coliver33 Posted November 3 Author Share Posted November 3 @sundogak Well here's the good news -- I reverted back to %romfile%, removed that second space from the pathname, and it's working. So I guess for future ref, LB can handle things like spaces, (, ), etc. in the path -- but just can't handle 2 spaces. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coliver33 Posted November 4 Author Share Posted November 4 (edited) @sundogak Curious if you've been able to get any softlists working for the Atom other than the floppies. I have the floppies working, but it seems like for whatever reason the cassette list (atom_cass) games won't load -- even when I physically play the "tape" from within MAME and try to load them... Edited November 4 by coliver33 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sundogak Posted November 4 Share Posted November 4 (edited) 57 minutes ago, coliver33 said: @sundogak Curious if you've been able to get any softlists working for the Atom other than the floppies. I have the floppies working, but it seems like for whatever reason the cassette list (atom_cass) games won't load -- even when I physically play the "tape" from within MAME and try to load them... Atom cassettes are not supported by MAME at this point. You can look at the HASH directory and look at the atom.xml and says "<software name="GAME NAME" supported="no">" in entries in the list. Also can use this site: http://adb.arcadeitalia.net/dettaglio_mess.php?software_name=backgamm&software_list=atom_cass&search_id=2 Also this thread is useful for cass usage (MAME standalone not RA): Edited November 4 by sundogak 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ci2own Posted November 4 Share Posted November 4 Here you can check the "fully" working machines: https://mame.spludlow.co.uk/WorkingMachines/SoftwareListRom.aspx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coliver33 Posted November 4 Author Share Posted November 4 NICE @ci2own! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ci2own Posted November 4 Share Posted November 4 36 minutes ago, coliver33 said: NICE @ci2own! This document can also be very useful if you plan to add more software lists systems. MAME Software List Instructions.txt Search by platform. For example "Amstrad CPC", or by machine "cpc664". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coliver33 Posted November 5 Author Share Posted November 5 @ci2own @sundogak -- One platform missing from the MAME SW List Instructions.txt file above is the Aamber Pegasus -- which loads just fine for me in the MAME RA core, but does not load from LB via: -f "pegasus -cart \"%romfile%\"" When I load within the core i'm presented with a BIOS selection menu, but can't see which -bios command line option to specify to pick one. Wanted to see if either of you have managed to get this platform to load from LB. Looks like this one is just a bit of an outlier... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeViking245 Posted November 5 Share Posted November 5 16 minutes ago, coliver33 said: @ci2own @sundogak -- One platform missing from the MAME SW List Instructions.txt file above is the Aamber Pegasus -- which loads just fine for me in the MAME RA core, but does not load from LB via: -f "pegasus -cart \"%romfile%\"" When I load within the core i'm presented with a BIOS selection menu, but can't see which -bios command line option to specify to pick one. Wanted to see if either of you have managed to get this platform to load from LB. Looks like this one is just a bit of an outlier... Try removing -f from the parameters. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coliver33 Posted November 5 Author Share Posted November 5 @JoeViking245 No dice, same issue -- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ci2own Posted November 5 Share Posted November 5 42 minutes ago, coliver33 said: @JoeViking245 No dice, same issue -- You have to difference between the next two possibilities: 1) You add the command in the "Emulator Settings". @JoeViking245 "-f" before command-line parameters works here without any problem for me. 2) You add the command in the "game settings", doesn't matter if you edit one by one, or if you use bulk command-line editor, you would need to add -L "cores\mame_libretro.dll" (Don't use "-f" modifier here). See the next example: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coliver33 Posted November 5 Author Share Posted November 5 @ci2own -rom1 did it for Pegasus. Frustrating part is, I checked the .xml for pegasus_cart and assumed -cart. How were you able to figure out that it was -rom1? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeViking245 Posted November 5 Share Posted November 5 Sometimes a picture says it all. 1 hour ago, coliver33 said: -f "pegasus -cart \"%romfile%\"" Try using -rom1 like @ci2own shows instead of -cart. Amber Pegasus only has the media options for -rom1, -rom2, -rom3, -rom4, -rom5 and -cass. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ci2own Posted November 5 Share Posted November 5 4 minutes ago, coliver33 said: @ci2own -rom1 did it for Pegasus. Frustrating part is, I checked the .xml for pegasus_cart and assumed -cart. How were you able to figure out that it was -rom1? If you open a command-line terminal in windows, and go to the MAME emulator folder (where you have mame.exe), and you type: mame.exe -showusage you will get a ton of possible modifiers you can use. (I attach you the output in a .txt file son you don't need to do it)MAME Usage.txt One of the modifiers you can use is: -listmedia. Using the pegasus example, if you type: mame.exe pegasus -listmedia, you will get this useful info: So you can use this modifier with other devices. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coliver33 Posted November 5 Author Share Posted November 5 BRAVO -- this 100% helps!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ci2own Posted November 5 Share Posted November 5 8 hours ago, coliver33 said: BRAVO -- this 100% helps!! To achieve 5 stars rating , you can also go to https://www.progettosnaps.net/support/ , download messinfo.dat and sysinfo.dat and place them to your MAME/dats/ folder. After that, run a computer, pres TAB to enter to MAME Menu, and go to External DAT View. Go to Sysinfo tab (Press right key for that), and you'll see the usage for the running computer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coliver33 Posted Sunday at 12:48 PM Author Share Posted Sunday at 12:48 PM @ci2own So now I'm to the point where I have bunches of the swlist platforms working. Next step is to now try to automate things via autoboot commands. I wanted to see if you have any general guidance on how to pass those autoboot parameters from LB -- and if you happen to have any resources that show typical autoboot commands for the various platforms. Let me know and thank you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeViking245 Posted Sunday at 01:21 PM Share Posted Sunday at 01:21 PM 29 minutes ago, coliver33 said: @ci2own So now I'm to the point where I have bunches of the swlist platforms working. Next step is to now try to automate things via autoboot commands. I wanted to see if you have any general guidance on how to pass those autoboot parameters from LB -- and if you happen to have any resources that show typical autoboot commands for the various platforms. Let me know and thank you! Or if you're feeling adventurous, you can get MAME to do it (almost) all for you via lua scripts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ci2own Posted Monday at 01:23 PM Share Posted Monday at 01:23 PM On 11/10/2024 at 1:48 PM, coliver33 said: @ci2own So now I'm to the point where I have bunches of the swlist platforms working. Next step is to now try to automate things via autoboot commands. I wanted to see if you have any general guidance on how to pass those autoboot parameters from LB -- and if you happen to have any resources that show typical autoboot commands for the various platforms. Let me know and thank you! After a lot of testing with autoboot, i choose not to use it in my setup. In a lot of systems, you need different commands depending on the game, and also you need to play tape until ends, to type the next command. And autoboot doesn't allow this. What i'm doing now, is to add notes to the bezels, so i know how to proceed on each situation Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coliver33 Posted Monday at 02:33 PM Author Share Posted Monday at 02:33 PM @ci2own curious which software you use to annotate those bezels Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coliver33 Posted Monday at 02:35 PM Author Share Posted Monday at 02:35 PM Also - for the electron I assume you had to create separate LB platforms for floppy and cassette? How did you map things in BigBox for electron? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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