ExoDOSConverter beta

[Voljega]

I created an issue to add some configuration parameters to tweak generation : https://github.com/Voljega/ExoDOSConverter/issues/9

If you have ideas or suggestions you're welcome to comment it

[Voljega]

@wholee @zerojay

Hello guys, back from vacation, fixed all the bugs you & I found and made a new version :
https://github.com/Voljega/ExoDOSConverter/releases/tag/0.3-beta

Now I will work on full integration for Retropie, wholee gave me most infos here, but I guess I will need to ask some further questions on some specific points, I'll ask them here, thank you for your help in advance.

And off course on fixing new bugs I added with this release :D

[Voljega]

@wholee @zerojay

got around doing a preliminary version with improvement for retropie tonight, here's the link : https://www72.zippyshare.com/v/lNbQggE3/file.html

if you could tell me what's good, wrong and what to improve, that would be good :)

for now :

• dosbox.cfg now contains the commands, with mount c command on top
• a batch file launch.sh is generated and contains the line to correctly launch the emulator like /opt/retropie/emulators/dosbox/bin/dosbox -conf /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/pc/CaptainP.pc/dosbox.cfg

what's missing / to improve :

• don't know what entity should be registered in gamelist.xml ? ./CaptainP.pc folder, ./CaptainP.pc/dosbox.cfg file or ./CaptainP.pc/launch.shfile ??
• on other distribution, we specify c: root folder and the use of dosbox.bat on the command line, not sure if the dosbox executable is patched or not to do that, but i'd like it better that way if that was possible, as I prefer to keep dosbox.cfg parameters and dosbox.bat dos/dosbox command lines separated, I find it cleaner and more portable that way... Do you think it's possible ?

[mitu]

@Voljega RetroPie's launch script supports .conf files understood by dosbox -conf <file.conf>, so you can just create a .conf file, with a simple [autoexec] section that mounts c and starts the game, and register it in the gamelist.xml. You don't need an additional .sh file for that.

[Voljega]

@mitu thank you mitu so these informations are obsolete : http://dosonthepi.blogspot.com/2015/02/dosbox-configuration-for-individual.html ?

regarding the gamelist these means that if I have a game in the pc roms folder like /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/pc/CaptainP.pc/dosbox.conf and register in the gamelist the conf file :

<game>
      <path>./CaptainP.pc/dosbox.conf</path>
      <name>Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future</name>
      <image>./downloaded_images/Captain Power-01.jpg</image> 
</game>

it will be displayed inside a folder I guess...
So it maybe better to have a structure like these inside /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/pc/

• the game data folder CaptainP.pc (.pc beeing not mandatory I know)
• CaptainP.conf(same level than the CaptainP.pc folder so outside of it) with the mount c inside the [autoexec] part modified accordingl ?

[mitu]

@Voljega said in ExoDOSConverter beta:

@mitu thank you mitu so these informations are obsolete : http://dosonthepi.blogspot.com/2015/02/dosbox-configuration-for-individual.html ?

No, this method is still supported - if you add the .sh as game entry, RetroPie would still launch it.

<game>
      <path>./CaptainP.pc/dosbox.conf</path>
      <name>Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future</name>
      <image>./downloaded_images/Captain Power-01.jpg</image> 
</game>

it will be displayed inside a folder I guess...

Yes, I think so. You're not constrained to have the game folder inside the ROMs folder. You can just put all game data in roms/exodos/<game.pc> and then register/symlink the .conf file in the gamelist (the .conf would still be in the pc roms folder).

<game>
      <path>CaptainP.conf</path>
      <name>Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future</name>
      <image>./downloaded_images/Captain Power-01.jpg</image> 
</game>

The .cfg file could be just

[autoexec]
mount c /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/exodos/
c:
cd CaptainP.pc
REM extra cd mount commands or setup
game.exe
exit

That's just an idea, I don't know how the .cfg file looks right now, but if the paths are correct it should work as it is.

[Voljega]

@mitu yes I see it like that too, but it's also better to have the mount c line be
mount c /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/pc/CaptainP.pc

so you don't need the cd CaptainP.pc and paths are then all relatives from the C: set to the game directory itself /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/pc/CaptainP.pc

I assume you mixed up cfgand confn the previous message right ? there is no cfg file in that case ?

Also I guess if I were to keep the .sh file both .conf and .sh files would be detected by ES and it would require manual interventions to hide one of the two ?

[mitu]

@Voljega said in ExoDOSConverter beta:

I assume you mixed up cfgand confn the previous message right ? there is no cfg file in that case ?

You can symlink the .cfg you generate in the game folder to the .conf file in the roms/pc. The extension change is just for ES to pick up the game (it doesn't have .cfg as supported game entry).

[Voljega]

@mitu ok thanks, but it's more easy and clean to move the file I guess :)

[Voljega]

New version with full retropie and opendingux simplemenu/esoteric compatibility :
https://github.com/Voljega/ExoDOSConverter/releases/tag/0.4-beta

[Voljega]

A little less related to here but added default mapping or RG350 :
https://github.com/Voljega/ExoDOSConverter/releases/tag/0.5-beta

[Voljega]

Version 0.6-beta has been released :
https://github.com/Voljega/ExoDOSConverter/releases/tag/0.6-beta

Changelog :

• Full compatibility with Linux (see README.md on to use it on Linux as this release is Windows only)
• Full debug of the conversion of the whole collection (this doesn't mean that everything will work, just that is properly converted without errors)
• Added support for Recalbox p2k format
• Added support for Retrobat
• Added preliminary support for MiSTeR, works but buggy at the moment. Documentation will come later

[Voljega]

Version 0.7 has been released:
https://github.com/Voljega/ExoDOSConverter/releases/tag/0.7-beta

Changelog:

• Update for eXoDOS v5, v4 is not supported anymore
• Further integrate MiSTeR compatibility
• EmuELEC compatibility
• More configuration options for generation
• Load / Save of customs game selections
• Better P2k for Recalbox

[Voljega]

Fix release
https://github.com/Voljega/ExoDOSConverter/releases/tag/0.7.1-beta

[Rion]

Thank you @Voljega for all your hard work!

[Voljega]

Another minor release, with some small UI enhancements and some more serious MiSTeR enhancements and fixes

https://github.com/Voljega/ExoDOSConverter/releases/tag/0.7.2-beta

[Voljega]

New release
https://github.com/Voljega/ExoDOSConverter/releases/tag/0.8-beta

with support of Lite version through direct download

[Rion]

@voljega said in ExoDOSConverter beta:

New release
https://github.com/Voljega/ExoDOSConverter/releases/tag/0.8-beta

with support of Lite version through direct download

Hey that's great. Saves alot of space! 😀

[Lolonois]

Thanks for the tool and the heavy-lifting, @Voljega . Works nicely on Linux.

I am using it from a retropie perspective, so I was wondering why gamelist.xml gets generated. For me I see the gamelist.xml as something generated by RetroPie's (IMHO defacto standard) SkyScraper. For use with SkyScraper it would be more elegant to use the import feature of SkyScraper.

I am not demanding implementation towards SkyScraper, I just want to understand the rationale behind your implementation. Then I might file a PR.

Thanks.

[Rion]

@Voljega Any plans to support the new Dosbox Pure core?

https://www.libretro.com/index.php/dosbox-pure-out-now-for-public-testing/