Tutorial: Handheld and Plug & Play systems with MAME

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.

Folly

@Retro-Arcade-Fan

I think it's because.
You have to load Madrigals roms (.mgw) with lr-gw.
Btw. madrigals don't need artwork.

Mame roms from "mame-merged" have to be loaded with mame or lr-mess.
They will run without artwork but with artwork they will look how they should.

Don't mix them up.
(efootb4.zip is a mame rom so you have to load it with mame or lr-mess)

Retro Arcade Fan

@Folly ahh, thank you Folly. That did the trick! They are now playable. I appreciate the help as always!

Regarding the scrapping problem. Any suggestions there? Hard to find the video snaps manually on those.

Thanks.

DTEAM

@Retro-Arcade-Fan

Regarding the scrapping problem. Any suggestions there? Hard to find the video snaps manually on those.

Thanks.

Use Folly scipt to install that or Get the files here (for Classic) and put that in your classich rom folder. It should be ok

For more systems, same approach.
See here

Retro Arcade Fan

@DTEAM Thanks!

Retrodade

@DTEAM Thanks!

DTEAM

@Retrodade

If you select my hyperlink, they are already there + videos
Did you use Folly script?

If yes, @Folly , it’s probably the same overwriting problem than the last time. I will delete and upload the files again on the driver.

Retrodade

@DTEAM WOW ... ok great i got them now ! thanks and ill delete my scrapes above as its not needed. Amazing

duglor

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duglor

@DTEAM

Are there ways to speed up the emulation on a game like Let's TV Play Classic- Namco Nostalgia 2? it's in my game and watch plug and play folder and uses Mame. It's rather sloooow.