mame VS 1g1r-romset-generator

Yes, there are many challenges in reverse engineering these classic games. This is a good example.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=objL2hGAEgU

Living in L.A. in the 90's, I remember Pack Mann in Pasadena had this one.

http://www.arcaderestoration.com/games/3330/Gals+Panic+II.as...

The ROM dump's been done but people seem to be stuck on the RLE encoding. It's hard to say what kind of wizardry is needed in this case.

https://github.com/mamedev/mame/issues/5816

There's a good start at it in the tree ( https://github.com/mamedev/mame/blob/master/src/mame/yamaha/... ) but it's missing the sound generation which is kind of the important part :-)

> As requested by users, you can finally use delta CHD files for clone systems and software items. This allows for major disk space savings in some cases when you have multiple versions of a system or software item.

FWIW, this is commit https://github.com/mamedev/mame/commit/d1172bf710f2a7b1777ed...

The GitHub Actions workflow bgfxshaders.yml will rebuild the shaders and then zip them up as an artefact. If you push your shader changes to GitHub and let the workflow run, you can grab the rebuilt shades from there.

Note that the process of getting the MSYS64/MinGW build environment set up is simple enough that we have automated CI builds for it on GitHub Actions without needing any custom actions of our own.

I assume they’re free vend because they’re MAME based?

I assume it needs write access so you probably couldn't run it off the FTP server. You can use this to generate a 1G1R set based off a no-intro DAT. You would need to download the set from somewhere first obviously.

going another step further the 1g1r project tries to create sets sans dupes, so some automation exists to help with that: https://github.com/andrebrait/1g1r-romset-generator or https://salumba.com/romlist/romlist_ui.php can assist there.

Currently, I am using the 1G1R ROM Set Generator Python script created by Andre Brait.

Well, technically I don’t use romcenter to filter my sets. I use it to make sure everything is what it says it is and ensure that the names are all standardized. Romcenter can do filtering to a degree; in the settings as you make a database you can specify region and so on, then just delete anything that doesn’t match. Personally, I use 1g1r romset generator due to how many options it has for customization.

How do you generate your 1G1R sets? This is my favorite tool --> https://github.com/andrebrait/1g1r-romset-generator

Run this script to get 1g1r English set (for example) and delete all Japanese/bios/demo etc. https://github.com/andrebrait/1g1r-romset-generator

I've been trying to find an alternative (preferably open-source and customizable) frontend for emulation after the whole RetroArch dev controversies. Right now I'm scraping games with Skyscraper and cleaning up No-Intro ROM-sets with a 1G1R ROM-set generator.

Here's the script for 1G1R.