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

DTEAM

@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

duglor

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

duglor

@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. :(

Folly

@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.

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.

duglor

@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!

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

duglor

@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!!

duglor

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

kiro

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

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.

duglor

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

testudo

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

@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!!

I did come across a full version. It is out there, but does not run on MAME. I tested it using Arculator and it runs great.

testudo

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DTEAM

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

@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.
Added Zarch and Quazer to Gamelist and Images

@testudo @Folly Thanks Testudo! Do you want that on my Goolge Drive for the project?

Folly

@DTEAM

Perhaps you have already noticed.
I am testing and helping to improve this retroscraper script :
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/32226/soft-new-scraper-in-the-works

It has been improved very much the last week.
@kiro added also the possibility to scan unknown systems, so now our unknown categories can also be scanned.

I will keep in your/our pre-made konamih, tigerh gamelists in the script, because they are really nice and complete.

There are a more things that need to be added to the retroscraper but I am very pleased with it.

If somehow a module-script can be made for installing the retroscraper I want to try and implement this solution into the add-systems-mamedev.sh.
Then a system can be scraped without making pre-made gamelists with media.

I think this is the route we have to take for the future.
What do you think ?

kiro

@Folly I'm actually working on creating a module to install retroscraper via retropie-setup :-)

Next, I was thinking maybe check the images you have in your setup and use them in the scraper, so at the end, these lists could be created automatically by retroscraper. Let's see how it works out.

Folly

@kiro

Yes I noticed that you are busy with making a module-scrip.
Good thing, then I don't have to implement the install procedure in my script but just redirect to it and once installed people can select systems on which to scrape on.

Sharing media, to improve the script, sounds very cool !

DTEAM

@Folly @testudo

archimedes gamelist is now on my Google Drive ready to download with your script. Does I have to add more systems. I am less frequently on the forum.

BTW, I saw Arduboy Handheld here . @Folly Did you ever try It? Does it fit in "All in one" category or it should have his own?

Folly

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

@Folly @testudo
archimedes gamelist is now on my Google Drive ready to download with your script. Does I have to add more systems. I am less frequently on the forum.

That's ok for now.
But for archimedes I prefer the scraper in the future.
Have a look over here, created by the scraper :
Where can I scrape Archimedes game pix and info?

BTW, I saw Arduboy Handheld here . @Folly Did you ever try It? Does it fit in "All in one" category or it should have his own?

I made the module-script and it's now also on RetroPie-Extra.
I tested some games but the resolution is quite low.
To make it look better I added an lcd shader but it has some ghost effect and on a pi it seems a bit slow.
Perhaps some other shader will prove to be better.
I think it should have it's own category.
There are, more than 200 games in the arduboy collection.
In there is also media and info files which can be used for making a gamelist.
I added a quick and dirty gamelist creation script for the arduboycollection here :
https://github.com/FollyMaddy/RetroPie-Share/tree/main/00-scripts-00

How come you are less frequent on the forum ?
Busy with other stuff ?