trying to setup Retro City Ransom ms-dos version

edmaul69

@mediamogul i get excited everytime i watch the video and see it. :)

edmaul69

@mediamogul is there any way the game will recognize more than two buttons on the controller? You have 4 buttons you need but the game only recognizes button 0 and button 1

mediamogul

@edmaul69

This is where the DOSBox Mapper comes in handy. Make a note of all the available function keys for the game and then launch the mapper and map those keys to whatever buttons you want on your controller.

edmaul69

@mediamogul cool i will look for it

edmaul69

@mediamogul so i go to
cd /opt/retropie/emulators/dosbox/bin

And then i type
dosbox -startmapper

And then it tells me:

--basc: dosbox: command not found

Even if i remove the -startmapper it gives the same error. I can clearly see in ftp its there. And i dont have a gui os on my system to go that way.

mediamogul

@edmaul69

It doesn't look like you're doing anything wrong. I created a script to launch the mapper from Emulation Station for easy access named +Start DOSBox Mapper.sh. You could try accessing it that way to see if it works for you. The script is as follows:

#!/bin/bash
/opt/retropie/emulators/dosbox/bin/dosbox -startmapper -c "exit"

edmaul69

I got it. Just got into mapper from in the game by pressing ctrl + f1 to get into it. Score another win for me. :) Im getting lucky these days.

mediamogul

@edmaul69

Don't you just love it when things eventually fall in line?

edmaul69

@mediamogul so i am only going to be using msdos for retro city rampage so took the logo from their site and spent forever editing it and removing the delorean and stuff out of it to make a nice logo to use instead of the msdos logo. i didnt know if you were interested in it but here it is:

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mediamogul

@edmaul69

Hey, that rocks! Thanks man. I think I might try to work it into a splash screen.

edmaul69

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edmaul69

@mediamogul no problem. Glad you like it.

edmaul69

@mediamogul are you sure you dont want to seperate your retro city rampage to have its own theme?

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mediamogul

@edmaul69

Wow, that looks great. Is that a mock-up or a finished theme?

edmaul69

@mediamogul that an actual screenshot of the finished theme. The. Word start is what i renamed the rcr.exe to.

CaelThunderwing

is it in the latest vers of the Setup script's list of themes or?

and i havent Tried testing RCR on dosbox for the Pi3, but an overclocked Pi2 i was getting around 20FPS.

mediamogul

@edmaul69 said in trying to setup Retro City Ransom ms-dos version:

The. Word start is what i renamed the rcr.exe to.

Very clever and it looks fantastic. If I were to dedicate my DOS menu to this game, I would definitely apply the theme, but I have a ton of DOS games in there and quite frankly, I'm afraid of what 'Dungeon Keeper' might do to me in my sleep if I were to try such a thing.

Edit: I've never looked into theming ES before, but I just realized that you're probably talking about creating a whole separate entry for the game that is independent of the DOS menu. That is something I could really get behind for a quite a few titles & custom groupings. I'll have to look into that further. If you have any links to share, please do.

@CaelThunderwing

i havent Tried testing RCR on dosbox for the Pi3, but an overclocked Pi2 i was getting around 20FPS.

I haven't checked to see what FPS I'm getting on my Pi3, but anecdotally I've played the game quite a bit and it doesn't feel sluggish or choppy.

edmaul69

@CaelThunderwing this is my own theme i made. I dont know how to check actual clock speed. Without overclocking i play fine at 30 fps on pi 3. I tried this on a pi zero and it was like 1 fps. Not sure exactly what it was but is was unplayable at 15fps

@mediamogul you can. In es_systems.cfg duplicate the pc config. Put the RCR folder directly in the roms folder Then point the config to START.EXE for the rom location (thats what you want to rename RCE.EXE to) then change the theme to rcr

Edit: i meant to say pi zero

mediamogul

@edmaul69

I'll have to give that a shot. Ultimately, I want to create my own menu addition similar to the 'Arcade' folder specifically for homebrew and special interest titles where a variety of emulators can be chosen.