Neo Geo CD - Retroarch

[mccorkled]

The FB Alpha core is now working great for Neo Geo CD games so I can ditch all the other "meh" emulators that I was messing with. The games load fine through RA but RLauncher won't boot them. Anyone else experiencing this? I assume once one core is working, the rest should once the module is setup because they are using the same info locations such as system, cores, and config but this doesn't seem to be the case.

Here are my logs...

RocketLauncher.log
RocketLauncher.DLL.log
RocketLauncherUI.log

Thank you

[bman83]

Hi Can you run NEOGEO CD outside of RL?

The only thing I can think of off hand is have you got your neogeocd bios in the right place?

cheers B

[mccorkled]

Hi Can you run NEOGEO CD outside of RL?

The only thing I can think of off hand is have you got your neogeocd bios in the right place?

cheers B

Yes the games load fine until ran through RL

[Zarach]

I have the same issue here. I'd bet the module isn't passing the right arguments to RetroArch "--subsystem neocd" since FB Neo didn't exist prior to this last iteration of the RetroArch module and was defaulting to the MAME core. I'm not savvy enough to fix this quickly though. Anyone else have the skillz?

[tonesmalone]

Don’t use RetroArch. Issue solved.


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[Zarach]

Don’t use RetroArch. Issue solved.


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Thanks for your amazing and helpful insight.

On a more productive note I was able to come up with a workaround that I hope will help others having this issue. I think it will break MAME for NeoGeo CD but if you want to use RetroArch for that system it will work.

I made the following change to the systems section of the RetroArch.ahk file which changes MAME as the default core for NeoGeo CD:

SNK Neo Geo CD|LibRetro_NEOCD|fbneo_libretro|neocdz (default is SNK Neo Geo CD|LibRetro_NEOCD|mame_libretro|neocdz)

I made the following additions to the primaryExe.Run section of the RetroArch.ahk file:

HideAppStart(hideEmuObj,hideEmu)

If (StringUtils.Contains(core, "^(mame|mess|ume)") && (retroMAMEID != "mame")) { ; if a MAME/MESS/UME core is used
primaryExe.Run(" """ . (retroMAMEID ? retroMAMEID : "") . fullRomPath . """ " . fullscreen . retroCFGFileCLI . " -L """ . libDll . netCommand, "Hide")
} Else If (retroID = "LibRetro_SCUMM") {
primaryExe.Run(" """ . scummFile . """" . fullscreen . retroCFGFileCLI . " -L """ . libDll . "" . netCommand, "Hide")
} Else If (retroID = "LibRetro_SGB" || If superGB = "true") { ; For some reason, the order of our command line matters in this particular case.
primaryExe.Run(fullscreen . retroCFGFileCLI . " -L """ . libDll . fullRomPath . netCommand, "Hide")
} Else If mgM3UFile.Exist() {
primaryExe.Run(" """ . mgM3UFile.FileFullPath . """" . fullscreen . retroCFGFileCLI . " -L """ . libDll . netCommand, "Hide")
} Else If (retroID = "LibRetro_NEOCD") {
primaryExe.Run(" " . fullscreen . retroCFGFileCLI . " -L """ . libDll """ --subsystem neocd" . fullRomPath . netCommand, "Hide")
} Else {
primaryExe.Run(" " . fullRomPath . fullscreen . retroCFGFileCLI . " -L """ . libDll . netCommand, "Hide")
}

[tonesmalone]

I wasn’t being sarcastic. It is honestly useful insight from many years of doing this, and having everything setup nicely.


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[Zarach]

My mistake I've been using NeoRaine for years and it's so old that being able to bring Neo Geo CD under the roof of RetroArch with all my other systems is a big update for me. One nice consistent overlay, one nice and consistent shader for everything. That's my version of nice

[urbangangsta101]

On a more productive note I was able to come up with a workaround that I hope will help others having this issue.

I already (unofficially) added support for this last week:

http://www.rlauncher.com/forum/showt...ll=1#post44545

[Zarach]

Thank you! This is great. In my searches I was doing "Neo Geo CD" and that thread didn't come up on Google right away. Thanks for putting this in, much appreciated!

[Zarach]

I made a small change to the way I got FBNeo working for Neo Geo CD so that it won't break MAME if people still use that for this system:

} Else If (retroID = "LibRetro_NEOCD") && (libDll != "fbneo_libretro.dll") {
primaryExe.Run(" " . fullscreen . retroCFGFileCLI . " -L """ . libDll """ --subsystem neocd" . fullRomPath . netCommand, "Hide")

Obviously there are many ways to accomplish the same thing as urbangangsta101 has also gotten this working in a different fashion. The core .dll can be specified either in the system area of the module per my first change post or in the global module settings for the system. I made this change because I'd personally prefer to leave the system area of the module at defaults and change the core in the global module settings for the system and only have different launch commands specified when RL picks up that I want to use the FBNeo .dll.