Tutorial: Handheld and Plug & Play systems with MAME

Folly

This driver is missing :
Driver gnw_egg (Game & Watch: Egg):

Can you have a look, I think we can add it.

I tried in both mame and lr-mess .
Adding it to the script array will generate config files and background overlay for lr-mess.

DTEAM

@folly
Thanks. I added it.

Folly

@dteam

Can you do the gamelist too ?

DTEAM

@folly said in Tutorial: Handheld and Plug & Play systems with MAME:

Can you do the gamelist too ?

Already there. It was an omission in my post.

Folly

@dteam

I have added this new0236 driver to the jakks section :
Driver jak_sbjd (SpongeBob SquarePants Jellyfish Dodge (JAKKS Pacific TV Game) (Apr 5 2007)):
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DTEAM

@folly said in Tutorial: Handheld and Plug & Play systems with MAME:

@dteam
I have added this new0236 driver to the jakks section :
Driver jak_sbjd (SpongeBob SquarePants Jellyfish Dodge (JAKKS Pacific TV Game) (Apr 5 2007)):

Thanks, I'm working on the gamelist.xml. I have found missing videos issues. I'll fixe that today.

DTEAM

@Folly

@dteam said in Tutorial: Handheld and Plug & Play systems with MAME:

@folly said in Tutorial: Handheld and Plug & Play systems with MAME:

@dteam
I have added this new0236 driver to the jakks section :
Driver jak_sbjd (SpongeBob SquarePants Jellyfish Dodge (JAKKS Pacific TV Game) (Apr 5 2007)):

Thanks, I'm working on the gamelist.xml. I have found issues for 4 games and missing videos. I'll fixe them today.

Done!! No more missing videos + jak_sbjd done in gamelist.xml

Folly

@dteam

Super, I will update them.

DTEAM

@folly

In MAME 0.238 announcements we can read:
This release adds support for Fowling and Monkey Goalkeeper ,two more Elektronika hand-held games built around the Egg/Mickey Mouse Game & Watch program.

I'll add these two this week

The full Elektronika toy list is here

Folly

@dteam

Added in the database and in the front-end script.

DTEAM

@folly
"Fowling" is already covered by the MADrigal Romset. I'll add the MAME option in the Gamelist.xml.
These Handhelds will go in ClassicH

done. classih gamelist.xml is updated and the list in post #2

Folly

@dteam

I have them both working getting the .svg's from MAME - Update ROMs (v0.237 to v0.238)
I renamed im-13 of gnw-mmouse to im-16 (fowling) and im-22 (monkeygk) to get it working.
But probably we need the newer files later as the hashes of the binaries don't match.

Mame uses the gnw-mmouse artwork by default.
But when other artwork is available it will use that.
We have to look for that, or do you have it already ?

Here are some screenshots :

Folly

@dteam

With some patience we are able to make them ourselves.

DTEAM

@folly
Awesome! Can I add it on Gdrive?

Folly

@dteam

Haha,

Not yet, I have to add some ducks in the overlay and button press animations.
I think I am able to finish it later ;-)

Folly

@dteam said in Tutorial: Handheld and Plug & Play systems with MAME:

@folly
Awesome! Can I add it on Gdrive?

Ready !

You can find it here :
https://github.com/FollyMaddy/media/tree/main/mame_artwork

DTEAM

@folly said in Tutorial: Handheld and Plug & Play systems with MAME:

Ready !
You can find it here :
https://github.com/FollyMaddy/media/tree/main/mame_artwork

added on Google Drive

bbilford83

Hi all,

In the instructions you all mention that you have to map each handheld's buttons individually because they're all different. That's certainly true, but now that I've gone through the effort of doing them all, won't my configs be useful to the group if they want a shortcut? I've mapped everything appropriately in Konami and Tiger (I didn't install the others) and now have .cfg files for each game, and they work both for my 8bitdo and my PiBoy. I know different controllers map differently but I would think this should be helpful for a lot of folks. Anyway, if it is useful, I am happy to share my zip with the files in the right file structure to be just dumped into a retropie/configs folder, but I can't figure out a way to upload them directly here....

Cheers and thanks for this wonderful project!

Folly

@bbilford83

It could be something to add to our project in the future.

If you can, then you could upload them, separately, to a google-drive.
This is what we also use in the project for artwork and gamelists with media.
Later we can try to implement if there is some time to do so.

bbilford83

@Folly Thanks. I've never tried that before but I think it did it correctly here. There's a folder for all Konami and all Tiger handheld configs, the ones that would go in configs/[system]/lr-mess/.

Cheers.