test whats going on is to use a fresh RetroArch.cfg from the zip file. If you delete it, RetroArch will remake it, but you'd have to turn some things back on. So I consider default the cfg you pull out of the zip files when you download it. A potential workaround, if you can't get it, I am not familiar with MAME RA, I just know that it lags behind, but have you tried regular MAME? Why RA MAME over regular MAME? To go the extra step, you're also using the "MAME" core, and not a MAME core with a year after it, correct?

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i was using the retro arch core just for consitancy and i have learned it with other platforms. would plain mame be better ? i am using the mame 2003 core because it runs most of the romset i have.  i do however have a different set that i am removing games i dont want and i believe that runs on the mame 2016 best.

 

i can move to mame no retroarch if you think its best.

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If you grab a MAME .183 split set (or a non-merged set), and use the MAME core, everything should be totally fine. All the other MAME cores are outdated. In this case, MAME also has MESS, which is easier in standalone MAME than RA MAME (reduces the amount of steps), controllers are automatically assigned, and MAME has some good filters now too (which both are a fairly big sticking point for RetroArch).

Edit: I wouldn't be surprised if there was some funkyness with the roms and the version of MAME you're using.

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