OpenBOR 6xxx OpenBeta Testphase

cyperghost

@julenvitoria If you use my scriptmodule to compile the lib file has to be placed next to the OpenBOR binary. The GL4ES wrapper can be found here and some flags to compile on your system can be found in USAGE.md file.

The wrapper is not needed at all but it wil improve speed for some animations. If you use the avangers mod for example the intro will play stucked even on a Pi3 platform. The I'm excited to hear your results. I think you get the best experince with the 3400 version on your system.

julenvitoria

@cyperghost thank you!! I will try to do it as soon as possible but the next few days I will not have time. When I do, I'll tell you the result. version 3400 works with a very good performance, but there is some module that I would like to have, so I want to try

julenvitoria

@cyperghost

Installed and working!! ;)
Performance (on the first steps) on rpi zero is amazing with openbor!! He-man finally works on my gameboy zero... Yeah!!

cyperghost

@julenvitoria Wow! Now I'm really impressed!
So you compiled GL4ES and OpenBOR on a RPi0/1 ;)
I've never done this and assumed it would lack on those CPUs.
So thank you for your reports ;)

The modules (PAKs) you use are also playing an important role. Some creaters use only oversized graphics and I think that this will throttle down speed. On a x86 mashine with 16GB of RAM this does not really matter but our Pies lack memory and need optimized games. So I think that is the reason why HE-MAN lacks. Because Avengers for example uses much more animations and has much more features.

SinisterSpatula

@julenvitoria Hi there! I am super interested in compiling the same version that you did. I'm starting to research this now, and wondered if you have any pointers you can share.

SinisterSpatula

@cyperghost so I'm trying to do exactly what @julenvitoria did and install OpenBOR Beta with GL4ES. I was able to compile GL4ES and I put it's resulting file next to the openbor binary, after it installed using your scriptmodule for 6xxx. When I try to launch 6xxx it just says missing shared library "libvpx.so.1" which is a video codec it seems. Maybe I'm not following the right process? I'm really lost and confused. Also if I try to follow the "Confident about compiling" steps, I get stuck on applying the patch. When it applies the patch it always fails at chunk 4, and then fails to make because of that. I was trying Dimitri patch. Ok, I think I'm maybe seeing the problem, the patch is supposed to insert +webm in the makefile (which provides libvpx.so.1). Do I need to wait for a new patch? And I think I can't use the "one liner installs" because those are meant for pi3, right?

Edit: I am really trying here LOL. I was able to "patch the files" manually, but when I go to build it complains that version.h isn't there. So I see version.sh and run it, but that fails because it doesn't know the git functions being called. hmmmm

cyperghost

@SinisterSpatula said in OpenBOR 6xxx OpenBeta Testphase:

And I think I can't use the "one liner installs" because those are meant for pi3, right?

Yes, that's RPI3 only

On which RetroPie version you are currently? I tried just for 4.4

For the libvpx try this command sudo apt install libvpx-dev

SinisterSpatula

@cyperghost Thanks for your reply, I checked and I already have libvpx-dev because when I used the scriptmodule it installed that I believe. (tells me already latest version). I've started over, and I think I'm really close. I'm using Retropie 4.4 on pi-zero. I've got openbor-master directory ready to build, that was created from the master.zip you provided, I then manually patched the Makefile, the opengl.c, and sdlport.c by hand. I think the version.sh is not meant to be ran directly and instead I'm supposed to use build.sh instead. Just figuring out what paramenters I need to give build.sh right now.

cyperghost

@SinisterSpatula No the parameter for compiling is make BUILD_PANDORA=1 you can use make clean-all BUILD_PANDORA=1 to remove old compile attempts before.

SinisterSpatula

@cyperghost said in OpenBOR 6xxx OpenBeta Testphase:

make BUILD_PANDORA=1

Ahh I see, so I did the clean, and then I run make BUILD_PANDORA=1 this is what I get:

Compiling PANDORA Port: openbor.c...
In file included from openbor.c:14:0:
openbor.h:44:24: fatal error: version.h: No such file or directory
 #include    "version.h"

That's why I started to look at version.sh and build.sh. - I realize now that these are meant for building linux and other platforms.

cyperghost

@SinisterSpatula Please revert back and use the this patch wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/crcerror/OpenBOR-Raspberry/master/patch/4-Galina.diff

remove the master folder and do the produce again.

SinisterSpatula

The 4-Galina.diff also fails to patch on Hunk #4 at 572. The master.zip I'm using is from: https://github.com/DCurrent/openbor/archive/master.zip is that right? I can try manually patching by hand again.

cyperghost

@SinisterSpatula No... Use wget https://github.com/crcerror/OpenBOR-Raspberry/archive/master.zip This is an older version (8 month or so) and this works with patch 4 and this is the best tested so far ;) Because this is the one @julenvitoria is using.

It could be that in newer version from DCurrent some support is dropped. So it would be fine if you report back if this is working for you.

SinisterSpatula

@cyperghost said in OpenBOR 6xxx OpenBeta Testphase:

make BUILD_PANDORA=1

Thank you so much, it's patching and compiling just fine now. All my problems stemmed from using the wrong master.zip :)

cyperghost

@SinisterSpatula Not at all the wrong master file ;)
It seems that during development phase the OpenBOR binary can't be compiled on RPi1/0 anymore. The developer team of OpenBOR removed some SDL libaries from source code. So this could be the fault.

Thanks for your feedback!

SinisterSpatula

@cyperghost Hi again, so sorry I could use some more advice. I used the "oneliner install" to build the directories, install dependencies, place the Module Selection Script, etc. Then I overwrite the binary with the compiled one, and the libGL.so.1 compiled one. I think it's all working. However, when I launch the beta using the Selection Script, it's saying No config found for system openbor. I guess this is related to /opt/retropie/configs/SYSTEMNAME/emulators.cfg I guess my question is do I need to do the scriptmodule instead for it to setup the emulators.cfg for me? And the "oneliner" does not do that?

I'm trying the scriptmodule method, then overwriting, now... Edit: no, still not working. I recorded all the steps I performed, in case it's helpful, to see what I'm doing wrong? https://sinisterspatula.github.io/SuperRetropieGuides/OpenborBeta6510

cyperghost

@SinisterSpatula said in OpenBOR 6xxx OpenBeta Testphase:

And the "oneliner" does not do that?

Exactly the scriptmodule sets everything up into the right place. The right place for the OpenBOR binary is located to /opt/retropie/ports/openbor
The config is located to /opt/retropie/configs/ports/openbor/emulators.cfg

What happens if you start the fresh compiled OpenBOR binary?
You have to set it to executive, therefore use chmod +x OpenBOR and then start with ./OpenBOR then you should see the init screen.

SinisterSpatula

Thanks again! I did all of this again on my pi3b+ and got a working configuration going with the Beta. I could not figure out how to map controller inputs, but I used xboxdrv as a workaround and it's running good on that system. So now I'll use the pi3b as a blueprint for what I should change on my zero. :) I want to make a guide on this to help others in our facebook group to set this up on theirs also, and it would also be very cool to explore how you did the oneliner, and see if I could make my own oneliner for them to use, or at least a build from source option (scriptmodule) like you did for pi3b.

SinisterSpatula

@cyperghost Still trying to get this working with no success on the pi zero :( Are we sure that @julenvitoria was using Galina? Which scriptmodule do you think they used before overwriting the binaries? I was using http://raw.githubusercontent.com/crcerror/OpenBOR-63xx-RetroPie-openbeta/master/scriptmodules/openbor-6xxx.sh and so everything went into /opt/retropie/ports/openbor-6xxx/ instead of /opt/retropie/ports/openbor

If I try launching it via Emulation Station [OpenBOR - Module Selection Script] all I see in my /dev/shm/runcommand.log is:

Executing: pushd /opt/retropie/ports/openbor-6xxx; /opt/retropie/ports/openbor-6xxx/OpenBOR ""; popd
/opt/retropie/ports/openbor-6xxx /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ports
/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh: line 1012:  6166 Illegal instruction     /opt/retropie/ports/openbor-6xxx/OpenBOR ""
/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ports

On a successful launch from my pi3b+ I see this instead, so there is a difference here:

Executing: pushd /opt/retropie/ports/openbor-6xxx; /opt/retropie/ports/openbor-6xxx/OpenBOR "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ports/openbor/TMNT_RP_1_1_1.pak"; popd
/opt/retropie/ports/openbor-6xxx ~

Edit: Ok, I found a missing line that Pi3 had that zero didn't. I added it to the zero's emulator's config, and now the executed command looks the same for both, but the zero still gives the "illegal instruction".
The missing line was:

openbor = "pushd /opt/retropie/ports/openbor; /opt/retropie/ports/openbor/OpenBOR; popd"

If I try launching it from CLI [sudo ./OpenBOR] I see this:

pi@gpicase:/opt/retropie/ports/openbor-6xxx $ sudo ./OpenBOR
LIBGL: Initialising gl4es
LIBGL: v1.1.1 built on Jul 11 2019 21:41:34
LIBGL: Using GLES 2.0 backend
LIBGL: loaded: libbcm_host.so
LIBGL: loaded: libvcos.so
LIBGL: loaded: libbrcmGLESv2.so
LIBGL: loaded: libbrcmEGL.so
LIBGL: Using GLES 2.0 backend
LIBGL: Hardware Full NPOT detected and used
LIBGL: FBO are in core, and so used
LIBGL: PointSprite are in core, and so used
LIBGL: CubeMap are in core, and so used
LIBGL: BlendColor is in core, and so used
LIBGL: Blend Substract is in core, and so used
LIBGL: Blend Function and Equation Separation is in core, and so used
LIBGL: Texture Mirrored Repeat is in core, and so used
LIBGL: Extension GL_OES_mapbuffer detected
LIBGL: Extension GL_OES_depth24 detected and used
LIBGL: Extension GL_OES_rgb8_rgba8 detected and used
LIBGL: Extension GL_EXT_texture_format_BGRA8888 detected and used
LIBGL: high precision float in fragment shader available and used
LIBGL: Max vertex attrib: 8
LIBGL: Max texture size: 2048
LIBGL: Max Varying Vector: 8
LIBGL: Texture Units: 4(8), Max lights: 8, Max planes: 6
LIBGL: Hardware vendor is Broadcom
LIBGL: Targeting OpenGL 2.0
LIBGL: glX Will try to recycle EGL Surface
LIBGL: Current folder is:/opt/retropie/ports/openbor-6xxx
Illegal instruction
pi@gpicase:/opt/retropie/ports/openbor-6xxx $ ^C

pi@gpicase:/opt/retropie/ports $ /opt/retropie/ports/openbor-6xxx/OpenBOR "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ports/openbor/TMNT_RP_1_1_1.pak"
Illegal instruction
pi@gpicase:/opt/retropie/ports $

Edit: I've tried Galina, I've tried Dmitri, both give me illegal instruction error. Even fresh off the compiler, just doing ./OpenBOR
I thought maybe it was because I was sending video over GPIO pins (Retroflag Gpi case) so I tried taking it out of the case, removing the GPIO video settings, hooked up to TV with HDMI, still same "illegal instruction". Not sure what else I can try.

Edit: Looks like this might be a problem with my particular retropie image. Another friend was able to compile and launch Anna on zero using a different image. So right now I'm also trying Anna and if that fails, it has to be my image.

Edit: Anna failed "illegal instruction" so this has to be a problem with my image, no doubt about it.

cyperghost

@SinisterSpatula Please rename or delete GL4ES.