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

[bbilford83]

@Folly Thank you very much for jumping in, doesn't seem as straightforward as I would hope. But I didn't know about the Interton VC4000 before and since that has a mame software list I may try to get that working and add a gamelist to my shared gdrive folder. Seems much more straightforward control-wise too.

[Folly]

@bbilford83

Indeed, good choice to begin with !

[TPR]

@Folly I've been searching around trying to find the answer, but figured you'd be a good one to ask... if I'm wanting to try to get CD-I up and running on a Pi 5 build, where is a good place to start now?

I haven't seen anyone mention this in a while and I'm not sure how outdated some of the previous information is.

[Folly]

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

@Folly I've been searching around trying to find the answer, but figured you'd be a good one to ask... if I'm wanting to try to get CD-I up and running on a Pi 5 build, where is a good place to start now?

I haven't seen anyone mention this in a while and I'm not sure how outdated some of the previous information is.

You can use my script and install cdimono1.
3 patches are installed to get it working like it should.
Info is displayed so you can read what they do.
However there is no guarantee it will work for you.

Second option is to use the module-script lr-same_cdi.
The module script is here now (removed it from my repository):
https://github.com/Exarkuniv/RetroPie-Extra/tree/master/scriptmodules/libretrocores
lr-samecdi is a patched lr-mess with only the cdimono1 driver compiled.
It has been a while since I used that, so not sure if it will work better than regular mame and lr-mess

Can you tell me know what works best ?

[TPR]

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

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

@Folly I've been searching around trying to find the answer, but figured you'd be a good one to ask... if I'm wanting to try to get CD-I up and running on a Pi 5 build, where is a good place to start now?

I haven't seen anyone mention this in a while and I'm not sure how outdated some of the previous information is.

You can use my script and install cdimono1.
3 patches are installed to get it working like it should.
Info is displayed so you can read what they do.
However there is no guarantee it will work for you.

Second option is to use the module-script lr-same_cdi.
The module script is here now (removed it from my repository):
https://github.com/Exarkuniv/RetroPie-Extra/tree/master/scriptmodules/libretrocores
lr-samecdi is a patched lr-mess with only the cdimono1 driver compiled.
It has been a while since I used that, so not sure if it will work better than regular mame and lr-mess

Can you tell me know what works best ?

I will give the lr-samecdi a try first. That one I can wrap my head around easily.

I'm not exactly sure what I need to install with your script exactly. There's a LOT to go through in this topic and it was a little much for me, not gonna lie.

[TPR]

@Folly So looks like lr-same_cdi works pretty well and pretty easily. I assume still no way to get the digital video games running? Aside from that initial tests seem pretty positive!

[Folly]

@TPR

Thanks for the info.
Indeed, digital video games do not work.

[TPR]

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

@TPR

Thanks for the info.
Indeed, digital video games do not work.

Then I would say the lr-samecdi script is a success! Thank you!

[TPR]

@Folly I have found one game that seems to have a scrambled screen:

Adventures of the Space Ship Beagle. Not sure if it's just not emulated well, but I tried two different roms and the same results. This one doesn't require the digital video adapter but I'm going to guess it just isn't emulated in MESS properly?

[Folly]

@TPR

I can't find that game in the cdi.xml hash table so your probably right that it will not work correctly.

Edit :
Just tried it too and it didn't work on mame 0.266.
I think it could be an NTSC-J issue something is described over here :
https://retrostuff.org/2020/01/11/philips-cdi470-pal-ntsc-modification/

[TPR]

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

@TPR

I can't find that game in the cdi.xml hash table so your probably right that it will not work correctly.

Edit :
Just tried it too and it didn't work on mame 0.266.
I think it could be an NTSC-J issue something is described over here :
https://retrostuff.org/2020/01/11/philips-cdi470-pal-ntsc-modification/

Yep, must be it... I just tested "AIUEO" which is another Japan exclusive and it did the same thing.

So far in my testing, all US and EU non-digital video required roms do seem to work perfectly. Also, I added .cue to the es_systems and cue/bin files seem to load up just fine. Not sure if that's something that helps you out or not, but so far I've tested .chd and .cue/bin to work fine.

However I did notice that .cue/bin files in a .zip file do not seem to load.

[Folly]

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

Yep, must be it... I just tested "AIUEO" which is another Japan exclusive and it did the same thing.

I tested "Anniversary - Yuki Saito (Japan)" and does work with a small glitch so I am not yet convinced if it is an NTSC issue.

[TPR]

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

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

Yep, must be it... I just tested "AIUEO" which is another Japan exclusive and it did the same thing.

I tested "Anniversary - Yuki Saito (Japan)" and does work with a small glitch so I am not yet convinced if it is an NTSC issue.

If you figure out any solution for those Japanese games, please let me know! I'll keep trying things on my end too.