Are Mattel Electronics Hand-Held games supported yet?
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I've been adding more and more titles to my build now that MESS/MAME is so easy to work with thanks to the new script Folly created.
So I added the Game & Watch set... which has Dungeons & Dragons, Sub Chase and Armor Battle. And of course that got me thinking... are games like Football II, Baseball, Basketball I & II and Hockey supported? Are there even ROM dumps?
How about other Coleco games... Electronic QB, Head-to-Head games... Entex... etc.
Thanks!
JamR
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Perhaps an idea to search through the mame database which I have extracted from mame for use in my script :
https://github.com/FollyMaddy/RetroPie-Share/blob/main/00-databases-00/mame/mame0234_systems
I checked for you, it looks like Football II, Baseball, Basketball I & II and Hockey for "G&W" aren't in the database, so not supported.This is the output for Mattel, checking in the above file (they could be handhelds indeed) :
pi@raspberrypi:~/Desktop/RetroPie-Share-main/00-databases-00/mame $ grep -r "Mattel" mame0234_systems:Driver mattelcs (Mattel Classic Sports): mame0234_systems:Driver mbaskb (Basketball (Mattel)): mame0234_systems:Driver mchess (Computer Chess (Mattel)): mame0234_systems:Driver mfootb2 (Football 2 (Mattel)): mame0234_systems:Driver mhockey (Hockey (Mattel)): mame0234_systems:Driver msoccer (Soccer (Mattel)): mame0234_systems:Driver msthawk (Star Hawk (Mattel)):When they are in the list then roms should be available.
You can also search inside the hash tables, for example :
/opt/retropie/emulators/mame/hash
Or online :
https://github.com/mamedev/mame/tree/master/hashUsing the terminal, this is how you find information inside text files within subdirectories :
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ cd /opt/retropie/emulators/mame/hash pi@raspberrypi:/opt/retropie/emulators/mame/hash $ grep -r "Armor Battle" intv.xml: <description>Armor Battle</description> intv.hsi: <hash crc32="6f91fbc1" name="Armor Battle (Mattel)">After that just open that file in a text editor and find what you are looking for.
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We haven't added Mattel handhelds separately in the script.
But looking at it now, if we can find them and be able to run them then we should add them in the handheld section. -
The Mattel ones are available in
mame-0.231-merged.Just pasted them in the
konamihto test , here are some pictures of basketball, hockey, chess, soccer, football2 and hawk :
(Not perfectly tested, but they seem to work)
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Thanks for all this! I appreciate it not being just a "no" and brush off. Some great info here.
I look forward to the day they are supported. Would be great to have them as well, especially for someone running a PiZero on the new Retroflag handheld.
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Well they are supported as you see, but for now just paste them in the game&watch or konamih game rom directory.
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@jamrom2 said in Are Mattel Electronics Hand-Held games supported yet?:
Thanks for all this! I appreciate it not being just a "no" and brush off. Some great info here.
I look forward to the day they are supported. Would be great to have them as well, especially for someone running a PiZero on the new Retroflag handheld.
You can try on the PiZero but I think it will not work perfectly.
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@folly got it working on my Pi3b+. A little choppy in the sound, but it works. Great to see all those classics in my game list now.
Thanks a bunch!
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Nice to hear that it's working ;-)
I added themattelhto the scripts.Commits :
https://github.com/FollyMaddy/RetroPie-Share/commit/692e2f9bbd9ea60dcde52b427875671732eafd6c
https://github.com/FollyMaddy/RetroPie-Share/commit/b966da2bef9b8f6de883c9c76555bb5dd2ebd315EDIT: I removed Mattel from the scripts as it will conflict with the Classic Handheld.
For now, Mattel handhelds should be placed underclassich -
Seems I added Mattel to early, discussing it further over here :
Edit : removed it again see post 9
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