Tutorial: Handheld and Plug & Play systems with MAME

DTEAM

@Retrodade
If you want to participate to our effort to create gamelist and "scrapes", go here . It's the the thread associate to our project for that. You'll find what we already done and our folder structure here.

Retrodade

@DTEAM thanks! will take a look
I checked quick I did a few systems running mame/mess you don't have scrapes for, like Gameking and Sord M5 and a few others that I made myself...not sure if my style would interest everyone but, I'd be glad to share if there is an interest
if not that's ok too

I will check out your list deeper thanks

DTEAM

@Retrodade said in Tutorial: Handheld and Plug & Play systems with MAME:

@DTEAM
nice I been working on scrapes for myself on odd systems, felt i could get caught up on handhelds. I made these but no video (something at least) anyways you probably have everything all done but ill share mine in case the two I had no luck in finding here are my handheld scrapes I managed to do (maybe this can help )
https://mega.nz/folder/zSZmWR6T#fnC9ZmreN0Y6a4j2cRueAg
top 2 in your list is eluding me

Thanks, it will be usefull to update de gamelists!

Retrodade

@DTEAM I stumbled across these that worked

mc_hh210.zip
mc_105te.zip
mc_110cb.zip
mc_sp69.zip

3 worked in mame-autoskip , 1 was in mess
seemed like multi plug n plays and a handheld

not sure if this is useful info, or maybe u have them included already?
anyways I didn't see them in your list so figured I'd mention.

DTEAM

@Retrodade
Most are already in the list above (second post)

DTEAM

@DTEAM said in Tutorial: Handheld and Plug & Play systems with MAME:

For All in one:
pballpup
swclone
tmntmutm

Updated gamelist.xml for these three (video, marquee, image).

Retrodade

@DTEAM
nice !
With the 5 new Jakks, want me to tackle the scrape on those? let me know
if not... ok too, but I think I can handle the 5

DTEAM

@Retrodade said in Tutorial: Handheld and Plug & Play systems with MAME:

With the 5 new Jakks,

Have you the names of those roms, Did you test them?

Retrodade

@DTEAM well, now you got me thinking, lol you probably have them then but mine worked and I had no scrapes from them, so I assume sine i grabbed your gamelist and they aren't on that gamelist.
I decided to make these scrapes.. you can get the zip name from the game list text to add to a gamelist. here is the added text and the scrapes including video - let me know if these are "new working"

https://mega.nz/folder/LT5EEDzQ#P9Grm2aAesDbgaFaAba7yg

Retrodade

@DTEAM i would record video for tiger handheld , i can't figure out how lol with MAME, screen shot took a while to hunt down lol

DTEAM

@Folly said in Tutorial: Handheld and Plug & Play systems with MAME:

This is an early test on jakks how we could do that.
Here I use the completed sorted database.
Goal is to do it with the unsorted data before I create the sorted database 250 file.
cat /opt/retropie/emulators/mame/mame0249_systems_sorted_info|grep jak_|cut -d " " -f2|while read driver;do [[ $(/opt/retropie/emulators/mame/mame -listxml $driver|grep "emulation="|cut -d" -f4) == good ]] && echo $driver;done
jak_batm
jak_capc
jak_care
jak_dbz
jak_disf
jak_disn
jak_dora
jak_dorr
jak_dpr
jak_dprs
jak_dwmn
jak_dwmno
jak_fan4
jak_just
jak_mk
jak_mpac
jak_mpacw
jak_nick
jak_pooh
jak_sbfc
jak_sbjd
jak_sith
jak_sithp
jak_spdm
jak_swot
jak_wall
jak_wof
jak_wwe
jak_xmenp

We can do the same with all_in1 drivers (filtered on "in 1" & "in-1" & "non-arcade" with no jakks drivers "jak_") :
(manually drivers like fordrace could be added in the filter list)

Here's the gaps between our two list:



jak_batm		jak_batm
jak_capc		jak_capc
jak_care		jak_care
jak_dbz		        jak_dbz
jak_disf		jak_disf
jak_disn		jak_disn
jak_dora		jak_dora
jak_dorr		jak_dorr
jak_dpr		        jak_dpr
jak_dprs		jak_dprs
jak_dwmn		
jak_dwmno		
jak_fan4		jak_fan4
jak_just		jak_just
jak_mk		        jak_mk
jak_mpac		jak_mpac
jak_mpacw		jak_mpacw
jak_nick		jak_nick
jak_pooh		jak_pooh
jak_sbfc		jak_sbfc
jak_sbjd		jak_sbjd
		        jak_sdoo
jak_sith		jak_sith
jak_sithp		
jak_spdm		jak_spdm
jak_swot		
jak_wall		jak_wall
jak_wof		        jak_wof
jak_wwe		        jak_wwe
		        jak_wof
jak_xmenp

I will have to test and probably add:
jak_dwmn
jak_dwmno
jak_sithp
jak_swot
jak_xmenp

I know jak_sdoo is now in your list, but i'm not sure for jak_wof

DTEAM

@DTEAM said in Tutorial: Handheld and Plug & Play systems with MAME:

I will have to test and probably add:
jak_dwmn
jak_dwmno
jak_sithp
jak_swot
jak_xmenp

@Folly
jak_hmpt and also jakms41 are not tested yet. I'm going to add them to my to-do list too!

Folly

@DTEAM said in Tutorial: Handheld and Plug & Play systems with MAME:

I know jak_sdoo is now in your list, but i'm not sure for jak_wof

Yes it is, see the latest list :https://github.com/FollyMaddy/RetroPie-Share/blob/main/00-databases-00/sorted_info_creation/0XXX/jakks.ini

jak_hmpt and also jakms41 are not tested yet. I'm going to add them to my to-do list too!

Is most likely not a JAKKS game :
Driver jakms41 (KM-S4-1 VER 1.1): @business_terminal@computer@non-arcade

Curious about jak_hmpt.
Good luck with testing ;-)

DTEAM

@Folly
jak_hmpt = Hannah Montana Pop Tour - Guitar Video Game (JAKKS Pacific TV Game)

Kind of guitar hero.

DTEAM

@DTEAM said in Tutorial: Handheld and Plug & Play systems with MAME:

For Tigerh:
tgaiden3
tgargnf
tmegaman3
tsimquest (already done)
tsuperman

@Folly
Now added to the gamelist on the drive . Only Megaman 3 and Castlevania Simon Quest videos are missing (MAME 0.251 needed).

New edit:
kbottom9
knascar
kskatedie
Are now added to the gamelist konamih

Folly

@DTEAM

Great !
Will have a look, when I can ;-)

DTEAM

@Folly @Retrodade

jak_dwmn
jak_dwmno
jak_sithp
jak_swot
jak_xmenp

they work well, I'm gonna start to work on the gamelist

Folly

@DTEAM

Great to hear !

I am busy with generating the new ini files.
They are almost done, took the whole day to create them.
Curious what comes out of them.
The jakks should appear. (edit : they are already there)

DTEAM

@DTEAM said in Tutorial: Handheld and Plug & Play systems with MAME:

jak_dwmn
jak_dwmno
jak_sithp
jak_swot
jak_xmenp
they work well, I'm gonna start to work on the gamelist

@Folly
the JAKKS gamelist is now updated

Retro Arcade Fan

@DTEAM @Folly

Hey everyone,

I successfully added Konami Handheld, Tiger Handheld and Jakks. Having two problems with Classic Handheld. 1) I can't scrape using either scrapper. Says the platform isn't defined. Even though I used this:

<name>classich</name>
<fullname>Classic Handheld Systems</fullname>
<path>/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/classich</path>
<extension>.mgw .MGW .7z .zip</extension>
<command>/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh 0 _SYS_ classich %ROM%</command>
<platform>classich</platform>
<theme>classich</theme>

</system>

More importantly, the games won't launch. I copied the artwork into the artwork folder (even though not every rom file had a corresponding artwork file). Below is the verbose log:

Parameters:
Executing: /opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch/bin/retroarch -L /opt/retropie/libretrocores/lr-gw/gw_libretro.so --config /opt/retropie/configs/classich/retroarch.cfg "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/classich/efootb4.zip" --verbose --appendconfig /dev/shm/retroarch.cfg
[INFO] [Config]: Loading config from: "/opt/retropie/configs/classich/retroarch.cfg".
[INFO] [Config]: Appending config "/dev/shm/retroarch.cfg".
[WARN] [GameMode]: GameMode cannot be enabled on this system ("dlopen failed - libgamemode.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory.") https://github.com/FeralInteractive/gamemode needs to be installed.
[WARN] [Config]: GameMode unsupported - disabling...
[INFO] RetroArch 1.10.0 (Git e9e85f3)
[INFO] === Build =======================================
[INFO] Capabilities: NEON VFPv3 VFPv4
[INFO] Built: Jan 30 2022
[INFO] Version: 1.10.0
[INFO] Git: e9e85f3
[INFO] =================================================
[INFO] [Input]: Found input driver: "x".
[INFO] [Core]: Loading dynamic libretro core from: "/opt/retropie/libretrocores/lr-gw/gw_libretro.so"
[INFO] [Overrides]: No core-specific overrides found at "/home/pi/.config/retroarch/config/Game & Watch/Game & Watch.cfg".
[INFO] [Overrides]: No content-dir-specific overrides found at "/home/pi/.config/retroarch/config/Game & Watch/classich.cfg".
[INFO] [Overrides]: No game-specific overrides found at "/home/pi/.config/retroarch/config/Game & Watch/efootb4.cfg".
[INFO] [Environ]: SET_VARIABLES.
[INFO] [Environ]: SET_CONTROLLER_INFO.
[INFO] [Remaps]: Remap directory: "/opt/retropie/configs/classich/".
[INFO] [Overrides]: Redirecting save file to "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/classich/efootb4.srm".
[INFO] [Overrides]: Redirecting save state to "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/classich/efootb4.state".
[INFO] [Environ]: GET_LOG_INTERFACE.
[INFO] [Content]: Loading content file: "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/classich/efootb4.zip".
[ERROR] [Content]: Could not read content file "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/classich/efootb4.zip"

[INFO] [Core]: Content ran for a total of: 00 hours, 00 minutes, 00 seconds.
[INFO] [Core]: Unloading core..
[INFO] [Core]: Unloading core symbols..

And I'm using the following for the emulators.cfg file:

lr-gw = "/opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch/bin/retroarch -L /opt/retropie/libretrocores/lr-gw/gw_libretro.so --config /opt/retropie/configs/classich/retroarch.cfg %ROM%"
mame = "/opt/retropie/emulators/mame/mame %BASENAME%"
mame-autoframeskip = "/opt/retropie/emulators/mame/mame -autoframeskip %BASENAME%"
default = "lr-gw"

Any ideas why this one isn't working? Thank you for your help.