Development of module-script generator for lr-mess, lr-mame and mame standalone

Folly

This page might be interesting for you :
https://arcade.vastheman.com/minimaws/softwarelist/fmtowns_cd

BTW:
I did all the tests on fmtowns not fmtmarty.

TPR

@Folly said in Development of module-script generator for lr-mess, lr-mame and mame standalone:

@TPR said in Development of module-script generator for lr-mess, lr-mame and mame standalone:

@Folly Was Tomy Tutor ever a consideration for your script?

Not specifically.
The consideration was that it could install and use all mame drivers if possible.
Basically that what it does depending on the database.
Mostly the rest depends on mame if the drive works or not.
For some drivers I added some patches in the script in order to let them work better.
I just tested tutor and this seems to work OOB ;-)

Oh! If tutor works, if you could point me in the right direction to get it running that would be appreciated!

As for the other fmtowns stuff, that all seems to make sense to me and I'll give it all a try this week.

Thank you!

TPR

@Folly Using the boot disk, this is what worked for me:
Lr-mess-fmtowns-sspirits = "/opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch/bin/retroarch --config /opt/retropie/configs/fmtowns/retroarch.cfg --appendconfig /opt/retropie/configs/fmtowns/retroarch.cfg.add -S /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/fmtowns -s /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/fmtowns -v -L /opt/retropie/libretrocores/lr-mess/mamemess_libretro.so 'fmtowns -ram 6M -rompath /home/pi/RetroPie/BIOS/mame;/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/fmtowns/ -cfg_directory /opt/retropie/configs/fmtowns/lr-mess -c -ui_active -cdrm /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/fm_towns_disks/sspirits.chd -flop1 %ROM%'"

Thanks again for your help!

Folly

@TPR said in Development of module-script generator for lr-mess, lr-mame and mame standalone:

@Folly said in Development of module-script generator for lr-mess, lr-mame and mame standalone:

@TPR said in Development of module-script generator for lr-mess, lr-mame and mame standalone:

@Folly Was Tomy Tutor ever a consideration for your script?

Not specifically.
The consideration was that it could install and use all mame drivers if possible.
Basically that what it does depending on the database.
Mostly the rest depends on mame if the drive works or not.
For some drivers I added some patches in the script in order to let them work better.
I just tested tutor and this seems to work OOB ;-)

Oh! If tutor works, if you could point me in the right direction to get it running that would be appreciated!

As for the other fmtowns stuff, that all seems to make sense to me and I'll give it all a try this week.

Thank you!

Install tutor from my script.
Place the bios file tutor.zip in BIOS/mame
Extract the file tutor.zip from the mame softlist set and place these files in roms/tutor.

You can check all drivers in my database.
It's downloaded to your computer when using the script (/opt/retropie/emulators/mame/mame0xxx_systems_sorted_info)
or check these files with a text editor :
https://github.com/FollyMaddy/RetroPie-Share/tree/main/00-databases-00/mame

You can use direct and quick install from my script and just enter tutor or whatever you want to install.
Remember default installs are focused on non-arcade drivers.
Arcade drivers can also be inserted but the script will check if it belongs to a category and install the most obvious category.

TPR

@Folly Gotcha, I didn’t realize it was already part of your script but that’s probably because I was looking in the suggested console list and not the full list of every possible rom. I’ll give that a try tomorrow!

Folly

@TPR said in Development of module-script generator for lr-mess, lr-mame and mame standalone:

@Folly Gotcha, I didn’t realize it was already part of your script but that’s probably because I was looking in the suggested console list and not the full list of every possible rom. I’ll give that a try tomorrow!

The script depends heavily on the database.

tutor doesn't have the tag @game_console :
Driver tutor (Tomy Tutor): @computer@good@home_system@non-arcade@

That's why it's not listed in the game_console list

The tags mostly depend on the progettosnaps data.
Probably not added because it has a keyboard and can be used as regular computer that's why it has the tag @home_system.

For you I added the predefined list for home systems, look here :
https://github.com/FollyMaddy/RetroPie-Share/commit/da0b6070816126d340e5690c66ff374eaa589eae

Let me know if you understand how it works.

TPR

@Folly Awesome! Thank you! I can totally work with that! I’ll let you know if I run into any issues.

Folly

@TPR

Remember that the list is not filtered on the tag @good so the list contains also bad drivers.

Then the code would have been :

",Home systems upon descriptions,,create_systems_list_mamedev descriptions @home_system @good,"
",Home systems upon system names,,create_systems_list_mamedev systems @home_system @good,"

If you want you can experiment with that.

Here you can see how many filter options you can add when running the function :
https://github.com/FollyMaddy/RetroPie-Share/blob/da0b6070816126d340e5690c66ff374eaa589eae/00-scriptmodules-00/supplementary/mamedev.sh#L1937-L1951

TPR

@Folly Yay! Thank you!

Folly

@TPR

Perfect !
Seems you are getting the hang of it.

Let me know if you want to know more about the code.
I can teach you some stuff.
I could use some volunteers in the future, you know ;-)

TPR

@Folly said in Development of module-script generator for lr-mess, lr-mame and mame standalone:

@TPR

Perfect !
Seems you are getting the hang of it.

Let me know if you want to know more about the code.
I can teach you some stuff.
I could use some volunteers in the future, you know ;-)

I can understand it and I can tinker with it, but I'm not a "programmer" however I still try to contribute what I can! :D

Folly

@TPR said in Development of module-script generator for lr-mess, lr-mame and mame standalone:

I can understand it and I can tinker with it, but I'm not a "programmer" however I still try to contribute what I can! :D

That's fine too, thanks !

Folly

@TPR said in How to emulate Bally Astrocade, VTech Creativision, and Emerson Arcadia-2001 in lr-mess:

I finally figured it out, and in case anyone needs to know for future reference:

Option 1: Go into "Slot Devices" by pressing TAB to get into the MAME config menu and choose "Joy" under "ctrl2" - This is not set by default.

Option 2: Add -ctrl2 joy to your command line in emulators.cfg - This will force a controller to put put into controller port 2. So for example, my command line for Astrocade looks like this:

@TPR @LilaQ
I read both your posts and added this in my script for :
-astrocde
-astrocdl
-astrocdw
With a default install for these drivers "-ctrl2 joy" will be added automatically.
https://github.com/FollyMaddy/RetroPie-Share/commit/28939863494d9a124d02cf16fddb4b49cf5f1e32

Remember my script doesn't use "astrocade" (with an A) just :
-astrocde
-astrocdl
-astrocdw

DTEAM

@Folly

MAME 0.272 is release

For All in one:

Jungle Soft Classic Max Pocket Mx-10 - 12 in 1 (vertical) [TeamEurope, David Haywood, AJR] --> cmpmx10
YSN GameU Joint TV Bank 108-in-1 (model AH9069) [TeamEurope, David Haywood] --> gujtv108
Classic Max Pocket PCMX11 - 12 in 1 Colour Games Console (horizontal, France) -->cmpmx11
NJ Pocket 60-in-1 handheld 'X zero' (NTSC) [David Haywood, AJR] --> njp60in1 (already in the list , but now promoted as a working system)
Portable Game Station 268-in-1 [David Haywood, AJR] --> pgs268
unknown VT1682-based 101-in-1 handheld (PAL) [David Haywood, AJR] --> unk1682 (already in the list , but now promoted as a working system)

for MAME 0.271
265-in-1 Handheld Game (SPG2xx based) [David Haywood, TeamEurope] --> 265games
Digital Pocket Hand Held System 230-in-1 - Model 8630 / Model 8633 [David Haywood] --> dphh8630
dreamGEAR My Arcade Gamer Mini 160-in-1 (DGUN-2953) [David Haywood]
--> dgun2953
Fizz Creations Arcade Classics Mini Handheld Arcade --> supreme
Fizz Creations Mini Arcade Console (Arcade 10-in-1) [David Haywood] --> arcade10
Millennium 2000 GmbH Millennium Arcade 250 --> marc250
Orb Retro Arcade Game Controller 153-in-1 [David Haywood] --> ragc153
Orb Retro Handheld Console 152-in-1 [David Haywood] --> rhhc152

Recently, many "all in one" systems have been promoted as "working systems". I didn't saw that. I'll do a quick search in the previous MAME releases. A lot of work to update the gamelist.xml.

New edit: That list above is ok. I revisited the old MAME journals.

DTEAM

@DTEAM said in Development of module-script generator for lr-mess, lr-mame and mame standalone:

MAME 0.265 is released, see here

Coleco_homebrew now supported by MAME
New games for:
gameking3:
Diamond, Hemic Battle [sCZther, SSJ, Gaming Alexandria, TeamEurope]

After 7 months , my gamelist.xml is now updated for Gameking3

Folly

@DTEAM

Nice to hear that you did some updates.

Folly

@DTEAM said in Development of module-script generator for lr-mess, lr-mame and mame standalone:

@Folly

MAME 0.272 is release

For All in one:

Jungle Soft Classic Max Pocket Mx-10 - 12 in 1 (vertical) [TeamEurope, David Haywood, AJR] --> cmpmx10
YSN GameU Joint TV Bank 108-in-1 (model AH9069) [TeamEurope, David Haywood] --> gujtv108
Classic Max Pocket PCMX11 - 12 in 1 Colour Games Console (horizontal, France) -->cmpmx11
NJ Pocket 60-in-1 handheld 'X zero' (NTSC) [David Haywood, AJR] --> njp60in1 (already in the list , but now promoted as a working system)
Portable Game Station 268-in-1 [David Haywood, AJR] --> pgs268
unknown VT1682-based 101-in-1 handheld (PAL) [David Haywood, AJR] --> unk1682 (already in the list , but now promoted as a working system)

for MAME 0.271
265-in-1 Handheld Game (SPG2xx based) [David Haywood, TeamEurope] --> 265games
Digital Pocket Hand Held System 230-in-1 - Model 8630 / Model 8633 [David Haywood] --> dphh8630
dreamGEAR My Arcade Gamer Mini 160-in-1 (DGUN-2953) [David Haywood]
--> dgun2953
Fizz Creations Arcade Classics Mini Handheld Arcade --> supreme
Fizz Creations Mini Arcade Console (Arcade 10-in-1) [David Haywood] --> arcade10
Millennium 2000 GmbH Millennium Arcade 250 --> marc250
Orb Retro Arcade Game Controller 153-in-1 [David Haywood] --> ragc153
Orb Retro Handheld Console 152-in-1 [David Haywood] --> rhhc152

Recently, many "all in one" systems have been promoted as "working systems". I didn't saw that. I'll do a quick search in the previous MAME releases. A lot of work to update the gamelist.xml.

New edit: That list above is ok. I revisited the old MAME journals.

I have manually added the all_in1 drivers in the 271 database.
To get it just update the script and the database will be overwritten with a new one.
https://github.com/FollyMaddy/RetroPie-Share/commit/5f45c53d414154087f56cfb3cb6a408824b249f0
https://github.com/FollyMaddy/RetroPie-Share/commit/568454915cc701f0ac2ca66ea7bcaca1d84acd06

Also updated for next update:
https://github.com/FollyMaddy/RetroPie-Share/commit/0edbb4b9e81dd8464ba3f8dc5c3413f9c6aa2417

P.s.
Did you leave out marc101 because booting is a bit slow in the beginning ?

Folly

@DTEAM
Found something that is interesting.
Viewing on the progettosnaps website I found that he has a github page with the ini files over here :
https://github.com/AntoPISA/MAME_SupportFiles/tree/main

If needed we can still find the old ini files over there..

Folly

The script and database have been updated to 272.

DTEAM

@Folly said in Development of module-script generator for lr-mess, lr-mame and mame standalone:

P.s.
Did you leave out marc101 because booting is a bit slow in the beginning ?

This is a mistake. I'll add it. It works fine. No reason why it shouldn't be in the list. I'll add it to my gamelists.xml file.

Thanks for the 0.272 update, I'll finish the gamelist update today

New edit: All_in_1 gamelist.xml is now updated for MAME 0.271 and 0.272.