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    • jamrom2J
      jamrom2 @Folly
      last edited by

      @folly I don't. I'm not as tech savy as that... lol.

      I'm better off emailing you each set one at a time if you want to do that instead.

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      • FollyF
        Folly @jamrom2
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        @jamrom2

        That would be ok, but email has probably a limit in how big the attachment can be.
        Probably about 50Mb.
        So if you stay below that limit we are probably ok.

        On the other hand I searched for a reasonably good website that we can use to share these files.
        It looks like this website is a good alternative :
        https://ufile.io/
        Just zip your files to 1 file and share the link.
        I did a test with videopac gamelis+media files :
        https://ufile.io/tutqgnwc

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        • jamrom2J
          jamrom2 @Folly
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          @folly Ok. All done.

          https://ufile.io/f/9qjlu

          Dragon64
          Ti99_4a
          classich (Classic Handhelds)
          Coco2
          Coco3

          Are all uploaded. Bare in mind that many of the graphics I made I took from all kinds of sources like eBay, MobyGames, Launchbox, RetroGamer... etc... on and on. And some I actually made myself using parts of images I had to cobble together as there were no complete box/manual/screen images available.

          It was a ton of work and does not cover ALL games of ALL systems...just many that I hand picked based on "top 100" lists for each system.

          I hope they come in handy for you and others!

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          • FollyF
            Folly @jamrom2
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            @jamrom2

            Link is working good !

            Already seen some nice picture :-)

            Will have better look later on.

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            • FollyF
              Folly @DTEAM
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              @DTEAM

              Shall we also make some gamelists for megaplay and playchoice10 ?

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              • DTEAMD
                DTEAM @Folly
                last edited by

                It's already covered by site like Screenscraper and others with MAME system

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                • FollyF
                  Folly @DTEAM
                  last edited by Folly

                  @DTEAM

                  Off-course, I will try ;-)

                  Edit :
                  Well I tried in emulationstation, but it only works if I have the files in the arcade folder.
                  Screenscraper doesn't add a picture to it.
                  The gamesDB doesn't recognise correctly.

                  Scraping isn't really a nice solution, if you ask me.

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                  • DTEAMD
                    DTEAM @Folly
                    last edited by

                    @Folly said in Creating ES gamelists with media for MAME/lr-mess:

                    Screenscraper doesn't add a picture to it.

                    It works with screenscraper. You have to add a system and customize the rom path in SKRAPER

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                    • duglorD
                      duglor @DTEAM
                      last edited by

                      @DTEAM @Folly and how do you do this? what do you actually type? etc?

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                      • duglorD
                        duglor @Folly
                        last edited by

                        @Folly @DTEAM @testudo Does the Mess-Archimedes work now with .adf (not the amiga type) files such as Hamsters? I have not been able to find a bios file or files that have made it run. :(

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                        • FollyF
                          Folly @duglor
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                          @duglor said in Creating ES gamelists with media for MAME/lr-mess:

                          @DTEAM @Folly and how do you do this? what do you actually type? etc?

                          These are examples on how to create gamelists.xml's manually together with media we put them in the ~/RetroPie/roms/<your_system> folder.
                          These above gamelists overrule the standard gamelists, that are created when scraping and saved in the /opt/retropie/configs/all/emulationstation/gamelists/<your_system> folder .

                          Just use a text editor to edit a gamelist.xml.

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                          • testudoT
                            testudo @duglor
                            last edited by testudo

                            @duglor said in Creating ES gamelists with media for MAME/lr-mess:

                            @Folly @DTEAM @testudo Does the Mess-Archimedes work now with .adf (not the amiga type) files such as Hamsters? I have not been able to find a bios file or files that have made it run. :(

                            @duglor
                            All of my Archimedes roms are in .adf format. I can run Hamsters .adf file under the mame-aa440-bios_310-4Mb-flop emulator option.

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                            • duglorD
                              duglor @testudo
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                              @testudo said in Creating ES gamelists with media for MAME/lr-mess:

                              mame-aa440-bios_310-4Mb-flop emulator optio
                              @folly

                              Ok. and How do you run the emulator using that option? Is that something you create yourself like a batch file? Is it something you type into the screen before you click on the little disk icon? Is it something that you choose in retroarch? I think once i can run the emulator with that option, i'll be fine. Right now i can click on the disks but only 2 games have worked so far :) the others bring up i/o files and errors and such. Be well all!

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                              • FollyF
                                Folly @duglor
                                last edited by Folly

                                @duglor

                                No problem discussing a bit of topic but we reserved this thread for discussing "Creating gamelists" only.

                                If you make use of the "add-system-mamedev.sh" 3rd party module-script then you can discuss elsewhere,
                                over how to install the system archimedes and how to run games for a paricular system :
                                https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/29682/development-of-module-script-generator-for-lr-mess-lr-mame-and-mame-standalone

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                                • duglorD
                                  duglor @testudo
                                  last edited by

                                  @testudo Btw, is that the demo or full version of Hamsters? I think the demo is 800 kb and the full version is 1600 kb.

                                  -Doug

                                  I have the demo working fine. Full version is not happy.

                                  Great job on the emulator!!

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                                  • duglorD
                                    duglor @duglor
                                    last edited by duglor

                                    Anyone create an ES gamelist with box covers or screenshots for the Acorn Archimedes that can be imported into one's archimedes directory?

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                                    • kiroK
                                      kiro @duglor
                                      last edited by

                                      @duglor have you tried the scraper I told you about?

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                                      • testudoT
                                        testudo @duglor
                                        last edited by testudo

                                        @duglor said in Creating ES gamelists with media for MAME/lr-mess:

                                        Anyone create an ES gamelist with box covers or screenshots for the Acorn Archimedes that can be imported into one's archimedes directory?

                                        Here's what I made for my library. You are welcome to use any you like.

                                        Cleaned up Gamelist and added additional ROMs and Images.

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                                        • duglorD
                                          duglor @testudo
                                          last edited by

                                          @testudo Hey, Thanks for sharing!!!
                                          I hope cds and hard drive directories can be used by the Archimedes Emu one day!!

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                                          • testudoT
                                            testudo @duglor
                                            last edited by testudo

                                            @duglor said in Creating ES gamelists with media for MAME/lr-mess:

                                            @testudo Btw, is that the demo or full version of Hamsters? I think the demo is 800 kb and the full version is 1600 kb.

                                            -Doug

                                            I have the demo working fine. Full version is not happy.

                                            Great job on the emulator!!

                                            I did come across a full version. It is out there, but does not run on MAME. I tested it using Arculator and it runs great.

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