(REQUEST) Add Daphne Singe emulator?

shavecat

@DirtBagXon
ahh sorry from that directory


pi@retropie:~/singe $ ls -al pics/singeme.bmp pics/gamenowook.bmp
-rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi 230456 Oct 13 12:03 pics/gamenowook.bmp
-rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi 230522 Oct 13 12:03 pics/singeme.bmp
pi@retropie:~/singe $

DirtBagXon

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

@DirtBagXon
ahh sorry from that directory


pi@retropie:~/singe $ ls -al pics/singeme.bmp pics/gamenowook.bmp
-rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi 230456 Oct 13 12:03 pics/gamenowook.bmp
-rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi 230522 Oct 13 12:03 pics/singeme.bmp
pi@retropie:~/singe $

And you ran it from that directory ?

shavecat

@DirtBagXon
the roms/games are on my usb hard drive /media/usb0/roms/daphne/singe/

DirtBagXon

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

@DirtBagXon
the roms/games are on my usb hard drive /media/usb0/roms/daphne/singe/

Don't worry about that, you gave that dir as an argument

shavecat

@DirtBagXon
ahh so wait !
maybe its working...
nevermind
same error
maybe tmrw ;)
thanks a lot for your time ! <3

DirtBagXon

@shavecat

cp -R /home/pi/.daphne/pics  /media/usb0/roms/daphne/ 
cp -R /home/pi/.daphne/sound  /media/usb0/roms/daphne/

shavecat

@DirtBagXon
trying
SO im getting the daphne emulator finally !

but with SINGE GOT AN ERROR =(
could not open the VLP2 dynamic library (file not found maybe ? )

Progress ! :)

gomisensei

@shavecat if the directory you're typing your command line in is /opt/retropie/emulators/singe, then cp the files to /opt/retropie/emulators/singe. libsinge.so and libvldp2.so should also be in the same dir as singe.bin

shavecat

@gomisensei
i try that thanks
but i dont have a directory there of singe so i add it

still didnt help :\

DirtBagXon

@shavecat

echo $LD_LIBRARY_PATH

shavecat

@DirtBagXon

pi@retropie:~/singe $ echo $LD_LIBRARY_PATH
/home/pi/singe:

DirtBagXon

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

@DirtBagXon

pi@retropie:~/singe $ echo $LD_LIBRARY_PATH
/home/pi/singe:

Ok and the libraries are still in /home/pi/singe ?

ls -al /home/pi/singe/*.so

LD_LIBRARY_PATH should be fixing this, is there some other facility in RetroPi that will load a library path ?

Besides copying them into /usr/local/lib and ldconfig - lol ?

shavecat

@DirtBagXon
yeha

pi@retropie:~ $ ls -al /home/pi/singe/*.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 pi pi 329360 Oct 13 12:05 /home/pi/singe/libsinge.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 pi pi  93920 Oct 13 12:05 /home/pi/singe/libvldp2.so

not that i know about.

gomisensei

@shavecat try changing the -homedir to -homedir /home/pi/singe instead of -homedir /home/pi/.daphne

shavecat

@gomisensei
didnt get it sorry
i have a .daphne folder and a snige folder allready
in my home/pi folder

gomisensei

i know i finally got mine working only by putting everything (or a link to everything) in the /retropie/emulators/singe dir, including the pics/ and /sound the *.so files, and links to the romdir and datadir, and the .bin file, then removing the -homedir and -datadir switches in the command line,

shavecat

@gomisensei
tried copy all of them ..
didnt work
thanks :)
will try tmrw

roslof

The game is looking for directories like pics and sound in ~./daphne

After installation, the .daphne/pics folder only contains a single file: singeme.bmp

The singeme.bmp file and all of the other required graphics will be found in another pics folder wherever you installed singe (eg. ~/singe or /opt/retropie/emulators/singe). So we can backup (or delete) the single-file directory in ~/.daphne and symlink to the directory with all of the files:

IF INSTALLED TO ~/singe/:

mv ~/.daphne/pics ~/.daphne/pics_original
ln -s ~/singe/pics/ ~/.daphne/pics

IF INSTALLED TO /opt/retropie/emulators/singe/:

mv ~/.daphne/pics ~/.daphne/pics_original
ln -s /opt/retropie/emulators/singe/pics/ ~/.daphne/pics

This should solve the problem

roslof

If this helps, this was my experience with the installation:

Singe Installation with Time Gal

Previously had RetroPie Daphne installed
Followed installation found in this thread (thanks! very solid)
Copied /opt/retropie/configs/daphne/dapinput.ini to ~/.daphne/singeinput.ini
Copied ALL required Time Gal files (m2v, framefile, etc.) to ~/.daphne/singe/timegal/
Backed up ~/.daphne/singe/timegal.singe --> ~/.daphne/singe/timegal.singe.original
Copied the bytecode fix --> ~/.daphne/singe/timegal.singe

TIMEGAL RUN ATTEMPT (ISSUE #1)
Missing framefile (source asset issue)

[FIX]
Renamed framefile as timegal.txt as required

TIMEGAL RUN ATTEMPT (ISSUE #2)
Could not load bitmap : pics/gamenowook.bmp Video initialization failed! Loader failed with an unknown exit code : 1.

[FIX]
Create symlink so graphics are found

mv ~/.daphne/pics ~/.daphne/pics_original
ln -s ~/singe/pics/ ~/.daphne/pics

TIMEGAL RUN ATTEMPT (ISSUE #3)
Video is too small (800x600) and in the upper-left corner of the screen

[FIX]
Will need to set -x and -y to match full TV resolution (I'm running 1080p)

Edit <install dir>/singe/run.sh
Line 57, change -x 800 \ to -x 1920 \
Line 58, change "-y 600" to "-y 1080"
Should look like:

-x 1920 \
-y 1080

Save changes.

TIMEGAL RUN ATTEMPT (ISSUE #4)
Noted audio wasn't playing (source asset issue)

[FIX]
Needed to change capitalization of the OGG file to match the M2V file

pjft

@roslof pretty much comparable to my experience and problems I faced (I didn't have the audio one though).

One thing I did, since I have my games in an external folder, was to create a singe folder in roms/daphne, add the pics and sound folder there, symlink them from ~/.daphne, and also copy the emulator to /opt/retropie/emulators/singe .

@DirtBagXon a question: I copied the entire source folder to /opt/retropie/emulators/singe, but are all those files needed or is it just

daphne.bin
libsinge.so
libvldp2.so

that we need there?

Thanks!