New Hypseus and lr-Daphne to add on Retropie-Setup

Stuart2773

ive found some really nice 4:3 versions of Dragons Lair 1 & 2 & Space Ace, that run smoothly in daphne, heres a few comparison screens of the original and the newer versions :-

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the new video files are 960x720 & 720x480 instead of 640x480, and are not that much bigger in disk filesize, these new video files by dex77 are BRD REMASTERED and are far superior to the accumbens & Franck releases.
HVG also released a nice HD Version of Dragons Lair,

grant2258

Good news Daphne is getting ported to libretro no sound yet but its up and running not ready for users yet though

mediamogul

@grant2258

That is great news indeed! Any links where we can follow progress?

@Stuart2773

if you wish to test these versions i can glady point you in the right direction.

The video files are definitely beautiful, but please remember that they are protected works and even sharing their location is considered facilitating piracy, which is in no way allowed here.

Stuart2773

@mediamogul said in [Hypseus new Daphne fork to try on Retropie]

@Stuart2773

if you wish to test these versions i can glady point you in the right direction.

The video files are definitely beautiful, but please remember that they are protected works and even sharing their location is considered facilitating piracy, which is in no way allowed here.

@mediamogul
ive amended the original post, no need to worry i have no plans on posting the links to the files, pretty easy to find on google if you know what to search for.

Stuart2773

@grant2258 said in Hypseus new Daphne fork to try on Retropie:

Good news Daphne is getting ported to libretro no sound yet but its up and running not ready for users yet though

this is great news, do you have anymore info on the progress?
hopefully we will be able to configure the controls properly, also do you know if the LR version will include the singe engine that had better compatibilty and enabled more laserdisc games to be played ?.

grant2258

@mediamogul https://github.com/libretro/daphne

twinaphex and the original aurthor has done all the work inputs and video are hooked up. I just went through the source and figured out where to put everything to see how its running on windows. it was one line of code stopping it.

screen shot here.

https://github.com/libretro/daphne/pull/20

Stuart2773

@darknior

may i ask the file size of your Firefox video file for daphne/hypseus?

thanks

stuart.

grant2258

its a retroarch daphne screenshot.

lair.m2v 852 MB (893,769,849 bytes) is the framefile im using

darknior

@stuart2773 It's firefox.m2v : 1,70 Go (1 836 320 618 octets)
Why ?
And thanks for the games HD version informations ;)

@grant2258 said in Hypseus new Daphne fork to try on Retropie:

@mediamogul https://github.com/libretro/daphne

https://github.com/libretro/daphne/pull/20

Great news :) Maybe in a few time include to Retropie on PI :p

Stuart2773

@darknior

Thanks for the info on Firefox, the reason I asked is so I can try and locate the video files and knowing the file size is a starting point, I hope you can locate and try the versions of dragons lair 1&2 from the info provided ;)

grant2258

@mediamogul i tried compiling this for the pie to test it and came across an issue. I originally thought it was path related but it isint.

grants original path /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/daphne/roms
grants new path /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/daphne/roms
SDL failed: SDL not compiled with stdio support

is there any reason the support isint there that you know of?

mediamogul

@grant2258 said in Hypseus new Daphne fork to try on Retropie:

is there any reason the support isint there that you know of?

Not that I'm aware of, no. It could be to accommodate some strange outer fringe case or something. @psyke83 might know more about it.

grant2258

never mind i looked into it more seems the core is compiling sdl with it,. Its not the retropie end

skj

@grant2258 said in Hypseus new Daphne fork to try on Retropie:

Good news Daphne is getting ported to libretro no sound yet but its up and running not ready for users yet though

This is great news, when can we expect a release ?

grant2258

@skj dont know but the pi is hazing freezing issues is working fine on x86 and x64. All that needs added is audio for the x86

Stuart2773

@grant2258 said in Hypseus new Daphne fork to try on Retropie:

@skj dont know but the pi is hazing freezing issues is working fine on x86 and x64. All that needs added is audio for the x86

i hope the freezing issue can be fixed on the pi, are the games actually able to load on the pi and then freezing or are the freezing before loading?

grant2258

I think i got the freezing sorted. I updated my retroarch from source still had problems(pi 3b+) . Personally for myself to get this working I had to update my sdl to the latest.

if anyone is intrested in testing i can leave instructions

johnodon

@grant2258 said in Hypseus new Daphne fork to try on Retropie:

I think i got the freezing sorted. I updated my retroarch from source still had problems(pi 3b+) . Personally for myself to get this working I had to update my sdl to the latest.

if anyone is intrested in testing i can leave instructions

Man I am watching this thread! :)

Do you need an x86 (x64) tester?

grant2258

more intrested in getting the pi bug fixed.

@mediamogul
Its 100% the sdl2 lib causing the freezing. Confirmed it it by reinstalling the old one.

Installing the new one then rebooting fixes the issue. Is there any way we can get sdl2 updated? Ill do more testing ill reinstall the old one and reboot the only way i can seem to fix it is using the latest atm

pjft

@grant2258 I recall reading in the past something about why we're not using the latest SDL libs. I may be mixing things up, but could be worth confirming whether updating SDL2 will not cause other things to break on the Pi.