new scriptmodules (lr-vice-xvic, gsplus, proper lr-mess integration!)

cdaters

@Folly, dude, you are amazing! I haven't yet looked at your project, but based on your reply here, I am very excited to jump into it...such that I may undo what I've done already with @valerino's script, put my backup of the official RetroPie-Setup dir and scripts back in place and go your route instead. Generating module-scripts on the fly is amazing!

I'm pretty familiar with bash (but by no means an expert, lol). I will definitely check out your project and the bash script link you provided. I definitely want to learn more about this and it seems that MAME/LR_MESS has more to offer than I first thought (beyond Arcade) and I am very curious about that.

After I am done updating all of the online templates for variable-data printing (actual work stuff always gets in the way, lol) and I get a few free moments, I will be all over it.

cdaters

@Folly said in new scriptmodules (lr-vice-xvic, gsplus, proper lr-mess integration!):

For you it's better to install it all via this module-script :
https://github.com/FollyMaddy/RetroPie-Share/blob/main/00-scriptmodules-00/supplementary/add-ext-repos.sh
Just place this module-script in :
/home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/scriptmodules/supplementary

I installed this module-script in:
/home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/scriptmodules/supplementary

with:

cd ~/RetroPie-Setup/scriptmodules/supplementary
wget https://github.com/FollyMaddy/RetroPie-Share/blob/main/00-scriptmodules-00/supplementary/add-ext-repos.sh

and when I run:

sudo ~/RetroPie-Setup/retropie-setup.sh

I get this error:

pi@retropie:~ $ sudo ./RetroPie-Setup/retropie_setup.sh 
/home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/scriptmodules/supplementary/add-ext-repos.sh: line 7: syntax error near unexpected token `newline'
/home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/scriptmodules/supplementary/add-ext-repos.sh: line 7: `<!DOCTYPE html>'
Module  is missing valid rp_module_id
Module  is missing valid rp_module_desc
pi@retropie:~ $

cdaters

Never mind...somehow the wget command HTML'ized the script and that was breaking things...

cdaters

Dang! You were not kidding about the volume of systems... I'm like a kid in a candy store, lmao!

So I backed out all of the valerino setup script stuff, got this going...had to dig through the menus to find everything and watch your animated gif a few times...

I managed to get advision installed and now when I launch it, I have many options to choose from, so now I have a little more research to do...

I haven't even looked at the other repos yet...I'm just using yours at the moment!

cdaters

When using the add-ext-repos.sh script to install repos, and then installing systems...how do we "uninstall" those systems that were installed using this script or the repos that were installed with it?

Folly

@cdaters said in new scriptmodules (lr-vice-xvic, gsplus, proper lr-mess integration!):

When using the add-ext-repos.sh script to install repos, and then installing systems...how do we "uninstall" those systems that were installed using this script or the repos that were installed with it?

I haven't added deletion of systems in my add-mamedev-systems.sh script.
If you want to delete a system you can just go to the regular section of experimental packages, select the package you want to de-install and select that.
Not the official approach but I just delete the specific emulators.cfg to delete old loader lines.
(Edit : When the loader names are the same the old loader names are overwritten by the new ones when installing a system again, so it's not always needed to de-install or remove the emulators.cfg)

When using the add-ext-repos.sh script all the 3dr-party module-scripts are stored in /home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/ext/ .
When they aren't needed anymore you can just dellete the sub-directories in the ext directory.
Then you are back with an original RetroPie-Setup where you began with.

Dang! You were not kidding about the volume of systems... I'm like a kid in a candy store, lmao!

LOL ;-)

Never mind...somehow the wget command HTML'ized the script and that was breaking things...

This is how you can download scripts from github.
You have to use the raw links.
This should work :

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/FollyMaddy/RetroPie-Share/main/00-scriptmodules-00/supplementary/add-ext-repos.sh

cdaters

@Folly, thank you!

Folly

@cdaters

I had a few mistakes in the script.
I just updated it.

Hope it fixes everything

ChaosEffect

Hello,

This is great! I didn't even notice this thread until recently. Would it be possible to get a script for Atari 7800?

Folly

@ChaosEffect

Have you read the last posts ?

You can install it with my script and it does work.

Read from here :
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/25576/new-scriptmodules-lr-vice-xvic-gsplus-proper-lr-mess-integration/512

ChaosEffect

@Folly Thanks! I just did a quick search for 7800 and missed that. I will read through it and try it out.

CARRisma

Hello @Folly I'm new to this forum having bought myself a Pi 4 Model B shortly before Christmas. I've just joined this forum to send you my gratitude.

I would just like to send you my huge thanks for the script that installs Elkulator on RetroPie. My first computer my parents bought for me one Christmas back in the mid-eighties was an Acorn Electron so being able to bring back these memories makes me very happy.

Thank you for your hard work in creating that script, I'm sure it's appreciated my many including myself.

I've managed to scrape many of the ROMs (using Skraper in Windows) and I've created a custom page for the SCV720 EmulationStation theme.

Folly

@CARRisma

Welcome to the forum.

Thanks for letting me know.
Really nice to hear you enjoy it so much. ;-)

Simrose

@cdaters
how did you fix this i got same error
sudo ~/RetroPie-Setup/retropie_setup.sh
/home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/scriptmodules/supplementary/add-ext-repos.sh: line 7: syntax error near unexpected token newline' /home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/scriptmodules/supplementary/add-ext-repos.sh: line 7: <!DOCTYPE html>'
Module is missing valid rp_module_id
Module is missing valid rp_module_desc

I was following your steps.
thanks
Sim

Folly

@Simrose

Go into the web-browser :
~~https://github.com/FollyMaddy/RetroPie-Share/blob/main/00-scriptmodules-00/supplementary/add-ext-repos.sh~~
Right-click on raw, then select save as.
Open with a text-editor and check if you have the same file as displayed in the web-browser.

~~or use the next commands in the terminal to get the raw file with wget~~ don't use this anymore ! :

cd /home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/scriptmodules/supplementary
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/FollyMaddy/RetroPie-Share/main/00-scriptmodules-00/supplementary/add-ext-repos.sh

jamrom2

@Folly Hiya Folly.

I've been working with a new build as I prepare to finish out the Pi3 and move on to a Pi4. So I was able to start everything from a fresh build using the new 4.8 RetroPie version.

I pulled down the last script you posted and worked with it from a clean start.

I found 1 issue with the CoCo 3 OS/9 option. It doesn't load into the options list. You can select it to build from the list, but it doesn't do anything and it does not add to the option list.

Other than that, there are now an insane amount of options with/without extra ram, machine, basic... cass, disk... etc.. etc. Wow!

Best,

JamR

Folly

@jamrom2

Cool, a PI4 !!!!!

Did you use the add-ext-repos.sh (raw link) in above script ?

With that you get more than just mame/lr-mess.
And you can use it for updating the scripts.
And everything is installed separately in :
/home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/ext

I probably want to use it as a standard for installing add-mamedev-systems.sh in the future.

I will look at that coco OS/9 line.

Btw. Does classich work ?
(I had no trouble but @DTEAM did)

And have a look at this :https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/32377/memotech-512-and-apogee-bk-01

Simrose

@Folly
I run the code and it didn't return any errors but also nothing new shown.

I would love to get Atari Jaguar working with any version of mess. I've tried virtualjaguar and it has to much audio issues.

I've read lots of posts on how to do it but can't get it running. Is there an easy method for just getting jaguar working.

I'll keep trying and reading more.

Thanks Sim

Folly

@Simrose

It doesn't look easy the first time.
But in time you will see that it's quite easy, just by doing it more often.

If you have installed a system and it doesn't work then always check the/dev/shm/runcommand.log .
In there you probably find the problem, for example :

bios file not found
game file not found
etc

For jaguar the bios file has to be called : jaguar.zip (or .7z), and placed in the BIOS/mame directory.
You can search for the file, with duckduckgo/google, in mame-0.231-merged.

For the mame jaguar software you have to find the file jaguar.zip and extract it in roms/atarijaguar .
You can search for the file, with duckduckgo/google, in mame-sl.

You can then load breakout.zip, for example, with the -cartloaders or in this case also the basename loaders.

jamrom2

@Folly I haven't tried that yet. So far it seems like everything works with the script you last posted, and I've managed to narrow my emulators.cfg down to only a few choices for each emulator. Basically, I'm sticking with what works well, and streamlining it.

Once I get the Pi4, and start that build, I'll let you know. This Pi3 build will cover 3 machines I have, so it's going to be a "light" version that only has emulators that work well on a Pi3.

the link you posted to the add-ext repos.sh doesn't work. I have to look into that for the next build.