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    Do-ability of an idea concerning mame/fba/fba_libretro roms

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    • KaraK_VarN
      KaraK_VarN last edited by

      Hello everyone and thank you for your great job on Recalbox.

      Following the dev of RB, i have decided to dedicate 2 rpi2 : 1 for console retrogaming and 1 for arcade.

      Concerning the mame/fba/fba_libretro roms difficulty with the specificity of the sets, i was wondering weither it is possible to mix the clrmamepro.dat with the same system used to check the hash of bios files via the recalbox manager under 192.168.1.xxx or not ?

      This would considerably clarify which rom is proper or not.

      hope i'm clear enough though 😉

      N.B : i have 2 rpi2, ps3 controllers, 1 xarcade dual stick

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        do you mean we should write clrmamepro on pi ? 😄

        It's not really a question of feasability, but .. doh ... time consumming, and not even sure it's worth the sweat ... But technically speaking, it IS possible. But poor pi, not enough I/O speed to do it at a decent speed i'm afraid

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        • voljega
          voljega Banned @KaraK_VarN last edited by

          @KaraK_VarN

          This would mean you would have to encode 3 hash for every roms (corresponding to the fba/fba_libretro/mame romsets) and roms names can even change from time to time (it's rare but it happens)

          Besides, roms hash are not the same depending on the romset type : merged, unmerged, etc...

          So this would be potentially mean that for each rom you should have at least 9 different hash to consider.

          Not to mention that even if the only way to be asbolutely sure that a rom to work is to take it in the right romset it cans still sometimes work when it has just changed a little, in another romset not far fom the targeted one.

          So in essence not only would it require an absolutely enormous amount of purely manual work, it would also be a bit pointless.

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            Substring @voljega last edited by

            @voljega no, the trick would be to use the dats provided with recalbox (which are simple XML files) and check roms with the dats.

            Beside split/merged and parent/clone considerations, it's doable. But i don't think anyone would have fun coding such a thing, nor any interest for recalbox when other tools do it already much better

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            • KaraK_VarN
              KaraK_VarN last edited by

              Thank you for these quick and precise answers.

              Now that i'm aware of what is involved, i reconsider my question.

              Alternatively, is it possible to list only the working rom names ?

              The user wouldn't have to search in the xlsx file which one to look for, depending on rpi version or emulator used.

              I tried that on my own, but i can't filter only "green/no comments" tagged files (because "green" is not a criteria of filtering).

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              • KaraK_VarN
                KaraK_VarN last edited by

                Ok nevermind, i managed howto 😉 not an excel-specialist...

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                • voljega
                  voljega Banned @KaraK_VarN last edited by

                  @KaraK_VarN I have plans to better code working status and add bios/driver and hardware system to the sheet in a not near future to make such automatic extraction more easy.

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