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

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    • FollyF
      Folly @retropieuser555
      last edited by Folly

      @retropieuser555

      No problem.
      Indeed, seems to be a nice update again.
      Will make a binary asap.

      Edit :
      Added the binary.
      Can you let us know what your experience is ?

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      • retropieuser555R
        retropieuser555 @Folly
        last edited by retropieuser555

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

        @retropieuser555

        No problem.
        Indeed, seems to be a nice update again.
        Will make a binary asap.

        Edit :
        Added the binary.
        Can you let us know what your experience is ?

        For sure, I'll have a mess with the pi 5, although it's worth noting my install has mesa 25.1.4 so it might be a little your milage may vary.

        I did have a quick go on my MacBook M1 and everything Sega model 2 I threw at it was perfect. house of the dead, Virtua cop, Virtua fighter 2, Daytona, it all seems good to me. But I'll try pi 5 and report back

        Pi 5 4GB

        Retroflag GPI with raspberry pi zero 2 w/ wifi

        Retroachievements:- lovelessrapture

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        • FollyF
          Folly @retropieuser555
          last edited by Folly

          @retropieuser555 said in Development of module-script generator for lr-mess, lr-mame and mame standalone:

          I did have a quick go on my MacBook M1

          Assuming on linux via a Virtual Machine, right ?

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          • retropieuser555R
            retropieuser555 @Folly
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            @Folly No sorry I meant the OSX Mame nightly built of 0.278. so standalone Mame works and boots up on my Raspberry pi 5. Games like Daytona USA, Dynamite Cop I tried and they booted. Only problem is I'm not getting audio, I imagine I need to add some dependancies or change some settings to get it to look for alsa

            Anyway, I'm building lr-mame first and if that works as well or if the fps is a significantly lower

            Pi 5 4GB

            Retroflag GPI with raspberry pi zero 2 w/ wifi

            Retroachievements:- lovelessrapture

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            • FollyF
              Folly @retropieuser555
              last edited by Folly

              @retropieuser555 said in Development of module-script generator for lr-mess, lr-mame and mame standalone:

              @Folly No sorry I meant the OSX Mame nightly built of 0.278. so standalone Mame works and boots up on my Raspberry pi 5. Games like Daytona USA, Dynamite Cop I tried and they booted. Only problem is I'm not getting audio, I imagine I need to add some dependancies or change some settings to get it to look for alsa

              Anyway, I'm building lr-mame first and if that works as well or if the fps is a significantly lower

              No problem running it directly on OSX.
              But if you like and can then try to run debian12 or above with mate desktop on your M1 and you can just install RetroPie on top. You can even use the raspberry pi binaries and you can also make the binaries for the rpi on your M1 (only 64bit though). mame compiles within an hour on the M1. If you have enough ram (16Mb+) then half an hour can be possible (vs 4-5 hours on an rpi).
              That is how I do it and these binaries are placed on the gdrives to share within the script. So if you want you could help me with that building lr-mame versions for example.

              I added code for creating model2/model3 ini files containing the systems that are model2 or model3 systems. that way the systems can be added to the next databases to be able to categorize model2 and model3 into separate roms folders.
              The commit of model2.ini can be found here.

              I also added the model2 data to the old 277 database here, so it's possible now to install model2 as a category and easily link the roms using the 277 database.
              Remember to update the script, then it will get the updated database too.

              With linking the roms remember to remove (&& /@good@/) in the search input option to link all model2 roms as most of them are marked "preliminary".

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              • DTEAMD
                DTEAM @Folly
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                @Folly

                Here's the list of new handhelds for us (based on MAME 0.278). It's a lot for a MAME new version.

                0.278.png

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                • FollyF
                  Folly @DTEAM
                  last edited by Folly

                  @DTEAM

                  My script detected also these 2 for classich :
                  uchitari (Uchitel' arifmetiki (prototype?)) Elektronika
                  vesarif (Vesolaya arifmetika) Elektronika

                  For jakks these 2 are also detected :
                  jak_mpaco (Ms. Pac-Man Collection 5-in-1 (JAKKS Pacific TV Game) (01 APR 2004 A))
                  jak_mpacq (Ms. Pac-Man Collection 7-in-1 (JAKKS Pacific TV Game) (QVC version, 12 JUL 2004 A))

                  I will add these too.

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                  • DTEAMD
                    DTEAM @Folly
                    last edited by DTEAM

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

                    uchitari (Uchitel' arifmetiki (prototype?)) Elektronika
                    vesarif (Vesolaya arifmetika) Elektronika

                    Read this post and the one after

                    https://forums.bannister.org/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=124522#Post124522

                    no evidence of a real unit yet. Not sure we should add it for now. The other one is a clone

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                    • FollyF
                      Folly @DTEAM
                      last edited by

                      @DTEAM

                      I see what you mean.
                      I will keep manually removing those 2 until we think we should add it again.

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                      • DTEAMD
                        DTEAM @Folly
                        last edited by DTEAM

                        @Folly
                        I don't have the time to do it now, but someday, maybe we should add Elektronica as a system
                        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elektronika

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                        • retropieuser555R
                          retropieuser555 @DTEAM
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                          @DTEAM thing is, would you add Dendy as a system? As all these old Soviet games were basically clones of others (most of these like Nu pogodi are game and watch clones)

                          Pi 5 4GB

                          Retroflag GPI with raspberry pi zero 2 w/ wifi

                          Retroachievements:- lovelessrapture

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                          • FollyF
                            Folly @retropieuser555
                            last edited by Folly

                            @retropieuser555 said in Development of module-script generator for lr-mess, lr-mame and mame standalone:

                            @DTEAM thing is, would you add Dendy as a system? As all these old Soviet games were basically clones of others (most of these like Nu pogodi are game and watch clones)

                            Somehow you mentioned something in your post that we missed somehow.
                            Seems nupogodi wasn't in our lists.
                            After some investigation the manufacturer part is not Elektronika but bootleg Elektronika so my ini-creation script missed the bootlegs.
                            After all it turns out there are far more Elektronika handhelds.

                            I see what you mean by saying you don't install dendy as a default system as it's basically the same as the nes.
                            I agree with that.
                            I think however with the Elektronika handhelds this is a bit different as they are clones but the looks is very different.
                            So it's probably not a bad idea to separate them from the classich category after all.
                            I detected 21 Elektronika handhelds where only 2 of them were in the classich category and recently 2 others which we didn't want in the classih category.
                            So making it separately could be a win win here.

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                            • FollyF
                              Folly @DTEAM
                              last edited by Folly

                              @DTEAM

                              I added code for detecting here and here.
                              I removed the Elektronika drivers from classich.ini here.
                              I added elektronikah.ini here.

                              I think this is the way to go.

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                              • FollyF
                                Folly
                                last edited by Folly

                                Seems someone is down-voting posts.
                                That is not the way to go if you don't agree with something.
                                Write posts and try to convince people otherwise and help with developing the project !

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                                • mituM
                                  mitu Global Moderator @Folly
                                  last edited by mitu

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

                                  Seems someone is down-voting posts.

                                  Can you tell me which posts have been downvoted and which user ? Is it in this topic ? I'll take a look.

                                  EdiT: @Folly are you sure it's not some user error ? One of the downvotes is yours and I think the other one that I've seen in the last 10 replies here is also an user error.

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                                  • FollyF
                                    Folly @mitu
                                    last edited by Folly

                                    @mitu 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:

                                    Seems someone is down-voting posts.

                                    Can you tell me which posts have been downvoted and which user ? Is it in this topic ? I'll take a look.

                                    Post 2262, haven't seen the user info in my environment.

                                    EdiT: @Folly are you sure it's not some user error ? One of the downvotes is yours and I think the other one that I've seen in the last 10 replies here is also an user error.

                                    Ok, good to know I will restore my downvote.

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                                    • mituM
                                      mitu Global Moderator @Folly
                                      last edited by mitu

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

                                      Post 2262, haven't seen the user info in my environment.

                                      Can you give me the permalink ? Click on the post's hamburger menu and choose Copy permalink, then post it here.

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                                      • FollyF
                                        Folly @mitu
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                                        @mitu 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:

                                        Post 2262, haven't seen the user info in my environment.

                                        Can you give me the permalink ? Click on the post's hamburger menu and choose Copy permalink, then post it here.

                                        https://retropie.org.uk/forum/post/304483

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                                        • mituM
                                          mitu Global Moderator @Folly
                                          last edited by

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

                                          https://retropie.org.uk/forum/post/304483

                                          I think that's a user error here, from @roslof. Either way, I think it's just a singular occurence, not a recurring patern.

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                                          • FollyF
                                            Folly @mitu
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                                            @mitu 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:

                                            https://retropie.org.uk/forum/post/304483

                                            I think that's a user error here, from @roslof. Either way, I think it's just a singular occurence, not a recurring patern.

                                            Ok, thanks for looking at it.
                                            Then we are all good here. ;-)

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