IR-CD-I ???

Folly

@adambegood @escc1986

Damn, I have trouble finding my roms, which harddrives, which computer.

I have dusted off my old x86 computer on which I know that it still contains some games.
On that computer I did the first steps to get "Philips CD-I" working in 2018.
I found quite a lot off roms in cue/bin which I converted to chd.
I also found some old converter scripts I used for that purpose.
And some scripts that extract some info from the cdi.xml hash, getting the no-clones only and the supported games.

I place these games, that supposed work, in a different directory.
Not tested now, but now I can copy them, and look at them again.

This is the list :
alice in wonderland (1993)(philips)(nl).chd
alien gate (cdi-ready).chd
arcade classics (1996)(namco - philips)(eu)[!][compilation].chd
backgammon (1992)(philips)(eu-us)[!].chd
battleship (1991)(philips)(eu-us)[!].chd
caesars world of gambling (1992)(philips)(eu-us)[!].chd
cd shoot (1992)(philips)(eu)(m8)[!].chd
classical jukebox (1991)(philips)(eu-us)[!].chd
compton's interactive encyclopedia - cd-interactive (1992)(compton's newmedia)(eu)[!].chd
concise oxford dictionary & oxford thesaurus, the (1995)(oxford university press - philips)(eu)[!].chd
connect four v1 (1991)(philips)(eu-us)[!].chd
create your own caricature with spitting image (1992)(philips)(eu)[!][8110001 50274 188 01].chd
dark castle (1992)(philips)(eu-us)[!].chd
defender of the crown (1992)(philips)(eu-us)[!].chd
family games ii - junk food jive (1995)(philips)(eu)[!][compilation].chd
gnomes v2.10 (1995)(philips)(us)[!].chd
golden oldies i (1997)(spc vision)(eu)[compilation].chd
golden oldies ii (1997)(spc vision)(eu)[!][compilation].chd
golf tips - customised golf instruction (1993)(xdra)(eu)(en-ja).chd
harvest of the sun - vincent van gogh revisited (1991)(philips)(us)[!][028294 01].chd
hotel mario (1994)(philips)(eu)[!].chd
inca (1993)(coktel vision - philips)(eu)(m4)[!][en-de-fr-nl][8100126 50341 698 01].chd
international tennis open (1993)(pathe - philips)(eu-us)(en-fr)[!].chd
jazz giants - from big band to bossa nova (1992)(philips)(us)[!].chd
kether v3.11 (1994)(philips)(de)(en-de)[!].chd
laser lords (1992)(philips)(us)[07420911 01].chd
lemmings (1994)(philips)(eu)[!].chd
link - the faces of evil (1993)(philips)(eu)[!].chd
lords of the rising sun (1992)(philips)(us)[!].chd
marco polo (1995)(philips)(eu)(disc 1 of 2)[!][the game].chd
marco polo (1995)(philips)(eu)(disc 2 of 2)[!][the documentation].chd
merlin's apprentice v1.2 (1995)(philips)(us).chd
micro machines (1995)(philips)(eu)[!].chd
myst (1996)(philips)(eu)[!].chd
pinball (1992)(philips)(us)[!][3106900342 50238 037 03].chd

Folly

@AdamBeGood @escc1986

These weren't working correctly :
burn-cycle (1994)(philips)(eu)[!].chd.boots logo then black
escape from cybercity (1992)(philips)(eu-us)[!].chd. (works until the menu)
girl's club - the fantasy dating game (1993)(philips)(us)[!].chd. (dirty cd warning)
go - special edition.chd. (lines in display / bad_sectors info in cdi.xml)
grand prix special (1994)(xdra)(eu).chd. (won't boot)
jigsaw - the ultimate electronic challenge (1992)(philips)(us)[!].chd. (joystick problems)
mega maze v1.06 (1994)(philips)(eu)[!].chd. (works until maze then the joystick will not work anymore)

Folly

@escc1986

Perhaps a good idea to refurbish this post.

If possible :

give it a better name.
summarize everything in the first post

Like we do in :

Are you able to do that ?

AdamBeGood

@folly Burn-Cycle is on your good list but freezes on the title screen for me, I'll have to try it again.

I can confirm that Merlin's Apprentice and Zelda's Adventure are runners.

@escc1986 what are we thinking title-wise? "CD-I emulation through lr-mess" ? Aside from that, it is just a copy paste of Fol's instruction messages I think, that will make up the body of the topic.

Folly

@adambegood said in IR-CD-I ???:

@folly Burn-Cycle is on your good list but freezes on the title screen for me, I'll have to try it again.

I can confirm that Merlin's Apprentice and Zelda's Adventure are runners.

@escc1986 what are we thinking title-wise? "CD-I emulation through lr-mess" ? Aside from that, it is just a copy paste of Fol's instruction messages I think, that will make up the body of the topic.

Tested Burn-cycle now, not working now :
burn-cycle (1994)(philips)(eu)[!].chd.boots logo then black

escc1986

@folly

yeah i could try and recopy and repost ... im going to give it a shot , may take a little time kind of busy today

escc1986

@adambegood said in IR-CD-I ???:

CD-I emulation through lr-mess

Good idea , i will use your title

CD-I emulation through lr-mess

Thank you

Folly

@escc1986 said in IR-CD-I ???:

@adambegood said in IR-CD-I ???:

CD-I emulation through lr-mess

Good idea , i will use your title

CD-I emulation through lr-mess

Thank you

You don't have to do it in 1 day, you know.
Just take your time.

Perhaps this is a better thread name, a bit more general :
CD-I emulation

or

All about Philips CD-I

Because it's now also possible with mame on rpi and we can discuss more.
What do you think.

escc1986

@folly

im a bit confused because i messed up .. please confirm if this is correct

https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/30169/cd-i-emulation-through-lr-mess

Folly

@escc1986

Seems you have created a new thread.
Well we can use that thread too if we want.
But it should be possible to change the name of the thread.
It's not the end of the world, you know.
You can try again, if you can't then it doesn't matter.

escc1986

@folly

sorry if i dont understand ... what should i do

Folly

@escc1986

Leave it for now.
I can't find it also, how to change the thread name.
In time I will ask someone who knows.
Then we can try again.

AdamBeGood

@folly said in IR-CD-I ???:

@escc1986

Leave it for now.
I can't find it also, how to change the thread name.
In time I will ask someone who knows.
Then we can try again.

It's good to have the steps for what you've done here in a thread anyway, at least it is more searchable now.

So MAME can run it as well? Have you tried CD-I through that or is it a lot of effort (not that things being convoluted has stopped you before...)?

Folly

@adambegood

If you use my latest generator script it will implement the mame command lines too.
Make sure you first install mame !

You have to put the bios in /home/pi/RetroPie/BIOS/mame !
(I have changed this so lr-mess and mame use the same bios file)

Have you already the directory /home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/ext ?
Basically this is support for external repositories, in the latest versions of RetroPie-Setup.
If not, update your RetroPie-Setup.

Then just do this in the terminal:

curl "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/FollyMaddy/RetroPie-Share/main/00-scripts-00/generate-systems-lr-mess_mame-2v0-alpha.sh" | bash -s cdimono1

It will create a module script for cdimono1 in /home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/ext
Install it from the experimental packages. (install-cdimono1-from-mamedev-system-cdimono1-cdrm.sh)

It will create lr-mess lines but also mame lines in the emulators.cfg .
So you will be able to make a choice between them.
That simple 😁

Joystick and mouse support are a bit different for mame.

Just try.

ps.
Just look at my thread on what is done (first post) :
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/29682/development-of-module-script-generator-for-lr-mess-and-mame-standalone

Folly

@escc1986 said in IR-CD-I ???:

@folly

im a bit confused because i messed up .. please confirm if this is correct

https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/30169/cd-i-emulation-through-lr-mess

I must say, nice effort already ! 👍

AdamBeGood

@folly Cool, I'll give it a go. It sounds simple.... (famous last words)

Does it work any better though?

Don't answer that, I can find out myself.

Edit: I don't have the /ext directory...

Presumably because of this when I try to update the RetroPie Setup Script.

*Update failed:

error: Your local changes to the following files would be overwritten by merge:

scriptmodules/emulators/quasi88.sh
scriptmodules/libretrocores/lr-vecx.sh

Please commit your change or stash then before you merge.

Aborting*

Folly

@adambegood said in IR-CD-I ???:

Ok, don't know what is causing this.
We skip the update part then.

Just run the script and move the created script module :

mv /home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/ext/RetroPie-Share/scriptmodules/libretrocores/* /home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/scriptmodules/libretrocores

That should do the trick.

Then install.

btw.
(You can read this, but if above works you don't necessarily have to update)
How did you do the update ?
In the command-line with git or in the retropie-setup.
Here is some info on the matter (naturally, you have changed files or added files, that's why it will not update) :
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/29338/cannot-update-origin-master-error
But I would not advice to use the commands in that thread, I don't know exactly what they do.
If nothing works, you can just rename the old RetroPie-Setup directory and git clone the new one.
I think you know what I mean with git clone etc.....

AdamBeGood

@folly Okay, that has worked, thank you... Do I install:

install-cdimono1-cmd
Or
-install-cdimono1-from-mamedev-system-cdimono1-cdrm

The Package Help information doesn't really help too much to choose between them.

On the GIT CLONE, I am sure I can work it out! But for the moment I might leave it as it is, nothing is broken and I have the systems I want working (apart from CD-I)!

Folly

@adambegood

Use the second -cdrm script.

Indeed, the package help is on the todo list.

AdamBeGood

@folly said in IR-CD-I ???:

@adambegood

Use the second -cdrm script.

Indeed, the package help is on the todo list.

Okay, that wasn't a criticism by the way. You've achieved loads already.

That works! Doesn't seem to run anything any better but I presume this is still being developed so maybe one day this will work through MAME. Thanks for the help!