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    • tpo1990T
      tpo1990 @Cesarpuig
      last edited by tpo1990

      @Cesarpuig Hi. Great to see some progress. I will try it out tomorrow and see if I can get it to work so that we can come to a solution that works for Stretch and Buster.

      The reason why /home/pi/.wolf is a symbolic link, is that it needs to point to the rtcw port configs folder the same way that other ports does when they get installed from RetroPie-Setup. This is also true for the main folder the game loads the .pk3files from which is a symbolic link that points to the roms -> ports folder where a user will copy the .pk3files to.

      Greetings from Denmark. :-)

      Developer of install scripts for ports such as Hexen 2, Return to Castle Wolfenstein and Caesar III. See my other projects at my profile.

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        Cesarpuig @tpo1990
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        @tpo1990 said in Return to Castle Wolfenstein - IORTCW source port:

        The reason why /home/pi/.wolf is a symbolic link, is that it needs to point to the rtcw port configs folder the same way that other ports does when they get installed from RetroPie-Setup. This is also true for the main folder the game loads the .pk3files from which is a symbolic link that points to the roms -> ports folder where a user will copy the .pk3files to.

        yes, I know the reason, it's just that @Zering it says that directory does not appear after installing the port, it was a comment to a previous post of yours

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          Zering
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          Well I am thoroughly confused lol

          So is the missing /home/pi/.wolf the reason my install won't run?

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            Cesarpuig @Zering
            last edited by

            @Zering Hi.

            Well I am thoroughly confused lol
            So is the missing /home/pi/.wolf the reason my install won't run?

            Of course it can be, the problem is that the installation script does not create the symbolic link for you, and later when we run iortcw it does not create the home/pi/.wolf folder, which I think should.

            You might have a permission problem

            1º Update the installation script to the latest one in the source I shared.

            2º Assuming that you have not changed the user name and from the console, execute the following lines

            sudo chown -Rh pi:pi /home/pi
            sudo chown -Rh pi:pi /opt/retropie/configs
            

            If you have changed the username you have to know it

            4º Reboot system

            5º Run the installation script from the Retropie setup menu and uninstall the rtcw port

            6º Reboot system

            7º Run the installation script from the Retropie setup menu and install the rtcw port

            8º Retropie will create a log of the installation at this address, /home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/logs, save it.

            9º Install the necessary data to run the game on /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ports/rtcw

            10º Try to run.

            11º Comment. If the result was not satisfactory, retropie would have created another log in /dev/shm, post
            both of them logs

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              Zering @Cesarpuig
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              @Cesarpuig Still no luck. I followed the instructions to the letter although I'm not sure what the sudo chown commands did or how they were supposed to work.

              Here is the installation log :

              link text

              Here is the /dev/shm log :

              link text

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                Cesarpuig @Zering
                last edited by Cesarpuig

                @Zering

                Your problem occurs during the installation process, I do not think it is very difficult to solve it

                mv: failed to preserve ownership for '/opt/retropie/ports/rtcw/main/cgame.mp.armv7l.so': Operation not permitted
                mv: failed to preserve ownership for '/opt/retropie/ports/rtcw/main/cgame.sp.armv7l.so': Operation not permitted
                mv: failed to preserve ownership for '/opt/retropie/ports/rtcw/main/qagame.mp.armv7l.so': Operation not permitted
                mv: failed to preserve ownership for '/opt/retropie/ports/rtcw/main/qagame.sp.armv7l.so': Operation not permitted
                mv: failed to preserve ownership for '/opt/retropie/ports/rtcw/main/ui.mp.armv7l.so': Operation not permitted
                mv: failed to preserve ownership for '/opt/retropie/ports/rtcw/main/ui.sp.armv7l.so': Operation not permitted
                mv: failed to preserve ownership for '/opt/retropie/ports/rtcw/main/vm/cgame.mp.qvm': Operation not permitted
                mv: failed to preserve ownership for '/opt/retropie/ports/rtcw/main/vm/qagame.mp.qvm': Operation not permitted
                mv: failed to preserve ownership for '/opt/retropie/ports/rtcw/main/vm/ui.mp.qvm': Operation not permitted
                mv: failed to preserve ownership for '/opt/retropie/ports/rtcw/main/vm': Operation not permitted
                

                I do not understand why you have this problem in Retropie and I do not, in two different RPIs that I am testing

                Give me 10 minutes to see if I optimize the script to solve your problem and share it

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                  Cesarpuig @Zering
                  last edited by Cesarpuig

                  @Zering
                  I have updated the script, download it, replace it with the previous one, install, and even if it works, share your logs with me, before installing it delete from the console the directory that does not let you move, sudo rm -R opt/retropie/ports/rtcw/main

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                  • ?
                    A Former User
                    last edited by

                    I had to make some modifications for this to work in Ubuntu x86_64

                    You can find my changes at:
                    https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gderber/RetroPie-Setup/develop/scriptmodules/ports/rtcw.sh

                    Note:
                    While I did my best to preserve the original code required for RPi, I do not have an RPi setup to test on.

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                    • tpo1990T
                      tpo1990
                      last edited by tpo1990

                      Okay so I made some progress to make the script work both for RetroPie Stretch and Buster with the help from Cesarpuig and added an optimized config file for multiplayer so that the game plays in full screen. I have uploaded the changes to my github repository.

                      While doing this it made me think of why someone would still use RetroPie Stretch instead of just using a fresh install of the latest RetroPie with Buster.

                      Could someone test it by using the download link and reply back with a status?

                      Greetings from Denmark. :-)

                      Developer of install scripts for ports such as Hexen 2, Return to Castle Wolfenstein and Caesar III. See my other projects at my profile.

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                      • ExarKunIvE
                        ExarKunIv @tpo1990
                        last edited by ExarKunIv

                        @tpo1990 i downloaded the new.Sh from your github, and tryed it on my build which is still Stretch.

                        this time it does go through and install everything (before i was getting a error so i gave up)

                        but my game will not start

                        iortcw 1.51d-SP_GIT_6938a2d-2019-05-06 linux-arm Jun 14 2019
                        ----- FS_Startup -----
                        Current search path:
                        /home/pi/.wolf/main
                        /opt/retropie/ports/rtcw/main/sp_pak4.pk3 (21 files)
                        /opt/retropie/ports/rtcw/main/sp_pak3.pk3 (14 files)
                        /opt/retropie/ports/rtcw/main/sp_pak2.pk3 (232 files)
                        /opt/retropie/ports/rtcw/main/sp_pak1.pk3 (1342 files)
                        /opt/retropie/ports/rtcw/main
                        
                        ----------------------
                        1609 files in pk3 files
                        
                        
                        "pak0.pk3" is missing. Please copy it
                        from your legitimate RTCW CDROM.
                        
                        Also check that your iortcw executable is in
                        the correct place and that every file
                        in the "main" directory is present and readable.
                        
                        

                        the funny thing is i have my pak0.pk3 in with all the rest of them. so im reinstalling the game on my pc and ill let you know what i get

                        UPDATE
                        ok so if i just run the install and not copy your .cfg files you have on your github the game launches

                        RPi3B+ / 200GB/ RetroPie v4.5.14, RPi4 Model B 4gb / 256gb / RetroPie 4.8.2
                        RPi5 4gb / 512gb / RetroPie 4.8.9 -Basic
                        Maintainer of RetroPie-Extra .

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                        • tpo1990T
                          tpo1990 @ExarKunIv
                          last edited by

                          @ExarKunIv Good to hear that you finally got it to install on your build of Stretch. I am using the GOG version of Return to Castle Wolfenstein and that version works perfectly. I cannot say about any other version if it works or not. The most important thing is that the game will need all the relevant .pk3 files to be able to launch.

                          Thanks for trying it out. I installed it recently on my Pi4 with latest RetroPie Buster and it works fine.

                          Greetings from Denmark. :-)

                          Developer of install scripts for ports such as Hexen 2, Return to Castle Wolfenstein and Caesar III. See my other projects at my profile.

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                            A Former User
                            last edited by

                            @tpo1990 I added your recent changes to my script. A quick note, my RetroPie user is not 'pi' so I had to modify the function remove_rtcw from:

                            function remove_rtcw () {
                              rm /home/pi/.wolf
                              rm /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ports/rtcw/*.so
                              rm -R /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ports/vm
                            }
                            

                            to:

                            function remove_rtcw() {
                              rm ${HOME}/.wolf
                              rm ${HOME}/RetroPie/roms/ports/rtcw/*.so
                              rm -R ${HOME}/RetroPie/roms/ports/vm
                            }
                            

                            for the function to work for me.

                            Thank you for the good work with this!

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                            • tpo1990T
                              tpo1990 @A Former User
                              last edited by tpo1990

                              @gderber Thank you for the compliment. If the `${HOME} variable works with any user I might just change that into the script so it accounts for all users.

                              Greetings from Denmark. :-)

                              Developer of install scripts for ports such as Hexen 2, Return to Castle Wolfenstein and Caesar III. See my other projects at my profile.

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                                A Former User @tpo1990
                                last edited by

                                @tpo1990 ${HOME} is the same as $HOME, and looking at at least the rtcw.sh file you created, the same as $home. I haven't dug into the RetroPie code too deeply yet, I'm guessing somewhere in the code there is a home=$HOME statement for your code to work.

                                $HOME will always work. I add typically add the {} around all my variables when bash scripting because I have found I make fewer mistakes that way, especially when I have to concatenate multiple variables right next to each other.

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                                  mitu Global Moderator @A Former User
                                  last edited by

                                  @gderber $home is the recommended variable to use to refer to the installation user's homedir, because usually the setup scripts are run with sudo, so $HOME might be not be correctly set.

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                                    A Former User @mitu
                                    last edited by

                                    @mitu Thanks! I've only been looking at the scripts for a couple days, still trying to figure them out.

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                                    • tpo1990T
                                      tpo1990 @A Former User
                                      last edited by

                                      @gderber @mitu Thanks for the explanation. I will soon improve the scriptmodule with those changes.

                                      Greetings from Denmark. :-)

                                      Developer of install scripts for ports such as Hexen 2, Return to Castle Wolfenstein and Caesar III. See my other projects at my profile.

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                                        Epg
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                                        Hi,
                                        I tried to install rtcw on my Retropie setup: the script works because it complies fine rtcw but I'm not seeing any entry in "Ports" section of Emulation Station. The relevant *.pak3 files have been copied in /Retropie/roms/ports/rtcw.

                                        In other words, I don't see any rtcw launcher in ES.

                                        My Setup:
                                        OS: OSMC
                                        Machine: Raspberry pi 3 B+
                                        Kernel: Linux osmc 4.19.122-1-osmc
                                        Retropie installed over OSMC via Retro-OSMC script (works very well)
                                        Any help is greatly appreciated.

                                        Bye, Epg

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                                          windfish @Epg
                                          last edited by

                                          @Epg Don't know if it will work but why not create a launcher yourself? Something may have gone wrong during installation. Mine was created automatically in the /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ports folder and I can see it in emulationstation as well.

                                          Assuming osmc-retropie uses the same folder structure, try in the terminal:

                                          cd /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ports
                                          sudo nano rtcw.sh
                                          

                                          type into the new .sh file:
                                          #!/bin/bash
                                          "/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh" 0 PORT "rtcw-sp" ""

                                          save and exit ctrl+o, ctrl+x.
                                          make executable:

                                          sudo chmod +x rtcw.sh
                                          
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                                            windfish @tpo1990
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                                            @tpo1990 This tutorial really works well for me on pi4 thanks! All graphics settings to max and still good performance on my small 1024x768 monitor. Looks great and runs between 30 - 60 fps
                                            Game is harder than I expected or remember though!

                                            Had trouble to begin with as game wouldn't fit on the screen at small resolution. Problem wasn't fixed with overscan settings, nor could I fix it with playing around with /opt/retropie/configs/ports/rtcw-sp/main/wolfconfig.cfg settings.
                                            Could still tell what the mouse cursor was pointing at off screen thanks to the menu tool tips. Luckily managed to change resolution settings

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