(REQUEST) Add Daphne Singe emulator?

[pjft]

@shavecat What do you mean? Run things from ES?

What I did on my side of things was call all Singe games (well, only Time Gal, really) "+Start Timegal.sh" as that way it runs that shell script, and it just has

cd <folder of singe binaries>
./run.sh timegal

So that's that. Ah, you need to change the es_systems.cfg script in /etc/emulationstation (I believe) and add ".sh" to the Daphne accepted extensions.

I'm sure there are other approaches, maybe others can share their approaches - I didn't mess with emulators.cfg though I imagine that could have been an option.

[shavecat]

@pjft
thanks a lot
will give it a try ! :)

[skj]

@pjft

Bandlands is now working but the sound cuts off on the intro

[shavecat]

@skj
Really which rom did u use ?
I only getting a black screen in the beginning ...

[skj]

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

@skj
Really which rom did u use ?
I only getting a black screen in the beginning ...

I have 2 badlands roms in my roms folder :-

badlandsp.zip (9kb)
bl_hit_12f.bin
bl_hit_4f.bin
bl_hit_6a.bin
bl_hit_7a.bin
bl_hit_7c.bin
bl_hit_9c.bin

badlands.zip (13kb)
badlands.a13
badlands.a14
badlands.c4
badlands.c8

badlands.daphne
badlands-pc.dat
badlands-pc.m2v
badlands-pc.ogg

Hope that helps

[pjft]

I was intrigued, as the compatibility list did state "work, with issues".

That does save me some trouble then :)

[shavecat]

can i make the daphne full screen ? like stretch ?

cant run the singe roms...
getting this on my runcommand.info -

Hello logfile - runcommand-onstart checking in here
Parameters:
Executing: SDL1_VIDEODRIVER=dispmanx SDL_DISPMANX_WIDTH=1920 SDL_DISPMANX_HEIGHT=1080 /opt/retropie/emulators/daphne/daphne.sh "/media/usb0/roms/daphne/singe/maddog.sh"
ls: cannot access '/proc/kcore': No such file or directory
--DAPHNE version 1.0.13
--Command line is: /opt/retropie/emulators/daphne/daphne.bin maddog vldp -nohwaccel -framefile /media/usb0/roms/daphne/singe/maddog.sh/maddog.txt -homedir /opt/retropi$
--CPU : UnknownCPU 0 MHz || Mem : 0 megs
--OS : Linux 4.19 || Video : Unknown video
--OpenGL: Compiled In
--RGB2YUV Function: C
--Line Blending Function: C
--Audio Mixing Function: C
Setting alternate home dir:
/opt/retropie/emulators/daphne
ERROR: Unknown game type specified : maddog
Bad command line or initialization problem (see daphne_log.txt for details).
To run DAPHNE, you must specify which game to run and which laserdisc player you are using.
For example, try 'daphne lair noldp' to run Dragon's Lair in testing mode.
Hello logfile - runcommand-onend checking in here

and im trying to run it from sh file

cd maddog
./run.sh maddog

[DirtBagXon]

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

--Command line is: /opt/retropie/emulators/daphne/daphne.bin maddog vldp -nohwaccel -framefile /media/usb0/roms/daphne/singe/maddog.sh/maddog.txt -homedir /opt/retropi$

You are running the daphne.bin binary instead of singe.bin and trying to run a singe game.

Also:

../singe/maddog.sh/maddog.txt

Is that a real directory ?

As correct command line, should look something like this:

--Command line is: /opt/retropie/emulators/singe/singe.bin /home/pi/.daphne/singe/maddog/maddog.singe -framefile /home/pi/.daphne/singe/maddog/maddog.txt -homedir /home/pi/.daphne -datadir /home/pi/.daphne -sound_buffer 2048 -volume_nonvldp 5 -volume_vldp 30 -x 800 -y 600

You probably need to review you're using the correct run.sh for singe.

[shavecat]

@DirtBagXon
how do i switch them ?
have it like that

do i need every folder to be -
with .sh (maddog.sh) ?
thanks :)

[DirtBagXon]

@shavecat

See above for format of singe command, I edited previous response.

You were specifying a frame file at this location:

/media/usb0/roms/daphne/singe/maddog.sh/maddog.txt

What does

ls -al /media/usb0/roms/daphne/singe/maddog.sh/maddog.txt

say ?

[shavecat]

@DirtBagXon

-rwxrwxrwx 1 pi pi 4279 Jan 7 2018 /media/usb0/roms/daphne/singe/maddog/maddog.txt

sorry got confused with all that..
cant get it work yet :\

[DirtBagXon]

@shavecat

The only external thing you need to worry about is the LD_LIBRARY_PATH

echo $LD_LIBRARY_PATH
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=<directory with libsinge.so and libvldp2.so>:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH

Check directory is in there now:

echo $LD_LIBRARY_PATH

So looking at your previous screenshot, I am guessing:

./singe_binary_location  /media/usb0/roms/daphne/singe/maddog/maddog.singe  -framefile /media/usb0/roms/daphne/singe/maddog/maddog.txt -homedir /media/usb0/roms/daphne -datadir /media/usb0/roms/daphne -x 800 -y 600

I just don't know where your singe.bin and libsinge.so and libvldp2.so files are, otherwise I have filled it in with above info....

[shavecat]

@DirtBagXon
hey im getting
pi@retropie:~ $ echo $LD_LIBRARY_PATH

pi@retropie:~ $ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=<directory with libsinge.so and libvldp2.so>:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
-bash: directory: No such file or directory
pi@retropie:~ $ echo $LD_LIBRARY_PATH
why is that ?

[DirtBagXon]

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

I have 2 badlands roms in my roms folder :-

badlandsp.zip (9kb)
bl_hit_12f.bin
bl_hit_4f.bin
bl_hit_6a.bin
bl_hit_7a.bin
bl_hit_7c.bin
bl_hit_9c.bin

badlands.zip (13kb)
badlands.a13
badlands.a14
badlands.c4
badlands.c8

badlands.daphne
badlands-pc.dat
badlands-pc.m2v
badlands-pc.ogg

Hope that helps

Both badlands.zip and badlandp.zip ROMS work with daphne in linux.

Doing a quick compile on the Pi I still see the:

Write to ffff with 0

issues on both ROMS. So there is still an issue here.....

[DirtBagXon]

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

@DirtBagXon
hey im getting
pi@retropie:~ $ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=<directory with libsinge.so and libvldp2.so>:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
-bash: directory: No such file or directory

You need to replace this: <directory with libsinge.so and libvldp2.so>

With the directory name/path where those files are...

e.g.

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

[pjft]

@DirtBagXon Did you compile with the -fsigned-char changes added yesterday, and it still failed?

@skj was the game working for you prior to these changes yesterday?

EDIT: actually @DirtBagXon I forgot, but thank you for accepting the PR for the controls!

[shavecat]

@DirtBagXon
Where is that directory ??plz

[DirtBagXon]

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

@DirtBagXon
Where is that directory ??plz

sudo find / -name libsinge.so

[shavecat]

@DirtBagXon
Will give it a try in a few hours
will let u know thanks a lot ! <3 :)

[DirtBagXon]

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

@DirtBagXon Did you compile with the -fsigned-char changes added yesterday, and it still failed?

I didn't, good catch, just recompiled and both ROMS run - bingo.

Seems to be a Pi caveat:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46463064/what-causes-a-char-to-be-signed-or-unsigned-when-using-gcc/46463173

Apparently there is/was a performance impact:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3093669/why-unsigned-types-are-more-efficient-in-arm-cpu/6532932#6532932

You learn something new everyday..