Philips CD-I install update?

Retro Arcade Fan

I didn't want to post on an old thread since there's a lot of contradicting information out there. I was hoping I could get some up-to-date advice on how to get Philips CD-I emulation working on my RP4 (custom image running 4.8.2).

I've updated lr-mess and it ran overnight because it took so long.
I have both lr-mess and lr-mess-cdi options.
Roms are located in the cdimono1 folder in .chd format.
I have a cdimono1 folder in the configs folder.
I have made sure that I have the following BIOS in the cdimono1.zip file located in the bios folder.

cdi200.rom
cdi220b.rom
cdi220.rom
zx405037p__cdi_servo_2.1__b43t__llek9215.mc68hc705c8a_withtestrom.7201
zx405042p__cdi_slave_2.0__b43t__zzmk9213.mc68hc705c8a_withtestrom.7206

Before I updated lr-mess, I would get a gray screen. Now it just returns to ES. So, what am I missing? As always, I appreciate the community's help.

Folly

@Retro-Arcade-Fan said in Philips CD-I install update?:

Now it just returns to ES. So, what am I missing? As always, I appreciate the community's help.

What loader are you using ?

Assuming you are running the regular/original lr-mess %basename% loader.
With this loader I am pretty sure your not going to get it working or at least it will be very difficult.
I have tried a few years ago so I know.
Now I know that it's important that you have the rompath option somewhere because the %basename% variable is only the name of the rom (without extension).
It is looked up through the hash tables and found in the rompath that is added in a ini file or the loader command.
That's the difficult part, nevertheless you can try again.

You are running a .chd, right.
Make sure your .chd is exactly the same as in the cdi.xml hash table "/home/pi/RetroPie/BIOS/mame/hash"

You should always make sure you run your loader/runcommand with verbose mode.
Press a key when the loader dialog appears and select "launch with verbose mode"
Now you can check "/dev/shm/runcommand.log" and see if the bios is detected and if your .chd cdrom is detected.

The experience with .chd files is that you have to place them in a subdirectory, for example :
roms/cdimono1/cdimono1/arcadecl.chd
Though originally the cdimono1 roms directory will not be ini an ini file so you have to take arcadia as roms directory instead, making it :
roms/arcadia/cdimono1/arcadecl.chd

You can read the commented lines in this script to get a better idea :
https://github.com/FollyMaddy/retropie-philips-cdi-tools/blob/master/retropie_philips_cdi_setup.sh

kcoconnor76

@Retro-Arcade-Fan I actually use lr-samecdi instead of lr-mess and it worked great. You can get it from here:
https://github.com/Exarkuniv/RetroPie-Extra

I have the 3 Zelda games, Hotel Mario, and Tetris on my RetroPie install at the moment.

Retro Arcade Fan

@kcoconnor76 lr-samecdi doesn't install for me. It hangs up after about 15-30 minutes.

Retro Arcade Fan

@Folly Great information Folly. I'm going to spend some time with your comments and get back to you. Thank you!

Retro Arcade Fan

@Folly here's the log

Parameters:
Executing: /opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch/bin/retroarch -L /opt/retropie/libretrocores/lr-mess/mess_libretro.so --config /opt/retropie/configs/cdimono1/retroarch.cfg "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/cdimono1/Hotel Mario (USA).chd" --verbose --appendconfig /dev/shm/retroarch.cfg
[INFO] [Config]: Loading config from: "/opt/retropie/configs/cdimono1/retroarch.cfg".
[INFO] [Config]: Appending config "/dev/shm/retroarch.cfg".
[WARN] [GameMode]: GameMode cannot be enabled on this system ("dlopen failed - libgamemode.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory.") https://github.com/FeralInteractive/gamemode needs to be installed.
[WARN] [Config]: GameMode unsupported - disabling...
[WARN] --libretro argument "/opt/retropie/libretrocores/lr-mess/mess_libretro.so" is not a file, core name or directory. Ignoring.
[INFO] RetroArch 1.10.0 (Git e9e85f3)
[INFO] === Build =======================================
[INFO] Capabilities: NEON VFPv3 VFPv4
[INFO] Built: Jan 30 2022
[INFO] Version: 1.10.0
[INFO] Git: e9e85f3
[INFO] =================================================
[INFO] [Input]: Found input driver: "x".
[ERROR] [Core]: Frontend is built for dynamic libretro cores, but path is not set. Cannot continue.
[ERROR] Fatal error received in: "init_libretro_symbols()"
[INFO] [Core]: Content ran for a total of: 00 hours, 00 minutes, 00 seconds.
[INFO] [Core]: Unloading core symbols..

Retro Arcade Fan

@Folly If the hash file states this, it's looking for an .iso or .cue, not a .chd. Do I change the hash file to match the rom name or find a different romset?

<software name="hotmario">
	<!--
	Origin: TOSEC
	<rom name="Hotel Mario (1994)(Philips)(EU)[!].iso" size="366794400" crc="8305fbca" md5="eaba42fc6572a66cb91ceeb976595485"/>
	<rom name="Hotel Mario (1994)(Philips)(EU)[!].cue" size="123" crc="0a437951" md5="df72c8ced1f5d36a38c5ca2e9330062b"/>
	-->
	<description>Hotel Mario (Euro)</description>
	<year>1994</year>
	<publisher>Philips</publisher>
	<part name="cdrom" interface="cdi_cdrom">
		<diskarea name="cdrom">
			<disk name="hotel mario (1994)(philips)(eu)" sha1="b75164b0b9bdb4058a640fbc54e4b44dc4638092"/>
		</diskarea>
	</part>
</software>

mitu

The error is pretty clear:

[WARN] --libretro argument "/opt/retropie/libretrocores/lr-mess/mess_libretro.so" is not a file, core name or directory. Ignoring.
...
[ERROR] [Core]: Frontend is built for dynamic libretro cores, but path is not set. Cannot continue.

There is no /opt/retropie/libretrocores/lr-mess/mess_libretro.so file, the lr-mess installed core is named mamemess_libretro.so now (has been for a few months).

Retro Arcade Fan

@mitu Alright. How do I fix please?

mitu

@Retro-Arcade-Fan make sure your RetroPie setup script is at the latest version before updating the packages.

Retro Arcade Fan

@mitu Ok. I'll back up my card, run the update then re-update lr-mess. Just hate how long it takes. But hopefully that fixes the problem. Thank you.

Folly

@Retro-Arcade-Fan

Installing the binary doesn't take long, less than 3 minutes.
Or are you installing from source ?

Retro Arcade Fan

@Folly Source :( I'll do Binary. Things I wished I knew before. Thanks Folly.

Retro Arcade Fan

@mitu Alright. I downloaded a fresh copy of Retropie and put it on a spare card. I fully updated everything. I still see lr-mess. Is it supposed to say mamemess_libretro.so?

mitu

@Retro-Arcade-Fan said in Philips CD-I install update?:

I still see lr-mess. Is it supposed to say mamemess_libretro.so?

The name of the package (as it appears in the setup script) is still lr-mess, the filename of the libretro core included is mamemess_libretro.so, installed in the /opt/retropie/libretrocores/lr-mess package folder.