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# RetroArch MAME Tips (Best Core, ROMs and Versions)

The best MAME core for RetroArch is the MAME 2003-Plus.

After installing RetroArch on your gaming system, the next thing you need to do is install cores that will run the games you want to play.

Each MAME core has a specific ROMset version, and it will not work if you download a different version. For example, if you have installed the MAME 2003 core, its required ROMset version is MAME 0.78.

The given rom set must be put in the specific folder ./mame2003 to be used by that core. As well as MAME_2003-Plus_Reference_Set_2018/ - for sound sample.

Alternative is to put them in the ./arcade folder ?

# Cores

• MAME 2003-Plus - MAME 2003-Plus began with the game drivers from MAME 0.78, meaning that 95% or more of MAME 0.78 romsets will work as-is in MAME 2003-Plus, where they immediately benefit from its bugfixes and other improvements. In order to play the new games and games which received ROM updates in MAME 2003-Plus, you will need to find or build MAME 2003-Plus romsets.

We recommend the Full Non-Merged format, where each romset zip files includes all the files needed to run each game, including any ROMs from ‘parent’ ROM sets and BIOS sets.

# Shaders

Choose your Shader (quick menu) + Shader (there is a handeld selection) Then Save (globaly / per core / per folder or per gameà.

• GameBoy - handheld/lcd-grid-v2-gba-color.slangp
  • Handheld Colorspace Shaders
• CRT
  • CRT Shaders

# Troubleshooting

see Generating Logs to enable logs (Settings/Loggin) in RetroArch (to diagnose roms issue for egs). Once enabled.

Logs are generated in /home/ark/.emulationstation/es_log.txt on RGB30 using ArkOS. It’s also possible to launch retro-arch directly from ternminal (even through ssh) provided Emulation station is exited before.