ExoDOSConverter beta

[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/

[iainjh]

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

[Voljega]

@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

[Voljega]

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

[Shaggy1]

@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.

[Voljega]

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

[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

[Voljega]

eXoConverter 0.9.3-beta
https://github.com/Voljega/ExoDOSConverter/releases/tag/0.9.3-beta

Changelog

• some bugs fixed for emuELEC and MiSTeR generation
• use torrents for Lite version when theEye is down (windows only)
• allow proper long names (i.e. The $100,000 Pyramid (1988).pc) for game directories instead of short ones (i.e. $100000P.pc) (Batocera/Retrobat only)