Arcade games are a special case and arcade emulation is complex.
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Arcade emulators
Lakka ships two emulators able to launch arcade ROMs: MAME2003 and FBA.
FBA
FBA is set as the default emulator for Arcade in Lakka. We ship the version 0.2.97.38. It is faster than MAME and emulates the following platforms:
- Capcom CPS-1
- Capcom CPS-2
- Capcom CPS-3
- Cave
- Data East DEC-0, DEC-8 and DECO IC16 based games
- Galaxian based hardware
- Irem M62, M63, M72, M90, M92 and M107 hardware
- Kaneko 16
- Konami
- Neo-Geo
- NMK16
- Pacman based hardware
- PGM
- Psikyo 68EC020 and SH-2 based hardware
- Sega System 1, System 16 (and similar), System 18, X-Board and Y-Board
- Super Kaneko Nova System
- Toaplan 1
- Toaplan 2
- Taito F2, X, Z and others
- Miscellaneous drivers for lots of other hardware
MAME
MAME supports more games than FBA. We ship the version from 2003 also called 0.78. It is an old version, but it was the easiest to package in Lakka and it is faster than newer versions of MAME.
Arcade ROMs
Arcade ROMs are special and follow these rules:
Neo Geo Roms Archive
- Arcade ROMs have to stay zipped, they contain many files.
- Arcade emulators are running the .zip games directly, they take care of uncompressing, while other emulators let RetroArch uncompress the ROM for them.
- Never rename an arcade ROM, the file name is an identifier that helps the emulator to know how to emulate it.
- Arcade ROMs have versions. Each arcade emulator comes with its own ROM set. A ROM that works under MAME2003 can be incompatible with MAME2014 or FBA.
- Arcade ROMs can have parents/clone relationships.
- Arcade ROMs can be of 3 types:
- Non-merged: Games are standalone, each zip contain all the files needed to run the game, including the parent ROM.
- Split: Games require the parent ROM to run.
- Merged: Clones are merged in the parent. You end up with more than one game in a single zip.
In Lakka, we recommend you to use FBA with an FBA v0.2.97.38 split ROM set. RetroArch doesn’t support merged sets anyway.
But if you really need to run more games, choose MAME2003 with a MAME0.78 splitted ROM set.
ROM storage and organization
Game ROMs must be placed within the roms folder. It is recommanded to keep ROMs zipped, except for CD images.
Many users sort their ROMs into subfolders named after the system which the ROMs belong to. This results in hierarchy such as:
You are free to organize your ROMs as you prefer.
Lakka supports loading ROMs from an external USB drive.
It also supports loading ROMs from remote storage using network filesystems like NFS.
ROM scanning and playlist generation
Lakka uses a ROM scanning system to generate the playlists in its horizontal menu. It is a convenient way to sort your ROMs on a per-system basis.
Each ROM stored in a folder being scanned by RetroArch is checked against a database.
This database is based on No-Intro and will recognize only the good dumps. See it as a sort of ROM validator.
If you would like to generate playlists manually, or generate playlists for systems that do not have scanning support yet, the playlist file format has been documented.
Special ROMs
Cartdige ROMs from the famous consoles are well known and all follow the same rules:
- A ROM is composed of a single file
- It can be zipped or not (Prefer zipped for Lakka)
Neo Geo Rom Zip
But some systems are more complex.
CD images
The preferred format for CD images is BIN+CUE. The .cue is a text file like this:
For PSP games, the preferred format is ISO.
Neo Geo Roms Pc
Arcade games
The specificity of Arcade games is explained here