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

DTEAM

@Folly

See: https://www.mamedev.org/?p=520

Folly

@DTEAM

Yes I saw it, cool !
Also the binary in retropie is already updated to 251.

Now we will be able to play the new handhelds.

I will have to wait for the progettosnaps updates, in order to update the database and the script.

DTEAM

@Folly

I compare your classich drivers list from your first post vs my list and monkeygk and nstarfox are not in your list. Do you know if new roms are missing in our lists?

I will try to generate new mp4s with the background (for some handheld system) when I have time

Folly

@DTEAM

My first post list isn't updated yet.
(I will probably update it when I have build up the new dorted list for mame 251)
Though I can see that nstarfox is already in my classich.ini .

Is monkeygk an old driver ?
I don't see it in 250 and 251.

DTEAM

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

Is monkeygk an old driver ?
I don't see it in 250 and 251.

it's a clone of GNW_MMOUSE in Game and Watch from MAME 0.238. Not listed anymore. I'm gonna delete it.

Folly

@DTEAM

Everything is updated to mame0251.
I also did the driver links in post 1.

Edit :
Damn, I made a mistake ;-(
I used the wrong in files !
I have to rebuild the database again.

Folly

@DTEAM

I hope everything is ok now.

For those who did already an update to mame0251, please update again, within the script, to update to the latest database.

duglor

@Folly Can you provide me THE link again to re-dl the latest archimedes and gsplus versions that work with mame?

Folly

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

@Folly Can you provide me THE link again to re-dl the latest archimedes and gsplus versions that work with mame?

The rompacks, you talk about, should be op to date and you should already have them.

Check this out, and you will see what is updated or not :
https://forums.bannister.org/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=121802#Post121802

Remember : you cannot ask for rom-links in the forum, it's not allowed.

DTEAM

@Folly

I tested the latest version of your script and it works like a charm!

Folly

@DTEAM

Thanks,

I tried to improve the filter on the deco_cassette system because I wanted to filter out the bios file.
Sadly the "not" filter doesn't work properly.
Assuming it has something to do with using it on the array which gives a different output than normal.

Not really a big problem so I leave it as it is.

I will add the bios name in the gamelist as :
ZZZ(notgame):BIOS
This will place the file down in the list, just as other, not game detected, files.

DTEAM

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

I tried to improve the filter on the deco_cassette

I never heard about that one, i'll try it this week! Is it arcade games on cassette?

Folly

@DTEAM

I saw a post about it on the mamedev forum, just recently.

This is the wiki:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DECO_Cassette_System

I added it in version 0251.01

DTEAM

@Folly
Those games are already in my Arcade folder. They also run well with lr-mame 2016. The 2 minutes counter is a pain in the ass .

Folly

@DTEAM

Indeed, they are not new but now they are now categorised.
There are a few new multigame ones that will work without loading time :
decodark
decomult

I think most slow loadable games are in there.

DTEAM

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

Indeed, they are not new but now they are now categorised.

I agree, it reminds me "Playchoice 10". I will not add the gamelist on the drive because we can scrape that system with Skraper (ScreenScraper) or other .

kiro

Hi @Folly, quick update on the import into retroscraper of lr-mess roms. I've imported all the roms from 'standard' systems (such as c64, msx, etc..) and all roms for about 200 lesser know systems (still 150 to go). In total, I've added around 300k roms (totaling over a million now) and created around 30k new software references.

Everything should be available by tomorrow morning after the API refresh.

Once the whole thing is done, I'll start (if you guys are ok with it) importing the images from your gamelists.

If everything goes ok, the gamelists that you have pregenerated could be done on the fly with retroscraper.

Bye!

Folly

@kiro

That's great news ;-)
Really curious.

Folly

@kiro @DTEAM

I have implemented the retroscraper option into my script.
I solved all problems I faced.
Hopefully there are no issues.
There is some room for improvements in the future like :

scraping recursively
scraping all folders in one go
perhaps use the retroscraper-rpie when someone has installed it

Overall I am quite happy with it.

Please test and let my know if you like it and if it works for you.

https://github.com/FollyMaddy/RetroPie-Share/commit/a6847628c25808c06fbc9dd1f12986dc3107fdf6

kiro

@Folly Ohm some info, if you want to add paremeters to retroscraper:

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/zayamatias/retroscraper-remote/main/retroscraper.py |python3 - --PARAM

Where param is any of these:

-h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --systemsfile SYSTEMSFILE
                        location of the es_systems.cfg file)
  --nobackup            Do not backup gamelist.xml file
  --relativepaths       Use relative paths instead of full paths
  --recursive           Search subdirctories in systems paths
  --mediadir MEDIADIR   Single media dir wwhere all media is going to be stored, strat with '/' for absolute path (this will append the system name autoamtically), otherwise relative to system path
  --keepdata            Keep favorites and play count of your games
  --preferbox           Prefer boxes instead of screenshots
  --novideodown         Do not download videos
  --nodb                Do not use a local DB to store file hashes (might impact performance nagatively)
  --language LANGUAGE   Select language for descriptions
  --google              Use google translate if description not found in your language
  --country             Add country decorator from filename [Sonic (es)]
  --disk                Add disk decorator from filename [Sonic (disk 1/2)]
  --version             Add version decorator from filename [Sonic V1.10]
  --hack                Add hack decorator from filename [Sonic (madhedgehog hack)]
  --brackets            Add brackets decorator from filename (Sonic [TT])
  --bezels              Download bezels for games
  --sysbezels           Download system bezel if game bezel is not found
  --cleanmedia          Clean media directroies before downloading
  --systems SYSTEMS     List of systems to scan (comma separated values)
  --debug               Use for debugging purposes
  --listsystems         Return a list of available systems
  --listlangs           List available languages
  --appver              Display retroscraper version and stop
  --sort ORIG DEST      Sort your roms by system, put all your roms in one directory and output structure to second directory

As you see there's the recursive flag to go into subidrs, and by default retroscraper will scan all systems found in es_systems.cfg.

Let me know if this helps!