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    Tutorial: Handheld and Plug & Play systems with MAME

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    • DTEAMD
      DTEAM @Folly
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      @folly said in Tutorial: Handheld and Plug & Play systems with MAME:

      Perhaps you can also do :
      "mame-autoframeskip" in stead of "mameafs".
      You have to try if this works, but i think it will.

      Done!

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        Folly @DTEAM
        last edited by Folly

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

        @folly
        Yes, with no succes, but I'll retry It tomorrow.

        Are you going to try GP32 in mame ?

        Try this options :
        -[no]cheat / -[no]c

        Activates the cheat menu with autofire options and other tricks from the cheat database, if present.
        This also activates additional options on the slider menu for overclocking/underclocking.

        So you only have to add it like this, I think :

        mame-GP32= "/opt/retropie/emulators/mame/mame -c -autoframeskip %BASENAME%"
        

        If you run the game, go to the slider menu for overclocking/underclocking.

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        • TPRT
          TPR @DTEAM
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          @dteam @Folly Seriously great work, guys! I'm in the middle of downloading all the artwork, images, and gamelists from the repositories you've posted. I cannot thank you enough!

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

            @dteam @Folly Seriously great work, guys! I'm in the middle of downloading all the artwork, images, and gamelists from the repositories you've posted. I cannot thank you enough!

            Enjoy !

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            • DTEAMD
              DTEAM @Folly
              last edited by DTEAM

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

              Are you going to try GP32 in mame ?
              Try to find the overclock option for mame.

              Honestly, the easiest way would be to use MESS without Lr (retroarch) to see what happens with auto frameskip and systems performance in general. I don'T know how to get It. to install It.

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                Folly @DTEAM
                last edited by Folly

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

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

                Are you going to try GP32 in mame ?
                Try to find the overclock option for mame.

                Honestly, the easiest way would be to use MESS without Lr (retroarch) to see what happens with auto frameskip and systems performance in general. I don'T know how to get It.

                MESS is now a part of MAME.
                In the lr- versions, arcade and computers are still somewhat splitted.
                Therefor It's not needed to use MESS anymore because it's 1 package now.

                Perhaps you can still compile standalone MESS,
                but then you have to edit the makefile of the MAME source and compile MESS manually.
                Finding out how to, will be difficult, I think.

                Edit :
                Alle these packages are compiled from the MAME source :

                • lr-mame
                • lr-mess
                • MESS (if still possible)
                • MAME
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                • DTEAMD
                  DTEAM @Folly
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                  @folly
                  Great. I'll try It with MAME first.

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                  • TPRT
                    TPR @DTEAM
                    last edited by

                    @dteam @Folly Is there a repository to download some of the missing artwork, for example, the overlay for astrocmd.zip - I don't see it on the Google Drive that you linked to, or did I miss it?

                    Thank you!

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                    • DTEAMD
                      DTEAM @Folly
                      last edited by DTEAM

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

                      So you only have to add it like this, I think :
                      mame-GP32= "/opt/retropie/emulators/mame/mame -c -autoframeskip %BASENAME%"

                      If you run the game, go to the slider menu for overclocking/underclocking.

                      It works if I switch %BASENAME% by gp32 !!!!!
                      But something missing, we can see the introduction logos but the game won't load. May Be wrong Bios location. I'm digging to see where the problem come from.
                      I tested nes, fmtmarty, gp32, jaguar, supracan.
                      For FM-Marty, I hope It will fix saves bugs.

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                      • TPRT
                        TPR @DTEAM
                        last edited by

                        @dteam @Folly As I'm going through more of the "classich" roms, I take it there are just some games that don't have overlays? I want to make sure I'm not missing something here.

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                        • DTEAMD
                          DTEAM @TPR
                          last edited by

                          @tpr
                          No,It’s normal. Some games have no overlay

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                          • TPRT
                            TPR @DTEAM
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                            @dteam Thank you!

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                            • DTEAMD
                              DTEAM @DTEAM
                              last edited by DTEAM

                              @folly

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

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

                              So you only have to add it like this, I think :
                              mame-GP32= "/opt/retropie/emulators/mame/mame -c -autoframeskip %BASENAME%"
                              If you run the game, go to the slider menu for overclocking/underclocking.

                              It works if I switch %BASENAME% by gp32 !!!!!
                              But something missing, we can see the introduction logos but the game won't load. May Be wrong Bios location. I'm digging to see where the problem come from.
                              I tested nes, fmtmarty, gp32, jaguar, supracan.
                              For FM-Marty, I hope It will fix saves bugs.

                              jaguar works like this:

                              mame-jaguar= "/opt/retropie/emulators/mame/mame -c -autoframeskip jaguar -cart %ROM%"
                              

                              fmmarty like this

                              mame-fmmarty= "/opt/retropie/emulators/mame/mame -c -autoframeskip fmtmarty -ram 96M -cdrm %ROM%"
                              

                              NES like this:

                              mame-nes= "/opt/retropie/emulators/mame/mame -c -autoframeskip nes -cart %ROM%"
                              

                              Gamecom

                              mame-gamecom= "/opt/retropie/emulators/mame/mame -c -autoframeskip gamecom -cart1 %ROM%"
                              

                              It works with regular game names !!!! Not just with MAME naming... Awesome!! Nothing to do in mame.ini

                              It’s scary how It’s simple!

                              @folly, You could have two emulators (lr-mess and mame/mess) with your script if you want !!!! (-;

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                                Folly @DTEAM
                                last edited by Folly

                                @dteam

                                WOW, nice. Haha.
                                Indeed, Now that you say. I was a bit aware of it.
                                And indeed it's simple if you got the "aha" effect !
                                I can confirm, I have to look at that some time to implement this it the script, I was aware of it.
                                Thank you for the suggestion ! ;-).

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                                  Folly @DTEAM
                                  last edited by Folly

                                  @dteam

                                  In your earlier post I can't really tell if you got GP32 working or not.

                                  But I had a look. This is the media type you have to load with GP32 :

                                  pi@raspberrypi:~ $ /opt/retropie/emulators/mame/mame -listmedia GP32
                                  SYSTEM           MEDIA NAME       (brief)    IMAGE FILE EXTENSIONS SUPPORTED
                                  ---------------- --------------------------- -------------------------------
                                  gp32             memcard          (memc)     .smc
                                  

                                  Try this :

                                  mame-GP32= "/opt/retropie/emulators/mame/mame -c -autoframeskip GP32 -memc %ROM%"
                                  
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                                    Folly @DTEAM
                                    last edited by Folly

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

                                    It works with regular game names !!!! Not just with MAME naming... Awesome!! Nothing to do in mame.ini

                                    It’s scary how It’s simple!

                                    Explained :

                                    MAME naming works like this :
                                    If it finds the name and checksum in the database (~/BIOS/mame/hash/<system>.xml), if it exists.
                                    Then it knows how to run the game with which type of media and with which system.

                                    In the commands above we tell MAME, what system and media type it has to run.
                                    That's why the gamename doesn't mather anymore.
                                    As you see with jaguar and nes, etc.
                                    That's the theory.

                                    Basically, earlier on, I did the same with Philips CDI in an earlier script.
                                    But with Philips CDI, I could not get it to work anymore.
                                    Now I think it's because of a BIOS change, but I still don't actually know.

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                                    • DTEAMD
                                      DTEAM @Folly
                                      last edited by DTEAM

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

                                      Try this :
                                      mame-GP32= "/opt/retropie/emulators/mame/mame -c -autoframeskip GP32 -memc %ROM%"

                                      Yes GP32 works, but also very slow with autoframeskip and slider overclock 125% .

                                      CD-i also works :

                                      mame-CD-i= "/opt/retropie/emulators/mame/mame -c -autoframeskip cdimono1 -cdrm %ROM%"
                                      
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                                      • TPRT
                                        TPR @DTEAM
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                                        @dteam @Folly So what exactly does what you guys are talking about in this last exchange do? I'm not familiar with gp32

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                                        • DTEAMD
                                          DTEAM @TPR
                                          last edited by DTEAM

                                          @tpr
                                          alt text

                                          This system (gp32) doesn’t work well with Lr-Mess, but seems cool to play.

                                          That’s why I’m trying to run It with MAME.
                                          Same result with MAME

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                                          • TPRT
                                            TPR @DTEAM
                                            last edited by

                                            @dteam OH! Duh. Sorry. I thought for some reason it was a setting in MAME. Sorry, my brain is too far deep into these G&W games right now! lol

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