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

[TPR]

@dteam Thank you! I had already downloaded those G&W ones and I have them running. Great to get these other ones as well.

[TPR]

@dteam Is it a different romset that works with MAME than it does with lr-vecx? All my roms work fine under lr but I can't get them to load in MAME. It crashes back to ES at the "initializing" screen.

[DTEAM]

@tpr
Normally They should work, because we don't refer to %BASENAME% (hash file) but to c -cart %rom%

[TPR]

@dteam Weird. I've tried three different BIOS files in my /home/pi/RetroPie/BIOS directory and about 10 different roms that work in lr-vecx and I can't get anything to load. It just pops up to the "initializing" screen and then goes back to ES. No clue what I'm doing wrong here.

[DTEAM]

@tpr
try this in mame.ini

rompath /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/mame;/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/arcade;/home/pi/RetroPie/BIOS/mame;/home/pi/RetroPie/BIOS;/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/tigerh;/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/gameandwatch;/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/tigerrz;/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/pong;/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/konamih;/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/classich;/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/atomiswave;/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/naomi;/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/all_in1;/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/jakks
hashpath /opt/retropie/emulators/mame/hash
samplepath /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/mame/samples;/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/arcade/samples
artpath /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/mame/artwork;/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/arcade/artwork;/home/pi/RetroPie/BIOS/mame/artwork
ctrlrpath /opt/retropie/emulators/mame/ctrlr
pluginspath /opt/retropie/emulators/mame/plugins
languagepath /opt/retropie/emulators/mame/language
cfg_directory /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/mame/cfg
nvram_directory /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/mame/nvram
input_directory /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/mame/inp
state_directory /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/mame/sta
snapshot_directory /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/mame/snap
diff_directory /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/mame/diff
comment_directory /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/mame/comments
skip_gameinfo 1
plugin hiscore
samplerate 44100
video accel

reedit: I added /home/pi/RetroPie/BIOS in rompath

[TPR]

@dteam Yay! I got it up and running. I added both of these to rompath in mame.ini:
/home/pi/RetroPie/BIOS;/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/vectrex

I'm running Berzerk and there is a lot of popping and crackling sounds. Is that normal?

I also still can't seem to get the overlay to work.

What do I need for the artwork file in the artwork folder?

[DTEAM]

@tpr

No sound issue, on my side, if You open your rom with mame-vectrex-autoframeskip

For Artworks, put the vectrex. zip file directly in /home/pi/RetroPie/BIOS/mame/artwork

In the game, go in video options ---> Screen#0 -----> choose the overlay associated to your game.

It works for me

[TPR]

@dteam Yay! I got it working! The gameplay under the overlay seems really light though. Very hard to see. Even messing with the mame slider bars didn't seem to help. Any advice on settings to make the game look better?

[TPR]

@dteam Also, I can get every rom to work except for Mine Storm. Any idea why? I've tried multiple versions of it and I can't get any of them to work.

[TPR]

@dteam Is there any way via the command line to load a specific overlay when you load a rom?

[DTEAM]

@tpr

On mine It’s not that bad. You can play with the crosshair option or machine configuration.
MindStorm doesn't work for me. Maybe It’s the emulator and not your rom. Ill try It later

[TPR]

@dteam I did some more research. Looks like Mine Storm doesn't work for anyone. I'm using Mine Storm II since it's the same game with some bug fixes.

I ended up using lr-MESS instead of the stand alone MAME (I like having RA controller options) and it's all working great!

I wish I could figure out a way to load up each rom with the correct overlay already there, but that's a minor thing...

Now to find those Microvision overlays. Still can't seem to find them anywhere.

[Folly]

@tpr

I never found Microvision overlays either.
Altough there was a website describing all the games for Microvision and they had pictures, but I can't find it anymore.

Seems I found something else, perhaps you can use this stuff.
(Perhaps there is copyrighted stuff, so I don't use links)
Search for 6fge7fr5j2k6e6d and search in the webpage for the same code.
You should be able to find it.

[TPR]

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

6fge7fr5j2k6e6d

Thanks! Downloaded. I'll see if anything can be done with them.

[A Former User]

heyho!
is there any chance to add the "Bandai Apple Pippin". I'm looking for strange consoles. Would be nice.
Is there any other strategy to run pippin roms on raspi4b 2g?
kind regards
flo

[DTEAM]

@flori89
I tried It, but It doesn’t work.
Go here if you wanna try everything on lr-MESS easily

Development of module-script generator for lr-mess and mame standalone

For functional unusual stuff easy to run on lr-mess/MAME , see the list here

[Folly]

@flori89

I had a try to on pippintoo.
There was a bios rom missing in my pippin.zip.
("bandai pippin (19960920 - kinka 1.3) - 3e6b3ee4-a52528e9ce8c.rom" was missing)
I found it, so I tried a game.
(Edit : pippin.zip of the "MAME201_Merged" package should contain all)

Then I got this output in mame.

[Zering]

@folly The FM Towns has the same thing if I recall, but as we know it can run a lot of games really well.

[Folly]

@zering

Ok, good point.
So perhaps it can work.
I will try some more games then.

[Folly]

@zering @DTEAM @Flori89

I tried these games without success in both lr-mess and mame (sha1sum)(cue/bin) :
b42ea0dfa96db9ea5aa68a15710253ce4aa5bcf3 Atmark Town (Japan).bin
c08c3f14f8b06a3914a04096ba2dca71ab8725cb Atmark Town (Japan).cue
7103aaa5bce4da7368d0da02770ee26307ad3926 Card SD Gundam Gaiden (Japan).bin
314659a3ffd596f20b8f5cd4fe3624152b1618c5 Card SD Gundam Gaiden (Japan).cue
adc7b7f862a1687eec573ca8d4806c8527660f2c Franky Online (Japan).bin
d77ac4666e3e257f3417fe46fd3d5122b1736444 Franky Online (Japan).cue
a7f0bb2c8aa9afd7bb5219b493e2e577b56700fb Gakko no Kowai Uwasa - Hanako-san ga Kita!! (Japan).bin
2742474d206352435fbc2f206f30d2f9e5569394 Gakko no Kowai Uwasa - Hanako-san ga Kita!! (Japan).cue
51291c05d80e2f62d13d9964137df811321aac5e Gundam Tactics - Mobility Fleet0079 (Japan).bin
33f11af8b9e698fe2ca0c8d53a5395bb727d8024 Gundam Tactics - Mobility Fleet0079 (Japan).cue
0bc44f023be3f1ed50e2827c04371a22a3343cc0 Hashitte Asobou! Kikansha Thomas (Japan).bin
b6fd68e2ed707d57e9c49a1dd27e1cc995feb2e7 Hashitte Asobou! Kikansha Thomas (Japan).cue
(seems nothing is working)

I will have a look for games in the hash table (/opt/retropie/emulators/mame/hash/pippin.xml)

This xml also says :
Todo: Some (maybe all?) Pippin discs are compatible with macs

So there is an option to try it on one of the mac systems.