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    Tutorial: Handheld and Plug & Play systems with MAME

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      bbilford83 @Folly
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      @Folly said in Tutorial: Handheld and Plug & Play systems with MAME:

      @bbilford83

      Nice, looks like it will improving many things ;-)

      I had a quick look and noticed that you did not add support for .7z files.
      Most roms are now in .zip but you never know in the future and some older roms were in fact in .7z format.
      I think we need to keep supporting .7z too, don't you think ?

      Oh, oops, sorry about that. I am probably in the minority for this but I actually keep the retropie setting "parse game lists only" on because it allows a lot more control and freedom. Like for example the emulator for Sega Saturn doesn't support m3u files, so the only way I could find to not display the second discs was to use this setting and that way it only will show what I tell it to in the gamelist. So because of that I had to remove the .7z entries because otherwise retropie will read those and display double-entries for each game. Maybe that is not really a concern for others if not many people use this setting? But for me I always had to edit the game list in the script to remove all the 7Z entries because of this.

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        DTEAM @bbilford83
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        @bbilford83

        The problem came from here

        I agree, the good one is the second one
        https://www.google.com/search?q=ultraman+monster+battle+handeld+video+game+bandai&tbm=isch&ved=2ahUKEwjtlqzumt-BAxV8E1kFHdnWDkcQ2-cCegQIABAA&oq=ultraman+monster+battle+handeld+video+game+bandai&gs_lcp=CgNpbWcQAzoECCMQJ1DdD1iNaWDda2gAcAB4AIABmgGIAcwLkgEEMTIuNJgBAKABAaoBC2d3cy13aXotaW1nwAEB&sclient=img&ei=fNQeZe3oJ_ym5NoP2a27uAQ&bih=963&biw=1920&rlz=1C1GCEA_enCA1049CA1049

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          DTEAM @Folly
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          @bbilford83

          @bbilford83 said in Tutorial: Handheld and Plug & Play systems with MAME:

          Alright, I overestimated how long it would take me to finish because I am done now. I think the easiest way to share everything was for me to create a google drive link for @DTEAM and @Folly so you can look at what I did. Here is that link. Note that because I had a pre-existing GameandWatch setup before your script, my gamelist for that isn't located in the same place (instead of in the roms folder it's in the configs folder), but I created subfolders for everything so they track where they would be in retropie. I also copy/pasted all the art in the media folders even though 95% of it is probably identical, but as I went through I did some replacing of art that was wrong or missing or just I was able to find better art. I think if you copy/pasted it into the existing repository for each folder and overwrote whatever was there, it would be OK, but I trust you to figure that out or you can just not use my art folders if you don't want to.

          Hope this helps! I will probably still try to do All-in-One and RZone too sometime soon.

          I'll take a look, but first I'll add videos for tsimquest and tmegaman3 (they work!!). I'll add UBOAT, KST25 and TOPGUN2 (MAME 0.259) to the gamelists, i'll add your background for Fire (Silver) G&W and finally incorporate your changes to the gamelists.

          I'm busy at work, It will take time, but I'll do it

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            Folly @bbilford83
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            @bbilford83 said in Tutorial: Handheld and Plug & Play systems with MAME:

            Oh, oops, sorry about that. I am probably in the minority for this but I actually keep the retropie setting "parse game lists only" on because it allows a lot more control and freedom. Like for example the emulator for Sega Saturn doesn't support m3u files, so the only way I could find to not display the second discs was to use this setting and that way it only will show what I want it to in the game with. So because of that I had to remove the .7z entries because otherwise retropie will read those and include them even if I don't have those files. Maybe that is not really a concern for others if not many people use this setting? But for me I always had to edit the game list in the script to remove all the 7Z entries because of this.

            Ok, didn't know "parse game lists only" had some influence in this.
            Well, lets discuss it later.
            Perhaps we can ditch .7z,

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

              Perhaps we can ditch .7z,

              I disagree on this one. .7z files are smaller than .zip and this gives a big advantage for storage. Let the user choose and keep both in the game list files.

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                Folly @DTEAM
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                @DTEAM

                Yes , I agree with you we should keep .7z also.

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                  bbilford83 @Folly
                  last edited by bbilford83

                  @Folly OK, I understand. I know I'm not typical in using the "parse gamelist only" setting. I'll edit in duplicate entries for all the gamelists with .7z instead of .zip.

                  Edit: Done. All four gamelist.xml files now have .7z in them too. I left the original gamelists in there too renamed to say "(no .7z)" in the filename. You can remove them if you want but I thought maybe you'd want to leave them if people preferred that version. I understand it might overcomplicate things though.

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                    bbilford83 @duglor
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                    @duglor said in Tutorial: Handheld and Plug & Play systems with MAME:

                    @bbilford83 I would love to see casio game & watch and handhelds reproduced, like western bar or drunken sheriff ;)

                    Sorry I missed this before. Can't help you there though, I am as amateur as they come with this stuff :). I will say looking up info about these handhelds made me realize that the percentage of them we have emulated is a teeny drop in the bucket. It's amazing how many were made.

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                      DTEAM
                      last edited by DTEAM

                      tsimquest and tmegaman3 videos are now in the gamelist folder
                      In the second post, they promoted to working.

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                        Retrodade @DTEAM
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                        @DTEAM are those 2 game n watch? thanks

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                          bbilford83 @Retrodade
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                          @Retrodade They're tiger handhelds.

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                            Retrodade @bbilford83
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                            @bbilford83
                            Thank you.

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                              DTEAM @Retrodade
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                              @Folly

                              New systems added in the konamih and classich gamelist files related to MAME 0.259 (logo, system and video)

                              classich
                              Bandai U-Boat [hap, Sean Riddle, eggs] ROM name= UBOAT
                              konamih
                              Konami Star Trek: 25th Anniversary (handheld) [hap, Sean Riddle, Mr. Do] ROM Name = KST25
                              Konami Top Gun: Second Mission (handheld) [hap, Sean Riddle] ROM NAME = KTOPGUN2

                              MAME Artworks for KST25 and KTOPGUN2 are in this folder

                              You can use Folly script to install them

                              kst25.png
                              ktopgun2.png

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                                Folly @DTEAM
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                                @DTEAM

                                Nice, thanks !

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                                  DTEAM @Folly
                                  last edited by DTEAM

                                  MAME 0.260 is now released
                                  No new system are proposed for the systems proposed in this thread.

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                                    DTEAM @DTEAM
                                    last edited by DTEAM

                                    New systems added for "all_in1" gamelist file related to MAME 0.261 (logo, system and video)

                                    all_in1
                                    dreamGEAR My Arcade Plug And Play 220 Game Retro Controller (DGUN-2959) [TeamEurope, ChinnyVision] DGUN2959
                                    Game Zone II 128-in-1 [TeamEurope, David Haywood] GAMEZN2
                                    Lexibook Noddy's TV Console [David Haywood, TeamEurope] LXNODDY
                                    Lexibook Super TV Air Jet 6-in-1 (Lexibook Junior) [TeamEurope, David Haywood] LXAIRJET
                                    Play Vision / Taikee Racing Challenge - 8 Games In 1 [David Haywood, TeamEurope] RACECHL8
                                    Play Vision Joystick88 [TeamEurope, David Haywood] 88IN1JOY
                                    WinFun / JungleTac Motorcycle 30-in-1 [TeamEurope, David Haywood] WFMOTOR

                                    You can use Folly script to install them

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                                      DTEAM @DTEAM
                                      last edited by DTEAM

                                      @DTEAM
                                      New systems added for "all_in1" and "tigerh" gamelists files related to MAME 0.262 (logo, system and video)

                                      all_in1
                                      Driver ga888 (Block Game & Echo Key GA888) [azya52, David Haywood]
                                      Driver brke23p2 (Brick Game 96 in 1 (E-23 Plus Mark II)) [azya52, David Haywood]

                                      tigerh
                                      Driver tpitfight (Pit-Fighter (Tiger)) [algestam, Sean Riddle, hap]

                                      You can use Folly script to install those gamelists.
                                      tpitfight.png
                                      ga888.png

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                                        Folly @DTEAM
                                        last edited by Folly

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

                                        Driver ga888 (Block Game & Echo Key GA888) [azya52, David Haywood]
                                        Driver brke23p2 (Brick Game 96 in 1 (E-23 Plus Mark II)) [azya52, David Haywood]

                                        Moved the drivers :
                                        https://github.com/FollyMaddy/RetroPie-Share/commit/fb5bda6c076d6ee908893d716fc9707410f97c5d

                                        Updating the script will also update the database.

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                                          DTEAM @Folly
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                                          New systems added for "tigerh" gamelists files related to MAME 0.263 (logo, system and video)

                                          tigerh
                                          Driver tmigmax (Mighty Max (Tiger)) [algestam, Sean Riddle, hap]
                                          Driver tddragon2 (Double Dragon II: The Revenge (Tiger)) [algestam, Sean Riddle, hap]

                                          For Double Dragon II: The Revenge, I'm waiting the tddragon2 artworks from here . The gamelist is incomplete for now for this game.

                                          You can use Folly script to install that gamelist.

                                          imageedit_2_2144966171.png

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                                            DTEAM @DTEAM
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                                            the gamelist is now completed for tddragon2 (system, logo, video)

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