Retropie Phillips CD-I setup Windows / Ubuntu

simpleethat

I'd love to see a set of complete instructions for this. I've always been curious about the system

mitu

@simpleethat there's an old topic on the Libretro forums with details - https://forums.libretro.com/t/guide-play-non-arcade-systems-with-mame-or-mess/17728.

db666

@mitu Thanks for this. This wasn't when I did the setup last year. Good infos for sure.

db666

@simpleethat I garantee nothing but I will try to clean up this post soon.

MrLightgun

Hi @db666

Does your setup work with Mad Dog McCree CDI?

If so does it support the mouse to act as the Lightgun?

Best regards

Mr Lightgun

Folly

For what i know lr-mess does not emulate DVC (Digital Video Cartridge).
Mad Dog McCree CDI will not run because it uses DVC.
In your home/pi/RetroPie/BIOS/mame/hash/cdi.xml you can find the titles that are using or are not using DVC.

OMGZwhitepeople

Re: retropie load, I noticed that your emulators.cfg has a line for "mame_libretro", the path "/opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch/cores/mame_liretro.so" does not exist on my system. Actually there is nothing in the /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch/cores folder.

What emulator are you using to to make this appear? Can this be downloaded from the package manager?

Note: The problem I am running into is when trying to run a game (as .chd or .zip) The game starts to a screen with blurry lettering on the screen (I think it says "initializing" or something to that nature, not sure cant read it), and freezes the retropie. I took at look at /dev/shm/runcommands.log, and it shows that the system cant find some files and fails to load, any ideas?

cdi200.rom NOT FOUND (tried in cdimono1 cdimono1)
cdic.bin NOT FOUND (NO GOOD DUMP KNOWN) (tried in cdimono1 cdimono1)
slave.bin NOT FOUND (NO GOOD DUMP KNOWN) (tried in cdimono1 cdimono1)
Fatal error: Required files are missing, the machine cannot be run.

Folly

@db666
I have created a script to install Philips_CD-I on (l)ubuntu/raspbian.
See topic :
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3999/philips-cd-i/13

db666

@Folly Nice job thank you for this.

Folly

@db666
You're welcome.
Glad to hear my script is being used :)

For your information, @valerino also made a script for Philips CDI.
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/25576/new-scriptmodules-lr-vice-xvic-gsplus-proper-lr-mess-integration
(I did not test that script, it seems it lacks things like mouse, joystick and fullscreen support.
But it seems that he figured out that short named files are not necessary anymore)
It should be nice if the knowledge of both scripts could be combined in the future.