Suggestions for ports

ecto

@ExarKunIv
Ok, I can halp you to some extend:
The easier is the staring of blood with a search directory for the content. Just use something like nblood -j=/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ports/nblood and it should work. You have to replace the path to match your nblood content directory, of course.

A little more difficult will be the compilation of devilutionX. I had a problem that cmake hadn't had the required revision number and I had to install some backported cmake from https://packages.debian.org/stretch-backports/cmake. I guess there must be something else with your problem (I also vagely remember having a similar issue with some security packages. But I'm very sorry, I can't help you there anymore as I don't have my Pi3 anymore.

ExarKunIv

@ecto
Thanks for the input on blood. ill give that a try

and for devilutionX no big deal. i was able to get the newest cmake installed and that for me is a win. since i never tried anything with compiling to start with.

now that i have a very small idea on what im doing there are a few other games that do work but need a few tweeks to make them better so maybe i will give them a shot instead and ill go back to devilutionX once i get a Pi4

ecto

@ExarKunIv
Yeah! That's the spirit. I'm doing it the same way. Sadly this way I never manage to acually play the games. Anyways: you could also try Exult if you're into classical RPGs! It works really well on the Pi4 (after trinkering with some options) and it also worked on the Pi3, if you use some little hack that is posted in the Isuues section of Exult's Gitpage!

Have fun!

ExarKunIv

@ecto thanks i will give that a shot also

and yeah i never manage to get to play anything on my Pi. too busy getting it all working just right. lol
least doing that is fun too

ExarKunIv

@ecto well i just ended up putting the files in .config and the folders for Blood, and Exhumed
and i got the .sh to work, so thanks again

retropieuser555

Hey so this is a wide stab in the dark and a question for people who have a far better understanding of linux and it's processes, but I notice Stardew Valley has a native linux port? https://lutris.net/games/stardew-valley/

I'm guessing it would need a much bigger processor than either the pi4 or pi3 has available?

mitu

@retropieuser555 said in Suggestions for ports:

I'm guessing it would need a much bigger processor than either the pi4 or pi3 has available?

That's the PC version (x86) of the game, not an ARM native version. It might be possible to run it via Box86 (which emulates an x86 CPU).

retropieuser555

@mitu That's a bummer, out of interest, how can you tell when it's an x64 rather than an ARM game? Like on gog.com this is the spec:-

System:
Ubuntu 14.04, 16.04 or newer
Processor:
2 Ghz
Memory:
2 GB RAM
Graphics:
256 mb video memory, OpenGL 2
Storage:
500 MB available space

Now obviously RAM and processor is going to be too slow on a pi probably anyway. But am I right in thinking anything that requires Ubuntu is x86 rather than arm?

shavecat

Still will love to have Postal 1 & Captain Claw ;))

mitu

@retropieuser555 You can safely assume that any game listed on GOG is x86 only.

If the game's engine is open sourced (like Doom3, Quake series, some Tycoon games, VVVVVV,etc.), then it's possible to re-use the game's assets (which are not open sourced) under a native (ARM) source port. If it's a DOS game, then it will run under Dosbox, but if it's Windows only and there's no native ARM port, it's always be an x86-only affair.

retropieuser555

@mitu I see what you mean, thanks!

mechafatnick

Hello folks,

Sorry if this is old news, but did you know you could build Alien Vs Predator Classic (the Rebellion game from 98) on a pi?

The source is here: http://icculus.org/avp/

ExarKunIv

@shavecat Captain Claw can be done, you just have to do it your self, but there site

https://github.com/pjasicek/OpenClaw
if you feel comfortable with doing it

ExarKunIv

@mechafatnick thanks for that, im so going to give that a try

ExarKunIv

So gents

since i was able to be blood running i wanted to try my hand on a few others. so i decided on Dune legacy. since it we talked about it ealery on this post.

i was able to get it co compile just fine. and if i exit ES and run ./dunelegacy from the dunelegacy dir. the game launches and works just fine.

but i cant for the life of me get a .sh file to get it to launch.
looking at the runcommand.log show that it is starting fine and no errors from there.

my dunelegacy.sh

#!/bin/bash
"/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh" 0 _PORT_ "dunelegacy" ""

my emulators.cfg in /opt/retropie/configs/ports/dunelegacy

dunelegacy = "/home/pi/dunelegacy/dunelegacy"
default = "dunelegacy"

want am i doing wrong. im so confused since i was able to get Blood to start from ES with out a problem

quicksilver

@ExarKunIv

dunelegacy = "/home/pi/dunelegacy/dunelegacy"

this doesnt seem right, where is the dunelegacy file extension? is it an .so? an .sh?

ExarKunIv

@quicksilver i dont know. there is no extension.
it is just a file. but as i said if run ./dunelegacy from the dunelegacy dir the game will start.

i did get a shell script before that installed it all for me, but that version the screen flickered. and that was also on a old build that i lost sometime ago
i did find some files from that build and they where calling on a .sh.
but i dont know what was in it

this is a old issue that i found on github. that im looking at for pointers
https://github.com/zerojay/RetroPie-Extra/issues/264

but no luck yet

quicksilver

@ExarKun I've have had similar issues before where a port I compiled, I can run from command line but when I try to get it to run through runcommand it won't work. Hopefully someone who knows more can chime in.

tpo1990

@mechafatnick I can provide a script for you that I have created a long time ago if I can find it. The script is used to automatically compile and build a working Alien Vs Predator Classic binary as it only works in X11 environment. You will need to run the script and the game from the Raspbian Desktop. Notice that the gameplay is really slow. It is almost unplayable on a Pi 3B.

ecto

@ExarKunIv Maybe it has something to do with the working directory. If you execute ./dunelegacy you are already in the /home/pi/dunelegacy/ directory. When you start the game with runcommand you (maybe? probably?) are not. Have you tried copying your game files to /home/pi/.config/dunelegacy/data/ as it is suggested in the dunelegay manual page?

IIRC that's also what the -j=/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ports/nblood command is used for for nblood: It sets the search path for the game content. Maybe something similar works for dunelegay? There should be a config file, maybe look there?