Development of module-script generator for lr-mess, lr-mame and mame standalone
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@Folly do you know if there's art out anywhere yet for the Double Dragon II and Mighty Max Tiger Handhelds? I found two .zips for mame with the background art and a layout file, but no scans of the handhelds themselves to use as images for the gamelists. I could've sworn there was a thread on another forum where they had art before even the games were on MAME, but I can't seem to find it now...
Edit: I dug up the following two. Double Dragon II is perfect but the Mighty Max one is low-res and I had to edit it myself to make it have a transparent backdrop, so if anyone finds a better one for that it would be nice.
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I'm waiting the tddragon2 artworks from here
Only Mighty Max is newly available (see here) . Here is my artwork for the gamelist
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@DTEAM thank you!
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@bbilford83 said in Development of module-script generator for lr-mess, lr-mame and mame standalone:
@DTEAM thank you!
I updated my gamelist. It's fully done for Mighty Max but partially done for Double Dragon 2. I'm waiting for the Artworks previously mentionned.
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@DTEAM the background for double dragon 2 is it available anywhere ?
also are you able to move your fighter left and right on the screen?
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@bbilford83 I made this PNG for the unit of Double Dragon II
I hope this helps at least with the unit image. @DTEAMThis one has a background of screen added perhaps good for gamelist image - https://mega.nz/file/ifgkXTAC#3BeabWHEIEiA31rhzPvlOBnqTfmJAMQo34jDSv-_lew
PNG blank screen area- https://mega.nz/file/zbpGxBDQ#3BeabWHEIEiA31rhzPvlOBnqTfmJAMQo34jDSv-_lew
green screen - https://mega.nz/file/bGozGKjI#ZA24MMrtEuLYawLP0gpk20ZmLHWGVeVNfryr3d6wq-A -
@Retrodade apologies for the delay, I am actually traveling for fun with my family to Japan for 2 weeks so I don't have access to my raspberry pi setup. I should have shared it before but I did find the background image as part of a zip with one of those .lay files so that it worked in standalone MAME. Obviously the PNG could still be used with a standard overlay setup for Retroarch, but I was using standalone anyway since @Folly had uploaded the binary for it with tweaks.
If I find anymore of those Q&Q game and watch clones on my trip I'll buy them and share pictures! Planning to visit a lot of retro/flea market places.
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@bbilford83 nice! enjoy ...ok great good to know the background is available at least, no rush to get it, in the meantime enjoy your trip and the hunt of whatever gems you may find!!
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@bbilford83 said in Development of module-script generator for lr-mess, lr-mame and mame standalone:
I am actually traveling for fun with my family to Japan for 2 weeks
Have good trip !
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Created an artworkfile for gameking.
Can you add it to your drive ?
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@Folly
Done! thanks for your artwork file.I tested it... Great. Nice work
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Created one for gameking3 too.
Same place.Btw.
Stumbled upon a problem with creating the artwork.
It is not that obvious but you need picture resolutions that have "even" numbers, otherwise you get tearing lines instead of a good picture.
Took me a while to find this.Will place it in the first post.
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@Folly
I uploaded it on my Gdrive. thanks!
If you find boxes images for gameking3. Let me know svp. -
D DTEAM referenced this topic on
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@Retrodade I am back from Japan (sadly) and here is the background image I used for Double Dragon:
Hope it helps!
I'm sure nobody needs me to share that Japan is insane for retrogaming finds, but it was much crazier than I expected, and sadly I couldn't bring anything real back home because of our packing situation. Super Potato was as amazing as everyone says, but really the gold mine is the secondhand stores in less touristed areas. These pics are from a Book Off Super Bazaar in Nagoya. Everything is "untested" but in my experience from buying watches the success rate is insanely high compared to America, and they may already be confirmed working by the seller even when they say otherwise (I've bought watches described as "junk" that were literally unused in their boxes with papers).
That's about $6 USD. They had at least 5 other examples, one was boxed with all cords and stuff and was about $12 but I forgot to take pictures.
Not all that vintage but if you have hacked a wii u in the past few years you know that under $24 USD for one with the gamepad is nuts.
And on the games side, I didn't bother noting the prices but these were absolutely dirt cheap, like a few dollars each.
Those red, blue, and green bins are dozens if not hundreds of loose Famicom, Super Famicom, and N64 games.
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Amazing story about Japan, really unbelievable ;-)
You probably didn't have time enough to see it all, right !
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@Folly that was really the only place I went other than Super Potato, which is very famous for retrogaming specifically. Honestly during the trip I went looking for watches more than for video game stuff, because I don't own any retro consoles so there was nothing really small enough for me to bring back with me. I didn't end up getting anything really except some wildly overpriced Yamazaki whisky for my father- and brother-in-law. We stumbled onto a really neat actual flea market we didn't even know about when we went to Odawara Castle (which wasn't even a planned stop - long story there), and the consistent quality of what people were selling was just mindblowing compared to the junk I'd find at a similar event in America.
Anyway, Book Off is a big chain there for secondhand stuff, with other similarly/awkwardly named ones that have different focuses - the weirdest-named, "Hard Off," has more of a physical-goods focus. But the Book Off "Super Bazaar" ones are just insanely huge, like a giant swap meet/thrift store (think Goodwill or Salvation Army in America), except all the stuff is well-organized and generally in perfect condition. There weren't any watches I wanted at that store (though several tempted me), but the retrogame stuff selection has probably 1/4 the stock of Super Potato at a teeny fraction of the cost.
Honestly I think Nagoya was probably far better for those kinds of things than other major cities... it doesn't get many tourists (I found lots of stuff on the city on the hilariously-named "www.nagoyaisnotboring.com"), but has the third-highest population in Japan, so I think their stock wasn't "picked over" by Westerners the way it would be in Tokyo or Osaka. We were only there for one night as a stopover point because my wife and daughter really liked the idea of going to a little suburb there called Arimatsu that is the historical and current epicenter of "Shibori," the ancient art of Japanese tie-dying. There's a teeny museum dedicated to it where for very little money (I think about $12 per person) you can be taught by one of several octogenarian women how to do it yourself on a small hand towel and then they ship it back to your home country when it's done. Honestly it's not something I would've chosen myself but it was super neat and relaxing and after 10+ days of walking a million miles up a million stairs at temples/shrines with throngs of fellow tourists it was one of the highlights of the trip. But we had nothing else really to do there and it was near the end of our vacation so I didn't feel like a jerk sneaking off. I actually brought my daughter while my wife packed and she left with a few Pokémon cards so she was thrilled :).
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Always nice to read about the differences between countries.
And good to hear you all had a great time.I know about to swap meet stuff in America so I can imagine the differences you talk about.
I have family over there, so I have been in California in 2000.
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@bbilford83 oh wow its like retro heaven wow
and thanks for the background! , too bad ya didn't pack me and the wife in your suitcase LOL looks like a wonderful hunt! -
@bbilford83 added the background to DD2 last night works, thanks again
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