All I’m trying to do is get recallbox to set the default to my set of MAME 2015 ROMSET a 90 gigs d/l just to use it for this program. because I knew I’d probably have a hard time getting my 0.220 MAME ROMSET to work correctly since theres no core for it.

I cannot get it to accept the 2015 ROMs to be default no matter what it always stays with 2003 plus roms. I spent hours and hours trying to figure this simple task out and I’m about to blow my head off with a shotgun and then have my next-door neighbor come over and shovel me into the lake down the road.

now before you say its quite easy just go to the main menu under advance emulator settings blah blah blah I’ve done all that didn’t work. i’ve done a recalbox and retroarch config files and overload config files using the dot in front of the file name. nothing works. I have read the instructions over and over I don’t know what to do. this is no longer fun I don’t care I’m about to burn down my arcade one up with my retro pi4 and everything. I will give the first person an easy money just to solve this simple task.

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i’m just trying to use my raspberry pi four and my arcade one up together so me & my kids can play games on. It seemed like a simple task I thought. This is my first post and probably my last after the moderator get wind of this message. I don’t know if this is allowed or not.

@oyyodams I know it’s free i am just stuck after spending hours on this really really simple thing. I am now willing to pay someone for their expertise in the matter. for their help nothing more. I am not going to spend another 5 hours doing the same thing here going from site to site signing up for this and that only to find myself no where. there is nothing wrong with someone prospering for their work it is a capitalistic system you know. I can cut you in too since you are a moderator. I don’t need direct assistance just help

Check all this, and if it still doesn't work, please report:

None ROM works? yes some work.

Or are you just trying with 1 specific game? no.

Only MAME doesn't work? no snes, n64 both work but i’m just trying to get mame to work.

You say that MAME works, but you don't make it clear if the ROMS are recognized or not, you don't even say if there is an error or if it crashes or what happens, make it clearer and if an error appears, describe it or attach it prints. yes the roms are listed well most of them. the error is it just restarts itself after choosing a game.

i d/led the roms off a Torrent site and got it from a retro ROM website. they said it was .160 or 2015. they are a complete non-merge set. as for resetting it and delete all the configurations I only edited recalbox.conf by adding 2 lines and creating the two overload files.

Also in the instructions it says you can have different romsets if you put them in different folders. that’s what I was going to do. I have romset .220 also with half the .chd files i would rather use but there’s not even a core for it. I’ll have to get it if it’s even available.

I will look at your directions and use the program Romulus and see what I have then get back to you. thanks for the help.

I have tried just about everything. I started out with a completely fresh new image put it on my USB drive and installed it on my Raspberry PI 4 then I put the 2015 Mame Romset in it’s own folder under Mame/ROMs. I went into the menus under advanced emulation settings set to 2015 romset. no go. I then create the file .recalbox.conf file with mame.emulator=libretro & mame.core=mame2015. Put it in /recalbox/share/roms/mame/MAME2015 folder. no go. I then made a copy and renamed it .retroarch.cfg and put it in the same /mame/MAME2015 folder as the .recalbox.conf was in. still no go. i’ve tried coin ops, dig, other ready made images and several others and now this one and I thought I was making progress because I got the joysticks to work but now I am running into this problem. it’s like I have to learn a new computer language for each one of these programs. I was thinking about just renaming the default core until I found out that its just about impossible without having to re-incode everything. Any help would be much appreciated.

@oyyodams I know it’s free i am just stuck after spending hours on this really really simple thing. I am now willing to pay someone for their expertise in the matter. for their help nothing more. I am not going to spend another 5 hours doing the same thing here going from site to site signing up for this and that only to find myself no where. there is nothing wrong with someone prospering for their work it is a capitalistic system you know. I can cut you in too since you are a moderator. I don’t need direct assistance just help

All I’m trying to do is get recallbox to set the default to my set of MAME 2015 ROMSET a 90 gigs d/l just to use it for this program. because I knew I’d probably have a hard time getting my 0.220 MAME ROMSET to work correctly since theres no core for it.

I cannot get it to accept the 2015 ROMs to be default no matter what it always stays with 2003 plus roms. I spent hours and hours trying to figure this simple task out and I’m about to blow my head off with a shotgun and then have my next-door neighbor come over and shovel me into the lake down the road.

now before you say its quite easy just go to the main menu under advance emulator settings blah blah blah I’ve done all that didn’t work. i’ve done a recalbox and retroarch config files and overload config files using the dot in front of the file name. nothing works. I have read the instructions over and over I don’t know what to do. this is no longer fun I don’t care I’m about to burn down my arcade one up with my retro pi4 and everything. I will give the first person an easy money just to solve this simple task.

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i’m just trying to use my raspberry pi four and my arcade one up together so me & my kids can play games on. It seemed like a simple task I thought. This is my first post and probably my last after the moderator get wind of this message. I don’t know if this is allowed or not.