Adding older Love engine version

dav333

Some of the games I wish to play on the love emulator will not work on the two versions available through Manage Packages.

For example Journey to the Center of Hawkthorn:

When I try to play on the "love" emulator it will not load.
When I try on "love-0.10.0" it says that Love 0.9.1 is required.

When I tried to clone Love 0.9.1, it just said "fatal: repository" and the link was "not found" I triple checked the http and it was correct.

Is there something I need to set up first? Everything I've found online says that this is the first step.

Or is there another solution?

Thank you for your time.

mitu

@dav333 said in Adding older Love engine version:

When I tried to clone Love 0.9.1, it just said "fatal: repository" and the link was "not found" I triple checked the http and it was correct.

What is the command you're executing for downloading/cloning the 0.9.1 version ?

dav333

I tried both

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/love2d/love/tree/0.9.1

and

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/love2d/love/tree/0.9.1.git

mitu

That won't work - don't copy the URL from the browser, it's not the correct method. Try this

git clone --depth 1 --branch 0.9.1 https://github.com/love2d/love

dav333

@mitu said in Adding older Love engine version:

git clone --depth 1 --branch 0.9.1 https://github.com/love2d/love

The response was
fatal: destination path 'love' already exists and is not an empty directory.
I guess since retropie already has two versions of the love engine.

Thanks so much for your help.

mitu

@dav333 said in Adding older Love engine version:

fatal: destination path 'love' already exists and is not an empty directory.

I'm not sure how you're trying to install the 0.9.1 branch, but the error indicates you already have a folder love in the current working dir. You should remove it and re-try the clone command.

dav333

The amount of eye rolling you Moderators must do because of amateurs like me.

So, I'm using Retropie on the Raspberry Pi 4. The Love engine under Manage Packages/ Optional Packages offers two versions: 0.11.1 and 0.10.2

The games for the love system are really particular to the version it was made for. I have games that use the 0.9.1 and 0.8.2 version, so I wanted to add those as emulator options under the run command launch menu.

Is such a thing possible?

dav333

I removed the 0.11.1 and 0.10.2 Love engines, but the result was the same.

mitu

@dav333 said in Adding older Love engine version:

Is such a thing possible?

Possibly, but I haven't tried installing that particular version of LÖVE, so some adjustments might be needed for installation.

I removed the 0.11.1 and 0.10.2 Love engines, but the result was the same.

I don't think that would solve your issue - or has any influence on the command you're trying to execute. Exit EmulationStation, then run the following commands

mkdir src
cd src
git clone --depth 1 --branch 0.9.1 https://github.com/love2d/love love-0.9.1

you should now have the sources for the version you're trying to install in the love-0.9.1 folder. Follow the rest of the compilation instructions from https://github.com/love2d/love/tree/0.9.1 (or this page) and see if you can build a new love binary file.