[SOLVED] 3.811 Gamelist and Daphne

[pinhead77]

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.

Ok, i will do more tests later.
UPDATE: yes, the problem is that the FBA rom names do not correspond to those in the fba.lst
The solution is the manual editing of their name (...) and of the image name, or changing emulator: i don't think there is another fix to it, at this moment.
Thanks to all for help, now i know where are .lst files and how to edit them.
Problem "solved".

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.

.commands files are native to Daphne, but i think i understood where is the issue.
Now, I'm definitely sure it's a problem of ownership. I can see that owner of /boot/roms (and subfolders) is user "root", but, starting the Daphne games for the first time, the emulator creates .dat files and tries to write them in /boot/roms/daphne/framefile/[game folder] as "pi". So, i have to change permissions of /boot/roms (or /boot/roms/daphne/framefile/[game folder]) from "root" to "pi". I tried to do this with command "chown" as "root", but i always got the error "changing ownership of `/boot/roms': Operation not permitted". I think it's because the filesystem of BOOT partition is FAT32, and ownership changing with "chown" is not possibile in non-Linux partitions.

Maybe this can help.

[bravebluerx]

I found that Daphne games would only work on arpicade when I had the appropriate .dat file to go along with the .m2v file and.ogg file. You can get the .dat files generated from the daphne windows emulator daphne-emu.com, you will need to point daphne to an appropriate disc image to generate the files on your computer. They recommend the 20th anniversary DVD-VIDEO edition not the PC dvd-rom for space ace

[pinhead77]

I found that Daphne games would only work on arpicade when I had the appropriate .dat file to go along with the .m2v file and.ogg file. You can get the .dat files generated from the daphne windows emulator daphne-emu.com, you will need to point daphne to an appropriate disc image to generate the files on your computer. They recommend the 20th anniversary DVD-VIDEO edition not the PC dvd-rom for space ace

Ok, i have got the right DVDs: i generated my .m2v and .ogg files for Daphne with daphneloader using 20th anniversary DVD-VIDEO edition (boxset).

So, Daphne games will work on Arpicade with .dat generated from windows? Very good, i will try soon and then i will come back with my answer! Thank you very much

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.

How could i implement these codes (see below) into the launcher? Daphne uses them (located in the same folder of framefiles) to set options ingame (lifes, difficulty level).

Dragon's Lair

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/opt/retropie/emulators/daphne/daphne.bin dle21 vldp -framefile /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/daphne/dle21.daphne/dle21.txt -blank_searches -min_seek_delay 1000 -seek_frames_per_ms 20 -homedir /opt/retropie/emulators/daphne -bank 0 11011000 -bank 1 00110111 -sound_buffer 2048 -x 640 -y 480 

Space Ace

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

Above, you can see the correct .commands working on my other Raspberry with Retropie.

Basically, for Arpicade i'd have to change:
- location of "daphne .bin"
- location of framefile
- homedir (location of ? Daphne.bin? Daphne.sh)

and implement it in the launcher. But how?

[dee2eR]

How could i implement these codes (see below) into the launcher? Daphne uses them (located in the same folder of framefiles) to set options ingame (lifes, difficulty level).

Dragon's Lair

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/opt/retropie/emulators/daphne/daphne.bin dle21 vldp -framefile /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/daphne/dle21.daphne/dle21.txt -blank_searches -min_seek_delay 1000 -seek_frames_per_ms 20 -homedir /opt/retropie/emulators/daphne -bank 0 11011000 -bank 1 00110111 -sound_buffer 2048 -x 640 -y 480 

Space Ace

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

Above, you can see the correct .commands working on my other Raspberry with Retropie.

Basically, for Arpicade i'd have to change:
- location of "daphne .bin"
- location of framefile
- homedir (location of ? Daphne.bin? Daphne.sh)

and implement it in the launcher. But how?

Check out /boot/launchers/daphne.sh you will need to add a conditional statement to run per game customised daphne commands. Something like
if [ $1 == sea ]; then
daphne.bin sae vldp -framefile /boot/roms/daphne/framefiles/sae/sae.txt -blank_searches -min_seek_delay 1000 -seek_frames_per_ms 20 -bank 0 10011000 -bank 1 00100111 -sound_buffer 2048 -x 640 -y 480
elif [ $1 == dle21 ]; then
*custom command for that*
else
*default comand to be used for anything not customised*
fi

Obviously thats not the code you need but hoprefully the idea can help you do it. I don't think you will need to move the roms folders around (I could be wrong). The current executable line in /boot/launchers/daphne.sh should also help you translate the settings from the other builds you use. I'll be happy to help further when I'm back online properly if you haven't had any luck.

[pinhead77]

I found that Daphne games would only work on arpicade when I had the appropriate .dat file to go along with the .m2v file and.ogg file. You can get the .dat files generated from the daphne windows emulator daphne-emu.com, you will need to point daphne to an appropriate disc image to generate the files on your computer. They recommend the 20th anniversary DVD-VIDEO edition not the PC dvd-rom for space ace

... and that's it! After copying .dat files generated by Windows Daphneloader in the /daphne/framefile/[game folder], Space Ace (and also the two "Dragon's Lair") started to work! Thank you very much for helping me, bravebluerx.
Problem solved.

Obviously thats not the code you need but hoprefully the idea can help you do it. I don't think you will need to move the roms folders around (I could be wrong). The current executable line in /boot/launchers/daphne.sh should also help you translate the settings from the other builds you use. I'll be happy to help further when I'm back online properly if you haven't had any luck.

Yeah! This did the trick. I edited the "#launch game" section of daphne.sh (see below)

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# launch game
if [ $1 == sae ]; then
/home/pi/daphne/daphne.bin sae vldp -framefile /boot/roms/daphne/framefile/sae/sae.txt -fastboot -fullscreen -bank 0 10011000 -bank 1 00100111
elif [ $1 == dle21 ]; then
/home/pi/daphne/daphne.bin dle21 vldp -framefile /boot/roms/daphne/framefile/dle21/dle21.txt -fastboot -fullscreen -bank 0 11011000 -bank 1 00110111
else
/home/pi/daphne/daphne.bin $1 vldp -framefile /boot/roms/daphne/framefile/$1/$1.txt -fastboot -fullscreen
fi

and now my favourite ingame options are correctly setted up for Space Ace (Enhanced v1.0) and Dragon's Lair (Enhanced v2.1).
For those who are interested in, the correct values for "bank 0" and "bank 1" virtual dipswitches can be easily found in the command line generated by Windows Daphneloader. If different options (more lifes, harder level of difficulty) are selected before launching the game with Daphneloader, the values in the command line will be different too.
Thank you very much for your help, Dee2er.
Problem solved.