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    Tutorial: Handheld and Plug & Play systems with MAME

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      Retrodade @DTEAM
      last edited by Retrodade

      @DTEAM
      nice !
      With the 5 new Jakks, want me to tackle the scrape on those? let me know
      if not... ok too, but I think I can handle the 5

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        DTEAM @Retrodade
        last edited by

        @Retrodade said in Tutorial: Handheld and Plug & Play systems with MAME:

        With the 5 new Jakks,

        Have you the names of those roms, Did you test them?

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          Retrodade
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          @DTEAM well, now you got me thinking, lol you probably have them then but mine worked and I had no scrapes from them, so I assume sine i grabbed your gamelist and they aren't on that gamelist.
          I decided to make these scrapes.. you can get the zip name from the game list text to add to a gamelist. here is the added text and the scrapes including video - let me know if these are "new working"

          https://mega.nz/folder/LT5EEDzQ#P9Grm2aAesDbgaFaAba7yg

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            Retrodade @DTEAM
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            @DTEAM i would record video for tiger handheld , i can't figure out how lol with MAME, screen shot took a while to hunt down lol

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              DTEAM @Folly
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              @Folly said in Tutorial: Handheld and Plug & Play systems with MAME:

              This is an early test on jakks how we could do that.
              Here I use the completed sorted database.
              Goal is to do it with the unsorted data before I create the sorted database 250 file.
              cat /opt/retropie/emulators/mame/mame0249_systems_sorted_info|grep jak_|cut -d " " -f2|while read driver;do [[ $(/opt/retropie/emulators/mame/mame -listxml $driver|grep "emulation="|cut -d" -f4) == good ]] && echo $driver;done
              jak_batm
              jak_capc
              jak_care
              jak_dbz
              jak_disf
              jak_disn
              jak_dora
              jak_dorr
              jak_dpr
              jak_dprs
              jak_dwmn
              jak_dwmno
              jak_fan4
              jak_just
              jak_mk
              jak_mpac
              jak_mpacw
              jak_nick
              jak_pooh
              jak_sbfc
              jak_sbjd
              jak_sith
              jak_sithp
              jak_spdm
              jak_swot
              jak_wall
              jak_wof
              jak_wwe
              jak_xmenp

              We can do the same with all_in1 drivers (filtered on "in 1" & "in-1" & "non-arcade" with no jakks drivers "jak_") :
              (manually drivers like fordrace could be added in the filter list)

              Here's the gaps between our two list:

              
              
              jak_batm		jak_batm
              jak_capc		jak_capc
              jak_care		jak_care
              jak_dbz		        jak_dbz
              jak_disf		jak_disf
              jak_disn		jak_disn
              jak_dora		jak_dora
              jak_dorr		jak_dorr
              jak_dpr		        jak_dpr
              jak_dprs		jak_dprs
              jak_dwmn		
              jak_dwmno		
              jak_fan4		jak_fan4
              jak_just		jak_just
              jak_mk		        jak_mk
              jak_mpac		jak_mpac
              jak_mpacw		jak_mpacw
              jak_nick		jak_nick
              jak_pooh		jak_pooh
              jak_sbfc		jak_sbfc
              jak_sbjd		jak_sbjd
              		        jak_sdoo
              jak_sith		jak_sith
              jak_sithp		
              jak_spdm		jak_spdm
              jak_swot		
              jak_wall		jak_wall
              jak_wof		        jak_wof
              jak_wwe		        jak_wwe
              		        jak_wof
              jak_xmenp		
              

              I will have to test and probably add:
              jak_dwmn
              jak_dwmno
              jak_sithp
              jak_swot
              jak_xmenp

              I know jak_sdoo is now in your list, but i'm not sure for jak_wof

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                DTEAM @DTEAM
                last edited by DTEAM

                @DTEAM said in Tutorial: Handheld and Plug & Play systems with MAME:

                I will have to test and probably add:
                jak_dwmn
                jak_dwmno
                jak_sithp
                jak_swot
                jak_xmenp

                @Folly
                jak_hmpt and also jakms41 are not tested yet. I'm going to add them to my to-do list too!

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                  Folly @DTEAM
                  last edited by Folly

                  @DTEAM said in Tutorial: Handheld and Plug & Play systems with MAME:

                  I know jak_sdoo is now in your list, but i'm not sure for jak_wof

                  Yes it is, see the latest list :https://github.com/FollyMaddy/RetroPie-Share/blob/main/00-databases-00/sorted_info_creation/0XXX/jakks.ini

                  jak_hmpt and also jakms41 are not tested yet. I'm going to add them to my to-do list too!

                  Is most likely not a JAKKS game :
                  Driver jakms41 (KM-S4-1 VER 1.1): @business_terminal@computer@non-arcade

                  Curious about jak_hmpt.
                  Good luck with testing ;-)

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                    DTEAM @Folly
                    last edited by

                    @Folly
                    jak_hmpt = Hannah Montana Pop Tour - Guitar Video Game (JAKKS Pacific TV Game)

                    Kind of guitar hero.

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                      DTEAM @DTEAM
                      last edited by DTEAM

                      @DTEAM said in Tutorial: Handheld and Plug & Play systems with MAME:

                      For Tigerh:
                      tgaiden3
                      tgargnf
                      tmegaman3
                      tsimquest (already done)
                      tsuperman

                      @Folly
                      Now added to the gamelist on the drive . Only Megaman 3 and Castlevania Simon Quest videos are missing (MAME 0.251 needed).

                      New edit:
                      kbottom9
                      knascar
                      kskatedie
                      Are now added to the gamelist konamih

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                        Folly @DTEAM
                        last edited by

                        @DTEAM

                        Great !
                        Will have a look, when I can ;-)

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                          DTEAM @Folly
                          last edited by DTEAM

                          @Folly @Retrodade

                          jak_dwmn
                          jak_dwmno
                          jak_sithp
                          jak_swot
                          jak_xmenp

                          they work well, I'm gonna start to work on the gamelist

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                            Folly @DTEAM
                            last edited by Folly

                            @DTEAM

                            Great to hear !

                            I am busy with generating the new ini files.
                            They are almost done, took the whole day to create them.
                            Curious what comes out of them.
                            The jakks should appear. (edit : they are already there)

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                              DTEAM @DTEAM
                              last edited by

                              @DTEAM said in Tutorial: Handheld and Plug & Play systems with MAME:

                              jak_dwmn
                              jak_dwmno
                              jak_sithp
                              jak_swot
                              jak_xmenp
                              they work well, I'm gonna start to work on the gamelist

                              @Folly
                              the JAKKS gamelist is now updated

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                                Retro Arcade Fan @DTEAM
                                last edited by Retro Arcade Fan

                                @DTEAM @Folly

                                Hey everyone,

                                I successfully added Konami Handheld, Tiger Handheld and Jakks. Having two problems with Classic Handheld. 1) I can't scrape using either scrapper. Says the platform isn't defined. Even though I used this:

                                <name>classich</name>
                                <fullname>Classic Handheld Systems</fullname>
                                <path>/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/classich</path>
                                <extension>.mgw .MGW .7z .zip</extension>
                                <command>/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh 0 _SYS_ classich %ROM%</command>
                                <platform>classich</platform>
                                <theme>classich</theme>
                                

                                </system>

                                More importantly, the games won't launch. I copied the artwork into the artwork folder (even though not every rom file had a corresponding artwork file). Below is the verbose log:

                                Parameters:
                                Executing: /opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch/bin/retroarch -L /opt/retropie/libretrocores/lr-gw/gw_libretro.so --config /opt/retropie/configs/classich/retroarch.cfg "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/classich/efootb4.zip" --verbose --appendconfig /dev/shm/retroarch.cfg
                                [INFO] [Config]: Loading config from: "/opt/retropie/configs/classich/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...
                                [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".
                                [INFO] [Core]: Loading dynamic libretro core from: "/opt/retropie/libretrocores/lr-gw/gw_libretro.so"
                                [INFO] [Overrides]: No core-specific overrides found at "/home/pi/.config/retroarch/config/Game & Watch/Game & Watch.cfg".
                                [INFO] [Overrides]: No content-dir-specific overrides found at "/home/pi/.config/retroarch/config/Game & Watch/classich.cfg".
                                [INFO] [Overrides]: No game-specific overrides found at "/home/pi/.config/retroarch/config/Game & Watch/efootb4.cfg".
                                [INFO] [Environ]: SET_VARIABLES.
                                [INFO] [Environ]: SET_CONTROLLER_INFO.
                                [INFO] [Remaps]: Remap directory: "/opt/retropie/configs/classich/".
                                [INFO] [Overrides]: Redirecting save file to "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/classich/efootb4.srm".
                                [INFO] [Overrides]: Redirecting save state to "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/classich/efootb4.state".
                                [INFO] [Environ]: GET_LOG_INTERFACE.
                                [INFO] [Content]: Loading content file: "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/classich/efootb4.zip".
                                [ERROR] [Content]: Could not read content file "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/classich/efootb4.zip"

                                [INFO] [Core]: Content ran for a total of: 00 hours, 00 minutes, 00 seconds.
                                [INFO] [Core]: Unloading core..
                                [INFO] [Core]: Unloading core symbols..

                                And I'm using the following for the emulators.cfg file:

                                lr-gw = "/opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch/bin/retroarch -L /opt/retropie/libretrocores/lr-gw/gw_libretro.so --config /opt/retropie/configs/classich/retroarch.cfg %ROM%"
                                mame = "/opt/retropie/emulators/mame/mame %BASENAME%"
                                mame-autoframeskip = "/opt/retropie/emulators/mame/mame -autoframeskip %BASENAME%"
                                default = "lr-gw"

                                Any ideas why this one isn't working? Thank you for your help.

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                                  Folly @Retro Arcade Fan
                                  last edited by Folly

                                  @Retro-Arcade-Fan

                                  I think it's because.
                                  You have to load Madrigals roms (.mgw) with lr-gw.
                                  Btw. madrigals don't need artwork.

                                  Mame roms from "mame-merged" have to be loaded with mame or lr-mess.
                                  They will run without artwork but with artwork they will look how they should.

                                  Don't mix them up.
                                  (efootb4.zip is a mame rom so you have to load it with mame or lr-mess)

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                                    Retro Arcade Fan @Folly
                                    last edited by

                                    @Folly ahh, thank you Folly. That did the trick! They are now playable. I appreciate the help as always!

                                    Regarding the scrapping problem. Any suggestions there? Hard to find the video snaps manually on those.

                                    Thanks.

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                                      DTEAM @Retro Arcade Fan
                                      last edited by DTEAM

                                      @Retro-Arcade-Fan

                                      Regarding the scrapping problem. Any suggestions there? Hard to find the video snaps manually on those.

                                      Thanks.

                                      Use Folly scipt to install that or Get the files here (for Classic) and put that in your classich rom folder. It should be ok

                                      For more systems, same approach.
                                      See here

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                                        Retro Arcade Fan @DTEAM
                                        last edited by

                                        @DTEAM Thanks!

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                                          Retrodade @DTEAM
                                          last edited by Retrodade

                                          @DTEAM Thanks!

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                                            DTEAM @Retrodade
                                            last edited by DTEAM

                                            @Retrodade

                                            If you select my hyperlink, they are already there + videos
                                            Did you use Folly script?

                                            If yes, @Folly , it’s probably the same overwriting problem than the last time. I will delete and upload the files again on the driver.

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