CRPG fun on the Pi
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@thejewk I think for Daggerfall I got it up and running on a PC implementation of DosBox first, then several months later just dropped the files onto my Pi3 and away I went lol. I do know the initial setup had a few hoops to jump through, but that was many months ago so I don't remember the steps. I believe Bethesda has some well written instructions for the process.
I do agree with you that the modern iterations of the Elder Scrolls series do tend to spoon feed the player quite a bit. I've actually taken note of that several times since Oblivion. On the other hand I found myself wondering around aimlessly in Morrowind quite a bit until I turned it off so I can understand what they were doing, but I think they certainly took it a bit too far. Even the puzzles in the more recent iterations are pathetic. So yeah they went from one extreme to the other in my opinion.
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That's a bloody good idea. I'll try that myself with Daggerfall. Thanks!
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@thejewk No problem. Glad I could help.
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I don't really mean to hijack the thread here, but how hard is it to get DosBox setup on RetroPie? I looked at the wiki about it, but it looks really confusing. There are a number of games I'd like to try to get running, but don't know what all would be involved. Also, is DosBox limited to just old DOS games, or can it run some newer stuff? I ask because I thought Balder's Gate was a Windows program, yet it's mentioned in this thread that it is running in DosBox. I have 1 & 2, as well as Neverwinter Knights and Diablo 1 & 2 that I'd love to play again. I'd also like to get games like Warcraft and StarCraft running (I know there are ports available, might have to go that way). And I'd absolutely die if I could get games like the Jedi Knight series and Knights of the Old Republic running.
Who's Scruffy Looking?
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The Infinity Engine games run on GemRB which you can install from the Experimental packages menu.
As for Dosbox, it depends on the game for how difficult it is to get running. For many of them it's as simple as copying the game folder to the roms/pc path. You can then browse to the exe file in Emulationstation and run it like any other game.
Most of the games I have played about with are games I already own on various collections on CD or from Gog.com. I install them on a Windows Pc and then copy the installed folder across.
Some are a lot more complicated, and some need tinkering with to get going correctly. Daggerfall is still giving me a headache.
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@hansolo77 Dosbox is limited to old Dos programs, as the goal of the program is to emulate an ideal Dos only machine. Saying that I have actually got Windows 3.1 running very nicely on my pi3 through dosbox. So depending on the windows version the game you mention runs on, it may work just fine. Windows 3.1 runs faster on the Pi3 through Dosbox than on any physical hardware of the time I found. I doubt this has any real level of accuracy but a benchmarking tool packaged with the game "Outpost" detected the CPU as a 250 Mhz 486. I found that quite amusing because the 486 never went much beyond 100 Mhz.
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I should also state that while I haven't personally tested it, Windows 95 should run through Dosbox as well, and by extension Windows 98 may run also since it's so similar to 95 and runs on top or Dos.
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Yeah I think the games I'm looking to run would probably be more for WindowsXP. No biggie though, thanks for the info!
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I presume you'd need a keyboard for most of the DOS titles. I wonder if someone has put together a good collection of more RetroPie/controller DOS titles.
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AMA
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@hooperre what? :)
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@hansolo77 oh shit sorry in my drunken attempt to be funny my picture didn’t post. ashamed face
NWN is probably my favorite game of all time. I grabbed the demo of ExaGear tonight and installed Wine. It crashed during installation and I’m a Linux newbie so I don’t think all the drivers installed correctly because DXBall and Age of Empires didn’t run but miraculously NWN did! It is honestly running better than it did when I first played it in 2000, but that’s not saying much. The frame rate is pretty poor with the lowest settings but it’s playable if you’re like... really trying to play it. I feel comfortable just knowing I have something reliable to run it no matter the platform or updates to Windows going forward. Used the GOG install. Haven’t patched or anything. Anyway, just remembered this thread and thought you might care to know. Non-OC’d.
I’ll be testing more later.
Edit: I’m shit at posting on mobile!
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That's awesome. I saw a post about the ExaGear addon in a Facebook group post. I was interested but don't really like the idea that it only works for a couple of days then you have to BUY it. This is meant to be all open source and free. That guy is just stealing other people's work and made a simple installer to streamline it, then took the credit for it. If I could figure out what all is required, installing WINE directly (without a 3rd party OS (ExaGear) that's the best. I'll have to spend some time researching it when I have the time to spare. Good job getting NWN installed though. That game was awesome and I never really got far into it. Too bad the framerate is so bad it's unplayable.
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@hansolo77 Well that's a disappointment. ExaGear does kind of just cause a few headaches in terms of being unable to update to the most recent version of Wine. I'm finding that a lot of things that are on the AppDB as running well are not working with ExaGear. Age of Empires, for example, isn't running even though it's 'platinum' on wine's AppDB page.
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