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

TPR

@folly I did that. I couldn't tell what the issue was though...

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Folly

You can remove your log from the post.

I think some bios files are not found :
cd2325a.u2a NOT FOUND (tried in ti99_speech ti99_4a)
cd2326a.u2b NOT FOUND (tried in ti99_speech ti99_4a)

I think you have to add ti99_speech.zip .
Look in your ti99_speech.zip and ti99_4a.zip for those files.
I think you have to put it in the normal root of the BIOS directory. (no subdir)
Experiment with this until you don't see this anymore.

TPR

@folly I have tried everything and I just keep getting this crashing screen:

These are the files I'm using:
994a_grom0.u500
994a_grom1.u501
994a_grom2.u502
994a_rom_hb.u610
994a_rom_lb.u611
cd2325a.u2a
cd2326a.u2b

I have checked and double checked the crc with sites that say they are good. I've put them in the BIOS directory on their own, I've zipped them up. I've tried different versions of the files, even ones where the crc doesn't match. I've tried different configurations of the zip file. I've tried everything. I literally spent about 7 hour yesterday just tryng different configurations of everything I can think of. I'm just convinced this core doesn't work.

Any other ideas? Maybe @roslof might have a clue?

Here is my most recent log from a crash that happened right now. It still says those two files are missing. But I've put them in the zip file, I put them in the BIOS folder, I've put them in a ti99_4a folder, I've even put the ti99_speech.zip inside the other BIOS zip and nothing seems to work.

Please help! I'm about to give up on this one! :D

TPR

@folly @roslof Well, this is interesting...

I tried putting those two speech files in a folder /ti99_speech inside of the ti99_4a.zip and it no longer crashed, but just brought me back to the ES menu, and the log no longer has those files as "not found." But what now? I've checked all the BIOS files and they seem to match all the crc that says are required.

I honestly have no idea what to do at this point. Please help! Thank you.

Folly

@TPR

If we found the solution, it's probably better to remove the logs from your posts.

I think your BIOS part is ok now.

It can't load the cartridge file now :
unzip: /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ti99/Amazeing.ctg couldn't find ECD
Fatal error: Device TI-99 cartridge load failed: Invalid image

So you have to look at that now.
I think you need amazeing.zip .

I tried to do run over here, but I don't have good bios files now.
So I have too look for them later.

TPR

@folly zipping up the rom didn't work either. It's the same story with all the roms I have. They work just fine with ti99sim but not with MESS.

TPR

@folly I also downloaded the TOSEC ROM archive and I also don't get any better results. Everything works in ti99SIM though so I think I'm just going to give up on this MESS core as I don't believe it actually works and just stick with the other emulator. I was hoping for a Retroarch solution, but that doesn't appear to be the case. Oh well... Thank you for your time.

dmmarti

@tpr Unless I'm mistaken, MESS can't use the *.ctg files for TI99....only TI99SIM uses those.

If you are wanting to use the MESS core within Retroarch, you can use *.rpk files though. There's a set out there of *.rpk files that work great with Retroarch / lr-mess core.

I have it working great on my Pi 4 with *.rpk files this way.

TPR

@dmmarti Damn you for sending me down another rabbit hole! lol Ok, I'm off to search those out now!

TPR

@dmmarti Aaaand I'm up and running! Wow! That one took a while with lots of curve balls. Thank you everyone for helping out!

FYI this thread on AtariAge was a great resource to find things you may be looking for: https://atariage.com/forums/topic/267055-new-to-the-group-ti-994a-faq-hardware-and-software-resources-read-first/

Folly

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

@dmmarti Aaaand I'm up and running! Wow! That one took a while with lots of curve balls. Thank you everyone for helping out!

FYI this thread on AtariAge was a great resource to find things you may be looking for: https://atariage.com/forums/topic/267055-new-to-the-group-ti-994a-faq-hardware-and-software-resources-read-first/

I have it working also.
I can confirm, use the .rpk files.
Nice !

TPR

@folly Yep! works for me now, too! Thank you!

TPR

Here's an issue I'm having with GSPlus. Out of about the 150 games for the system, I've gotten most of them to work, but about 15 of the games throw this error at me:

needs system tools.jpg

Any ideas on how to fix this? I did some Googling around and I couldn't find anything specific to GSPlus to fix it.

I got this error on games like Deja Vu, Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego, and Uninvited.

Any ideas?

TPR

Apple IIgs - GSPlus Joystick / Mouse configuration help:

I loaded up about 154 Apple IIgs games today from the TOSEC library to do some joystick / mouse testing and here were some of the notes I made. I loaded these up using GSPlus. The collection of notes is for games that either needed additional key presses to get the joystick to work that might not be obvious when loading up a game, or games that had trouble using the joystick or mouse.

I thought the following notes may be helpful to some, and if anyone has a fix for the games I couldn't get to work, please let me know! Thank you.

Alien Mind - Use F1 & F2 Button as "Button One and two" when calibrating. Needed to tweak the joystick trim amount -25 on both X & Y otherwise the character won't go down. Use the joystick config menu by pressing F4.

Ancient Land of Y's - Use CTRL-J to calibrate joystick and F1 & F2 as "Button one and two"

Black Cauldron - Press F1 when it tells you to center your joystick and press a button.

Downhill Challenge - Cannot get joystick to work at all.

Dream Zone - Mouse stutters and lags around the screen. It's playable, but difficult.

Grand Prix Circuit - Pressing J on the main selection screen and then calibrating the joystick with the F1 & F2 keys seems to crash the game when you use the joystick and buttons to make a selection. Game seems to work okay with the keyboard.

Great Western Shootout - Mouse lag makes this game unplayable.

Hardball - Joystick control seems to be stuck on "Down" and I can't find a way to re-calibrate the joystick. I tried adjusting some of the tweak settings in the control panel but that didn't do anything.

Immortal - Needed to tweak the joystick trim amount -5 on both X & Y otherwise the character pulls to the right. Use the joystick config menu by pressing F4.

John Elway's Quarterback - Need to press SHIFT-Y to answer "Yes" at the "Do you have a joystick" question.

Kings Quest I - IV - Press F1 when it tells you to center your joystick and press a button.

Laser Force - Joystick works but seems to have calibration issues. I tried tweaking the settings but nothing really seemed to work.

Leisure Suit Larry - Press F1 when it tells you to center your joystick and press a button.

Manhunter - Press F1 when it tells you to center your joystick and press a button.

Marble Madness - Needed to tweak the joystick trim amount -5 on both X & Y otherwise the character pulls to the right. Use the joystick config menu by pressing F4.

Mixed Up Mother Goose - Press F1 when it tells you to center your joystick and press a button.

Police Quest - Press F1 when it tells you to center your joystick and press a button.

Qix - Press "J" at the title screen to calibrate joystick. Use F1 & F2 as button one and two.

Rastan - This game actually works just fine with the joystick control, but it takes like 7 minutes to load up!

Silpheed - Press SHIFT-7 to calibrate the joystick after the game has loaded. Use F1 and F2 for the buttons when it asks to press them.

Skate or Die - Needed to tweak the joystick trim amount -25 on both X & Y otherwise the character pulls to the right. Use the joystick config menu by pressing F4.

Space Ace - The joystick doesn't work because apparently there is no joystick control! It's keyboard only for this game. And it does work! It's just odd...

Space Quest I & II - Press F1 when it tells you to center your joystick and press a button.

Spirit of Excalibur - Mouse stutters and lags around the screen.

Test Drive II - Pressing CTRL-J to Select the Joystick seems to crash the game when you make a selection.

Thexder - Press F1 when it tells you to center your joystick and press a button.

Third Courier - Mouse stutters and lags around the screen. It's playable, but difficult.

Zany Golf - Mouse stutters and lags around the screen. It's playable, but difficult.

Side Note: Sometimes I'll have to insert a disk twice before the emulator will accept it. For example, when it says "Insert Lost Tribe Disk 3" and I press F4, select Disk 4, and press F4 again, it doesn't register on the first try. But if I go and do that exact same thing a second time, it works.

The following games I could not get to load at all. I would either get "This application needs Tool029 in the system folder" error, or some other issue with the game that didn't load up or made it totally unplayable.

Ancient Glory
Balance of Power
Bouncing Bluster II
Club Backgammon
Deja Vu II
Deja Vu
Full Metal Planete
Gate, The
Lost Treasures of Infocom
Neuromancer
Out of this World
Paperboy
Quest Master
Shadowgate
Subversion
Superstar Ice Hockey
Uninvited
War in Middle Earth
Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego

I also noticed that if you press F1 + F4 that will quit GSPlus and take you back to Emulationstation. I hadn't seen that documented anywhere either.

Hope this is helpful for someone looking for joystick / mouse config help!

jamrom2

Re: new scriptmodules (lr-vice-xvic

lr-mess-scv (Epoch Super Cassette Vision, fully working, just need to map joypad correctly)

Anyone manage to map their controller to this one yet? I've got everything else I used (Astrocade, Apple, Acradia... etc) working right. But I can't seem to get my SNES style controller setup on this one.

Thanks,

JR

Folly

@jamrom2 said in new scriptmodules (lr-vice-xvic, gsplus, proper lr-mess integration!):

Re: new scriptmodules (lr-vice-xvic

lr-mess-scv (Epoch Super Cassette Vision, fully working, just need to map joypad correctly)

Anyone manage to map their controller to this one yet? I've got everything else I used (Astrocade, Apple, Acradia... etc) working right. But I can't seem to get my SNES style controller setup on this one.

Thanks,

JR

My controller is working OOB.
But you have to start the game with the NUM-keys.
It is mentioned in the package help when installing.

Perhaps you can use this solution to map the NUM-keys to your controller discussed here :
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/26220/keyboard-mapping-to-gamepad-for-msx-msx2/3
And here :
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/28345/old-computer-appreciation-thread/729

EDIT :
I was able to add "select" and "numkey-1" to my joystick.
(input (this machine) 0=select 1=numkey-1)

Here are some pictures of Super Cassette Vision :

Folly

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

Has anyone had any luck getting controls re-mapped for GSplus or lr-mess-apple2gs?

Under GSPlus I can't seem to find much in the way of controller re-mapping and in several games, like Arkanoid for example, the controller just keeps going to the right no matter what I press.

For lr-mess-apple2gs I can bring up the machine options by pressing SCROLL LOCK and then TAB but I can't figure out how to re-map buttons per game. It seems like I can only re-map globally and I'd have to do that for every game I load up because keyboard mappings might be different per game.

Also can't seem to get some buttons mapped. Like Thexder seems to need the "Option" key mapped and I don't see that anywhere in the re-map options.

If someone could point me in the right direction I would appreciate it. Thank you.

I found a hackish solution to get the configs within a specific directory.
With this solution it's possible to configure configs per game.

Just comment these lines in the valerino run_mess script /home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/scriptmodules/run_mess.sh
change :

_cmdarr+=( "-cfg_directory" )
_cmdarr+=( "$_cfgdir" )

into :

#_cmdarr+=( "-cfg_directory" )
#_cmdarr+=( "$_cfgdir" )

If you then put every game in a seperate directory.
You get a game(s) specific config (mame/cfg/apple2gs.cfg) in the same directory.

Example structure for one game :
/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/apple2gs/airball/airball.zip
/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/apple2gs/airball/mame/cfg/apple2gs.cfg

Example structure for multiple games that use the same config :
/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/apple2gs/your_specific_config/airball.zip
/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/apple2gs/your_specific_config/<other_game>.zip (etc.)
/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/apple2gs/your_specific_config/mame/cfg/apple2gs.cfg

You will be able to copy configs between directory's so you don't have to configure twice for the buttons that are the same .

roslof

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

I have it working also.
I can confirm, use the .rpk files.
Nice !

Yeah, ugh. Sorry I haven't been around to respond. The RPK requirement was listed in the scriptmodule, so when installing the script module via retropie-setup, select "Help" and this information will appear:

Put BIOS file in <your biosdir>
  ti99_4a.zip (US/EU)
  ti99_evpc.zip (EVPC)
  ti99_speech.zip (Speech Module)
For the TI-99/4A, MESS requires .rpk files, which are renamed ZIP files. They contain cartridge memory dumps and a layout.xml file, which informs the MESS which file belongs to which part of memory."

Part of making these scriptmodules is to include this help information that would guide users to all requirements. So, good to check Help prior to spending days re-learning what was already learned.

Cheers.

Folly

@roslof

Yep, you have got a point.
We all have to read the help more often !

jamrom2

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

@jamrom2 said in new scriptmodules (lr-vice-xvic, gsplus, proper lr-mess integration!):

Re: new scriptmodules (lr-vice-xvic

lr-mess-scv (Epoch Super Cassette Vision, fully working, just need to map joypad correctly)

Anyone manage to map their controller to this one yet? I've got everything else I used (Astrocade, Apple, Acradia... etc) working right. But I can't seem to get my SNES style controller setup on this one.

Thanks,

JR

My controller is working OOB.
But you have to start the game with the NUM-keys.
It is mentioned in the package help when installing.

Perhaps you can use this solution to map the NUM-keys to your controller discussed here :
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/26220/keyboard-mapping-to-gamepad-for-msx-msx2/3
And here :
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/28345/old-computer-appreciation-thread/729

EDIT :
I was able to add "select" and "numkey-1" to my joystick.
(input (this machine) 0=select 1=numkey-1)

Here are some pictures of Super Cassette Vision :

I have the emulator working, where did you add those control input statements to? The config file? I don't see it as an option in the Retroarch controler menu.

Nevermind... I forgot this is running in MAME... "tab" key opens the menu, you can map it from there.,.. done. Thank you anyway!