new scriptmodules (lr-vice-xvic, gsplus, proper lr-mess integration!)

dmmarti

@tpr You need to make sure you have the BIOS file adam.zip in the RetroPie/BIOS directory.

Running "sum" against it, here's my file:

sum adam.zip
39492 53

You may have to try a few different versions of the file, but one of them will allow it to work.

TPR

Third time was the charm!
adam DK.jpg

I had all the ColecoVision BIOS files but for the life of me couldn't get Google to give me anything for ADAM until I Googled adam.zip

It's up and running now!

DTEAM

For some systems not supported by ScreenScraper or others (like Gamate or GameMaster), here .xml and downloaded_images .

See: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1bfuYF7Ij_dhNc9b8bVCS6I22XiEmP7rv?usp=sharing

from : Tutorial: Handheld and Plug & Play systems with MAME

shift

@dmmarti Thank you so much!

DTEAM

I had installed a lot of system manually. Yesterday and today I installed your scripts. The two methods work in parallel without harming each other. Honestly wow !!!! great job guys your scripts are really great.

I didn't install with the hyperlinks, I downloaded the scripts and made cherry picking after. It works great!!

Folly

EDIT: Script is updated to version 1.1. Read edit below for more information.

Hi all,

Yesterday I made a script that wil bulk generate more than 2000 lr-mess-<systems>.
This is version 1 !. It's more or less a proof of concept. It's created fast and a bit dirty. I still have to improve things.
But I can confirm it works !. The idea was born in here : https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/28345/old-computer-appreciation-thread/788
Just after we manually created two for P2000T(testing for cass support) and Sharp X1.

So if you are adventurous, try it at your own risk !

Install MAME first in your RetroPie-Setup, if you didn't already !!!!
Download the script from https://github.com/FollyMaddy/RetroPie-Share
It's in "00-scripts-00"
Run it with : bash generate-lr-mess-systems.sh
It will make a libretrocores directory in the directory you started the script from and writes al the generated files in that directory.
(this will take about 6 minutes)
Choose the script you want to try and copy that to :
/home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/scriptmodules/libretrocores
Install your choosen <system> from your RetroPie-Setup

EDIT:
I did a huge updated on my script.
WOOOOOWW :-)
5500 seperate files are being generated.
If you want it all, it takes about 16 minutes (pi4) !!!

Now all system with more media (quik, cas, flop1, dump, cart) are splitted.
So for every media, we now can install multiple commandlines depending upon the media.

I also added a simple script(generate-desired-systems.sh) that can be edited.
If you run this script after editing, then it will only generate your desired systems.
(I already placed a few in there)

I did many tests. Perhaps there is still mistakes, but I am real confident.

It's already on github.

Advise( if you used my first script ):
The names are changed depending on the supported media. So I advise you to uninstall the old ones first and than remove the files also.

In the next update I can add more info about each computer in the script.
So everybody can see much more info about the system in the "package help"

From here I explain on how to run the scripts :
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/28345/old-computer-appreciation-thread/924

Zering

I can also confirm that it works. It's not quite as compatible as 'normal' mess yet, but it is a first version. And on the other hand it enabled me to use systems I could never get to work in lr-mess without scripts, ie. PC6001.

shift

@folly I would create a special 3D for your initiative, so the two works do not "mix". Anyway congratulations for what you are doing, and I will definitely try it soon because I am too curious.

Folly

@shift said in new scriptmodules (lr-vice-xvic, gsplus, proper lr-mess integration!):

@folly I would create a special 3D for your initiative, so the two works do not "mix".

Yes, it should be nice if it could become 1 project.
(if that is what you mean)
But I don't know everything.
I also have to work on my knowledge in github on "pull requests".
Up till now, I find this quite difficult and frustrating.

Can you explain a little bit more about your "special 3D" idea ?

Anyway congratulations for what you are doing, and I will definitely try it soon because I am too curious.

Thanks,
I'am really proud of it. I think it's really a huge accomplishment.
Until now, it took me about 16 hours to create it.
With this script we can really save thousands of hours work.
And I have seen some pretty good results, already.
Perhaps splitting can also be done on media in the future.
So this way cass files come in a cass-rom directory and cartridge file in a cart-rom directory etc...
But for now I have done enough, so far ;-)

Do you keep me posted on your findings ?

shift

@folly

Can you explain a little bit more about your "special 3D" idea ?

I misspelled, I meant "specific", not special.

Do you keep me posted on your findings ?

Of course, as soon as I can try it, I'll update you.

Folly

@shift / all

Yesterday I updated my script to V1.2 .

I had to solve the problem of V1.1 which did not export all extensions supported by a system but exported only the one of floppy or cartridge for that matter (depeding on the install). Trouble is, then you don's see all the supported files in emulationstation. So effectively you won't be able to switch to an other working launch option.

I tried to solve this but I could not get a solution, this took me about 13 hours. :(
Retrying from scratch I found the solution in within the hour. (nailed it) :)

I'm quite happy with it now. ^^

So now it's possible to install multiple <onesystem>-<media>.sh of one system keeping it all in one rom directory. While booting a rom you can switch to another launch option or associate a specific rom to media-specific launch option.

Also added the help, run it with -h :

bash generate-lr-mess-systems.sh -h

DTEAM

@folly

Hi Folly,

I downloaded generate-lr-mess-systems.sh
Where did you paste It before running It? Is It in /home/pi/RetroPie-Setup or /home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/scriptmodules?

Folly

@dteam said in new scriptmodules (lr-vice-xvic, gsplus, proper lr-mess integration!):

@folly

Hi Folly,

I downloaded generate-lr-mess-systems.sh
Where did you past It? Is It in /home/pi/RetroPie-Setup?

Indeed I think I have to edit that.
But if you want to create directly in RetroPie-Setup you have to put it in, for now :
~~/home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/scriptmodules~~ updated now

Beware if you generate all, you get 5699 files in there !

EDIT : just did a commit, it should work from /home/pi/RetroPie-Setup now !

DTEAM

@folly

Hi Folly

1 - I pressed F4
2 - I put generate-lr-mess-systems.sh in /home/pi/RetroPie-Setup
3- cd /home/pi/RetroPie-Setup
4 - bash generate-lr-mess-systems.sh -h

It ran, but nothing happened

What I'm doing wrong?

MAME and Lr-Mess are already installed. I already ran the Valerino script.

Folly

@dteam said in new scriptmodules (lr-vice-xvic, gsplus, proper lr-mess integration!):

@folly

Hi Folly

1 - I pressed F4
2 - I put generate-lr-mess-systems.sh in /home/pi/RetroPie-Setup
3- cd /home/pi/RetroPie-Setup
4 - bash generate-lr-mess-systems.sh -h

It ran, but nothing happened

What I'm doing wrong?

MAME and Lr-Mess are already installed. I already ran the Valerino script.

I tried it here, and it works. no problem.

Did you see the help text with option -h (program only outputs help text with -h) ?
Try to create 1 system, like this :

bash generate-lr-mess-systems.sh astrocde

output has to be something like this :

start
do  3 dec 2020 15:41:35 CET
read system(s)
- got information for 1 unique system(s)
- got information for creating 2 script files
read all available extensions per system(s)
read compatible extension(s) for the individual media
read computer description(s)
generate and write the generated-lr-mess-<system><-media>.sh script files
stop
do  3 dec 2020 15:41:37 CET

If you then run RetroPie-Setup the file is seen in the experimental packages :
lr-mess-astrocde-cart

Did you get an error in the terminal ?

Use this to see if you have the standalone mame installed :

ls /opt/retropie/emulators/mame/mame

You have it, if the output is :

/opt/retropie/emulators/mame/mame

DTEAM

@folly

Hi Folly,

Yes , for MAME standalone
Here is my output

It works !!!!!!! I see It in my experimental packages and I installed It.
Thank you !! Great work

Fine tuning comment: For Retropie existing systems, sometime Retropie names don't match MESS names.
Ex.: gameboy (MESS) gb (retropie)
jaguar (MESS) atarijaguar (retropie)
I fixed those by myself, but It could be interesting to match Retropie names.

Folly

@dteam said in new scriptmodules (lr-vice-xvic, gsplus, proper lr-mess integration!):

@folly

It works !!!!!!! I see It in my experimental packages and I installed It.
Thank you !! Great work

Nice to hear it works. Do you have games already running ?

Fine tuning comment: For Retropie existing systems, sometime Retropie names don't match MESS names.
Ex.: gameboy (MESS) gb (retropie)
jaguar (MESS) atarijaguar (retropie)
I fixed those by myself, but It could be interesting to match Retropie names.

Indeed, I have been thinking of this.
The script has been basically made to generate everything automatically.
This depends fully on the MAME database.
That is why mame/mess names are used. Perhaps for MSX or partly matching names this is possible. But for other systems ?
If RetroPie names can't be extracted from mame or elsewhere, you have to create a renaming database manually. With over 2700 systems, thats quite challange.
There are also systems that use a mouse. I was hoping that I could extract that information but, up till now, I didn't find this information within mame. It would be nice to implement that also, but if we can't extract it, then this information has to be manual added to a database also.
Up till now, I don't have a good idea about this.

EDIT : Perhaps I got it wrong, re-thinking this. Well there aren't that many systems in RetroPie after all. Perhaps we only have to do 50 max. What do you think ?

DTEAM

@folly said in new scriptmodules (lr-vice-xvic, gsplus, proper lr-mess integration!):

Do you have games already running ?

Yes, gameboy games like Disney Aladdin, Mario Land etc.
It works great.

I switched gameboy for gb

lr-mess-gameboy-cart = "/home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/scriptmodules/run_mess.sh /opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch/bin/retroarch /opt/retropie/libretrocores/lr-mess/mess_libretro.so /opt/retropie/configs/gb/retroarch.cfg gameboy /home/pi/RetroPie/BIOS -cart %ROM%"

and move config files (excepted retroarch.cfg) from gameboy to gb and everything work perfectly.

DTEAM

@folly said in new scriptmodules (lr-vice-xvic, gsplus, proper lr-mess integration!):

Perhaps we only have to do 50 max. What do you think ?

Yes, I agree. Maybe less, because MAME/MESS not support all those systems. I think.

Folly

@dteam said in new scriptmodules (lr-vice-xvic, gsplus, proper lr-mess integration!):

@folly said in new scriptmodules (lr-vice-xvic, gsplus, proper lr-mess integration!):

Perhaps we only have to do 50 max. What do you think ?

Yes, I agree. Maybe less, because MAME/MESS not support all those systems. I think.

Perhaps I can combine this in the "batch" file generate-desired-systems.sh .
At first this file was made for testing. But I think it can do both functionalities :

work as a batch script
work as a database for renaming, extra configs or other usefull information.

If I have the time, perhaps I will look at this solution.

Note that I have made a similar script (not on github yet)
This script makes scripts that hold media independant rom-directory's.
This works actually better because every type of media can have it's own directory, so you don't have to switch startups.
But with this solution you can't use RetroPie names anymore.
Second drawback is that you have multiple romdirectory's for 1 system.

ps. Nice to hear it is working great. I really think it's unlocking potential ;-)