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 !