{"id":25,"date":"2023-03-13T10:47:54","date_gmt":"2023-03-13T10:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/retropie.quicksy.uk\/?page_id=25"},"modified":"2025-03-25T13:52:58","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T13:52:58","slug":"roms-in-retropie","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/retropie.quicksy.uk\/?page_id=25","title":{"rendered":"Roms in Retropie"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There are many emulators in retroarch and directly for Mame<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Each of these requires a different build of ROMS<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Priority <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All roms will use the following Emulator in this order until one works<br>lr-fbneo<br>lr-mame2010<br>lr-mame2003plus<br>lr-mame2003<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;\/roms\/ is shorthand for \/home\/pi\/RetroPie\/roms<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;\/BIOS is shorthand for \/home\/pi\/RetroPie\/BIOS\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;\/configs is shorthand for \/opt\/retropie\/configs\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><thead><tr><th>Emulator<\/th><th>ROM Directory<\/th><th>default emuator<\/th><th>Uses retroarch controller remap or mame<\/th><th>Configuration Directory<\/th><th><\/th><th>Samples Directory<\/th><th>Binary Directory<\/th><th>Hiscores Directory<\/th><th>SaveGame Directory<\/th><th>SaveState Directory<\/th><th>Nr Games<\/th><\/tr><\/thead><tbody><tr><td><\/td><td><\/td><td><\/td><td><\/td><td><\/td><td><\/td><td><\/td><td><\/td><td><\/td><td><\/td><td><\/td><td><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><a href=\"https:\/\/retropie.org.uk\/docs\/FinalBurn-Neo\/#lr-fbneo\">lr-fbneo<\/a><\/td><td>&#8230;\/roms\/neogeo<\/td><td>lr-fbneo<\/td><td>retroarch<\/td><td>&#8230;\/configs\/neogeo\/retroarch.cfg<\/td><td><\/td><td>&#8230;\/BIOS\/fbneo\/samples\/<\/td><td><\/td><td><\/td><td><\/td><td><\/td><td>2186<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>lr-mame2003<br>(MAME 0.78)<\/td><td>&#8230;\/roms\/arcade&nbsp;<\/td><td>lr-mame2003<\/td><td>mame(TAB) and retroarch<\/td><td>&#8230;\/configs\/mame-libretro\/retroarch.cfg<\/td><td><\/td><td>&#8230;\/BIOS\/mame2003\/samples\/<\/td><td><\/td><td><\/td><td><\/td><td><\/td><td>6<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>lr-mame2003plus<br>MAME 0.78-MAME 0.188<\/td><td>&#8230;\/roms\/arcade<\/td><td>lr-mame2003<\/td><td>mame(TAB) and retroarch<\/td><td>&#8230;\/configs\/mame-libretro\/retroarch.cfg<br>&#8230;\/configs\/arcade\/retroarch.cfg<\/td><td><\/td><td>&#8230;\/BIOS\/mame2003-plus\/samples\/<\/td><td><\/td><td><\/td><td><\/td><td><\/td><td>12<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>lr-mame2010<br>(MAME 0.139)<\/td><td>&#8230;\/roms\/arcade<\/td><td>lr-mame2016<\/td><td>retroarch<\/td><td>&#8230;\/configs\/mame-libretro\/retroarch.cfg<\/td><td><\/td><td>&#8230;\/BIOS\/mame2010\/samples<\/td><td><\/td><td><\/td><td><\/td><td><\/td><td>39<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>lr-mame2015<br>(experimental)<br>(MAME 0.160)<\/td><td>&#8230;\/roms\/arcade<\/td><td>lr-mame2003<\/td><td>retroarch<\/td><td><\/td><td><\/td><td><\/td><td><\/td><td><\/td><td><\/td><td><\/td><td>18<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>lr-mame2016<br>(experimental)<br>(MAME 0.174)<\/td><td>&#8230;\/roms\/arcade&nbsp;<\/td><td>lr-mame2003<\/td><td>retroarch<\/td><td><\/td><td><\/td><td><\/td><td><\/td><td><\/td><td><\/td><td><\/td><td>621<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>advmame<\/td><td>&#8230;\/roms\/mame-advmame<\/td><td><\/td><td>mame(TAB)<\/td><td><\/td><td><\/td><td><\/td><td><\/td><td><\/td><td><\/td><td><\/td><td>31<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>MAME<\/td><td>&#8230;\/roms\/mame-libretro<\/td><td>lr-mame<\/td><td><\/td><td><\/td><td><\/td><td><\/td><td><\/td><td><\/td><td><\/td><td><\/td><td><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All of the above RomSets are built correctly in the following folder<br>\\\\THEQUICKS\\RetroGames\\ROMS\\retropie-clrmame-builds\\{romsetbuild}\\rom<br>and are then copied to the retropie folder as follows<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All lr-FBNEO files are copied to \\neogeo\\ folder<br>All Lr-mame2010 files copied to \\mame-libretro folder<br>All mame2003, the arcade folder will hold the version of the game that works best<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CLrMamepro<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The following folders are used to re-build the romsets <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\\THEQUICKS\\RetroGames\\ROMS\\&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In CLRMamePro settinging the folders are added to Global Add Paths<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ensure you set &#8220;Non-Merged sets&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For each romsetset a folder has been created to add the right .dat file to it &#8211; the profile than is set and you perform a re-build &#8211; where detaqination is a subfolder in:-<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\\THEQUICKS\\RetroGames\\ROMS\\retropie-clrmame-builds\\{romsetbuild}\\rom<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After this &#8211; the scanner is set off to verify which roms are good (and which are bad &#8211; it can also be used to ensure all the samples and CHD&#8217;s are built correctly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If missing ROM s are still there, then you need to ensure you have all the roms .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are many emulators in retroarch and directly for Mame Each of these requires a different build of ROMS Priority All roms will use the following Emulator in this order until one workslr-fbneolr-mame2010lr-mame2003pluslr-mame2003 &#8230;\/roms\/ is shorthand for \/home\/pi\/RetroPie\/roms &#8230;\/BIOS is shorthand for \/home\/pi\/RetroPie\/BIOS\/ &#8230;\/configs is shorthand for \/opt\/retropie\/configs\/ Emulator ROM Directory default emuator Uses retroarch [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"wp-custom-template-000","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-25","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/retropie.quicksy.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/retropie.quicksy.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/retropie.quicksy.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/retropie.quicksy.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/retropie.quicksy.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/retropie.quicksy.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88,"href":"https:\/\/retropie.quicksy.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25\/revisions\/88"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/retropie.quicksy.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}