Thank you for taking the time to do this. I tried doing something like this for my LB but it was an extremely daunting task. You're an absolute legend for tackling all that!
@@warpedpolygon this setup is only for the real Mame right? I have only used mame (the current core) in retroarch which apparently is taboo. Is the main issue inaccurate framerates. I haven't noticed any major issues as someone who didn't play these in person back in the day (born 92) With RA and I enjoy the hockey's being the same as what many of my other systems share as well as rewind. The ui of it is easy with a controller and a couch setup. Can the same be said with mame these days? Gimme your take. Thanks
@@danpatrick7176 the core is fine for the most part. The main issue is compatibility, not all games work with the core due to stuff that RetroArch doesn't emulate for whatever reason. So it doesn't support every game. Mame of course does. This is the same for Flycast. A few arcade games RA can't emulate.
@@OSW cheers mate! Spread the word, everyone deserves MAME perfection. I say 'finished' but it will still be updated and maintained with new stuff as it comes out.
@@Sulaiman544 it was a long old slog to the finish line. My ocd wouldn't let me leave it alone even after "abandoning" it. Just needs an update then it's in maintenance woooo
This is crazy and extremely time consuming. Thx for this. I've been doing the same thing Making a jpg for every game to display on my marquee screen and I feel like I'll never finish.
While inprefer to use an arcade stick for most mame games over a 360 controller, i can appreciate the amount of work that has gone i to this. Agree with non merged sets. If more people had them, they would probably have less isues with mame.
@@MrEd20901 thanks mate. Doing this for sticks and arcade decks is not really viable. Sooo many variants all with no real standard button layout. It'll be different/incorrect depending on the stick. Xinput controllers are all the same with input id's, thus i can config one for all.
Thanks for your channel, just found it as im looking to built a new arcade system but want to move from Batocera to launchbox. I use the none merged 0.270 set but this build is for specific games and not wanting to import the full romset. can i still use your stem just only import the config files for the games I am adding to MAME. Again great work, will check out your patreon
Thank you so much for all your work! However, in your post on the Launchbox forum, you mentioned an upcoming update that hasn't been released yet. Can I safely use this project in its current form or should I wait for an update? Also, I wonder if there are any changes planned to the list of available games?
Use it in it's current state. There's about 25 (15 that I missed and 10 that have been added to MAME) games that need to be added but I'll give a list of these when I actually update it, so updating will be easy.
@@warpedpolygon Thanks for answering. Also wanted to mention that your project makes it incredibly easy to learn interesting clones without getting burned out trying out a bunch of useless ROMs. In other words, damn, that's awesome.
@@mangamer5166Thanks for the kind words! yeah clones are sometimes better to use for various reasons. Some people think the parents are what's best and that's that, which is 70% true.
Hey WP, do you think you can do one of those "graphics settings explained" videos on ARCADE64 UI? It's a very good UI for MAME and there's little info about it, specially on TH-cam.
Great work on this but quick questions as to the button layout images. The folder layout for the downloaded button layout images is different from your video? Any thoughts on a solution perhaps?
I downloaded this and installed everything properly. All my fighting games (Street Fighter 2, Tekken & Mortal Kombat) have the button layout incorrect. But everything else is working fine. I'm using a 8Bitdo Ultimate 2C controller. Please help.
Thanks for all of your hard work. A question or two, if i want to add non arcade roms to this, like roms for plug an play consoles. How do i do that? Cause just choosing scan does nothing.
I have a question: I already have a mame folder pre-configured by me. I hand picked about 2.000 non-merged roms. I DID NOT import a full rom set on launchbox. They were all added individually. Can I just place the CFG, NVRAM and the controller images and ignore the arcade platform xml? I guess my question is: Do I even need to bother with the xml if I already have my platform and roms setup?
Hello and thanks for the incredible work! I'm setting everything up in my launchbox but i have a question: i'd like to have all the games inside a platform called Mame nested in the Arcade category, how can i do that? I tried to simply rename the arcade.xml file into Mame.xml but it doesn't work....neither works creating the platform first in LB and then overwriting the content of the xml file that LB created.
I love the didication of a perfectionist! Can do so much with XLM and scripts. Im curiouse what tools you used to help with this? 8 months is a long time, but expect you to be in a looney bin if you had to manualy type everything! TWICE with dummy files! Love to find unique software that helps in this manner has im going a bit looney myself😂
@@LightgunLegends there are no tools for what was needed to be done. Physically checking every game needed doing by hand, hence the amount of time. For half the project I only had one controller, meaning all additional controllers needed assigning by directly editing the ini. Mate, I've gone past loony into a different realm. As for the dummy files, i just bulk zipped the ini files with a batch file and named them after the ini which is the same as the rom.
@@warpedpolygon Greatness comes from that place my mate! People round you say take a break, chill out and you just cant :). I gringe when I look at my desktop and just drag over to single folder every couple of days, so can never find scripts when I need them! Annoying! So use the Gui versions when needed for mass output. Simple one Folder Frenzy Text to folder. And if wanting to place an update in 75% of your folder structure I use Miroirs to recreate full empty folder structure. I didn't realize you had to edit 2P in each .ini! Only thing that would ever bring me back to Mame after that would be Street fighter II Hyper Fighting :)
Took me a month to scrub thru all the MAME games from A-Z but I ended up with 1000 ROMS that's handpicked and not roms from a washing machine. That's nothing compared to this project, which is insane.
Why are my games now starting in 2 player mode, no matter which settings I alter via the TAB function? EDIT: This is an issue with MAME, in relation to having two controllers plugged in, not with Warped Polygons awesome config.
Okay, so I've looked into it some more and apparently the only way around this is to set the controls per game (as opposed to General Settings). That's MENTAL! I've got 3.5k games within my Arcade category! My Arcade section of Launchbox was working fine before I applied your pre-configs.
Thank you for taking the time to do this. I tried doing something like this for my LB but it was an extremely daunting task. You're an absolute legend for tackling all that!
No way!! You are insane. Also 100% agree about the convenience of non merged. That format is vastly underated
@@danpatrick7176 yeah it's the best set. I actually need to delete 2 old videos advising split as the best, I don't kmow what I was thinking lol.
@@warpedpolygon this setup is only for the real Mame right? I have only used mame (the current core) in retroarch which apparently is taboo. Is the main issue inaccurate framerates. I haven't noticed any major issues as someone who didn't play these in person back in the day (born 92) With RA and I enjoy the hockey's being the same as what many of my other systems share as well as rewind. The ui of it is easy with a controller and a couch setup. Can the same be said with mame these days? Gimme your take. Thanks
@@danpatrick7176 the core is fine for the most part. The main issue is compatibility, not all games work with the core due to stuff that RetroArch doesn't emulate for whatever reason. So it doesn't support every game.
Mame of course does.
This is the same for Flycast. A few arcade games RA can't emulate.
@@warpedpolygon oh i see. Well, thank you 😎
I always use non merged, so I can just delete versions/clones that I don't need.
Dude that's insane! Congrats on finishing the project. That's a really cool thing you've done for the community. A winner is you!
@@OSW cheers mate! Spread the word, everyone deserves MAME perfection.
I say 'finished' but it will still be updated and maintained with new stuff as it comes out.
Great job!
@@thefieldsofdawn thank you sooo much. You're helping me to keep going with all this
What an insane undertaking. Thank you so much.
Thanks Dave, always nice to see a comment from you.
Wow! Outstanding dude... thank you so much for sharing your stellar work!
I been using this for awhile. Been following your project. Great work and appreciate the time you put into this.
Ok brother, this is next level. Subbing to your Patreon.
This is just next level mate. You are the king. I will download it as explained first thing tomorrow. Thank you so much for doing this.
Can't believe you actually did it! Thank you SO MUCH for your work!
My pleasure!
Wow dude! Incredible!
This Is absolutely amazing very much appreciated. Can only imagine how tedious this was.
@@Eric-kg3ql ohhh yeah tedium doesn't cover it. Glad everyone is enjoying it
Great work Thank you i appreciate the time you took to do this. must have been a nightmare to get it done. thank you
@@Sulaiman544 it was a long old slog to the finish line. My ocd wouldn't let me leave it alone even after "abandoning" it. Just needs an update then it's in maintenance woooo
This is crazy and extremely time consuming. Thx for this. I've been doing the same thing Making a jpg for every game to display on my marquee screen and I feel like I'll never finish.
What a job! I never had the chance to tell you, but well done!
Cheers man! Glad it's appreciated
brilliant. a seamless and efficient setup process!
Glad you liked it!
This is absolutely amazing. I just wish standalone mame had retroachievements support
Awesome, as with all of your previous projects, seriously don't know what you could do to top this :)
I know right, hope I haven't already peaked
This is incredible!
While inprefer to use an arcade stick for most mame games over a 360 controller, i can appreciate the amount of work that has gone i to this.
Agree with non merged sets. If more people had them, they would probably have less isues with mame.
@@MrEd20901 thanks mate. Doing this for sticks and arcade decks is not really viable. Sooo many variants all with no real standard button layout. It'll be different/incorrect depending on the stick.
Xinput controllers are all the same with input id's, thus i can config one for all.
Wow this is amazing
This is amazing! But is it possible to use your MAME files on Retroarch either FinalBurn Neo or Mame2003-Plus?
Amazing !!
Thank you! Cheers!
Can these also be used with the Mame core in Retroarch?
Thanks for your channel, just found it as im looking to built a new arcade system but want to move from Batocera to launchbox. I use the none merged 0.270 set but this build is for specific games and not wanting to import the full romset. can i still use your stem just only import the config files for the games I am adding to MAME. Again great work, will check out your patreon
Really important to use saves unless you want to keep Tekken 3 core running for weeks lmao.
Thank you so much for all your work! However, in your post on the Launchbox forum, you mentioned an upcoming update that hasn't been released yet. Can I safely use this project in its current form or should I wait for an update? Also, I wonder if there are any changes planned to the list of available games?
Use it in it's current state. There's about 25 (15 that I missed and 10 that have been added to MAME) games that need to be added but I'll give a list of these when I actually update it, so updating will be easy.
@@warpedpolygon Thanks for answering. Also wanted to mention that your project makes it incredibly easy to learn interesting clones without getting burned out trying out a bunch of useless ROMs. In other words, damn, that's awesome.
@@mangamer5166Thanks for the kind words! yeah clones are sometimes better to use for various reasons. Some people think the parents are what's best and that's that, which is 70% true.
Legend status activated 😎
Hey WP, do you think you can do one of those "graphics settings explained" videos on ARCADE64 UI? It's a very good UI for MAME and there's little info about it, specially on TH-cam.
Great work on this but quick questions as to the button layout images. The folder layout for the downloaded button layout images is different from your video? Any thoughts on a solution perhaps?
It's fixed now
I downloaded this and installed everything properly. All my fighting games (Street Fighter 2, Tekken & Mortal Kombat) have the button layout incorrect. But everything else is working fine. I'm using a 8Bitdo Ultimate 2C controller. Please help.
You need to contact the people that maintain MAME extras and include it.
Not sure if that is still being maintained.
Thanks for all of your hard work. A question or two, if i want to add non arcade roms to this, like roms for plug an play consoles. How do i do that? Cause just choosing scan does nothing.
I have a question: I already have a mame folder pre-configured by me. I hand picked about 2.000 non-merged roms. I DID NOT import a full rom set on launchbox. They were all added individually. Can I just place the CFG, NVRAM and the controller images and ignore the arcade platform xml? I guess my question is: Do I even need to bother with the xml if I already have my platform and roms setup?
@@JapaneseModernist yup, you can cherry pick whatever you want from the pack.
Hello and thanks for the incredible work! I'm setting everything up in my launchbox but i have a question:
i'd like to have all the games inside a platform called Mame nested in the Arcade category, how can i do that?
I tried to simply rename the arcade.xml file into Mame.xml but it doesn't work....neither works creating the platform first in LB and then overwriting the content of the xml file that LB created.
You need to rename the platform. Right click platform in the list on the right, click edit, rename platform to MAME. Done!
@@warpedpolygon Done! Thx!
@@ku7ush228 enjoy!
Can i do a full Mame import in launcbox,then add your files?
If you want to yeah. Just don't use the platform.xml
I love the didication of a perfectionist! Can do so much with XLM and scripts. Im curiouse what tools you used to help with this? 8 months is a long time, but expect you to be in a looney bin if you had to manualy type everything! TWICE with dummy files! Love to find unique software that helps in this manner has im going a bit looney myself😂
@@LightgunLegends there are no tools for what was needed to be done. Physically checking every game needed doing by hand, hence the amount of time. For half the project I only had one controller, meaning all additional controllers needed assigning by directly editing the ini. Mate, I've gone past loony into a different realm.
As for the dummy files, i just bulk zipped the ini files with a batch file and named them after the ini which is the same as the rom.
@@warpedpolygon Greatness comes from that place my mate! People round you say take a break, chill out and you just cant :). I gringe when I look at my desktop and just drag over to single folder every couple of days, so can never find scripts when I need them! Annoying! So use the Gui versions when needed for mass output. Simple one Folder Frenzy Text to folder. And if wanting to place an update in 75% of your folder structure I use Miroirs to recreate full empty folder structure. I didn't realize you had to edit 2P in each .ini! Only thing that would ever bring me back to Mame after that would be Street fighter II Hyper Fighting :)
Bit of a noob but, does your config for each game adjust video settings or just controller settings? Thanks for your hard work!
Yes video settings also. Widescreen games set to widescreen and all games set to display at their native aspect ratio. No distortion here
Took me a month to scrub thru all the MAME games from A-Z but I ended up with 1000 ROMS that's handpicked and not roms from a washing machine. That's nothing compared to this project, which is insane.
@@WheeledHamster haha yeah culling out all the appliances was a must. Well remembered
Which romset do i need?
What if my MAME is already set up in launchbox with a bunch of already existing art?
@@DavetheLeg just use the config files and add the control images, don't use the xml
You not have configuration settings for this emulation yet, can you make it in the future videos?
What do you mean?
@@warpedpolygoni mean graphic & all of settings for this emulator
@@TuhnraCelinks ahh i see like one of my graphics guides. Yeah possibly, there's not much to cover but could still do it
@@warpedpolygon i need it because im always have a problem especially the choppy/laggy for the audio sound
@@TuhnraCelinks audio is something I haven't had too much of an issue. What games are you getting that with?
I tried to use this on RetroArch MAME core. But controls are messed up. Did somebody have succes?
I cant say if RA will work with this or not. This does make RA surplus to requirements. Is there an issue with using normal mame?
@@warpedpolygon Normal standalone mame works fine 😁😎.
Why are my games now starting in 2 player mode, no matter which settings I alter via the TAB function?
EDIT: This is an issue with MAME, in relation to having two controllers plugged in, not with Warped Polygons awesome config.
Okay, so I've looked into it some more and apparently the only way around this is to set the controls per game (as opposed to General Settings). That's MENTAL! I've got 3.5k games within my Arcade category! My Arcade section of Launchbox was working fine before I applied your pre-configs.
As in you are controlling both player with the same controller?
@@Right_Said_Brett that shouldn't happen. Setting this per game is exactly what I have done.
Have you placed all the files in the correct place?
@@Right_Said_Brett if you check the cfg file for every game you'll see all the correct inouts under the corresponding JOYCODE number.
May I request X-Men games controls :)
You didn't explain what these files actually DO!!!