Mattel Aquarius

Hoi (Dutch for hello)

I was wondering if it was possible to add the Mattel Aquarius system to the Beta? I can probably figure it out myself adding it to the systems file and all. But would be nice to have it official for everyone? Niche systems are really great to have to experience new things.

The emulator (stand alone, don't think there is a Retroarch core) can be found here:
https://aquarius.je/aqualite/

The roms here:
Don't share roms, please read the rules.

Again no idea how feasible this is, I am still in the process of trying to add it myself but got the roms working in stand alone so should be possible to have it integrated in Retrobat.

Progress report. I was able to add the system to the front end.




However, when trying to launch it says "emulator missing". I added the emulator to a folder "aquarius" in the /emulators directory. Then added this to the systems.cfg

 <system>
   <name>aquarius</name>
   <fullname>aquarius</fullname>
   <manufacturer>Mattel</manufacturer>
   <release>1950</release>
   <hardware>computer</hardware>
   <path>~\..\roms\aquarius</path>
   <extension>.bin .caq</extension>
   <command>"%HOME%\emulatorLauncher.exe" %CONTROLLERSCONFIG% -system %SYSTEM% -emulator %EMULATOR% -core %CORE% -rom %ROM%</command>
   <platform>aquarius</platform>
   <theme>aquarius</theme>
   <emulators>
     <emulator name="aqualite">
     </emulator>
   </emulators>
 </system>

Now this must be either missing something in here OR there is another place that Retrobat uses to "point to the emulator directory".

It does NOT need to autoload games. I would be more than happy if it only just launches the standalone emulator from emulators/aqualite/AquaLite.exe

Actually thinking about it, there is NOTHING that refers to the emulators/Aqualite directory so that must be the problem.

hello,

Don't share roms , read the rules.

You message, is not for support.

I move it.

The systems that will be added in the v5 are already chosen.

Lorenzolamas wrote:hello,

Don't share roms , read the rules.

You message, is not for support.

I move it.

The systems that will be added in the v5 are already chosen.

Ah. I thought the Internet Archive was a special site that has permission to host software that is copyrighted for preservation sake.

Planetdune wrote:

Ah. I thought the Internet Archive was a special site that has permission to host software that is copyrighted for preservation sake.

unfortunately not ^^

try this, put it in a custom es_systems.cfg file as well because whenever you update rb the original es_systems.cfg will be overwritten

Code:

 <system>
   <name>aquarius</name>
   <fullname>aquarius</fullname>
   <manufacturer>Mattel</manufacturer>
   <release>1950</release>
   <hardware>computer</hardware>
   <path>~\..\roms\aquarius</path>
   <extension>.bin .caq</extension>
   <command>"%HOME%\emulatorLauncher.exe" %CONTROLLERSCONFIG% -system %SYSTEM% -emulator %EMULATOR% -core %CORE% -rom %ROM%</command>
   <platform>aquarius</platform>
   <theme>aquarius</theme>
   <emulators>
     <emulator name="aqualite" command="%HOME%\..\emulators\aqualite\AquaLite.exe %ROM%"/>
     </emulator>
   </emulators>
  </system>