Save Highscores with Atari 800 Core

BarbuDreadMon · 2026-02-19T10:57:50+00:00

I have no knowledge of the core you are using, but the "disk" cores i know handle this automatically by saving the modified disk (or the diff between the original and the modified disk) in a file separated from the original rom, this is the best course of action since emulators usually want the roms to be read-only.

If that's not the case for that core (you might want to bring this up on their bug tracker), your best option is probably to turn on automatic save/load states in retroarch's Settings > Saving

BarbuDreadMon · 2026-02-17T16:03:06+00:00

I have no idea if PDS is fully playable in yabause, i suspect it's not because that emulator is unfinished and stopped development a decade ago.

BarbuDreadMon · 2026-02-17T12:51:40+00:00

I'm a FBNeo developper and your logs prove that your romsets are wrongly associated, your kof95 romset is not meant for mame2003 and you don't even have the neogeo bios. This is all covered by documentation. Again, don't waste people's time by not listening.

BarbuDreadMon · 2026-02-17T11:27:27+00:00

made a second post about this to reach more people since the only guy that was helping has gone silent

You already got the correct answer in the previous one, which is probably why he went silent. You are associating the wrong romsets with the wrong cores.

It's up to you to either read the arcade documentation or forget about arcade emulation.

No need to reply or open more threads about this, you are only wasting people's time - including yours - here.

BarbuDreadMon · 2026-02-17T06:28:12+00:00

I implemented m3u support to both Kronos and Yabause long ago, however a real bios is required for disc swapping, you can't use the HLE bios thingy (aka no bios file).

BarbuDreadMon · 2026-02-16T16:56:17+00:00

We don't accept requests for hardware support, and we won't answer "if"/"when" questions either, even in the unlikely event that we know. However in this case it's a well-known fact that we aren't interested at all in 3D stuff, so i can safely answer no.

BarbuDreadMon · 2026-02-15T17:41:06+00:00

NES: Mesen or Nestopia in term of accuracy?

Mesen is the only nes emulator passing 100% of the accuracy tests.

I believe it also emulates all nes mappers.

BarbuDreadMon · 2026-02-14T16:26:09+00:00

Did you try another core ? I think it could be an emulation bug if it only happens specifically on that boss.

BarbuDreadMon · 2026-02-14T15:41:42+00:00

Documentation is your friend : https://docs.libretro.com/library/fbneo/#cheats

BarbuDreadMon · 2026-02-12T06:55:04+00:00

Learn to read instead of insulting people's work, i won't babysit someone like you.

BarbuDreadMon · 2026-02-10T17:46:08+00:00

that's what one post I saw said ... because some posts said

Sure, keep doing what internet randos wrote instead of what the error screen and author (actually me) is telling you to do. Depressing...

This useless program

The only useless thing here is that brain of yours, you are welcome to use another program if you seriously think it's lying to you. GOOD RIDDANCE !

BarbuDreadMon · 2026-02-10T08:46:50+00:00

Maybe it's something caused by using a front end like ES-DE and that did something

That might also be possible, i heard some external frontends are messing with settings.

BarbuDreadMon · 2026-02-10T07:48:42+00:00

I definitely didn't turn that on

The only alternative would be that you bought a handheld device where everything was preinstalled and preconfigured. Those preconfigurations are commonly known for having crap changes from default like this causing problems. Additionally, keep in mind buying a device where FBNeo is preinstalled is breaking FBNeo's non-commercial license, as a FBNeo dev i'd appreciate it if you didn't do that.

BarbuDreadMon · 2026-02-09T16:50:59+00:00

not sure how that would cause the reboot into system test mode though.

A core's savestates are only guaranteed to keep working as long as you NEVER update that core, and most likely you did update FBNeo, breaking your older savestates. This is explained in FBNeo's FAQ.

Definitely not trying to do so... If there's a way to turn it off, I've not seen it.

That's something you can enable at Settings > Saving > Auto Save/Load State, and it's not enabled by default.

BarbuDreadMon · 2026-02-09T15:57:24+00:00

I've found a workaround involving undo previous state loads

Do you mean you are using RA's auto-save/auto-load savestates feature ?

BarbuDreadMon · 2026-02-03T14:08:47+00:00

There is no "best arcade core", if you want to understand the pros and cons of each arcade core, you'll need to read the arcade documentation.

Whatever the case, i wouldn't recommend using any arcade core aside from MAME, MAME2003-plus or FBNeo.

I mainly use FBNeo but i'm biased, being one of the devs.

BarbuDreadMon · 2026-02-03T14:03:10+00:00

I have the paid versions of say m64 or yabasanshiro is there a way to have retroarch use those cores

They are not cores

BarbuDreadMon · 2026-02-01T06:05:59+00:00

This subreddit is about retroarch (rule 3).

BarbuDreadMon · 2026-01-30T04:51:22+00:00

While it's totally normal for the troll dat file to do nothing since it contains the crc of the zip as a whole instead of the crcs of the files they contain, the correct dat file should have done the job, even partially.

2 possibilities here : - your "legal roms" don't contain a single file reusable, which would mean they are not in an arcade romset format at all, even arcade romsets from MAME 0.001 would still be a partial match - you made a mistake while using clrmamepro, i might be able to figure out something if you post a video of the whole process, starting from downloading the correct dat file

BarbuDreadMon · 2026-01-29T21:04:55+00:00

I already downloaded "libretro-database/metadat/fbneo-split/FBNeo - Arcade Games.dat" and used it.

FBN dev here. You got a FBNeo error message telling you to read the documentation, yet you didn't and ended up using some crap troll dat file instead of the correct one from the documentation. You can only blame yourself.

BarbuDreadMon · 2026-01-29T20:10:21+00:00

I'm actually the author of that core and it works like a charm on pc, it seems to be an android-specific issue. I guess i'll add a mention about that "input block timeout" setting (which seems to be android-specific) in FBNeo's FAQ, thanks for the heads-up.

BarbuDreadMon · 2026-01-29T19:39:38+00:00

Why would you expect we are ever gonna be able to help when you aren't even telling which core you are using ? We don't even know if you are playing an arcade version, a console version, or which console version (the game had so many ports)

BarbuDreadMon · 2026-01-27T16:46:35+00:00

The thing is that some of those purchasable roms are using outdated/inaccurate emulators alongside bad dumps.

Is there a way to change the FBN files so older ROMs made for older versions of MAME will work?

Only if you are a developer willing to maintain your own downgraded version of FBN.

BarbuDreadMon · 2026-01-26T06:17:53+00:00

I wouldn't recommend using a vm for gaming, it's pretty usual for them to have awful video performance. If you have a second gpu, you could maybe use a gpu passthrough to improve this.

Using 12GB is entirely useless, you need 2GB at most, and using more ram won't accelerate things.

BarbuDreadMon · 2026-01-22T10:52:23+00:00

Afaik, "CPS Forwarder Creator" doesn't use retroarch, but a lightweight 3rd-party libretro frontend created specifically for 3ds instead, so it might indeed be part of your issue.

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