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

Folly · 29 Nov 2022, 16:02

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 · 29 Nov 2022, 16:19

@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 · 29 Nov 2022, 17:44

@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 · 29 Nov 2022, 18:14

@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 · 29 Nov 2022, 18:28

@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 · 29 Nov 2022, 18:53

@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 · 29 Nov 2022, 19:47

@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 · 29 Nov 2022, 20:05

@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 · 29 Nov 2022, 20:07

@DTEAM

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

DTEAM · 29 Nov 2022, 20:09

@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 · 29 Nov 2022, 20:10

@DTEAM

Cool !

DTEAM · 29 Nov 2022, 20:14

@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 · 30 Nov 2022, 11:39

@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 · 30 Nov 2022, 15:10

@DTEAM

I will see if I can do some scraping.

kiro · 30 Nov 2022, 15:14

@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.

Folly · 30 Nov 2022, 15:45

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

@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.

Great !

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.

Could be a nice feature but I am not sure I want roms moved without my knowledge.
Or do I have to look at it from another perspective ?
Will it be off by default ?

( hope I did not disappoint you with this message ;-) )

Folly · 30 Nov 2022, 16:00

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

@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

Here is the scrape from all madrigal's done with @kiro 's scraper.
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1VR9y3Vy31BaoHmYtacoMM5H2kfwCP3Xz

kiro · 30 Nov 2022, 16:27

@Folly This will be an optional feature (--sort) and it will copy but not 'move' the roms so you can have a look at how the final structure would look like... :-)

No feedback is disappointing if it makes sense :-)

Folly · 30 Nov 2022, 16:36

@kiro

Ok, I understand.
Will have a look when you have implemented it.

Folly · 30 Nov 2022, 16:41

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

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

You should also look at the mame-sl romset. ( probably all non-arcade machines (mess) )
Multiple games are packed as one zip file sofwarelist/hash file wise.
The files have to be extracted to get the individual games like msx1_cart.zip contains the msx1 carts.
Understandable ?