Retrobat 6.1 (and minor issue after upgrade)

Hi all,
The upgrade to v6.1 went okay and so far all systems are working,

but I had the following (minor) issues.
(In the other thread is was mentioned not to alter the es_systems.cfg)

1. During the upgrade the es_systems.cfg is overwritten and the TI-99/4A came back in the "MESS" group
(and lost my ti99 group and therefore it was not select as default startup system anymore)
I have a backup of the es_systems.cfg overwrote it and back to normal.

2. For Vpinball I do not see the Pad2Key option (and not sure how to do it different to start a batch file from Retrobat), but I also altered the es_systems.cfg
to start a batch file with the main reason is to start Joy2Key (as I need to configure my PS4 controller buttons for Baby Pacman Pinball).
see below the details.

3. Also in Baby Pacman (not sure why) suddenly the backglass Opacity is 50% (a transparent background to play the Pac Man maze)
to fix this press F1 when Baby Pacman is running and change the Opacity to 100% (full black background)
(then Quit, Save, Exit VPinball) and should fix it.




es_system.cfg alterations:

<system>
<name>ti99</name>
<fullname>TI-99/4A</fullname>
<manufacturer>Texas Instruments</manufacturer>
<release>1981</release>
<hardware>computer</hardware>
<path>~\..\roms\ti99</path>
<extension>.rpk .zip</extension>
<command>"%HOME%\emulatorLauncher.exe" %CONTROLLERSCONFIG% -system %SYSTEM% -emulator %EMULATOR% -core %CORE% -gameinfo %GAMEINFOXML% -rom %ROM%</command>
<emulators>
<emulator name="libretro">
<cores>
<core>mame</core>
</cores>
</emulator>
<emulator name="mame64">
<cores>
<core>mame64</core>
</cores>
</emulator>
</emulators>
<platform>ti99</platform>
<theme>ti99</theme>
<group>ti99</group>
</system>



es_systems.cfg
<system>
<name>vpinball</name>
<fullname>Visual Pinball</fullname>
<manufacturer>Pinball</manufacturer>
<release>2000</release>
<hardware>pinball</hardware>
<path>~\..\roms\vpinball</path>
<extension>.vpx .7z .zip .rar</extension>
<command>"%HOME%\.emulationstation\vpinball.bat" %GAMEINFOXML% %SYSTEM% %EMULATOR% %CORE% %ROM%</command>
<emulators>
<emulator name="vpinball">
<cores>
<core>vpinball</core>
</cores>
</emulator>
</emulators>
<platform>vpinball</platform>
<theme>vpinball</theme>
</system>


Batch file: vpinball.bat (directory C:\RetroBat\emulationstation\.emulationstation)

@echo off
set arg1=%1
set arg2=%2
set arg3=%3
set arg4=%4
set arg5=%5
set arg6=%6
cd ..
start /MIN "" "C:\Program Files (x86)\JoyToKey\JoyToKey.exe" "C:\Users\globe\OneDrive\Documents\JoyToKey\Vpinballwireless.cfg"
REM copy C:\RetroBat\emulators\vpinball\ScreenRes.txt C:\RetroBat\roms\vpinball\ScreenRes.txt
REM edit file properties to "read only" (otherwise the file automatically is deleted somehow)
start emulatorLauncher.exe -gameinfo %arg1% -system %arg3% -emulator %arg3% -core %arg3% -rom %arg5%
pause
taskkill /F /im JoyToKey.exe



and in Joy2Key
Configured buttons like
button assigned to Q (quit),
button assigned to Enter (for plunger)
Arrows for PAC-Man maze

Left Trigger button to Left Shift for left flipper
Right Trigger button to Right Shift for right flipper

"Select" button to 5 for coins
"Start" button to 1 to start the game

globeron wrote:Hi all,
The upgrade to v6.1 went okay and so far all systems are working,

but I had the following (minor) issues.
(In the other thread is was mentioned not to alter the es_systems.cfg)

1.  During the upgrade the es_systems.cfg is overwritten and the TI-99/4A came back in the "MESS" group
    (and lost my ti99 group and therefore it was not select as default startup system anymore)
   I have a backup of the es_systems.cfg overwrote it and back to normal.

2.  For Vpinball I do not see the Pad2Key option (and not sure how to do it different to start a batch file from Retrobat), but I also altered the es_systems.cfg
    to start a batch file with the main reason is to start Joy2Key (as I need to configure my PS4 controller buttons for Baby Pacman Pinball).
    see below the details.

3. Also in Baby Pacman (not sure why) suddenly the backglass Opacity is 50% (a transparent background to play the Pac Man maze)
   to fix this press F1 when Baby Pacman is running and change the Opacity to 100% (full black background)
   (then Quit,  Save,  Exit VPinball) and should fix it.




es_system.cfg alterations:

<system>
   <name>ti99</name>
   <fullname>TI-99/4A</fullname>
   <manufacturer>Texas Instruments</manufacturer>
   <release>1981</release>
   <hardware>computer</hardware>
   <path>~\..\roms\ti99</path>
   <extension>.rpk .zip</extension>
   <command>"%HOME%\emulatorLauncher.exe" %CONTROLLERSCONFIG% -system %SYSTEM% -emulator %EMULATOR% -core %CORE% -gameinfo %GAMEINFOXML% -rom %ROM%</command>
   <emulators>
     <emulator name="libretro">
       <cores>
         <core>mame</core>
       </cores>
     </emulator>
     <emulator name="mame64">
       <cores>
         <core>mame64</core>
       </cores>
     </emulator>
   </emulators>
   <platform>ti99</platform>
   <theme>ti99</theme>
   <group>ti99</group>
 </system>



es_systems.cfg
 <system>
   <name>vpinball</name>
   <fullname>Visual Pinball</fullname>
   <manufacturer>Pinball</manufacturer>
   <release>2000</release>
   <hardware>pinball</hardware>
   <path>~\..\roms\vpinball</path>
   <extension>.vpx .7z .zip .rar</extension>
   <command>"%HOME%\.emulationstation\vpinball.bat" %GAMEINFOXML% %SYSTEM% %EMULATOR% %CORE% %ROM%</command>
<emulators>
     <emulator name="vpinball">
       <cores>
         <core>vpinball</core>
       </cores>
     </emulator>
   </emulators>
   <platform>vpinball</platform>
   <theme>vpinball</theme>
 </system>


Batch file:  vpinball.bat   (directory C:\RetroBat\emulationstation\.emulationstation)

@echo off
set arg1=%1
set arg2=%2
set arg3=%3
set arg4=%4
set arg5=%5
set arg6=%6
cd ..
start /MIN "" "C:\Program Files (x86)\JoyToKey\JoyToKey.exe" "C:\Users\globe\OneDrive\Documents\JoyToKey\Vpinballwireless.cfg"
REM copy C:\RetroBat\emulators\vpinball\ScreenRes.txt C:\RetroBat\roms\vpinball\ScreenRes.txt
REM edit file properties to "read only"  (otherwise the file automatically is deleted somehow)
start emulatorLauncher.exe -gameinfo %arg1% -system %arg3% -emulator %arg3% -core %arg3% -rom %arg5%
pause
taskkill /F /im JoyToKey.exe



and in Joy2Key
Configured buttons like
button assigned to Q (quit),
button assigned to Enter (for plunger)
Arrows for PAC-Man maze

Left Trigger button to Left Shift for left flipper
Right Trigger button to Right Shift for right flipper

"Select" button to 5  for coins
"Start" button to 1 to start the game

Hello,

1 is not an issue, TI99 is grouped under MESS for RetroBat, just ungroup it as you did in the past

2 : we can add padtokey to vpinball for the future

3 : we do not touch opacity, maybe when trying different buttons and keys you found the shortcut to change opacity

Thank you for the fast reply,

RE 2 : we can add padtokey to vpinball for the future
that would be a good option!

RE 3: On the Opacity I will try to research it why it happens.

Can you try this fix :
https://wiki.retrobat.org/tutorials/know-issues-and-fixes

It should add pad2key (at the bottom, the zip file)

RE 2 : the Pad2Key is working for Vpinballl, thank you!

RE 1: I ungrouped and it also is showing Texas Instruments
but can you help to change
* from TI/99 to TI-99/4A
* and 1999 to 1981

RE 3: I will try another time if the same happens with Opacity on another system

RE 3: I did not have the issue here with Opacity anymore with Vpinball and Baby Pacman.
(and the Pad2Key fix also works fine)

For the update initially I had an error:
Update Error: Corrupted Update Archive
> Reason was that I did not have enough disk space to download the archive