Tutorial: Handheld and Plug & Play systems with MAME
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@Folly Is there a way to private msg you, Folly?
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@duglor said in Tutorial: Handheld and Plug & Play systems with MAME:
I have send you a mail, you can remove yours from the post.
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In the 90s I played these HP48GX games on a physical device:
https://www.hpcalc.org/hp48/games/arcade/Then you had to copy them with a serial cable via kermit:
https://www.hpcalc.org/install.phpI saw that you can run the HP48GX via mame:
http://adb.arcadeitalia.net/dettaglio_mame.php?game_name=hp48gI have the hp48gx.zip rom running now and it looks good with the mame art:
https://www.progettosnaps.net/artworks/packs/official/hp48gx.zipIs there any way to load these games via:
/opt/retropie/emulators/mame/mame -verbose hp48gx ... ? -
Starting with the hp48g, this driver does not have support for media and slots (serial port / ram-card / etc).
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ /opt/retropie/emulators/mame/mame -listmedia hp48g SYSTEM MEDIA NAME (brief) IMAGE FILE EXTENSIONS SUPPORTED ---------------- --------------------------- ------------------------------- hp48g (none) pi@raspberrypi:~ $ /opt/retropie/emulators/mame/mame -listslots hp48g SYSTEM SLOT NAME SLOT OPTIONS SLOT DEVICE NAME ---------------- ---------------- ---------------- ---------------------------- hp48g (none)For the hp48gp and hp49g this is the same.
So it will probably be quite difficult to get the software working these types.However for the hp48gx (or hp48sx) "ports" are supported, which is perhaps an option :
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ /opt/retropie/emulators/mame/mame -listmedia hp48gx SYSTEM MEDIA NAME (brief) IMAGE FILE EXTENSIONS SUPPORTED ---------------- --------------------------- ------------------------------- hp48gx port1 (p1) .crd hp48gx port2 (p2) .crdWhen running hp48gx I can now create a .crd file in the mame-gui.
Now using the the "disktype" program it will show up as empty disk image :pi@raspberrypi:~ $ disktype '/home/pi/hp.crd' --- /home/pi/hp.crd Regular file, size 128 KiB (131072 bytes) Blank disk/mediumThis output looks hopeful, though more research has to be done.
We have to try to format the card from within the hp48gx and look if we can get a usable disk-image that we can write files to in, for example, linux.We can find a lot of information about these models over here :
https://github.com/wyatt8740/x48
Perhaps we are even able to use this emulator and tools to create .crd files. -
I tried some ram files that were created by the x48 emulator I mentioned earlier.
They seem not compatible once something has been written to it.
So even if files could be transferred in the x48 emulator the ram card files would not work in mame.For me it takes too much time to figure out some solution.
So I will probably stop trying.Perhaps you have more luck asking the same question on the mame forum :
https://forums.bannister.org/ubbthreads.php?ubb=postlist&Board=1 -
Ok. Anyway thanks for taking the time to look into it. I see there's also an Atari Portfolio thread. I will try that first.
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Yes that's my thread.
I was hoping that I could do somewhat the same thing with the hp48gx.
But I think the format of the ram images is totally different. -
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@Folly here are my scrapes and gamelist for Atari portfolio
if you like do what you want with them, all good.
hope i helped some!I stuck them here
https://archive.org/details/gamelist_202211 -
@Retrodade
Thanks. Great job! @Folly It's now on the project Google Drive -
@DTEAM great !
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Western Bar -Game Watch game made by Casio which was published, in 1984
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@Folly
Not sure if I remember any scrapes
"Image, pic and video" for Tiger R Zone?
well, there are only 3 and I made mine also leaving it here if you want them and if you already did i didn't see it, but here are the ones I did -
Can you add tigerrz to your google-drive and add also entry's for .7z ?
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@Folly said in Tutorial: Handheld and Plug & Play systems with MAME:
Can you add tigerrz to your google-drive and add also entry's for .7z ?
@Retrodade @Folly
Done! .7z included and on GoogleDrive.Thanks Retrodade!
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Hi Folly, are you able to run tsimquest.zip or 7z (Tiger - Castlevania Simon's Quest). I'm not able for now !
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It's for new release mame 250.
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Do you know if more handheld have been added to MAME 0.250 and lower since we start this thread? I updated my list 2 times since the beginning of the project. It's hard to capt, because some new handheld just doesn't work (like JAKKS... almost 50% of the existing MAME roms doesn't work, same thing for All in one)
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