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    Tutorial: Handheld and Plug & Play systems with MAME

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    • DTEAMD
      DTEAM @DTEAM
      last edited by

      New classich with MAME 0.254

      bgunf = Gunfighter (Bandai)
      bgalaxn = Galaxian (Bandai)

      gamelist updated

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      • duglorD
        duglor @DTEAM
        last edited by

        @DTEAM Sorry to trouble you. If there is such a thing, do you have a way i can find a mame that works with retropie that supports mame 0.182 or after? That's when the driver i'm looking at was perfected. It could be any mame after that...the earlier the better i guess for speed and taxing of the retropie.

        I only need to find a version that supports the Winning Run series of 4 arcade racers

        This handheld update is great ! Thank you so much! -Doug

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        • DTEAMD
          DTEAM @duglor
          last edited by DTEAM

          @duglor

          You can get MAME 0.254 in Retropie update -> experimental

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          • duglorD
            duglor @DTEAM
            last edited by

            @DTEAM Does Winning Run and it's 3 sequels run in the lastest download for lr-Mame? If you know? That's the .254 in there? the latest update to the lr-Mame?

            I think i'll make a bezel /overlay for Let's Play TV Namco 2. Where should I upload that to see if you'd like to share that with folks?

            Is the mame team or yourself planning on supporting some of the Casio Watch games like the rare Casio Western Bar CG-300 LCD game made in 1984 ?
            Be well and thanks for the zillions of fun times you've let many of us have thanks to your efforts! -Doug

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            • duglorD
              duglor @DTEAM
              last edited by

              @DTEAM The new lr-Mame i got in experimental does not run Winning Run. It bumps back to ES. Do you or anyone out there know of any mame i can download for the retropie that will run
              Winning Run
              Winning Run 91
              Winning Run Suzuka GP and
              Driver's Eyes?

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              • DTEAMD
                DTEAM @duglor
                last edited by DTEAM

                @duglor
                I never use lr-mame, I always use MAME without libretro (standalone version). Maybe lr-MAME is not up to date.

                according to @Folly,
                https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/29682/development-of-module-script-generator-for-lr-mess-lr-mame-and-mame-standalone/1363?_=1683718839428

                The binaries of lr-mame and lr-mess are still on 0.251 and MAME standalone last version is 0.254

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                • DTEAMD
                  DTEAM @DTEAM
                  last edited by DTEAM

                  @Folly

                  New systems added to the gamelist files related to MAME 0.255

                  KONAMIH gamelist
                  KTMNT3 Konami Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3: Shredder's Last Stand (handheld) [algestam, Sean Riddle, Mr. Do]
                  KTMNTBB Konami Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Basketball [algestam, Sean Riddle, Mr. Do]

                  CLASSICH gamelist
                  TMBASKB Basketball (Tomy) [hap, Sean Riddle]
                  TRSGKEEP Tronica Super Goal Keeper [algestam]
                  TMVOLLEYB Volleyball (Tomy) [hap, Sean Riddle]

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                  • DTEAMD
                    DTEAM @DTEAM
                    last edited by

                    I forgot to mention, MAME Artworks for KTMNT3, KTMNTBB and TRSGKEEP are in this folder

                    You can use Folly script to install them

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                    • FollyF
                      Folly @DTEAM
                      last edited by

                      @DTEAM

                      I automatically recreated the ini files :
                      https://github.com/FollyMaddy/RetroPie-Share/commit/fb76bee19eec9ffca8d808bbfdc52e1df946a1a9

                      Can you check for me if we have all drivers ?

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                      • DTEAMD
                        DTEAM @Folly
                        last edited by

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

                        @DTEAM

                        I automatically recreated the ini files :
                        https://github.com/FollyMaddy/RetroPie-Share/commit/fb76bee19eec9ffca8d808bbfdc52e1df946a1a9

                        Can you check for me if we have all drivers ?

                        ktmntbb is missing in Konamih

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                        • FollyF
                          Folly @DTEAM
                          last edited by

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

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

                          @DTEAM

                          I automatically recreated the ini files :
                          https://github.com/FollyMaddy/RetroPie-Share/commit/fb76bee19eec9ffca8d808bbfdc52e1df946a1a9

                          Can you check for me if we have all drivers ?

                          ktmntbb is missing in Konamih

                          Thanks for checking.
                          I have added it manually.
                          Will have to see later why it wasn't added.

                          To update the database just update the script again and it should get the new database.

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                          • R
                            Retrodade @Folly
                            last edited by

                            @Folly wow great adds thanks!

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                            • R
                              Retrodade @DTEAM
                              last edited by

                              @DTEAM i want to confirm the "nstarfox" game has no sound, correct? or am I supposed to enable it on this one?

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                              • DTEAMD
                                DTEAM @Retrodade
                                last edited by DTEAM

                                @Retrodade

                                I confirm, no sound. It was a game on a watch. Maybe the watch didn't have speakers.

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                                • DTEAMD
                                  DTEAM @DTEAM
                                  last edited by

                                  @Folly

                                  New system added to the konamih gamelist file related to MAME 0.258

                                  KONAMIH gamelist
                                  KTMNT2 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: Splinter Speaks [algestam, Sean Riddle, Mr. Do]

                                  MAME Artworks for KTMNT2 are in this folder

                                  You can use Folly script to install them

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                                  • B
                                    bbilford83
                                    last edited by

                                    Hi all. It has been forever since I chimed in here but I realized I hadn't updated my games in so long that a bunch more new ones were available. Then in messing around I think I discovered an error in the artwork for one of the Tiger handhelds, Robocop 2. The backdrop/overlay that is automatically downloaded (and available on google drive) is similar to the correct one but definitely isn't correct - you can see by comparing it to the main art of the handheld that it isn't matching the screen there. I found the correct one on Mr. Do's mameworld site here. I also attached the file in this post. It is a .jpg instead of a .png and out of laziness I just changed the .cfg file and that worked fine, but I assume it could be converted to a .png to make it consistent. Either way, I thought maybe it should be replaced in the google drive for the scripts to pull from too? Just thought I should share :).

                                    trobocop2.jpg

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                                    • DTEAMD
                                      DTEAM @bbilford83
                                      last edited by DTEAM

                                      @bbilford83

                                      Thanks, nice catch. I'll change it!

                                      New edit: Now done!

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                                      • B
                                        bbilford83 @DTEAM
                                        last edited by

                                        @DTEAM Thanks!

                                        I actually found one more too if you are interested, kind of a weird one. I am playing these games on a pi4 and whenever I try to use the full mame artwork (the one with all the views options, animated button-presses, etc.). In general using that is just too taxing on the pi4 and leads to a lot of slowdown, so I always just use the screen background option you guys (wonderfully) set up in the script. But from what I understand of how the full MAME art works, the G&W game "Fire (Silver)" actually uses three different background images to combine into one background when you use the full mame artwork file (the ~20+ mb one). If I understood how to use transparencies I would combine the three into one image but I am not sure how. But the one image that the system has in there now is basically just blank - a slight grey tone. The other two images the mame art combines are 1) a "bubbles" effect, and 2) the leaning, on-fire building. So really that third one is the one that you need to make the screen make sense. I attached it here again - I have it renamed to be the background art image that the cfg file loads. So loading that one definitely makes it better than the current one, I think. But if someone more familiar with pngs than me (probably most everyone) was able to combine the three images in the mame artwork .zip, that would be the best of all worlds I think.

                                        0fdb8aab-7a95-402d-ad7d-ebb4d7c2d645-gnw_fires.png

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                                        • DTEAMD
                                          DTEAM @bbilford83
                                          last edited by DTEAM

                                          @bbilford83

                                          Try to reduce the quality of the images first with https://www3.lunapic.com/editor/?action=info

                                          Go in file/image size info -----> set file size option

                                          or you can use a free software like Gimp

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                                          • B
                                            bbilford83 @DTEAM
                                            last edited by

                                            @DTEAM Thanks for this idea, I will give it a try. Only thing is it seems to me it might not be about processing the large images - sometimes it works OK for larger files and terrible for smaller ones. I noticed the ones that don't have animated button-pushes seem to work better.

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