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    • VoljegaV
      Voljega
      last edited by 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 ?

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      • mituM
        mitu Global Moderator
        last edited by

        @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).

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        • VoljegaV
          Voljega @mitu
          last edited by Voljega

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

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          • VoljegaV
            Voljega
            last edited by

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

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            • VoljegaV
              Voljega
              last edited by

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

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              • VoljegaV
                Voljega
                last edited by 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
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                • VoljegaV
                  Voljega
                  last edited by

                  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
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                  • VoljegaV
                    Voljega
                    last edited by

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

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                    • RionR
                      Rion
                      last edited by

                      Thank you @Voljega for all your hard work!

                      FBNeo rom filtering
                      Mame2003 Arcade Bezels
                      Fba Arcade Bezels
                      Fba NeoGeo Bezels

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                      • VoljegaV
                        Voljega
                        last edited by 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

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                        • VoljegaV
                          Voljega
                          last edited by

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

                          with support of Lite version through direct download

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                          • RionR
                            Rion @Voljega
                            last edited by

                            @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! 😀

                            FBNeo rom filtering
                            Mame2003 Arcade Bezels
                            Fba Arcade Bezels
                            Fba NeoGeo Bezels

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                            • LolonoisL
                              Lolonois
                              last edited by

                              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.

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                              • RionR
                                Rion @Lolonois
                                last edited by

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

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

                                FBNeo rom filtering
                                Mame2003 Arcade Bezels
                                Fba Arcade Bezels
                                Fba NeoGeo Bezels

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                                  iainjh @Rion
                                  last edited by iainjh

                                  <edit/deleted post> - user stupidity. I ran ito a dos folder and filename limitation, 8.3 etc. doh! please ignore.

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                                  • VoljegaV
                                    Voljega @Rion
                                    last edited by

                                    @Rion no I don't plan to support dosbox pure, from what I gather among olds dos scenesters, the guy behind it doesn't know much about dos
                                    and from what I can read in his documentation dosbox pure doesn't make much sense (i.e. will work with the most simple games configuration wise and that's it)
                                    and it's seems utterly complicated only to avoid to have to use a dosbox.bat and dosbox.cfg, which my tool generates so ...
                                    But I guess we can talk about that elsewhere ;)

                                    @Lolonois sorry haven't been there in a reaaally long time !
                                    so in fact is I don't use retropie ahah and I wasn't aware gamelist.xml was not used (directly ?) anymore ?
                                    and I don't know anything about skyscrapper ...
                                    but feel free to file a PR or an issue if you want and we'll have a look at it

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                                    • VoljegaV
                                      Voljega
                                      last edited by

                                      so big release this time, and going toward the first official version :

                                      https://github.com/Voljega/ExoDOSConverter/releases/tag/0.9-beta

                                      Changelog:

                                      • Add full support for eXoWin3x for most generation types (but not MiSTeR or maybe it needs to be tested, most likely doesn't work)
                                      • Add support for eXoDOS updates (done through Launchbox or the update.bat script)
                                      • Automatic detection of which collection is used
                                      • Better fixed game shortnames for MiSTeR using names from eXoDOS
                                      • Full rework of the image cache system to be more stable, more quick, and OS agnostic
                                      • Lots of fixes
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                                        Shaggy1 @Rion
                                        last edited by

                                        @rion have you done any testing? I have been able to run a couple dozen exo game .zip files directly from exo without modifications in dosbox pure. It does appear to be as simple as placing the zip files into a directory.

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                                        • VoljegaV
                                          Voljega
                                          last edited by

                                          eXoConverter 0.9.1-beta
                                          https://github.com/Voljega/ExoDOSConverter/releases/tag/0.9.1-beta

                                          Changelog:

                                          • major fixes for eXoWin3x conversion
                                          • preliminary work for pad2key support on Batocera
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                                          • VoljegaV
                                            Voljega @Voljega
                                            last edited by Voljega

                                            eXoConverter 0.9.2-beta
                                            https://github.com/Voljega/ExoDOSConverter/releases/tag/0.9.2-beta

                                            All known bugs have been fixed.
                                            Next version should be the stable 1.0 one, so I'm counting on fellow users to reports remaining bugs or enhancements before that

                                            Changelog :

                                            • updates and enhancements for MiSTeR
                                            • clean and simplify genre mapping logic (thanks @Newsdee)
                                            • full rework of mapping
                                            • use keyb2joypad project mapping when available (only for Batocera at the moment, will add other distributions on demand)
                                            • Fix EmuELEC generation
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