Tutorial: Handheld and Plug & Play systems with MAME

Folly

I just had a look at the differences between the predefined all_in1.ine and my generated one.
Indeed, there are quite some differences.
Will have a look later again.

Folly

@DTEAM

I had a 3rd try on automating a list for all_in1.
Just to help you find new ones and for me to see if there is a better way of automating this process for the future.
I included the search for ones that are originally in your ini file.
Seems only a few are missing now which have the emulation=preliminary (bad) as tag.

cat /opt/retropie/emulators/mame/mame0249_systems_sorted_info|awk '/in 1/||/in-1/||/Driver abl/||/Pocket Dream Console/||/TV Play Classic/||/Driver dgun/||/Driver mc\_/||/Driver mysp/||/fordrace/||/magapad/||/majkon/||/intg5410/||/ppgc200g/||/sudopptv/||/zudugo/||/tak_geig/||/tomcpin/'|grep non-arcade|grep -v jak_|cut -d " " -f2|while read driver;do [[ $(/opt/retropie/emulators/mame/mame -listxml $driver|grep "emulation="|cut -d\" -f4) == good ]] && echo $driver;done
110dance
ablmini
ablpinb
apexc
bittboy
cdlyoko
cybar120
dgun2500
dgun2573
dgun2573a
dgun2869
dgun851
dgun853
dgunl3227
dnv200fs
dorapdc
dturbogt
exsprt48
f1392
f3in1
fapocket
fcpocket
fordrace
ii32in1
ii8in1
intact89
itvg48
itvg49
jl2050
lexiseal
lexizeus
lx_jg7410
lx_jg7415
m505neo
m521neo
majkon
marc101
max10in1
maxx5in1
maxx6in1
mc_110cb
mc_138cb
mc_7x6ss
mc_89in1
mc_8x6cb
mc_8x6ss
mc_9x6sa
mc_9x6ss
mc_aa2
mc_cb280
mc_dcat8
mc_dcat8a
mc_dg101
mc_dgear
mc_sam60
mc_sp69
mc_tv200
mgt20in1
miwi2_16
miwi2_7
msinamco
mysprtch
mysprtcp
mysptqvc
namcons1
namcons2
oplayer
pdc100
pdc150t
pdc200
pdc40t
pdc50
pjoyn50
pjoys30
pjoys60
polmega
ppgc200g
rcapnp
react
rminitv
sen101
senario25
silv35
solargm
sudo6in1
sudopptv
sy888b
sy889
t3in1sa
t7in1ss
taitons1
taitons2
tak_geig
techni4
timetp25
timetp36
timetp7
tmntpdc
tomcpin
tvbg3a
tvbg3b
tvbg3c
tvbg6a
tvbg6b
tvsprt10
v4in1eg
ventur25
vgcap35
vgcaplet
vjpp2
vsmax25v
vsmaxtx2
vsmaxx17
vsmaxx77
vsmaxxvd
vsplus
vt25in1
wldsoctv
xing48
zdog
zone7in1
zone7in1p
zudugo

Retrodade

@DTEAM anytime :)

Retrodade

so..there are more jakks and all in ones working now?

Folly

@Retrodade

Mame 0.250 version is out now :
https://forums.bannister.org/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=121625#Post121625

With every new version more stuff should be working.
For 0.250, more handhelds are added.
If you find a rom you can just place it in the corresponding roms directory and it should work if you update the mame version.

Somehow, we have to work on updating the lists and extract this from mame or the what's new file.

Retrodade

@Folly nice i will do that!
i want to mention the Sinden guys have a hack version of lr-mame
the install is called " lr-mame-StormedBubbles"
they also have a few hack versions of other mame and mess
the install plays 3 "plug and play" light gun games

Mission: Paintball Powered Up (pballpup) - Perfect accuracy correction. Needs "Boot from CLI" enabled in core options.
Star Wars: Clone Trooper Blaster Game (swclone) - Perfect accuracy correction. Needs "Boot from CLI" enabled in core options.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant & Monster Mayhem (tmntmutm) - Perfect accuracy correction

of course this version of mame launches more than 3 games
but figured I'd mention it since these are plug and plays and maybe it could open more doors?

DTEAM

@Retrodade

We have to test those games . For Jakks, 50% of the roms doesn't work or work with a Wii remote. I'm working on classich at the moment .. I'll check if new "working" systems had been added after.

Retrodade

@DTEAM
here are the 3 scrapes\pics and wheel I made for those 3 "plug n plays" I described above, if you want them
scrapes for those three here
https://mega.nz/file/XS5DCbyL#8YbMgbJAzUU-JyW010xqMGeF0FSv6vG382rLeAwr4ek

Folly

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

@Folly nice i will do that!
i want to mention the Sinden guys have a hack version of lr-mame
the install is called " lr-mame-StormedBubbles"
they also have a few hack versions of other mame and mess
the install plays 3 "plug and play" light gun games

Mission: Paintball Powered Up (pballpup) - Perfect accuracy correction. Needs "Boot from CLI" enabled in core options.
Star Wars: Clone Trooper Blaster Game (swclone) - Perfect accuracy correction. Needs "Boot from CLI" enabled in core options.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant & Monster Mayhem (tmntmutm) - Perfect accuracy correction

of course this version of mame launches more than 3 games
but figured I'd mention it since these are plug and plays and maybe it could open more doors?

Do you want them to be added to category all_in1 ?
I think a non-arcade lightgun category is more appropriate, don't you think ? (is not yet there but can be created in add-systems-mamedev)
We can already sort on lightgun in the database and there are probably more similar games.
Another problem is that automating a category becomes more difficult because it becomes a compilation of quite some different stuff.
That means obviously more manual editing a category.
This is probably not the route to take.

What do you both think @Retrodade @DTEAM ?

Retrodade

@Folly yeah, I know what you mean.
they put them in its own category of "plug n play"
they are like jakks I guess? I have mine in arcade since its not LCD and I think 1 or 2 were tiger, I forget the other, thought it said Jakks, but no title load screen on one I believe, but the net search just shown a gun to plug into the TV
I'm just passing the info since they are plug n plays
but where they belong? that's a good question.
put them where you feel is best

I don't own a sinden, but their custom versions of Mame have great accuracy for light guns

DTEAM

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

they put them in its own category of "plug n play"

Our plug n play category is "All in one" , i'll take a look next week. thanks

Folly

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

@Folly

Hi Folly, are you able to run tsimquest.zip or 7z (Tiger - Castlevania Simon's Quest). I'm not able for now !

You can update the binary, it's now 250.
The game works.

DTEAM

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DTEAM

@Retrodade
Hi , I took a look and it's fine. They are "plug n play" and they were commercialized. @Folly, I think we could add them to "all in one", what do you think?

Folly

@DTEAM

Yes, that's ok.

Retrodade

@DTEAM
nice! glad there are 3 more added :)

DTEAM

@Folly
NEW SYSTEMS
For Konamih, I'll add :
kskatedie.zip
knascar.zip
kbottom9.zip

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

For All in one:
pballpup
swclone
tmntmutm

Folly

@DTEAM

Some that will be available in 251.
I see you are already working in the future ;-)
Perfect.

Retrodade

@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

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.