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

Folly

Ultimately, I found that whilst mess has lightgun support the drivers for Atari800 do not appear to make use of it.

indeed, seems to be a problem with some drivers for MAME/lr-mame/lr-mess.

This file seems to indicate that all types of mouse-like input for A800 are completely off the table: https://github.com/libretro/libretro-atari800/blob/master/libretro/core-mapper.c

Correct, for that a800 libretro-core it looks like mouse is disabled when no android is used.
You could open a new topic, and try to change or patch the source to test adding mouse support to it.

Adding a lightgun category to your database does sound like a good option to have, but at present I'm not familiar enough with your script to give a qualified answer.

When I can I will try to update the database with lightgun info.
I am still waiting for updates on : https://www.progettosnaps.net/index.php .

Folly

The script has been updated to use the mame 0.245 data.

Within the 0245 database the lightgun data has been added.
So it's now possible to install the arcade category "lightgun".
Because there are no vertically playable lightgun roms the "lightgun90º" entry's are missing.

Although the category lightgun exists now, there are no artwork files or overlays files yet to support the sinden lightgun.
So if you want to make use of that, you still have to add that manually.

From the restricted part 122 of 329 lightgun games are available.

testudo

@Folly
Added the latest add-mamedev-systems.sh scriptmodule (0245.02) on my Ubuntu system and I am getting this error when trying to add new systems:

/home/testudo/RetroPie-Setup/scriptmodules/supplementary/add-mamedev-systems.sh: line 806: /home/testudo/RetroPie-Setup/scriptmodules/supplementary/add-mamedev-systems.sh: line 791: /usr/bin/dialog: Argument list too long: syntax error: operand expected (error token is "/home/testudo/RetroPie-Setup/scriptmodules/supplementary/add-mamedev-systems.sh: line 791: /usr/bin/dialog: Argument list too long")
/home/testudo/RetroPie-Setup/scriptmodules/supplementary/add-mamedev-systems.sh: line 809: /home/testudo/RetroPie-Setup/scriptmodules/supplementary/add-mamedev-systems.sh: line 791: /usr/bin/dialog: Argument list too long: syntax error: operand expected (error token is "/home/testudo/RetroPie-Setup/scriptmodules/supplementary/add-mamedev-systems.sh: line 791: /usr/bin/dialog: Argument list too long")

Any idea on what I have done wrong?

Folly

@testudo

I am aware that there is somehow one bug in the script, only when using a x86 or x86_64 cpu or other OSes.
The bug was there from the start of the front-end.

The issue is that when you want to display all the systems, and install one from there, then the error occurs.

When selecting system in alphabetical order there should be no problem

So :
Are you able to go into front-end ?
Did you select to install a default system from the whole list ?
Do the other menu options work ?

testudo

@Folly

Yes, I was attempting to access the full list of default systems. It has been awhile since I added anything new, so I may have forgotten that bug existed.

Anyway, I am able to use the alphabetical listing options and get systems added, so all good now.

Thanks for the instructions.

Folly

@testudo

Not sure why the error occurs because on a raspberry pi it's no issue.
Perhaps I will dig in it once more.
On the other hand, is it a solution to just remove the menu options 1 and 2 ?
What do you think ?

testudo

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

@testudo

Not sure why the error occurs because on a raspberry pi it's no issue.
Perhaps I will dig in it once more.
On the other hand, is it a solution to just remove the menu options 1 and 2 ?
What do you think ?

Removing the menu options seems like a logical fix, be it temporary or permanent.

Folly

@testudo

Seems I found the issue and did an update :
https://github.com/FollyMaddy/RetroPie-Share/commit/e23e2a058872b2a8c05f391ef4020c8bcde092e1

Can you test it for me ?

EDIT :
Just tested both "description list" and "systems list".
Seems the issue is in the"description list".
So the error is not fixed yet.
I will have a second look ;-)

Folly

@testudo

I turned "Display all upon descriptions" off for x86 and x86_64 PC's.
You will now get a message.
Can you test it for me ?

https://github.com/FollyMaddy/RetroPie-Share/commit/8bbaa26a88521183fe1330c1e31ec02ba190e36f

testudo

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

@testudo

Seems I found the issue and did an update :
https://github.com/FollyMaddy/RetroPie-Share/commit/e23e2a058872b2a8c05f391ef4020c8bcde092e1

Can you test it for me ?

EDIT :
Just tested both "description list" and "systems list".
Seems the issue is in the"description list".
So the error is not fixed yet.
I will have a second look ;-)

@Folly

I received the following errors:
script errors.png

Folly

@testudo

Yes, I know, the earlier commit didn't fix anything.
In the last commit "Display all upon descriptions" will now only work on arm cpu's.
Can you update to 245.05 and see if you get a message instead of the error ?

testudo

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

@testudo

Yes, I know, the earlier commit didn't fix anything.
In the last commit "Display all upon descriptions" will now only work on arm cpu's.
Can you update to 245.05 and see if you get a message instead of the error ?

Looks like it worked:

Screenshot from 2022-08-09 08-32-23.png

dmmarti

@Folly … I don’t use my RetroPie build much anymore (mainly use my Windows PC now), but I had a look at some of your previous posts and decided to test a few things out.

I’ve now been able to add support for Videoton TV 64 using floppy disks. This opens up a few more games using the latest MAME software list for tvc_flop. I’ve been playing Galaxy alot lately now.

Here’s the stand alone MAME command I used:

mame tvc64 -exp1 hbf -flop1 “Path/To/Rom/game.dsk”

Once the system is started, instead of using the cassette command of:

LOAD <enter>

Use this instead:

LOAD"*" <enter>

You might have already did this system, but I wasn’t sure. By looking at the -listslots for tvc64 I was able to deduce how to add floppy support. There are quite a few games in the tvc_flop software list that are pretty fun.

Folly

@dmmarti

Nice find !
I did not test this system driver.
I will have a look at that one.

Folly

I updated all links in the first post.
So when hovering over the link the correct post is displayed.

Folly

@dmmarti

I have tried galaxy too, looks nice.
Placed tvc64.zip and tvc_hbf.zip in BIOS/mame.

I have added tvc64 + flop1 support in >EXTRA<

https://github.com/FollyMaddy/RetroPie-Share/commit/2fa04f814fcf1088757d05b3834ecb3fd8a58aeb

Folly

@DTEAM

Here is some news about handheld vfd games :
https://forums.bannister.org/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=97003&page=397

Looks like we need to update our roms in the next version.

mitu

@Folly just a heads-up - the name of the lr-mess core file has changed, due to an upstream re-organization. It's now mamemess_libretro.so instead of mess_libretro.so.

Folly

@mitu

Thanks, I will have a look at it.

Folly

To everyone who is using this project,

The name of the core mess_libretro.so will change into :
mamemess_libretro.so

For future compatibility I will add these changes to version 245.08 of add-mamedev-systems.sh .

Though when we do nothing we still face these other problems :

old emulators.cfg will still have the name mess_libretro.so in them
when still using the older mess_libretro.so, new installed systems, generated by 245.08, will not work because it will generate for mamemess_libretro.so
be aware of the fact that old generated module-script still contain the old mess_libretro.so name, so try to not install an old module-script

I decided to not implement fixes because they will be somewhat temporary.
So, here are some commands to make the switch to 245.08 :

#make a backup of all your configs files for security in /opt/retropie/configs.bak
sudo cp -a /opt/retropie/configs /opt/retropie/configs.bak
#change all mess_libretro.so entry's into mamemess_libretro.so entry's in all emulators.cfg files
find /opt/retropie/configs/ -name emulators.cfg|while read file;do echo "change mess_libretro.so into mamemess_libretro.so in $file";sed -i 's/\/mess/\/mamemess/g' $file;done
#change the name of the old mess_libretro.so 
#(can be possibly skipped when installing the latest lr-mess core with the name mamemess_libretro.so)
sudo mv /opt/retropie/libretrocores/lr-mess/mess_libretro.so /opt/retropie/libretrocores/lr-mess/mamemess_libretro.so

https://github.com/FollyMaddy/RetroPie-Share/commit/9aac70fbd6f3a31cca08a7e3563fe1b2362182cf
https://github.com/FollyMaddy/RetroPie-Share/commit/daa630e325475ac3712cbe568354e30cdaf0311e