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

Folly

Perhaps we want too much and coleco seems difficult on my end.
Reading your reply the cheats addon won't do much, perhaps I have to remove it again.

Can you check your /dev/shm/runcommand.log if you can find something about how cheats are being loaded ?

DTEAM

@folly

@folly said in Development of module-script generator for lr-mess and mame standalone:

Reading your reply the cheats addon won't do much, perhaps I have to remove it again.

No, cheats for Coleco roms from Mess romset run well with your lr-mess-cmd. It runs in MAME UI.

Folly

@dteam said in Development of module-script generator for lr-mess and mame standalone:

@folly

@folly said in Development of module-script generator for lr-mess and mame standalone:

Reading your reply the cheats addon won't do much, perhaps I have to remove it again.

No, cheats for Coleco roms from Mess romset run well with your lr-mess-cmd. It runs in MAME UI.

Ok , I will keep my update, for the cheats, in the script then.
( mame_cheats_enable = "enabled" in /all/retroarch-core-options.cfg )

Does the cheat still work when you remove it from the custom-core-config and keep it in /all/retroarch-core-config.cfg ?

And then, when you set cheats on disabled in /all/retroarch-core-config.cfg is it disabled then ?

DTEAM

@folly

Does the cheat still work when you remove it from the custom-core-config and keep it in /all/retroarch-core-config.cfg ?

Good question. I'm gonna do a test

new edit
Yes, It works

And then, when you set cheats on disabled in /all/retroarch-core-config.cfg is it disabled then ?

No, doesn't show in MAME UI

cheats = enable in custom-core-options.cfg only doesn't work also.

So It runs with retroarch-core-config.cfg

Folly

@dteam

Perfect !
Exactly what I was thinking.
Now we know it should work.

Thanks for testing :-)

I could have added it in the custom but then you have to append the config and the config is actually created for the Valerino scripts.
So this solution is perhaps the best for now.

DTEAM

@folly said in Development of module-script generator for lr-mess and mame standalone:

What do you manage ?, In this way artwork is automatically loaded with MAME standalone.

Yes I did, this background is then renamed and used as retroarch overlay with lr-mess.

For MAME standalone I left the artwork zipped in /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/mame/artwork/<artwork>.zip

I confirm, It works great. Is It doable to get from zipped artworks in the MAME artwork folder, an unzipped copy and renamed backgroud files for your new ovelays directory (konamih, tigerh, etc).
It could be done with your generate-overlay-configs.sh

Maybe if you put everything in the overlay folder without subfolders, you could generate overlay .cfg files for everything in the /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/mame/artwork/ and copy/rename each background

That way, if It's doable , It could be work for arcade games also and handheld consoles overlays!

Folly

@dteam

Yes, I think so too.

Indeed I could implement this in the overlays script.
So then it would create the directories, create the configs and download the artwork and overlays and cheats and place them in the correct place, just in 1 run.
And It would be nice if all files can be downloaded from the same source.

Well I will think about it a bit, but that would be awesome.

DTEAM

@folly said in Development of module-script generator for lr-mess and mame standalone:

And It would be nice if all files can be downloaded from the same source.

Cheat codes for MAME/MESS : Pugsy's Cheats , you must get cheat.7z and put It in /home/pi/RetroPie/BIOS/mame/cheat

MAME Artworks: (Handheld systems without arcade artwork), could be moved somewhere else on another server.

some observations (with your 3 days ago version):
For MAME systems (TigerH, KonamiH, Jakks, etc., ) - MAME Romset

all options working well lr-mess-cmd, etc. (except -- > lr-mess-basename - It freezes)

For systems like coleco, nes or others,

Lr-Mess-system and mame-system always working with No-intro, Tosec, MESS, etc. romsets
lr-mess-cmd works with mess romset
lr-mess-basename, mame-basename and mame-cmd never work

For systems using a nomenclature in RetroPie different from that of MAME (e.g .: jaguar = atarijaguar)

only lr-mess-system and mame-system working with No-intro, Tosec, MESS, etc. romsets

Have you the same results?

Folly

@dteam

Thanks, I will read the information and see what we can do with it.

I think I have similar results, but still I have to do some tests.

Summarized :

It seem I can remove the old :

lr-mess-basename,
mame-basename

For the handhelds this should be kept :

mame-cmd

Folly

@dteam

I have made some progress on the downloading of cheats and artwork.
But google drive is a pain !
For google drive I found a nice script, but it doesn't get all the files.
So I made an issue on Github.
Hopefully the maker of the google drive script will do something with it.
To be continued...

DTEAM

@folly said in Development of module-script generator for lr-mess and mame standalone:

But google drive is a pain !

I put It there because It was easy to do for me for storage, but If you prefer, you can download those files and transfer It somewhere else where It will be easier to manage It.

Folly

@dteam

I will first wait on the response.

If you have some extra capacity an other solution could be to add some separate handheld folders for this purpose.

We can discuss this later.

Folly

@dteam

So you see, if this works, it would be great.
Just using a few lines ;-)

If you are interested in the code I already made.
This is it :
(OK)

#gets the cheat.7z and places it in the correct path
#works perfect
wget -N -P /tmp http://cheat.retrogames.com/download/cheat0221.zip
unzip -o /tmp/cheat0221.zip cheat.7z -d $HOME/RetroPie/BIOS/mame/cheat
rm /tmp/cheat0221.zip

EDIT ~~(look a few posts ahead for better code for artwork !)~~ :
gdrivedl got only a part of the html code(old version).
If you would browse the website, you will see that when you scroll-down, more info is added to the page.
I think that is the reason why it isn't working.
So I created an issue on github which is solved now.

#get all artwork files and put it in the correct path
#first test got about 42 of 162 artwork files :-( 
#second test with improved version of gdrivedl.py gets all files :-)
wget -nv -O /tmp/gdrivedl.py https://raw.githubusercontent.com/matthuisman/gdrivedl/master/gdrivedl.py
python /tmp/gdrivedl.py https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1sm6gdOcaaQaNUtQ9tZ5Q5WQ6m1OD2QY3 -P $HOME/RetroPie/roms/mame/artwork
rm /tmp/gdrivedl.py

( issue is posted here and gdrivedl.py is improved, accordingly : https://github.com/matthuisman/gdrivedl/issues/12 )

DTEAM

@Folly
Great, I’ll try those and give you news.
For the artworks on google drive, if you prefer, I can split It per systems in folders

Folly

@dteam

I have a solution already ;-) (too bad, not the solution after all ! :-( )

This is the code to get all 162 files the artwork files which are then placed in the correct directory ( still testing but seems to be ok / damn stuck at 114 files ! ) :

wget -nv -O /tmp/gdrivedl.py https://raw.githubusercontent.com/matthuisman/gdrivedl/master/gdrivedl.py
curl https://drive.google.com/embeddedfolderview?id=1sm6gdOcaaQaNUtQ9tZ5Q5WQ6m1OD2QY3#list | egrep -o '(\w|-){26,}' | grep entry | sed 's/entry-//g' | while read fileid ; do python /tmp/gdrivedl.py https://drive.google.com/file/d/$fileid -P $HOME/RetroPie/roms/mame/artwork ; done
rm /tmp/gdrivedl.py

This code should be working but google drive seems to block after a while.
(see https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/29682/development-of-module-script-generator-for-lr-mess-and-mame-standalone/41 )

This is how it works :

with https://drive.google.com/embeddedfolderview?id=1sm6gdOcaaQaNUtQ9tZ5Q5WQ6m1OD2QY3#list you can list all the files in one page.
with egrep -o '(\w|-){26,}' | grep entry | sed 's/entry-//g' you filter out only the file-id's.
then it uses these file-id's every time in the loop, creating a command one by one for each file.

DTEAM

@folly
Some files are for arcade folder, is It for that you stuck at 114?

Folly

@dteam

There is another reason why this is not working.

Haha, I think I tested too much, keep getting => 403 : Forbidden.

Read the output of one file that I was trying.

Sorry...Sorry... We're sorry... ... but your computer or network may be sending automated queries. To protect our users, we can't process your request right now.

Can you get all the files with the code ?

DTEAM

@folly

#gets the cheat.7z and places it in the correct path
#works perfect
wget -N -P /tmp http://cheat.retrogames.com/download/cheat0221.zip
unzip -o /tmp/cheat0221.zip cheat.7z -d $HOME/RetroPie/BIOS/mame/cheat
rm /tmp/cheat0221.zip

Like you said, It works perfect. It's great

wget -nv -O /tmp/gdrivedl.py https://raw.githubusercontent.com/matthuisman/gdrivedl/master/gdrivedl.py

curl https://drive.google.com/embeddedfolderview?id=1sm6gdOcaaQaNUtQ9tZ5Q5WQ6m1OD2QY3#list | egrep -o '(\w|-){26,}' | grep entry | sed 's/entry-//g' | while read fileid ; do python /tmp/gdrivedl.py https://drive.google.com/file/d/$fileid -P $HOME/RetroPie/roms/mame/artwork ; done

rm /tmp/gdrivedl.pyrm /tmp/gdrivedl.py

I got only 38 files ( 271 Mb). I'm gonna try another run (same thing)
Example of Errors I had:

Folly

@dteam

Thanks for trying.

Basically it also says : HTTP Error 403: Forbidden.

It looks like google detects it and then will blocks you for a time.
;-(

I will search again for a solution on the internet.

DTEAM

@folly
If I zip all those files in one file to download, and after that, you manage It on the Pi. Could It be a solution?