MAME Set Rebuilder

Rion

@ionic Yes I know that's why I always have a rollback set. But maybe I was a little bit unclear what I meant.

Anyway I don't speak Italian so would you mind notifying the author of this program to join this thread?

Ionic

I'll do that, at the moment if you want you can ask in the italian forum in english ;-)

FranceMSR

Hi all, I'm the developer of MAME Set Rebuilder ;-)

FranceMSR

@ionic said in MAME Set Rebuilder:

I'll do that, at the moment if you want you can ask in the italian forum in english ;-)

Maybe it wasn't so important. If he wants he'll find me on RetroPie Italia Forum

Bye all

Clyde

@francemsr Many thanks for creating the tool, there are way too few Linux tools for ROM management out there (despite the fact that most emulators run on Linux and specialized distros like Retropie are based on it).

Two things, though:

Even better would be to release your source code under GPL or another free license. We Linuxers like free open source apps. :)
The Linux app doesn't run on my system (Kubuntu 14.04). This is the output:

Could not find platform independent libraries <prefix>
Could not find platform dependent libraries <exec_prefix>
Consider setting $PYTHONHOME to <prefix>[:<exec_prefix>]
Unable to update the static FcBlanks: 0x0600
Unable to update the static FcBlanks: 0x0601
Unable to update the static FcBlanks: 0x0602
Unable to update the static FcBlanks: 0x0603
Unable to update the static FcBlanks: 0x06dd
Unable to update the static FcBlanks: 0x070f
Unable to update the static FcBlanks: 0x2028
Unable to update the static FcBlanks: 0x2029
Unable to update the static FcBlanks: 0xfff9
Unable to update the static FcBlanks: 0xfffa
Unable to update the static FcBlanks: 0xfffb
Cannot mix incompatible Qt library (version 0x40806) with this library (version 0x40807)
Aborted (core dumped)

Seems that the app is incompatible with the Qt library of Kubuntu 14.04. What are the system requirements on Linux?

Could you also build it for (K)Ubuntu 14.04, since its official repositories have long term support (LTS) until April 2019. Thus, it is still used by many people.

FranceMSR

@clyde Which version of Kubuntu do you use? 32 or 64 bit?

Clyde

@francemsr 64 bit

FranceMSR

Soon I'll give you a test version for your problem ;-)

Clyde

@francemsr Thanks! :)

FranceMSR

@clyde Ok, this is a test. I built a version of MAME Set Rebuilder on Ubuntu 14.04.5 32 bit. You use Kubuntu 14.04.x 64 bit. In this way if the app works for you in the future I'll build the app both for 32 and 64 bit systems. At the moment it works fine on Ubuntu 16.04.3 64 bit, Ubuntu 14.04.5 32 bit and Ubuntu 14.04.5 64 bit.

In order to run 32 bit application on 64 bit system you have to install only 3 little packages ;-)

sudo apt install libc6-i386 zlib1g:i386 libxcb1:i386

Let me know :-)

EDIT: this time with the link :D
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1MOyZO-hfW8JPr9bd78TFK9FfWZ2qDYpA

Clyde

@francemsr It works! :D I tested it with the mame2003-lr-lite.xml from the Retropie wiki. As soon as I have more time, I will test the rebuild roms in Retropie and report any issues.

A native 64 bit version would be the icing on the cake. :)

Many thanks for this tool and your friendly support.

FranceMSR

@clyde said in MAME Set Rebuilder:

@francemsr It works! :D I tested it with the mame2003-lr-lite.xml from the Retropie wiki. As soon as I have more time, I will test the rebuild roms in Retropie and report any issues.

A native 64 bit version would be the icing on the cake. :)

Many thanks for this tool and your friendly support.

This is a good news :-) Time depending, I'll build separate versione both for 32 and 64 bit Linux systems ;-)

FranceMSR

New updated version available for Windows (32-64 bit) and Ubuntu-based system 14.04.5 and newer (32-64 bit)

v1.21
-Ported some library in C
-Now available for Ubuntu-based system 14.04.5 and newer (both 32 and 64 bit)

Enjoy ;-)

Rion

@francemsr Thanks for the update and for joining the official RetroPie forums.

FranceMSR

@rion said in MAME Set Rebuilder:

@francemsr Thanks for the update and for joining the official RetroPie forums.

You are welcome ;-)

P.S.: check always official page for updates

rancid

@FranceMSR I apologize for being so dumb, but can you break this down a little more for me before I mess up my rom sets? I have some general questions:

-When you say "source" is this your existing rom set that you want to upgrade? Say I have Mame 0.192 and want to go to 0.193, would I select the folder where all the 0.192 roms are?
-How does the program know where my upgraded roms are for 0.193? Should I add them to the 0.192 directory I selected for "source" or would they go into the destination directory?
-Should the destination directory always be empty? I think I remember reading on the Italian forums everything in that dir will be deleted. I am confused if my upgraded roms should be in the destination folder or if you keep this empty.

If I want to upgrade both my rom sets and my CHDs, can you do them seperately or do the CHDs need to be in the same directory as the roms?

Sorry, just need a little more help before I pull the trigger. :)

Thank you and happy new years!

FranceMSR

-In source directory insert 0.192 set and 0.193 upgrade set pack (use different folders inside source folder)
-Destination directory will be erased, so use an empty folder
-Application works only on romset, not CHD

rancid

@francemsr said in MAME Set Rebuilder:

-In source directory insert 0.192 set and 0.193 upgrade set pack (use different folders inside source folder)
-Destination directory will be erased, so use an empty folder
-Application works only on romset, not CHD

Thank you so much for the reply, any plans to implement CHD functionality? Excellent App!

FranceMSR

If you want to extract the correct M.A.M.E.'s dat file follow these steps ;-)

Download desidered M.A.M.E. from here:
http://mamedev.org/oldrel.html

Select Binary file, 64 bit version only if you use 64 bit Windows, 32 bit version indifferently (it's ok also for 64 bit Windows).

Click on downloaded .exe (or .zip) file and decompress it if it's necessary. Create on C: a folder named MAME and copy inside it mame.exe (or mame64.exe) previously extracted. Inside MAME folder press right mouse button while Shift is pressed and select option to open Command Prompt.

Execute:
mame.exe -listxml > mame.dat
or
mame64.exe -listxml > mame.dat

If you receive the error "error: unknown option -listxml" substitute in the previous command listxml with listinfo. In a few seconds desidered file will be created :-)

If you receive an error that advices you that application is incompatible with Windows version in use you have downloaded a 16 bit M.A.M.E. version. In this case download this file:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1q7zsk9CsXV4Hz3yBQSLU4362HsVAtCIO

and extract its contents on MAME folder previously created. Install DOSBox (https://www.dosbox.com/) and start it.

In DOSBox execute:
mount c c:\MAME
c:
mame.exe -listinfo > mame.dat

As before, in a few seconds desidered file will be created in MAME folder :-)

If in MAME folder the created file is about 1 KB it means that listinfo command is not present in that version. Not problem at all, again substitute listinfo with listxml and now you'll have your file ;-)

FranceMSR

New version, 1.22, available that fixes a regression bug ;-)