new scriptmodules (lr-vice-xvic, gsplus, proper lr-mess integration!)

TPR

@dteam Where is the "MAME Hash" folder? This is what I'm talking about. People keep mentioning things, but don't say where things can be found. I just looked through every single MAME, MESS or lr-mame folder I have on my pi and I don't see a "hash" folder anywhere.

Please help.

TPR

@dteam Googling around it looks like I'm supposed to have a "hash" folder in my BIOS folder? This is all I have in my mame folder under BIOS:

I even just did a "Re-install (from pre-build binary) for lr-mess and it is the same. Obviously I have lr-mess installed as many of the scriptmodules are working.

Is there someplace I can manually download this "hash" folder so I can add it?

Thank you.

DTEAM

@tpr

In

/opt/retropie/emulators/mame/hash

You don't need this list to run your lr-mess games. It's just as a reference for system names.

Zering

@tpr My mess installation did not have the hash directory initially, you can safely download it and put it there manually.

TPR

@dteam @Zering Yeah, I don't even have a "mame" directory in that folder. And I do have lr-mess installed.
no mame.jpg
Where can I downloading it manually from?

Zering

@tpr I'm not sure I can tell you, even if I remembered.
It's been a while but as I recall it's easy to find.
Also the name directory is not supposed to be in that folder. It's in home/pi/BIOS

TPR

@zering Yeah, that's what I thought. See my previous photo. It's not there either. I can't seem to find anywhere to download the hash directory even googleing for it. I'm finding lots of references to it, but no repository to actually download it from. Weird.

TPR

@zering Wait... I think I may have found it...

For future reference: https://github.com/mamedev/mame

Folly

@tpr said in new scriptmodules (lr-vice-xvic, gsplus, proper lr-mess integration!):

@zering Wait... I think I may have found it...

For future reference: https://github.com/mamedev/mame

Earlier on, the hash tables were automatically installed on the computer in :
/home/pi/RetroPie/BIOS/mame/hash
But with lr-mess they don't anymore, i think.
So thats why people didn't discribe much earlier about these hash tables.
Because they where already there.
I think thats changed now but I don't know why, either.

Zering

@folly Tell me if I'm wrong - but if installing mess modules from scripts (*whether yours or valerino's) I don't think hash tables are necessary, or even useful.

Folly

@zering said in new scriptmodules (lr-vice-xvic, gsplus, proper lr-mess integration!):

@folly Tell me if I'm wrong - but if installing mess modules from scripts (*whether yours or valerino's) I don't think hash tables are necessary, or even useful.

Indeed, you are correct.

These hash tables are only used when the core option is configured like this :

mame_softlists_enable = "enabled"

Because the scripts are now configuring like this :

mame_softlists_enable = "disabled"

hash tables for this purpose are not used anymore.

DTEAM

@folly
Quick question.
Can we set frameskip = auto by default in the core option file (for all systems) or It's somewhere else ?

TPR

How can I get the 2nd controller working in lr-mess-astrocade? Games like Bally Pin require both controllers and in the MAME Menu I only see settings and re-mapping options for controller 1.

Any ideas? Thank you.

Folly

@dteam said in new scriptmodules (lr-vice-xvic, gsplus, proper lr-mess integration!):

@folly
Quick question.
Can we set frameskip = auto by default in the core option file (for all systems) or It's somewhere else ?

I will have a look at that.

I think the command is mame/mess specific.
Can't find it in the normal retroarch.cfg/retroarch-core-options.cfg

Here we have the commands we can use :
https://docs.mamedev.org/commandline/commandline-all.html#mame-commandline-frameskip

In this case it should be :
-autoframeskip

I tested it I am confident it can be added in the script.
But I am not so sure if it will improve much by adding this.

Perhaps more or something else can be added to improve stuff.
Would you like to test this manually before I change the script ?

For example, I did this with a500 :

/opt/retropie/configs/a500/emulators.cfg :
lr-mess-a500-flop = "/home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/scriptmodules/run_mess.sh /opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch/bin/retroarch /opt/retropie/libretrocores/lr-mess/mess_libretro.so /opt/retropie/configs/a500/retroarch.cfg a500 /home/pi/RetroPie/BIOS -numprocessors 3 -autoframeskip -flop %ROM%"

We can also do something like this, instead :
-frameskip 2

I noticed that many systems require mouse to be enabled.
I would also like to enable it for all the systems.
But we have to test this too, if mouse enable-ing breaks systems.
Do you agree ?

ps. I have also been experimenting with the -autoboot option and a sort of .cmd file to boot games.
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/28345/old-computer-appreciation-thread/1025
What do you think of this ?

DTEAM

@folly

For the mouse, I always used "enabled" and I never had issue with that. If It cause problems, It's for specific systems.

For auto Frameskip = auto. With MAME standalone, It solved a lot of sound and speed issues. I talked about that here - bullet point 12. When I used this option in the MAME menu with Lr-MESS, It not seem to work. I don't now if It's a problem with Lr-Mess or It really doesn't affect the drivers. I Think It's the first option.

If the real effect of Frameskip = auto is like with MAME standalone, It will be spectacular for some machine. Also, I don't believe setting this option to default will slow down systems.

Folly

@dteam said in new scriptmodules (lr-vice-xvic, gsplus, proper lr-mess integration!):

@folly

For the mouse, I always used "enabled" and I never had issue with that. If It cause problems, It's for specific systems.

For auto Frameskip = auto. With MAME standalone, It solved a lot of sound and speed issues. I talked about that here - bullet point 12.

This is on my bucket list.
But where to find al those games......

When I used this option in the MAME menu with Lr-MESS, It not seem to work. I don't now if It's a problem with Lr-Mess or It really doesn't affect the drivers. I Think It's the first option.

If the real effect of Frameskip = auto is like with MAME standalone, It will be spectacular for some machine. Also, I don't believe setting this option to default will slow down systems.

Ok, I will add mouse support and -autoframeskip to the 1.3alpha script.
Then we can see if there are any issues or improvement.

For those who don't know.
If you want to test this.
Update the system(s), you use, from this 1.3alpha script !

EDIT : It's added to my script now.

DTEAM

@folly said in new scriptmodules (lr-vice-xvic, gsplus, proper lr-mess integration!):

This is on my bucket list.
But where to find al those games......

In the complete MAME romset 0.224 or later. Some games are in older version but It's unusual.

DTEAM

@folly said in new scriptmodules (lr-vice-xvic, gsplus, proper lr-mess integration!):

Ok, I will add mouse support and -autoframeskip to the 1.3alpha script.

I've try It and It works and not works.
The option is selected by default but It not run in Lr-Mess.
I had the same issue manually. Normally, when I use It with MAME standalone (frameskip = auto) you see the the number of frames you are skipping and It's in movement like this picture .

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With frameskip = auto in Lr-MESS. It stayed at 0/10 and the % stay low for problematic systems tested (I tested GP32 and N64) and It's not normal.

Folly

@dteam

Ideed, I think it doesn't work correctly.
Perhaps an issue with the lr-mess part.

Pehaps we have to dig a bit deeper ;-)

DTEAM

@folly said in new scriptmodules (lr-vice-xvic, gsplus, proper lr-mess integration!):

Ideed, I think it doesn't work correctly.
Perhaps an issue with the lr-mess part.
Pehaps we have to dig a bit deeper ;-)

If this problem were fixed, Lr-Mess would have better performance for many systems on Pi.