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

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    • jamrom2J
      jamrom2 @Folly
      last edited by

      @folly just tossing it out there.. I don't know if you are but it's probably not worth doing Apple II version since you already have the Apple IIe working. I've been playing around with some games for testing... Battle Chess, Beach Head and Archon... and there is no difference between the two as far as game graphics go. The difference is mostly in the design of the internals and the ability to use lower case ASCII code additions.

      So how you have it now, is probably the best set up.

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        Folly @jamrom2
        last edited by Folly

        @jamrom2

        I thinks so too, I will keep those in the "other systems section".
        Perhaps I should rename it to "thread systems section".

        Sometimes I still struggle on what keys from the keyboard I have to use. ;-)

        Also tried a few more apple2gs games, they are really nice and the sound is very good !

        Battle-Chess-apple2ee VS Battle-Chess-apple2gsr1
        ( What a difference )

        battle-chess-apple2ee.png battle-chess-apple2gsr1.png

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        • jamrom2J
          jamrom2 @Folly
          last edited by

          @folly After doing more testing, you got this one locked-up. It's smooth, easy to setup and works great. I added in my overlays and shader settings... so everything is back to what is was but now using your script for the install.

          Works great. Nice job on this!

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            Folly @jamrom2
            last edited by Folly

            @jamrom2

            Thanks for the compliment ;-)

            Nice to hear you worked it out.
            It isn't that difficult anymore when you know how it works.

            Btw. I did a discovery yesterday :
            The speedup key for mame is the "page down" key, that works the same like using the hotkey "space" with retroarch.

            I am also testing an "emulators.cfg runcommand line" for mame.
            This has something to do with the "mame-cmd/mame basename" line.
            These lines do not directly work with systems that load media.
            That is because, when only software is loaded, it tries to match it with a system which cannot be found.
            Summarized : Someone is loading software not a system, that is the issue.

            So adding the Driver and the -rompath /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/<system> makes this work when both BIOS files and SOFTWARE files are in the same /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/<system> directory.
            Then it will use the "software lists/hash tables" which will have the advantage that, if the game has more media,
            lets say disk 1 and disk 2, then many times both are loaded in one go.

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            • DTEAMD
              DTEAM @Folly
              last edited by DTEAM

              @folly
              For AFP MP-1000 fans, I did a gamelist.xml file with videos, 2d boxes and logos for each official game.

              I put that on the google drive ready for the script!

              2.jpg

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              • jamrom2J
                jamrom2 @Folly
                last edited by

                @folly
                Sounds great.

                The only issue I see with this is purely visual. You would have to name the bios files something other than the same extension as the game files...otherwise the BIOS files will display as games in the game list. I hope that makes sense.

                Normally it's not good to have both the BIOS and Games in the same location just for that reason.

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                  Folly @jamrom2
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                  @jamrom2 said in Development of module-script generator for lr-mess and mame standalone:

                  @folly
                  Sounds great.

                  The only issue I see with this is purely visual. You would have to name the bios files something other than the same extension as the game files...otherwise the BIOS files will display as games in the game list. I hope that makes sense.

                  Normally it's not good to have both the BIOS and Games in the same location just for that reason.

                  Yes, indeed that's a problem.
                  That's why I don't add it right away.

                  I would be nice if we could add 2 paths somehow, not sure if that is possible.
                  Perhaps we can find a solution on the way.

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                    Folly @DTEAM
                    last edited by Folly

                    @dteam

                    Great work you have done for the apfm1000.
                    I will install it soon ;-)

                    Edit :
                    You have a typo in the system name, it should be :
                    apfm1000
                    (Looking at the logo, very strange name indeed)

                    Probably this filename is incorrect :
                    Baseball (MG1006) for the APF MP-1000 videogame system (1978)-DDhWqyq4-eg

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                    • DTEAMD
                      DTEAM @Folly
                      last edited by DTEAM

                      @folly

                      I think apfm1000 is for M-1000 and MP-1000
                      and apfimag_cass is for computer extension APF Imagination Machine

                      On wiki we can read :
                      The console is often referred to M-1000 or MP-1000, which are the two model numbers of the console. The APF-MP1000 comes built-in with the game Rocket Patrol. The APF-MP1000 is a part of the APF Imagination Machine.

                      Cartridge list

                      Some APF-M1000 games
                      MG1008 Backgammon
                      MG1006 Baseball
                      MG1007 Blackjack
                      MG1004 Bowling/Micro Match
                      MG1012 Boxing
                      MG1005 Brickdown/Shooting Gallery
                      MG1009 Casino I: Roulette/Keno/Slots
                      MG1001 Catena
                      MG1003 Hangman/Tic Tac Toe/Doodle
                      MG1011 Pinball/Dungeon Hunt/Blockout
                      Built-In Rocket Patrol
                      MG1013 Space Destroyers
                      MG1010 UFO/Sea Monster/Break It Down/Rebuild/Shoot

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                        Folly @DTEAM
                        last edited by

                        @dteam

                        Ok, so I got the wrong system installed then ?

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                        • DTEAMD
                          DTEAM @Folly
                          last edited by

                          @folly
                          No , I think M-1000 and MP-1000 are the same machine.

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                            Folly @DTEAM
                            last edited by Folly

                            @dteam

                            But your files are going to afpm1000.
                            That system doesn't exist.

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                            • DTEAMD
                              DTEAM @Folly
                              last edited by DTEAM

                              @folly
                              Sorry, you are right, typo error. Corrected. I thought you were talking about MP-1000 vs M-1000.

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                                Folly @DTEAM
                                last edited by Folly

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

                                @folly
                                Sorry, you are right, typo error. Corrected.

                                Haha, No problem.
                                Perfect !
                                After it has finished I will download again.
                                I think it's going to look great.

                                Btw. did you test all those games ?
                                I have trouble with finding the right keys on how to play them.
                                The one you posted worked though, just shooting with "enter".

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                                • DTEAMD
                                  DTEAM @Folly
                                  last edited by DTEAM

                                  @folly
                                  No, I didn't tested yet. I'll do it today or tomorrow. I will also try with the basename option.

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                                    Folly @DTEAM
                                    last edited by Folly

                                    @dteam

                                    Forgive me !

                                    I found that the path is incomplete in gamelist.xml so the pictures and mp4 isn't loaded.
                                    It's missing emulationstation.

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                                    • DTEAMD
                                      DTEAM @Folly
                                      last edited by DTEAM

                                      @folly
                                      It's missing for the other gamelist files also. I thought It was for your script and at the end you put the gamelist.xml and the media folder directly in your roms system folder without emulationstation folder.

                                      I'm downloading the game list folder from Google drive to see if all gamelist are like that. If yes, is it a good option to delete the emulationstation folder or you prefer the file path modification.

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                                        Folly @DTEAM
                                        last edited by Folly

                                        @dteam

                                        Yes indeed, that is what we did, and we should keep it that way.

                                        I think you don't understand me.

                                        ./media/
                                        has to be
                                        ./media/emulationstation/
                                        in the gamelist.xml

                                        Agreed ?

                                        Just fixed it in my gamelist and it's looking great in ES !

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                                        • DTEAMD
                                          DTEAM @Folly
                                          last edited by

                                          @folly

                                          I'll fix that on google drive

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                                          • DTEAMD
                                            DTEAM @DTEAM
                                            last edited by DTEAM

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

                                            @folly
                                            I'll fix that on google drive

                                            done. Sorry for that mistake. All other files are ok.

                                            NEW EDIT
                                            I found two errors. name error for UFO in the list has been changed and for catenaa. I recommend another download. fixed on Google drive

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