[SOLVED] 3.811 Gamelist and Daphne

[pinhead77]

Hello, i installed 3.811 (never tried another image) and i have two issues.

1) GAMELIST
I tried three times, formatted my SD and reimaged with clean .IMG, but the generated gamelist starts from letter F. No name for games with A,B,C,D,E: these games are playable, i'm able to start them but in their place on the list there's a blank space without name. So, i never know which game i am starting from A to E! I'm using only arcade roms.
(I expanded BOOT partition before copying games, could it be a problem?)

2) DAPHNE
I have the two Dragon's Lair and Space Ace, and I can start only Space Ace, for the reason above
Anyway, when i start it, i get a black screen and the game does not work.
On my PC and on another Raspberry with RetroPie the same games work, and i copied roms and framefiles from there.
Am i missing something? This is my setup on ArpiCade (you can see, it does not even create .DAT files)

https://www.dropbox.com/s/t8ai5v4fk1kcl ... e.jpg?dl=0

[dee2eR]

Well that's weird. I haven't heard of a gamelist issue like that before. Is that for all MAME emulators or are you only using some/one? When you say you expanded /boot what steps did you take? (if it's booting up I would imagine you did that all fine)

Not sure about Space Ace, everything in your picture looked all right but I have a different version of the game. If your copy runs on other Daphne versions it should be able to work. Not sure why it isn't.

[mR_CaESaR]

What does your gamelist look like?

Don't forget just because the rom is titled a particular way, it might be titled a different way when the romlist is generated.

[pinhead77]

Is that for all MAME emulators or are you only using some/one? When you say you expanded /boot what steps did you take? (if it's booting up I would imagine you did that all fine)

I'm using MAME078, FBA and Daphne. The list is "All games".

It's booting up fine: i cloned the linux partition at the end of the SD card (with EaseUS Partition Master), then i expanded BOOT partition

What does your gamelist look like?

I'm not able to take a picture because today i'm changing the CRT monitor. Anyway, it looks like that (see below)

[blank line]
[blank line]
[blank line]
[blank line]
[etc etc more blank lines down until the first game with letter F]
FINAL FIGHT
GALAGA
etc etc

Blank lines are selectable, i can scroll up and down, and i can succesfully start and play these games, but, without name, i never know which game i'm going to play.

[dee2eR]

If you can please post the file: /home/pi/.attract/romlists/allGames.txt it may have some clue as to what's going on.

[pinhead77]

If you can please post the file: /home/pi/.attract/romlists/allGames.txt it may have some clue as to what's going on.

Here it is


https://www.dropbox.com/s/xpqg32euv8awy ... s.txt?dl=0

[mR_CaESaR]

The section after Fatal Fury would be an issue as you have nothing listed after the first semi colon.

If you look at your "Fatal Fury" and "Fever SOS" you will see descriptive text after the first semi colon. If memory serves me right, this parameter is the text you will see in Attract Mode.

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fatfury3;Fatal Fury 3 - Road to the Final Victory / Garou Densetsu 3 - haruka-naru tatakai (NGM-069)(NGH-069);fba;;1995;SNK;;;;;;;;;;
fatfursp;Fatal Fury Special / Garou Densetsu Special (set 1)(NGM-058)(NGH-058);fba;;1993;SNK;;;;;;;;;;
1943mii;;fba;;;;;;;;;;;;;
androidp;;fba;;;;;;;;;;;;;
appoooh;;fba;;;;;;;;;;;;;
athena;;fba;;;;;;;;;;;;;
battlane;;fba;;;;;;;;;;;;;
bbusters;;fba;;;;;;;;;;;;;
bermudat;;fba;;;;;;;;;;;;;
boggy84;;fba;;;;;;;;;;;;;
brkthru;;fba;;;;;;;;;;;;;
btime;;fba;;;;;;;;;;;;;
cabal;;fba;;;;;;;;;;;;;
chopper;;fba;;;;;;;;;;;;;
chqflag;;fba;;;;;;;;;;;;;
crswd2bl;;fba;;;;;;;;;;;;;
deluxe5;;fba;;;;;;;;;;;;;
dleague;;fba;;;;;;;;;;;;;
dogfight;;fba;;;;;;;;;;;;;
drmicro;;fba;;;;;;;;;;;;;
gwar;;fba;;;;;;;;;;;;;
jrpacman;;fba;;;;;;;;;;;;;
locomotn;;fba;;;;;;;;;;;;;
marvins;;fba;;;;;;;;;;;;;
pengadvb;;fba;;;;;;;;;;;;;
pleiads;;fba;;;;;;;;;;;;;
pokonyan;;fba;;;;;;;;;;;;;
popflame;;fba;;;;;;;;;;;;;
psychos;;fba;;;;;;;;;;;;;
snowboar;;fba;;;;;;;;;;;;;
totc;;fba;;;;;;;;;;;;;
vangrd2;;fba;;;;;;;;;;;;;
victroad;;fba;;;;;;;;;;;;;
wingforc;;fba;;;;;;;;;;;;;
worldwar;;fba;;;;;;;;;;;;;
wwjgtin;;fba;;;;;;;;;;;;;
yamato;;fba;;;;;;;;;;;;;
zodiack;;fba;;;;;;;;;;;;;
feversos;Fever SOS (International, ver. 98/09/25);fba;;1998;Cave / Nihon System inc.;;;;;;;;;;
fightfev;Fight Fever (set 1);fba;;1994;Viccom;;;;;;;;;;

The other varible is do you have a .png of the rom name in /boot/preview/wheel or /boot/preview/snap?

[dee2eR]

Are the games showing blanks in FBA actually supported by FBA? The games I'm certain are supported by FBA are appearing correctly.

Maybe you just need to use a different emulator for those games? Not really sure about those specific games but if the games are not in the .lst file you get a blank space and I think I made the fba.lst file from the full list of compatible games (although more could have been added since I made the file).

[pinhead77]

The other varible is do you have a .png of the rom name in /boot/preview/wheel or /boot/preview/snap?

Yes, i have .png with the rom name, also for the roms that are not on the gamelist.

Are the games showing blanks in FBA actually supported by FBA? The games I'm certain are supported by FBA are appearing correctly.

Maybe you just need to use a different emulator for those games? Not really sure about those specific games but if the games are not in the .lst file you get a blank space and I think I made the fba.lst file from the full list of compatible games (although more could have been added since I made the file).

I'm using fba romset 0.2.97.39, as i read on this thread.

Is it uncorrect? I could rebuild a different romset (0.2.97.37? 0.2.97.42?) and retry. Which version is the right one with Arpicade 3.811?

Thank you all for helping me, at the moment i have a big problem trying to change my broken monitor, but i'm studying these game issues to be ready when everything will be all right in the cabinet.

One word about the Space Ace-Daphne issue: could i try with a "sae.commands" text file like this (see below) in the game folder? I'm using these .commands files while playing Daphne games with Retropie on another Raspberry (with the correct filenames and paths, of course) and they work great. Is someone using it to force game options (lifes, coins for credit, degree of difficulty, etc) while playing with Arpicade?

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/home/pi/daphne/daphne.bin sae vldp -framefile /home/pi/.daphne/framefile/sae/sae.txt -blank_searches -min_seek_delay 1000 -seek_frames_per_ms 20 -homedir /home/pi/daphne -bank 0 10011000 -bank 1 00100111 -sound_buffer 2048 -x 640 -y 480 

[dee2eR]

You're using the correct set for FBA, not sure why so much stuff is missing from the fba.lst file though. I just checked a list and the games missing descriptions should be supported in FBA. I prefer to use MAME when possible so hadn't noticed before. The FBA version in use will change at the next release but I think the roms will be the same, my understanding is FBA is using a modified MAME173 set.

Also not sure if a .commands file will work or not without further fiddling in Daphne. The setup will be a bit different to RetroPie. Sorry I'm really not a Daphne expert, the couple of games I had for it worked and I moved on. It's certainly possible to implement it or something similar through the /boot/launchers/daphne.sh launcher. If the commands files are not native to Daphne you could edit in per game options into the launcher directly too.