Return to Castle Wolfenstein - IORTCW source port

A Former User

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.

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?

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

tpo1990

@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.

A Former User

@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!

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.

A Former User

@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.

mitu

@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.

A Former User

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

tpo1990

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

Epg

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

windfish

@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

windfish

@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