Launching Quake and it's extras (1 year anniversary release)

mitu

@semper-5 Both darkplaces and lr-tyrquake are not emulators, they're open source Quake engines, compiled natively for the PI. I think DP has more features and tries to be compatible with most mods, while tyrquake leans towards the original look and feel.

Semper 5

@mitu damn, I apologize...I KEEP saying emulator when I mean port/engine/etc (force of habit) and I have been called out on numerous occasions lol >_-
but thank you for your opinion on the 2 :) I find DP has a very very small bit of jitter/lag to it only at action-packed sequences, but I can't justify giving it up due to the rendering and ease of access

mitu

@semper-5 DP has a big advantage IMHO over tyrquake - it's one of the few engines that can play the Nehahra mod. If you haven't played it, I strongly recommend it.

Semper 5

@mitu Nehara looks BEAUTIFUL! thanks for the recommendation!
2 questions though: I see 5 PAK files, which of these would I actually use and would I be making individual scripts for each?

I was expecting just one big PAK file

mitu

@semper-5 create a nehahra folder with all the packs, sitting side by side with the default id folder (I think the download from https://www.quaddicted.com/reviews/nehahra.html already has the right folder structure) then launch DP with the -nehahra parameter and it should work.

Semper 5

@mitu I extracted the contents of the nehara.zip with nehara folder containing the packs, all next to the id1 folder.

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do you have a pastebin of what my script should look like? I'm a bit confused how I can relate the windows command to what it should be in retropie

mitu

@semper-5 How do you launch other Quake mods ? What script(s) are you using ? Btw, you can safely delete all the .exe files in there.

Semper 5

@mitu thanks, that'll reduce the clutter hehe.
i use the scripts mentioned at the top of this thread

cyperghost

@semper-5 Well these scripts are outdated ;) - I told you. Of course you can use them but they aren't needed.

mitu

@semper-5 Man, what an ugly hack ! Try creating a Nehahra.sh launch file containing just

"/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh" 0 _PORT_ "quake" "-nehahra"

I'll try installing DP in RetroPie and dig up my Quake install files to check it out.

Semper 5

@mitu I had literally just finished creating a script exactly as you described haha. unfortunately it didn't work. it just goes to regular quake. do you think I should be pointing it to the pak0.pak in the nehara folder?

@cyperghost I was afraid to destroy all your work but reducing over 100 lines to just 1 was a lot less painless than I thought :D

cyperghost

@semper-5 No problem. It was a sneak hack as lr-tyrquake wasn't able to launch addons. As there was only one save location (ID1) and lr-tyrquake used always same save structure I created zip files to store addons savegames per file.

@mitu Not ugly ;) SNEAK ;) I think one of my first bash attempts.

mitu

@semper-5 said in Launching Quake and it's extras (1 year anniversary release):

do you think I should be pointing it to the pak0.pak in the nehara folder?

I don't think it's enough, DP needs the -nehahra switch to know it should run some specific Nehahra code. I'll try to whip up a script, but first I must convince Steam to download my Quake1 files.

cyperghost

@mitu @Semper-5

Can you discuss this please in a new thread?
I think a small "how to install nehara"-thread would be better as it's a DP mod and can't be run in lr-tyrquake.