Blackscreen NeoGeo

[jose-luis-de-dios-callejas]

Hi, I have a very stange problem with neogeo roms, well I have a romset with neogeo roms working well in the folder fbalibretro, but I would have the neogeo roms on the folder neogeo, I copy from fbalibretro to neogeo some roms(mslug1,2,3,4,5 and x) and the neogeo.zip.   When I reboot the raspberry pi 2 with the newest version of recalbox, on neogeo section only have a very nice black screen after execute a rom, after that I change de recalbox.conf file to change the default neogeo emulator   I change an put

## NeoGeo emulator
## You can use pifba or a libretro core (fba2x,libretro)
neogeo.emulator=libretro
## If you set libretro as neogeo.emulator, uncomment the line below and set the retroarch core (fba,imame4all)
neogeo.core=fba

and still black screen and back to menu after

## NeoGeo emulator
## You can use pifba or a libretro core (fba2x,libretro)
neogeo.emulator=libretro
## If you set libretro as neogeo.emulator, uncomment the line below and set the retroarch core (fba,imame4all)
neogeo.core=imame4all

and black screen again

## NeoGeo emulator
## You can use pifba or a libretro core (fba2x,libretro)
neogeo.emulator=fba2x
## If you set libretro as neogeo.emulator, uncomment the line below and set the retroarch core (fba,imame4all)
;neogeo.core=fba

and still black screen, What´s the problem, because with fbalibretro folder works well? P.D. i try to change the neogeo.zip bios and don´t work and i try to download from de _reademe.txt but whe i try to read the file I delete by error   Sorry for my english, i have a limited english lessons   THANKS

[digitaLumberjack]

@Sebastian you may experience some framerate slowdown at this resolution. Maybe the best solution is to set 720p in the config.txt, and let the default video mode so you are always in 720p

[iwakun]

I have the same problem.. the black screen i think the problem is the file neogeo.zip i try to put in the bios folder and in the roms folder, but wont work   any idea ??   Thank you for help !!

[jose-luis-de-dios-callejas]

Can someone upload the _readme.txt from the neogeo directory, thanks

[iwakun]

i found the solution .. and i share in a mini how-to.. http://blog.recalbox.com/forums/topic/neogeo-how-to-guide/

[rockaddicted]

Hi, I have a very stange problem with neogeo roms, well I have a romset with neogeo roms working well in the folder fbalibretro, but I would have the neogeo roms on the folder neogeo, I copy from fbalibretro to neogeo some roms(mslug1,2,3,4,5 and x) and the neogeo.zip. When I reboot the raspberry pi 2 with the newest version of recalbox, on neogeo section only have a very nice black screen after execute a rom, after that I change de recalbox.conf file to change the default neogeo emulator

@jose-luis-de-dios-callejas : Which text editor are you using to edit your recalbox.conf file ? If you are under windows, we recommend to use notepad++. The other text editors, included out the box with windows, will break recalbox.conf. You can also use nano with a root acces. nano /recalbox/share/system/recalbox.conf

[jose-luis-de-dios-callejas]

@rockaddicted I use the notepad++ or nano with putty and root acces and my result it´s the same with 3 diferent bios on the neogeo folder and another roms, y only have black screen and return to  menu, it´s posible I enconutred a bug? My raspberry pi 2 have in fbalibretro the romset  FBA 0.2.97.30 which is based on MAME 0.154 (Jul 2014) and in this emulator works well with neogeo roms, but if I copy the neogeo.zip and some neogeo roms to neogeo folders, reboot and a  black screen, I edited the recalboxconf with this option again ## NeoGeo emulator ## You can use pifba or a libretro core (fba2x,libretro) neogeo.emulator=libretro ## If you set libretro as neogeo.emulator, uncomment the line below and set the retroarch core (fba,imame4all) neogeo.core=fba reboot and again the neogeo black screen, I think that tihs configuratión it´s the same for the fbalibretro folder no? I don´t know what can I do to use the neogeoroms on his folder

[rockaddicted]

Ok so, in recalbox, neogeo is not really a stand alone system. It is only a separated system to split classic arcade games and neogeo games. You can assign one arcade emulator of recalbox to this system using the switch included in recalbox.conf file. So indeed, it you want to use, FBA-Libretro as neogeo emulator, your need to configure recalbox.conf like this :

## NeoGeo emulator ## You can use pifba or a libretro core (fba2x,libretro)
neogeo.emulator=libretro

## If you set libretro as neogeo.emulator, uncomment the line below and set the retroarch core (fba,imame4all)
neogeo.core=fba

Now you need to take neoge'so roms + neogeo.zip bios from your FBA-Libretro romset (FBA 0.2.97.30 which is based on MAME 0.154) and past them in neogeo rom folder. Then after a reboot that should be ok. It is very important to use good roms versions associated to the emulator used.

[jose-luis-de-dios-callejas]

@rockaddicted, I try this option, copy neogeo.zip ans 6 roms of neogeo from fbalibretro folder to neogeo folder, edited the recalbox.cfg file and restart from recalbos menu. But the neogeo roms from neogeo folder don´t work, from fbalibretro works well. I attached the recalbox.cfg from /recalbox/share/system.(i change the extension fot attached) There is anytihing worng?

[rockaddicted]

The only thing I saw, is a tabulation character after libretro to remove :

## NeoGeo emulator 
## You can use pifba or a libretro core (fba2x,libretro)
neogeo.emulator=libretro

[jose-luis-de-dios-callejas]

@rockaddicted thanks a lot, the problem was the tabulation, now it works

[rockaddicted]

Nice, be careful the next time you edit the recalbox.conf file