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

mitu

@dteam Not enough memory - MAME releases have varying requirements for compilation, see also https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/30898.

Folly

@mitu

Thanks.

Looking at your link we will need even more than 8gb swap.
Because I tried on RPI4 32 bit OS with 8Gb ram + 8GB swap which failed.

Will try again later.

dmmarti

I've been testing some more MESS based systems and I've updated the online Google sheet.

One of the new systems I've been testing are the older Macintosh Classic games.

Using the following system from the script generator:

maclc-flop

I found several *.dsk games for the old Macintosh computers and so far I've been having some success.

The MacOS boots up -- then autoloads the game *.dsk file. From there, just follow the onscreen prompts (make sure you have mouse enabled).

Been having some fun playing Centipede and Star Wars on this system. I have never used an older Macintosh computer and it's been fun finding some games for it.

I'm still testing the various different Mac systems to see which games require which system. For instance the game Thexder. The *.dsk I found doesn't work with maclc-flop so I need to test the other Macintosh variants to see which one supports the game.

Folly

@dmmarti

Great to hear you have some fun with the old mac's.
Can you post some pictures ?
That would be nice.

Folly

@dteam @mitu

I compiled mame0233 succesfully in 6 hours on the rpi4 with 8Gb with 32bit buster.
I increased the swap to rpSwap on 51200 in the mame module-script.
I booted the RPI4 with a big USB3.0 harddrive :

to have enough room for the swap
to have no wear and tear on sd cards
for speed

DTEAM

@folly
No success for me. I have a rpi4 with 4Gb and I had 9.25 Gb (free space) on my SD Card. I'll wait for the pre-compiled binary option.

DTEAM

@folly
Other systems to try : benesse pocket challenge MAME name: POCKCHAL

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Tiger Gizmondo : MAME name GIZMONDO

Zeebo (Brasil) : MAME name: ZEEBO
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Folly

@dteam

Haha

Yes great, we should do that !

Folly

@dteam

Perhaps I can upload the mame binary to zippyshare.
Interested ?

DTEAM

@folly

Perhaps I can upload the mame binary to zippyshare.

Interested ?

Yes

Folly

@dteam

The whole directory /opt/retropie/emulators/mame :
~~mame0233_RPI4_Buster_32bit~~
(File Life: 30 days after no activity.)

Edit :
No need to download anymore.
Retropie has updated the mame binary to 0233.

DTEAM

@folly
Option (line 11) doesn't work for me. Is it the same for you.
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Folly

@dteam

Do you use add-mamedev-systems-test6_temp.sh ?

DTEAM

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

@folly
Other systems to try :

Those systems doesn't work for me.

DTEAM

@folly
I got your last version from your link above : add-mamedev-systems.sh
I have used line 10 instead of line 11. Line 11 doesn't work for me when it's time to load systems by letters.

Folly

@dteam

Which link ?, be sure you use temp.
Did you remove other versions ?

No problem for me, I can select line 11.
Just installed those.

I picked it fresh from github, so it should work.

DTEAM

@folly
I’ll do another test

Folly

@dteam

I created an issue on github for mame.
https://github.com/mamedev/mame/issues/8274
Hopefully they can fix it.

Folly

@dteam

Any luck yet ?

DTEAM

@folly
Retropie added a precompiled MAME 0.233. So now it’s fine from binary