chex quest on retropie is this possible if so how

mediamogul

Well, I figured out half of the mystery. For 'Chex Quest' 1-2 to run in libretro-prboom, a specially modified wad file must be used. CQ 1-3 has been made freeware by the developer, but I'm still hesitant to post it here, so instead I'll link to this post that explains the issue and further describes what @herb_fargus has already mentioned about switching the files out. It also makes mention of creating a .sh file as an alternative method so the two games can exist together in Emulation Station. As for ZDoom and CQ3, I'll look into that some other time and post back.

dudleydes

@edmaul69 The simplest way to getting Heretic, Hexen and Strife running is to install Chocolate Doom from Zerojay's repo. The script will install the Chocolate variants of the three games above and automatically create bash scripts to launch from ES.

To configure joystick, keyboard, sound etc., you can run chocolate-heretic-setup from the command line.

To run Wolfenstein 3D, I suggest Wolf4SDL which you can install from the RetroPie setup script.

edmaul69

@dudleydes i finally got wolfenstein running with dosbox after finding a version that the retropie dosbox liked (my version and shareware version worked on pc dosbox but not pi version). Im going to try the same with the hexen series. If i have problems i will try the chocholate program.

dudleydes

@edmaul69 I would recommend taking a look at Wolf4SDL. In DOSBox, I think I could get Wolfenstein 3D running at 320x240 (or 320x200). In Wolf4SDL, I can run it smoothly on the Pi at twice the resolution. This should also be the case with Chocolate Doom.

mediamogul

He's right, there's no substitute for running these games as ports if possible. I only use DOSBox as a stand-in when everything else fails. Still, it's a great catchall emulator in it's own right and a very useful trick to keep up the sleeve.

edmaul69

@dudleydes @mediamogul is there an sh script i need to know for the wolf4sdl?

edmaul69

@mediamogul do you know how to change where wolf4sdl looks for the game? The demo version worked but for reasons unbeknownst to me i have to put roms in /root/RetroPie/roms/ The demo works bu if i dump the full version files on even overwriting the wolf3d.exe it still shows up as the demo. But if i delete all the demo files it no longer works because when i updated to 4.0 beta1?? It switched my roms folders to /root/RetroPie/roms/ and nothing that i myself put into the /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ folder works.

mediamogul

@edmaul69

I wish I could help, but I haven't installed wolf4sdl yet. I wouldn't imagine that wolf3d.exe is used by the ported engine though because it's a DOS executable. It should only be utilizing the game data files that accompany it. It's also really odd that it's looking for those files at /RetroPie/roms/ports/wolf3d/ rather than ~/RetroPie/roms/ports/wolf3d/. Could that possibly be a mistake on the wiki?

edmaul69

@mediamogul ok so here is something maybe you could help me with. When i updated to 4.0 beta1-ish it switch from me being able to put my roms in /home/pi/Retropie/roms/ to having to put them in /root/RetroPie/roms/instead. The stuff that retropie-setup puts in /home/pi/... works but nothing i put in there works. if i remove the files from there and dump the same ones back on it still wont work. I have no clue how to fix that. I would prefer using roms in /home/ and not /root/ is there some kind of permissions issue?

mediamogul

@edmaul69

I see your problem, but unfortunately it's above my pay grade. It sounds like you have somehow been running the whole system through the root user account. The issue definitely deserves it's own thread to attract some wider attention. Most people probably left us here when we were talking about Zorchers and Flemoids.

edmaul69

@mediamogul when i hit f4 it shows pi@RetroPie but yeah i will start a new thread

dudleydes

@edmaul69 As with most ports, getting the full version running isn't straightforward though Wolf4SDL can be done in 5-10 minutes.

First, place the game data, the files with *.wl6 extension, in /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ports/wolf3d/. This is the same folder as the shareware version (the *.wl1 files).

DOS file names tend to be upper case so you will have to rename the game data to lower case for Wolf4SDL to work. This can be done from the command line rather than manually (check the wiki on how to do this).

Finally, you need to select the appropriate Wolf4SDL binary depending on which version of game data you have, Apogee 1.4 or GT/ID/Activision. How to do this is explained in the wiki.

https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/Wolfenstein-3D

edmaul69

@dudleydes yeah i got it working. I had to chown the /home/pi/roms folder back to pi owner and from there i got wolfenstein full version working great. I did have to google to learn about the lowercase. Now my next thing when i wake up will be to work on hexen series and chex quest.