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

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      Folly @kiro
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      @kiro

      The question is how are you using mame in retropie ?

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        kiro
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        @Folly With the default installation to be honest, running lr-mame, it runs most of the games I believe... in my laptopt, which I use for testing my scraper, all roms are under the same directory, but on my arcade machine, I've divided roms by system, still running under lr-mame (or a subvariant if the first option is not working).

        for example:

        <game>
                <rating></rating>
                <name>'88 Games</name>
                <marquee>/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/arcade/marquees/88games-marquee.png</marquee>
                <image>/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/arcade/images/88games-image.png</image>
                <publisher>Konami</publisher>
                <releasedate></releasedate>
                <players></players>
                <video>/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/arcade/videos/88games-video.mp4</video>
                <genre></genre>
                <path>/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/arcade/88games.zip</path>
                <developer>Konami</developer>
                <thumbnail/>
                <desc>Konami '88 (also known as '88 Games or Hyper Sports Special) is the third in the Track &amp; Field game series by Konami, where you test your Olympic skills against other world-class athlet
        es. As the name implies, it is loosely based on (and not licensed by) the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. Bronze or silver medals are not good enough - you have to go for the gold to get to t
        he next event. However, you must at least qualify in each event in order to compete in the next event.</desc>
                <playcount>0</playcount>
                <lastplayed>0</lastplayed>
            </game>
        

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          Folly @kiro
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          @kiro

          apfm1000 roms are non-arcade which means it has to be loaded with lr-mess or mame standalone.
          Normally it could load with lr-mame also but in retropie it's created to run arcade drivers only.

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          • kiroK
            kiro @Folly
            last edited by kiro

            @Folly Ahhh you learn something new every day :-) I must admit that I do not play much but rather tinker a lot... looking into lr-mess right now :-)
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            Oh! Testing time :-) Thanks for all of this!

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              Folly @kiro
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              @kiro

              When lr-mess is installed arcadia and coleco roms directories are created.
              You should be able to run the apfm1000 roms from these roms directories.

              Just advise you to take a look at our module-script add-system-mamedev.sh in the future.

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              • kiroK
                kiro @Folly
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                @Folly My setup is customized too much, si I have enabled lr-mess as emulator for 'arcade' so it should work... testing/gaming night it seems :-)

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                  Folly @kiro
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                  @kiro

                  good luck !

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                    kiro @Folly
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                    @Folly well it seems that a lot of the games are running directly under lr-mess default setup. Need to investigate what your script does :-)

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                      Retrodade
                      last edited by Retrodade

                      not sure is these are useful (my scrapes i made) for odd systems as i go using mame/mess when they don't exist
                      they aren't perfect and i don't do video with but i always feel better some scrapes then none at all
                      here are a few if you want them
                      pv2000
                      https://mega.nz/folder/fTIBEaLD#bbwLzx6NmKZLoOsaG80YTQ
                      Sord M5
                      https://mega.nz/folder/SWw1EDLR#NZ2DO_b5ERRbcPhWDp_AFA
                      Gameking
                      https://mega.nz/folder/DXJQBaRL#phsCHXmFRTu8mAYIvsddsw

                      I'll have to sort through and see if there are others if anyone's interested in them
                      hope this is some help

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                        Folly @Retrodade
                        last edited by Folly

                        @Retrodade

                        Thanks for sharing.
                        I am looking now at the m5, did not check all of it yet but I see already that some games are recognised.
                        That's a good thing.

                        What we want here is to make some standardised gamelists, if possible, so :

                        • the path structure is somewhat the same
                        • support for both .zip and .7z
                        • all/most, mame files, of that particular system, is added
                        • and, if possible, videos and more info is added
                        • to be shared with others via goodle-drive link and also to download in the add-systems-mamedev.sh frond-end
                        • share/read into the retroscraper of @kiro so we are also able to scrape these games with retroscraper

                        So it's probably the best thing to share a few gamelists and then discuss improving them.
                        If we all agree that they are good enough then we should add it to the google-drive and read to improve retroscraper.
                        Does that make sense ?

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                          Retrodade @Folly
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                          @Folly yes that's fine
                          I'm ok with that
                          usually since I do them alone, I do "short cuts" to finish, while it's an improvement over having nothing, I do understand there is room for improvements for sure
                          and just so you know if you choose not to add that is ok by me too and yes what you stated makes sense.

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                            Folly @Retrodade
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                            @Retrodade

                            Sharing others, later, is fine by me but I have to restrict it a bit otherwise it will be too much working on them all together you see ;-)

                            If I have the time I will begin with m5.

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                              Folly @Retrodade
                              last edited by Folly

                              @Retrodade

                              I checked the m5 and I see that the games in the game-list are from the m5_cart.zip.
                              It's probably the best to do only these cart games as they are "plug and play" without entering commands.

                              Though there are quite some games missing, seems only 1/3 of the games are in the game-list.
                              Have you tried to scrape all games from the m5_cart.zip ?

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

                                @Folly

                                I finalized "classich". I have deleted some images because it was a handheld picture over a handheld video (artwork) and it was ugly.
                                8 videos are missing :
                                Chicky Woggy (Table Top)
                                Donkey Kong Jr (Tabletop Coleco)
                                Donkey Kong Jr (Tabletop Nintendo)
                                Hippo Teeth (Sporty)---> missmatch video
                                HotLine (Mini)
                                HotLine (Sporty)
                                Packri Monster
                                Snoopy (Tabletop)

                                I tried to make videos, however most .mgw games have a resolution that is not divisible by 2 for which recording is not supported by retroarch.
                                Tried to alter resolutions but to no avail, it keeps crashing.
                                Probably the reason why there are no videos for these games.
                                Will have to think about recording it in an other way.

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                                  Retrodade @Folly
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                                  @Folly the pack I found didn't have a lot you're saying there are more lol I'll have to maybe search more out; I think 3 I skipped as I couldn't get past loading to "play" but the scrapes and game list made by me there aren't scrapes for this system that I found

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                                    Folly @Retrodade
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                                    @Retrodade

                                    More info can be found here :https://github.com/mamedev/mame/blob/master/hash/m5_cart.xml

                                    Try the mame-sl set.

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                                      Folly
                                      last edited by Folly

                                      @DTEAM

                                      I found a way to make videos with sound from the missing madrigals.
                                      I am doing it with OSX and the default capturing method, capturing video from a virtual machine running Debian with RetroPie.
                                      Sound recording was not possible by default so I had to install "soundflower" with "brew".
                                      Now I can redirect the output sound and record it together with the video.
                                      Then converting it again with "ffmpeg" in linux.
                                      Hopefully they will be ready this week.

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                                        DTEAM @Folly
                                        last edited by

                                        @Folly
                                        That's great, because I have a recording problem (recording speed) for new roms with Tiger and Konamih. You have already talked about a way to speed up MAME video recording with a parameter. I can't find the post that talked about it.

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                                          Folly @DTEAM
                                          last edited by Folly

                                          @DTEAM

                                          Yes, indeed I remember I also had speed problems recording video with mame.
                                          Will have a look in the posts when I can.

                                          Edit :
                                          Here is the post :
                                          https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/32188/creating-es-gamelists-with-media-for-mame-lr-mame-lr-mess/86

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                                            Folly @DTEAM
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                                            @DTEAM

                                            I added the recorded videos here :
                                            https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1JPIftFPVyUVslK_seNZmQNAKfQX_MwBW?usp=share_link
                                            ( will remove link later !)

                                            The packmon seems not working correctly or I have a bad rom.
                                            So I did not add a video for that one.
                                            What is your experience with this game, does it work for you ?

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