(REQUEST) Add Daphne Singe emulator?

shavecat

cd /media/usb0/roms/daphne/singe/maddog/
/home/pi/singe/run.sh maddog

  GNU nano 3.2                /dev/shm/runcommand.log

Hello logfile - runcommand-onstart checking in here
Parameters:
Executing: "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/daphne/singe/maddog.sh"
Singe Launcher : Script dir is /home/pi/singe

Missing file: /home/pi/.daphne/singe/maddog/maddog.singe ?
              /home/pi/.daphne/singe/maddog/maddog.txt ?

Hello logfile - runcommand-onend checking in here

DirtBagXon

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

Missing file: /home/pi/.daphne/singe/maddog/maddog.singe ?
/home/pi/.daphne/singe/maddog/maddog.txt ?

It's all there:

Missing file: /home/pi/.daphne/singe/maddog/maddog.singe ?
              /home/pi/.daphne/singe/maddog/maddog.txt ?

Looking at the wrong place.

Are you specifying the correct path for -homedir and -datadir - that you had when you ran it from the cli in that script...

shavecat

@DirtBagXon
Im trying to run the sh file to the directory of /media/usb0/roms/daphne/singe .

and not from /home/pi/.daphne/singe/maddog/
cause its not there ....

DirtBagXon

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

@DirtBagXon
Im trying to run the sh file to the directory of /media/usb0/roms/daphne/singe .

and not from /home/pi/.daphne/singe/maddog/
cause its not there ....

That's fine, but you have to tell the singe.bin where it can find the files it needs by the correct arguments, at the moment your script is telling it they are in the wrong place.

The errors will tell you where it's trying to load them, you need to find and alter the bits in your scripts to correct that.

shavecat

@DirtBagXon
Thanks a lot again :)
will try to play with that

shavecat

@DirtBagXon
Sorry to drive u nuts ;)..
but i did that -

<extension>.singe .sh .SINGE .SH</extension>

from my hard drive .
and even .singe dosent let me load it .
with the some error on the log (no promotion ) that's really weird

DirtBagXon

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

<extension>.singe .sh .SINGE .SH</extension>

I have no knowledge of what this is?

Despite being on this forum, I'm afraid I have never setup RetroPie.
I only came here to help @Darksavior on the original step....

shavecat

@DirtBagXon
Got u
thanks a lot for your time :) <3 :))

DirtBagXon

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

@DirtBagXon thanks for testing and for the links. Learning something every day indeed:)

@pjft - Could you test this as the proper fix for Badlands in Daphne?

We should not be using global char assignment (-fsigned-char), as we read, it is bad practice and performance impacting on ARM.

diff --git a/src/cpu/mc6809.cpp b/src/cpu/mc6809.cpp
index 15b7497..90ac497 100644
--- a/src/cpu/mc6809.cpp
+++ b/src/cpu/mc6809.cpp
@@ -228,7 +228,7 @@ static unsigned char fetch_buffer[MC6809_FETCH_BUFFER_SIZE];
 
 /* le caract<E8>re 8-bit du MC6809 impose l'utilisation de char
    pour la manipulation des opcodes qui sont des octets sign<E9>s */
-static char *op;
+static signed char *op;
 static int ad;
 static int *regist[4], *exreg[16];
 static int illegal_instruction_flag;
@@ -2006,7 +2006,7 @@ unsigned int mc6809_StepExec(unsigned int ncycles)
 
         /* on remplit le buffer de fetch */
         FetchInstr(pc, fetch_buffer);
-        op=(char*) fetch_buffer;
+        op=(signed char*) fetch_buffer;
 
         /* on d<E9>code l'instruction */
         r=(*(op++))&0xFF;
@@ -2051,7 +2051,7 @@ int mc6809_TimeExec(mc6809_clock_t time_limit)
 
         /* on remplit le buffer de fetch */
         FetchInstr(pc, fetch_buffer);
-        op=(char*) fetch_buffer;
+        op=(signed char*) fetch_buffer;
 
         /* on d<E9>code l'instruction */
         r=(*(op++))&0xFF;

https://github.com/DirtBagXon/daphne/compare/7d4bf3cdaff98a795ef2e51a823555e25f574ff9..e2cf886b3ce29f21c423205adff9616f38af855e

gomisensei

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

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

@DirtBagXon thanks for testing and for the links. Learning something every day indeed:)

@pjft - Could you test this as the proper fix for Badlands in Daphne?

You should not need the global -fsigned-char which as we saw is kinda bad and performance impacting.

can confirm this fix makes badlands work on Raspberry Pi4.

thanks for the work.

shavecat

@gomisensei
i still getting a black screen ..
do i need to reinstall daphne aggin now ?

gomisensei

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

@gomisensei
i still getting a black screen ..
do i need to reinstall daphne aggin now ?

Yeah, you probably need to wait till someone adds the changes in the install script though... I made the changes manually and recompiled just to test.

shavecat

Anyway i can make the Daphne / American laser games
Full screen ? 16/9
and not 4:3...

DirtBagXon

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

can confirm this fix makes badlands work on Raspberry Pi4.
thanks for the work.

Cool, I'll let @pjft make the pull request to the retropie repo, as he led me down the correct debug path.

pjft

@DirtBagXon Great to hear it worked and that it helped.

Please, by all means, do submit the PR over there, it's perfectly fair game. The alternative will still be for me to go and cherry-pick your commit there - it'll always be your original commit :)

DirtBagXon

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

@DirtBagXon Great to hear it worked and that it helped.

Please, by all means, do submit the PR over there, it's perfectly fair game. The alternative will still be for me to go and cherry-pick your commit there - it'll always be your original commit :)

@pjft - right you are sir.

I couldn't get Github to let me fork retropie as I had a fork from a mutual parent repo, which it kept linking me to. Github being annoyingly clever....

In the end I gave up and created a new account to fork within, but got there eventually lol. Pull request from the all new DirtBagZon...

pjft

@DirtBagXon Hah :) Yes, it's a pain.

In the past I followed this with some success - https://gist.github.com/bhumphrey/3764983 .

Thanks for looking into it, and happy singe-ing .

By the way, the original Singe developer seems to be back at it, and working on a version 2.0 of the emulator, so if that's something that interests you, it should be worth looking out for.

DirtBagXon

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

@DirtBagXon Hah :) Yes, it's a pain.

In the past I followed this with some success - https://gist.github.com/bhumphrey/3764983 .

Pah, next time....

By the way, the original Singe developer seems to be back at it, and working on a version 2.0 of the emulator, so if that's something that interests you, it should be worth looking out for.

Yep, I have been following Scott's project, he was even kind enough to star my current singe repo too :)

He seems to be getting there... I don't envy him that job....

Stuart2773

SINGE 2.0 is now available

TreasureFingers

@dirtbagxon

I saw scott had a zip file with an executable for raspberry pi. Is there anyway we can grab this https://kangaroopunch.com/api/files.ssjs?call=download-file&dir=singe&file=s200p32.zip in terminal and install it in retropie? (i was gonna follow your steps but then 2.0 showed up) . Thanks for all you have done so far.