MiSTer FPGA Forum

Insert Disk Two wrote: ↑Sat Apr 23, 2022 4:23 pm This is nice, hopefully it will have favourite games feature added one day!

Wave wrote: ↑Sat Apr 23, 2022 6:59 pm You're just on a rampage with these awesome, feature-adding scripts, and I'm here for it. Thank you as ever.

Does this script have update-all functionality like I think you added/are adding to BGM script?

Games Menu can be automatically updated with the MiSTer downloader script (and update_all). Add the following text to the downloader.ini file on your SD card:

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[games_menu]
db_url = 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wizzomafizzo/MiSTer_GamesMenu/main/games_menu.json'

Wave wrote: ↑Sat Apr 23, 2022 6:59 pm You're just on a rampage with these awesome, feature-adding scripts, and I'm here for it. Thank you as ever.

Sigismond0 wrote: ↑Mon Apr 25, 2022 1:57 pm I'd be interested in having an option for putting these in the root menu, like how the favorites script provides that as an option. The root menu always feels so empty with just five folders in it, and shortcuts to favorite consoles there would be great.

cursedverses wrote: ↑Sun Apr 24, 2022 10:48 am Oh this is very cool! I think I'm going to use this and look for a way of exposing the last loaded rom into a "jump back in" menu item.

One click reload of core and rom? Yes please!

I've been asked for this a few times. Have you tried mister's built in support for this feature? You add something like recents=1 in your mister ini file. After that you can press select on your controller and it shows recently launched games and cores. It's easy to forget it exists and I think it would be better as an entry on the main menu, but I'm reluctant to duplicate all that effort and add another daemon for monitoring core changes

cursedverses wrote: ↑Tue Apr 26, 2022 11:03 am Rather than reinvent the wheel, it seems it just needs an extra parameter (the rom file)? There was a project that allowed people to load core/rom from their phones around here somewhere so the implementation of executing that is already done.

• .zip files are now fully supported. The behaviour for this is that the contents of the zip will be put in the parent folder while the zip filename itself is dropped. I think before it would create the zip filename as a folder. This is better suited for people dropping in files directly from places like the HTGDB archive. I will eventually add a config option to use the old behaviour for people who use the zip filename for organisation.

• Super Gameboy is supported.

• Now shows a basic progress bar during the file generation.

• Have made some optimisations to make the scanning speed faster. Though it's still bottlenecked by the SD card's write speed.

JAJT wrote: ↑Thu Oct 27, 2022 4:38 pm Question - How do you get rid of the games menu after running the script?

I ran the script, toggled a few cores, played around with it, then decided to remove it for now. When I un-toggle all the cores and try to generate the menu, it just reboots and makes no changes. I can toggle and generate any combo of cores I want, but if I toggle none of them, it just reboots and keeps whatever the last toggled version of the menu was.

Is there a way to just untoggle them all and remove the games menu entirely?

This is a great script but I've found three problems:

• Mega Drive toggles itself off in the menu even if it was previously toggled on:

viewtopic.php?p=86871

• Filenames are used for game titles instead of full names:

viewtopic.php?p=86874#p86874

• Deleting a ROM from the filesystem and regenerating the games list does not remove the deleted game from the games list.

This is an awesome script, I use it all the time.

I just have 3 problems with it:

1. NeoGeo ROMs don't get added for some reason. FIXED
2. Certain Yes/No selections don't get saved.
3. Doesn't scan for arcade or DOS games.

1, what format are your roms?
.neo seem to work fine

2, viewtopic.php?t=7978
this could be related

3 i don't know

dickhardpill wrote: ↑Sun Jan 19, 2025 4:42 pm

1, what format are your roms?
.neo seem to work fine

They are zipped but I've also tried unzipping them and they still don't get added.

edit
I'll try different formats...

what format are they in the zip?
all my .neo files are in 1 monolithic zip and it works with gamesmenu
are your roms all individually zipped?
what's the output of unzip -l <insert rom location here>

Thanks, it appears I had all my NeoGeo ROMs in a funky format (each game had multiple files with extensions such as ".p1", "c1", ".sp1", etc...

I've now downloaded a test ROM in ".neo" and gamesmenu added it normally.

One more question, is it possible to link N64 turbo core in gamesmenu instead of the normal one?

i don't think there is a way with the script but you can edit the mgl files

<mistergamedescription>
        <rbf>_Console/N64</rbf>
        <file delay="1" type="f" index="1" path="/media/fat/games/N64/N64.zip/Blues Brothers 2000 (USA).z64"/>
</mistergamedescription>

I think this would work

<mistergamedescription>
        <rbf>_test-builds/N64_80MHz</rbf>
        <file delay="1" type="f" index="1" path="/media/fat/games/N64/N64.zip/Blues Brothers 2000 (USA).z64"/>
</mistergamedescription>

the location of my turbo core is

/media/fat/_test-builds

it may require the date, i'm not at home and can't test it.

okay, if the above works-
you could probably edit gamesmenu.sh
line 46

("N64", "_Console/N64", (({".n64", ".z64"}, 1, "f", 1),)),

and change it to

("N64", "_test-builds/N64_80MHz", (({".n64", ".z64"}, 1, "f", 1),)),

and it should work for all your N64 games. You would probably need to delete from /media/fat/Games/N64 for it to generate new mgl files

okay... wrong line number. i must have edited gamesmenu.sh on my MiSTer because it looks mostly like the one at
https://github.com/wizzomafizzo/MiSTer_ ... mesmenu.sh but not exactly

The correct line appears to be 58

edit to add it looks like i flattened out the atari5200, coleco, intellivision,etc... entries. that's the only differences i see.

i'm not at home but using VPN/remote and screenshot it launches but i'm not able to make it through the OSD because it doesn't show in screenshots. but the games are launching
editing gamesmenu.sh totally works if you want to change all your N64 games to the turbo in gamesmenu, though i'm not sure ifall roms are compatible