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

DTEAM

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 ?

isidoro80

@jamrom2 I had a bios.7 version mame merged 0.236 in which some files were missing. now i have downloaded the bios.zip files and they are complete. now everything works. thanks a lot

DTEAM

@folly
done! the dummy file is "rocketp.zip"

isidoro80

does anyone know if it is possible to play with mess with the arcade games sega model 1 and sega model 2? in older versions of mame they did not work correctly

DTEAM

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

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".

I can only run "Rocket Patrol". For the controller, it works for me with controller # 2 (left controller) and an analog stick. I have some trouble to shoot with the fire button.

I can't get the cartridges to work ... any idea?

jamrom2

@folly there might be a simpler way around this using the es_systems.cfg file.

If the BIOS gets read as a .zip or .7z file, then just omit that extention from the list of displayed files... and have the rom files listed as .bin files. MESS/MAME and other emulators don't care if files are zipped or not because ES unpacks them in zipped form anyway prior to feeding them to the selected emulator.

I know GameEx (if you are familar with that Arcade/MAME front end) does it that way and it works. All of the BIOS files have to be listed with the game roms but do not show in the game lists.

It's worth a try. I want to get this system up and running on my set today, so I can certainly help.

Are the roms and bios listed in a particular MAME rom dump? I would imagine it's like .236 or so.

jamrom2

@folly I don't know if this is possible, but it would be great to do this as a .sh file much like how DosBox used to be done...

Or even how it's done now where it has a config file that you point to the game rom with the "autoexec" list giving the proper commands to DosBox instead of having to manual type.