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    Creating ES gamelists with media for MAME/lr-mame/lr-mess

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    • FollyF
      Folly @jamrom2
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      @jamrom2

      Do you have a github account ?

      Then you can fork my "media repository" and add your files to that.
      Just keep your gamelist.xml the same and add the ti99_4a directory to your fork just like my videopac directory and place the pictures in ti99_4a/media/emulationstation.

      I can then look at the files and convert the gamelist.xml to the correct locations.

      If you have more that 100 files then can't add them all at once, then you have to add them in 2 or 3 steps.

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      • jamrom2J
        jamrom2 @Folly
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        @folly I don't. I'm not as tech savy as that... lol.

        I'm better off emailing you each set one at a time if you want to do that instead.

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        • FollyF
          Folly @jamrom2
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          @jamrom2

          That would be ok, but email has probably a limit in how big the attachment can be.
          Probably about 50Mb.
          So if you stay below that limit we are probably ok.

          On the other hand I searched for a reasonably good website that we can use to share these files.
          It looks like this website is a good alternative :
          https://ufile.io/
          Just zip your files to 1 file and share the link.
          I did a test with videopac gamelis+media files :
          https://ufile.io/tutqgnwc

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          • jamrom2J
            jamrom2 @Folly
            last edited by

            @folly Ok. All done.

            https://ufile.io/f/9qjlu

            Dragon64
            Ti99_4a
            classich (Classic Handhelds)
            Coco2
            Coco3

            Are all uploaded. Bare in mind that many of the graphics I made I took from all kinds of sources like eBay, MobyGames, Launchbox, RetroGamer... etc... on and on. And some I actually made myself using parts of images I had to cobble together as there were no complete box/manual/screen images available.

            It was a ton of work and does not cover ALL games of ALL systems...just many that I hand picked based on "top 100" lists for each system.

            I hope they come in handy for you and others!

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            • FollyF
              Folly @jamrom2
              last edited by

              @jamrom2

              Link is working good !

              Already seen some nice picture :-)

              Will have better look later on.

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              • FollyF
                Folly @DTEAM
                last edited by

                @DTEAM

                Shall we also make some gamelists for megaplay and playchoice10 ?

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                • DTEAMD
                  DTEAM @Folly
                  last edited by

                  It's already covered by site like Screenscraper and others with MAME system

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                  • FollyF
                    Folly @DTEAM
                    last edited by Folly

                    @DTEAM

                    Off-course, I will try ;-)

                    Edit :
                    Well I tried in emulationstation, but it only works if I have the files in the arcade folder.
                    Screenscraper doesn't add a picture to it.
                    The gamesDB doesn't recognise correctly.

                    Scraping isn't really a nice solution, if you ask me.

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                    • DTEAMD
                      DTEAM @Folly
                      last edited by

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

                      Screenscraper doesn't add a picture to it.

                      It works with screenscraper. You have to add a system and customize the rom path in SKRAPER

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                      • duglorD
                        duglor @DTEAM
                        last edited by

                        @DTEAM @Folly and how do you do this? what do you actually type? etc?

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                        • duglorD
                          duglor @Folly
                          last edited by

                          @Folly @DTEAM @testudo Does the Mess-Archimedes work now with .adf (not the amiga type) files such as Hamsters? I have not been able to find a bios file or files that have made it run. :(

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                          • FollyF
                            Folly @duglor
                            last edited by

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

                            @DTEAM @Folly and how do you do this? what do you actually type? etc?

                            These are examples on how to create gamelists.xml's manually together with media we put them in the ~/RetroPie/roms/<your_system> folder.
                            These above gamelists overrule the standard gamelists, that are created when scraping and saved in the /opt/retropie/configs/all/emulationstation/gamelists/<your_system> folder .

                            Just use a text editor to edit a gamelist.xml.

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                            • testudoT
                              testudo @duglor
                              last edited by testudo

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

                              @Folly @DTEAM @testudo Does the Mess-Archimedes work now with .adf (not the amiga type) files such as Hamsters? I have not been able to find a bios file or files that have made it run. :(

                              @duglor
                              All of my Archimedes roms are in .adf format. I can run Hamsters .adf file under the mame-aa440-bios_310-4Mb-flop emulator option.

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                              • duglorD
                                duglor @testudo
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                                @testudo said in Creating ES gamelists with media for MAME/lr-mess:

                                mame-aa440-bios_310-4Mb-flop emulator optio
                                @folly

                                Ok. and How do you run the emulator using that option? Is that something you create yourself like a batch file? Is it something you type into the screen before you click on the little disk icon? Is it something that you choose in retroarch? I think once i can run the emulator with that option, i'll be fine. Right now i can click on the disks but only 2 games have worked so far :) the others bring up i/o files and errors and such. Be well all!

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                                • FollyF
                                  Folly @duglor
                                  last edited by Folly

                                  @duglor

                                  No problem discussing a bit of topic but we reserved this thread for discussing "Creating gamelists" only.

                                  If you make use of the "add-system-mamedev.sh" 3rd party module-script then you can discuss elsewhere,
                                  over how to install the system archimedes and how to run games for a paricular system :
                                  https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/29682/development-of-module-script-generator-for-lr-mess-lr-mame-and-mame-standalone

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                                  • duglorD
                                    duglor @testudo
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                                    @testudo Btw, is that the demo or full version of Hamsters? I think the demo is 800 kb and the full version is 1600 kb.

                                    -Doug

                                    I have the demo working fine. Full version is not happy.

                                    Great job on the emulator!!

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                                    • duglorD
                                      duglor @duglor
                                      last edited by duglor

                                      Anyone create an ES gamelist with box covers or screenshots for the Acorn Archimedes that can be imported into one's archimedes directory?

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                                      • kiroK
                                        kiro @duglor
                                        last edited by

                                        @duglor have you tried the scraper I told you about?

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                                        • testudoT
                                          testudo @duglor
                                          last edited by testudo

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

                                          Anyone create an ES gamelist with box covers or screenshots for the Acorn Archimedes that can be imported into one's archimedes directory?

                                          Here's what I made for my library. You are welcome to use any you like.

                                          Cleaned up Gamelist and added additional ROMs and Images.

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                                          • duglorD
                                            duglor @testudo
                                            last edited by

                                            @testudo Hey, Thanks for sharing!!!
                                            I hope cds and hard drive directories can be used by the Archimedes Emu one day!!

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