Help with FBA core and creating a playlist

Libretro Lakka
#1

I am so sorry to post but I am pretty much stuck at this point and the other articles I looked at are not working for me. I have been trying to make a custom playlist and so far I used code off of a reddit post that gave me the following output:

/storage/roms/USBDRIVE/005.zip#1346b.cpu-u25 005 /tmp/cores/fba_libretro.so Arcade (FB Alpha - SVN) DETECT FB Alpha - Arcade Games.lpl

The playlist shows up fine once I load the .lpl in the correct directory, but when I try to launch the ROM it just crashes. I am assuming the reason is because the way the script complied the file, it just has the first file name after the “#” in /storage/roms/USBDRIVE/005.zip#…

So I continued to look around… on Lakka wiki page I see they have a bash script but when I copy the following:

#!/usr/bin/bash for fullpath in $1; do echo $fullpath filename=$(basename “$fullpath”) echo “${filename%.*}” echo $2 echo $3 echo “DETECT” echo $4 done

and try to run it, it does not work for me. I assume I have to replace some values correct? also I am using .zip files as well and I know I have to do something different.

My MAME rom set is 0.136 and I am not sure if I need to update it. This is my rom set I use with HyperSpin and mame64.

Basically, I am pretty stuck. I want to create a playlist for all my MAME arcade roms I use with mame64, but I am missing something. I want to add images and boxart as well and I know I have to add those manually, just not sure how to do it.

Any help would be great.

#2

For arcade ROMs, you don’t need the #chipname.whatever bit. It should just point at the zip.

Our MAME2010 core is v0139, so most of your 0136 ROMs should work fine with it, though a few may not.

#3

so you are saying that I could have my playlist like this and it would work?

/storage/roms/USBDRIVE/005.zip 005 /tmp/cores/fba_libretro.so Arcade (FB Alpha - SVN) DETECT FB Alpha - Arcade Games.lpl

I did try this as a test before posting this and it still did not work for me.

Maybe I need a different romset. ideas?

#4

Yeah, could be. A verbose log would be helpful but I’m not sure how best to go about that in Lakka.

#5

That “DETECT” line might be wrong, as it’s in place of the checksum. You could try to replace it with a random number, like “0|crc”.

#6

I know its an obvious question but, do you have the neogeo.zip in the same folder as the roms? I just have the lpl just like this and works fine.

Much more, this is just to order the games, you can run them without it.

/storage/roms/USBDRIVE/005.zip 005 /tmp/cores/fba_libretro.so Arcade (FB Alpha - SVN) DETECT FB Alpha - Arcade Games.lpl

#7

hang on, this is fba, not mame. you need fba set 0.2.97.37 for FBA SVN - this is not a mame set (although it should be a subset of mame 0.167, I think).