Arcade - First game release: 1990

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System Features

Bios Information

No BIOS required for Gaelco

Controls

Specific system information

No specific system information yet.

Arcade - Released: 2002

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Arcade - Released: 1999

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Arcade - Released: 1998

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System Features

Bios Information

Controls

Specific system information

CHD files

Some NAOMI boards use just ZIP ROMs to run, but most others use a CHD files in addition to the .zip file.

CHD files must be placed in your rom folder, along the zip file, in a folder named exactly as the .zip file.

Service Menu

Some games have a per-game menu for accessing the machine's advanced configuration such as its dip switches, service mode and diagnostic input.

To access the service menu for NAOMI games, you need first to enable the Service Mode from the RetroBat advanced menu (set it to YES):

Once done, you will be able access the per-game Service Menu by pressing L3 + R3 buttons on the controller.

Arcade - Released: 2003

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System Features

Bios Information

Controls

Specific system information

Service Menu

Some games have a per-game menu for accessing the machine's advanced configuration such as its dip switches, service mode and diagnostic input.

To access the service menu for ATOMISWAVE games, you need first to enable the Service Mode from the RetroBat advanced menu (set it to YES):

Once done, you will be able access the per-game Service Menu by pressing L3 + R3 buttons on the controller.

HBMAME (HomeBrew MAME) is a derivative of MAME 0.245, and contains various hacks and homebrews.

Information

Bios Information

Refer to the , HBMAME requires the same bioses as MAME.

Controls

Specific system information

Adding HBMame games to RetroBat

Most Romsets for HBMame come in a "merged" presentation, meaning that the rom will contain the main game and the hack inside of the same zip file.

In order for RetroBat to see the Hack version, the rom will have to be "un-merged", here is an example for the "Arrange Ver. 1.1" hack for DoDonPachi:

Step 1: checking the rom

Check that the rom you have is correct, this can be achieved by downloading the official HBMameUI software , placing the rom in the rom folder of the downloaded HBMame and auditing the set.

Step 2: un-merging the rom

Place your rom in the \roms\hbmame folder of your RetroBat installation.

Open the rom archive and extract the hack you want to launch from RetroBat.

Here for example we will extract ddonpacha from the archive:

Now, go inside the extracted ddonpacha folder and zip the content, the zip name must be ddonpacha.zip (the official hack name):

The content of the zip should look as follows:

Step 3: run the game

Now both roms will appear in RetroBat : the main one and the hack

And you will be able to run the hack rom with the emulators / cores provided in RetroBat:

ROM set versions

Current ROM set : 0.245

CHD or IMG files

Refer to the about CHD.

Sample files

Refer to the .

Arcade - Released: 2002

Information

RetroBat uses the Crediar build of dolphin triforce.

System Features

Bios Information

No BIOS required for Triforce.

Controls

Controls are similar to Gamecube mapping for Dolphin.

You can create your own mapping directly in the dolphin-triforce emulator.

Specific system information

No specific information.

Playstation-based hardware arcade games emulator

Information

System Features

Bios Information

No BIOS required.

Controls

Specific system information

Adding games

Just rename the game folder with ".game" at the end:

Arcade - Released: 1997

Information

Only 7 games were released.

Bios Information

Controls

Specific system information

There is no specific System information documented here yet.

Playstation-based hardware arcade games emulator

Information

The list of compatible games can be found in the following folder: \emulators\play\arcadedefs

System Features

Bios Information

No BIOS required.

Controls

You can create your own .xml input profile file (for each game) and name it like the game file, RetroBat will then automatically load the file when loading the game.

Input profiles are stored in the following folder: \emulators\play\Play Data Files\inputprofiles:

Specific system information

Running games that do not have a ZIP file

For games without a .zip file, create a .m3u file named after the arcade profile name.

Arcade profile names can be found in the emulators\play\arcadedefs folder.

Arcade - Lifespan: 1988 - 1995

Information

Bios Information

No BIOS necessary for CPS systems.

Controls

Arcade stick mapping

Mapping can be found in the .

Controller mapping

For FBNEO and FBALPHA cores, 2 controller layouts are available:

• CLASSIC

• MODERN

Specific system information

There is no specific System information documented here yet.

Arcade - Lifespan: 1993 - 2003

Information

Bios Information

No BIOS necessary for CPS systems.

Controls

Arcade stick mapping

Mapping can be found in the .

Controller mapping

For FBNEO and FBALPHA cores, 2 controller layouts are available:

• CLASSIC

• MODERN

Specific system information

There is no specific System information documented here yet.

Arcade

List of CAVE games:

Information

Bios Information

No BIOS required to play CAVE games.

Controls

Arcade stick mapping

Mapping can be found in the .

Controller mapping

Specific system information

No specific system information.

Arcade

List of Dice games:

Information

System Features

Bios Information

No BIOS required to play DICE games.

Controls

Arcade stick mapping

Mapping can be found in the .

Controller mapping

Specific system information

Adding DICE games

Some games use zipped ROMs and launch similarly to MAME or FBNeo --- filename is important, .

Some games (pong, breakout, pinpong, etc) do not have any ROM on the board at all. For these, copy the dummy launcher file from to your ROM folder.

PC-based arcade games emulator

Information

Bios Information

No BIOS required.

Controls

Controls are automatically configured since RetroBat version 7.0.0.0 for gamepads and guns.

The file teknoparrot.yml located in system\resources\inputmapping is the file providing the default mapping for each game, it can be updated if you need a different mapping for a game.

Example for spiderman:

Gun games can have 2 mappings, one to play with the gamepad and one for using mouse/lightgun:

The id to use for the controls can be found in the game profile file in emulators\teknoparrot\GameProfiles folder:

Specific system information

ROMs

The list of compatible games can be found .

Adding TeknoParrot emulator to Retrobat

To add Teknoparrot games, you must first download the Teknoparrot "emulator" from its official website (and not elsewhere):

Then, unzip the file you just downloaded in \emulators\teknoparrot:

Launch the TeknoParrotUi.exe for the first time, it will most certainly ask for several updates: do them, all.

Place your Teknoparrot games in \roms\teknoparrot

The folders name of your Teknoparrot games must be renamed to .teknoparrot .parrot or .game

For example, the game folder of Mario Kart: Arcade GP DX must be renamed:

• MKDX.teknoparrot,

• or MKDX.parrot

• or MKDX.game

Important detail, the folders name must correspond to the name of the json file for the game in the Teknoparrot "Metadata" folder located in \emulators\teknoparrot\Metadata

Arcade - Released: 2000

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Arcade - Released: 1996

Information

Bios Information

No BIOS necessary for CPS systems.

Controls

Arcade stick mapping

Mapping can be found in the .

Controller mapping

For FBNEO and FBALPHA cores, 2 controller layouts are available:

• CLASSIC

• MODERN

Specific system information

There is no specific System information documented here yet.

Arcade - Released: 1994

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System features

Bios Information

Controls

System information

No information specific to this system

Playstation hardware arcade games emulator

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System Features

Bios Information

No BIOS required.

Controls - PSXMame

Controls - ZINC

There are 2 ways to configure Zinc controls with zinc emulator.

Automatic configuration

Select option "DYNAMIC" in the advanced system settings to enable automatic configuration (CONTROLS submenu).

3 profiles are available :

• Street Fighter

• Soul Edge

• Tekken

Configuration based on pre-defined files

Select option "PRE-DEFINED" in the advanced system settings to enable automatic configuration (CONTROLS submenu).

A profile .cfg file can be created for each individual game, to do so, you can either modify the existing profile file for the game or delete it and create a new file (files are located in the \emulators\zinc\cfg folder)

Ensure the .cfg file name starts with the game ID.

RetroBat automatically uses the first .cfg file found for which the name starts with the game ID.

Specific system information

ROMs

The list of compatible games can be found .

DO NOT UNZIP or RENAME the game files.

Some games require CHD files, these must be placed in a subfolder that has the same name as the gamezip:

Zinc emulator romset

Zinc emulator is only compatible with the following roms, the name must match exactly the list:

Multi-Arcade Emulator - Release year: 1997

Information

System Features

Bios Information

Depending on the , a BIOS can be required or not to play some games:

• Full non-merged: the BIOS is included in the ROM file, so no BIOS file will be needed

• Non-merged: same as "Full non-merged" but BIOS that are shared by multiple games are placed outside of the individual ROMs

• Split: BIOS files are required

Here is a non-exhaustive list of MAME bios files (based on rom set 0.255):

BIOS files must be placed at the root of the \bios folder of your RetroBat installation.

MAME folders

Rompath: \bios & \roms\mame

Samples: \bios\mame\samples

Cfg: \saves\mame\cfg

Ini: \bios\mame\ini

Hash: \bios\mame\hash

Artworks: \saves\mame\artwork

Cheats: \cheats\mame

Ctrl: \saves\mame\ctrlr

Controls

Controller mapping

Specific system information

ROM set versions

Refer to the .

CHD or IMG files

Refer to the about CHD.

Sample files

Refer to the .

Service Menu

Press L3 and R3 buttons to access to service menu.

Known issues & fixes

I only get a black screen when running games with libretro:mame core

Libretro:Mame has a limitation in the length of the paths it uses when launching a game through command lines. This limitation does not exist with standalone Mame.

In order to be able to fix this issue, ensure that your RetroBat folder path does is not installed in a path that is too long.

For example the path C:\Emulation\Multi Emulators\FrontEnd\All-in-one\This is top\RetroBat version 6.3 is too long and will result in the issue.

Arcade - First LaserDisc game release : 1983

Information

System Features

BIOS

No BIOS required to play DAPHNE or SINGE games.

Controls

Gamepad controls

Keyboard controls:

Specific system information

Adding Daphne Games

Daphne games consist of 2 parts

• a folder containing the videos, *.dat and *.txt files of the games

• a .zip file in the roms folder

To add Daphne games, your games folders must be placed in "\roms\daphne" folder by adding .daphne at the end.

For example, your game folder "lair" (Dragon's Lair) must be renamed to lair.daphne

Once the game added, it is listed twice in Retrobat, as both the zip and the .daphne folder are detected.

You can use use the to hide the .zip extension for the system by pressing SELECT

Navigate to and FILE EXTENSIONS

Untick .zip extension

Adding SINGE Games (with Hypseus)

SINGE games include the famous AMERICAN LASER GAMES and a few other titles.

The process is similar as for Daphne games but there is no zip file to place in the roms folder and the folder extension must be .hypseus. In addition, 2 files need to be present in your <game>.hypseus folder:

• <game>.singe

• <game>.txt

The structure of the game folder should look like this:

Simple games folders structure (Hypseus)

To make things easier, you can use the assets available on the Hypseus Github.

At first, download the content of the repository above,

and extract the zip on a temporary folder.

For the exemple, we will use the game Astroboy, in 00-singe2 sub-folder :

Inside the game folder, you will find a text file that contain the information about which file is missing, and where it have to be place. In this exemple, you have to place the file astroboy.m2v in the folder Video.

After adding the required files (could be .m2v file, or .ogg and .m2v files), you must rename your folder by adding .daphne at the end of the folder name (in our exemple : Astroboy.hypseus) and move this folder to the /roms/daphne/ folder

Use custom command lines (Hypseus)

It is possible to use a custom command file to force command line to hypseus emulator, to do so, create a text file in the rom folder and add all command lines required within the file:

Finally: rename the file with the .commands extension, the name of the file must match exactly the name of the game folder (without the .singe or .daphne extension).

Adding SINGE2 games (singe2 emulator)

Singe2 emulator does not support games in the same format as hypseus format.

Only games listed on the emulator webpage can be used:

You can download these games, add the video/sound files required, and rename the folder with a .singe extension to use these games with the SINGE2 emulator:

Arcade

Information

Arcade - Released: 1994

Information

System Features

Bios Information

No BIOS required for Model 2.

Controls

Input driver

By default, RetroBat forces the emulator to use the XINPUT driver, however, if you are using a controller that is not compatible with the XInput protocol, you will need to select the DINPUT driver in the advanced options of the system:

Default controls for each game:

Here are the default controls generated by RetroBat for each game.

Shooters:

List of games: Behind Enemy Lines, Gunblade NY, House of the Dead, Rail Chase, Virtua Cop, Virtua Cop 2.

Fighting Games:

List of games: Dead or Alive, Fighting Vipers, Last Bronx, Sonic Championship, Virtua Fighter 2.

Driving Games:

List of games: Daytona USA, Indianapolis 500, ManxTT Superbike, Motor Raid, Over Rev, Sega Rally, Sega Touring Car Championship, Super GT 24H.

Standard Games:

List of games: Dynamite Cop, Pilot Kids, Virtua Striker, Zero Gunner.

Games with specific controls

Desert Tank:

Dynamite Baseball 97:

Sega Water Ski:

Sega Ski Super G:

Sky Target:

Top Skater:

Virtual On Cybertroopers:

Wave Runner:

Specific system information

Service Menu

The Service menu contains options that can be adjusted within the game itself, such as aligning the crosshair for lightgun games and changing the difficulty.

The service menu can be accessed either by keyboard or with the right stick button (R3) of your controller, based on the option in the service menu:

Turn the option ON to use controller (R3 to enter service menu and L3 to navigate).

Leave this option OFF to use keyboard (F2 to enter service menu and F1 to navigate).

Lightgun calibration

Model 2 lightgun games require per-game calibration.

While in game, navigate the Test menu to the GUN SETTINGS option to perform the calibration.

Network Board message

If you receive the error “Network Board Not Present”, go to the service menu and navigate to Games System → Link ID and change the option to Single.

Arcade - Released: 1996

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