ECWolf - Wolfenstein 3D source port for mods

Solid One

Great news!

BTW, ECWolf is a Wolf3D sourceport as good as ZDoom is for Doom. You can have modern FPS controls, both on keyboard+mouse (you can use WASD to move, and mouse to look) and in joysticks (you can strafe/move with the left analog stick, rotate with right stick, and even can adjust sensibility as you like).

But as I said in another topic, the main reason I think ECWolf is the best Wolf3D sourceport IMHO is the fact it has the best support for mods I could find. Differently from other sourceports that accepts only vanilla mods (maily allowing only changes in sprites, maps and sounds), ECWolf allows modders to include new weapons, new monsters / bosses, change the episodes / maps structure, etc. And what's best: without having to recurr to rebuilding Wolf4SDL binaries whenever you want to create mods with advanced features.

The only thing I miss from ECWolf right now is the splitscreen support created in SplitWolf, but in that case, I can simply maintain both sourceports and use one or another, according to my needs, just like I've done in ZDoom and Doom Legacy.

Gotta test it on my RPi2 as soon as possible! I'll see how the Wolf3D SNES port (Claw of Eisenfaust) will work.

tpo1990

@cyperghost I must have overlooked that when i first created the topic. Thanks. It has now been corrected. :-)

tpo1990

@Solid-One I agree on this. ECWolf can be compaired as to what ZDoom is today. I still think that ECWolf needs some more testing to see how good it performs. It could very well be the next primary Wolf3d port for RetroPie if not then as an alternative to Wolf4SDL.

Also the scriptmodule could still use some more tweaking. Hopefully in doing so that it will be like Doom Legacy, so that we only have one Wolfenstein 3D.sh and one Spear of Destiny.sh runcommand file and with the possibility of changing which emulator to use when running the game.

mitu

@tpo1990 great work ! I have tested the installation on a PC and it seems to work (didn't start any game since it's headless).
One minor tidbit - rename was not installed by default on my Ubuntu, maybe should be added as a dependency.

cyperghost

@tpo1990 I compiled this and it runs fine....

Some things to improve the modules

You have some dependencies that are not required at all. I only installed libsdl2-mixer-dev libsdl2-net-dev I think the g++ and mercurial thing isn't needed.
You can download the whole archive by using wget https://bitbucket.org/ecwolf/ecwolf/get/5065aaefe055.zip then unzip cmake make ....
You can achive to load all WOLF episodes with
3.1 One Fileset or
3.2 directory structured

For the one fileset you mix all episodes of WOLF in /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ports/wolf3d and this may contain a long list like this one

pi@retropie:~/RetroPie/roms/ports/wolf3d $ ls
audiodct.n3d  audiot.wl6    gamemaps.wl6  sod           vgagraph.wl6  vswap.wl6
audiohed.n3d  config.n3d    licenses.zip  vgadict.n3d   vgahead.n3d   wolf3d
audiohed.sod  config.sod    maphead.n3d   vgadict.sod   vgahead.sod
audiohed.wl6  config.wl6    maphead.sod   vgadict.wl6   vgahead.wl6
audiot.n3d    gamemaps.n3d  maphead.wl6   vgagraph.n3d  vswap.n3d
audiot.sod    gamemaps.sod  noah          vgagraph.sod  vswap.sod
pi@retropie:~/RetroPie/roms/ports/wolf3d $

Then your SOD-WOLF3d.sh contains just

pushd /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ports/wolf3d
/opt/retropie/ports/ecwolf/ecwolf --data sod
popd

without the data tag you create a text selection menu ;)

For the directory structure you set each episode in one directory

sod   noah   wolf3d

and then the bash file will be simply

pushd /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ports/wolf3d/sod
/opt/retropie/ports/ecwolf/ecwolf
popd

cyperghost

@mitu The rename comand isn't really needed if you use the directory based variant.Otherwise the --data switch must be set to SOD or sod
So it's a question that @tpo1990 can answer what seems the best variant ;)

Annother thing. You can't terminate current running game with gamepad! ESC key seems to be locked somehow and the back feature just works in main menu. This should be improved at first ;)

cyperghost

@tpo1990

function game_data_ecwolf() {
    pushd "$romdir/ports/wolf3d"
    rename 'y/A-Z/a-z/' *
    popd
    if [[ ! -f "$romdir/ports/wolf3d/vswap.wl6" && ! -f "$romdir/ports/wolf3d/vswap.wl1" ]]; then
        cd "$__tmpdir"
        # Get shareware game data
        downloadAndExtract "http://maniacsvault.net/ecwolf/files/shareware/wolf3d14.zip" "$romdir/ports/wolf3d" -j -LL
    fi

The -LL switch is a nice find. So to make ecwolf perfect we just need a possibility to ESC from ingame to mainmenu ;) Should be possible to do. Thanks for bringing this jewel alive. Somehow I never was able to get SDLWolf running (false levelset?) with ecwolf there was never an obstacle.

I think with ecwolf it should be possible (in later dev stage) to get Blackstone and Corridor 7 running, too

Solid One

@cyperghost I've tested ECWolf on Windows a few weeks ago, and I remember being able to go back to menu by pressing Start on a Xbox360 controller. Maybe there's a way of mapping a button to go back to the main menu, just like there is in Zdoom sourceport (by binding a button to the console command 'main_menu'). Try checking the button mappings screen.

tpo1990

@cyperghost I think the best scenario or output would be, if that when you start the game from Emulationstation it would show a selection menu for what game or wads to choose. For example like this.

@mitu Thank you. According to the compiling instructions from the ECWolf website - rename has not been mentioned. It doens't look like it is needed on our RPI. I can not say about Ubuntu, as i have not tested it from there.

Let me hear what both thoughts you two have on this.

cyperghost

@tpo1990 I can also consider to write a bash menu like in this thread but the main problem is to differ between a vanilla build and a mod.

So I would suggest following. Every mod uses it's own subfolder. Vanilla builds just starts with a call to ecwolf. If there is a pak file then the --file argument is used.

@Solid-One I tried with button command main_menu = #; #=some numbers
Did not work at all. Can you enter the main menu if you are in a game?

tpo1990

@cyperghost Then maybe separate mods from vanilla build by having one bash menu for vanilla builds and one for mods. I think it is also important to keep a clean structure so that it will be easy to use as well.

cyperghost

@tpo1990 Or by creating a kind of cfg or ini files with mandatory parameter set.

Wolfenstein - Spear of Destiny.ecwolf

/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/wolf3d/
--data sod

Wolfenstein - Spear of Destiny Advanced Resolution Mod.ecwolf

/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/wolf3d/
--data sod --file Advanced_res.pak3

That would be a possible solution, but needs a bit of handwork of course.
First line contains game data path
Second line is parameter set

Because some modules like Astrostein need a cmdline call like ecwolf --file astrostein3_fix_PC.pk3 Astro3_data.bin

EDIT:

Annother question: Can you enter main menu with any gamepad key within the game?
Maybe there are other ways without additional description files...

cyperghost

@tpo1990 I'm making a fork of your git and send you some PR
I think I've got a solution that works best ....

cyperghost

I made some efforts with scripting. You can take a look in my GITHUB resp

You have to setup .ecwolf files maybe Wolfenstein 3D - HighRes.ecwolf
Inside this file you fill your data. So you've HD graphics for SoD, Wolf3D and nice soundtrack ;)

cd wolf3d_14
/opt/retropie/ports/ecwolf/ecwolf --data wl6 --file ../addons/ECWolf_hdpack.pk3 ../addons/ECWolf_hdmus_3DO.pk3
wait $!

The first line opens directory wolf3d_14 were the vanilla Wolfenstein 3D version 1.4 resides.
The second line is ecwolfs command line switch that, it says to go back to port/wolf3d root menu and load the Highrespak inside addon directory
- you can add as much bash commands as you like
- zip commands, xboxdrv ...
The third line is wait $!
- everything after this will be exectued after Wolf3d was closed
- usefull to repack savegames, terminate xboxdrv....

My directory tree looks like this now.

wolf3d/
├── addons
│   ├── Astro3_data.bin
│   ├── astrostein3_fix_PC.pk3
│   ├── ECWolf_hdpack.pk3
│   └── totenhaus.pk3
├── wolf3d_14
│   ├── audiohed.n3d
│   ├── audiohed.sod
│   ├── audiohed.wl6 
|      .....
│   ├── vswap.n3d
│   ├── vswap.sod
│   └── vswap.wl6
├── Wolfenstein 3D.ecwolf
├── Wolfenstein 3D - HighRes.ecwolf
└── Wolfenstein 3D - Spear of Destiny.ecwolf

1. Selection screen

2. runcommand launching screen

3. Finally a Wolf3D in highres

Finally thank you @tpo1990 for bringing this together

cyperghost

@Solid-One

I'll see how the Wolf3D SNES port (Claw of Eisenfaust) will work.

It works fantastic

ExarKunIv

Very cool.
just started messing around with it. so i have found i cant remap the controls for the joy1 in the game menu. so playing it from the start with my 8bitdo is not easy.
yes i did find the config file. i need to poke around that a bit more and get the IDs for the buttons that it reads so i can edit it.

ExarKunIv

@cyperghost

to get the selection menu that you have a pic of. do i just need to use the script that you have on your github or is there more work?

cyperghost

@ExarKunIv Yes you have to edit Wolfensteins 3D emulator config file. It's located in /opt/retropie/configs/ports/wolf3d/emulators.cfg or in /opt/retropie/configs/ports/ecwolf/emulators.cfg and add a line

ecwolf = "pushd /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ports/wolf3d; /opt/retropie/ports/ecwolf/ecwolf %ROM%; popd"
default = "ecwolf"

~~then you copy ecwolf.sh from github to /opt/retropie/ports/ecwolf and make it executable. I assume the binary of ecwolf is in same directory as the script file. Again! Make the script executable~~

then you copy Wolfenstein 3D.sh from github to /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ports

That should do the trick so far....
File convention according this post

ExarKunIv

@cyperghost thank you, ill give it a go. not sure if i want a menu, or just have all the games listed in my ports.

right now im just getting my controls down good.

cyperghost

@ExarKunIv Well with the .ecwolf-method you can create a own system ;)
Of course you can set all parameters manually script files instead if you don't want a menu.

Everything is possible. If you don't want a menu you have to change the call from ecwolf.sh to ecwolf of course.