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

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"

Folly

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

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?

I saw this with techni4 too (201?).
Why don't you use that, it's probably more accurate making it 2015.
Agree ?

DTEAM

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

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?

I put unknown instead of the digital sequence and it works.

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.

fixed! You can dowload it again.

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.

Done

techni4

Your new video has been uploaded on my Google Drive

"All in one" is finished now !!!

Folly

@DTEAM

All great updates !
Will update asap ;-)

Folly

@DTEAM

I must say everything looks great now !

Not sure if this is the best approach :

<releasedate>unknown</releasedate>

In emulationstation I see :
05/01/{910

Isn't it better to just do ? :

<releasedate/>

To display :
unknown

I did not see a message in the description for techni4, can you add ? :
"Start the game by resetting with F3"

DTEAM

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

I did not see a message in the description for techni4, can you add ? :
"Start the game by resetting with F3"

It's strange, on my pi I read Unknown . Do you have the last ES update?

For F3, maybe I forgot to save my file. I'll redo it. NEW EDIT: Done, on the drive now. The comment was with the wrong rom (sarc110 instead of techni4) Sorry for that.

Folly

@DTEAM

I see that the F3 note is fixed.
I tested the release tag on my pi4 (just like you have it) :

I tested the release tag on my VM x86_64 (gives 05/01/{910) :

Updated ES from source to the latest version, now gives :
05/01/75910

DTEAM

@Folly
Well, maybe it's a request for ES team! It's strange. I'm gonna let it as it for now and see if I can found some infos somewhere.

How do you do to get clean picture on your PI?

Folly

@DTEAM

Why not just use <release/>.
Or is it that you want it filled in, so you know the release date is unknown.
If so, you could add a note to the description.

I always use an OS with Desktop environment installing RetroPie on top of that.
So then I can just run ES from the Desktop and make screenshots with the print-screen-key of ES/mame or RetroArch.
Testing or making videos becomes also more easy that way.

DTEAM

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

Why not just use <release/>.

Done, now on the G Drive. I'll continue with classich and your videos

BTW, Geigeki Go Go Shooting is a fun game and good stuff in the other systems as Seal 50-in-1! (Tiger rescue game). "All in one" is a great addition to Retropie!

Folly

@DTEAM

Done, now on the G Drive. I'll continue with classich and your videos

Perfect, looks the same now on my VM, saying "unknown" !

BTW, Geigeki Go Go Shooting is a fun game and good stuff in the other systems as Seal 50-in-1! (Tiger rescue game). "All in one" is a great addition to Retropie!

I agree.
Now that we have the videos we have a much better overview of the good stuff ;-)
Btw. I had some trouble pressing a button that enabled "pause".
I think "Geigeki Go Go Shooting" deserves a better video.

What do you think, should I also make a new video for lexiseal (Tiger Rescue) ?

DTEAM

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

@DTEAM

Done, now on the G Drive. I'll continue with classich and your videos

Perfect, looks the same now on my VM, saying "unknown" !

BTW, Geigeki Go Go Shooting is a fun game and good stuff in the other systems as Seal 50-in-1! (Tiger rescue game). "All in one" is a great addition to Retropie!

I agree.
Now that we have the videos we have a much better overview of the good stuff ;-)
Btw. I had some trouble pressing a button that enabled "pause".
I think "Geigeki Go Go Shooting" deserves a better video.

What do you think, should I also make a new video for lexiseal (Tiger Rescue) ?

Yes, if you have time. Why not. for the pause button, it's button #5 in the settings. I set it as "start" button.

Folly

@DTEAM

I have updated both.
Do you still have the link ?

DTEAM

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

Now that we have the videos we have a much better overview of the good stuff ;-)

Yes it makes a huge difference. It's visually more attractive! It now makes you want to play!

Folly

@DTEAM

Cool !

DTEAM

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

I have updated both.
Do you still have the link ?

Your two new videos are now on my G Drive. Thanks

DTEAM

@Folly

Hi Folly,
A part of the classich roms come from game and watch Madrigal romset. I have a SSH issue with my scraper today. Do you have time to scrape game and watch and put only the videos on your drive. With that, i’ll be able to do all games on the gamelist. Thanks

Folly

@DTEAM

I will see if I can do some scraping.

kiro

@Folly I'm inserting as much roms as possible from the romset you pointed me too...it will still take some time....

Once this is done I'll be creating extra "systems" in the DB so it will Mao to you gamelists.

Last but not least, I've implemented a 'sort' command in retrosctaper that will take the ROMs and place them in their corresponding system folder. This is not yet released though.