Note – The other “a5200” subfolder is optional and is used if you prefer to have your BIOS file uncompressed. This is an example of some roms in the correct “a5200” subfolder (HERE IS MINE Atari 5200.ini)ĪLSO place your BIOS file (a5200.zip HERE) These XML’s are religiously kept up to date with current MAME versions Then use something like Don’s Renamer to rename your roms to match. Note To automate the renaming process you can grab the MAME Atari 5200 Hyperspin compatible xml from the dropbox linked in the 1 st post of this thread (Official) MAME XML Database. This means whatever roms and BIOS you have MUST be named the same as the name given in the hash file. Your roms and BIOS will need to match what’s in the a5200.xml in the “hash” folder ROMPATH/a5200/a5200 - Place UNzipped BIOS files hereĪn additional a5200 folder with the Unzipped BIOS files can also be place in the a5200 folder ROMPATH/a5200 - place zipped BIOS and zipped roms here Your compressed BIOS folder (a5200.zip) can be located WITH you ROM file zip's Wherever you locate your roms they must end up in a subfolder called “a5200” I have my roms located on a NAS drive called “MYCLOUD”. Save it as CreateConfig.bat (Locate it with your mame.exe) (OR USE THIS mame64.exe CreateConfig.bat)ĭouble click the Batch file and mame.ini will be created Open Notepad and type the “name of mame.exe” –cc If you don’t have a mame.ini you will need to generate one Next copy the highlighted assets to a safe locationġ) Hash folder – This has the MAME games databases (softlists) for all the different non Arcade systems MAME can emulateĢ) Ini folder – All specific and global configuration (.ini) files go in hereģ) Roms folder – All Arcade BIOS files go in hereĤ) mame.ini – This is the Global configuration file for MAMEĥ) CreateConfig.bat – This is an optional file to generate the mame.ini file There is plenty more there than this guide will cover!! Once extracted you will have something similar to this RetroArch is usually a couple of releases behind.
Try to match your romset version, RetroArch “Arcade (MAME)” core version and PC MAME emulator version.
Please search around for the topics relating to this issue. Native RetroArch and RetroArch launched from Hyperspin use separate configuration files.
Note I have assumed you are familiar with setting systems up in Hyperspin and are familiar with Retroarch. You must have the correct roms and BIOS files that MAME emulator is expecting. The exact same goes for MAME but this is more consistent.
How to get Atari 5200 and other systems working on Nvidia Shield with Retroarch “Arcade (MAME)” coreĮverything RetroArch is subject to change without warning, cores break and improve and RetroArch is constantly evolving.
MAME Atari 5200 Setup with RetroArch Android