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      Retrodade @Folly
      last edited by

      @Folly yes that's fine
      I'm ok with that
      usually since I do them alone, I do "short cuts" to finish, while it's an improvement over having nothing, I do understand there is room for improvements for sure
      and just so you know if you choose not to add that is ok by me too and yes what you stated makes sense.

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        Folly @Retrodade
        last edited by Folly

        @Retrodade

        Sharing others, later, is fine by me but I have to restrict it a bit otherwise it will be too much working on them all together you see ;-)

        If I have the time I will begin with m5.

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          Folly @Retrodade
          last edited by Folly

          @Retrodade

          I checked the m5 and I see that the games in the game-list are from the m5_cart.zip.
          It's probably the best to do only these cart games as they are "plug and play" without entering commands.

          Though there are quite some games missing, seems only 1/3 of the games are in the game-list.
          Have you tried to scrape all games from the m5_cart.zip ?

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            Folly @DTEAM
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            @DTEAM said in Creating ES gamelists with media for MAME/lr-mame/lr-mess:

            @Folly

            I finalized "classich". I have deleted some images because it was a handheld picture over a handheld video (artwork) and it was ugly.
            8 videos are missing :
            Chicky Woggy (Table Top)
            Donkey Kong Jr (Tabletop Coleco)
            Donkey Kong Jr (Tabletop Nintendo)
            Hippo Teeth (Sporty)---> missmatch video
            HotLine (Mini)
            HotLine (Sporty)
            Packri Monster
            Snoopy (Tabletop)

            I tried to make videos, however most .mgw games have a resolution that is not divisible by 2 for which recording is not supported by retroarch.
            Tried to alter resolutions but to no avail, it keeps crashing.
            Probably the reason why there are no videos for these games.
            Will have to think about recording it in an other way.

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              Retrodade @Folly
              last edited by

              @Folly the pack I found didn't have a lot you're saying there are more lol I'll have to maybe search more out; I think 3 I skipped as I couldn't get past loading to "play" but the scrapes and game list made by me there aren't scrapes for this system that I found

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              • FollyF
                Folly @Retrodade
                last edited by

                @Retrodade

                More info can be found here :https://github.com/mamedev/mame/blob/master/hash/m5_cart.xml

                Try the mame-sl set.

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                  Folly
                  last edited by Folly

                  @DTEAM

                  I found a way to make videos with sound from the missing madrigals.
                  I am doing it with OSX and the default capturing method, capturing video from a virtual machine running Debian with RetroPie.
                  Sound recording was not possible by default so I had to install "soundflower" with "brew".
                  Now I can redirect the output sound and record it together with the video.
                  Then converting it again with "ffmpeg" in linux.
                  Hopefully they will be ready this week.

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                    DTEAM @Folly
                    last edited by

                    @Folly
                    That's great, because I have a recording problem (recording speed) for new roms with Tiger and Konamih. You have already talked about a way to speed up MAME video recording with a parameter. I can't find the post that talked about it.

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                      Folly @DTEAM
                      last edited by Folly

                      @DTEAM

                      Yes, indeed I remember I also had speed problems recording video with mame.
                      Will have a look in the posts when I can.

                      Edit :
                      Here is the post :
                      https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/32188/creating-es-gamelists-with-media-for-mame-lr-mame-lr-mess/86

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                      • FollyF
                        Folly @DTEAM
                        last edited by

                        @DTEAM

                        I added the recorded videos here :
                        https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1JPIftFPVyUVslK_seNZmQNAKfQX_MwBW?usp=share_link
                        ( will remove link later !)

                        The packmon seems not working correctly or I have a bad rom.
                        So I did not add a video for that one.
                        What is your experience with this game, does it work for you ?

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                        • DTEAMD
                          DTEAM @Folly
                          last edited by

                          @Folly said in Creating ES gamelists with media for MAME/lr-mame/lr-mess:

                          @DTEAM

                          I added the recorded videos here :
                          https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1JPIftFPVyUVslK_seNZmQNAKfQX_MwBW?usp=share_link
                          ( will remove link later !)

                          The packmon seems not working correctly or I have a bad rom.
                          So I did not add a video for that one.
                          What is your experience with this game, does it work for you ?

                          Hi, I have convert your videos in mp4 format, but they don't want load in Retropie. Can you do a quick test on your side? I can't explain why.

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                            Folly @DTEAM
                            last edited by Folly

                            @DTEAM

                            Seems to be quite a pain in the ass to make these videos ;-)

                            I checked and had the same problem, not playing in emulationstation.
                            In VLC, on the pi4, I get video but the seconds, of the parts that are cut-out, are also displayed (not played/shown though).
                            With VLC on my VM I didn't have this problem.

                            Only difference VS good working videos is this codec info :
                            Codec: H264 - MPEG-4 AVC (part 10) (H264)
                            Decoded format : Planar 4:2:0 YUV
                            instead of :
                            Codec: H264 - MPEG-4 AVC (part 10) (avc1)
                            Decoded format

                            edit :
                            I have re-encoded "Chicky Woggy (Tabletop).mp4" from the original recording on my pi4 and I have placed it on my google-drive.
                            Codec information is now :
                            Codec: H264 - MPEG-4 AVC (part 10) (avc1)
                            Decoded format : Planar 4:2:0 YUV
                            So it seems the default encoding is different on the pi4 !

                            I have uploaded all to google-drive including the originals.
                            I hope they will work now.

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                              DTEAM @Folly
                              last edited by DTEAM

                              @Folly
                              I already did the update for Tigerh and Konamih but not uploaded them yet , i'm waiting for MAME 0.251 version before complete videos for some roms.

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                                DTEAM @Folly
                                last edited by DTEAM

                                @Folly said in Creating ES gamelists with media for MAME/lr-mame/lr-mess:

                                @DTEAM
                                I found a solution here :https://forums.bannister.org/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=118963&Searchpage=1&Main=9230&Words=aviwrite+&Search=true#Post118963
                                use -snapview native to record without artwork
                                or
                                use -snapsize 800x600 to record with artwork at lower resolution so speed is at an acceptable level.

                                Also, for Tigerh, with -snapview Background -nosnapbilinear in emulators.cfg it's faster to record and you get the handheld background view without the entire handheld .

                                Specifies the view to use when rendering snapshots and videos. The <viewname> does not need to be the full name of a view, MAME will choose the first view with a name that has the <viewname> as a prefix. For example -snapview "screen 0 pixel" will match the โ€œScreen 0 Pixel Aspect (10:7)โ€ view.

                                Example:

                                mame-basename-autoframeskip = "/opt/retropie/emulators/mame/mame -v -c -autoframeskip -snapview Background -nosnapbilinear -snapsize 640x480 tigerh %BASENAME%"  
                                

                                (for <view name="Background Only"> in default.lay (Tiger Handheld Artworks)

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                                  Folly @DTEAM
                                  last edited by

                                  @DTEAM

                                  Nice find.
                                  I have added your post in my summary.

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                                    DTEAM @Folly
                                    last edited by

                                    @Folly
                                    Most videos are 640x480 so i'll create them with -snapsize 640x480

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                                    • DTEAMD
                                      DTEAM @DTEAM
                                      last edited by DTEAM

                                      @Folly

                                      Those 3 new Konami handhelds are now on the konamih gamelist

                                      temp.PNG

                                      Special thanks to DarthMarino and HAP

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                                        DTEAM @DTEAM
                                        last edited by DTEAM

                                        @Folly @Retrodade
                                        the JAKKS gamelist is now updated to include those 5 working games. Some are Prototypes or Test version
                                        temp.PNG

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                                        • DTEAMD
                                          DTEAM @DTEAM
                                          last edited by

                                          @Folly
                                          3 new videos with background for classich
                                          Capture.PNG

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                                            DTEAM @DTEAM
                                            last edited by DTEAM

                                            @Folly
                                            I did a new gamelist.xml for gamepock (Game Pocket Computer) with videos and marquees. Great result!
                                            Capture.PNG

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