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

Folly

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

nes datach

Perhaps I will try and implement this in the 2v2 version.
I already have done some work on 2v2.
There are many thing I want to change or add in this version.

Also adding just lines for specific systems.
Problem, for now, is that the if functions are at the moment coming inside the generated module-scripts.
I want these if functions outside the generated module-scripts. Perhaps I can find a way.
This can be done in a similar way for nes detach, I think.

Perhaps nes detach will work on lr-mess with my discovered lr-mess direct line.
Maybe I will have some time to test that.

We will have to see how it goes.

edit:
The mame lines work for me too.
Tested some experimental lr-mess direct lines, not working right now.

Folly

@dteam

I got it working with lr-mess.

The trick was, it has to find the hash tables !
Otherwise it won't work.

I had a look in the the original lr-mess module-script.
Hash tables for lr-mess have to be in /home/pi/RetroPie/BIOS/mame/hash/*.xml.
It seems lr-mess looks for them in that directory.
I created a link from : /opt/retropie/emulators/mame/hash
Copying will also work, I think.

Then I used a direct lr-mess line, which I plan to add in 2v2.

This is the modified one for nes_detach :
lr-mess_nes_datach = "/opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch/bin/retroarch --config /opt/retropie/configs/nes/retroarch.cfg -v -L /opt/retropie/libretrocores/lr-mess/mess_libretro.so 'nes datach -cart2 %ROM%'"

DTEAM

@folly
To play those games (Datach) you must enter barcodes. If you go in UI Mame menu in Barcode Reader. Go in "new barcode" . Enter the code with your keyboard and after, go down to "Enter Code" and press enter or B button. Your barcode will be activated.

Folly

@dteam

Ok, that worked in lr-mess.

Seems we have to do a lot of translation with RetroArch if we want to play.
I have already add that in 2v2.
The generated module-script will add it if it's not there.

Still, I have to work on the naming of the runcommandlines, though.
I had improved it a bit, but I am not satisfied and I have an issue because if the name in emulators.cfg doesn't begin with lr- the required dev/shm/retroarch.cfg for the libretro-core is not loaded.
So I have to take a second look at that.

Folly

Like datach there seems to be also a :

ade
kstudio
ntbrom

Tried a few things, but can't get it running.

DTEAM

@folly
i'm working on a gamelist.xml for Datach

DTEAM

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

@folly
i'm working on a gamelist.xml for Datach

@hhtien1408 @Folly

here's the new gamelist.xml with media for Datach

It's better than I thought. Don't be fooled by the quality of my photos. It's better than they appear

Folly

@DTEAM

Really nice gamelist !

Using the name "nes_datach" is really appropriate, but I am not so sure how to implement this into the script.

I have been trying to extract some info about "nes_datach".
Not sure if I can use this in the script, but with this command I can extract these :

/opt/retropie/emulators/mame/mame -listfull | grep slot | grep nes
nes_cart_slot     "NES Cartridge Slot"
nes_ntb_slot      "NES NTB Cartridge Slot"
nes_ade_slot      "NES Aladdin Deck Enhancer Cartridge Slot"
nes_datach_slot   "NES Datach Cartridge Slot"
nes_ks_slot       "NES Karaoke Studio Expansion Slot"

nes_cart_slot -> normal cartridge slot
nes_ks_slot -> not a cartridge but an expansion slot
( not really sure how to add some slots, because we have different types and names ! )

With this command we can list all slots of all systems, perhaps we can find something interesting with this :

/opt/retropie/emulators/mame/mame -listfull | grep slot

We can also use this plain command or using it with adding a system :

/opt/retropie/emulators/mame/mame -listslots

This link shows some examples with Amstrad cpc6128 :
https://wiki.mamedev.org/index.php/Driver:Amstrad

Here they show how to add an extension, but with nes -exp wasn't recognised.

Just like the -listmedia option, using this :

/opt/retropie/emulators/mame/mame -listslots nes

Will reveal that you can use the -nes_slot option. ( I don't know what parameter to add, though )

Well I stop for now with the information.
It's nice knowing, a bit, how this structure works.

hhtien1408

@dteam Fucking awesome. Thanks for your sharing images and video scraped for gamelist!
Which theme can I apply for? Carbon?
Could you send me system theme and loading screen for Datach? If possible, the whole theme you are using? I am very impressed by your theme!

hhtien1408

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

@folly
To play those games (Datach) you must enter barcodes. If you go in UI Mame menu in Barcode Reader. Go in "new barcode" . Enter the code with your keyboard and after, go down to "Enter Code" and press enter or B button. Your barcode will be activated.

For your reference about Datach Barcodes for Dragon Ball and other games in this system
https://retrostuff.org/2014/02/14/bandai-datach-barcodes-for-mess/
For other Datach games, scroll down to the end (Related posts)
https://mamedev.emulab.it/etabeta/2014/02/12/barcode-scanning/

hhtien1408

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

@dteam

Ok, that worked in lr-mess.

Seems we have to do a lot of translation with RetroArch if we want to play.
I have already add that in 2v2.
The generated module-script will add it if it's not there.

Still, I have to work on the naming of the runcommandlines, though.
I had improved it a bit, but I am not satisfied and I have an issue because if the name in emulators.cfg doesn't begin with lr- the required dev/shm/retroarch.cfg for the libretro-core is not loaded.
So I have to take a second look at that.

English translation rom? Where to download? Or you use IPS patch?

Folly

@hhtien1408 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:

@dteam

Ok, that worked in lr-mess.

Seems we have to do a lot of translation with RetroArch if we want to play.
I have already add that in 2v2.
The generated module-script will add it if it's not there.

Still, I have to work on the naming of the runcommandlines, though.
I had improved it a bit, but I am not satisfied and I have an issue because if the name in emulators.cfg doesn't begin with lr- the required dev/shm/retroarch.cfg for the libretro-core is not loaded.
So I have to take a second look at that.

English translation rom? Where to download? Or you use IPS patch?

All info is in this thread, you should use this post :
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/28461/translate-games-on-the-fly/10
Add the lines to your /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg

If a libretro-core is used you can press the hotkey "t" and things will be translated on the fly.
Press again and, if all goes well, you can play further.
For security, you could make a saving before translating if that's possible.

Edit :
Read from here to use the joystick to translate the picture :
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/28461/translate-games-on-the-fly/25

Folly

@hhtien1408 said in Development of module-script generator for lr-mess and mame standalone:

@dteam Fucking awesome. Thanks for your sharing images and video scraped for gamelist!
Which theme can I apply for? Carbon?
Could you send me system theme and loading screen for Datach? If possible, the whole theme you are using? I am very impressed by your theme!

You can manually download those here :
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1f_jXMG0XMBdyOOBpz8CHM6AFj9vC1R6m
You can place them in :
~/RetroPie/roms/nes_datach/gamelist.xml
~/RetroPie/roms/nes_datach/media.................etc

DTEAM

@hhtien1408 said in Development of module-script generator for lr-mess and mame standalone:

Which theme can I apply for? Carbon?

You can use my cygnus_modified theme and copy & paste my es_systems.cfg in your /opt/retropie/configs/all/emulationstation folder

see:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1bfuYF7Ij_dhNc9b8bVCS6I22XiEmP7rv

For Carbon, you must add a logo by your own

hhtien1408

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

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1bfuYF7Ij_dhNc9b8bVCS6I22XiEmP7rv

Thanks a lot!

DTEAM

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

Will reveal that you can use the -nes_slot option. ( I don't know what parameter to add, though )

Is It the same thing for MSX?

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:

Will reveal that you can use the -nes_slot option. ( I don't know what parameter to add, though )

Is It the same thing for MSX?

It seems to work.
For moonsound I added the yrw801.rom from openmsx to msx_moonsound.zip so it loaded the second time.
Option -centronics seems to work also.

I hope you see the picture here. ;-)

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ /opt/retropie/emulators/mame/mame -listslots hbf700p
SYSTEM           SLOT NAME        SLOT OPTIONS     SLOT DEVICE NAME
---------------- ---------------- ---------------- ----------------------------
hbf700p          centronics       ap2000           Epson ActionPrinter 2000
                                  chessmec         The ChessMachine EC
                                  covox            Covox Speech Thing
                                  covox_stereo     Covox (Stereo-in-1)
                                  ex800            Epson EX-800
                                  lx800            Epson LX-800
                                  lx810l           Espon LX-810L
                                  p72              NEC PinWriter P72
                                  pl80             COMX PL-80
                                  printer          Centronics Printer
                                  samdac           SAMDAC

                 cartslot1        bm_012           MSX Cartridge - BM-012
                                  moonsound        MSX Cartridge - MoonSound

                 cartslot2        bm_012           MSX Cartridge - BM-012
                                  moonsound        MSX Cartridge - MoonSound

                 fdc:0            35dd             3.5" double density floppy drive
                                  35ssdd           3.5" single-sided double density floppy drive

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ /opt/retropie/emulators/mame/mame hbf700p -cartslot1 moonsound
yrw801.rom NOT FOUND (tried in msx_moonsound hbf700p)
Fatal error: Required files are missing, the machine cannot be run.
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ /opt/retropie/emulators/mame/mame hbf700p -cartslot1 moonsound #ok after adding the rom !
Average speed: 94.10% (59 seconds)
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ /opt/retropie/emulators/mame/mame hbf700p -cartslot1 bm_012   
midi_v1.00.u4 NOT FOUND (tried in msx_cart_bm_012 hbf700p)
Fatal error: Required files are missing, the machine cannot be run.
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ /opt/retropie/emulators/mame/mame hbf700p -centronics chessmec
74s288.1 NOT FOUND (tried in chessmachine hbf700p)
74s288.2 NOT FOUND (tried in chessmachine hbf700p)
74s288.3 NOT FOUND (tried in chessmachine hbf700p)
74s288.4 NOT FOUND (tried in chessmachine hbf700p)
Fatal error: Required files are missing, the machine cannot be run.

I tried to load moonsound also with the option -cartridge1because I wanted to know if the options are the same thing :

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ /opt/retropie/emulators/mame/mame hbf700p -cart1 moonsound
.
.
Fatal error: Device MSX Cartridge slot load (-cartridge1 moonsound) failed: File not found

So option -cartridge1/-cart1 isn't the same as -cartslot1 !

Folly

@DTEAM

Picture from the File Manager section :

Picture from the Slot Devices section :

hhtien1408

Super Acan Magazine
https://archive.org/details/acan-special-issue/page/84/mode/2up

NeoGeo CD Magazine
https://archive.org/details/013-neo-geo-cd

JimmyFromTheBay

Chaps, absolutely massive kudos on all this. I'm beyond thrilled to be able to play stuff like CD-i (Hotel Mario at last!) and Super Cassette Vision on my Pi, not to mention all the systems I was running in AdvMESS on my Pi3 which now don't work on the Pi4 but have been rescued by all these wonderful lr-mess forks.

(I'm currently working myself up to the daunting-looking task of setting up konamih and tigerh handhelds. The tutorial is tangling my brain.)

A quick couple of pleas for stuff that's currently got me stumped:

(1) Any chance of adding a coco3 fork? As far as I can tell nothing emulates it on the 4, and it's got a few cool games - it was the original home of Donkey Kong Remix.

(2) I can't for the life of me figure out what BIOS files lr-mess-archimedes wants. The current MAME ROMset has nothing called "archimedes.zip" in it and I've got various things with "risc" in their names in my BIOS folder but I still get the dreaded Box With Blurry Word In The Middle Crash. Any clues?

(3) Quite a few systems (most notably coco and dragon32, for me) are currently sort-of functional, which is to say that everything appears to work and games load, but then don't run properly. (eg The King/Donkey King, which keeps looping back to the menus when you try to choose the difficulty.)

I imagine this is a problem with lr-mess itself rather than the system-specific forks, but if lr-mess gets updated to fix it will we have to install all the individual systems again?