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

jamrom2

@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!

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.

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!

jamrom2

@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.

Folly

@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.

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

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

Folly

@dteam

Ok, so I got the wrong system installed then ?

DTEAM

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

Folly

@dteam

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

DTEAM

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

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".

DTEAM

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

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.

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.

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 !

DTEAM

@folly

I'll fix that on google drive

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

Folly

@dteam

I just added apfimag_cass to the special systems with slotdevices.

To load a cassette file :
Just press "enter" to go into basic.
Then "CLOAD"
Use key "]" for enter (goto tape menu and press play)
Then "RUN" and use key "]" for enter.

https://github.com/FollyMaddy/RetroPie-Share/commit/f8f2debe9388f9896a86a5d5ad6999629bc9d609

Folly

@dteam

Btw. we could add a dummy file on google-drive for loading the bios only of apfm1000 so it will run Rocket Patrol.

We could name it "rocketp.bin" for example and add it into the gamelist.xml.

What do you think, good idea ?