Development of module-script generator for lr-mess, lr-mame and mame standalone

Folly

I found that there is still a huge development around the ti99.

A Richard Gilbertson is still working on a combination :

Rich eXtended Basic
Rich Editor Assembler

There is a 2021 version in rpk and they are working on a 2022 version.
I think it could replace all superxb and editassloaders.

It looks like this :

You should probably e-mail me so I can give you some more information.
(you can find my e-mail by clicking on my user information)

jamrom2

@folly I can see where this will definately streamline the loading process, but this is certainly a system you need to have some familarity with or be willing to make input. It's not like a C64, CPC or Atari.

I didn't own one, so it's a learning curve, but fun to use. It's serious old school input when there was not DOS. LOL.

You can hit me on jamrom2 (at) yahoo (dot) com.

I just wish there was a way to improve the performance. I understand why it's poor, many of the discreet circuits on MAME arcade emulator suffer the same. It has to do with how the data is processed in the circuits. Not easy to emulate with software.

Maybe some of this work and that make it available in the Retropie Libretro format will trigger someone to look at it again.

Folly

@jamrom2 said in Development of module-script generator for lr-mess and mame standalone:

I didn't own one, so it's a learning curve, but fun to use. It's serious old school input when there was not DOS. LOL.

Indeed, same with me.

I did a commit :
https://github.com/FollyMaddy/RetroPie-Share/blob/de4c502ef629317ff9eb6740739c42f46d21b3fc/00-workdir-00/backup/add-mamedev-systems-0238_test.sh

Removed the -nat option (keyboard natural mode) and added a few rxb2021 loaders too.
To have a better overview I decided to place the rxb2021.rpk file into :
/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ti99_4a/ti99_cart_rpk
The rxb2021 loader will search in that directory for the cartridge file.

Folly

@jamrom2 said in Development of module-script generator for lr-mess and mame standalone:

As soon as I get in to the GUI, I can check my controller assignments and see why I'm missing "UP". All other buttons and directions work fine.

I tried lr-mess and I had issues also with the "UP".
When I enable "CAPS-LOCK" I am able to use the "UP" key.

Folly

@jamrom2

I just updated some dl lines because 1 didn't work anymore.

I also added the word mame as an option to the lr-mess basename loaders because the last lr-mess 0.239 binary didn't work without it.

Don't know if you had that problem, but I hope it has been fixed now.

https://github.com/FollyMaddy/RetroPie-Share/blob/effa2b2accdc616b077cee7e495e1e467f720b48/00-workdir-00/backup/add-mamedev-systems-0238_test.sh

XxCitoxX

@dteam Hi, can i ask about where to get apfm1000 games

mitu

@xxcitoxx Do not ask for ROMs/BIOS/copyrighted material in the forums - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/2/forum-rules.

jamrom2

@folly I've been finishing up my CoCo2 list, and working on my CoCo3 now. I'm going to make a dedicated Tandy CoCo3 logo as well as I think it's warranted to seperate the two visually rather than just a Tandy logo.

I'll play around with this tonight as well.

jamrom2

@xxcitoxx as mitu already pointed out... That's a no-no. Google is your friend with everything related to ROM/BIOS files. Might take some time, but you'll find everything.

Folly

@jamrom2 said in Development of module-script generator for lr-mess and mame standalone:

@folly I've been finishing up my CoCo2 list, and working on my CoCo3 now. I'm going to make a dedicated Tandy CoCo3 logo as well as I think it's warranted to seperate the two visually rather than just a Tandy logo.

I'll play around with this tonight as well.

Nice to hear !

The CoCo2 list, is that a gamelist with media showing in emulationstation ?
If so, we should add it to the google-drive of @DTEAM, so everyone can download it in the script.
Can we make that possible ?

jamrom2

@folly I don't know if that would help anyone as far as meta-data. It's my gamelist based on whatever I named or used, so their ROMs would need to match whatever I have in my file.

As much as I would love to share it all, it's definitely not a full list, and it's a lot of hand-picked games.

But I will admit, I've done everything I can to use the best versions of box art I could find for every game system I have. I've even made some of my own when needed.

Folly

@jamrom2

I understand, all those different files and filenames can be a problem.

Is it an idea to make a separate thread for making shareable ES gamelists with media and try to make some solutions for dealing with above issue ?

DTEAM

@folly said in Development of module-script generator for lr-mess and mame standalone:

@jamrom2

I understand, all those different files and filenames can be a problem.

Is it an idea to make a separate thread for making shareable ES gamelists with media and try to make some solutions for dealing with above issue ?

Yes, it's a good idea but we should do that for MAME roms (.zip and .7z) only. Otherwise there are too many different kinds of roms names for a single game.

Folly

@dteam said in Development of module-script generator for lr-mess and mame standalone:

@folly said in Development of module-script generator for lr-mess and mame standalone:

@jamrom2

I understand, all those different files and filenames can be a problem.

Is it an idea to make a separate thread for making shareable ES gamelists with media and try to make some solutions for dealing with above issue ?

Yes, it's a good idea but we should do that for MAME roms (.zip and .7z) only. Otherwise there are too many different kinds of roms names for a single game.

Yes, that's a good start.

I will make a new thread.
I think we should reserve the first 4 posts for summarization.
So I will take the first and the second posts.
Can you take the third ?
And @jamrom2 should take the fourth.

That way all 3 of us can be the "admin" for the thread.
The first can then redirect to the second,third and fourth post so we can all can be the "admin" of the thread or splitting up some summarisation tasks.

Good idea ?

DTEAM

@folly
I'll modify what I wrote in my third post depending what you will write in your first post.

Folly

@dteam

That's ok.
Lets see how it evolves, we are quite flexible now.

Folly

@dteam @jamrom2

I updated the script to version 240 using all improvements of the 238-test version.

jamrom2

@folly Sounds good to me.

At this point, we'll need to post instructions on how this all works and some known issues like performace, interaction with command for certain auto-load cycles, and what keys might need to be remapped.

I think we can offer a basic list of gamelist.xmls based on what we tested with? Most of the TOSEC and other archived games are where people pull ROMs from. It's the other websites I used that might be a problem...and we can't point to those saying "use this site or our files".

Folly

@jamrom2 said in Development of module-script generator for lr-mess and mame standalone:

At this point, we'll need to post instructions on how this all works and some known issues like performance, interaction with command for certain auto-load cycles, and what keys might need to be remapped.

That is indeed something that should be added.

We have multiple possibilities on how we can do this :

add "instructions" to the script
add instructions to the first post
or separate the instructions to a new thread

We will have to think about it how we want to structure it.

jamrom2

@folly

I vote for keeping it all in the thread we are making. It will be easier for users to keep open and work with the Pi/files at the same time....and easier for us to update as needed.