Tutorial: Handheld and Plug & Play systems with MAME

duglor

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.

DTEAM

@duglor
With a Pi 4, if you select Mame autoframeskip basename in the blue menu (when the game load), it will run at fullspeed. On my Pi, it works well.

Soxbrother

@DTEAM
Thanks for this tutorial.
I have done all the steps, but didn't manage to get it working.
I also used the script generator and did all the steps.
I have put the roms in the gameandwatch folder, the artwork in the suggested folder
( \bios\mame\artwork )

But it doesn't show up between my other systems in the retropie home menu.
I thought maybe it's because in the etc\emulationstation\es_systems.cfg file
under gameandwatch, -> extension it says .mgw .MGW
So I've added .zip to the mix, but no joy.

Or do I need to add the gameandwatch also here in this file :
/opt/retropie/configs/all/emulationstation\es_systems.cfg

Or is it simply because there's no gamelist under
/opt/retropie/configs/all/emulationstation/gamelists ?

Hopefully you can help me with is.
Probably a simple solution, I guess.
Thanks in advance.

Greetings,
Soxbrother

duglor

@DTEAM Has an overlay/bezel been made for
Let's TV Play Classic- Namco Nostalgia 2? if so, where would i download that and what .config file would i need to edit if any?

DTEAM

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DTEAM

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

Has an overlay/bezel been made for
Let's TV Play Classic- Namco

No. If so, I've never seen it before.

DTEAM

New classich game with MAME 0.253: racetime

DTEAM

New classich with MAME 0.254

bgunf = Gunfighter (Bandai)
bgalaxn = Galaxian (Bandai)

gamelist updated

duglor

@DTEAM Sorry to trouble you. If there is such a thing, do you have a way i can find a mame that works with retropie that supports mame 0.182 or after? That's when the driver i'm looking at was perfected. It could be any mame after that...the earlier the better i guess for speed and taxing of the retropie.

I only need to find a version that supports the Winning Run series of 4 arcade racers

This handheld update is great ! Thank you so much! -Doug

DTEAM

@duglor

You can get MAME 0.254 in Retropie update -> experimental

duglor

@DTEAM Does Winning Run and it's 3 sequels run in the lastest download for lr-Mame? If you know? That's the .254 in there? the latest update to the lr-Mame?

I think i'll make a bezel /overlay for Let's Play TV Namco 2. Where should I upload that to see if you'd like to share that with folks?

Is the mame team or yourself planning on supporting some of the Casio Watch games like the rare Casio Western Bar CG-300 LCD game made in 1984 ?
Be well and thanks for the zillions of fun times you've let many of us have thanks to your efforts! -Doug

duglor

@DTEAM The new lr-Mame i got in experimental does not run Winning Run. It bumps back to ES. Do you or anyone out there know of any mame i can download for the retropie that will run
Winning Run
Winning Run 91
Winning Run Suzuka GP and
Driver's Eyes?

DTEAM

@duglor
I never use lr-mame, I always use MAME without libretro (standalone version). Maybe lr-MAME is not up to date.

according to @Folly,
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/29682/development-of-module-script-generator-for-lr-mess-lr-mame-and-mame-standalone/1363?_=1683718839428

The binaries of lr-mame and lr-mess are still on 0.251 and MAME standalone last version is 0.254

DTEAM

@Folly

New systems added to the gamelist files related to MAME 0.255

KONAMIH gamelist
KTMNT3 Konami Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3: Shredder's Last Stand (handheld) [algestam, Sean Riddle, Mr. Do]
KTMNTBB Konami Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Basketball [algestam, Sean Riddle, Mr. Do]

CLASSICH gamelist
TMBASKB Basketball (Tomy) [hap, Sean Riddle]
TRSGKEEP Tronica Super Goal Keeper [algestam]
TMVOLLEYB Volleyball (Tomy) [hap, Sean Riddle]

DTEAM

I forgot to mention, MAME Artworks for KTMNT3, KTMNTBB and TRSGKEEP are in this folder

You can use Folly script to install them

Folly

@DTEAM

I automatically recreated the ini files :
https://github.com/FollyMaddy/RetroPie-Share/commit/fb76bee19eec9ffca8d808bbfdc52e1df946a1a9

Can you check for me if we have all drivers ?

DTEAM

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

@DTEAM

I automatically recreated the ini files :
https://github.com/FollyMaddy/RetroPie-Share/commit/fb76bee19eec9ffca8d808bbfdc52e1df946a1a9

Can you check for me if we have all drivers ?

ktmntbb is missing in Konamih

Folly

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

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

@DTEAM

I automatically recreated the ini files :
https://github.com/FollyMaddy/RetroPie-Share/commit/fb76bee19eec9ffca8d808bbfdc52e1df946a1a9

Can you check for me if we have all drivers ?

ktmntbb is missing in Konamih

Thanks for checking.
I have added it manually.
Will have to see later why it wasn't added.

To update the database just update the script again and it should get the new database.

Retrodade

@Folly wow great adds thanks!

Retrodade

@DTEAM i want to confirm the "nstarfox" game has no sound, correct? or am I supposed to enable it on this one?