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

DTEAM

@bbilford83 @Folly

Please, Need help to found a photo of this system : Play Vision Joystick88

bbilford83

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

@bbilford83 @Folly

Please, Need help to found a photo of this system : Play Vision Joystick88

I tried for a while and so far haven't found anything... I'll keep looking though.

Folly

@DTEAM

Added your question to the mame forum.
Perhaps they can help.

My guess it will look something like this :

bbilford83

@Folly on a totally different note, today I checked your script and saw that you have integrated installation of the new LJN Videoart system that became usable in mame/mess .261. I installed it, and have the new videoart.zip bios in the correct places, but for me none of the 9 games will launch - they all go back to the emulationstation menu immediately. I tested in lr-mess, lr-mame, and mame standalone, unfortunately none seem to work. Maybe it is still something just I am doing wrong but if you have the time to check could I ask if you can see if it works for you? Or I'd take any other ideas you might have on what I did wrong :).

Folly

@bbilford83

saw that you have integrated installation of the new LJN Videoart system that became usable in mame/mess .261

Just for your understanding, I didn't add it in my script.
It depends on the database I added.

To fix it you need another bios too.
Go to the restricted downloads and select BIOS not found after you tried running a game. It will read the runcommand.log and automatically add the files to the form and ultimately to the list.

bbilford83

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

@bbilford83

saw that you have integrated installation of the new LJN Videoart system that became usable in mame/mess .261

Just for your understanding, I didn't add it in my script.
It depends on the database I added.

To fix it you need another bios too.
Go to the restricted downloads and select BIOS not found after you tried running a game. It will read the runcommand.log and automatically add the files to the form and ultimately to the list.
Remember (??? = org)

Thanks very much for the quick reply. I had never even noticed that part on your script, trying it now. Where it says "insert the options," I see that ???, but is that the only thing I change?

Edit: I tried that but it says "no search results found."

Edit 2: I understand about updating the database, I wasn't being very precise in my phrasing but I just meant that you had updated whatever you needed to so that the system was now included :).

Folly

@bbilford83 said in Development of module-script generator for lr-mess, lr-mame and mame standalone:

I see that ???, but is that the only thing I change?

yes

bbilford83

Actually @Folly, I didn't know about the runcommand.log file before, that is obviously very useful! But looking at that now I don't think it is a bios problem. This is what it says:

But I do have lr-mess, mame, and mess all updated to current, so I thought it should "know" it is a working system?

Folly

@bbilford83

You can find the runcommand.log in /dev/shm.
Indeed this is probably a different issue, have you tried mame standalone ?

Can you check your version of lr-mess in the mame UI (about)

bbilford83

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

@bbilford83

You can find the runcommand.log in /dev/shm.
Indeed this is probably a different issue, have you tried mame standalone ?

@Folly yes, standalone cart, standalone basename, lr-mess, all kick me right back out.

Can you check your version of lr-mess in the mame UI (about)

In mame UI, about (loaded a diferent game), says MAME .261 (ILP32), Revision: 7d5e2708. Retroarch "information" says the same - MAME (.261 (7d5e2708).

Do I maybe need to update from source instead of binary? For any other newly-added systems/games so long as the .2XX number has matched it has worked for whatever was listed as newly-working so long as I updated to the current binary.

Folly

@bbilford83

Ok your version seems correct.
No need to update.
I would always install from binary.

Can you post me the runcommand of mame-basename from the emulators.cfg ?

BTW :
Noticed that I never tried lr-mess so I have to try later.

bbilford83

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

Can you post me the runcommand of mame-basename from the emulators.cfg ?

Of course, here you go:

mame-videoart-basename = "/opt/retropie/emulators/mame/mame -rompath /home/pi/RetroPie/BIOS/mame;/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/videoart -v -c -ui_active -statename videoart/%BASENAME% videoart %BASENAME% -view %BASENAME%"

Folly

@bbilford83

I don't see strange things in your runcommand.
Tested everything ok with mame and lr-mess with cart and basename.
Will think about it, have to work now.
So we will proceed later.

bbilford83

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

@bbilford83

I don't see strange things in your runcommand.
Tested everything ok with mame and lr-mess with cart and basename.
Will think about it, have to work now.
So we will proceed later.

Thanks, no rush. I was going to try a different romset but given the error in the runcommand it seems like it is probably not that either.

ladba1975

I have tried to run PMD-85 emulator on PI4, as shown in tutorial https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/32045/tesla-pmd-85-computer-in-retropie/23

However, it doesn't work: It is not possible to run "RetroPie-Setup" from emulationstation (to update scripts) after downloading the module-script file.

Previous I have successfully installed it on PI3.
Should the same steps work on PI4?

mitu

@ladba1975 I merged your topic to the one from where the scripts originated.

Folly

@ladba1975 said in Development of module-script generator for lr-mess, lr-mame and mame standalone:

I have tried to run PMD-85 emulator on PI4, as shown in tutorial https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/32045/tesla-pmd-85-computer-in-retropie/23

However, it doesn't work: It is not possible to run "RetroPie-Setup" from emulationstation (to update scripts) after downloading the module-script file.
Previous I have successfully installed it on PI3.
Should the same steps work on PI4?

It looks like you have tried to downloaded an old module-script and it probably has the wrong or no content.
This can happen with a curl command when you don't have a good internet connection.
If an empty .sh file is in the RetroPie-Setup then the RetroPie-Setup will refuse to work.
Check where you have saved the add-systems-mamedev.sh file and remove it.
The file should still be on github and working however that script is deprecated.
I would suggest to check my first post and add the new mamedev.sh script.

Folly

@bbilford83 said in Development of module-script generator for lr-mess, lr-mame and mame standalone:

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

@bbilford83

I don't see strange things in your runcommand.
Tested everything ok with mame and lr-mess with cart and basename.
Will think about it, have to work now.
So we will proceed later.

Thanks, no rush. I was going to try a different romset but given the error in the runcommand it seems like it is probably not that either.

Just tested on both mame standalone and lr-mess on rpi4 with original binaries.
Mame standalone works and lr-mess doesn't work.
So It's very likely that the driver videoart isn't correctly added to the non-arcade subtarget list of the source-code of lr-mess.
Probably why videoart doesn't work.
Can you check mame standalone again, I think it should work.
Here is the mess subtarget list in the source code :
https://github.com/libretro/mame/blob/master/src/mame/mess.flt
Can't find videoart it is clearly missing (misc/videoart.cpp) :

/opt/retropie/emulators/mame/mame -listsource videoart
videoart         misc/videoart.cpp

(above is the command to find the source of the driver)

I will check if other pure lr-mess binaries have the same issue.

The reason it worked for me on my x86_64 VM is that I use a full lr-mame/lr-mess binary from the libretro buildbot so all drivers are in there just like with mame standalone.

bbilford83

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

Can you check mame standalone again, I think it should work.

I did but it still boots out to emulationstation right away. Here's what the runcommand says.

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Folly

@bbilford83

You should share your runcommand.log differently, use your gdrive .
Or use pastebin.com and make sure you burn it after a while.
(you can re-use your old post)

Have you added this bios too ? :
ef9365.zip