Rocks´n Diamonds / Emerald Mine clone.... Port!

[HPK-de]

@tien_huu_1408
This is an complete distro for amiga right?
I´m interested in an easy to use emulator for amiga inside Retropie...
UAE4Arm is a bit complicated and not very stable....

Can i install that inside retropie? Or do i need to flash it to a different sd-card?
The website only tells me to flash it to SD....
I know it´s made of UAE4Arm but maybe the UI is better....

[tien_huu_1408]

@HPK-de Beside this, AmiBerry is the next choice for faster boot. Both of two are solid distros for Amiga. I don't know how to build inside Retropie. May be you should convert for NOOBS or BerryBoot for dual boot.

Another way is you should build AmiBerry using terminal command.
Please read AmiBerry at:
http://blitterstudio.com/amiberry/

[Pyjamarama]

@HPK-de Sorry, I meant how to install the Linux distro of the game to my RetroPie (Pi3)

[HPK-de]

@Pyjamarama
That´s easy.

1. Download the game as tar.gz here:
   http://www.artsoft.org/RELEASES/unix/rocksndiamonds/rocksndiamonds-4.0.0.0-rc3.tar.gz

2. Extract the archive: tar -xzf rocksndiamonds-4.0.0.0-rc3.tar.gz

3. Go to the folder where the data is extracted to

4. Type: "sudo make clean"

5. Type: "sudo make sdl"

6. I have copied the complete folder to my ports folder (optional).

7. You have to make an sh-file for starting the game via Ports menu.
   This file must be placed in /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ports/ in order to find the
   game in the ports menu of Emulationstation.

8. I´ve made my sh file executable: sudo chmod +x filename.sh

This file should look like this (depending on your folder structure):

#!/bin/bash
"/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ports/rocksndiamonds-4.0.0.0-rc3/./rocksndiamonds"

(The game ist started via the command "./rocksndiamonds")

I hope that helps ;)

[tien_huu_1408]

@HPK-de It worked perfectly on my RasPi 3. Nice guide. Thanks a lot.

[cyperghost]

@HPK-de
I tried to compile the game on myself, but get an error
recipe for target 'sdl' failed

Do you know a fix? Or can you please upload the compiled game?

[HPK-de]

@cyperghost

Hi, i uploaded the compiled version to my google drive so you can download it.
It is open surce anyway :-)
It´s a ZIP File, (~6MB) which containes the folder of the game and the .sh startup script
i made for it.
You maybe have to change that, according to your folder structure.
I put the game in the "home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ports" ports folder....

Here is the link:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9TW8MipAel7aWN1ZzFGUkN1Qk0/view?usp=sharing

Have fun with it.

HPK-de

[cyperghost]

@HPK-de
Thank you ... there is something wrong with my SDL settings. I receive error ./rocksndiamonds: error while loading shared libraries: libSDL_net-1.2.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

[Pyjamarama]

@HPK-de Worked like a charm. I did a chmod + x to the .sh file and the executable. For reasons uknown it cannot red the up and down in my fresh new ZeroEncoder stick. Left and Right work OK...but I think I have seen it in other ports too. Something with my config or SDL maybe...

[herb_fargus]

@cyperghost likely missing a dependency:

libsdl-net1.2 libsdl-net1.2-dev

[cyperghost]

@herb_fargus said in Rocks´n Diamonds / Emerald Mine clone.... Port!:

libsdl-net1.2 libsdl-net1.2-dev

You both (@HPK-de and @herb_fargus rock :)

sudo apt-get install libsdl-net1.2 libsdl-net1.2-dev

[herb_fargus]

In case anyone is interested I created a module for it and submitted a pull request to @zerojay's retropie extra repository:

https://github.com/zerojay/RetroPie-Extra/pull/184

I only tested on my pc but it should work on the pi too.