(REQUEST) Add Daphne Singe emulator?

[DirtBagXon]

I only ran the software headlessly from the Pi, so didn't use native display. Is it using OpenGL ?

--CPU : Intel(R) 3400 MHz || Mem : 15936 megs
--OS : Linux 5.4 || Video : NVIDIA Corporation GK208B [GeForce GT 710] (rev a1)
--OpenGL: Compiled In
--RGB2YUV Function: C
--Line Blending Function: C
...
--YUV overlay is hardware accelerated.

I checked the singeinput.ini reading, and working fine this side. It should be located in the same place as daphne config files.

i.e. ~/.daphne/singeinput.ini

With:

Looking for: singeinput.ini
Remapping input ...
Framefile parse succeeded.

Without:

Looking for: singeinput.ini
Framefile parse succeeded.

[Darksavior]

@DirtBagXon Yes,I figured out the ini file doesn't belong in the singe folder. The pi4 uses open gl es only, I believe.

[DirtBagXon]

I don't use Retropie, so can't test, but from a comment I found in a doom3 (dhewm3) post, I presume XINIT: is a launcher instruction to launch X window with full OpenGL.

"dhewm3 has to be run with full openGL on the pi otherwise there are game breaking graphical issues. When launching the game engine it needs to be launched with XINIT:/path/to/dhewm3. This will launch it in an x session and insures that it doesn't try to use openGL ES."

I would guess you would need to add this in run.sh on the line:

./$SINGE_BIN \

XINIT:./$SINGE_BIN \

Not sure of the format to specify this in a shell script, but interested if this has any effect, or if someone more knowledgeable in retropie @quicksilver can expand....

[shavecat]

Hey so i put a folder singe in the daphne folder
with folder games for each game .

but i dont see anything new in the daPHNe just the same *.daphne games that i had already .
what did i miss ? :\

SORRY i thought its for pi4 retorpie :(

[DirtBagXon]

@shavecat

Not sure of your question here, but yes Singe is running on Pi4 Retropie.

"i dont see anything new in the daPHNe" - this is Singe not Daphne.

[shavecat]

@DirtBagXon
Hey
thanks for the answer :)
can u tell me how can i do that ?
step by step .

i tried before but with no success .

thanks again

[DirtBagXon]

@shavecat

Hey,

You should be able to follow the documentation at: https://github.com/DirtBagXon/singe

This should get you to at least a point where you can post the output of the log from running ./run.sh crimepatrol, so we can see what's going wrong.

[bronze]

Hi guys, new to GitHub, setting up Retropie on raspberry pi 4 for light guns (new sinden light gun) and want to add the singe shooters. I have Daphne running already. But I'm at a loss as to how to compile this to get started. I have all the games, etc.
Can someone get me started on how to set this up via command line? I should be able to sort the file placement from there.
Thanks

[DirtBagXon]

@bronze

First install the correct tools and libraries:

sudo apt-get install git make build-essential libasound2-dev libcaca-dev libglew-dev libglib2.0-dev libogg-dev libpcre3-dev libpcre32-3 libpng-dev  libpng-tools libpulse-dev libsdl-image1.2-dev libsdl-ttf2.0-dev libsdl1.2-dev libslang2-dev  libvorbis-dev libxi-dev pkg-config

Checkout source code:

cd ~
git clone https://github.com/DirtBagXon/singe.git singe

Enter directory and compile:

cd singe
cd src/vldp2
 ./configure --disable-accel-detect
 make -f Makefile.linux
 cd ../game/singe
 make -f Makefile.linux
 cd ../..
 make
 cd ..
 mkdir -p ~/.daphne/singe ~/.daphne/sound ~/.daphne/pics
 cp pics/singeme.bmp ~/.daphne/pics/
 cp pics/gamenowook.bmp ~/.daphne/pics/
 cp sound/grumble.wav ~/.daphne/sound/

If issues, post the results....

If looks good, run from ~/singe

./run.sh timegal

Again post the results if there are issues.

As stated above your games should be in the directory based on the user you are running the run.sh scripts as:

~/.daphne/singe/

Also, for games Time Gal and Ninja Hayate, please refer to the comments here:

https://github.com/DirtBagXon/singe/tree/master/bytecode

For your light gun and other settings, create a singe specific config file as:

~/.daphne/singeinput.ini

It can mirror many of the daphne config options.

[pjft]

@DirtBagXon Thanks for this - only now did I see that you had put this together. Awesome work.

A remark: passing a path with capital letters as the home dir will fail when loading the game script:

Setting alternate home dir:
/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/daphne
/home/pi/retropie/roms/daphne/singe/timegal/timegal.singe
Script /home/pi/retropie/roms/daphne/singe/timegal/timegal.singe does not exist.

Notice RetroPie being capitalized when passing it, but then lowercase.

It moves past this if I just symlink from ~/.daphne, but thought I'd share.

Thanks.

@Darksavior still no Road Blaster, I take it? We're on the same quests throughout these years - Time Gal and Road Blaster :D

[Darksavior]

@pjft Nope, that's not on the singe engine. I want that game playable too. I'll have to settle for the ps1 version.

[pjft]

@Darksavior There are two competent (and more enjoyable versions, though less quality graphics) out there, if you'd care to try them out: an SNES MSU-1 remake, and an Amiga remake as well. They also remade Time Gal on the Amiga.

Question here: did you get the video to render full screen? What options did you use?

[pjft]

@Darksavior Following the thread, when I run with XINIT (sudo xinit ./singe etc) I get a "could not open the VLDP2 dynamic library", which I imagine means that when running either as sudo or in xinit it's looking for libvldp2.so elsewhere somehow.

I might be completely off track here, but thought I'd close the night with my current status.

Also, if possible, can you share your dapinput.ini file? My results with my current one are inconsistent - it maps the analog sticks while on daphne I use the cursors, which I prefer.

Thanks.

[Darksavior]

@pjft Not sure about your problems, I just followed the directions, and from some help with the dev to correct my own mistakes, it runs. I haven't integrated it into retropie yet. I'll have to take a look at the launching scripts and all to figure it out on my own.

My dainput? It's mapped to my snes pad without analog inputs. Not sure if it'll help you with analog. You can look at the retropie daphne wiki about manually setting it up yourself. Use jstest to figure it out.

[pjft]

@Darksavior sounds good. Mine works fine, but not fullscreen, hence the question. As you're on the pi 4 I was asking what options had you used or what command line to get it to work as such.

If I use the xinit approach mentioned earlier I get the game in full screen but also the error with vldp2 - which I'm sure I'll be able to dig into with some more time. If this is the way, @DirtBagXon do you have any thoughts on what path might it be looking for?

If I don't, it just runs on a corner of the screen, hence my question as to how you approached that to see what might be missing here.

As for the input file, I'll look into the docs then for a sample and more detailed instructions.

I'll test things out some more tomorrow and report back any findings as well, but any pointers or suggestions can send me looking in the right direction.

Thanks.

[Darksavior]

@pjft I set my resolution by editing run.sh. Singe doesn't stretch to fit so it has to be the exact res your tv/monitor is.

[DirtBagXon]

@pjft said in (REQUEST) Add Daphne Singe emulator?:

@Darksavior Following the thread, when I run with XINIT (sudo xinit ./singe etc) I get a "could not open the VLDP2 dynamic library", which I imagine means that when running either as sudo or in xinit it's looking for libvldp2.so elsewhere somehow.

@DirtBagXon do you have any thoughts on what path might it be looking for?

The libvldp2.so library is in the same directory as the singe.bin binary and library: libsinge.so. Which by default would be /home/pi/singe if you followed the above directions.

If you are writing, or using, another script, you need to look at the LD_LIBRARY_PATH part of the script. You will need to ensure that the directory where the singe.bin, and therefore libvldp2.so, are at the beginning of this LIBRARY search path when singe starts. Something like:

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/pi/singe:$DAPHNE_SHARE:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH

You can of course use/change VARIABLES as in the original scripts.

A good debug is to add an echo in the script just before the singe binary runs. This will tell you where singe is searching for libraries.

e.g.

echo $LD_LIBRARY_PATH

./$SINGE_BIN \
$DAPHNE_SHARE/singe/$1/$1.singe \
..
..

Hope this helps....

[pjft]

Thanks - it does help.

I actually managed to get it running per @Darksavior 's tip on setting the full screen resolution on the run.sh file, and it works perfect.

I submitted a PR to your GitHub repository based on some changes to Daphne's controls a few years back that helped specific joysticks be better recognized. I don't take any offense if it isn't merged, but thought I'd contribute it upstream given that it's what helps the game's controls work as intended on my arcade with the DragonRise adapter.

As for Road Blaster, an interesting thing: the same code in a arm64 device runs the game correctly, but not on the Pi.

Specifically, when it works, there's a message:

Error! write to main rom at e600

But, when it fails (on the Pi), we get:

Error! write to main rom at a80f
Error! write to main rom at f8ec

I'm going to dig into it and see if I can work something out.

[DirtBagXon]

@pjft said in (REQUEST) Add Daphne Singe emulator?:

I submitted a PR to your GitHub repository based on some changes to Daphne's controls a few years back that helped specific joysticks be better recognized. I don't take any offense if it isn't merged, but thought I'd contribute it upstream given that it's what helps the game's controls work as intended on my arcade with the DragonRise adapter.

Looks fine, but should be applied via a command line option, not by default.

I have added a comment on the pull request.

Many thanks for contributing.

[pjft]

@DirtBagXon Got it. Let me try to go back and see what changes would need to be done on my end to get that sorted as an option. I left a comment there for you as well.

Thanks.