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General Discussion & Help / Re: MAME/MESS XML and include files
« on: December 14, 2021, 12:50:41 PM »
Greetings:

I managed to create all include files I needed, so I share them here.
They are from MAME 0.238.

Regards.

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General Discussion & Help / Re: RetroFE Version 0.8.14 Menu Issue
« on: December 14, 2021, 12:48:59 PM »
Greetings:

Here's the mentioned file.
I found a way to edit it myself.

Regards.

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General Discussion & Help / Re: RetroFE Version 0.8.14 Menu Issue
« on: December 07, 2021, 11:01:43 PM »
Quote from: Pieter Hulshoff on December 01, 2021, 09:54:16 PM
Looks like I made some errors in the update of the theme file. Try this one.

Hello Pieter.
Good evening.

Yesterday I finished updating both cabinets.
But because my resolution in them is 1024x768 RetroFE uses the "layout 4x3.xml".
I made a copy of the xml you shared and renamed it to "layout 4x3" provisionally.
Can you modify the "layout 4x3" xml too, please?.

Thanks in advance. ;)

Regards. :)

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General Discussion & Help / Re: MAME/MESS XML and include files
« on: December 02, 2021, 12:12:35 PM »
Quote from: Pieter Hulshoff on December 02, 2021, 05:45:15 AM
I used to have scripts that did that for me, but I had to do the last set by hand. I might have forgotten to generate that set.

No problem, Pieter.
I'll try to generate them through the MAME Genre XMLs.

Thanks a lot for all your help ;).

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General Discussion & Help / Re: MAME/MESS XML and include files
« on: December 02, 2021, 12:40:28 AM »
Good evening.

I was about to update the "include.txt" files for MAME 0.236 but all the genre lists inside "RetroFE Include MAME 0.236" are blank.

I noticed there's a genre folder under the MAME 0.236 directory with xml files.

Maybe the lists can be generated from them?.

Regards and thanks ;).

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General Discussion & Help / Re: RetroFE Version 0.8.14 Menu Issue
« on: December 01, 2021, 10:01:59 PM »
Quote from: Pieter Hulshoff on December 01, 2021, 09:54:16 PM
Looks like I made some errors in the update of the theme file. Try this one.

Thanks a million, Pieter.
That solved it ;).

Have a nice evening :).

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General Discussion & Help / Re: RetroFE Version 0.8.14 Menu Issue
« on: December 01, 2021, 06:55:26 PM »
Hello, Pieter:

I attach two pictures, in the top left margin the system name was shown, along with the manufacturer or the year. Now I only see the manufacturer, but not the system name nor the year.

-----EDIT-----
I have a related question. I have 4 Sega Genesis emulators and 3 NES ones...in the past I created a separate collection for each emulator, because I must change the launcher in its settings.conf. Would it be possible to have all the emulators inside the same collection menu in RetroFE?.

Edit, nevermind I managed to do it ;). Sorry for adding an extra question.
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Thanks in advance ;).

Regards :)

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General Discussion & Help / Re: RetroFE Version 0.8.14 Menu Issue
« on: November 30, 2021, 09:16:55 PM »
Hello, how are you?.

I couldn't find any info in the forum. System name (For example "Genesis") is not shown in neither in 0.10.21 or 0.10.26.
In its place the name of the manufacturer is shown in a very little font.
With 0.8.14 the name of the system's folder was shown in a big font.
Maybe I need to add an extra file or edit a *.conf file?.
Another issue is that the system videos skip a few seconds from the start.

So far I managed to migrate all my collections, only issues are the ones mentioned.

About the "collectionInputClear = true" setting it was already present in all my setups.

Regards ;).

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General Discussion & Help / Re: RetroFE Version 0.8.14 Menu Issue
« on: November 29, 2021, 10:44:07 PM »
Quote from: Pieter Hulshoff on November 29, 2021, 10:28:59 PM
I'm not sure when I added the feature, but you could try setting
collectionInputClear = true
in your global settings.conf file. That might solve your control issues. The input code was recently rewritten though, so an update to the latest version might be worth it. You'd need the latest full version, and replace the retrofe.exe with the one from this post: http://retrofe.nl/SMF/index.php?topic=7.msg4621#msg4621

With regards to your screenshots not showing up: I presume these are fall backs for the videos? If so, in which directory are your screenshots located?

Thank you very much for your reply, Pieter ;).
My screenshots are in the "screenshot" folder inside the "medium_artwork" directory.
I replaced the version 0.10.21 exe with the one you shared and now they are shown perfectly fine ;).
I will update both systems with this version soon.

Thanks a lot for your help.

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General Discussion & Help / RetroFE Version 0.8.14 Menu Issue
« on: November 29, 2021, 08:17:58 PM »
Greetings:

I have two cabinets with RetroFE Version 0.8.14.
The screen is a 29" CRT connected to a video card through a GBS 8100 VGA to RGB converter.
Resolution is 1024x768.
Actually I upgraded the controls for two USB zero delay chinese boards (trying to solve the issue), one for each player (cabinets are for two players).
(I had two hacked gamepads originally in each of the cabinets wired to my controls, and the issue happened with them also).
I'm using the default layout Aeon Nox.
I have Windows 10 with its latest updates.
I use Xpadder v2015.01.01 to map some joystick buttons to keyboard keys for some emulators.

In one of the cabinets I have an issue with RetroFE:
Sometimes when I want to select a system in the layout, RetroFE enters and exit that system, in a loop.
Sometimes if select a system it launchs the first game on that list automatically.
Sometimes it will scroll non stop.

If I press and hold some buttons it changes the behaviour or might switch to another of the mentioned loops. Sometimes this fixes the issue. Sometimes it fixes if I hold the button mapped to the "Exit" function.

If I exit RetroFE with the "Q" key and reload it, most of the times the problem solves itself.

I checked several times under "Devices.." in Windows control panel and the joysticks directions and buttons work fine, no button is self pressed.

I recently updated both cabinets Windows (last time I ran Windows Update was 5 months ago) in hopes to solve the issue.
But it still happens.

Because of this issue, (it only happens in one cab, the other is fine), I tried playing with RetroFE Version 0.10.21 on my main computer. (Windows 10 with latest updates also).
Just a quick test to start migrating from 0.8.14. So I tried to do a small Sega Genesis collection, but for some reason my png screenshots are never shown in the Genesis menu.
I tried changing the format to bmp and jpg. I tried with less compression (I use Irfanview). These screenshots have 320x240 resolution.
Videos seem to work fine (tried the default Zero Tolerance included). But screenshots are never shown and all my collections have png screenshots, being MAME the only exception where I have videos.

I have read that Windows had updated its SDL libraries and that might cause some issues with RetroFE. Maybe that is causing this issue?.

I'll really appreciate any help or guidance.

Regards ;).

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General Discussion & Help / Re: MAME/MESS XML and include files
« on: October 03, 2021, 05:52:32 PM »
Thank you very much, Pieter ;).

I will download them right now.

Regards ^_^.

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General Discussion & Help / Re: MAME/MESS XML and include files
« on: August 18, 2021, 05:52:05 PM »
Quote from: Pieter Hulshoff on August 16, 2021, 10:20:53 PM
Not really to be honest. I lost quite a lot of files in a HD crash, and with the few arcade games being added these days I have trouble motivating myself to go through all the work involved in getting everything up and running again.

I understand, Pieter.

Thank you for your quick reply.

Regards. ;)

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General Discussion & Help / Re: MAME/MESS XML and include files
« on: August 16, 2021, 06:04:30 PM »
Hello, how are you?.

I have a question: last avalaible MAME XML and include is 0.221. Current MAME version is 0.234.
More than a year has passed.
Is there any plans to release a new XML and include pack?.

Thanks in advance.

Have a nice week.

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General Discussion & Help / Re: MAME/MESS XML and include files
« on: February 13, 2020, 07:45:06 PM »
Quote from: Pieter Hulshoff on February 13, 2020, 07:08:34 PM
No, sorry. The include files are created by a Linux script that extracts the name field from each xml file. Perhaps I should expand my program to output that as well.

No problem, Pieter. Thanks again.
It would be great to have the program with full capability.
I'll follow your advice and use the latest version avalaible at that time.
Have a nice weekend.
Regards ;).

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General Discussion & Help / Re: MAME/MESS XML and include files
« on: February 12, 2020, 04:57:48 PM »
Quote from: Pieter Hulshoff on February 12, 2020, 04:36:48 PM
The .cpp file is a C++ code file. You need to compile it in order to get an executable that you can run. If you've never done that before, it might be a bit tricky. I generate these files twice a year now, and the last version of the XML is usually pretty compatible with the latest version of MAME; there's not a lot of changes in the arcade department these days.

Thanks a lot, Pieter ;).

So if I compile the cpp file will I be able to generate the "include.txt" files?.

I understand, if the last version of the xmls will be compatible maybe I'll just wait for next release when I'll update Mame again.

Just wanted to know how to generate the xmls and include.txt files because I'm a bit meticulous :P.

Regards.

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