Creating ES gamelists with media for MAME/lr-mame/lr-mess

[jamrom2]

@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!

[Folly]

@jamrom2

Link is working good !

Already seen some nice picture :-)

Will have better look later on.

[Folly]

@DTEAM

Shall we also make some gamelists for megaplay and playchoice10 ?

[DTEAM]

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

[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.

[DTEAM]

@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

[duglor]

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

[duglor]

@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. :(

[Folly]

@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.

[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.

[duglor]

@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!

[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

[duglor]

@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!!

[duglor]

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

[kiro]

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

[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.

[duglor]

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

[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.

[testudo]

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[DTEAM]

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

@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.
Added Zarch and Quazer to Gamelist and Images

@testudo @Folly Thanks Testudo! Do you want that on my Goolge Drive for the project?