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      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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        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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          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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            Folly @DTEAM
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            @DTEAM

            Shall we also make some gamelists for megaplay and playchoice10 ?

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

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

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                      duglor @Folly
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                      @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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                        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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                          testudo @duglor
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                          @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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                            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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                              Folly @duglor
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                              @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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                                duglor @testudo
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                                @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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                                  duglor @duglor
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                                  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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                                    kiro @duglor
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                                    @duglor have you tried the scraper I told you about?

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                                      testudo @duglor
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                                      @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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                                        duglor @testudo
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                                        @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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                                          testudo @duglor
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                                          @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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                                            testudo @testudo
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