Three months ago I decided to test every standalone Plug and Play, Handheld, and Bootleg Multicart playable in RetroArch(Mame). Specifically, I was targeting System-on-a-chip or NES-on-a-chip (NOAC) devices like VTxx or Xavix. Basically something similar to Project PLUG 'N Play but with a focus on the devices and not individual games and developers.

The biggest issue was how similar all these devices were. The same JungleTac/Waixing/Nice Code games show up on different pug n play or handheld devices with different manufacturers. In short its a mess of repackaged games in multiple form factors. That all sounds vague and confusing but I think I managed to categorize all these devices in a way that makes sense.

I have identified as many “product lines” that I could and the rest I sorted into different “Retro System” categories.

Retro Game Systems:

Any device not in a product line that has games that are original or knockoffs.

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Retro Game Bootleg Systems:

Any device not in a product line that contains unaltered NES/GEN/SNES games.

Download

Retro Game Licensed Systems:

Any device not in a product line that is officially licensed using an Intellectual Property(IP).

Download

Retro Game Systems Ports:

Any device not in a product line that is an officially licensed port.

Download

Radica Play TV (2000-2007):

A series of Plug N Play (mostly) interactive sports equipment.

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dreamGEAR Plug 'N' Play (2004):

A series of Plug N Play devices with JungleTac game compilations.

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Senario Vs Maxx (2004-2009):

A series of Plug N Play devices with JungleTac game compilations.

Download

Jakks Pacific Plug and Play TV Games (2004-2008):

A series of Plug N Play devices with officially licensed games based on cartoon and comic-book characters.

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Jakks Pacific Gamekey (2005):

A series of expansion cartridges for Plug N Play devices with officially licensed games based on cartoon and comic-book characters.

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Lexibook (2007-2020)

Another series of Plug N Play devices with officially licensed games based on cartoon and comic-book characters.

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Radica Arcade Legends (2004):

A series of Plug N Play devices with officially licensed Sega ports.

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Senario Multi-Player System (2004-2005):

A series of Plug N Play multiplayer trivia, board game, and casino games.

Download

PDP VG Pocket (2005-2006):

A series of Handhelds with licensed (Disney/Konami/Taito/Data East) games and JungleTac game compilations.

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Bandai Let's! TV Play (2006):

A series of Plug N Play devices with licensed Namco and Taito ports.

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Hasbro TV Board Games (2007):

A series of Plug N Play devices with licensed games based off Hasbro board-games.

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VideoJet Pocket Dream Console (2008-2013):

A series of Handheld devices with Conny original(?) games.

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JungleTac Sport Vii (2008):

A Mini Console (Nintendo Wii knockoff) with built in WiiSports clone game and cartridriges containing JungleTac game compilations.

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Ultimate Products Zone (2009-2010):

A series of Mini Consoles (Nintendo Wii knockoffs) with Waixing original(?) games.

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dreamGEAR My Arcade (2010-2018):

A series of Handheld and Plug N Play devices with licensed Data East games and knockoff game compilations.

Download

How to add Systems for RetroArch(MAME)

Microvision Full Config.zip Microvision.zip

I can't remember how to proceed and the order to obtain good results

thanks for your help

regards

4281 videos

4281 Wheels (clear)

0.259 Database

I did not upload themes because I feel they should only be available here.

MAME 0.259 HyperSpin Media : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

How on Earth do the bcolor values in Theme.xml work? They're used for the video frame. I would've thought they'd be 6-digit hex color codes (like FFFFFF for pure white), but they're clearly not. Here's an example from the blkheart theme:

           bcolor="1906691"
           bcolor2="6841625"
           bcolor3="0"

I feel like I must be overlooking something really obvious. I did see that BBB talked about a HyperTheme manual when he first introduced the app, but if a manual exists, I can't find it at all.

I'm completely stumped. Can some kind soul shed some light on this mystery? Thanks in advance!

sample have nintendo 64 open add multiple subfolders for region games like one for usa and one for japan 

Gakken Compact Vision TV Boy (1983) a very obscure system with only six games. The controller looks unique and interesting, but the graphics couldn't compete with the Famicom (which was already on the market).

Full Setup: Gakken Compact Vision TV Boy.zip

Requires MAME 0.262

im thinking of hiving off my japanese NES games onto a seperate system  ,

does anyone have a main menu theme and a default theme for the Nintendo Famicom ?  Thanks

Thanks

I'm trying my hand to make graphic Wheels for Mame handheld games.

See attachments and let me know what you think.

hi

i trying to set up the Nintendo Satellaview 

could anyone help with sharing a system theme file and a default theme file

also need the database xml file and a platform video

Would allow me to get on with things for now until the downloads section returns

Thanks

Due to my history of working on obscure and pointless systems, I felt like I had to make this.

MAME 0.261 Required

Complete setup: LJN VideoArt.7z

It's awful. I'M SORRY!

In an effort to provide clearer ongoing art direction, this thread will serve as a quick reference for theme creation best practices. We are presently working on native support for additional aspect ratios and, as such, recommend if people do make 16:9 themes right now they keep a backup of their source material. If you still want to use the current workaround to make a 16:9 theme right now, the below information can help:

Please note, the way we do things is going to change as far as themes goes but making 16:9 versions is so quick and painless I figured now is as good a time as any to start. We have plans in place to preserve and grandfather existing themes for the next gen as we move forward.

In general, there are as many ways to make a theme as there are ideas in a person's head. In general, themes should highlight the system or game they're representing in an attractive way using the best quality art possible. Here are a few basic guidelines to follow:

• Try not to make your animations times/delays too long. 0.5-1.5 is a good range. We don't want the user to have to wait forever for the full theme to load.
• Whenever possible, avoid fusing artwork elements to background layers unnecessarily (ie. If Artwork1-4 is still free, don't put something that could use one of those slots on the background image if you don't have to)
• Artistic variations are accepted and encouraged but if you're going for an official look/feel, try to make the themes as true to the source material as possible. For example, for a main menu theme, try to match the style used by the system/company. For arcade games, try to match the cab art/marquee as best as you can, where possible. For console games, try to use era appropriate graphics (ie. It'd be weird to see Mario Galaxy's Mario on a Super Mario Bros. 2 theme).
• Go nuts and be creative

Until now, the theme standard has been 4:3 with efforts to convert existing themes to 16:9 ongoing. However, from now on the standard is 16:9 in order to reflect the needs of the majority of our current and future users. 4:3 themes are still allowed and encouraged but the standard is and will forever be 16:9.

Down the road, the way we go about creating and distributing themes is going to change but 4:3 and 16:9 variants will pretty always require distinct approaches. Right now, converting 4:3 to 16:9 is still very easy, especially if you're the original content creator. Here are the steps for converting your 4:3 theme to 16:9:

• Resize all of your artwork elements and any video.png (if present) to 75% of their original widths.
• If required, your background must also be resized but it will still have to be 1024x768. Fit a normal background image to 1365x768 then resize it to 1024x768 to achieve the needed 75% squish.
• There should no rotation being done by HyperTheme. This is because anything rotated will be skewed in HyperSpin so if you want an artwork element rotated, rotate it in Photoshop and save it at the angle at which you want it to be displayed.
• Apply Dark13's NO_SCALE_SMOOTH script (PNG_to_SWF_dark13_NO_SCALE_SMOOTH.jsfl) to everything. This drastically improves the quality of the artwork on HD displays and effectively makes your theme fully HD.
• If you use Flash animation SWFs, these can be resized in flash and bulk-resized/repositioned with the multiselect and onion skin tools before re-publishing as a new SWF.
• Zip everything up like you normally would using the SWFs instead of the PNGs with the exception of the video.png for which we still have to use the PNG since the SWF won't work.
• Open the theme.xml and reduce the video width by 75%. This will usually mean it will be equal to the video height but for widescreen systems, handhelds, or vertical games it won't be. Once done, set forceaspect="both" and save.
• Open the theme in HyperTheme and re-position the elements and resize the video as required to take advantage of the 33% increased space that you have to work with in a 16:9 display. Make sure neither the video nor any of the elements have an r value (ie. they're not rotated) or they will be skewed when displayed in 16:9. This is the skew that happens to anything on a non-4:3 display that's been rotated by HyperSpin:

As you can see, it gets turned into a rhombus. The same effect happens to everything that has any sort of tilt, including the rock animation, spinning discs, even the circular wheel.

• Save your changes and you're done.

Some of the first videos I ever did explain this concept in a bit more detail. While they're more for people trying to cope with converting artwork they didn't themselves create, the info in this playlist is still useful to artists in general:

And here's a great example of how awesome a SWF smoothed 16:9 Theme can look:

Obviously we're not twisting anyone's arms to do this but this is the standard we intend to use moving forward: high-definition and widescreen. While I do intent to keep working my buns off auditing and converting existing material, I would appreciate it to no end if we started transitioning to this now for any new submissions so as to reduce my workload and give theme creators full creative control over how they want to present their 4:3 creations in 16:9. Cheers!

16:9 to 4:3 Comparison:

4:3 Original

16:9 Conversion

Cheer up people! While you wait for the Uploads section to return, here is another obscure system to add:

Required: MAME 0.258 or newer

Watara TV-Link is not an independent system but an adapter for the Supervison to connect to a television.  It's a good idea in theory and (possibly?) beat the Nintendo Super Gameboy to market but it doesn't really "enhance" the Supervision gaming experience.

Attempted enhancements include: removing LCD ghosting, increasing the resolution and size of the screen and adding color. That all sounds great but the "color" only being shades of blue makes the games very hard to see.  Emulation of the Supervision has already corrected ghosting and the ability to play on a larger screen.

I do feel its justified to have this system since the color and resolution create a different experience (even though worse) it's still a somewhat significant piece of videogame history.

3-part Upload:

Watara TV-Link.zip.001

I have also included other related member uploads. Thank you for all the support, assistance, and contributions!

I will be testing every update to MAME core and listing compatibility the best I can.

Sub Projects:

RetroArch(MAME) Plug N Play Project

1970's Home Console Project

LG DIGITALezLG (MESEN Core)

A bundle of NES games released in some models of LG Electronics TVs around 2008. Most games are actually bootleg versions of popular NES games, with lots of aesthetic changes (and gameplay changes in some cases). There is an exclusive game: Quick Brain.

Games are played with the TV Remote and the controls seem a bit sluggish but to be fair, I'm sure it was on the original remote.

I've split up the multigame using duplicate roms and autoload save states.  The select button has been disabled on each individual game so the main menu can't be accessed but the full compilation version is still accessible for the "authentic" experience.

An interesting obscure system but not the most justified to include since better versions of every game are on the NES.

3 Part Upload:

LG DIGITALezLG.zip.001

I captured new videos with MAME but there is no audio (I did add audio to Main Menu video)

Four Parts:

Casio Loopy.zip.001

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i trying to set up these 3 systems , i have most of the thngs needed until the downloads section is fixed.

could anyone help with sharing a system theme file for each one , and a default theme file for each one also . 6 Files in total .

Would allow me to get on with things for now .

Thanks

Fairchild Channel F (1976) - Core: FreeChaF

Unisonic Champion 2711 (1977) - Core: MAME    Download Setup

Atari 2600 (1977) - Core: Stella

APF MP-1000 (1977) - Core: MAME     Download Setup

Bally Astrocade (1978) - Core: MAME  Download Setup

Bandai Super Vision 8000 (1979) - Core: MAME   Download Setup

Magnavox Odyssey 2 (1979) - Core: O2EM

Mattel Intellivision (1979) - Core: FreeIntv

RCA Studio II/III Series:

RCA Studio II (1977) - Core: MAME     Download Setup

Soundic Victory (1978) - Core: MAME    Download Setup

Toshiba Visicom (1978) - Core: MAME    Download Setup

1292 Advanced Programmable Video System Series:

Interton VC 4000 (1978) - Core: MAME  Download Setup

Acetronic MPU-1000 (1978) - Core: MAME   Download Setup

Rowtron Television Computer System (1979) Core: MAME   Download Setup

Technically 1980's release but still 1292 APVS clone:

Voltmace Database (1980) - Core: MAME   Download Setup

Palson CX 3000 Tele Computer (1982) - Core: MAME   Download Setup

How to add systems for RetroArch(MAME)

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MAME Project Uploads:

01: MAME Project Upload

02: 0.250 Update

03: Clone Media Update

04: 0.251 Update

05: Mame Project January Media Update

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About a month ago Ryuzarky asked a question about MAME clones that got me started on one of my biggest (single system) projects yet: Rocketlauncher Rom Mapping and MAME clones.

My project goals:

Complete database for MAME (0.249) set of “working” roms

Find all worthy clones (this has been attempted before with Attack of the Clones)

Figure out RocketLauncher Rom Mapping feature for use with MAME clones

Complete all media (at least Video and Wheels)

I really didn't think it would be that much work because most of the work has already been completed. Unfortunately, that was not the case.

Step 1: Database

The best starting point was r0mano's MAME databases at r0man0's website (free.fr)

What I wanted to include:

Only working status roms

No games mapped to keyboard controls (Mahjong, Fruit Machine, Poker, some arcade games)

Only Arcade games (no handheld, computer, plug and play)

I wanted to only work with parent roms (at first) so I got the PD Merged set.

I cropped the Full Working xml using merged set to isolate the parent games.

I removed: Handheld, Hanafuda/Keyboard/Keypad Control Type

I didn't want to completely remove Fruit Machine, Mahjong, Quiz, and Card Battle (Poker) only the games that were mapped to keyboard keys (not joystick).

From there I split the xml into genres and tested every Fruit Machine, Mahjong, Quiz, and Card Battle game individually to find usable games that were mapped to joystick and buttons.

Most games from those categories were eliminated but I was left with a good selection for each genre.

Final amount of working parent roms about 3400

Step 2: What the heck is Rom Mapping?

The primary use for Rom Mapping is to redirect Rocketlauncher to a different rom than the one you are selecting in your database.

Information: Rom Mapping - RocketLauncher Wiki (rlauncher.com)

I wanted to use Senario 6

My Plan:

Create a database with working parents and “worthy” clones.

Clones can be hidden from the wheel using HyperHQ (MAME [Wheel Filter: Parent Only])

Clones are accessible from the MAME wheel when selecting the parent rom.

A Rom Mapping menu opens and a list of parent+clones can be selected

But first I must figure out every worthy clone to use and create a Rom Mapping INI file with all the clones.

I will include Rom Mapping settings and instructions further down in this post.

Step 3: Find all the clones!

Of course, I used the list of clones discussed in the “Attack of the Clones” posts from years ago.

Mame Clones worth playing - a complete (hopefully) list - Page 3 - HyperSpin - HyperSpin Forum (hyperspin-fe.com)

List of MAME clones worth playing - Redux - HyperSpin - HyperSpin Forum (hyperspin-fe.com)

An excellent and helpful resource but a bit out of date now.

But I wanted to find every clone rom that has a perceivable difference (altered gameplay, graphics, sound, control style, conversion to “different” game)

First step: Make an xml of only working clones.

To do this I replaced my PD “Merged” set with the “Non-Merged” set. Now I had a set of parents and clones that can be run interdependently.

Using the original “Working” xml and my “Custom(Working)” xml I was able to easily create a “Clones Only” xml

Now with an xml of only working clones, I began my hunt by reading through all 70k lines in Notepad++.

I searched the <description> and <manufacturer> for an clues or mention of alterations to the original games

2-4 player

trackball version/hack

joystick version/hack

hack/bootleg/conversion to different game

alternate ending

no continues

alt graphics or sound hardware

I wrote my Rom Mapping Ini and file as I hunted for clones.

Overall, I came up with a list of 305 clones!

Step 4: Configure Rom Mapping

Hopefully I can explain how this works.

The first thing that must be done is create an ini file that lists the parent rom with each of its clones. There is no shortcut or tool to create the file, it must typed manually.

The file must be placed in RocketLauncher\Settings\MAME\Rom Mapping

I created a file: MAME_Clones.ini MAME_Clones.ini

Example text for Street Fighter II: Champion Edition clones:

[sf2ce]

Alternate_Rom_Name_1=sf2acca

Street Fighter II - Champion Edition (Accelerator!)

Alternate_Rom_Name_2=sf2accp2

Street Fighter II - Champion Edition (Accelerator Pt.II)

Alternate_Rom_Name_3=sf2amf

Street Fighter II - Champion Edition (Alpha Magic-F)

Alternate_Rom_Name_4=sf2ceub

Street Fighter II - Champion Edition (Punishment)

Alternate_Rom_Name_5=sf2dkot2

Street Fighter II - Champion Edition (Double K.O. Turbo II)

Alternate_Rom_Name_6=sf2koryu

Street Fighter II - Champion Edition (Xiang Long)

Alternate_Rom_Name_7=sf2level

Street Fighter II - Champion Edition (bootleg with level selection)

Alternate_Rom_Name_8=sf2m7

Street Fighter II - Champion Edition (M7, bootleg)

Alternate_Rom_Name_9=sf2mdtb

Street Fighter II - Magic Delta Turbo (set 3)

Alternate_Rom_Name_10=sf2rb3

Street Fighter II - Champion Edition (Rainbow, set 3)

Alternate_Rom_Name_11=sf2reda

Street Fighter II - Champion Edition (Red Wave, bootleg, set 2)

Alternate_Rom_Name_12=sf2redp2

Street Fighter II - Champion Edition (Red Wave PtII)

Alternate_Rom_Name_13=sf2v004

Street Fighter II - Champion Edition (Sheng Long Edition)

First the parent rom is listed: [sf2ce]

Then: Alternate_Rom_Name_(Number)=(clone rom)

The description in-between is not necessary, I just added it for reference.

You can name you ini file whatever you want. You can even have multiple ini files. Rocketlauncher checks the all ini files every time a rom is launched.

OK, you have downloaded MAME_Clones.ini and have it in MAME\Rom Mapping folder. Lets configure Rocket Launcher.

Global Settings (Rom Mapping):

Rom Mapping:

Enable: False (Only Turn on per System)

First Match Extension: False

Launch Menu:

Enabled: True

Show all Roms: True

Hide Parent: False

Default Menu: FullList

Single Filtered Match Launch: False

MAME Settings (Rom Mapping):

Rom Mapping: True

All other settings in Rom Mapping and Launch Menu boxes: use_global

Now with the MAME_Clones.ini and RocketLauncher set Rom Mapping will work.

From HyperSpin, launch 1942 from MAME wheel

Because 1942 is a parent rom with clones listed in MAME_Clones.ini, the Rom Mapping submenu will launch

Now you can select the 1942 or any of its clones

Personally I don't like having a background image for the Rom Mapping menu. Background images are located: RocketLauncher\Media\Background\MAME

Its functions just like bezels with a _Default folder

If you delete or remove the images it looks better

Example:

I really like it because you can see the parent theme in the background

In the future I hope people upload background media or nice Appearance settings to make an enhanced Rom Mapping menu!

Clones might not have similar names as Parents. Rom mapping menu can group clones together and be a quick shortcut.

Removing Clones from MAME wheel (Optional):

The easiest way to do this is with HyperHQ

Wheel Settings:MAME

Wheel Filters: Parents Only

This is a much better method than removing the clones from the database because they can be removed (or put back) with just one checkbox.

Filtering out the clones from the MAME menu has a few advantages:

• Less games/clutter on the wheel

• More justification for the Rom Mapping menu

• Clone games don't need media (Wheels/Videos)

But that is completely optional, I actually prefer to keep the clones visible on the MAME wheel.

Step 5: Media!

With a database now totaling 3831 games I was missing hundreds of wheels and video (Even after gathering everything I could from Hyperspin/Emumovies)

My goals:

3831 clear wheels

All clones must have a unique wheel (alternate parent logo, even if only the slightest difference)

3831 videos

Clones will not use parent videos unless there is no visible difference (using different control type, alternate ending, difficulty level)

*I ended using maybe 15-20 duplicate videos

I was able to find and download at least half of the clear logos (LB arcade database) and videos (Progetto Snaps + re-encoding)

In order to have unique clone logos I did have to cut many of them out from title-screens to make variants. Many of the clone videos I had to capture myself.

3831 wheels and videos complete!

Step 6: Cleaning up Database and fixing Genres

I figured out Rom Mapping but the database felt like a mess

Database alterations:

Moved “The” from the front of game names.

Example:

Legend of Kage, The

Punisher, The

Simpsons, The

Grouped together Mega-Tech, Mega Play, and PlayChoice-10 games

Renamed:

Mega-Tech: Game Name

Mega-Play: Game Name

PlayChoice-10: Game Name

The Genre info was horribly inaccurate! Shoot-'Em-Up was used for everything (Platform, shooters, gun games)

In general the genre info was so bad I ended using my complete video collection to view every game individually and corrected (thousands?) of genre entries.

Once I had properly separated Shoot-'Em-Up from Shooters, I was disappointed by how broad the Shooter genre was and decided to make additional genres.

Shoot-'Em-Up genre now sorted into:

Gun (First-person Lightgun games)

Shooter (Run and Gun Games)

Shooting (Third person gun games with crosshairs)

Shoot-'Em-Up

Vehicle Combat (Third or First-person games piloting a land/sea vehicle)

I will make sense once you see it.

Poker games removed from Card Battle.xml put in Casino.xml

Fruit Games genre eliminated and merged with Casino.xml

Mature.xml still exists but all games now have individual genre info and merged with other categories

Sega Model 2 games mostly included (poor compatibility) but removed from database and only accessible in genre menu

Final (gameplay) genre list:

1970-1979 Games

1980-1989 Games

1990-1999 Games

2000-2022 Games

Action

Adventure

Ball & Paddle

Baseball

Basketball

Beat-'Em-Up

Biking

Board Games

Bowling

Boxing

Card Battle

Casino

Climbing

Compilation

Driving

Fighter

Fishing

Flying

Football

Futuristic

Golf

Gun

Hockey

Horse Racing

Mahjong

Mature

Maze

Mini-Games

Miscellaneous

Motorcycle

Pinball

Platform

Pool and Dart

Puzzle

Quiz

Shooter

Shoot-'Em-Up

Shooting

Skateboarding

Skating

Skiing

Snowboarding

Soccer

Sports

Strategy

Tabletop

Tennis

Track & Field

Vehicle Combat

Volleyball

Water

Wrestling

Lightgun

Trackball

4 Player Games (actually 3-4 player)

But that's not all!

Brudibru provided 150 MAME Manufacturer xmls and created genre backgrounds using their main themes. I can't thank him enough for his hard work! Without his help I would have never had the time to complete manufacturer genres.

With every game examined, re-categorized, and all backgrounds/wheels created for 211 genres, the database work was now complete.

Step 7: Themes and media verification

We have all accepted that MAME is too large to ever achieve a complete theme collection but with my filtered list of working games, I wanted to see how close I could get.

Really, I should say “We” because Brudibru was a huge part of this process. Honestly, I was getting burned out on the project and was going to just use the 1900 themes (or however many I matched) from the FTP. I believe I was still missing over 1000 themes.

But Brudibru had close to 4000 themes from FTP and individual uploads.

So Brudibru began matching/hunting for missing themes and finding alternate (and altering) themes to use for clones.

With his themes I went to work investigating the entire MAME wheel again game by game.

All videos verified correct and working.

All themes are for the correct games

Most clone themes have been created using:

Alternate Parent themes

Altering Parent themes to create variation

Some original themes were created (maybe 10-12)

Thanks to Brudibru's hard work (and inspiring me to keep going) we were able to bring the missing count from 1000 down to just 328 (under 10%)!

Step 8: Final Touches

Created Clones.xml genre which contains all the Clones and only their Parent roms.

Created MAME_Update.xml genre which contains only the arcade game additions to the latest version of MAME (0.249)

Step 9: Sharing the setup and moving forward

Because of the thousands of alterations to the database and media, the only way I could share this setup is upload everything.

Unfortunately, it's way too large to upload here so I used Archive.org for the videos Download Link

I have uploaded Database, Rom Mapping INI, Wheels, and Themes Uploads Page

Anyone who wants this setup, it's important to replace all of your current media with the upload. That is the only way to properly experience what we have done and avoid duplicate media.

We are hoping to get help completing the last 328 missing themes. Some existing themes were deleted for quality reasons (incomplete or wrong game). Some clone game themes were already available in the uploads section but just renamed parent themes (we need a different theme). The only way to see what is missing is to only have our uploaded themes.

Note on quality: Of course, some media can use improvement, with over 3800 games I couldn't spend too much time correcting each wheel/video/theme

Themes: In many cases a better theme may be available to download but in some cases in needed multiple variations of a theme to cover parent/clones. The themes that I altered are not “new” creations, I just rearranged or removed some artwork already in the theme, so I kept the original creator's work.

Some themes were “fixed” if I saw mistakes that I don't think the creator intended (videos half off screen, images completely blocking video, strange video layers (accidentally?) left in were deleted)

Monthly Updates:

Now that I'm caught up, I will upload an update each month with the new version of MAME. I started this project on version 0.248. When 0.249 came out I tested all the added arcade games and there were only 9 working additions. The new media creation was quite easy!

Setup Tips:

Use PD non-merged rom set

Only these 109 CHDs are needed: Required CHDS.txt

The non-merged set can be filtered to remove unneeded roms

My final file size:

Non-Merged Roms: 14.8GB

CHDs: 135GB

Filtering Manufacturer Genres:

Because the Manufacturer Genre XMLs were not cropped to match my MAME database there may be games listed (different rom versions) that are unavailable.

This can be corrected two ways:

1. In HyperHQ:

Wheel Settings:MAME

Wheel Filters: Wheels Only (Since the wheel media is complete only the full list of available games will be displayed)

Wheel Settings:MAME

Wheel Filters: Roms Only (ONLY do this if you have filtered your non-merged set to remove unneeded roms)

For Videos: Do not check “Clones use Parent Videos” in HyperHQ. I have made unique clone videos.

My media has been altered so much that I do not recommend anyone who downloads my MAME setup to use HyperSync (For MAME only)

I had to fix/alter much of the files from the FTP and running Hypersync would definitely undo much of that work! 

Finally:

I'm sure I made many mistakes, so please let me know any corrections to make or clones I should add. I can include corrections or additions in monthly updates.