Can't get FBA to launch games

Libretro Lakka
#1

I am using an old Dell optiplex 380 that has an integrated graphics card. With it I have been unable to launch any mame or N64 games. As this pc is going in an arcade cabinet N64 is not a worry for me. The games just change to a black screen for a split second then go back to the main retroarch menu. Every once and a while I have seen the “failed to load content” message but it does not happen all the time. I have tried changing the video drivers to d3d as suggested in another post when running on the desktop version of retroarch and could not get it to work there either. I am now back to using Lakka OS as I would prefer that.

I have been working on this for a few days. I installed Project64 when I booted a copy of windows 7 on this and mame and was able to get everything working right away playing at full speed but still unable to in Lakka. I have not downloaded the mame2003 bios but I have a few neogeo games that should work through FBA without bios from what I read. Any other suggestions would be highly appreciated!

#2

Without a log, we can’t really know much with any certainty, but I would guess it’s a romset mismatch issue. MAME/FBA need very specific ROMs that match the exact version of the program.

#3

I tried a few of the roms I already had. I have the 3.0 version and 7.0 version of narc. Is there anyway I can make sure they are compatible with FBA? Are there any other bios I do need for FBA? Also I have no problem of posting a log if you can point me in the right direction to do so, very new to this. Thank you very much!

#4

The odds of random ROMs on your hard drive working is pretty slim. You pretty much have to look for the correct ones and/or use ClrMamePro to spit out the right ones using DATs.

#5

Thanks for the help! All figured out and up and running with your help.