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

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      Folly @DTEAM
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      @dteam

      You should use the scroll-lock key to toggle between FULL and PARTIAL emulation.
      With PARTIAL the UI should be enabled.

      If this doesn't work we have to look further.

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        Folly
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        @RussellB

        I added your edited code to my repository.
        I also added it to my standalone scripts :
        generate-systems-lr-mess_mame-1v8-alpha.sh
        generate-systems-lr-mess_mame-2v0-alpha.sh
        When running above script, the run_mess.sh script is always updated by the script.

        https://github.com/FollyMaddy/RetroPie-Share/tree/main/00-scriptmodules-00

        This shows the difference betweem the original and yours :
        https://github.com/FollyMaddy/RetroPie-Share/commit/5f915ca6d2e05f3ff6f0dc7fe6b8ff21ca1d6677

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          Folly
          last edited by

          @DTEAM @RussellB

          I did one test.
          Can you both do some tests too ?

          I like to know if it still works ok.

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            DTEAM @Folly
            last edited by

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

            @dteam
            You should use the scroll-lock key to toggle between FULL and PARTIAL emulation.
            With PARTIAL the UI should be enabled.
            If this doesn't work we have to look further.

            Fixed. It was a simple problem with my default.cfg file in /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/mame/cfg
            Not a real issue

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              Folly @DTEAM
              last edited by

              @dteam

              Indeed, I was thinking you knew about the scroll-lock part ,so indeed it had to be something else.
              Nice to have that one fixed !

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                DTEAM @Folly
                last edited by DTEAM

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

                I did one test.
                Can you both do some tests too ?
                I like to know if it still works ok.

                Nothing happens for me. Is It supposed to generate a .cmd (per game) file in /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/cdimono1 when we load a game?

                It works

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                  Folly @DTEAM
                  last edited by Folly

                  @DTEAM

                  Nice to hear it works !
                  I think @RussellB will test it with some bezels, don't you think too ?

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                    Folly
                    last edited by Folly

                    For those who are reading these posts and really don't know what the run_mess.sh does :

                    The run_mess.sh makes a temporary <game>.cmd file to start the game with lr-mess and adds all the necessary things in this .cmd file to start the game correctly .
                    The original version of run_mess.sh always made the same <game>.cmd named tmpmess.cmd .
                    After you have played the game, this tmpmess.cmd file is removed again.

                    The edited version of run_mess.sh now makes the <game>.cmd named after the game.
                    That way it's unique per rom/game.
                    This allows us to specify custom configs, including bezels and screen locations, etc. per rom/game that wasn't possible with the original run_mess.sh.

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                      DTEAM @Folly
                      last edited by DTEAM

                      @folly
                      SOLVED : For Coleco_sgm, I'm trying set scroll-lock automaticly when we the system load.

                      Any idea you need -ui_active

                      mame-system-adam-cart1-autoframeskip = "/opt/retropie/emulators/mame/mame -v -c -autoframeskip adam -ui_active -cart1 %ROM%"
                      
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                        Folly @DTEAM
                        last edited by Folly

                        @dteam

                        I tried this :

                        mame-system-adam-cart1-ui = "/opt/retropie/emulators/mame/mame -v -c adam -uimodekey TAB -cart1 %ROM%"
                        

                        Now the TAB works as (SCRLOCK + UI) button at the same time.
                        Seems quite nice, you preserve FULL keyboard emulation until TAB is pressed.

                        Edit :
                        I will try that -ui_active too.
                        OK, that works too, nice finding !

                        It looks like you boot in PARTIAL keyboard emulation.
                        Don't know if that could be a problem.

                        We should do some more tests.
                        This would be nice function to add, it could make things much simpler..

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                          DTEAM @Folly
                          last edited by

                          @folly
                          It works also for Lr-Mess .

                          lr-mess-system-adam-cart1 = "/home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/scriptmodules/run_mess.sh /opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch/bin/retroarch /opt/retropie/libretrocores/lr-mess/mess_libretro.so /opt/retropie/configs/coleco_sgm/retroarch.cfg \adam /home/pi/RetroPie/BIOS/mame -autoframeskip -ui_active -cart1 %ROM%"
                          
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                            DTEAM
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                            @folly said in Development of module-script generator for lr-mess and mame standalone:

                            Could be nice to add one of these functions.

                            Absolutely

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                              Folly @DTEAM
                              last edited by Folly

                              @dteam

                              Great to hear that this also works on lr-mess !
                              Did you try "-uimodekey TAB" too ?
                              What do you think?

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                                DTEAM @Folly
                                last edited by DTEAM

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

                                Great to hear that this also works on lr-mess !
                                Did you try "-uimodekey TAB" too ?
                                What do you think?

                                It changes Scroll lock for TAB. Same problem if you don't have a keyboard.

                                -ui_active is the best option for me. I don't see problems. Most of the time, It's already activated.

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                                  RussellB @Folly
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                                  @folly I've tested this with mess running tic-80 games, Sega VMS, and CD-i and each game gets its own config file. I had config files already from the bezelproject for CD-i and they immediately came up as it was no longer reading tmpmess.cmd. Looks good from my testing.

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                                    Folly @DTEAM
                                    last edited by 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:

                                    Great to hear that this also works on lr-mess !
                                    Did you try "-uimodekey TAB" too ?
                                    What do you think?

                                    It changes Scroll lock for TAB. Same problem if you don't have a keyboard.

                                    -ui_active is the best option for me. I don't see problems. Most of the time, It's already activated.

                                    Ok, good to know.

                                    I think it's in our best interest not to make separate lines for that.
                                    I would want to add -ui_active to the normal lines, I think that's the best option, for now.

                                    I also want to remove the separate line mame-system-xxxxxxx-autoframeskip= .
                                    Using 1 string we can add all options to both mame and lr-mess :

                                    mamedevcfgoptions="-v -c -autoframeskip -ui_active"
                                    

                                    This way, I only have to edit above line and we reduce some starter lines making it a bit simpler.
                                    Good idea ?

                                    If we run into problems we can always revert it.

                                    BTW.
                                    Don't know if we should add this to the CMD and BASENAME lines, we could get into trouble, agreed ?

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                                      Folly @RussellB
                                      last edited by Folly

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

                                      @folly I've tested this with mess running tic-80 games, Sega VMS, and CD-i and each game gets its own config file. I had config files already from the bezelproject for CD-i and they immediately came up as it was no longer reading tmpmess.cmd. Looks good from my testing.

                                      Super, very nice what you made 👍

                                      Thanks for testing.
                                      I will add this information to the first^post .
                                      You should upvote your own idea in post 1, then we improve our ranking.

                                      😉

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                                        DTEAM @Folly
                                        last edited by DTEAM

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

                                        Ok, good to know.
                                        I think it's in our best interest not to make separate lines for that.
                                        I would want to add -ui_active to the normal lines, I think that's the best option, for now.
                                        I also want to remove the separate line mame-system-xxxxxxx-autoframeskip= .
                                        Using 1 string we can add all options to both mame and lr-mess :
                                        mamedevcfgoptions="-v -c -autoframeskip -ui_active"

                                        This way, I only have to edit above line and we reduce some starter lines making it a bit simpler.
                                        Good idea ?
                                        If we run into problems we can always revert it.
                                        BTW.
                                        Don't know if we should add this to the CMD and BASENAME lines, we could get into trouble, agreed ?

                                        For -ui_active I agree, but for -autoframeskip, be aware that it slowed down some systems a bit with lr-mess and MAME, but most of the time it is beneficial.

                                        So, yes, I agree with your approach.

                                        mamedevcfgoptions="-v -c -autoframeskip -ui_active"
                                        

                                        It's simpler for the user and he can always set buttons to set frameskip option if needed.

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                                          Folly @DTEAM
                                          last edited by Folly

                                          @dteam

                                          I have had a few hours re-thinking it.
                                          Now I think it's better to do small steps, so I didn't add that much.
                                          Editing the files, it struck me, that the "string" isn't that handy after all, so I have removed it.
                                          That way the options are right in the lines where they suppose to be and the scripts have less lines.
                                          I left the mame-xxxx-autoframeskip line in there, I think you have a point, when you say it doesn't always help that it is on. So I kept both lines.
                                          With lr-mess we already had -autoframeskip in the standard line, so I left it there.

                                          https://github.com/FollyMaddy/RetroPie-Share/commit/1843471347f30fe102b3690bb0652d1af77240e4

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                                            Folly @RussellB
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                                            @russellb

                                            Would you like to help more, in improving the scripts ?

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