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papaschtroumpf:
--- Quote from: zander on March 03, 2005, 03:52:00 pm ---Buddabing and silver this is a great thing maintaining the list. It will save many of us time from trying to figure it out.
However when i go to
http://www.silverfoxy.plus.com/AttractVideos.htm
and click the download link i get a file that has only 10 items.
Then if i type this in the browser
http://www.silverfoxy.plus.com/ssf.txt
I get a bigger list but not still not all the parents. Am I missing something here?
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so which one are we supposed to get? I assume the one dynamically generated from the htlm page? (the one with 10 entries)
papaschtroumpf:
sorry for the deluge of questions today, but after doing some movies by hand I'm now trying to use listgen to automate makingthe full set. The post on listgen mentions PacManFan's gameplay.ini: I can't seem to find a copy of it?
Also: how can I filter out CHD games?
Also: is there some kind of overall log that might alert me to movies that may have failed (I have not played some of the games in my rom collection since I rebuilt my harddrive, so some games may never have had their rom initialized by pressing F2 for example).
Buddabing:
--- Quote from: papaschtroumpf on March 06, 2005, 12:09:13 pm ---sorry for the deluge of questions today, but after doing some movies by hand I'm now trying to use listgen to automate makingthe full set. The post on listgen mentions PacManFan's gameplay.ini: I can't seem to find a copy of it?
Also: how can I filter out CHD games?
Also: is there some kind of overall log that might alert me to movies that may have failed (I have not played some of the games in my rom collection since I rebuilt my harddrive, so some games may never have had their rom initialized by pressing F2 for example).
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I don't know how filtering out CHD games can be done. I would sure like to do that, though. I'll look at the source (I need to port 0.94 anyway) and maybe I can make a filter criterion for it.
Gameplay.ini is distributed with Kymaera. I'm not sure how up to date or complete it is.
It might be smart to run each game for a few frames before generating the movies so that the nvram is generated. There was a method for doing this previously in this thread.
The description of your ListGen error tells me you have a missing or bad filter.sql. All you need is one line:
select * from gamedata;
MAME does not need to be named mame.exe. Do a listgen -showusage for a list of parameters. The one you need is -mamename.
I don't have an overall log, but you can pipe the output of the batch to a file via >, ie. makemovies > log.txt.
HTH,
Buddabing
papaschtroumpf:
thanks.
I figured out the sql thing.
Great job! I'm glad to see someone that doesn't try to re-invent the wheel every time (such as using mysql), the SQL filtering is very fast and the syntax not that hard to get the hang of.
papaschtroumpf:
--- Quote from: Buddabing on March 06, 2005, 12:52:36 pm ---It might be smart to run each game for a few frames before generating the movies so that the nvram is generated. There was a method for doing this previously in this thread.
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anyone knows what the option is off hand? I haven't founf it in the thread yet or in the windows.txt file from MAME.
EDIT: the -ftr option is what I was looking for, finally found it in WINDOWS.TXT
I added "mame %1 -ftr 120 -window -resolution %2" before the call to mame that actually generate the movie. Adds a few seconds to the process but it's not that big a deal. I could even check for the presence of an .nv file in the nvram directory to avoid this step when the game has been ran.
Also, I'm toying with the idea of having the movies larger so they are no so fuzzy in full screen playback. I could either post process output.txt to change the resolution when it's below a certain value, or I could add -artres 2 I suppose?
EDIT: I can't seem to figure it out, I can't make a movie at twice the game original resolution.
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