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

Folly

Do you keep a backup of the original files in there too ?

DTEAM

Yes and no. When it's tested sometime I clean the old stuff. I have a backup of the Google Drive.

Folly

I think we need to keep them because if we find better editing tools we can do the editing again from the older originals.

DTEAM

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

@Folly @kiro
I uploaded your images and the good gamelist.xml file on Google drive. It should be fixed for "All in one" system. I'll double check the other files.

@Folly @kiro
pockstat and videopac had the same problems. Now fixed on google drive! It should be fine now.

Folly

@DTEAM @kiro

I created videos for all_in1 :
(my google-drive link removed)
Now on google drive @DTEAM :
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1TWX6dY213PH424-FZO289jJ9nDMq-ypO

DTEAM

@Folly

Do you have an updated gamelist for those videos? If not, i'll work on that. Thanks for the videos !!

Folly

@DTEAM

No I haven't because you were busy with it.
Thanks for adding ;-)

Folly

@DTEAM

After playing a better game on lexizeus I wanted a better video for this driver.
I updated the video on google-drive.

DTEAM

@Folly
Next step for videos could be classich 😉 thanks a lot for « all in one » i know it takes a lot of time to do that!!!
I did it (for now) for the 68 games of the actual gamelist. You can test it. The result is very good.

Folly

@DTEAM

Looks really good now ;-)

Tried to do the same with classich but mame will slow down too much with using the option -aviwrite and some of these "classich" drivers.

I am looking for an other way of making these videos but it seems to be difficult.

DTEAM

@Folly
I already did the one for nstarfox

Folly

@DTEAM

I found a solution here :https://forums.bannister.org/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=118963&Searchpage=1&Main=9230&Words=aviwrite+&Search=true#Post118963

use -snapview native to record without artwork
or
use -snapsize 800x600 to record with artwork at lower resolution so speed is at an acceptable level.

Folly

@DTEAM

I created the first 8 and did not record the artwork with it because we do not have all.
So for uniformity I did it like this now.

Can you have a look if it's ok like this ?

Here are the files :
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1gubyMC_usVhNPsabmG23kYFf7aRvttQe

DTEAM

@Folly

Sure. I'll finish « all in one » monday and jump on that after. For classich Some Games already included the artworks in the rom (some sports game)

Folly

@DTEAM

I did the best I could and added the rest for classich ;-)

DTEAM

@Folly

Do you agree If I cut 2 seconds of your "all in one" videos and put a maximum at 45 sec.? I would like to erase the grey transition at the beginning of some videos (like bittboy.mp4). I'll use ffmpeg to do that with this script.

for %%a in ("*.mp4") do 01-ffmpeg -ss 00:00:02.0 -i "%%a" -c  copy -t 00:00:45.0 "newfiles\%%~na.mp4"
pause

BTW, if you want get youtube videos instead of your own. You can use this script.

for  YOUR_HTTP_VIDEO_WEB_LINK do 01-ffmpeg -i "%%a" -pix_fmt yuv420p -crf 30 -vcodec libx264 -acodec aac "newfiles\%%~na.mp4"
pause

Reference : RetroPie - Convert Non-Functional videos to functional videos - Easy free batch method on Windows - also size reducer

Folly

@DTEAM

I agree.

DTEAM

@Folly

"All in One" is now 100% completed (videos + images). You can dowload it from the google drive. I recommend re-downloading the whole thing including images and videos. I dowloaded your classich videos. thanks a lot.

For four systems, the theme use my marquee as images. I will have to create a dummy png as image to force those marqees to go at the good place.

For "all in one", your sarc110.mp4 and techni4.mp4 videos doesn't seem to work properly. For the second one, maybe it's the rom itself?

In the gamelist, sometime the year is unknown. I put 202? but it detect it as 2025. Have you an idea to show an unknow symbol as "?" or "x" in a digit sequence?

Folly

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

For "all in one", your sarc110.mp4 and techni4.mp4 videos doesn't seem to work properly. For the second one, maybe it's the rom itself?

Will have a look at those two.
I remember one had indeed black screen, so the rom/driver seem to be bad.

In the gamelist, sometime the year is unknown. I put 202? but it detect it as 2025. Have you an idea to show an unknow symbol as "?" or "x" in a digit sequence?

That's indeed a tricky one, not sure either how to do that.
I will have a look.

Folly

@DTEAM

I can't get techni4 working, directly.
It respons to saying what buttons I press, not more than that.
I discovered when resetting with F3 the game actually works.
Perhaps something to add in the gamelist or if you are able to add it to the video would be also a good idea.
So I can make a video now with firs second cut out, added to my google-drive.
The -listxml option says :
driver status="imperfect" emulation="good"

I can't get sarc110 working, when I press w I get this screen :

-listxml option also says :
driver status="preliminary" emulation="preliminary"