Duke Nukem 3D Expansions not starting.

[OldSchool]

Thank you in advance for any assistance. So I've installed eduke32 according to https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/Duke-Nukem-3D. Duke Nukem 3D: Atomic Edition works great., but none of the three expansions will start; the screen will just turn black and kick out back to emulationstation. I followed the instructions to a T, and changed the emulators.cfg and eduke32.cfg files as stated. I also saw the recently posted paragraph on top saying that according to a new version of the eduke32 the .grp files only need to be in the duke3d folder that is in the ports folder. To be sure I also moved the original expansion's addons folders into the duke3d folder as the original instructions stated, and despite doing it both ways to be extra sure nothing seems to fix it. Anyone else have the expansions starting correctly?

The only thing I think might be causing a hiccup is that I installed eduke32 long ago, I think before there was ever an install script available from the optional packages menu. I have since installed it from the packages menu to the newest binary, but I don't know if installing it previously will have caused things to mess up. I wouldn't think so because again, the original Duke Nukem 3D works as well as it always has.

[Wookums]

@OldSchool I'm having a similar issue, but also for the regular atomic edition. I just rebuilt my main image last week (3B+ with retropie 4.5, previously 3B on 4.4) and DN3D was working flawlessly on the older build following the wiki install guide once, but I've had no luck with this new build & updated install script. I've tried running through the wiki at least 3-4 times and have had no luck. I've also tried both the binary & source updates before continuing the steps but it never makes a difference.

I did notice the eduke32.cfg was missing with the script install and I've tried using a few different ones that I've found, but no matter what, I get in the game/expansions and after selecting an episode it just crashes back to the retropie menu. I do have a backup of my old build and thought about grabbing my files from there to see if it makes a difference, though I'm trying to avoid having to do additional backups, remounts, transfers, etc. I've added dn3d numerous times on my other builds without a single problem but for whatever reason it just refuses to cooperate with me on the 3B+ & 4.5 🤷‍♂️.

I'm just curious, what version of retropie are you on & did you have to do anything special to get the atomic edition running other than what was written in the wiki guide? I'm just curious if this is a retropie version issue or something as I never had this much of an issue in the past with the ports on 4.4.
(Also, I use the megaton edition from steam for the files)

[mitu]

I wonder if the problem is not the wiki formatting, which might have changed at some point when mkdocs was upgraded - the formatting of the config files and Bash scripts seems broken. I'll fix the formatting and try to re-create the setup, maybe there's something missing in the instructions.

[OldSchool]

@Wookums

I'm using 4.4.15. I followed the instructions for Atomic Edition, and it just worked fine. But again, I never had eduke32 installed through the setup script originally and it worked fine, then once I installed it through the script while following the Duke Nukem 3D instructions I originally linked, and it continued working fine, so I don't know what I could have done that was special. But like @mitu said, incorrectly-formatted config files and bash scripts would go a long ways toward messing us up, so that seems very likely to me.

[Wookums]

@OldSchool Seems all is good to go now! Everything on my build is fresh and having to manually add the eduke.cfg was the only difference with the recent attempts to install as far as my my end. But, I gave the source script another try yesterday evening and launched it as shareware to test it out before transferrring everything else and it's all working now.; no missing eduke cfg or anything.

[mitu]

I tested the instructions from the Docs and they seem to work - I started the 'Duke it out in DC' add-on. Make sure you have the full registered game and not the shareware version installed.