ExoDOSConverter beta

mitu

@Voljega RetroPie's launch script supports .conf files understood by dosbox -conf <file.conf>, so you can just create a .conf file, with a simple [autoexec] section that mounts c and starts the game, and register it in the gamelist.xml. You don't need an additional .sh file for that.

Voljega

@mitu thank you mitu so these informations are obsolete : http://dosonthepi.blogspot.com/2015/02/dosbox-configuration-for-individual.html ?

regarding the gamelist these means that if I have a game in the pc roms folder like /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/pc/CaptainP.pc/dosbox.conf and register in the gamelist the conf file :

<game>
      <path>./CaptainP.pc/dosbox.conf</path>
      <name>Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future</name>
      <image>./downloaded_images/Captain Power-01.jpg</image> 
</game>

it will be displayed inside a folder I guess...
So it maybe better to have a structure like these inside /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/pc/

the game data folder CaptainP.pc (.pc beeing not mandatory I know)
CaptainP.conf(same level than the CaptainP.pc folder so outside of it) with the mount c inside the [autoexec] part modified accordingl ?

mitu

@Voljega said in ExoDOSConverter beta:

@mitu thank you mitu so these informations are obsolete : http://dosonthepi.blogspot.com/2015/02/dosbox-configuration-for-individual.html ?

No, this method is still supported - if you add the .sh as game entry, RetroPie would still launch it.

<game>
      <path>./CaptainP.pc/dosbox.conf</path>
      <name>Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future</name>
      <image>./downloaded_images/Captain Power-01.jpg</image> 
</game>

it will be displayed inside a folder I guess...

Yes, I think so. You're not constrained to have the game folder inside the ROMs folder. You can just put all game data in roms/exodos/<game.pc> and then register/symlink the .conf file in the gamelist (the .conf would still be in the pc roms folder).

<game>
      <path>CaptainP.conf</path>
      <name>Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future</name>
      <image>./downloaded_images/Captain Power-01.jpg</image> 
</game>

The .cfg file could be just

[autoexec]
mount c /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/exodos/
c:
cd CaptainP.pc
REM extra cd mount commands or setup
game.exe
exit

That's just an idea, I don't know how the .cfg file looks right now, but if the paths are correct it should work as it is.

Voljega

@mitu yes I see it like that too, but it's also better to have the mount c line be
mount c /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/pc/CaptainP.pc

so you don't need the cd CaptainP.pc and paths are then all relatives from the C: set to the game directory itself /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/pc/CaptainP.pc

I assume you mixed up cfgand confn the previous message right ? there is no cfg file in that case ?

Also I guess if I were to keep the .sh file both .conf and .sh files would be detected by ES and it would require manual interventions to hide one of the two ?

mitu

@Voljega said in ExoDOSConverter beta:

I assume you mixed up cfgand confn the previous message right ? there is no cfg file in that case ?

You can symlink the .cfg you generate in the game folder to the .conf file in the roms/pc. The extension change is just for ES to pick up the game (it doesn't have .cfg as supported game entry).

Voljega

@mitu ok thanks, but it's more easy and clean to move the file I guess :)

Voljega

New version with full retropie and opendingux simplemenu/esoteric compatibility :
https://github.com/Voljega/ExoDOSConverter/releases/tag/0.4-beta

Voljega

A little less related to here but added default mapping or RG350 :
https://github.com/Voljega/ExoDOSConverter/releases/tag/0.5-beta

Voljega

Version 0.6-beta has been released :
https://github.com/Voljega/ExoDOSConverter/releases/tag/0.6-beta

Changelog :

Full compatibility with Linux (see README.md on to use it on Linux as this release is Windows only)
Full debug of the conversion of the whole collection (this doesn't mean that everything will work, just that is properly converted without errors)
Added support for Recalbox p2k format
Added support for Retrobat
Added preliminary support for MiSTeR, works but buggy at the moment. Documentation will come later

Voljega

Version 0.7 has been released:
https://github.com/Voljega/ExoDOSConverter/releases/tag/0.7-beta

Changelog:

Update for eXoDOS v5, v4 is not supported anymore
Further integrate MiSTeR compatibility
EmuELEC compatibility
More configuration options for generation
Load / Save of customs game selections
Better P2k for Recalbox

Voljega

Fix release
https://github.com/Voljega/ExoDOSConverter/releases/tag/0.7.1-beta

Rion

Thank you @Voljega for all your hard work!

Voljega

Another minor release, with some small UI enhancements and some more serious MiSTeR enhancements and fixes

https://github.com/Voljega/ExoDOSConverter/releases/tag/0.7.2-beta

Voljega

New release
https://github.com/Voljega/ExoDOSConverter/releases/tag/0.8-beta

with support of Lite version through direct download

Rion

@voljega said in ExoDOSConverter beta:

New release
https://github.com/Voljega/ExoDOSConverter/releases/tag/0.8-beta

with support of Lite version through direct download

Hey that's great. Saves alot of space! 😀

Lolonois

Thanks for the tool and the heavy-lifting, @Voljega . Works nicely on Linux.

I am using it from a retropie perspective, so I was wondering why gamelist.xml gets generated. For me I see the gamelist.xml as something generated by RetroPie's (IMHO defacto standard) SkyScraper. For use with SkyScraper it would be more elegant to use the import feature of SkyScraper.

I am not demanding implementation towards SkyScraper, I just want to understand the rationale behind your implementation. Then I might file a PR.

Thanks.

Rion

@Voljega Any plans to support the new Dosbox Pure core?

https://www.libretro.com/index.php/dosbox-pure-out-now-for-public-testing/

iainjh

<edit/deleted post> - user stupidity. I ran ito a dos folder and filename limitation, 8.3 etc. doh! please ignore.

Voljega

@Rion no I don't plan to support dosbox pure, from what I gather among olds dos scenesters, the guy behind it doesn't know much about dos
and from what I can read in his documentation dosbox pure doesn't make much sense (i.e. will work with the most simple games configuration wise and that's it)
and it's seems utterly complicated only to avoid to have to use a dosbox.bat and dosbox.cfg, which my tool generates so ...
But I guess we can talk about that elsewhere ;)

@Lolonois sorry haven't been there in a reaaally long time !
so in fact is I don't use retropie ahah and I wasn't aware gamelist.xml was not used (directly ?) anymore ?
and I don't know anything about skyscrapper ...
but feel free to file a PR or an issue if you want and we'll have a look at it

Voljega

so big release this time, and going toward the first official version :

https://github.com/Voljega/ExoDOSConverter/releases/tag/0.9-beta

Changelog:

Add full support for eXoWin3x for most generation types (but not MiSTeR or maybe it needs to be tested, most likely doesn't work)
Add support for eXoDOS updates (done through Launchbox or the update.bat script)
Automatic detection of which collection is used
Better fixed game shortnames for MiSTeR using names from eXoDOS
Full rework of the image cache system to be more stable, more quick, and OS agnostic
Lots of fixes