Old Computer Appreciation Thread
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@Folly Awesome. I will try that tonight! Thank you again for the always helpful support!
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@Folly YOU. ARE. A. STAR!!!
Works great!
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@Folly You wouldn't happen to know how to hide the tape counter would you?
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Nice to hear it's working !
Tape-counter should go away if it's ready loading, or just try to press the "tab" key again.
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@Folly It does go away once the tape is done loading, I just didn't know if there was a way to make it not appear at all. I tried every display option I could find in the machine and UI settings. If not, it's fine. I can live with it. Happy it is all working!
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@Folly Another question - How can I tell MESS to turn off the UI inputs and only use the original keyboard? For example, in MESS F3 is mapped to both "system reset" and the "III" key on the ADAM keyboard, which you need to press for some games, but then that resets the system.
I tried turning on/off the "Game Focus" mode and that didn't do anything, and I also switched between "Emulated" and "Natural" keyboard mode in MESS and tht didn't seem to work either.
I then tried to re-map the "System Reset" to something like LSHIFT+F3 but then that didn't save on exit.
Any ideas on what to do here?
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Ok,
Good question, not sure either.
If I have time I can look at it.
Can you give an example game where you have to press that "|||" key ?Saving configs is probably working though the runcommands for that time did not have all options yet.
Probably that's the reason why the config isn't loaded.So when you make a new image and use my project the runcommands are better and will load the saved configs.
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For your "new" image you should be able to change the UI controls so F3 isn't going to interfere with the "|||" key.
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@Folly 2010 is one of the games that uses the Smart Keys:
I can get the keys re-mapped while I’m playing the game but as soon as I exit out, it reverts back to the original setting.
What path is the settings file in and I can make sure my permissions on that file is set correctly.
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Here is the created runcommand of my script that uses the valerino run_mes.sh script.
My script detects adam as coleco so it's installed as coleco not as adam.
So the directories are different (BIOS and config) and the lr-mess core has the new name.
I suggest you convert it to your needs and try to see if that is a solution for you :lr-run_mess-adam-cass1-autoframeskip = "/home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/scriptmodules/run_mess.sh /opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch/bin/retroarch /opt/retropie/libretrocores/lr-mess/mamemess_libretro.so /opt/retropie/configs/coleco/retroarch.cfg \adam /home/pi/RetroPie/BIOS/mame\;/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/coleco -autoframeskip -cfg_directory /opt/retropie/configs/coleco/lr-mess -ui_active -cass1 %ROM%"
You should also look at this post, could be relevant :
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/29682/development-of-module-script-generator-for-lr-mess-lr-mame-and-mame-standalone/246You can find the new run_mess.sh in my repository :
https://github.com/FollyMaddy/RetroPie-Share/tree/main/00-scriptmodules-00 -
@Folly Thanks! I’ll give that a try.
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@Folly For the lr-mess-apple2gs..to get the mame menu to show up, what file must i edit and add in -ui_active? I don't see the option to enable it as in other emulators.
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I assume you use my project already then the
-ui_active
is already there.If somehow you also installed some old module-script of valerino then you can find and edit the runcommands in :
/opt/retropie/configs/apple2gs/emulators.cfg
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@Folly Thanks
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lr-mess-apple2gs-basename = "/opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch/bin/retroarch --config /opt/retropie/configs/apple2gs/retroarch.cfg --appendconfig /opt/retropie/configs/apple2gs/retroarch.cfg.basename -S /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/apple2gs -s /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/apple2gs -v -L /opt/retropie/libretrocores/lr-mess/mamemess_libretro.so 'mame apple2gs -cfg_directory /opt/retropie/configs/apple2gs/lr-mess -c -ui_active -rompath /home/pi/RetroPie/BIOS/mame;/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/apple2gs/ '%BASENAME%''"
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Your runcommand is ok, I tested it.
Seems something else is going on.Did you try to change the inputs earlier ?
Try to remove the files in :
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@Folly I mean, the Mame Tab is coming up ok with your test?
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