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

[TPR]

@Folly @DTEAM Working on getting BBC Micro Installed and so far a lot of games work perfectly fine, for example:

But trying some more graphics intensive games the screen gets scrambled and starts to flicker:


(Top game is Ransom or King's Ransom, bottom game is Elite)

I've installed both the BBC Micro B and BBC Micro B +128 and get the same results for both.

Any idea what graphics card or expansion I might need to put into one of the internal slots in MAME or if there is another settings I should be using?

Note that I've tried just about every dip switch combo I could try.

[Folly]

@TPR

Not sure either what should be done to get it working.
I will have a look at "elite" when I can.

Although I must say this discussion has been on the forum before.
As far as I know mame isn't the best bbc micro emulator but for RetroPie it's the best available.

I have made some module-scripts with alternative emulators but sadly newer gcc will not compile these older packages anymore, if you run a newer OS.

Alternative forums, to find answers, are :
https://stardot.org.uk/
or
https://forums.bannister.org/ubbthreads.php?ubb=postlist&Board=1

[Folly]

@TPR

Tried elite and elitea from bbcb_flop.
Saw these graphic glitches also.
Mame warns for "graphic issues".
I think there is noting you can do about it.

[DTEAM]

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

@DTEAM

I came up with a few drivers,
I filtered the database on :

• non-arcade (grep non-)
• multigame (grep multigame)
• not all_in1 (grep -v all_in1)

Full command to test the drivers one by one :
cat /opt/retropie/emulators/mame/mame0271_systems_sorted_info |grep non-|grep multigame|grep -v all_in1|cut -d " " -f2|while read driver;do /opt/retropie/emulators/mame/mame -ui_active $driver;done

Found that next drivers seem to work ok and could potentially be added to the list all_in1 :
cham24
smssgame
smssgamea
vgtablet

What do you think ?

P.s.
Added marc101 to all_in1.ini and 271/272 database.

All systems are for arcade games excepted vgtablet

New edit: vgtablet has been added to "All in one" gamelist.xml

[Folly]

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

cham24
smssgame
smssgamea

My database states that these system drivers are non-arcade and the don't use a coin to play.
Besides "Sega Master Systems" on itself, isn't arcade either.

If these are really arcade, as you stated, then my database isn't correct and has to be improved somehow.

Where did you find the info of these being arcade ?
Can you share your source ?

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I have added vgtablet to the database 271/272 and ini file.

[DTEAM]

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

cham24
smssgame
smssgamea

For cham24, here's where I got my info. [site 1] (https://bootleggames.fandom.com/wiki/Chameleon_24) , site 2 (at the bottom in the history section) .
Maybe it's a token-free home arcade. If yes, it could be in the list, but it's not easy to know.
It's a "pay for time" arcade like PlayChoice10. See here

For smssgame and smssgamea, see site 1 (at the bottom in the history section and also the picture where we can see the game time credits)
They put those games in "bootleg" but they are Arcade "multi games" bootlegs. Maybe they put those games in the wrong category. I don't think they are token-free home arcades.

[Folly]

@DTEAM

Thanks for the info.
Indeed if they are arcade then we should not add them.

Will have a second look at these drivers if I can find the proper info about coin/pay usage in the driver xml info.
Then I can, possibly, split arcade and non-arcade better in the future.

[Folly]

@DTEAM

For cham24 and smssgame I tried to find coin/pay/time info but there is nothing to be found inside the xml driver info.
There is also no coin input key inside the input settings.

If these drivers are really arcade then the mame drivers and driver infos are incomplete for these drivers.

Seems they just work without "paying" but that could mean that this is the incompleteness which is also a reason not to add them to all_in1.

For now I will keep them in the non-arcade section as I can't properly detect whether they are arcade or not.

[TPR]

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

@TPR

Tried elite and elitea from bbcb_flop.
Saw these graphic glitches also.
Mame warns for "graphic issues".
I think there is noting you can do about it.

Gotcha. If I end up coming up with some sort of solution or work around I'll post it!

[DTEAM]

@Folly

MAME 0.274 is release

Many new games (JAKKS, and more)

[Folly]

@DTEAM

Great !, Indeed I saw some stuff on the bannister forum.
Will have a look if I can update this month if the time allows.

[Folly]

@DTEAM

The mame 274 binary has been added to the gdrive.

I added the new 274 ini files.
Can you check these here ?

[DTEAM]

@Folly

Here's the list (0.274):

The others from your list are Arcades, Slot machines or other.

[Folly]

@DTEAM

Thanks for checking and adding some that are not automatically found by my script.

I have committed the ones for all_in1 here.
For classich I did the same here.
For classich I will try to add automatic detection for the new ones later.
I believe :

• your list misses tama and trclchick
• epo_tetris must be epo_tetr
  Right ?

Can you check a second time ?
After that I think we are good to go and use the inis for updating the database.

[DTEAM]

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

The mame 274 binary has been added to the gdrive.

I added the new 274 ini files.
Can you check these here ?

It works well

[DTEAM]

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

@DTEAM

Thanks for checking and adding some that are not automatically found by my script.

I have committed the ones for all_in1 here.
For classich I did the same here.
For classich I will try to add automatic detection for the new ones later.
I believe :

your list misses tama and trclchick

tama is there (last one) and yes trclchick (classich) is missing , thanks

epo_tetris must be epo_tetr
Right ?

Yes

Can you check a second time ?
After that I think we are good to go and use the inis for updating the database.

[Folly]

@DTEAM

Thanks.
Seems we have all our new data for 274.
I will wait for the new data from progettosnaps and then create the new database.

[Folly]

Read this post.
Looks like many systems will work much better now on arm with mame 274.

[duglor]

@Folly EXCELLENT!

[Folly]

Here is the commit for the drivers that, most likely, will benefit from the arm dynarec improvement :
https://github.com/FollyMaddy/RetroPie-Share/commit/d3b18e080a9182e6aaf48cf06b53278c4d5a95b7

Btw.
Rumours, on the internet, are that arm64 will do a better job than intel64, we will see !