Someone help me play Sky Target 1995

[Gwynbleidd]

so this game was from early 90s you basically fly planes and go shooty shoot. How do I play it on RetroArch? Or even without it...Someone HELP!

[Dgo]

You can use mame or beetle saturn to play it. The first is the easiest way imo.
You need to provide the game yourself.
In regards to the core you can use the cores I've mentioned in the first sentence.

[Gwynbleidd]

Originally posted by Dgo:

You can use mame or beetle saturn to play it. The first is the easiest way imo.
You need to provide the game yourself.
In regards to the core you can use the cores I've mentioned in the first sentence.

I have the game extracted files and even .exe as well but none of Retro arch emulators show it can work!

[Dgo]

Originally posted by Gwynbleidd:

I have the game extracted files and even .exe as well but none of Retro arch emulators show it can work!

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3390008731
Neither mame nor beetle saturn use exes on their games. This is a ss for mame. I only tested it. I believe beetle saturn should work too.

[Gwynbleidd]

Originally posted by Dgo:

Originally posted by Gwynbleidd:

I have the game extracted files and even .exe as well but none of Retro arch emulators show it can work!

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3390008731
Neither mame nor beetle saturn use exes on their games. This is a ss for mame. I only tested it. I believe beetle saturn should work too.

teach me sir how to!!!

[Gwynbleidd]

Originally posted by Gwynbleidd:

Originally posted by Dgo:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3390008731
Neither mame nor beetle saturn use exes on their games. This is a ss for mame. I only tested it. I believe beetle saturn should work too.

teach me sir how to!!!

Can you please show me how?

[JudgeTy]

Originally posted by Gwynbleidd:

Originally posted by Gwynbleidd:

teach me sir how to!!!

Can you please show me how?

There's youtube videos... A simple search on how to use retroarch + mame or beetle saturn should do the trick.

Also MAME is most def not the easier of the two to setup for a single game.

[Dgo]

He finally made it work on beetle saturn but no luck on mame. Some failed to load content message. I assisted him on the bios but dunno what's wrong. He still has the problem.

[JudgeTy]

Originally posted by Dgo:

He finally made it work on beetle saturn but no luck on mame. Some failed to load content message. I assisted him on the bios but dunno what's wrong. He still has the problem.

Last time I setup mame- you have to have the complete set such as Mame 0.272 + bios devices. There's two versions of the same set with clones / without clones into addition to bios / no bios devices. In addition you need the proper retroarch core to use the MAME version.

You can't have a partial set. Has to be everything.
I typically don't use retroarch with mame though. I use launchbox with mame configured automatically using a fullset.

[Dgo]

Originally posted by JudgeTy:

Last time I setup mame- you have to have the complete set such as Mame 0.272 + bios devices. There's two versions of the same set with clones / without clones into addition to bios / no bios devices. In addition you need the proper retroarch core to use the MAME version.

You can't have a partial set. Has to be everything.
I typically don't use retroarch with mame though. I use launchbox with mame configured automatically using a fullset.

I have the full set roms with tons of clones + the bios. I had no issues with the game.

He only had this very game with what I beileve are the right bios but no luck.

Also I use mame (current) not 2003, not 2010, etc. just plain mame. He tried the same but nothing.

[JudgeTy]

Yeah you can't have a single game. It needs every cabinet/game it's derived off of.

MAMEUI might be able to show you everything required for that game to work.

[Dgo]

Originally posted by JudgeTy:

Yeah you can't have a single game. It needs every cabinet/game it's derived off of.

MAMEUI might be able to show you everything required for that game to work.

Are you sure? It doesn't make any sense. Why should it need all the games? I've got my set from many years ago. MAMEUI is not included in RA right?

[JudgeTy]

Originally posted by Dgo:

Originally posted by JudgeTy:

Yeah you can't have a single game. It needs every cabinet/game it's derived off of.

MAMEUI might be able to show you everything required for that game to work.

Are you sure? It doesn't make any sense. Why should it need all the games? I've got my set from many years ago. MAMEUI is not included in RA right?

No it's mame's ugly nice front end, but it does the check for requirements. It will red out cabinets that won't work due to dependencies.

Depending on the core for mame in retroarch it needs to be .zip.

You can try to do a partial build, but usually you need the set of cabinets that the original was built on and any iterations that have dependencies prior.

[Gwynbleidd]

Originally posted by JudgeTy:

Originally posted by Dgo:

Are you sure? It doesn't make any sense. Why should it need all the games? I've got my set from many years ago. MAMEUI is not included in RA right?

No it's mame's ugly nice front end, but it does the check for requirements. It will red out cabinets that won't work due to dependencies.

Depending on the core for mame in retroarch it needs to be .zip.

You can try to do a partial build, but usually you need the set of cabinets that the original was built on and any iterations that have dependencies prior.

I have tried latest mame as well for x64 and it does show me red box error before even emulating that the file I am about to emulate has poor graphics and poor audio and higher chances it won't work

[JudgeTy]

Originally posted by Gwynbleidd:

Originally posted by JudgeTy:

No it's mame's ugly nice front end, but it does the check for requirements. It will red out cabinets that won't work due to dependencies.

Depending on the core for mame in retroarch it needs to be .zip.

You can try to do a partial build, but usually you need the set of cabinets that the original was built on and any iterations that have dependencies prior.

I have tried latest mame as well for x64 and it does show me red box error before even emulating that the file I am about to emulate has poor graphics and poor audio and higher chances it won't work

you need the rom set, if you are doing partial you need the partial set. You are more than likely trying a single rom for a cabinet. You need all roms in that cabinet series. It's not worth using mame for a single game IMO.

A merged set has the parents. You need the parents of the game you are playing. If you are doing split you need every parent / dependency for the game you are trying to play not just the game.