Dosbox versions available in retropie

niculinux

@jamrom2 thanks! I tryed only one game with the sdl2, operation carnage:

but it crashed after some times using the key combo ALT + RETURN (which activates windowed mode) but i dino not tryed again because i wanted a more out of the box experience because i don't wanna mess around with the built in keymapper >.< since i'm an occasiona gamer and don't have much time to experiment .... :,(

Edit: sorry, a "bouns" question: may i set cpu cycle in lr-dosbox-pure? Apparently seems not, it's not mentioned in the project page...

jamrom2

@niculinux aparently not as it's all done automatically.

I haven't played around with the config files...if there are any... because I have yet to find them. I'm still testing and coverting my other games to the new format. Really... zipping and moving them over to the PC rom folder.

Lolonois

If you are familiar with dosbox and conf files you may consider dosbox-staging. At some point in time it will be in the RetroPie-Setup, but for now you can try the pending addition like this:

SSH to your pi:

cd ~/RetroPie-Setup
git fetch origin pull/3322/head:PR_3322
git checkout PR_3322
sudo ./retropie_packages.sh dosbox-staging # wait for compile/install to finish
git checkout master

Primary config is in /home/pi/.config/dosbox/dosbox-staging.conf. Can be overloaded with config values per game if you use a .conf file for launching your game. However, the defaults work very well for my pick of games (YMMV).

You can read about it's benefits here: https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/pull/3322

niculinux

@lolonois thanks!!
Actually im a very occasional gamer, along being a newbie so eventially gonna eventually wait until it will show up in retropie repositories, though seems very promising :)

Oh i have found how to adjust cpu cicles, it's all done in the retroparch ingame menu after all it'a libretro port, silly me!

The option is to be found in the "options" screen, but it allows only to choose from presets loke 286 386, pentim and some more im sorry i cannot provide a screenshot right now :(

jamrom2

@lolonois This sounds promising. I gave up on any other version of DosBox other than the "native" version. The Libretro versions don't give the performance on many of the games I want to run.

Hopefully this new venture will fix that. I like using the shaders and overlays for that authentic look. But not at the cost of performance.

mitu

@jamrom2 said in Dosbox versions avaiable in retropie:

Hopefully this new venture will fix that. I like using the shaders and overlays for that authentic look. But not at the cost of performance.

Both dosbox (standalone) and dosbox-staging support shaders. See https://github.com/tyrells/dosbox-svn-shaders. Most of RetroArch's CRT shaders are already part of the mentioned repository.

jamrom2

@mitu have you played around with the staging version at all? Hows the performance on a Pi3+b?

I'm finding I'm messing around with all the emulators more than I'm playing them lately. More often switching back to what I had.

I'll give this one a try some time as well.

mitu

@jamrom2 said in Dosbox versions avaiable in retropie:

@mitu have you played around with the staging version at all? Hows the performance on a Pi3+b?

Only on the Pi4 - but I think @nemo93 (that authors the PR to add it to RetroPie) tested on the Pi3 and reported it's running fine. See https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/25041/dosbox-official-thread/.

niculinux

I've sadly seen that some games are terribly sluggish and unplayable in retropie dosbox such as 1997 freeware game assault trooper in dosbox purre if i set a very high cicle emulation a messahe in screen appears tellin me it's overloaded, so some games might require more powerful hardware?

Game footage

:P

mitu

@niculinux Please - no links to sites with games/copyrighted material for download/play.

niculinux

@mitu ok post edited, link removed at once

jamrom2

@mitu Thanks as always. I'll check it out.

niculinux

In the meantime, hope someday we might get package versions of dosbox staging and disbox-X too, these seems to be eqally cool projects.